The Theatres.
AN attempted adaptation of La Donna del Lago has been produced at Covent Garden this week : but the opera is so disguised in performance that the original work of ROSSINI is......
Madame Albert Would Seem To Have Been Desirous Of Showing
that pathos is her forte, from her selection of a serious melodrama, entitled Arthur, ou Seize Ans apres ; which could only be made palatable English tastes by very fine acting.......
Diplomatic Geometry.
MATHEMATICIANS and diplomatists appear to differ widely in their philosophical premises. The former are generally of opinion that it requires two lines to make an angle ; but......
Dr. Chalmers.
THE letter from Dr. CHALMERS to Mr. Comaiss of Glasgow, on the subject of the Emigration Societies in the West of Scotland, which we copy below from the Scotch newspapers,......
Dr. Chalmers On Emigration.
Ediubureh. 29th December 1842. " My dear Sir—I think I told you some time ago that 1 had received no less than twenty different applications from as many Emigration Societies in......
Presents To Royalty.
Smea the days of the Pharaohs, it has been understood that the best method of propitiating royalty is by a handsome present. The minds of courtiers and would-be courtiers have......
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