5 SEPTEMBER 1829, page 8

A Ghost Story.

" Fee !—fa !" WE observed a good specimen of a ghost story lately quoted from a Scotch newspaper. A shepherd was on the hills at the gloaming (a word ominous of a tale of......

Lady Morgan.

" The fastest thief cries loudest, fie.'" SCOTCH PROVERB. IN the Book of the Boudoir, under the title "Foreign Visitors;' Lady , a y MORGAN comments on a portrait of herself,......

Remedy For Libel.

ONE of our contemporaries (the Courier) has entered on an exposition of the law of libel, with an industry that might have been better directed to a less beaten topic. With the......

Large Theatres In Distress — Sir Walter Scott's Opinion.

A MEETING of the friends of Covent Garden Theatre, to deliberate on what ought to be done, is to be held on Wedresday. Among the various schemes and suggestions on foot, there......

The Hoax Of The Month.

" YOUR English never know when they have had enough of a good thing." Theononthly hoax of " Novelties in Gentlemen's Dresses" is becoming rather stale ; but, to compensate for......