7 MAY 1842, page 11

Solution Of An Eastern Dilemma.

THE first panic-fit having blown over, our political quidnuncs here and in India are debating what is to be done with the Afghans ? SHAH SUJAH is shrewdly suspected of having......

Philharmonic Concerts.

THE concert of Monday night sustained the character of the preceding one, and evinced due care in the choice as well as the arrangement of the pieces. The presence of two......

"methinks The Lady Doth Protest Too Much." .

"Os all the six points of the Charter," said Mr. MACAULAY, "there was only one to which he had an extreme and unmitigated hostility." In regard to universal suffrage, "he felt......

New Wreaths For Heroes.

" THE sale of opium is such," so run the last accounts from China, "and the price so remunerating, that it has been proposed to station vessels in different places to serve as......

Topics Of The Day.

THE NATIONAL PETITION. TEE presentation of the "National Petition," and its attendant circumstances, have in nowise modified the views respecting "the Movement" expressed in our......

The Chimney-sweeps.

IT may be imagination—the effects of the sunny weather we have enjoyed—but it does strike us that the annual fancy balls of the sooty fraternity have been this year on a larger......