8 APRIL 1837, page 15

Improvements In The Steam-engine.

NOTWITHSTANDING all that Members of Parliament have lately heard about steam and steam-engines, in connexion with rail- roads, waterworks, and steam-boat companies, we dare say......

Philharmonic Concerts.

THE third concert was on Monday night, and a more satisfactory per- formance from first to last we have seldom heard ; not that it offered much of novelty, but the pieces were......

The Cotton-tax.

GREAT Britain no longer possesses, what she possessed thirty years ago, a virtual monopoly of the cotton manufacture of the world. In this magnificent branch of industry, which,......

The Italian Opera.

EVER since the commencement of the season we have been awaiting the materials for a paragraph on the Italian Opera; for, ungifted with skill like that of the French cook who......