8 AUGUST 1829, page 9

Invention Impaired By Salary.

THE author of the Memoir of Sir H. DAVY'S Life, which has appeared in this paper, has very truly observed, that the smallest means may be productive of the most important ends.......

Crumbs Of Comfort For The Tories.

OUR contemporary the Morning Journal, that setter up and puller down of Cabinets, has promulged another expedient for restoring the courage and raising the hopes of its wavering......

T. P. Cooke At The Surrey.

IN a piece called Black-eyed Susan, the favourable report of which attracted us to the Surrey Theatre, Mr. T. P. COOKE presents the beau ideal of an English sailor. The beau......

A Rational Speculation.

LONDON supplies Brighton with fish, and Brighton, in return, furnishes London with its town news. The Brighton Gazette, a paper Particularly industrious in this department,......

Literary Spectator.

THE MEMOIRS OF THE COUNTESS DU BARRI. WE have lately been much taken up with the Memoirs of Madame du BARRI, which are certainly the most delightful of all books—if they are......

Law-making—mr. Wickens' Plans.*

tHE first grand defect in the present system of law-making, is the quantity of the work to be performed. The Parliamentary Session consists of about twenty weeks, including the......