The House of Commons is now filled with workmen, who
are making repairs and improvements in that edifice, under the superintendence of Dr. Reid. The roof is to be lowered ; and a chimney, one hundred and twenty feet high, is constructing in order to ventilate the House.
The number of newspapers sent through the General Post-office, on Saturday last, was 74,800; being upwards -of 30,000 over the usual number.
The declared value of British exports for the six months ending July 1836, is more than two millions and a half greater than in the corre- sponding period of last year; the two sums being 20,035,4071. in 1835, and 22,584,7441. in 1836.
A very far-seeing writer in the Monthly Repository discerns in the death of Malibran the prospect of the revival of the drama in Eng. land ! Let us see ',ow- " Amidst all our regrets for the loss of so fine a creature, and one whose great and versatile talents rendered her so important an acquisition to the stage, we yet descry a prospect of good that is very likely to spring from the public misfortune of her loss. It will destroy all the arrangements of Mr. Bunn ; it will go near to ruin him ; the ramifications of the effect will pro- duce a change in all theatrical affairs; and, however far distant, we perceive in this event, so mournful iu all other respects, the first gleam of the restoration of the genuine drama."
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