makes the tower look more heavy. bind the curtain, as
it may happen—have run up to a ridiculous amount. They The new wing to the river front of Somerset House is now nearly should now, under an altered state of things, be prepared to do one of two things, finished, and the design of the façade at length looks complete. The —to submit with a good grace to a decrease of income, which has been already open colonnade resting upon an arch—a most anomalous idea—is seen endured by all the useful avocations ; or, if they have achieved a competence, to Street, opposite to the neat Gothic church there. tenance of the high salaries lately enjoyed by those leading actors of whom we The street leading to Hungerford Market is not yet completed. have been speaking—some in dull earnest by their friends, others in solemn de- The market attracts crowds of visitors, and excites general admiration. rision by the enemies of their calling. Unfriendly persons will contend that It is only too airy. It is feared that the thorough-draught from the payment is properly increased in proportion to the distance of the occupation river will be unbearable in the winter. The landing-place from the in which an indivi ual is engaged from those professions which alone the world river is very commodious, and always kept clean ; which makes it a holds honourable ; and that, therefore—I will not pursue the argument ; but
desirable place to take water from. really, now that the unjust stigma is removed from the play-actors, and that The great WILKINS job is, it seems, actually in course of perpetration they are no longer rogues and vagabonds in the eyes of the law, it is rather too at Charing Cross ! We keep our eye upon Lord DUNCANNON, and bad that they should continue to exact salaries which could be only justified by a take leave to compare notes with him when the House of Corn- rn-
precarious and infamous avocation. They should, on the contrary, be content,
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