10 FEBRUARY 1844, page 12

"whither Iiath Fled Youth's Graceful Diffidence?"

COLERIDGE in his Friend complains of a want of becoming diffi- dence in the writers of the age. There is no such thing now-a- days, he say s, as a modest anonymous first attempt......

The Three Graceless Graces.

Tim funeral-orations—not exactly encomiastic—delivered by the European press over the grave of Donna CARLOTTA, recall to mind the equal merits of her two surviving sisters,......

Topics Of The Day.

ABERDEEN ON THE RIGHT OF SEARCH. LORD ABERDEEN has rightly described the right of search as "an evil." It is an evil, he says, only to be justified by the great object for which......