12 MAY 1838, page 11

Transportation, Or Penitentiaries? *

IT is generally known that a Select Committee, of which Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTII is Chairman, has, during the lust session and the present, been engaged in inquiring into the......

Topics Of The Day,

" SHALLOW POLITICIANS." patieHntecgkenoaci..: To statesmen of enlarged views, much experience in affairs, d superior ability — persons of Lord BACON'S stamp — nothin an D -......

The Copyright Bill.

MR. W A Runes proposition to stop Sergeant TesFOURVS Copy right Bill going into Committee, was defeated by 116 to 64. The at- tempt itself was injudicious ; for, as the......