14 JULY 1849, page 13

When One Goes To See A New Piece Now-a-days, We

may reasonably ex- pect to hear a feiv Aewjokes, or to behold some novel combinations; but one no more anticipates a really new position than the discovery of a sovereign in a......

Conflict Of Opinion On Correctional Discipline.'

OF all debated and contested subjects, the treatment of criminals is the one in the most unsatisfactory and unsettled state. The reasons for that condition are twofold. The very......

Topics Of The Day.

THE INVITATION TO REVOLUTIONARIES. How the statesman class of this country is allowing power to slip from its hands, we see exemplified in the debate on the new little Irish......

Theatres And Music.

The reappearance of Sontag, after a retirement of nearly twenty years into the shades of private life, is something like a revisit to " the glimpses of the moon " by one long......

The Last Meeting Of The Musical Union, On Tuesday, May

be regarded as the closing concert of the season. The Union has been carried on this year with great spirit and success. The subscribers, belonging exclusively to the circles of......