16 APRIL 1842, page 14

Topics Of The Day.

PETITIONS TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. Tuts success which has on more than one occasion repaid the efforts of Mr. THOMAS Dumeoiette, might read a useful lesson to Members of......

Probate And Legacy Duty.

Low) STANLEY, in his speech this week on the Income-tax, under- took to prove that landed property contributes to the exigencies of the state at least to the same amount as......

Meditations On Marriage-announcements In Recent Newspapers.

POPULAR prejudices strike all round them without regard to per- sons. Old bachelors and old maids are standing jokes by prescrip- tion; and if they attempt to get out of the......