16 NOVEMBER 1839, page 16

Mechanical Inventions.

AN improvement has been made on that useful little article "time Ever pointed Pencil," that will recommend it again to many who have disused it owing to the disadvantages......

Tim Glasgow "house Of Refuge."

THE institution in Glasgow to which we alluded last week in the article " Charity and Charities " is called the 1Ieu8e of licferge, — a name by no means conveying its true......

Musical Prospects.

THE musical season is approaching, and the Winter Theatres having opened, it may be said to be begun. A rapid circumspective glance at the state and prospects of the art in......