20 SEPTEMBER 1930, page 20

A Hundred Years Ago

THE " SPECTATOR," SEPTEMBER 18TH, 1830. OPENING OF TEE LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY. The bustle in the town of Liverpool on the night of Tuesday and the morning of Wednesday......

Points From Letters

THE FOUNDLING HOSPITAL SITE. I want so much to thank you and Major Yeats-Brown for the delighful article in the 'Spectator on the Foundling site. I know from personal......

The Fur Trade

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—I have just had a letter from a correspondent in Canada which I think would interest your readers. She writes as follows I was very......

The Triumph Of Mistral

[To the Editor of the SrEcTATon.] Sin,—I cannot understand where Mr. Thomson, who con- tributed an article with the above heading to your issue dated 13th inst., obtained the......

Morning Moon

DAWN came and snatched away a million stars, And on a canvas pale as far-seen blue . *. . Framed in the branches of the deodars With leaves a-quiver newly washed in dew. . .......