22 AUGUST 1829, page 7

Decline Of The Drama.

THE Foreign Quarterly Review quotes from the Revue Musicale some remarks on theatrical speculations ; which, it shows, are as un- profitable in France as in England. ` Every......

Royal Portraits.

WE have just been looking at the new engraving of the King in his Coronation Robes ; and have been not a little astonished at the pro- digious brilliancy with which the engraver......

English Opera-house.

A NEW musical entertainment, called The Spring Lock, from the pen of Mr. PEAKE, was produced at this theatre on Tuesday evening. The plot combined two popular stories, of which......

Constantinople.

PEOPLE once talked of Constantinople almost as they did of Laputa, Utopia, or the North Pole ; such a thing might be, but no one was able to make his way thither to ascertain......