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LITERARY NOTICES

... (Protest- ant, we presume), which Lords Althorp and John Russell are feeding him with, Mr Stanley recoils with horror from the sight; Lord Melbourne only affects disgust, and Lord' Ripon faints away in the arms of the Duke of Richmond; while Altborp, the keeper ...

LITERATURE

... capital, in amicalile intercourse. A curious anecdote occurred on this subject. The British Ambassador was walking one day arm-in-arm with an individual notoriously opposed to him in political opinions. The first person they met was the Emperor, who conversed ...

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

... letter. Mr GRATTAN essayed to speak on the same subject—but as he said he rose not to second the motion, he was called to order by the Speaker, and the motion being unseconded, fell to the ground, amid general laughter. SESSIONAL ORDERS. Lord JOHN RUSSELL ...

THE THEATRES

... week the btoards of the Greenock Theatre Lo' Royal are occupied by Mr J. C Stewart and Hij company in Messrs Stevens and Grattan'ss The U~nknowrn. There was a well-filled imi house last night to witness the piece, which has jad had several runs in Greenock ...

THE FORAYER

... and that it commenceed drilling yesterday. e DurmiN, MAY ?? Grattan.-Yesterslay, d about five o'clock in the rifterneon, this venerable is patriot proceeded from Steplien's Green to Sir John IC Rogerson's quay, to go onl board the Waterloo Steam ;e Packet ...

LITERATURE

... rne* gives 'another': of hisi a as valuable and :weig~hty essays on ?? a 3'5 dramnatists, dealing o n thi s occasion with John. g he Webster, 'whom' he considers as wsithout doubt' fi ect next to Shakespeare in the' highest'and purest t] to qu'alities ...

LITERARY GOSSIP

... of ?? Amiong other trials of interest a'sl thoes oF Oxford, Fratncis, and rean for slioot. itig at tile Queen ; of JLord Cardigan, befior- tec INoiere of Peers, for his duel with Captl'in Tc:lse:; of 2ut'Naltzhron for tile. 1ttil der of 'Mr ]rltinnmon ...

LITERATURE

... fur the purpose of settling all their little village differences, in the saene way ns is now practised in the Emerald Isle. Grattan finishes his powerful portrait of the fate of a gamb- ler, in My First Visit to Brussels ; and An Old Friend with a New ...

INAUGURATION OF THE WELLINGTON STATUE

... Professors of the Uaiversity ; the Provest of Leith; Sir John M‘Neill; Sic Adam Hay; Sir Wm. Johnston; Sheriff of Arkley ; Henry Gilassford Bell, Esq., Sheritl-Substit ; Joha Archd. Campbell, Esq.; John Lears onth, Esq. of Dean; Eagle H derson, Doaald Horne ...

LITERATURE

... wruug from the English t, E j Cabinet by the armed Volunteers daring Lord u r North's troubles with Frarce and America. c; This orgauisation, drawn together by Grattan h t, and led by Lord Charlement, armed itself tr e aostessibly to resist foreign invasion ...

LITERATURE

... Manager's Note Book is this month occupied with historical reminiscences of Mrs Wells and John Edwin; and there is another budget of the amusing Papers of a Gentleman at Arms by Brownrigg. Douglas Jerrold has the first part of an interesting household romance ...

Caledonian Mercury

... that the ‘Tory to the Admiralty found much hampered in his attempts to purchase votes, by cert: in minutes adopted during Lord John Administration, whieh strictly prohibited the disposal of dockyard on political grounds, and which, in ftet, reudered such ...