14 AUGUST 1841, page 12

Patriotic Sacrifices.

" Now comes in the sweetest morsel of the night, and we must hence and leave it unpick't," growls Falstaff when he is told, " As I came Rion:, I met and overtook a dozen......

Topics Of The Day.

" HISTORY IS PHILOSOPHY TEACHING BY EXAMPLE." SOME passages in the Correspondence of' the Earl of CHATHAM during the year 1766 afford matter for reflection at present. Not a......

Effects Of The Corn-law: .

EVERY great controversy has a tendency to expand into a range of discussion too wide to admit of its being viewed as a whole. Minor points are cavilled at, defended, and......