26 DECEMBER 1835, page 12

Mechanics V. Imagination.

THE difference between an imaginative conception and a commonplace mechanical work of art, is this—the one conveys to the mind a feeling correspondent to what would be excited......

New Statues.

WE strayed into Westminster Abbey the other day, to look at CHANTREY'S statue of WATT ; and having paid the admission-shilling to the ecclesiastical raree-show kept by the poor......

The Church Political In Scotland.

THE ministers of the Scottish Kirk appear desirous of rivalling the Church of England parsons as thoroughgoing political agents. They profess that their Church is in danger of......

Talent Of Tile English Newspapers.—the Newspapers And...

journals of this country are conducted with extraordinary talent ; with more, in fact, than was ever before applied in any nation to the same function of public teaching.......