30 JUNE 1849, page 14

Topics Of The Day.

BUDGET-MAKING. ONE of the most ridiculous spectacles is the 'Chancellor of the Exchequer making his financial statement to the listening Com- mons ; all that passes from that......

Serial Concerts.

The cessation of what may be called the Serial Concerts of the Metro- polis is now giving sign of the approaching close of the season. Of the concerts of this description, "the......

"international Arbitration."

TO THE ED/TOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Miteside, Cumberland, 25th June 1$49. Six—Will you allow me through your columns to ask -Mr. Cobden-a plain ques- tion? He writes thus to Joseph......