300% - Letter.on Affairs in general. [Sarr 
never; be.a member of parliament if he does not learn, to-behave. better, 
than:thigs.| -It;is, that, few, day: 8 propery of Drury-lane sd othat;has,, 
corrupted. hime; ) eitaqorg 1 
‘The science | of; pomeeenlian has been making great pregaess within j 
these few years in England; but our brethren in America beat; us/ inj all;; 
the “useful arts”. hollow. A Connecticut paper relates the appreh¢n- 
sion,of .a horse-stealer,, who had stolen thirty-five animals when he’ was} 
taken, and was endeavouring ‘“ to get as many together as would, Cadi @) 
boat; with which he meant to proceed to New Orleans!” 
Talking of horses, there is an absurd. exhibition, which they. call: 
«« Poney races,” now showing at Sadler’s Wells.. Six or seven black-. 
guard boys galloping six or seven ragged ponies in an area about forty 
feet-in diameter. If the boys were well flogged, and the horses sent/to 
the green-yard, a great deal of service would be done to both parties.) . 
‘Poulson’s. Philadelphia Chronicle contains an advertisement from) a 
Miss Noah; offering to cure all difficulties and impediments in speech.. 
This again| is a step beyond our practice, though I am not, quite sure if, 
Iyshould: call. it in a “useful art :” if any body can cure. difficulty, or) - 
impediment of speech, a lady, obviously, would be the caly Person: to, 
compass it. 
It would be very much to the purpose, I think, if any jempetlitnent 
could be devised in the way of men’s publishing books, when the matter 
which they publish has already been published five or, six times, over. 
Here are four'volumes of « German novels,” said to, be, translated, by. 
Mr. Roscoe, out of which there is not so much matter,as would fill one 
volume, which: is| not already in print and translated| before. Here are 
tales that have been translated as’ novels separately 5 tales that have been, 
translated into dramas; tales that have been translated in’ recent, collec- 
tions ; tales that have been translated in magazines ;. and a few, tales—the 
only' new ones,—which were not, worth translating at-all. | Sad: traditg 
im authorship indeed! 
Books are. bad, generally, this month. A. little voluhe as been. 
published, called «* Aphorisms of Dr. Parr:” there is no/ offence inj any, 
of the sayings, but there must be some mistake—they must haye been 
delivered by «“* Old Parr,” not Dr. Parr. 
‘The Morning Chronicle of the 11th of August relates the death of 
two gentlemen who were killed in attempting to “ shoot London bridge.” 
Ours ‘is an odd language: bridges now would seem to be the last gama 
that ‘any gentleman in his senses would go about to shoot. 
The theatres have been dreadfully dull all the summer: but/a Phila- 
delphia paper supplies us with a fact in their arrangements, which, I dare 
say, half the people who visit them twice a-week were ignorant: of. 
«The London theatres,” says the Philadelphia, Evening | Post; “are 
dreadfully infested with thieves. The robbers are generally well-dressed, 
respectable looking persons, and go in gangs of twelve,or fifteen. Lf ax 
one is caught, they immediately cry out, Soa fights-fhie ih vend ae 
this way effect a rescue.’ rodito ors 
> 1 like: American: information, Aaetor host Englands ‘The same 
pa er,’ The Philadelphia’ Post, states, that the York musical, festival 
(England) of the present year, pairicnrs 2! sean’ to;the! managers of 
£190,000 11! ; a #r anilisy buol 
~Itisia pleasure too, when-one can’t visit a foreign cuales to: study their 
language: critically: and: aeately + ; for an:immense deal: may be learned 
