the turn which matrimony gives to a man's fortune.


[1] The nightly expenses of Drury Lane and Covent Garden Theatres
in these days, are upwards of 200_l_.


Among the theatrico-antiquarian gossip of _The Fortune_ is, that it was
once the nursery for Henry VIII.'s children--but "no scandal about
the"--we hope.

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FINE ARTS

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EXHIBITION OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY.


All men are critics, in a greater or less degree. They can generalize
upon the merits and defects of a picture, although they cannot point out
the details of the defects, or in what the beauty of a picture consists;
and to prove this, only let the reader visit the Exhibition at Somerset
House, and watch the little critical _coteries_ that collect round the
most attractive paintings. Could all these criticisms be embodied, but