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    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 369, May 9, 1829
    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 369, May 9, 1829
    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 369, May 9, 1829
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    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 369, May 9, 1829

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      Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction.

      Volume XIII, No. 369, Saturday, May 9, 1829.

      Author: Various

      Release Date: February 27, 2004 [EBook #11343]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MIRROR OF LITERATURE, NO. 369 ***

      Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Keith M. Eckrich, David Garcia and the

      Online Distributed Proofreading Team.

      THE MIRROR

      OF

      LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.

      CORNWALL TERRACE

      REGENT'S PARK.

      Adjoining York Terrace, engraved and described in No. 358, of the MIRROR, is Cornwall Terrace, one of the earliest and most admired of all the buildings in the Park; although its good taste has not been so influential as might have been expected, on more recent structures. It is named after the ducal title of the present King, when Regent.

      Cornwall Terrace is from the designs of Mr. Decimus Burton, and is characterized by its regularity and beauty, so as to reflect high credit on the taste and talent of the young architect. The ground story is rusticated, and the principal stories are of the Corinthian order, with fluted shafts, well proportioned capitals, and an entablature of equal merit. The other embellishments of Cornwall Terrace are in correspondent taste, and the whole presents a facade of great architectural beauty and elegance.

      THE COSMOPOLITE.

      THE TIMES NEWSPAPER.

      (Concluded from page 292.)

      Passing over the leading articles, and some news from the seat of war, next is the Court Circular, describing the mechanism of royal and noble etiquette in right courtly style. The Money Market and City Intelligence—what a line for the capitalist: only watch the intensity with which he devours every line of the oracle, as the ancients did the spirantia exta—and weighs and considers its import and bearing with the Foreign News and leading articles. What rivets are these—risen about 1/4 per cent—and a shade higher; no fag or tyro ever hailed an illustration with greater interest. Talk to him whilst he is reading any other part of the paper, and he will break off, and join you; but when reading this, he can only spare you an occasional hem, or indeed—his eyes still riveted to the column. This has been satirically termed watching the turn of the market; although every reader does the same, and first looks for those events in the paper which bear upon his interests or enjoyments; for pleasure, as well as industry, has her studies. Thus the lines Drury Lane Theatre, and Professional Concert are 'Change news to a certain class—and a long criticism on Miss Phillips's first appearance in Jane Shore will ensure attention and sympathy, from anxiety for an actress of high promise, and the pathos of the play itself; and we need not insist upon the beneficial effect which sound criticism has on public taste. To pass from an account of a Concert at the Argyll Rooms, with its fantasias and concertanti, to the fact of 940 weavers being at present unemployed in Paisley,—and the death of a young man in Paris, from hydrophobia, is a sad transition from gay to grave—yet so they stand in the column. A long correspondence on Commercial Policy, Taxation, Finance, and Currency—we leave to the capitalist, the parliament man, and other disciples of Adam Smith; whilst our eye descends to the right-hand corner, where is recorded the horrible fact of a mother attempting to suffocate her infant at her breast! Humanity sickens at such a pitch of savage crime in the centre of the most refined city in the world!

      The commencement of the third folio is a gratifying contrast to the last horrible incident. It describes the Anniversary of St. Patrick's Charity Schools, with one of the King's brothers presiding at the benevolent banquet, and records an after-dinner subscription of 540l.! What a delightful scene for the philanthropist—what a blessed picture of British beneficence! Yet beneath this is a piracy—a tale of blood, whose very recital will harrow up thy soul—the murder of the captain and crew of an American brig, as narrated by one man who was concealed. In the next column

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