The custom of taking fees...
'1 he custom of taking fees for seeing the monuments in Vestminster Abbey is of very ancdent date. Shirlev alludes to it in his pleasant comedY called The Bird i;t az Cage, when Bonnmfco, a mouintebank, says-. i' - --- I talk- as glib, " Methinks, as he that fartits the moizrncft." In those days, however, the price ofadnmission was but one pcnny to see the whole. [Advcrtisecnt.1- People lift up their hands and eyes with asto- nislhment, when they hear that 20L, invested in a Rial del Alonto Afine Share, has producedloOL or 8001.; do they forget tkat lesg than one-fourth part of that sum, risked on the 16th of this month, must obtain for somebody more than 20,0001. ? All other specula- tions are mere trifles, sompared with the chance of an adventure iR 6UchI a Lottery scheme as the present, in .which the gain is so great, and the risk next tonothing. LAdvertisement.j.-T.i I WATIO IOX BEAR'S GREASE.-.7,?EEs ATMrxrsox respectfully cautions the public against numerousimni tationi of the Bear's Grease imported by him. The pots anrd wrapo pers in some are exactly similar, only his name is omitted; the words being on the counterfeit "Genuine Bear's Grease," insteai of " Atkinson's Bear's Grease ;" and also on- the wranper round, his pot he affixes bis signature. 'l'he article he sells iB sent out in. pots just as imported, only a little perfume to keep it sweat: it i; procured from the animal in its native climnate, that being the stste- recommended by all wrhiers on natural philosophy. The repute it has long held for restoring thet hair is now irdubitably established by numerous recenit instances, and for dressing the hair nrothing can better answer the purpose. It gives strength and elasticity to weak hair, and makes it; however harsh, soft and glossv as sillk.$ Sold.tt ,44 Gerrard-street, and by ih0st pertumers.