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 Newspapers of the Eighteenth Century, 15 displays a thousand characters, and in the course of its transitions in life, assumes innumerable shapes and humors. The heads of the Times, as already has been said are many ; these will, however, not always appear at the same time, but casually, as public or private affairs should call them forth. The principal or leading heads are : — the Literary, Political, Commercial, Philosophical, Critical, Theatrical, Fhshionable, Hu- morous, Witty, &c. &c., each of which are supplied with a competent share of intellect for the pursuit of their several functions ; an endow- ment which is not in all cases to be found, even in the heads of the State, the heads of the Church, the heads of the Law, the heads of the Navy, the heads of the Army, and, though last not least, the great heads of the Universities. The political head of the Times, like that of Janus, the Roman deity, is double-faced ; with one countenance it will smile continually on the friends of Old England, and with the other will frown incessantly on her enemies.