... Our readers are aware that an Associatibin was formed last year in aid of the objects of the Profes. (Fr sional Society of Musicians. The design of the '1 Professional Soc-iety is to bring together at stated has meetings for practice all the resident musical talent mos in Edinburgh, anid thus to secure Ito the public an the orchestra adequate to the performance of the wantis of the great ...

... The first of the series of concerts announced to ts na given by this Society took place in thc large Assembly Rnonne on Thursday evening. lhe room was rcspect- ably filled, though by no means so napcha so Ds migh t have been anticipated ?? ebesical character of the ex music announced in the progrnmme. The orehestro, ?? w15 led by Mr Fiulay Due, commenced with fr. Beethaoven's fomtth grand ...

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... PnOFESSIONAL SOCIETY'S CONCERTS. The last of these delightful Concerts took place on Satuldtly. On this occasion the performance hi t consisted entirely of sacred music, and was by far el the best attended of the season. A selection from it Haydn's Creation formed the frrst part. The in- ' troduction of Chaos was well perforned, but we n 1would advise, on another occasion, more than onec l ...

... PEELINGS OF POL'SY. PELL PRIN10. Air-.' et' 'r1toa to Chadle. F Currns c,'r the Tevecd IdubbY, dear flabbly, great Bobb~y, And dine in kalid Reekia, Of do not gay nay I Ti Though your fames's on the tooale, %we'll exalt itagain, no And welconme our Bobby as loud's we can bray. adi But came to use sl~lv, let nobody spy, you,ge Slip into the town~ by some tenantless lane, geln, at Come in at ...

... THIE THEATRE. ,- * El t I fLMtI. On Thursday evening, Ir Kean commenced his re. cigagerpent as King John, being his first appearance A here in that character. Ee was received with the usual flattering demonstrations by a hrilliant audience, and his , performance of the character was what might have I been anticipated from his previous great efforts. The tragedy of King John, however, is ...

... THE THEATRE, ,A- - - Nt>Ar ft'T~ W-.Q Aft I The performances of Air Kean have excited a sensation in this city quite unprecedented since the days when the elder Kean and AMiss O'Neill burst upon us in all the blaze of metropolitan triumph. The present great tragedian has, de- ring this and the previous week, repeated seve- ral of his principal characters to an uninterrUpt- ed succession of ...

... As we mentioned in our last, Mr Kean perform ti ed Othello on Friday evening to a crowded nd si brilliant audience, including several of our distin- . guished literary characters. The noble Moor is Ci one of the most impassioned of Shakspeare's crea- sl tions-valiant in war, stern in purpose, and great ID in soul ; ?? w ith these lofty attributes there is corm- mingled such a beautiful ...

... THIE THEATRE I On Thursdaiy evening another brilliant and over- flowing audience assembled to witness Mr Kcan's performance of Richard the Third. This, great character, which is so finely calculated for dramatic display, has called forth the energies of all our lead- ingtragedians. Garrihk wasfarmohs in hisday;; and the genius of Kemrble, Cooke, and Kean has successive- t lyshone forth in this ...

... T is T HEon Y AND PaACTICV Or JoIs r STOCK B AN;K- iNG. By Peter Watt, accountant in Edinburgh. John Anderson, jun. 1836. We have perused with no ordinary degree of interest Mr Watt's brochure on joint stock banking -a work which cannot fail to be of essential ser- vice to the promoters and others engaged in the formation of the numerous establishments at pre- sent rising throughout the ...

... er. - The eve was calm and bright. The azure sea M- Slept like a cradled infant; and the sun an- Threw o'er the 'wide expanse of beav'u the beams r a Of his departing glory, while the clouds the Glo=inma *ith borrow'd radiance, spread around ds, A mantle for the fleeting god of day ! rer A dyiuggirl, id. Lny in a boat, which slowly neared the land. hho She listen'd to the hymn, which by the ...

... THEATRE P.OYAL. The opera of ?? Love in aVillage, which vaS tbh opve- ing piece here, on Saturday evening. introduced several new performers to tire Edinburgh stage, namely, MisS. P. Iforton, from the Theatre Royal, llayrnarket, and English Opera House ; Mrs Parsons Crowe, from a* Braham's Theatre and Mr Manvers, from the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. Miss Horton maderather a fa- vonrablo ...