... ] BIRMINGHAM MUSICAL FESTIVAL. At the Festival, Mendelssohn's great composition, Eli- jah. was performed amidst the most breathless and de- lighted attention. It is a splendid composition of the greatest master tiving and we are sure the following beau- tiful description of it, will be read with interest. The Times says:— The piece opens with a brief monologue by the Prophet, announcing to ...

... SHIPPO'd D'TELLISEXCE, NEWPORT. Arrivals and Sdilings for the week ending Sept. 16, 1SIG. A n Jean and Margaret, Anderson, Lord Lyndock, Wood, Rouen Avouteur, Have.in, Hoop up Eandraugh, Voss, Nantes; Rela- tive, Phillips, Mathildas,^ Phillips, Rouen, ballast.—Venus, Bevan, Cork, sundries.—Friendship, Washbourn, Gloucester, flour,-Eliza Edwards, Edwards, Harriet and Jane, Sheehan, Youghal, ...

... LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. a. TFTEWPORT CATTLE MARKET.—WKDNESDAV, SEPT. 2. Price per lb. to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. Beasts i 0 5 to 0 6 Sheep. 0 5J 0 61 Lambs 0 6 0 61 0 6 0 7 Pigs (per score) 8 6 9 6 There being but few fresh arrivals of stock from Ireland, the market was again scantily supplied with beef. Beasts of good quality met ready customers, at high prices and good grazing cattle were in ...

... COMMISSION OF LUNACY ON MRS. CUMMINS, LATE OF NEWPORT. EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—The inquiry as to the state of mind of Mrs. Catherine Cummins, an elderly lady possessed of £ 30,000., which commenced on Saturday last, at the Horns Tavern, Kennington, was resumed on Monday. Mrs. Cum- mins was present. The only matters brought forward on the first sitting of the Commission, was the statement ...

... The following passages are extracted from an article which appeared in the Standard of Tuesday.—It covers a multitude of the sins for which that unquestionably-clever paper has to answer, with reference to its former conduct towards Ireland. The awful consequences of the failure of the potatoe crop are, we feat as yet but very imperfectly appreciated. Taking the Irish population at eight ...

... Present—The Revs. John Probcit, and David Jones. Edward Purl, William Davies, and Samuel Newberry, were charged by Mr. Superintendent Roberts with fighting in the town of Pontypool.—Ordered to pay 12s. costs, and discharged with a caution as to their conduct in future. Samuel Newberry was charged with an assault on Daniel Smart.—Ordered to pay the costs between them. Thomas How-ell was charged ...

... On Monday last, a meeting of the Council was held at the Town IIall, present, It. lteeee, F.S.A, mayor, in the chair, Messrs. C. C. Williams, H. Morgan, Charles Vachell, William Vfichell, William Bird, Grifrifh Phillips, David Lewis, John Widiams William William- David Evans, Joseph Davies, M. Alexander Lisle, and John Moore. BUIKDLNOS IN WIIITKOUE LANE. With regard to the ground in Whitmore ...

... AND ELFOANT CosMETic.—Ttke half a pound of soft soap. melt over a slow fire with a gill of sweet oil, add two or three table-spoonsful of fine sand, and stir the mixtuie together until cool. The shelly sea sand, sifted from the shells, has been found better than that which has no shells. lhis simple cosme- tic has, for several years past, been used by many ladies who are remarkable for the ...

... C From a Correspondent.) When Sir Robert Peel first propounded his free trade mea- sures wc were at once pleased and surprised. On seeing what had taken place, we felt the same might occur again. Yet scarcely had one season rolled on, before we are unfortunately doomed to wilness the still wone failure--Ihe utter annihilation of the food of millions-the potatoe crop, not only in Great Bri- ...

... WEEKLY CALENDAR. September 13.—14th Sunday after Trinity. Morning Lessolls-J cremiah 5. Matt. 14. Evening Lessons— Jeremiah 22. Romans 14. Moon's Age,—New, 20th Sept., 3h. 34m. after. ...

... DfATII OF LORD METCALFE.— I his amiable and much res- pected nobleman expired on the 5th inst..after a lengthened and most painful illness, at Rushanger House, Basingstoke, where he had been staying for some time previous. A cancer, with which the noble lord was first attacked in Canada, was the pre- lude to a tedious and painful illness, which has at length termi- nated fatally. The ...

... BANKRUPTS. Henry Drysdale, Lamb's Conduit-street, auctioneer. John Hardy, Castle Donniiigfon, cattle dealer. Henry Deverill, Stoke-upon-Trent, corn factor. William Higgins, Birmingham, laceman. Peter M'Shane, Dundalk, cattle dealer. William Warburton, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. grocer. J. Milnes, J. Lang, J. Wilby, and T. Brock, Birstal, York. shire, scribling millers. ...