... M ?? C. The Practica? Sin qing Tvto,. Twenty-four progressive Studies from the Commencement, for Soprano or Tenor. BV HENRI PANOFRA. Notwithstanding thn number of elementary works extaut i every branch of musical tuition, yet the field is not so fully occupied as to leave no room for useful additions In regard to singing, many of the best and most celebrated books of instruction, studies, and ...

... ?? Rurdl Cyclopedia. A. Fullarton and Co., Edin- bac one tburgh London, andI Dablin.T tOV This valuable work, editedby the Rev. 3. M. Wilson, ary 'ere, is now-completed, in four large octavo volumes. TIhe eilj1 P (r author has succeeded in bringing together, in a very tier t r con'ciseotind practical ithape, a 'vast amount of information up d,,d applertaining to farm'rng, gardening, the ...

... FASRIONS FOR JANUARY. (From the Loadyss ewerpaper.) ut GENEIRAL OBSERVATIONS ON FASHION AND DRESS. s f Silk and satin aRc, as usual at the prescnt seasOn, among tho n most favourite slateiials for evening costume. For walking- ddress, HJUDOes of'ilk aro very suitable; but for evening or din- nor cestumo a lighter kind of trimmuring is requisite. Lace l fiounces and bouillonloges of tulle the ...

... GREAT EXHJBITIO.N OF TBlE WORKS I OF INDUSTRY OF ALL NA TIONS. MONTHLY REPORT OF PROGRESS. [FROM THE JOURNAL OF DESIGN AND SiANITFACTURES.] Manufacturers and all who are disposed to promote the Exhibition have now the assurance unmistakeably before them that some exhibition will take place; and it remains with them, and them only, to determine whether it shall be large or small, worthy of the ...

... 4-OnIt(tiolvd. tI DIRGE FOR THE YEAR. Orphan hours I the year is dead, t Come and sigh, eome and weep; Merry hours! smile instead, For the year is but asleep. See, it smiles as It is sleeping, Mocking yonr untimely weeping. As an earthquake rocks a rsem In its coffin in the clay, So white Winter, that rough nurse, Rocks the death-cold'year to-day. Solemn hours ! wail aloud For your mother in ...

... T FT T T T W asT I * vl fw XT n T. T) fice the JTLLIEN'iS CONCERT. and Jule Lde Jullien flint concert took place on Friday evening ley, last, on whic'n occnition the atteuidance was more hnume le- riourt than wre have hitherto obsierved * airrost ail theritalls n e in the body, the boxeti, and riallerien were occupied by a iffs brilliant aneremblage, giving a tout ensemble to this noble out ...

... LITERA TUBE. Sismondi's History of the French. Trans'lted by W. e BELLINOHAM, 01 Lincoln'a-ioii. Lordeo, Black. 1r49. t A formidable but a useful underlaking, is that of t giving an English version of Sismondi's History of A Franee. This has been the task of Mr. Bellingham, the goodly volume before us containing the three first volumes of the French edition, prefaced by a very fairly compiled ...

... Orig inal. ?? -F] HYMN FOR THE EARLY SIRVICE, GREAT GEORGESTRERT CHAPEL, NEW YEARS DAY, 1850. ar By T1an REV. DR. RAFFLES. tb tv With songs of thanksgiving and praise, tb Again In thy courts we appear I fr The glad hallelujah to raise, Us And welcome tho dawn of the year. We eave witnessed the last of the old, pI Its days are all numbered and tied, at And now, with its mercies untold, l I ...

... C Y The papers in Blackwood this month arc few in number d but somewhat lengthy. The first is a review of tile chaili. Y tion of home and European politics during the year just closed, as compared with the posture of affairs in lelO cc. ?? garding the two as a year of reaction succeeding a sear of revolution. The writer seeks to prove that the reaction e must of necessity have occurred, as it ...

... liBYWOOD MECHANS' INSTITUTION. ?? 7 : :ANTTAT. 7IYV1T: ATi -. ?? *S3'J.-L)AA. 1U 1.AJ. Si'Fuly ANNUAL. FESTIVAL- prove The:-annuajsoirde of thenierbers of tbe Heyrood mechanics' lnstitution was heild 'on Monday evening,v withi fal the Wesleyen~ scool-room, -in thilt town. The room, :was wherf eleprantly decorated with. evergreens and-;artificial flowers,, kne while Over the platform~-where ...

... L,12ERA TUBE. The listo,' of Peter the Cr(el, King of Castile and Leon. Fram the trench ot PiaosPRTtMposrpi;E-. 2 vole. Bentley. Surpassed in energy and productiveness by some of his contemporaries, M. Merimre must nevertheless be reckoned among the most accomplished writers of X his t me. Few of his countrymen have their powersf SD ?? under control, or are so qualified to depict vividly, yet ...

... *. muSiC. IA - - . . it LONDON WEDNESDAY CONCERTS. t. The concert of last night was the beat and most successful of the Eeason. Exeter-hell was literally full in every 'part; for, besides the at'ractions of D Ernst, Thalberg, Miss Dolby, Miss Lucombe, Miss r. Poole, and .14., A. Newton, Sims Reeves made his r first appeaasnce this season, after a long absence ii t the provinces. Our deservedly ...