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... SOCIETY OF ARTS.-WATER METERS. lY A correspondent Bays : At the last meeting of Kit this society, Lord Berriedale in the chair, the first paper read was ' On Water Meters,' by Mr. J. Glynn, F.R S. at After alluding to the necessity for some correct measurer of -i water, now that there was a very general demand for the raconstant supply system, the author described what he kd thought were the ...

... A BALLAD Yoo THE TIfLES. him Away with it! this crying shame this Is cank'ring all within mel Oar Poor Man's Church -Heaw'n help the name ! hE By mercenary sin; had Away with it! by tithe, and rate, thei And glebe, and pious stealth, the Goodsooth, our parsons from the state tair Win quite their share of wealth. Richly endowed in funds and Ian, aet The nation's church should be, a fa Then, ...

... Professor Christmas delivered another of his course of lectures on the Domestic Life of our Ancestors at the rooms of the society yesterday. The subject was costume. The FRor8ss0R conmmenced by describing the modes ef adornment in use amongst the ancient Britons. Quoting as authorities Pliny, Isidore, and Herodian, he remarked that in some cases they were painted blue with woad, or tattooed ...

... LITERB TUBE. A T- ip to the Trenches inr Febroary and MIarch. By AN p AMATEUR. Saunders and Otley. al it this moment, when the public mind so seeks for- information -which- can be reliedtponi rfforo 1the ., scene of our prolonged struggle in the Crimea, a book i such as that before us will be more than Welcome. h Stories of a strange and contradictory characterreazcl n us on all sides as to ...

... jTHE PARIS LUNVERSAL EXHIBITION. ?? a - I * U- (noM OVE OWN cOMmSiBisOmuX.) lt PARIS,-ArnL 7. 80 GENERAL PROGRESS. on Among the curious arrangements effected by the I[ Imperial Commissioners is a medical department of e- the Palais de l'Industrie, to which four doctors have he been attached, with assistants. These will be in ut waiting, relieving each other at stated intervals Vn throughout ...

... SONGS FOR THE ADMEIiSTRATIVE REFOICM ASSOCIATION. NO. 2. J ev Ai TIMEl P03 ALL TBINGS ; OB1, 'P AM! BU CIVLrJ t' f in We may smile at the jest of a friend, When the wire ?? bright in the bowl, 4o And when genius and merrimlent lend r Their zest to the thrqughts of tbe saerl; W~e may sneer at the follies of schools,V We may laugh at the faulbs of the great, - But, woe to those joeular ...

... THE PMIIS UNIVERSAL EXHDITION.' (FROM OUR OWN IoMMiSSBONSII) PARIS, Ar&RL 20. a THE FINE ARTS. A widespread discontent reigns in the artistic world of Paris. Artists are moodily fetching away their rejected works, warned that if they do not at once seek for them they will be unable to obtain them before October next. 1 predicted this discontent when I heard of the principle upon which the Fine ...

... GLOUCESTER MUSICAL FESTIVAL. 51 (FROM OUR RBTIORTER.) t GLOUCESTER, MOrDAYT. t The 133rd festival of the three choirs of Worcee- ter, Hereford, and Gloucester, has opened here to-day. The h weather is magnificent, the town is Ailling rapidly, upwards k of 3,000 tickets are already taken, lodgings have been let b weeks and months ego, and altogether there is a promise of C a most successful ...

... BRADFORD MUSICAL FESTIVA The miscellaneous concert of Tuesday vaisg WU not nssrly so well attended u the sacred performiasece ath morning, ani there warn a similar shortcoming 0o Weai0 day mornbg notwitbstiuding the curiosity excited by she announcerment of Costs' Bi, performed for the fi5t W inX Yorksrei This unfavourable effect was partly ?? by thb bad weather, but partly easo by the ml! of ...

... DURAMA. N .&DELPlil. ?? drama of Irela~nd At If .Le, produced at this theatre ?? night, is a slight stbp in advance of the facse .which wse verer called upon to otiotse this day weeek, but it is a bad pieee notwibthstnding. In the first plaee, it is a smisnomaer. Ireland As it Was should have been its title, aws -it treats of that stormy period whenu therse was a strong divi- sion betwreen ...

... LITERA TVRE. A Chorntitutional ?? of Jersey. By C1 AiLES LF. QUEONE, Esq., Jlurat of the Royal Court, and Member of the States. Longman. The strong publ:cferlingso recently excitedby the expulsion of the Jocey refugees has given a degree of interest to thesubject of Mr. Le Quesne's treatisewhich it would not otherwise command. People are just now curious to ascertain what the nature of that ...