... MUSiC. r BEDETUOVEGN QUARTET SOCIETY. ; Trhis excellent society wva8 founded (a s manty of our musidcal reoders vill remember) by the late Mr. Alsager, anl enthusiastic admirer of Beethoven, to do honour to the great I composer's memezyr by the best possible perfforman~ce oS kis quartets Since 31r. Alsager'sf death it baa bcen under the sole management of bf. Rousselot. The meetings of the g ...

... EXHIB3ITION OF INllUSTRY TN 1851. Her Maji sty's Con tissionere fur promoting the a- exhibition as 1851, having h?d several questions put to them at as to the mode in which articles of diflerent kinds, the pro- I duos of the same manufacturer, will be exhibited, and as to U- the p asibility ol k?s'?ing cegether the productions of par?i. a oular towns and districts, and on other points closely ...

... - . INB iAsRTfS. - - - - ALTO RFLI\3VO ON T'E 4tS0N ,COLTJU.YN. :D d Brittih sailors, 39 ltelIoneLirne, WearL pi'.tais ' 'Of notiP 'Thls iW s aqui' _ttfn ?? w vieawof3 Mr. Woodington's alto relievo, justt' ?? td its place on the base of Tratalgar coumn.n Histotry.and tradition give us a reply in thS affirmastive. Why, then, has Mr. Woodifigton given his sailors abort hair and wbiakers, like ...

... THM BRITISH MUSEUM. i . . 6 at I ?? 1'IOX TUN 'RexwOav OF ~~YOW5 (Continued ?? the Daiul Nedws of yetewday,], ealtt The nest portion .ot the extracts refers to the evidence of au VSr Charleo Fellows with regard. to thes discoveqy, f the ~dr,'Lycen e~bls, he Alntrest 44tta1oh1 to which appe4ars to wey waritl eopIousdestaill;. eyd -believe that the country -is inidebtedW *o youfor the &C qUI- ...

... LI.TERA TUBE. Geasrnl KlD~apa's ~emtoirs of! the Wlar Ins rngyasry. 2 vol.. Gilpin. 1850, This is the work of a genuine soldier, and bears the frank, the rude, and simple stamp of one. As General Xlapka was in the counsels and command of f the Hungarian insurrection, none so fitted as he to depict the double mnarvel of its asnexpeoted success and its as unaccountable defeat. The volumes of M~r ...

... LITERA TUBE. Life of Malsonet and of his Successors. By WASUING. TON IUVINO. Murray. 18050. There are two or three ways af writing such a life as that of Mahomet. It might be undertaken with a philoeophic view, or in a merely critical and his- torical one. Or again, with merely the research requisite to render it Accurate, the story might be told iD a lucid, striking, and picturesque manner, ...

... DBAMA. DRURIY -ANE. ThePassing Cloud, which was produced last right at Drury-lane, by no means desorves its title. It has too much merit to be so ephemeral, and yet it is long-its chief fault. But it contains very many scenes of very powerful interest, right well acted by the Vani'enhoffs, Mr. and Miss by Cooper, and especialiv bv Andersoii. A H1aase Towns merchant had once been settled at ...

... LITERATUBE. I I Ancient Coins and Medals: an Historical Sketch of the [ Origin and Progress of Goininq Money in Greece and Ahr Colonies; its Progress oith the Extension of the Roman .Ehmire ; and its Decltbte with the FaU of that Power. By HENRY NOEL HUMPrHREYs. Illustrated by numerous facsimiles in actual reliet, and in the metals ot the reapec-i tive coins. Giant and Griffith. Of all the ...

... ITER remU mE. Obsereatioons or5 the &ocio~ i; ed Polifica S~ate of Euroypea i Peo~ple irb 1818 use' 1849.-By SAMUurL LAwoi,.111q Loogmoan. 1860. t A more lively, a more amusing, a more instructive of writer than Mr. Laing could not be found, nor one as whose writings originate more thought, or excite ~. more discussion, We, therefore, always welcome a EH publication of Mr. Lating's ;and yet we ...

... mUSiC. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. $Linda di Chamouni was the opera of Saturday evening, Sontag taking the part of Linda. It is in every respect suited to her, and is one of the most charming of her parts. Nothing can be more moving than her representation of the poor girl crushed to the earth by the sudden blow of a father's curse, and of the way-worn mnlancholy maniac, changed in all l things ...

... FINE ART& THE COLLECfION OF COUNT PEPOLL. I That oleiginous tide of old paintitts which has flooded the English soil unceasingly for the last sixty years and upwards seems at last to give signs of sub- aidic ; at least if we are to take the appeerance of the rich alluvial mud of the decayed Lomabardo-Vene- tian schools as symptomatic thereof. The brilliant inay in which the afctioneeriog ...

... MR. IJACIEADY AT BIRtMINGHAM.-'This distin- gaished tragedian, whose first appearance on the rtage tow k plaX at ilirnhinghem in the year 1810, has made his farewell visit thera during five nights of the past week The charac ter& sustained were lago, Virg~iniu, Bruteus, Werner, and King Lear: on each occasion the briuse was tiled in every psrt.. At the, fal of the curtain on Friday evening Mr ...