... cingFREE-TRADE HALL. ieS M. Jullien, as we remarked in a previous notice, appears a to have the peculiar faculty of addressing himself to the to , tastes and sympathies of the people. He takes care that at him least a part of his programme, and that not a slight part, min shall be of a nature to be understood and felt by his audience; coul his melodies are of a national character, or bring ...

... t . . . . . . ..4 , About 40 loal committees, out of the 200 committees requiring space for exhibition, have not completed their .allotments. The following circular was issued to them on Saturday:- Office for the Execative Committee, Exhibition Building, Hyde Park, January 4,1851. Sir,-l am instructed by the executive comminttee to inform you, thatit iisimperative that they should pro eedto ...

... . Riterarp ebictuo. New ald Popular History of England. By Robert 'A lrerguson,;LL.D. London: John Cassell. X d5 History, especially a histbry of the past of a great b - eountry, addressed to its dwellers and actors in the pre- 0 r sent, ought to be something more than a detail of the 5 r great deeds of its great men. History is that sum of , '~the experiences of the past by which the present ...

... -Literarp 3xtracto. , JOAN Or ARm's MisGIVINGS.-Within the church Johanna's i 3 agitation is distressingly increased. 'To her fevered imagi- i 1, nation there is angry thunder in the organ's pealing tones-3 f the arched roof threatens toloverwhelm her-she must escape g and seek heaven's wide expanse. Her sisteis, proud of their o relationship-to this observedof iall obseivers,join her when! ...

... Uiterarp Extract%. ?? g~t ro- TOUGonTS ON Tna CHriesTmaAS Tare.-But hark! The yeti, sI my. waitts are playing, and they break, my childish sleep. Whatt Titme 171, images do I associate with the Christmas music as l see them devili ext set forth on the Christmas tree ? Known before all the others, di 'gas keeping far apart from all the others, they gather round my cle 'er arlittle bed. An angel ...

... Th ubrof persons employed at presetit in the fact building is 2,000, and under the impelling force of. this array aeal of labourers every department of the works is advancing une - twdscmliowith marvellous rapidity. More than net one-half of the glazing of the transept is now finished. woet Occasional suspension of the roof glazing here is unavoid- wh - able, in consequence of the difficulty ...

... GREAT EXBITOrlON, !.81, To t, Editor of the Examiner and Ti1mes. Ib lisived, throagh thle medium of your next pub-. :Sir, le! %thl ,Dommittee, whether the persons senhinmg cnntrr toa Das at~ exhibitionl, will be allowed to have their cover, ?? the gttacbeI to the articles sent; and if it Will 1)e carryi daes ta egwythe they are the inventor, maker, nionti ~r the sayo with the name? also, if ...

... flY Ylt.Nyn IV. X.CNGF1LLOW. ' Sot A iginalinp! )i ?? thou said, Th at r P. - l Ironic A laddor, it we aw 1i L-t tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame! All common things, each day's events That With Lho hour begin and end- Our pleasures and our discontents Are rounds by which we may ascend. The low desire; the baso design, * That makes anothor's virtues less; The revel of the giddy wine, ...

... INhb) lKitzle. -- -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - es Songs for IWinter Hours. The words written by ness Charles Swain; adapted to admired melodies of to be lie Germany and Italy by Richard Andrews. betwe 11- I be - We have before had occasion to speak of Mr. Andrews do, s,as an arranger and adapter of words to melodies already rule, ir. known, and of the present selection need only remark ...

... CONCERT HALL.-THURSDAY EVENING. : ?? I. I. A' TflUT QonT ma At'T k. w e ?? MENDELSSOHN'S ELIJAH. We have so often commented, in these columns, upon the ;!i genifus 'displayed ffli'this the' greatest 'Of 'the great master's i sacred compositions, that we need scarcely enter into any- - thing like a detail of its many and extraordinary beetiies. 4 ,, Mendelssohn has contrived, with rare ...

... LINES BY LAAMARTINE. TO COUNT D'ORS;Xy. '7 - r Whon fromtn tbe y-rormedlmenli-the Ifithbress Transinits my eiligy to men inboril -And as, Wili careless eye, thliri hands ilucy pass Across the furrowted front, where ihought bad worn -'Aebnael, like its tolrout, deep and bold Doubting, they'll ask whose ]iliesnos they beholdi? Is this some warrior, foi- his conntrs siain? - - Somle bard who ...

... Afteraim. lExtracto. - ?? Id - ?? THEBET AY a! ENTERING LONDNoe.-Our ancestors e, 'ae understood this thoroughly. Au ambassador to the court ofor re Westminster or Whitehall was, on lauding at Dover, re- ret a stage wvas to the great cathedral city of England, Canter- ver 9, bury, from whence the. route was to Rochester, where theth noble castle, with the ships in the Medway, would ll his ...