... 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 ...

... 1 s - ?? Thefollowingdocument, containing the general prin- ciples which will govern the arrangements of goods in the building of the Exhibition, and to several of which we have upon previous occasions alluded, has just been issued by the Executive Committee:- 1. The productions of the United Kingdom and the British colonies will be grouped westward of the central transelit. Theproductions of ...

... I We have this week, as usual at our great horse fair, to record the successful perpetration of the e old trick. As well might Two look for Christmas .Iwithoat mince pies, or the newv year, without tea parties and balls, as for a Great Saturday fair in Preston to pass over without somebody or other being done, and the victims are often enough .t those whose general good sense, whose ...

... 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 ...

... THE DEATH SCARF.-FROM AN OLD LEGYND. (From Leigh Hunot's Jounrnal.) sai~d the knight, Wilt thou broider this scarf to-day With thy fairy fine rsso daintily ? Bat the lady's face aL' turned away- I aml too blu3y, I wot ! quoth she. And tIe' kniglht, hc left thei ladye's bower, But hid face ras troubled and Bid to see- Dread is the omen, and dark the hour, When love is too busy for love! ...

... H 0 P E. %varLd fftinD-. e Soother of inward feelings, come Descend upon my throbbing breast; Light up thy suppliant's darksomo gloom, Thoa source of dear and blesised rest- Sweet Hope, my prayer propitious hear, And let thy presene; banish fear. Oh! through the stormi of earthly ill, Among the toils of human life, O'er passion's wild and jvayward will, And 'midst corrodiug care and strife ...

... 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 ...

... THiEATRICALS AND MUSIC. I 15 iinALT,11'ALMS .MiNtIJ lo' -. The Shields Gazettc. in criticisin, the theatrcal company f of Alnwick, says, Mrs. Baker, the prirna donna, is a beautiful woman : of her style of speaking we are unable a to give any opinion, but ler acting is almost invariably good. Her corpselike appearaneo when she dies, or is killed, Is remarkable. A project that has been long ...

... *St tifAY EVENING CDNOERTS. mart . e n - - - 8A- . TilE RAT'HBONR PRIzg XS8Ay. - On Saturday evening last a Iarge audience attended at the Concert-hall, when Mr. Henry Phillips gave one of -his delightful entertainments. Thle vocalist evidently laboured under a severe cold, but his exertions were warmly applauded. Between the parts, i. Mr. NATHANIEL CAINE ~after alluding to the satie- factory ...

... 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 ...

... ., ?? 1 I . - TO A CHILD BLOt'WJl Il BUBBLES. .lY ALAlIC A WATT8. hbrloe happy Babe I what radiant dieams are thine, :As thus tl300 biddlst thine air-born bubbles soar; .Who *6ld not Wisdom's choicest gifts resign, ,To be, likte thee, a careless ehild once more l . To shara thyv sinpipl poits,.and; sinless glee; i Thy breathless wonder, thy unfeigned delight,- one by one, thbse sun-touched ...

... Toaindui's Ifelp to Self-],bostto,$. Part 11. I This serial discharges its part of guide and friend it to the earnest student of the most neecssary o branches of a liberal education, with the zeal and II ability which were evinced in the style and cha- it raoter of its first issue. Every friend to the general diffusion of sound and useful knowledge will p watch, with interest, its progress in ...