... TESTING THE STRENGTH OF THE BUILDING FOR THE GREAT EXHIBITION, IN THE PRE- SENCE OF THE QUEEN & PRINCE ALBERT. The Royal Commissioners are evidently determined to allay the apprehension which has been escited in the public mind on the subject of the strength of the building; and with this view they have subjected various distinct partsof ittosevere tees. The satisfactory results of these ...

... ENGLISH MUSIC.-No. 1. THE first account of English Music which we have to be relied on is somewhere about the year 590, when the Missionaries who came over with St. Augustine adopted a musical service in their devotions. What these services were we have no means of accurately knowing; but most probably they were the Ambrosian or Gregonan Chants, -the latter, which has been revived lately, does ...

... [FOll THlt EXETERIS FLY.INO rOST.] THE HARP OF GREECE. Rise Virgin Greece !-revise the classic fire, That ol'd in lava streams from Sappbo's lyre, Awake of song that mighty torrent tide That slumbers nowV on Parnassus sunny side. That harp, unstrung and mute, tune hibh again, That burned when Homer lond of battles sung,- a Tbat quivered 'neath Anacreon's thrilling strain, ol That Piadar savept ...

... ie,&kes, TIr;,,ts, asir, *c., for reciew, are reqdested to be left Ma Mr. C. .11itchell's, Red Lion Court, Fleet-street, London, dldressed To the Edaor of the EXETER FLYING POST. These will teI da(ly forwarded, and reeide ?? early notice. J'eamner's Life of Christ,-Neander's Church History, Vol. 1,-Goethe's Faust, Tasso, Iphigenia, Egmont and Goetz,-forming portions of Bohn's Standard Library ...

... EXETER, THUJRSDAy, FER1TARY C, ]851. WVEST OF ENGLAND AGRICULTURAL EXHIBTION. -On Thursday last, a highly respectable meeting of the committee took place at Bridgewater, for the purpose of considering their report on the proposal for migratory meetings in the West of England. W. Porter Esq., of Hembury Fort, was placed in the chair, and was supported by Sir P. F. Palmer Aoland, Ralph Neville, ...

... On Tuesday, 2Bth ult., the first lecture for the season was delivered by Mr. D. Ross, at the Athenaeum, ou Naviga. tion and the Construction of Marine Time-heepers. The lecturer, who is deprived of sight, divided his address into four parts:-i. A brief outline of tbe history of navigatioan. 2. Latitude and longitide, and the best means of determining the same. S. Histwrical account of the ...

... ENGLISH IMUSIC.-Ill. THE first musician we intend noticing is Dr. Christopher alt. Tye, the musical preceptor to Prince Edward, and the be other children of King Henry the Eighth. In the reign of Elizabeth he was one of the organists of the Royal Tbo Chapel. Dr. rye, in the year 1553, published a book Tb with the following singular ?? Actes of the by i Apostles translated into Englyshe metre, ...

... THE GREAT EXHIBITION GERN&RAL RuLmS. - The Commissioners have published a set ofregulations relative to admission dcring the preliminary arrangements, the places of entrane the police arrangements, the mode of passing the good' and -other matters principally pertaining to the exhibitor ' The passes for admission will be of two kinds, thoe available for more than one day, and those available ...

... ENGLISH 'MUSIC.-II. AT the commencement of the fifteenth century music had become such an essential part of the choral service in this country, that it was used in all cathedrals and collegiate churches; and as we may imagine, from the circumstance of the clergy being the most learned in the science, they were, no doubt, very zealous in its promotion. A great impetus was given to the art in ...

... ENGLISH MUSIC.-IV. . X -- I 11 I At1 A_ A~ DP. BuLL, in 1601, travelled abroad for the recovery of w his health ; he travelled incog. into France and Germany. U1 Whilst at St. Omers, be heard the organist much spoken fr of, and, having determined to know something of him, w applied to him as a novice to learn something of his art. e The musician, after some conversation, conducted the Doctor ...

... P0 V T R Y. SECRETS. I've a secret in my heart, and I ean tell it unto none; But I say it eoftly to myself when I am all alone. t zesteth in my bosom like tihe centre of a rose; All its perfume, all its sweetness, from that hidden centre flows. And yet I am not joyful; oft-times I weep and sigh: 'Tie a holy thing this guarding of a sweet, sweet mystery. I can tell it unto no one, and the tears ...

... P OET RY. EARLY HAPPY DAYS. They tal- to me of operas, of concerts, routs, and balls, ut oh ! a dreams of other days my lonely heart enthralls; It tells a tale of happy home, of hours for ever fled, I In that first flush of spring-borm life, dlas ! to early fled. I see the green and sunny glades, the meadows far away, IN here bleating lambe are gambolling s0 Sportively at play. d And all ...