... MR. H. C. COOPER'S CONCERT. Mr. H. C. Cooper's annual concert took place on Tuesday I evening batnt vorla d attracted a nameirous and feehionable audience;t and we nay say 0of Zitnthe ohutelt ?? I at more chaste and clasipcal musical entert inet has seldom been heard in this city. The main features of the programm conseted ofgen from the instrumental writings ofmMendelssoin, Beethoven, and ...

... I Ltterature4 Notes on the Ecclesiastical and Monumental Architecture and Sculp. fure of the Middle Ages in Bristol ; cith Antiquarian, Historical, Biographical, and Heraldic Elucidations: copiously Illustrated, by George P.yce.-J. Lavars, Bridge-street, Bristol. The author of this little work, amongst many other pursuits, has devoted considerableattentioD to antiquarian research, and hasbeen, ...

... The Perth Courier states that Lord Willoughby ?? has, with his usual liberality, hired, at his own expense, a house in London for the accommodation of such of the tenants on his extensive estates as may wish to visit the Great Exhibition. The general principle on which the arrangement of the goods in the Exhibition will be carried out, viz., that foreign countries will occupy the eastern. and ...

... 3voctr)2. PMVILEGE & PRESCRIPTION.-BY'EUENSZ EMLLOTT. No proud mans scorn can Bloomfield's fame destroy, Though lords may still his origin deride; Efen lords have praised the bard who walk'd in joy, Following his plough upon the mountain's side: And who derides the Norwich weaver boy Whom senates hear, standing at Cobden's side? The rank our fathers worshipp'd seems a toyv To us, who say ...

... LITERARY VARIETIES,. A NEW AwECDOTE oF LocKE.-Extract from an original let- ter of Lord, Shasftesbury, aeuthor of the 1Characteriatics, to ILe Clero.-At ana pointed meetingof two or three of these Great- Men at my Gd ather's House, more for Entertaiment and good company than for Business, it happen'd that after a few Compli- ments the Cards were called for, and the Court-Fashlionrevail- ing, ...

... 30etorp._ SUBMISSION. I snAkL rise, though now I 'm fallen: From the willow take my lyre; And this trouble yet shall leave me Purified, like gold, from fire. While my every hair Is numberd, Tell me, am I not secure? Sorrow more or less all humbleth, But the longest soon is o'er. Bless thee-bless thee, Heag ?? Father! For thy staff and for thy row Deal with me as doth beseem thee: All s for my ...

... TSR FaTuRx WrVES OF ENGLAND-lTy pretty little dears- You are no more fit for matrimony than a pullet is to look after a family of fourteen chickens. The truth is, my dear girls, you want, generally speaking, more liberty and less fas ionable restraint; more kitchen and less parlour; morelegexercise and less sofa; more making puddings and less piano; more frank. ness and less mock-modesty; more ...

... , _J.L ?? _^a. ?? v . . a.J. ST. Pl n's PAMOlsY.-Beyond- a questlon, the Impudeape of his holisess exceeds the Impudenoe of any other loliae;siat eveirwore the Babylonian scarlet. ?? tbe Pope',oi ROAq-A better right'to exercise authority in the British deminionsihan the head of ?? toexerelaeittinthe'Roenar? :The-Qeen ?? graecously permits to every Papist the exercise of his religlen, not only ...

... 5 Those persons who have been led by the publication of ; opinions propounded by architects and others, to the beler that the galleries of the building of the Exhibition were cot sufficiently strong to bear the load that would, in all probability, be put upon them, will be happy to hear that that point bas r been most satisfactorily tested. On Tuesday forenoon a highly interesting experiment ...

... aoctrp. THE RIVER.-FROM THE SWISs or TEGNER. XiS silence, where the new-born-river wells, I sit and watch the offipring of the sky; In rocky cradle yet the infant dwells, And sucks his mother cloud which wanders by. Look, In the woods the heavenly child is growing, Dreams of the glories of his destined race: The sun and moon he clasps, while onward flowing, With passionate longingin his young ...

... GREAT EXHEBITION. -awners n:LAt1fL±,VuX. Space has been granted in the Glass Palace to the Bible Society to exhibit specimens of their Bibles in no less than one hundred and fifty languages. ADnMISSXOS OP VISITORS.-Her Hajesty's Commissioners for the Exhibition have had under their consideration the regula- tions respecting the admission of visitors which it appears to them necessary to adopt ...

... BRISTOL INSTITUTION FOR THlE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, LITERATURE, ANDTHEARS. At the annual meeting of this society (noticed last week), the following report was read, which was divided into several heads, oommeneing with that of- L ?? on this subject the committee expressed their pleasure at hav- ing to report a balance in favour of the society of £32 17s. 2d., whereas, at the close of 1849, ...