... CONCERTS, iMUSIC, &c. M. BILLET'S CLASSICAL CONCERTS.-On Tuesday M. Alexandre Billet, the celebrated Russian pianist, commenced a series of classical performances at St. Martin's Hall, Long-acre. The programme comprised Beethoven's Sonata in F sharp major, Op. 78 ; a Prelude and Fugue in A flat, by Bach; two similar movements from Handel; which, with a Sonata by Woelfl, in C minor, made up the ...

... LITMEATUREL -X -- - - : THE imPO&TANCE ANDt VALUE OF THE BRITISH NOnmTH AsERIAn ARCOLODUE5.. By thelHono, .J:owe, Provincial Secretary t Nova. Scotia. Saunders, Charing. crej s.-aI January laste Mr. Howe delivered a very in- texesting lecture on the North British American colonies, to the inhabitants of Soutbaimpton, at the request of a number of the most influential tradesmen and merohants of ...

... THIE GREAT EXHIBITION. ~jgIL~sM~I). CATRALtTEDCTLE.-AS the time for 0pig h 1hith exhibtsoni near fi erat hand, iti ibios: b'ol °P hgge esilloS is tustrations to a ppear in thee great oflichil c atalogue should forward their designs to the b ildding at Once. T~lE ROYAL AGnICULTUBtAL SOCIrzt' AND THE[ t ln ITION-oNThe Council of the Royal Agricul. b Grsl oity ilof England, fecling indisposed to ...

... lifulewo. Robeet Owen's Journal. Part 4. Clayton and Son, Strand. The present part is unusually interesting, as containing a portion of the autobiography of the Patriarch of English Socialism, in the shape of two letters to the Dean of York. It appears that the Dean is publishing in Col- burn's Newt 3onthly Magazine a memoir of the late Sir Robert Peel ; and, by way of proving tile piety of ...

... REViEWs OF BOOKS. Tua SECOND SaIKse WAix. i. T. T3IA :YE3LL. 2flsttley, Burlingtoss-street.-The writer of this volume Ges an iede-de-canip to General Thacdit ell, an officer who distinguished himself in the Seoich campaiefn. Ge- r-eral Thackweil appeats to have differed nith Lord Gough. as to the expediency of that officerss tactics. We care little for such disputes; but wte cannot read, ...

... AI V SIC. - Alkthes, In that day. Composed by Dr. Elvey. [Lon- dun : Surman, O, Exeter ifall.J-We have already had occ% sion to notice tbe performance of this legitimately effective work by tbe London Sacred Harmonic Society. The nmusic is oliaracterised by breadth, simplicity, and a pure vein of natural melody. Dr. Elvey is a contrapuntist also of no small ; pret6nsions, manachiog his ...

... 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 ...

... IlIEP, MA JES7T S TIEI TRE.-TWIE EN- ! . U1Nu s ?? TIC ,94l'SOwY. Celebrated as will be the summuer of 18:11 for the occurrnccc of the greatest industrial and social epochI in our history, it will probably be not less a uecuorable as an era of corresponding activity and sploidour in tile progress of musical and lyric art. Drawing together, as London will shortly (10, all n assemblage,both ...

... . OL Y1MPIC THEA TREE The historical romance of Sextns the Fifth, anno~unced is by Mr. BoUt;RICAULT, but in reality the joint production of that gentleman and Ilr. BIRIDGNIAN', attracted to the Olympic last evening an overflowing audience of the usual first night character. The play was enthsusiastically re- ceived, the continued applause sustaining little aboatemenrt from the somewhat ...

... THE BUILLDiNG.-'SO far as the actual structure of the building for the Exhibition is concerned, comparatively little remains to be done. The whole of the glazing re- quired for the building was brought to a conclusion on Saturday week. The flooring upon the ground floor on the. south side is completed, as well as nearly the whole of that of .the galleries. It is not intended at present to ...

... . (RO31 THE HOLLY WiAWTH.) Look round ! look round ! W'ithlin the precincts of thy native land See, theie are many drooping ones who stand Ix need of a kind word-a helping hand. Look round! look round! Look back! look back! Fear surely it is wise for us to cast At tiujes, a thoughtful glance upon the past- Each bygone action has a moral vast: Look back ! look back! Luok in! look in ! The ...

... (From Hughe' Select English Poetry.) Asca. in proportion to their moral advancement, learn to ,lac the circle of their regards, an exclusive affection for osr relatives, our class, or 0' co~nhtr, is a sure mark of all oem1 roved mind, so is that narrow and unchristian feeling to bc conldeiiid, which regards with jealousy the progress of forcieal natlinS, and cares for no portion of the ...