... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... [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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... , _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 ...