... MU~S~iC., UUIJII.YLAAE. EXTDAORDINAIIY ScCENE.-Th promised perform- ance of Norrma drew an immense audience here last night, but the promise was only in pert fulfilled, and a very rnuti~ lated and imperfect version of Bellini'e opera was the result, At the commencement of the evening an apology was offered for the absence of Signor Luigi Mei, who wee announced for Poliio; and the indulgence of ...

... DPAMIA. DRUJ3Y-LANE , -Mr. G. V. B .rooke had his benefit last evening.. lie was, as, Is ual, desiinate d in the playbills as ' the thi great trageu . n ;` and his benefit was announced as an bring one th e CSpLetal patronage of the Right ho Hion, the Eahl Ef Gleni;all, the Rtight ,-on . Lord Leigh, ste T.S. ?? 'nbe, Rsq., MY., and a host of his ad- th miusiors a aud riends . There was an n ...

... LITERA TUBE. Socian aite Policial2 Morality. By WILLIAM LOVETT. Simpkin and Marshall. Mir. Lovett has been long known for his conscien- tious advocaev of radical reform, and for his earnest endeavours not only to procure social privileges for the members of the class to which he belongs, but to elevate them higher in the scale of society by education. Few men have laboured. so long and so ...

... LITERA TURE. The Priwite Life of Daniel Webster. By CseARLs LAw- MAN, late his Private Seeretary. Longmans. This book is premiature-too soon for respect, too soon for proper collection of materials, and indicating too eager a desire to make a book by throwing any sort of gossip together at amoment when-in America at least-every triviality on this subject is regarded with interest. And whatever ...

... MUsiC. WEDNESDAY EVENING CONCERTS. The concert of last evening was an agreeable rnixture of classical and popular music. Of the former sort were, the overture and several vocal pieces from the Zauberftote, Mr. Sterndale Bennett's pianoforte Concerto in F minor, played by Mr. W. 3. Cusius; Mozart's air from Fqaro, as Voi che sa- pete, sung by Miss Thirlwall; the scene from Robert le Dieable, a ...

... .:USIC.. ; MISS DOLBY'S: SOIREES MUSZCALES. The most remarkable feature of Missf Dolby's 1 second asoiree, last evening, was the performance of a. new _ compositionby-Mr. Lindsay Sloper, of a somewhat novel c form, a Fantasia for 'the- vice and pianoforte,,entitled' The Lady and the Nightingale. The words are a gcac'- ful and fanciful little poem by Mr. H. F. Chorley. A lovelorn damsel of ...

... kO t A BALLAD FOR THE TIMXS.-NO. Y111. n,: or Desirous of that holy state, an Though martyrdom were sure,-- )rn Just, holy, sober, temperate, of Unblameable, and pure, Ig Not giv'n to wine, nor lucre's love, 3y No brawler, patient, good, of His Church's guide to bliss above, The ancient Bishop stood. at He wore no mitre, flll'd no throne, rM Nor dar'd be call'd My Lord, I. le The Gospel was ...

... THE MUSICAL UNION.- This association has commenced its ninth season; its first boncert of this year having taken place yesterday at Willis's Rooms as usual. The Musical Union is of a highly aristocratic description. It is under the especial patronage of Prince Albert. Its presideht is the Douke of Leinster: the Earl of Westmoreland is its vice-president, and its com- mittee of management, of ...

... L)r. E. HIccszlemann has his highly interesting cihetion of the Mounuments of Art, formed by tha' ia2 CGabriel Fejdsvairy, at present on exhibition at tlwlhs~etuul of the Archreological Institute, in Suf- 'r-strcet. This invaluable collection of antiquities e);cd the original collector thirty years in its fo-:msation, and we cannot think the time ill-spent; be tsult has been an assemblage of ...

... DRURY LANE. In going through his range of characters at this theatre Mr. G. V. Brooks took the part of Iago on-Satur- dsy to Mr. Davenport's Othells. If Mr. Brooke baa any merit it is unquestionably his power, er rather his vigour, which-is, as we think, the characteristic of his robust style. There is farlees scope for this faculty in the character of lago than in that of Othello, so that his ...

... - I I' it' 'A mr$%ji ,i 5J llbiliku~i4:D *I3 ?? J dhTi£ *rg P414 tuF if a ?? the p Mloi gav pqc-o ?? ?? .pilOy.yAise, n4, w p 1Jy. cc in ?? r authr1kap RaUioqektt0 ehti Sfid*.hers! -e#met~atL prpolr migo j4 q d~ihI> cfotie ahir srs bi waembchl an *ilv~ith the refnementof the hi emy. de ftbh1rie was an exceleit bi the old ha. iba~ek uncle, worrid- vvo~ o)e~o Ft atro, underthe title Cif we ...

... FINE AR TS. BRITISH INSTITUTION. et [SECOND NOTICOF.. 9- This exhibition is so rich in noble pictures, that it is almost with regret that we pass over any of them. 1e It is long since we have seen so select and thoroughly satisfactory a collection of the same extent. t, No. 61 is one of Both's inexpressibly touching rg landscapes, in which every object seems Absolutely to feel the sunset, and ...