... THE THEATRE, OF WAR IN ASIA. The mission of the two rurkish armies in Asia' is to break the circle of iron in which General Woronzoff has for years been eudeavouring to confine the Caucasian in- surrection, Abdi Pacha, leaving Erzeroum, is to penetrate into the valley of the Rioni, and to march straight before him on Coutais, and from. thence on Tflis. Selima Paoha is charged to operate on the ...

... 1 - , H I I .. . I I is WHAT IS HOPE? [BY DYSON SaT.]C What is hope1 'tIt a sweet feeling, s An opening flower for e'er revealing Some visionary hue; It bears the wandering thoughts on high, I It stems the tear, the rising sigh Subdues, and points where pleasures lie, Bright to our mental view. f What is hope 7 a verdant spot r Where all our trials are forgot; 5 A meteor 'mid the gloom, A ...

... The Edinburgh Quartett Union gave the first of a series of three concerts on Monday evening, and the second last night. The audience on both occasions was large and enthusiastic. The programmes included prerogative specimens of the great masters in musical art, and other morceaur choises adapted to the purposes of the different solo performers. ‘The music had ample justice. We never heard ...

... LITERA TURE. Avilliolt anod othcr '1'les. By the Author of 1' Olive, The Head of the Family, &c. Smith, Elder, and Co. The author of the Head of the Family has shown so much mastery over many of the powers that are necessary for the production of a good ro- mance, that we would rather have witnessed this mastery exercised in the production of something new. AMost of these tales are ...

... PHILIARMONIC CONCERT. I - 1 . . - t - ?? The concert of last evening was one of the most delightful musical entertainments ever given in this city. It was se laeted for the purpose of educating the ears of the audience to large instrumental works, which, we are happy to say, were attentively listened to. The 1 Jupiter symphony was so nicely and accurately played as to give us fair promise of ...

... WEDNESDAY EVENING CONCERTS. ts Le There was a capital concert last night, and suc- cessful, as it deserved to be. At the same time it presented 2 little or no thing that Dwas new ; indeed, in the present state 'dof music, the best concerts are these which have the to smallest proportion of novelty-and therefore, beyond general praise, it affords very little room for remark. 11 According to ...

... ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY-SHOW OF WISTER' FRUITS, CRYSANTalTEMUMS, &c. This display of winter produce of garden and coneerva- tory took placeoyesterday in one of the sa1lon of the Royal Choral Institute, College-street. The general aspect of the exhibition as regarded the variety and character of the epe- cimens presented was in the highest degree creditable to the society. The classes of ...

... Sastion aub Farictim. THE COURT. OSTIOiN c, MONDSy.-Lord led Taliley, Lord inl Wait- ing, to thle Queen, and Colonel WVvlde, Groom in Wait- ing to Prince Albert, left Southamnptoni this afterno(on for Lisbon, with letters of condiolenice from her Mla- jesty and his Royal Highiness to the King Regent oif Por'tugal onlthe occasi 'of the death of the late Queent. Osnoitist, Nov. 29._-Tue Duke of' ...

... v)octry.1 SONG OF LIFE. CLOSE, old companions, round my hearth- This little harbour of the sea, That beats around us from our birth- And let us muse )'er destiny; If strong we dash the waves aside, And breast the currents, brave the blast; If weak, we float along the tide, And, like the strongest, sinlk at last:- Onwar d thus, a charmed star, Floats our soul through life away, As the wvorlid ...

... We were amused to see the following letter in Sat urday's Times:- 86s-Allaw _,me to call your attentlion to an error in your aftiels of Yeitirday on the subject of the franchise. Speaking of tle number of freemen bought 1852, Hull 183., Now, there were certainly on the freemen's list for that Ye;,r 1.83S? but 5OU must deduct from that those having ?? qun iclctions, say 339, which gives 1,498 ...

... TH! PRINCIPLES OF CIHURCH GOVERNMENT, and their application to Weoleyan Mothodism, with appen- dices ; by GEORGE STEWARD. (Ramilton, Adams and Co., London.) Though the subjectof church-government is of far less moment than that of personal religion, it is not therefore to be regarded as unimportant. The Divine Redeemer-in pointing out, by hisown instructions, and through his inspired apostles, ...

... LITERA ATURE. MIIRISTMAS BOOKS. ,Th.e Ife~- scAc, 1SnI. 1Edited by Miss POwER. (Dogun.) C(hristimas would scarcely seom itself without its b~ocks. Thibir glory, it is true, is a little diminished. The scarlet and the gold are as bright as ever, but )he contributions wiant the freshness and the bril- :t-.ev of the sketches whick charmed us in the . r nua~s of tventy years back. Still the ...