... to LEEDS MUSICAL FESTIVAL. in This great music-meeting closed on Saturday es morning with The Messiah. The Town Hall was rP quite full, about 2,000 persons being present. The rof gerformanee in its details was similar to those of the Lrt acred Harmonic Society at Exeter Hall, the prin- i cipal solo-singers being the same; bat the general r efect was unquestionably greater, and the superiority ...

... La The frat, for the present eeason, of the two shows whioh are at held annually under the auspices of the Chepetow Horticultural A Society, tookcplace on Tuesday last in the ruin of the anoient of Castle, whioh convenient and picturesque site the liberality of ly his Grace the Duke of Beaufort had once more placed at the g disposal of the committee. The weather proved most propiti- d cus, the ...

... ittraturtt THE PERIODICALS. The monthlies are doubly grateful at a time like the pre- sent, when March confronts us with his most leonine aspect, and the searching East wind drives people to make the most of all the resources of the fire-side. And, in their stores of instruction and amusement, they will be found fully to answer the calls made upon them. Fraser has a table of contents which, as ...

... I I .I. On Wednesday morning, says the Notling Re- P view, Mr Coroner Hitchens was called upon; to in- h vestigate a very melancholy ease of suicide. The 0I inquiry was touching the death of a young girl ri named Fanny Coxon, a domestic in the service of 0 Mr Joseph Brocklebank, of Carlton-le-Moorlaud, who d on the previous Monday night %ad destroyed her- tc self in a pond in the farmyard of' ...

... X i t ra t l 1 t. TIEE HISTORY OF THE BRuITISH EntPIRE IN INDIA AND TIHE EAST. By Dr E. H. NOLAN. London: S. Virtue. TiE first division of this valuable work, just issued, more than justifies the favorable notice we gave of the earlier numbers, and the high opinion we formed of the ability likely tobe displayed by the author in the course of his performance. Our empire in the East, little, ...

... ig4 iTT attur,. REL1QtTE 'OF ANozcxv EoGLTSR POrTRY, consisting of o!d Heroic Ballads, Songs, ani other Pieces of -or Earlier Zoets, together vrith some few of later ; date. By TvoGNAs PERCY, Lored Bishop of Dromore. Reprinted Entire from the Author's Last Edition. With Memoirs and Critical Dissertation, by the Rev. GRoRGE GIn-FiLAN. Three Vols. Edin- burgh: James Nichol. THE BALLADS OF ...

... THE PANTOMIME AT TUE QUEEN'S TIIEATRtE. 31r WVrudlham has tbhs scason taken advantage of the enthusiasm excited by the appr-actilg Etas. Festiv-d, and selected the bard's most str king asnd original poem as the groun dtviok of his Clhristinas Pantomime at the Queen's. The new piece, ulldeer the title of Tam o' Shant-i-, or larlequin and tile Witcbes of Alloway's Auld Ilauntel Iritk, %vao ...

... jit c r att, THE MAGAZINES FOR DECEB BER. I The most attractive articles in 3LACE.WIOOD1 are twvo short papers on India, one entitled ?? The Poor- beah Mutiny, and purporting to have been written St Lahore (the word Poorbeah signifying a native of eastern countries); the other containing a short his. tory of the doings of the Ist European Beng d Fusi- liers in the Delhi Campaign, a ...

... sit r at1ur. THE EDINBUlRGH REVIEW-NO. 42 a 'mTe present is an attractive number of the EDIN- tI( 'IURGIS. A due propornion is maintained between its in lighter and graver matter. The latter, while full and ev erudite, is neitherheavy norcumbrous, while thef orm er of is unusually pleasant rending. The numtber opens with an article en Hugh Miller, a peculisrle -interest- Dn ing subject, and ...

... J - I Suq)plmnentary Despatches and Memoranda of Field Marehal the Duke of Wellington, K.G.- Indiat, 1797-1805. Edited by his son, the present Duke of WELLINGTON. Vol. I. The supplementary despatches and memoranda contained in this bulkyclosely printed volume range over a period of little more than three years-three years of service in India. A more wonderful supple- ment was never, perhaps, ...

... LITERATURE ASPEOTS OF PAUTS.* Nuch.hasn been written about Paris of late years. Its streets, its msrbets, its bariamres, its parks and palaces, and rag.pickers, have been presented to us in many picturesque forms in 'Household Words, and in the pages of Mr. Bayle Bt. Johns Purple Tints, Therefore Mr. Copping had little new groand to pass over in the external world of the French ca- pitaL He ...

... LITERATUR E EARLY ANMEtINT XISToRY. Mr. Menzies has written a really useful book, A conscientious Egyptologer, he has endeavored to read contending authorities without prejadice, and so to lead the popular student to something like a sen- sible view of fact and fable in the old story of Egypt. The old dynasties-the Hyleom, or shepherd Bings, and the great Semostris; the building of the ...