... HUSIC. EXETERb HALL. The National Choral Society, under the direc- tion of Mr. G. W. Martin, gave, last evening, a performance of The Meseiah to the soldiers now quartered in London; with the view, as announced, of promoting the cultiva- I I tion of choral music in the army; a most praiseworthy e object, and well worth the attention of our military I t authorities. Every one who has seen ...

... LITERATUBr. DockiYard Freorom! anld AVIavcl Power. By P. BARRY, LOW and' Son. The approach of the parliamnentary-sesesimi-NIMM -Ye naval estimates must be discusse,8d, and the national Oil p~ocket appealed to, givea 9rai* luad tatd e allworks ,etlidng to tbro'W Igt on the 'Dino~h which so milch money is expended in our adok-. ie yards. As Mr., Baury veY truly says, establia- put meuits which ...

... 1I THE EXHIBITION AT ASHBY. k The anniversary of the Sparkenhoe Farmer's Club was r- held on Wednesday last, at Asbby-de-la-Zouch, and was Al in nearly all respects, save the weather, a success. The Is day opened dull and cloudy, and as the morning advanced w a gentle drizzle began to give warning of the long desired 1, change of the weather which was at band, the small rain r, being ...

... In writing to the Times R. E. R. ?? my inspec- ation through the prison to-day (Aug. 30), 1 came across ise the following lines written on the slate belonging to 3 ost prisoner now in this prison, under sentence of penal ser- ihe vitude for the second time, and who has repeatedly been re- convicted besides. I have taken the liberty of forward- of ?? them to you:- he I cannot take my walks ...

... Messrs. Bemrose and Sons have secured, as we announced in ye las week, the services of several eminent artistes for an It evening concert on the 20th-next Monday. Most of the vo- fo calists are well known and are very highly appreciated nkhere, and it is unnecessary that we should insist upon the bt at attractiveness of fidile. Titiens, fIdlle. Bauermeister, in Madame Demeric-Lablacho, or of ...

... - 'ER MY VISIT TO OSBORNE. Dear Gladstolle, you will like, no doubt, To get a line from mle. T,, tell you waimmt le beon about Wh Iil, w ith Hem .*lJe1y. t Biii, fltst arid foremost, lot me say l';e niloeflell my %lews About tle OWOIIS. ma lions till tis day C I've ostled with abuse. I have Right llonouirable now Prefixed lo plain 'John Bright, And lierefmire see 'tiings, I avow, fit quite ...

... MAGAZINES, &c. d LSECOND NOTICE.] a Th7e Cornhill Magazine. No. XXIX., May. London c SM ~rH, ELDER, and Co.,65, Cornhill. e Temple Bar. No. XVIII., May. London: 122, Fleet- I street. The St. James's Magazine. No. XIV., May. London: W. KENT and Co., Paternostcr.row. Bentley's Miscellany. No. CCCV., May. London: CHArVMAN and HALL, 193, Piccadilly. The Paris Elegant and Journal of Fashion. No. V. ...

... A more pleasing evening we have rarely spent than that of Tuesday at the Corn Exchange. The grand amateur concert was in every respect a success complete as it was gratifying. The Exchange Hall was nearly filled by a fashionable and a o critical audience, and the brilliant attire of the ladies enlivened p the scene. The executants were grouped upon the platform II with very effective taste, ...

... POETRY'. THE SNOWDROPS. Without the dry trees groan and shiver, The curtained sun in his cloud doth sleep, And through the chamber easement ever Murmuts the roll of the distant deep. By the maiden's sidle onl the couch were lying, Blending their delicate green and white suf Children of winter. half closed and dying. thf Flowers that are born ere spring is in sight. or Slowly she spake in a ...

... Macaulay versus Fox. An Inquiry into the Truthfulness of Lord Macaulay's Portraiture of George Fox. By JOHNu STEPHENsoN ROWNTREE. London: A. W. BiNNETT, 5, r Bishopsgate-street Without. Mr. Rowntree has affectionately and somewhat earnestly vindicated Fox's memory in this reprint of two lectures which he delivered some months ago. lie takes a passing glance of the period immediately preceding ...

... PO E'r aiy. TRUE LONELINESS. 'Tis lonely in the Desert, When eye of man may scan O'er all the wide. wide waste of sand, No trace of fello'-nian; When from no meaniest Arab tent Doth the long smoke-clolnd lise, Grateful as that finom Heaven sent To pathless Israel's eyes. With no green thiing to look upon, And the Sun-glare in the skies. 'Tis lonely on tile Mountain, Amid th' ?? snow, When from ...

... rRUCTION OFF THE BRIDGCWATRIL C( X'I nfit A It I A RAU;1 Il. ,i THE CONsSTRUCTION o0 THE BRIoGEWATERL CANAL. -No sooner was the ground surveyed, and Brindley's views ex-tr plained to the Duke, than the latter at once resolved that no rc sacrifice on his part should be wanting to ensure success to c the enterprise. Disregarding all personal comfort, renouncing all the supposed requirements of ...