... music. I SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY. The performance of the Creation at Exeter-ball on Fridaynightdrewanaudiencewhich maybe literallydescribed as overflowing; for not only was every inch of space oc- eupied, but numbers of people, weI ereinformed, were un- able to obtain tickets. Such has always been-and we be- lieve always will be-the case with this most beautiful of ora- torios. Its freshness ...

... INTERNA2TtONAfL EXIBZrIOIS, 18N2. I ' - .1 ?? . ~ D4 The f6llowitig letter from the CommibWoners for it the Exhibition of 1862 has been 'received by Sir Thomas h Phillips, Chairman of the Council of the Society of Arts: rg To Sir Thomas Phillipe, Chiirman of Council, Society tl of Arts, John-street, Adelphi4 W.C. Coundil Office, Feb. 20, 1l61. xi Sir,-I am directed to acknowledge the ...

... 1 Two Years in Switzerlaid and IDaly. By FR lD-- BaI Bazeaun. Translated by MaRY HoWvTT. t 2 vols. Burst and Blackett. The ground over which Miss Bremer here travels, t and the style wherein she discourses of what shF I Sees by the way, are so well known to all readers of ordinary cultivation, that the task of the critic is b considerably lightened. Every one is aware of a what there is to be ...

... I Ten Years' Imprisonment in the Dungeons of Naples. ByAnvorio Nicowo, Political Exile. A. W. Bennett, Bishopsgate-without. The author was one of those sixty political pri- soners from the horrid dungeons of the late King of Naples, who were enabled, a year and a half ago, by the dexterity and boldness of the young sailor Settembrinl, to alter the course of the vessel appointed for their ...

... SIAi AN -E ;. . ~lESSAYS ANDt.M ?? i:. , , S .! '0 TOXE EDITOn OF THE IiYAT ZWSO. SIR,-l amiudupedt to address yo-u byspbaerving tat , the manifestoe0s put.. forti under sanctibo, of all tb9 bistiops, condeumnin t&e ?? of. Esisays and Re- vieir, ahould excite so little a~ttention mi the public press. :If it were merely a squabble cdnflne4dto ?? ctrniig only: the tenets of an' ordinary sect, ...

... I !kf1USIC. | I . pair A, ?? ?? . be, _~ ?? ?? a. r UrHA., COVNTGARDEN. A piece of a novel description wag produced at this theatre lat evening; a melang of recitation eand music, entitlled he ben iof Hiawatha;o ng itd Legfe h The music by Robert Stcepel. the words from the poem of Longfellow. Mr. Stespel waswellikuownhere,wsme years ago, as a musician of tatent, and is held in like esteem ...

... ICRYSTAL PALLOR SCHOOL OF ART, SCIENCE, Ir AAND LITERATUBE. In addition to the various other subjects taught in the different classes of this institution, the scheme of which has been explained by-us on former occasioua, two new courses of special instruction were opened yesterday, at twelve o'clock, by Dr. Christopher Dresser, who gave his first lecture on botany, and at half-past two, by Dr. ...

... si- -1 L s - I 4`1. - X aua I MUBARD'S PAO3IENADE CONCERTS. rIliawAM Promenade Concerts, which have been transferred for a month from the Champs Elysees to St. James's-ball, were originally set on foot by the late M. Musard, and are now carried on by his son, being one of the moat popular entertainments in Paris. There have been many similar things in London, formed upon the model of r the ...

... D - - . - I. - I Af fAMA - - I DJ4 J :. ; z4 . . i ?? .. I !r 1 in a roobntimo ce Yillt.3eU M:.'hto { as Don Cewar De BDra we took itaaioiit9 KM*. t) t melodrame wu probaly the meat pop'- fopiuofdiitiQ i ontertoinment to an .Er Ioh play-going ?? for hoe who hold this trte fidme Celeoi ided by tbetproduotion 9f 2HOMbusVe on the Brige of iprS z . This piece, the %ranslation of ohe withaan i i x ...

... I ?? BRITISH~ TXSTITUTION. r Tire exhibition of the works of British artists at Bas the British Institution, Pall-mall, opens this morning to the sit public. At the private view on Saturday we were disap. at pointed at finding scarcely a single work of first-rate excelV Hi leuce ; hut on the other baud there is such an unusual num- pl, ber of works of sufficient merit to claim notice that we ...

... .1 I iN1L 1 I= A= .. = Is .1 1 fi IF le: BAil OF THEt WALLS COLLECTION. - It will be remembered that the greater portion re of Mr. Wallis's collection of English pictures was sold not re long since at Messrs. Christie and Manson's. The remain. St ing pictures are now advertised for sale on Wednesday next, Ie at Messrs. Foster's, Pall-mall, and they may be viewed to- re day and to-morrow. The ...

... I .j.Og,-,ART. i EXHIBITION O6' 7IM-FEMAL'AaTiS's. The exhibition of the.Society of Female Artists is now open at the Gallery of the New Society of Painters in -Water-Colours, Pall-maU. The principal new feature is the exhibition of a number of works by French ladies. This is liberal, but the new debutantes will be found formidable rivals.i French female artists have long enjoyed advantages ...