... the speeches delivered in the House of bI Commons. Some hon. members speak with a fair d, amount of knowledge of the facts, from the abun. al dance of political feeling ; some speak like lawyers, w as if from a brief ; some-but these are few-come down ...

... gret, therefore, that 'we discover an equally strong and sure grasp employed in the volumes before us upon characters which speak a language never be- fore heard in the worhl of letters, and upon events which have only a very narrow local interest. We would ...

... are too cool and reserved a people to indulge in language so enth usiastio as that of Count de Montalembert a, even when speaking of our greatest national heroes. We do all honour to Father Lacordaire as a man of the highest courage, ability, and honesty ...

... yeals of his life, when no louger ab)e to attend, nevertheless conutinued to ' -e a Jively interet in all re proceedings. In speaking of the policy which the souncil proposed to follow during the commng session, he referred to the action of the society in ...

... recommended to seek a thorough chllange of air, complied very literally with thercounsel, by going to the Antipodes. This speaks well for the facilities of travel in our day. What would our grandfathers have said of the lotion, that an exhausted clergyman ...

... like the woiks of Grecian statuary or Gothic architecture, not to be imitated by modern art. Mr. Lincoln then proceeded to speak of Bach's music for the organ, comparing him with Handel as a composer for that grandest of instruments. Both were great, ...

... Euglish public would not D have been at all impaired (probably the reverse) by its e having been of half its actual length. In speaking of such r a concert we may confine ourselves to what related espe. Dcially to Mr. Phillips himself. As to the rest, it is ...

... DRAMA. HAYMARKET. Dr. Johnson, speaking of Goldsmith's play ,lSe Stoops to Conquer, said be know of no comedy for many years that had answered so much the great end of comedy- making an audience merry. This remark maybe very justly applied to Mr. Buckstont's ...

... stiff and artificial in such a composition by clever grouping and varying of the attitudes. The likenesses are, generally speaking, remarkably good, and altogether the picture is admirably well suited to the purpose the artist kadin view. It was impossible ...

... witchcraft by executing a ragout of that doomed Scottish ballad, Coming through 'the rye. Of the rest of the concert we cannot speak, for the singular, yet simple reason that we did not say to hear it; but the audience seemed to be resolved to mkes anight ...

... take to be incorrect. L The writer proceeds to state, with admirable clearness, la the circumstances which enabled him to speak as an eye- I witness of what went on with the headquarter staff, and in then says.:- I presume to detail these particulars ...

... by Mr. CusinLs ?? ( Overture (Guillauisc Tell).. . ossiani. Conductor-Profeasor Sterndale Bennett, Mus. D. This programme speaks for itself, in as far as the selec- tion of music is concerned. Of the symphonies and over- . tures-every one of them a chef ...