... the unfortunate, the sick, the superannuated of our profession. I feel that the strength of my demand is in that cause. I speak not for myself, hut for the charity, though, now that nomination speeches have been put an end to, and stuimp speeches, owing ...

... cxhibited at this show last year. Tiey hove elho every ret son to be satlielied with the character of the Show, the jiudgel speaking of it :ts one of high qujality, especialy as regards the pigeons. The prize 15it waS f-,-suset.l on a liberal scale, the ...

... of classiel mnusic. Ther2 were, of course, cexceptions, due to the spirit of cornp.onuise on both occasions; but, broadly speaking, if the programme of the fourth concert was popular that of last night was undoubtedly classical. This circumstance will ...

... D. F. Davis, the well-lsnowss harpist, of this town), a Y3Oe;sg lady of whose pronsise as a juvenile paisist u-c had. to speak in laudatory terns ionic fur years :igo, Iw hose 1,er ?? of lhleusdelssuhsss's C rlier concerto on t lis occasion shlowecd ...

... readers the propriety, not to say the duty, of bidding for the art treasures of foreign lands, by stmnnding, figiuratively speaking, on the higltesta(l southernmost of Dover's ?? and, there waving blnulc cheques in the gaze of the necdiuer nations of Southern ...

... iict;lro neow hung om the opposite side of thi gallery, and lie might fairly say, with- out extravagance, that thley could not speak of it in too highl torms of pilaise. The third pictureo was tie one noxv before them. (ApplausO.) Bte had nO doubt that every ...

... jus- tice and tihe a prillsu wife proportionately hearty and flattering. Of Brahms pianoforte quartet it is ?? hardly fair to speak definitely after a siesgle hearing, hut woe must frankly confess that our first imepression of ths worlk is disappointing. ...

... While tearful multitudes around him kneel- And those soft words whislitake from death'shard doom The sting and bitterness, speak through the gloom. Above him, poetry of sculptured stone, And pictured legends of the saints of Godl; Tlhe dead beside him ...

... inudilblc, amid repose oecasiousally dege-nerated intD tamnTeCss, Of the Reefes of ir. J. ?? Ysismmg, it would be difficult to speak too highly. A isere ainlful13, yet amusingly, life-like delineatioms of time Iasidlms ols isusnbuig we have iever witneszeed ...

... much earnestness defended his position asea monk in the Chareh of England; a monk, he said, not being necessarily a Papist. Speaking of Llanthony Abbey, he said the promoters of the monnstic system there had had to bear much sorrow mush trouble, much persecution ...

... stood always the centre of a circle, one or another of whom he would now and then seize by the arm like the Ancient Mariner, speaking words of wisdom, Lord Shannon caue as a ?? with a shillelagh, and there were all the usual dresses of afancy bal-Mexicans ...

... on having lightened the purses oif their gssests to tile tune of sonmethi, linkc£'2,000. Of the exhibition itself we must speak very briefly and generally. A cullection of i73 .works of every coneeivable character and merit is not to b-e reviewed off-hand ...