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in four pnrts — i^oprano, nllo, lienor nud 

 bass. Tlie combination is scientifir, 

 iiui'l ingenious, and thft melody, if not 

 superiorlj' attractive, is smooth, flow- 

 insf. and unaffected. T!ie words are 

 fioni Dr. Watts: and havcl)een selected 

 with judgment. We cannot dismiss 

 (his article, witliont expressina; onr 

 ■H ish, lliat Mr. Siuith had subjoined a 

 piano-forte accompuuimenl. In the 

 future numbers we shall hope to find 

 so useful and necessary an addendum. 

 Pat Bft/ouble, or March, Composcil for 

 Lord Oranf ham's Military lianfl, and 

 arraiifjed for Two Performers on One 

 Piano Forte, bi/ F. Kalkbrenver. — 2a. 

 Mr. Kalkbrenner, in this Pas Re- 

 double, lias furnished auattracfive little 

 practice for file instrument for wiiich 

 it is desLfjned. jS'ot having any leafl- 

 ing movement, the piece is short : but 

 it is also as agreeable as short, and to 

 those practitioners who have not made 

 any consideiable progress in execution. 

 it will not fail to prove highly accep- 

 table. 



DRAMA. 



Seven theatres are open this winter 

 in the metropolis. Dri'RY Lane, Co- 

 VKNT Garden, the Olympic, the 

 Lycevm. theADELPHi, the CoBURG, 

 and tlie Surrey, and all find audiences. 

 The Opera, when it opens, will form 

 the eighth. 



With respect to the regular drama, 

 we have the pleasing task to state that 

 since our last dramatic report, the 

 career of the two metropolitan theatres 

 has continued highly favourable. At 

 CovENT Garden, the tragedy of AJi- 



randoln, has been so successful as to 

 have enjoyed a long and little inter- 

 rupted run ; and has at length only 

 given way to the successive performance 

 of a new oj)eratic piece, founded on I lie 

 Chfinres of Beaumont and Fletcher, 

 and supported by the powers of Miss 

 Stephens, aided by those of Miss Hal- 

 lanile, a new but feeble candidate for 

 public favour. 



At Drury Lane. Miss M'ihon con- 

 tinues to. support the popularity to 

 which that house has so justly risen. 

 ^■Irtarerxes is never performed, but to 

 a brilliant and crowded audience; and 

 the new melodi'ama of Therese, trans- 

 planted from tlie Parisian stage, pleases 

 highly and universally. To this state 

 of things, so flattering to the spirited 

 manager, we have to add the most 

 favourable account of a new tragedy, 

 entitled Conscience, the maiden produc- 

 tion of a Mr. Haynes. 



The plot is interesting, the characters 

 strongly marlvcd, and the language 

 forcible and elegant. The reception 

 W'ith which this piece was honoured, 

 was worthy of the judgment of a po- 

 lite auditory, and of the best tragic 

 play that has made its appearance for 

 some yeais, and which has served to 

 throw new lustre on the pretensions of 

 Mr. Vv'allack and Mrs. AVest. This 

 theatre has now to hoist of three at- 

 tractions, all so powerful, and so rare, 

 as to forma riiore splendid combination 

 of literary and histrionic talenf than 

 has been presented to the public lor 

 many years, an<l we rejoice at the new 

 impulse thus given to dramatic tasie. 



MEDIC AL R EPORT. { 



TISPORT o/ DisKASES rtHfZ Casuai.tii!S nicnrrinff in public and private Practice 

 of the Phi/xidan who has the care of the Western District of the City Dispensap.v, 

 the limits of which, comniencitiff at the Fleet-<'tr('rt end of Chanceri/ Lane, pass 

 through Grafs Inn-lane, Portpool-lnne, JIatton Walt, Great Saffron-hill, Wesl- 

 stree.t,Smithfield-hars, Charterhouse-lane and Square: along Gosivetl-street to Old- 

 street; down Old-street, as far as Bunhill-row ; thence crossing tlie Old Jewry and 

 extending along Uneen-street, terminate at the wafer-side. 



THE principal diseases of the past month 

 have been npoplecfie attacks in ad- 

 vanced age, and pulmonaiy seizures in in- 

 fancy. Of apoplexies some cases have oc- 

 curred ; one in particular, which would seem 

 to justity tlie iissumption of M. de Serves, 

 that palsy succeeding to n piiroxysm of apo- 

 plexy, proves the substance or interior of 

 the brain to be especirilly implicated in its 

 production ; while the disorder, unntteuded 

 by any paralytic spmptorns, is q disorder, 

 Dot of the brain itself, butof its membraaes. 



Like nil theorists, M. Serres has carried his 

 notions too far; but that there is a measure 

 of truth in his postulata and principles, the 

 wriier's observation enables him to state, 

 and any speculations or suggestions respect- 

 iuir aflections of the bruin which may serve 

 lu check the prevailing empiricism on the 

 subject of apoplexy, and its remedial de- 

 mands, are worthy the attention of both 

 pathologist and practitioner. That a com- 

 plete fit of the mnlaily in cpieslion may ha 

 induced v/itLoui pressure on tbe braiu, is in 



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