27 FEBRUARY 1836, Page 19

A Descriptive Cantata, written and composed for the Anniversary Dinner

of the Royal Society of Musicians. By T. Boycotts°.

This musical scene represents a jovial party of professors, whose mirth and harmony is interrupted by the entrance of a widow and two orphans imploring charity. The boon is granted ; and the festive chorus is joined by receivers as well as relievers. How it happened that this Cantata was not sung at the anniversary dinner, does not appear. Perhaps we shall hear it at the forthcoming one.