Egli= Races commenced on Tuesday. The weather was very un-
favourable, and the company very thin. The attraction of Royalty, which for so many years brought fashion and numbers to the course at Egbarn, was wanting. In the meagre list of "distinguished visiters," are scarcely any but the old stagers of the turf,—the Earls of Lichfield and Chesterfield, Lord G. Bentinck, Honourable G. Anson, Mr. Irby, Mr. Cosby, and Colonel Lyster. The running was indifferent.
On Wednesday, the attendance was beggarly, and the running not remarkable.
Thursday, the third and last day, was fine during the early part of it, and the attendance pretty good ; but there were not irony persons of distinction on the course besides those we have enumerated. A heavy storm of hail concluded the moderate sport of the day. The most active preparations are making for the approaching festival in Birmingham. Those inhabitants who have apartments they can Spare are busily engaged in providing accommodation for the strangers, and the wealthier classes are inviting their friends from a distance to partake of the pleasure they themselves anticipate. The Town-hall has been much improved since the former meeting : the length of the room has been increased, and the organ thrown back; the orchestra has also been lowered, and rendered sufficiently capacious for between four and five hundred performers. The organ has been newly decorated, by ceating the pipes with silver; which produces a chaste and beautiful
effect, and harmonizes well with the interior decoration of the hall, which is of a light neutral tint. The finest music from a large band was perhaps heard in Westminster Abbey in 1834. The late exten- sion of the Birmingham Town-hall has made it very nearly of the same dimensions as the portion of the Abbey devoted to that purpose, viz. from the organ-screen to the west door. The ball is a few feet longer; but its width is within four feet of the whole extent of the nave and aisles, and that without any obstruction calculated to impede the sound. — Courier.
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