30 JUNE 1832, Page 16

TIME-KILLERS.

DE BEGNIS, in the announcement of his concert, which took place on Monday, promised :a duet by Madame :De Manic and himself, of which he stated- " This duet is composed of 164 bars, and of more than 600 words, and will

be sung by them in the short space of 4 minutes." •

The brief space cf time in which a long duet may be despatched, is doubtless a recommendation-. Why is it that the idlest people ale always in the greatest hurry? if the time of any people ote earth is of small value, it is that of the audience at a morning con- cert; and yet De BEGNIS makes as much, in this advertisement, of saving a minute or two in a duet, as if time were made for any thing but to be killed. But it is always so: the man who rides or walks against time—the persons who are always endemonring to do something or other in less time than anybody else—are al- most invariably those on whose hands time hangs heaviest, and who, on the contrary, instead of despatching the little they have to do in haste, should contrive to eke things out, and to exhaust their ingenuity in making events last as long as possible—occupy as much of the span of life as may be—and thus stretch their little matters over a great deal of existence.