31 AUGUST 1844, page 20

Music.

THE PURCELL COMMEMORATION. Duailto a period of fluctuating opinion on Church Music, when a cer- tain enthusiastic party are making a strong and not wholly unsuccessful attempt......

Fine Arts.

HUMOROUS DESIGNERS. WHEN GEORGE CRUIESHANK commenced his career as a caricaturist, he was the sole successor of GH.LRAY, BUNRURY, and RowitANDsoN, who for half a century had......

Births, Marriages, And Deaths.

BIRTHS. On the 17th August. at Munich, the Wife of the Rev. J. C. WHALLEY, of a daughter. On the 22d, at Aire, near Geneva, the Lady of Sir Jon a Cuestas THOROLD, Bart., of......