PURCELL CLUB.
TILE half-yearly meeting of the Purcell Club was held on Thursday, at the Sussex Hotel. The selection presented as much novelty as at any preceding anniversary, and ninny years will elapse ere its members need. to "draw the well dry." The Gresham Professor of Music, who occupied the chair, remarked, that as PURCELL furnished appropriate expression for every sentiment or feeling, so he had fortunately supplied us with an appropriate chorus to the toast "Tire Queen and Prince Albert," in the (MS.) Finale to his King Arthur— St. George, the patron of our isle, A soldier and a saint, On this auspicious Order* smile, Which love and arms will plant.
" Our natives not alone appear
To court this martial prize,
But foreign princes, welcomed here, Their crowns at home despise.
" Our Sovereign high in awful state Her honours shall bestow, And site her seepteed subjects wait On her commands below."
Previous to the music in the Tempesi, which occupied the principal part of the evening, Poucam.'s sublime Anthem, " 0 sing unto the Lord," was sung ; and the meeting was enlivened by some of his hu- morous productions. Every return of these festive assemblies gives, in then a fresh as well as a complete epitome of Poncum.'s extraordinary powers ; of which it would be difficult to say whether they were most successfitlly employed on the sublime, the graceful, or the mirthful.
• The Order of' the (tarter.
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