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To-morrow (Wednesday) being the feast of St. Michael,
Tallit's celebrated service will be performed, both morning and
afternoon, at Westminster Abbey, furnishing a rich treat to the
lovers of ecclesiastical music. It is surprising that the name of
Tallis, venerable as it is in the eyes of connoisseurs in church
music, should be so little known to the generality of people, for
out of the numbers who may listen to-morrow to the august
strains of his services, many will see nothing in that name, or
know no more of it than that it is composed of six letters.
Tallis, rightly entitled the " Father of the Cathedral Style,"
was, according to the best of our recollection, born in 1520.
He was organist of the Royal Chapel to King Henry VIII.,
King Edward VI., Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth. In
the second and third of these reigns he was simply a gentleman
of the chapel, and served for sevenpence half-penny a day, but
under Queen Elizabeth, he and his affectionate disciple, Bird,
were gentlemen of the chapel and organists.
Learned and elegant as are the compositions of Tallis, they
are not less original. Among the works of the old cathedralists
of the kingdom he formed his style, and his music has a grave
and majestic air well-suited to the " pealing organ."
Talks, though a Catholic, accomodated himself and his
studies to the alterations introduced at the Reformation, and
his " Services," which are to be performed to-morrow, were
composed by him after the musical part of the church service
in Queen Elizabeth's reign had been settled by Parker, Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, who, himself a skilful musician, had the
care of selecting at this period from the Common Prayer the
offices most proper to be sung—a matter of no little import-
ance, especially as the rubric contains no directions about it.
Several professors and amateurs we believe are to assist at
the regular choir at the recitation. The morning service com-
prehends the " Venite exultensus," " Te Deum," and " Be-
nedictus ;" and the evening service " The Magnifica t" and
None Dimittis." Mr. Turle presides at the organ.

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THE LATE FRACAS AT THE GREENWICH
POLICE-Couar.—ln reference to this subject,
laid by Mr. Drury before the Home Secretary, the following
answer has been received Whitehall, Sept. 24, liBn4qlu.ry
Sir—l am directed by the Secretary, Sir James Graham, to
acknowledge the receipt of your petition, praying an
may be made into the conduct of Ali-. Grove, one of the police
magistrates, and I am to inform you that Sir James Graham
has not overlooked the subject of your complaint, and that he
has taken with regard to it such steps as appeared to him expe-
dient. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, H. MANNERS SUT-
TON. Michael Drury, Esq., surgeon, Deptford." The father
of the boy, Michael Murphy, who is now undergoing an im_
prisonment of one month, has twice Petitioned the Secretary
of State for further inquiry into his son's case, on the ground
that one-half of his witnesses were nut examined, Mr. Grove
having frightened the first one that appeared in his behalf; and
that the boy was not at the " wake" as alleged to be, nor did he
interfere to cause his being taken from his father's house by the
police.
ENROL.—A few days ago a litrle boy belong.
ing to one of the farm servants at East Leys, got upon the
frame of a large metal roller while it was at work, but a sudden
jerk of the machine threw him right over and immediately in
front of and, before the horses could be stopped, the roller
had gone completely over him, but, to the astonishment of the
driver, who expected to find a lifeless corpse, he was takeu
up very little hurt, the weight of the machine having bedded
him a considerable way into the ground, and this it was which,
under God, saved him.— Th 4 Witnesf•

LONDON:
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 184].

, The Quarterly Review has a somewhat elabo-
rate article on the old and new Ministries, which
all the world will eagerly take up, in order to
learn the causes of the defeat of the late, and
what is to be the policy of the new, Ministry.
Any person, however, who expects to learn poli-
tical wisdom from the Quarterly Review, will be
miserably disappointed. A poorer hash of all
the topics on 'which the Tory newspapers have
for the last few years assailed the Whigs, can
scarcely be conceived.
The resignation in May, 1839—the defeats on
the Irish Bill, and on a vote of want of confi-
dence—the giving up of the Administration of
Justice Bill—the appointment of Lord CAMP-
BELL to Ireland—the agitation on the Corn-law
question, &c. &c.—have been discussed ad nau-
seam in the daily journals, are now done up at
second-hand in the Quarterly Review, and Mr.
MURRAY charges his readers 6s. for that
which they have before bought] for sd. An
old suit, nicely darned, scrubbed, and scoured
—such as are exhibited in Holywell-street,
which the reader may have seen perchance in
its original splendour, as it came from PLACE'S
or LESLIE'S, is an apt emblem of this patched,
pieced, and hot-pressed article iii the Quar-
terly Review, compared to the originals in the
Times and the Post, which the writer and pub-
lisher, like the touters in the same street, de-
scribe as bran new.

All that we see new is, that-the restoration of
the Tories is called the political Waterloo—(it is
•
not new to compare PITT and PEEL)-7from which
it is plain that the Tories consider the defeated