... SELECTE]D. -NIRS. HAR1IS'S SOLILOQUY WHLE THREAIDING HEl e NEEbLE. t BY LADY DUFFERI. ( '(Frolm FisAers Dralvinie-yRoOe Scrap Book.) n Ah dearv me! what needles! well, really I must say s All things are sadly altered (for the worse too) since my day s The pins have neither heads nor points; tie needles have no eyes, And there's ne'er a pair- of scissors of thle good okd-fashioued size e The ...

... ,I Thle Star of the week has been Mr. CharlesKentble, wfho hasapipeared successively iii Hafmtttlet, Pierre, Archerw, Octaviane, telr/es, Stuejce, and Charles toe Second, chia- racters requiring very dillerent talents to represent theni successfully; but all cominig within thc range ot itt. IKeni- bles powers, and eals i personatedl in a Inanner nwhict well deserved all tise applause lie ...

... - T i. . . - .AND T TWENSTY-EIGHT AND TWENTY-NINP. I I IIEktD a SickS 115n's ii' lg sigh91, Anti tiln infrnt's iii c ialigter; Thle old yeatr xvcnlt %vit1i liturfrig by, Th~le newv c5nic dancing alter: Let SorrowV sied her lone' y tear., Let Revi'ry ho0d her litdle; Beill, bioughs of cypress toe' tile bier, F jug rotse oil tle crasdle ?*utes to wazit on thle fuineral state 1 Pa~ges to pour ...

... LITERARY EXAMINER AND TIMES. . -Riteraq ligbicto., 1- - ?? ?? d S'idonir, tie Sorcaerss; ithe ?? Destroyer of the e *1 ole 1?ci011i1g House of' Pvonrania. By Win. d i3 Bleinhold, author of 7The Amber Wyitch. 2 vols. v Siinms and M'Iityre, London. 1e The clever story of T'ie Amber Witch, so admirably e a translated 'from the German by Lady Duff Gordon, v created an intorest at the time of its ...

... (Elrom Bentley's Miscellany for December.) Not a few of the anecdotes current at the present day, and told of the generation just passed away, may be distinctly traced to the sixteenth and seventeenth cen- turies. Thejest-books of that period are full of curious and entertaining matter; a few selections may be amusing to the general reader. We will comm ece with one enti- tled Wit and Mirth, ...

... P I i Ai , s1 i EXAMINER. .. . .. ?? .. ?? 1 -1 1 1. - - ?? ?? ?? g ?? 1I Ce'orge Rawl. 2 vols. (P'orlour Library, t ?? Simms and MlIntyre. 18l7. r ,f Ceorge Sand was not pronounced ,,i 1..Xvepi nuder their breath, and then with , od t jue(lies iu the middle ages, wheu 'e i % si (oue, illnide a sign of tile cross, to ni ibljorrence. Englishmeln had ' ,! >1 ' ?? ?? t uC,11. ?? to be their ...

... Oil Wedlneslay Btiwee's nielo-draniatic comedy of -1i0eey was played at the Theatre Royal; and the careful exetlitlia- tion of the pie, e, thus by another performance atfoirled ns. but went to strengthen all old conviction that it belotirg to the very lowest class of its althor's imagiunise writlligI. Totally delicient in that meanest vet for a modern comedly indispensable dramatic requisite, ...

... BRIEF CHRtjNIGL9R ?? TIMES. There are l;184 horses named to run for stakes and plates in England for 1543. - Where are you going ? said George Selwyn to an ac- quiintance. To see a friend. Well, I'll go with you; for I never saw one yet. TIIE QUEEN's VISIT TO IRELAND.-It is announced that the Queen has fixed the morith of August for the royal visit to that country. Judge Morrow, of ...

... FASHIONS. FOR JULY. (From the London and Paris Ladies' MaozinweofFaslsion.) Thematerials nost inrequest forthepromenade arettafe-' tas in plaids.of various colours, foulards of small checks in three shades, taffetas and bareges striped. :Silks shot in three colours rie the'niost'admired; d;and thi 'ityle is adapted equallyfor ftaafftaai nwatered silks and pehius; chine plaids have succeeded ...

... I OPENING ADDRESS, Delivered bpy Mr. James Bmomne, at the Queen's Theatre, May 1st, 1844. BY JOHN BoLrTON ROGERSON. No stranger asks, to-night, support from you g o fresh adventurer sooks for patrons new, But one who pleads with hopeful heart his cause, Cheer'd by the memory of your kind applause; One who believes your aid will be obtain'd, Because already ho hathe favours gaind; One who can ...

... £T ceamitp 5ompaltoln.1 OIrGIN4AL AND SEfLECTEdD. TrUen BREED61NG.-Lord Chatham, who was almost as remarkable for 'his ninmers as for his eloquence and public spirit, has'defined good breeding-4 ...

... Vrbc sallilp 001i1palinton. I O Il N4, A D 8 PLR0 C ?? D. Robert Bas-Thethe feminmey of poetry about Burns; end, eh a b ninid about it there is little licentiousness, propefso 'elied. It is true he is often coarse, indelicate, unscrupulous in his phrases; but he is so, purely for the sake of the humour or the satire-not for the sake of indelicacy. There is no gloating over vice as ,in ...