... A YOUNG SIAN'S WELCOME TO A NEW YEAR. Come, fi;l us ?? clups of the .wild gleaming wine, That's exprest from the gripes or the sunny chiumpaigne Round whose margins the ,parrkles are shining as bright As the lew drops that spring bilngs on rvsebuds by night. Anti with love io our heart and with joy in (our eye, Let us drikilt to the year that has just flitted by WVhile far on the Uivind the ...

... EXIIIDITION OF AR'TS-ASSEMBLY IIOCKS. Go01)0 tO'S IIYDIIO-OXYGI:N PO..ArtSCOrU.-rliiS instruimient is shown in the Polariscope Lecture Room, a large apartient fitted up expressly by the Sub-Coni inttee to accojinmodate tite daily increasing ?? that thiroiig to see the wonders of science which are displqayed by means of this magnificent in- strumnent. The lecturer, Mr E. M. Clarke, -who 'as ...

... TIHE THEATRE. T'le new Pantomime being well deserving of more than a mere cursory notice, we nIOW proceed to enter at some length into its merits. The first scene, wvlhich is really beautiful, represents a view in airy Land. t Here the Ogress, IMlunclha Crunclha, appears to de- S mand the hand of the Prince Beaulhe, son of Rum cra Jum, the usurper of the imperial throne. Thle wV Prince, ...

... LADIES' FASHIONS FOIL JANUARY. Violet or Pensee is the firvouritc colour at th- moment for every style of toilette, in velvet or each- mere, four bournous, shawl, or paletot, and fur ac- cords extremelv well with it. Paletots of violet sa- tib, lined with whitc, and trimmed vsith Canada fur, are very elegant for walking toilettes. I he Mol- davie, with its numerous shades, a material equally ...

... CONNCERTS A LA IMUSARD. Front notices which have appeared in several of our contemporaries, wve observe that the experiment is about to 'be tried of doing for Music what has been so successfully done for Literature-namely, to cheapen it to the public. Hitherto, fronm the high rate of admission, Concerts have been of :10 exclu- sive character. They came, too, like angel visits, few and far ...

... EXHIBITION OF ARTS-GRAND PROMENAI)E. The exhibition of arts, manufactures, &c. which has during the last fortnight drawn suchl immense crowds to the Assembly Itooms, was closed on Tues. day night with a grand dress promenade and ball. From the desire the Committee had to allow certain schools to see the exhibition, it was noon of Tues- day before the operations necessary for the prome- nade ...

... LITERAruRpE. 'TIE OMNIPRESENCE OF THiE DEITY. By the Rev. Ii. 1lIntgoinsrv, A. M. GlaXswm : Joh n1 Syrnirigton & CO. The present, which is the sixteenth edition of this heautiful poem, is what is termed The Peo- ple's Edition, being eleg-nt tly printedi in four sheets of letter-press, at the chesapest rate. The piety and the poctry in thiis work are of a lofty and ennobling character, and ...

... Tim Eartunejt RFlvirtw. No. 142. January 1840. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black. Sir John Malcolm's Life of Lord Clive fur- nishies a writer in the E'dinlhrgi -with ain occasion for drawing the attention of his readers to the situation of our Indian possessions at the period when Clive began his remarkable career. To every Englishman it must surely be an object of engrossing interest to ?? ...

... M. THQALBRG'S EVENING CONCERT. Not fewer than a tlhousaind person- assembled on Friday evenrnng to welcoire back this great artist to Edinrburghl. But vast i's this concourse was, we ne- ver remember, in all our experience (aid itin hs not ry, been small), an audience so cold, apathetic, and, as on it were, studiously reserved. Surely this could not er Ihavebeen real indifference, for ...

... IThe QUARTEnlY REVIEYV. No. 129. London: John AMurray, Allientarle Street. The political writers of the Quarterly are here, as usual, belabouting thle Ministry with all the viru- lence of party rancour, rendered, if possible, more keen and cutting under the exasperating influence of tic hope deferred. In a long-article on the Conduct t of Ministers, this spirit is abundantly apparent. All ...

... NI. THALBERG'S SECOND AND THIRD CONCERTS. Monday morning ?? even a more dense- ly filled room than onl the previous Friday. The arrangements regarding the opening of tile doors -were judiciously -iltered, and the audience were thus enabled to take their seats quietly and without any of the unseemly contentions which called forth our former remonstrances. 'There were, to be sure, a few bold ...

... Tur, M5SSIAII: a Prem. By the Rev. Robert Mont- gimery, author of the Omniipresence of the Deity, &e. Glasgowv: J. Symington & Co. ?? forms the sixth anti concluding volime of the clegant uniform edition of the Reverend Gentle- man's worlks, now publishing in Glasgow. As the subject of the present poem is the most sublime and interesting to mankind the author could have se- lected, so lie has ...