... - . -LIT-ERAT ?? PoATifY1tO1 T et MltLfON. By a ME IBER OF -PARULA- 1dENT. 4E#1ib'd by P a PsiaGGcts. *(Whitakef.),Evdi'y thing nowva.days is 'for the million- Singing for the Milw- ]iontt-'i*Morals'-for the Million.' The Masses, as they are politically called, are coming into fashion, and all science, art, and literature,, of every sortand kind, is served out whole-, sale; -The present ...

... MUSIC AND T = DR AM-A.:II W ?? MU.SIC AIND., THE DRAMA., ?? I FOREIGN CORRUSPOSPENCE AND MUSICAL INTELLIGE~~I ;(sxqu~tVS sl, THlE ERlA.) Same of our readers piay' recollect that, about ten years since, an admirer of the talent of Madlie. Mars bequeated to this celebrated comedian a oonsiderable sum, and in terms the most flattering accounted fci his legacy. This fact, unpre- cedented in the ...

... - TuE performance of operas had for many years been continued at the Old Theatre or Opera House, in the Haymarket, when that structure was unfortunately destroyed by fire in the-month of June 1789. In consequence of' this accident, the Opera was transferred first, to the Little Theatre in the Haymarket, and- subsequently to the Pantheon, which was licensed by the Lord Chamberlain, and opened ...

... The extraordinary improvement in our nasisoal taste, is in no respect more clearly evident than the increased appetite for scieutific amusement amongst the peonle, and the march of mine has strontly developed itself upon occasion of the present holiday season. In lien of the boisterous exercises, and rude revels, that a few years since were at most times esorted to, we now find our museums end ...

... CHRISTMS AUSUMIENTS. Tuw-caterters for holiday amusements have this vear been more than usually nor tive~iri preparing.novltlies for their friends, and it ia long since mo abuindant a Crop of humour and amsusewont hias been gleaned upeis our melropolitan boards, Christ' sna-siithout its partantomies,,would bt like sitting down ton dinner with the viauds forgotten, and although Pantomimes are ...

... LONDON AND PARIS FASHIONS FOR' I JA NUARY. I [PROM T}IE WORLD OP FASHION.] Morning caps have a very pretty effect when doublJe (or lined with Florence, lilac, pink, or blue), and trimmed with i ribbon posee, or (placed) in loops over the top of the front. Another style, and more simple, are those composed of Lyonnaise muslin, with rounded ears in the form of papil. Ion, and trimmed with three ...

... COVENT-GARDBN THBATRE. The opera of Sciairafide was represented at this theatre last night for the first time since the retirement of Miss ADELAIDE KEMBLE from the stage, and Miss RAIN- FORTH has achieved a decided triumph in the principal character-a triumph the more complete from the formida- ble difficulties shebadtoencounter; not theleastof which was the comparison necessarily suggested ...

... The Great Physician. By JoHN' GARDNER, surgeon. t [Hatchard. The design of this work is stated by the author to be the l development of the Idea that the phenomena and laws of sdiseases, and the powers and actions of remedies have an intimate connection with the truths of revelation. He explains that this connection does not consist simply in the analogy between medical science and theology ...

... ADDRESSED TO SIR ROBERT. We taste the fruit; but we reject the Peet. A lover of the constitution; No friend am I to revolution. I am, in fact, an honest loyalist, And, as times are, a passive royalist! But subject, when the world sees fit, To change my politics a bit. I'd give a portion of my meal To carry on the common-weal; Ay I give of every meal a part To aid the State with all my heart ! ...

... The Military Operations at Cabule which ended in the Retreat and Destruction of the British Army, January, 1842. With a Journal of Im- prisonment in Afzhanistan. By Lieut. Vincent Eyre, Bengal Artillery, late Deputy Commissary of Ordnance at Cabul. Murray. We have read this book with a degree of painful interest which we find it difficult to describe. It is the earliest authentic account that ...

... FRAaEr.-Frsser has commenced the year and his new: number with a dramatic scene, in which, under the title of Oliver Yorke at Home, he has introduced us to some of the sr-afisa personte of his magazine. Oliver Yorke, who appears to be the Christopher North of Fraser, is seated in his library, over a flask of Burgundy, indulging in a soliloquy upon the glories of editorship, and, as a ...

... ?? , I - STEEPLE M:USIC .T T(Il EDITOR'OF TIHE ERA. - :'ir-Hsi'grpe~edyobserved your'iiisertions of charge. ,riuging' i .:11 ave taken tbe liberty~of sending' ytu'afew remarks eupon that aclenice,. shold itmeet with your approval to give them publicity through the medium ?? your' valuable journal; ibutj be'Fore'I1 conninence upon ibst topi-c,, Icanflot help nnaking :a few' fen-ark5 apo'ti thdi ...