... vicbirlol AN ESSAY ON TH.E TRAGEDY OF HAMLET. By P. MACDONELL, Author of An Essay on the Tempest, &e. &c. London: Cunningham and Alortimer, Adelaide-street, Trafalgar- square. To all lovers of Shakspere,-and they are numer- ous as the sands on the sea shore,-this Essay will be a treat of no ordinary kind. Were the sub- ject the most uninviting that imagination can con- eeive, the ...

... Ufbieb)o THE POOR MAN'S COMPANION, A POLI- TICAL AND STATISTICAL ALMANACK FOR 1844. Leeds: J. Robson, Market-street. London: Cleave, Shoe-lane. Were we, of the race that w rite, at all like ordinary mortals, we should occasionally find our- selves in some queer dilemmas. For instance, an Editor is allowed to praise or censure any book, the work of another, and who shall gainsay his peroga- ...

... REVIE:WS. - i A1s48wo*TnS ' McAAZI1PE.- DECEMBIER. leondonj JohA Afortimer.-As most of the articles in he iresent nunbeiare coutlnuatlions, and have not; therefoir, th6ii rhearraters to make, we need not say more about thetonthn ihat they cx- hibit no falling off whateveor. Thait both the interest 4nd spirit of each and all the lot, conrlstig of MoldersiCli4. valry, which, by the uay, ...

... Tire Royal Scottish Society of Arts met in the Hall, South St V)avid Street, on Monday, 27th No- ?? Thomas Stewart Traill, M.D., F.R.S.E. President, in the chair. Tbe PRESIDENT, on taking the chair, addressed the Society, thanking the Fellows for the honour they hald done him in placing him in the chair. Ile stated, that he took a great interest in the pro- ceeding, of the Society, and that it ...

... WINDSOR CA5TLE.-At the royal banquet last evening the chief dish, according to the good old English custom, was a splendid baron of beef (fur nished for the occasion by Mr Alderman Bannister), nearly four feet long, and between two and three feet in widtb, and weighing 180lbs. There wiss likewise placed upon oneof theside tables thie hump ,f the Brahmrin ox, presented to her Majesty by I ...

... AINSWOflTK'S MAGAZINE.-rhe present number concludes thp novel of Orlando Furioso, which we believe to be the production of Mrs. Gore (though why she should get Mr. Ains- worth to edit it we are at a loss to guess), and promises to corn. mence the new year with a novel of Mr. Ainsworth's own, en- titled, St. James's, or the Court of Queent Anne. The usual contributors ?? all articles in ...

... THE LITERARY EXAMINER, The Life, Voyages, and Exploits of Admiral sir Francis Drake, .Knt. With ?? origi00j Letters from him and the Lord High Admirot to the Queen and Great Officers of State. y John Barrow, Esq. Murray. Literature has been less unmindful of DA., than of many men, his contemporaries or imre diate successors, whom she should no less have honoured. His exploits were of the kind ...

... ARUNDEL FAT STOCK ,SIHOW AND DINAER. The Chrietmes Show of the Arundel A9griculturol Aoeso elation took place on Tuesday. The dinuer, which was at the Norfolk Arms, was better atteuded tIhan usual, theu being 200 persons precent. The Duke of Norfolk lirisided supported on him right by the Duke of Richmond. clpi:njw Peehell filled the vice chair, and amongst other nobieteu and gentlemen present ...

... LITERATURR. Contributions to the Edilburgh lReview, by FRAtCre JEFPREY. [London, Longman, 1844. We know of no repository more rich in poll- tical. knowledge, and especially in what i5 now so little looked to, the morals of polities, as the last portion of these volumes, being a collection of Lord Jeffrey's political contributions to the Edinburgh FReviesv. Forty years ago ethics were no trite ...

... ?? -- ?? ?? ortoillal voetrpf, THE HUSBAND TO HIS DEPARTED WIFE. SWi.ET saint-and art thou gone! liast thou lhft me to deplore thee ? Al ! why has thy spirit flown, Through the gates of death before me? Thon art now awake in bliss, WVhile thy HLENY here is weepittg, Dearest MARGAMRT-long, crc this, Thou art in thy Fathers keeping. Aht !what words can speak the torture, TIhat now rends my ...

... To Ttill El14T,15 Or THE CALEDONIAN MERCURY. ' Sirs-kt a rime like thle present, when under thle Lor pressure of anl epidemic which has9 aroused the ?? feeling of thle commuanity in general to more than Thc usual exertiuis to provide the means for counter- eonn acting thle dangerous effects of so great an evil, it byt affords much gratification to acknowledge, that the atma musics! profession ...

... The Laurringtosss; or Superior People. By Mrs Trollope, Author of Widow Barnaby, &C. &C. 3 vols. Longman and Co. Mrs Trollope's best talent is brought into play in this novel. She is a mistress of ridicule, and: here plants her batteries well. Pompous igno- rance, and conceited selfishness, tumble down be-. fore them. The Laurringtons are issue of a gentleman with' long pedigree and short ...