... Blachtkood.- North's Specimens of British Critics Is the first of a series of'papers on great names in liters- ture, and their commentators, begining, especially with Dryden, with some references to Shalkpeare, Fletcher, and Jonson, especially defending the giant dramatist against the aspersions of Dryden. This article shows learning and acuteness, and promises to lead to a most In- ...

... PRINCESS'S THRAl RR. On :Nfnday night Mr. E. FoRRaas, the Aiuej~0,ar 11 who even yeirs opo performed at DrUrY-la-e Thea te re-introdueed to a london audience in the prt of OI'el1 ?? regret that we canuot speak encouraginra! or ?? S formanice. We do not _ish to say much. Me contll ren lieve that in a certain range of characters, 55, tar imtit, in Spartaeus, in whicih Mr. FOItREST made it ds i ...

... A DELPHI YH7A TR E. A new after-piece, called The Soldier oJ Fortalue, or the Iriah ,eqtlep, was performed nt this theatre list night. It is from the French, and thoroughly French in its inge- unity, smitirtness, nnd laxity oft morals. The scene is laid b at the court of' France, at the tiate when the Dahe oJ f Anjon, ti'v grandson of Louis the Flourteenth, has IICsue- .(eedel to the crown of ...

... | Oin Ionday itight the drama of Don Crsntr de Bazan, in fit-c acts, of MMi. DUMANOIR and DENNERY, represented fbr the first time at the theatrc of the Porte St. Martin in July last, was produced at this theatre. The scene is at Madrid, and the first act opens in a public square of that capital, ?? (51(lleB. CLARISSE) a street-sing-ing girl, is practicing her art. The young monarch of Spail, ...

... 7. TE#ATUR8E. Diaries atnd (Jorrespondence of the Earl of Malmnes- bury. 4 vols. ~ SEOD[TC. Bentley. The grand, the all-interesting question of holw England ought to treat, consider, and meet France in their political relations, has again become one which occupies the attention of politicians much, and even of the public not a little. Wearied, as we nvere twenty years ago, with the old ...

... Ai~RTURP 1, nei sliC 0 thle literary celebr'ities I ittel ap'tpeatrs to havie been per- ?? ti' onhrtavels throuto'h tititli1 he i -vj~ ah ~ria, 'N ibid, V- Ivitiltthe o ddini` to her repo I i~ll h llch ir tice takel' plate ; for three ve- bisil~iiuiry 1ulother, sister, and 0is et9 itej1itel lwith Thle intention of' - ,n tiw d~(esert alt' of' thle Castle of .1 I*tle ase for a lore leHI t tr ...

... MRH. WI'lSON15 ENTER 'A1NMRNTS ?? SCOTTISHf SONG.| ~r. WVILsON commencedl those performances for tbe sea- .son last evening, in th1e Store-street Rooms, Bedford-square. The entertainmnent eonsisted portly of song~s, now broughlt iorward (we believe),tfor the fir~st time, and partly of a selection from the Jacobite, and othersq of M~r. WILSON'S most favourite songs. In his initroductory remarks ...

... SADLER'S IVELLS TIJEATRE. We are always pleased at being enabled to note the pros- perous progress of' this little dramatic colony. Not that we always find the dramai existing there as we should like to sve it, but that there is continuilly a progress in the right diriection. Tho step may be feeble-may be sonmetimes short ; bhit it is in advalice, alid, therefore, weu .o.ld dd and encourage ...

... FREANCH 7HEATRE-ST, .TA ./IES'S --4- very -reat and, though highily f.l-ghionablo, lccst ince- 1 venient crowd ?? at this theatre, n witnes3 the first appearance this season of that eclebrard t atitge FitEDEtRC LEmAITRE. The perfonealice ?? mnenerd with the well-knowi piece cf LHtfel W arni, a tone-act comedy, represented for the first time at tuje Theatre Frnaniais so long ago as 1814, and in ...

... FRENCH PLA Y, ST. .AMES'S THEATRE I Le Spectacle 4 lta Cous', performned here for tile first time in this Counitry yesterday eveninig, is all amusing' affair enougii in its plot, and was extremely well acted through- out. Gretry, tbe composer, retired for the punrposes of eomllposition to the village of' Velizi, ia.s taken up his abode in the house of thle person who plays tlle serpent in the ...

... TplE MAGAZINES FOR FBRUARY. CONCL.UDItNG NOTICE. be Fi'115I'a shoat article on The Coming Session bo cako.s up the present position of parties in a. complacent and to conciliatory tone. The ptroceeds of the clumsy inlolne tax is have put tle Premier nud his party into such force, that le they can iafford to adopt a more generous conduct to their 1 ag disconififed rivals, and the latter are ...

... LJTJRAT'URE., ?? Aforl Phenotnenta of Germccnccy. Byv 'TIOKAS CARLYLE, Esq., of the Scottish BAr. c . [Painter Strand, 1845. t This Thomas Carlyle, of the Acottish bar, has many of the peculiarities, and no small portion Of l the talent, of that most tntable anti original writer, I his namesake. There has, perhaps, been some effort con his part to get into the vein and style of the t author of ...