... IF- HAYMARRET.-This theatre has given the public another Version of the far-femed curtain lectures, and although we may Bay with truth that the Haymarket one yields in nothing to its compeers, and have every wish to do justice to the talented representatives of domestic harmony, yet here our laudatory office ends, for, however we may be inclined to laugh at the wit of Douglas Jerroll in the ...

... MISCELLANEOUS POErs. By ELIZABETHI PIsDOCKE RO- sFiLrs. (Darton and Clarlk.)-It is seldom, in these matter- of fact days, that any one is bold enough to publish a volume of poems. This is not a poetical age, nor do we believe that a nes Shalispere or Milton could make it so. Sir W. Scott and Byron, for a time, revived a love of poetry, which was a rage while it lasted ; but it was extinguished ...

... jBNTERTAIL-1E --a - ON~( RN I ENTlBRTAINAIEN'oI'ofthe SO)NS of BURNS. i * ~ ~ ~ -. . . I Wve noticed last week the arrival in Inverness of l eloni tind 1ejon BurBissowis of the Scottish Poet, and their Iriend r.31)iaruilid of tile J)ee1 on'ics Courier'. At a meeting Of tile T'owil Council on Monday the 4th t itan uninialously re soveed to present them with the ireedo m of tile town. The ...

... THEAWRICALS &e. The art itself is nature.-SrsIAxos'ns. AnSTrLES .-On Monday evening was produced a new grand national spectacle, fouinded on the heroic achieve- ments of the British army in India, called The Coneugesl of Scitede; or, tie Siegeof Hyderabtd. its reception was a most brilliant one. For its literary pretensions we have but little to Bay; but for its merits as an equestrian ...

... Shialspeare's magnificent tragedy of Mfacbetd was | repeatcel at tiis theatre onl ionday and nfueday last, and w ill, we understand, be repeated on the Monday and Tuesday nights of every week fee soeio timc to come. Of these opportumities for wit- nessing one of the sublimest productions of our national poet, we hope our theatrical-lovii'g friends will take advantagc. Those of them l.all have ...

... poarp. BEAUTIES OF BYRON. ENO'LSH M lUDS AND SCOTCI REC1VIEWEI5. It is matter of notoriety to all men that BYItoN's first work, the Hlours of Idleness, was mercilessly criticised in the pages of the Bdielbsurghc Review, at that tinie (ISOS) the censor-in- ieflet ot ?? literary world, and the most dreaded, as the most powerful of' the critical journals. In criticising the Hours of Idleness, ...

... MlIT MAGUIRE; OR, THE' BROKENt PLEDGE. ILY WILLIPAM CARLETON. Jhames Di1ftA, Anyfesea.SItret, Dublin Puiblishier, Trhi, work, jnst issued from thle press, by the ?? ,alithtor of the'1 Traits and Stories of the 16ish Peaoanti'y, k, all elabiorate panegyric onl the abstinence movemen Lt un-. (hi' Father Mathew. It Oontains, however, a wetlltold, graphiclctly written, Irish story, of much merit ...

... The annual Cattle Show of the Portaferry Farming Society, was held in Portaferry, on Tuesday the 29th ult. TheJudges wereo Messrs. John Martin, Inch ; Wnm. Davison, BalINstockart: Robert Boyd, Ballywilliain and Arthur MIolyneux, Templepatrichi, County Antrim- whose decisions gave general satisfaction. In the evening. forty gentlemen sat down to dinner, prepared in Mr. James Alorland's usual ...

... PottrP4 - BEAUTIES OF BYRON, NO. Vnl. In Byron's works there will be found, immediately folowing his English Bards and Scotch Review- era (see the one volume edition), a poem entitled Uints 4 an Horace, intended as a sequel to his Znglish zrds, Me. The Hinta were composed at Athens, in 1811, and theauthorbroughtthem home in the same desk with the two first cantos of Childe Harold. He ...

... I Or( ?? I I!! - ?Ml! 1 1 1 ? ce TO C. fn No aigi mast pass between us! And bright days, Of be Mae gloomy by tby absene, yield no plaseure I X But when UPOD thy PA RTNo Girr I gaZe, or rt My heart feels lighter, and I bless the treasure. I Ig di: ?? DEFENCE OF THE DOGS. -S BY AN OLD SPORTSMAN. hi w ; Dog daysa re now! the sun ehines hot! tbi b. And luckless ours get hung or shot; More favoured ...

... NOTICES OF NEW WORKS, MAGAZINES, | AND SERIALS. X THE DRUID's TALISMAN: A LEGEND OF TRE PEAR. WITn OTHER POEMS. By the Rev. Joln Marshall, A.B., Curate of Long Whatton, Leicestershire. London: W. E. Painter, Strand. 1845. We have not space to discuss the essentials of poetry; but we have both room and will to state that they are to be found in this gracefully told legend. It is easy, polished, ...

... UV3LIC AMUSEMENTS. UDs ,k-ER's WiE THAil ier the Direction l Mrs. Warner &i M. zPhakS. riO-MOitROW, end Tuesday, will be ctaeoe.eti Sbetkapeie's 1lTrsiedy 0l MACBETH. Macbeth, ?? Phelps; Macdud' Tr .Hrnagedy ?? Aei.rlrcntDcrnH Mellon, Hieonte. bMr. S. Jones; Lady tlaclbth, Met. ?? conclude with THE HAPPIEST iiA'~ OF MAY LIFE. HeI. Giba'na, Hr. A. Touuca; t, Alis tdly, Mers. li. Marston. AL On ...