... SKETCHES FROM LIFE, BY THB LATE I | LAIMAN BLANCHARD. 3 vols. [Colburn.I The volumes before Us are published, as we are given to understand, for the sole and exclusive Denefit of the orphan children of the late beloved and lamented Lnuan Blanchard. Their contents have already sparkled in the pages of various periodicals: this re-publication is introduced by a memoir of the author, from the pen ...

... TEE EDINBURGH REVIEW, The Edinlburgh Reveieu. No. 167. January, 1846. The new number of the Edrinbufrgjh Review opens with an able, temperate, lucid article on the Privilege question- far superior in matter, style, and reasoning to a similar ar- ticle in the last Quarterly, though both writers hold simi- lar opinions. This agreement on the part of the monarchs of periodical literature ought to ...

... FASHIIONS FOR JANUARY. ?? t1ie London and Paris Lady's Magazine of be F1ashion .) be I The dames fashionable this season is veeotdes, 's the broad velvet stripe contrasting wvell with this lerich dscription of silk. These dresses require no trimming, but are made extremely full and Y very long behind; on other materials flouunces y of ?? or point lace, are worn. Tealftas ?? are fashionable ...

... THlE IMIAGAZINES-(CONTINUED.) Fraser begins the new vear with an admirable number. i With have read with attention Public Patronage to Men of Letters. The article is valuable for the information which it strings together as to the pensions and patronage enjoyed by literary men since Chaucer's days. The writer wishes to brine' authors more together-to band them into a compact body, and to ...

... yLiteraturr. SELECTED O 'OE ?? TH111E C'IlOSS. AskesLt tIll, ili exaltatioll, What tfie Cross ol Cbrist has done? Ask tbe ?? of Crentilln, If tihey fctl thlc noombilis attn Ash rsvivilng vegetation, ( ?? hIctI On joyfaI Wing, IF it iscis tl:c inspiiration Of tim brentlh-esnsianting Spring. A-Jnrs tkr I P Ibtlllols, and Avonder At the (loss of Calvary; (ONl, Ilw t(il(r of ofitsn lmiii(r, ?? I0: ...

... RAte .at ilt Ire, [VO21 TriLc NORTu WAI.I;S Ciuo1lt.LE;J. CotlliblU/jiOa qf I A FRACI1MENL' FtOH TlIHE TINPU11- LISIli D II NA1RAVIZIVh OF A SOLDIER.'' [Xeo. Vs.] OCeCeiutIXCES U51 3EQIJE.\T TO TUlE ACrION Alnour 10 o'clock its the forenoon, the bafggage, Lents, cattle, aud C mrllissiary 's stores, Wilicit had been ?? for, and whichi had travclenl ail night, mande their appearance ; the latter ...

... LIT E RAT UR E. Bla,-rrood's M'wa.ziae,for January, opena with a very well written. and friendly notice of the life and character of the late Sir William Follett. Of this remarkable man it is truly stated, that all his great experience. talents, and learning, might hase never existed, for any trace of them remaining in the records of Iiis country's coustitution, while he never did anything ...

... FASHIONABLE INIC'LLIENE. I 0 ysps>iI SUNDAY EVENING-Her Majesty and his 9;1 yfllOCs5 Prince Albert, accompanied by their Royal (ji;ai the prince of Wales, the PrlncesIl Royal, and the t h~9Ake, will leave the Castle for Claremont oa Tuesday 15king their departure from Windsor immediately after 1'r .1anclueoSn. It is expected tiat the infant Prince Alfred '40 4ielOnpany his illustrious parents. ...

... - ?? . . .. .. . _ ., 7) . A new piece, entitled Elizabeth of Russia, or tthe vi.i I emma, was represented last night for the second time. I we were unable to notice it upon its first production. We ow subjoin a brief sketch of the plot. Alexis, a young II facor, has been committed to prison from motives Of' alousy and private pique by the first minister of police. i Vhilst in this situation ...

... .JENNY LIND, THE SWEDISH NIGHTINGALE. th Soine sessatioes lhis been created in the musical world by l tile lillowing stutemenlt iu last Saturldy's A lhellacln/J, pt under the head of Opera Rluniours'- Oune week we ace told, as a certainty, that Mr. Lumley Y' has engaged Madenoiselle Jenny Lind, Mr. Bunn having ta been reduced into aequiescence, according' to Master Trmp- ti bois' notorious ...

... I A CRHLD'S A:-S* R. I met n.fairy child, Whose golden hair Around her sunny face in clusters hung And as she wove her king-cup chain, she sung Her household me10dies,-ttose strains that bear The hearer hacl; to Eden. Surely ne'er A brighter vision blest my dr eams. Whose child Art thou, 'l sa. sweet girl ? ' In aecent mild She ansivered, -lother's.' When I questioned lVhere Her dwvelling ...

... roit THE EXETErR ILTION-POsT.] a orbriotmao Qratit(fle. ?? Is come agaln,-aye come anti almost gone, Its Joys are past, not s0 Its 1118- Tremble, ye wretched oncs with empty pUrSO, Think of Ithoso horrid Chrlsthloas 2ltls. Ye Husbands now, each document peruse. Dwell oil erch itel, in their dread array.- But woe betide vs. should you dare refuse, Each rank extravagance to pay. A scene ensues, ...