... THE CHRISTMAS PIECES. We are really much indebted to the children for the large. influence they exert over the amusements of the metropolis at this season of the year; and it is a fact not discreditable to adult good sense, that homage to childhood and a stout endeavour to recal into our own hearts and heads as much as possible of the child's spirit, should form so large a part of our idea of ...

... .LITERARY YTAIETIES. COMING 'TO AN UNDrER5TANDING,-O f Goghegan, I remember that ife was present at a 'club or assembly at Bath ?? Barry, the first'1 protector of Madame Do Barry, and broths5; of him who became her husband (they were a:hdlt,., dealing a pack of cards in a game of whiet, on which a large sum was ptake4~ ahnete or a friend-asked a wetiter for a carving-fork. flaving obtained ...

... THE LITEPARY EXAMINER. Der Eihfiuss der Herrschenden IPeen des 19 Jahrhtunderts aif den Staat. Von Joseph Freiherrn von Eotvbs. (The Influence of the Ruling Ideas of the Nineteenth Cenztury on the State. By Baron Joseph von Eotvos.) Vienna, ]852. Fr. Manz. Graf Ludwig B atthyfiny, Arthur6 Girgei, Ludwig Kossuth. Politische Charakterskizzen aus deant Ungarischen Freih6itskriegye. Von ...

... THE PROGRESS OF THE SDASONS. The 6UD shone bright, and all lan gay, In Ioie's delightful moittl, of MIahy; A littlo child wvs out At play, Hoehad obtainedl a holidly- It is the SomNxa. The fruit wra hanging on the trees, Aetd ri toning in the saothorn- breeze; Ti;t chidl had now become na tan, Dits faeo ties annxious, pale, and wall- The SutmmnE's colo. The lcaves nwero failing from the woods, ...

... No. Al. A Psszzling Leaf. At this season of the year, the cracking literary nuts or riddles forms a favourite amusement especially when combined with a cheerful party, a good fire, and suita- ble creature comforts. The following riddles are not actually new, but many of them will be novel in most parties, and as it spoils an enigma to be informed ofthe answer, those who are acquainted before ...

... MR. J. THORNE HARRIS'S CLASSICAL, CHAMBER CONCERTS. . _ ~ POLAMR*E. : Grand Trio..Piano Forte, Violin, and Violoncello .n A Minor ( Op. 24 ?? A. Hennset' reo Song.. Sho dvelt among the untrodden ways. .JTtorne Harrio Selection..Piano ?? Les Zephyrs' Nocturne in F sharp art Op. 15. Ballade in A flat, Op. 47 ?? .. ?? Grand Duo..Piano Forte and Violoncello..D,Op. 58,. .fendetoehna. Grand ...

... LITREB TUBB. A Yriti to the Indian ArcAipela o in her XMjeat's SA 6 u Nieaowdsr. By Captain the Won. H. Kairi'u, U.N. th vols. Bentley. C3 The names of the Mueander, and of her gallant In Commander, Captain Reppel, are tolerably familiar ey to all whe have interester themselves in the affai kt ,of Sir James Brooke and his rj of Sarawak. It A -was in the Mseander he set sail to take legalised ...

... WELLINGTON FROM A FRENCH POINT OF' VIEW.* It is singular; perhaps, that no truer apprecia- tion of the Duke of Wellington has appeared than that before us, from the pen of a Frenchman. Mr. John Lemoinne, one of the contributors to the Journal des De5bats-a writer well known to the majority of the reading public of England- has delineated the character of the departed hero with artistic skill, ...

... _ A ODE TO TIHE I)Et' tMTiNG lEAIR. (1r thce P. .stoa Clu: o.J Adie u! a'lieu? Dacrepit lifty -Two! Aged, wziwhrei, i,, thou art, Thou ittust ?? depart: Though to tihe skirts of tilne thou clil,,, Thou must be Ions!'`, nld take winl To the incorporate bodv of years, Thy predecessors aid comiipecrs. Ah, me! Ibut such eveuts, I wecn, Were never secn Within the compass of thy narrow ste, As ...

... ?? - -- Afl( -- OXFORD REFLECTIONS ON THE: RESIGNATION OF THE EARL OP DERBY. Written after reading his Speeoh Deofiuber 20. WHEN LATE, her hero to succeed, A ruler Oxford chose, Beneath whose shade, Commiseeon-Need, Her elders might repose, In Shaftesburylssecotarian zeal No comfort could she find. And scorned the Duke who learnt with Peel To toil for all his kind; And Ellesmere's literary ...

... GrEAT INDUSTRIAL EX[IIBITION OF 1763.-DE- PUTATION THE LORD LIEUTENANT. I~ ~ ~ . . .. - I . ?? Yesterday a deputation, consisting of the following mem- bers of the committee of the exhibition, waited, by appoint- c ment, on his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant at the Vice- v regal Lodge, to present him witlh au addrass.:- George Roe, Esq (chairman); Lord Talbot de Malabide, p Hon J P Vereker, ...

... W =:TER$A'IUSeLLANE ;, TEsE ;FL&GELt 5T:_-DdidBg the 1 refgh Of Chalmir' Il called the great, WhQwas, the last. ?? pliaee of theborge of pls9t, the Flagellants, a numerous sect of enthuelasgtse so cailed from the rigour of their self-in1itit4otuls entered Polara-- from Hungary: they went naked to the waist, wore grosseg on their lower garments, and entered every town two by two, with caps ...