GERMAN ANNUALS, FOR 1833.-These publications have just come to hand in England, and possess various degrees of merit. Some of them exhibit literary pretensions of no common order, and almost all have numerous illustrative prints. This last feature of these works, however, challenges but little commendation. The plates are, in fact, immeasurably inferior to those which decorate our own ornamental annuals; and, taken as specimens, afford but an indifferent notion as to the value of German engravings generally. Indeed, we have of late seen several other instances of the state of this branch of the Fine Arts in that great country which raise our especial wonder. Retsch stands out a brilliant exception; but the German designers and engravers generally seem, as compared with those of England or France, to sink beneath mediocrity. This is unworthy of the land of Goethe, Mozart, and Beethoven.

We may safely particularise the following Annuals as worthy of especial notice on the strength of their literary productions:

1. The Urania, which continues to be edited by Tieck, and contains well-written tales from the pen of that author, of Ehlenschlager, &c. This work, by the by, is really ornamented with a very fairly executed portrait of Danneker, the celebrated sculptor.

2. The Minerva, which numbers amongst its literary contributors, Sartorius, Neuffer, Ortlepp, Schopenhauer, &c.

3. The Vergiss Mein Nicht (Forget Me Not), edited by Spindler, who has himself contributed three articles.

4. The Penelope, edited by Theodore Hall. The plates in this volume certainly bear the palm over those of the others. The letter-press is by Castelli, Schefer, &c.

5. Rosen (Roses). The illustrations of this work consist chiefly of fancy female portraits, or studies; some of which are conceived and executed laudably enough.

6. The Deutscher Musenalmanach (German Almanack of the Muses). This volume is exclusively devoted to poetry, and includes in the list of its forty or fifty contributors, the names of the principal lyrists of Germany--namely, Goethe, Holtei, Houwald, &c.

7. The Taschenbuch d. Liebe und Freundschaft (Annual of Love and Friendship), edited by M. Schütze, and which presents many strong claims to distinction. The engravings include a series of eight comic illustrations :-Signs of the Times-Luxury-Enthusiasm for the Fine ArtsUproar-Dispute of Dominion-Mystification,&c. The literary contributors are Blumenhagen, Schütze, Storch, &c.

CONTINENTAL CHIT-CHAT.

FRANCE. "Voltaire chez Madame de Pompadour," has been applauded at the Rue de Richelieu, and hissed at the Odeon, on the same evening. Hence has arisen no small embarrassment to the critics. The minor theatres, generally, have not been idle of late. The Palais Royal has found, in the farewell of the author of Waverley to his beloved Scotland, the subject of a vaudeville, wherein M. Lepeintre exerts himself with a happy mixture of address and bonhommie. At the Gymnase, M. Scribe has put forth from his fertile nind and pen, a petite comédié in two acts, which would have commanded as much success as did "Le Mariage de Raison," had not the times so cruelly changed for the interests of the smaller houses. Notwithstanding this circumstance, however, the drama of "Toujours" has many admirers, and deserves to have them. The literary spectator will recognise in it an amplification of one of the choicest proverbes published in the "Revue de Paris," but which was likewise written by Scribe. At the Salle Chantereine, M. E. de Pradel has improvised his four hundred and thirty-seventh tragedy in verse! We shall attend a second recitation; but wish that, for the sake of variety, M. de Pradel would turn his thoughts towards extemporising comedy in prose. We hesitate not to express our opinion that, whatever may be the merit of turning out a tragedy in this way, the accomplishment of a comedy would be found more difficult. Comedy depends upon subtler principles: it requires a ready wit, and an intimate knowledge of the habits, the foibles, and the eccentricities of society; and affords no opportunity for sounding nothingness, or exaggerated sentiments.

At Thornage Rectory, Norfolk, the lady of the Rev. Augustus Dashwood, of a son.

At Brighton, the lady of Captain Townshend, R. N., of Balls Park, Hertford, of a son.

At Taplow Court, the Countess of Orkney, of a daughter, still-born.

At Tichborne Park, Hampshire, the lady of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Talbot, of a son.

In Lower Grosvenor Street, Mrs. Charles Sotheby, of a daughter.

At Upper Nutwell, Devon, the Lady of Mark Pringle, Esq. of a son.

At her Ladyship's house in Hertford Street Lady Georgiana Nevill, of a son.

At Fetcham, the Lady of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Short, Coldstream Guards, of a daughter. At his house in Charles Street, Berkeley Square, the lady of Dr. Seymour, of a son.

At Upper Moira Place, Southampton, the lady of Captain Inglefield, R. N., of a son.

MARRIAGES.

At Walcot Church, Somersetshire, Lieut-Col. Thorn, K. H., Assistant Quartermaster General, to Amelia Eleanor, the youngest daughter and co-heiress of the late Charles Worthington, Esq. of Lansdown Crescent in that city.

At Barnes Church, Elphic Gorringe, Esq. of Hastings, Sussex, to Miss Forty, of Barnes Terrace, Surry.

At High Littleton Church, John Usticke Scobell, Esq. eldest son of John Scobell, Esq. of Nancealverne, Cornwall, to Frances Skey, youngest daughter of the late Richard Langford, Esq. of Montvale, Somerset.

John Ward, jun., Esq., of John Street, Bedford Row, to Caroline, fourth daughter of the Rev. J. Bullock, Rector of Radminster and Faulkbourn.

At St. George's Hanover Square, Cluny Macpherson, of Cluny Macpherson, chief of that ancient Highland clan, to Sarah Justina, youngest daughter of the late Henry Davidson, Esq. of Tulloch, N. B.

At Fladbury, Worcester, Margaret, second daughter of the Rev. W. A. Pruen, of Fladbury, to Captain T. R. Billamore, 1st Grenadier Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry.

At All Souls, Langham Place, Henry Fox Talbot, Esq., of Lacock Abbey, in the county of Wilts, to Constance, youngest daughter of Francis Mundy, Esq., of Markeaton, Derby.

At St. Nicholas Church, Great Yarmouth, the Rev. Harvey Bawtree, M. A., to Margaret, niece of Thomas Fiddes, Esq.

DEATHS.

At Leamington, by the rupture of a blood vessel, Lord Ribblesdale, in his 42nd year.

At East Lodge, Enfield, the Hon. Anna Stuart Elphinstone, eldest daughter of Lord Elphinstone. At her house in George Square, Edinburgh, Viscountess Duncan, widow of Admiral Viscount Duncan.

At Boston, Dr. Spurzheim, the phrenologist, in his 57th year.

At Ballyhedy House, county of Down, ViceAdmiral Blackwood, in his 62d year.

At Crathorne, Yorkshire, in his 107th year, R. Chapman, Esq. He was born and lived all his time in the same parish.

At his house in Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, in his 64th year, Augustus Pugin, Esq., Author of the " Examples of Gothic Architecture," and several other works on Gothic Architecture.

In Russell Square, of effusion of the brain, the effect of long previous illness, but accelerated by the recent loss of her lamented hnsband, the Right Hon. Lady Tenterden.

At Knapton, near Abbeyleix, the Hon. and Rev. Arthur Vesey, brother of the Viscount Vesci.

At Edinburgh, the Rev. Dr. Buchanan, one of the Ministers of the Canongate, in his 77th year, and the 52d of his ministry.

At Woodstock, suddenly, John Joberns, Esq. Inspector-general of Hospitals to his Majesty's Forces, and Senior Surgeon of the Middlesex Hospital.

At Dedham, in Suffolk, in his 10th year, Rowland James, son of the late Rev. James Dickens. And on the 30th ult., at the same place, Helen Elizabeth, mother of the above Rowland James, and second daughter of Colonel West, Lieutenant-governor of Languard Fort.

At Hastings, in his 38th year, Thomas Maling Welsh, Esq., of Merefield Lodge, Essex.