John Anster, an Irish poet, born at Charle-ville, in the county of Cork, about 1798, died in June, 1867. He was educated at Trinity college, Dublin, and published in 1819 a volume of " Poems and Translations from the German." These were favorably reviewed in "Blackwood's Magazine," to which some of them had been originally contributed, and gained for him the friendship and encouragement of Coleridge. By his advice, Anster completed his version of Goethe's "Faust," specimens of which had already appeared in "Blackwood." Mr. Anster was called to the Irish bar in 1824, and was for some time regius professor of civil law in the university of Dublin. He published a second volume of "Poems and Translations" in 1837, and an "Introductory Lecture on the Study of the Civil Law " in 1849.