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deal of matter attractive not only to members of tbe Jewish race , but to all readers who take an interest in the fortunes of the chosen people . Under tbe title of " Tbe Mountains , " Messrs Lippmcott ancl Co . of Boston , U . S ., publish a work from the pen of Dr . 11 . M . S . Jackson , giving a general , scientific , and popular description of the Allghames , treating of their geology , soil , waters , fauna , flora , climate , & c .

Messrs . Tilton and Co .., of Boston , U . S ., are , we understand , preparing for publication , " Tho Printer Boy ; or , How Ben Franklyn made his Mark , " by the author of the Bobbin Boy . " The author of "The Bobbin Boy" is said to be the most popular writer of works of this class in the States , bis books running from five to fifteen or twenty thousand copies .

Mr . Hawthorne ( says the United States correspondent of the Morning Post ) has resumed his abode at Concord , the Massachusets town of that name , some twenty miles from Boston , ancl which is still enough to meet even his requirements in the way of quiet . He is understood to be engaged on a new work , and tbe editors of the Atlantic Monthly , our best periodical , announce that he will be a regular contributor to its pages . His " Marble Fawn , " which was , I think , published in ; England under the name of " The Transformed , " though it has bad a good sale , is nofc a popular work . Its

want of clearness was very happily described by one of Ins critics , who said it began in mystery and ended in mist . By a new act , Oxford University is to retain tbe eustocty of certain testamentary documents , ancl to transmit an index thereof to the Court of Probate . The same statute ( 23 rd and 21 th Vict . c . 91 ) declares that the Craven scholarships are to bo deemed University emoluments .

The English lecturer at Corpus Christi College , Cambridge , will commence on September 1 st a course of lectures on "Public Reading , " with esjiecial reference to the Church service , for candidates for the September ordinations . The Caledonian Mercury announces that it is now pretty certain that Dr . M'Cosli , of Belfast ( formerly at Brechin ) , will be appointed to the newly-instituted Chair of Logic in the United Aberdeen

University . Tbe report that Mr . Main will be succeeded in the office of First Assistant at Greenwich by E . J . Routh , Esq ., Fellow ancl Tutor of St . Peter ' s College , Cambridge , is unfounded . Tho season of the Royal Academy which closed the other day has been the most successful on record . The receipts at the door have reached the very largo sum ol : £ 11 , G 00 . This is a considerable excess over the celebrated "Derby Day" year . The Council of the Art Union have not considered that ihe

statuettes sent m would justify tbe award of the prizes offered . They have , however , adjudged tho premium of thirty guineas to the group ( several figures ) , "Alfred in the Camp of the Danes . " The artist was found to be "Mr . Thomas Duckett , at Mr . Thornycroft ' s . " The premium of 100 guineas offered for the best set of drawings in illustration of " Tlio Idylls of the King , " has been awarded to No . IS , marked "Constancy , " subject to a safcisfactory

reply from the author ( who is understood to be a foreigner ) , to certain inquiries . The Emperor Napoleon is the purchaser of two large historical pictures in truly Napoleonic taste , by Gud ' m , the marine painter . Both tbe pictures the Emperor has purchased are about himself One represents him ' ¦ ' arriving at Genoa ; " the other " his nicotine : with Queen Victoria in the Harbour of Cherbourg . "

Mr . John David Barry , of Thurlow Square , Brompton , announces the discovery of a new material for making paper , by a patented process ; and lie also states that the pulp used for the manufacture of this paper is produced from the residuum of the plant , after chemical treatment for the production of a colouring' matter susceptible of cryst-ilization , and applicable ! to the dyeing of silk , wool , and all similar animal substances . There is now before the Academy of Sciences at Paris , " a wonderful invention " of Mons . lielvctins Otto , ofLeiiwie , by which

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bo promises to " insure fine weather . " He erects a platform at a considerable height in the air , on which he pilaces a "propeller , " or huge bellows , worked by steam . With these bellows , which are " very powerful , " he blows away the clouds as they gather , and as rain comes from the clouds , it must necessarily follow that were clouds are nofc allowed to gather there can be no rain . He maintains that if a certain number of his "Rain

Propellers , " or " Pluvifuges , " as he has named tbem , are placed at intervals over the city , be can provide for tbe inhabitants a continuance of fine weather , ancl a certain protection from sudden showers and muddy streets , so long the terror of fair pedestrians . The poor inhabitants of adjoining towns would be to be pitied . What would become of them ?—As lor the Pluvifuge proprietors , their motto ought to be " Aprh nous le delut / e . " Victims , however ,

as wc in England have of late been to wet weather , still ! ve cannot blame the " Pluvifuges , " inasmuch as France itself has been in nearly the same predicament , —at least the northern parts of it . A meeting was recently held for tho purpose of getting up a memorial to Eobert Stephenson , at which Lord Llanover presided ; be suggested that the memorial should be a statue , ancl that application should be made to the Government to place it in the area of

St . Margaret's Gardens , Westminster , where , beside that of Brunei , in the way between the scenes of their professional labours and the parliamentary contests in which they had been engaged , the effigies of the tivo men might stand as beacons of encouragement to the

j-ounger members of that profession to which great Britain owed so much of her present greatness ancl prosperity . It was stated that the subscription list would have been proceeded with more actively , but that a similar movement had been in progress to erect a statue to Brunei , so that until now it was thought inexpedient to advance the present object . The chairman stated , that the first subscriber would be Homy Weatherburn , formerly driver

of the " Harvey Coombe , " the first locomotive-engine on the North-Western Railway , who had written to express his desire to be so . The meeting came to a resolution to prosecute the object , ancl open subscription lists . Mr . J . P . Gassiot , on the part of the Royal and other scientific Societies of which Robert Stephenson had been a member , assured the meeting of tbe united co-operation of the members of those Societies .

Tbe statues of Lords Elelon and Stowcll , which were commenced by Chantrey , carried on by L . Watson , and after his death completed b 3 Mr . G . Nelson , have arrived at Oxford , to be placed in the new- Library of University College , on the foundation of which the famous judges were . These statues are said to be of the largest size in one block of Carrara- marble in England . Tbe . Chester monument to Matthew Henry , the commentator ,

was uncovered last week with considerable ceremony . Tbe monument , which stands near the south-west corner of St . Bridget ' s Cluu-cli-yarcl , consists of a handsome polished granite obelisk , loft . high , resting on a basement , which gives a total elevation of 2-1-ft . Sin .

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To CIIAHI . ES Sv . ' . vix , ESQ . ; on receicinrj a Presentation Copy of his "Mind anil other Poems . " 1 ) 1- KlIO . C ' lCOliGE 3 I . IBKIIAM TwiiDBUI , Author of "Shttl-xpcure : his Tiiues and C . rutcmporaries , " <*"' e . Thy many beautied Mind all must admire . Friend of the Muses , Heaven-inspired SIVAIJ , " 1 Long may thy heart be warm'd ivith hol y fire

And such soul-soothing strains burst from thy lyre , To cheer their drooping spirits who complain Of numerous ills on this abused globe , — Where man delights to nun * the beautiful , To curse his fellows , whom be ought to bless , To laugh and mock at Love ancl Gentleness , And e ' en the olive-branch from Peace to pull , Thafc Hate and Strife , and Jealousy , and War , May how each neck to Misery ' s iron car : But such sweet . sounds peal from thy gentle lute , They bid the discord oi' the soul be mute .