Literature.

The Berlin VoVcxzntv . ng denies the statement made by many German and English newspapers , of the library of Alexander von Humboldt havhig been sold to Lord Bloomfield , on account of the trustees of the British Museum . The paper adds , that several gentlemen are still busy making a catalogue ofthe library , Avhich ivill not be finished boibre the end of December , the books turning out to be much more numerous than ivas at first believed .

The French provincial papers announce that the yacht built at Syra for Alexandre Dumas lias arrived at Cette . She is a galliot of 73 tons , with raking masts . The crew is composed of six Greek sailors , under the command of Captain Podimatns . Tiie yacht is called the Monte Christo . Literary circles in Paris have been not a little amused , and some scandalized , by the exposure of a ruse resorted to b y 31 . Alexandre Dumas in the late action brought against him by M . Merlieux . The

reader is doubtless aware that when M . Dumas returned from Russia he published an amusing account of travels in the Caucasus , and that when this made its appearance 3 f . Mei-lieux complained that he had made large draughts upon a book which he had published on the same subject . This soon became a subject of litigation , and M . Dumas gained a victory by convincing judge aud jury that he ivas in no way indebted to . ' , i . 3 £ ei . ieux , but to a certain Captain Warner , " who , " said he , " was my

intimate friend ; ive lived , and hunted , and shot together for months in Cireassia . Ho is a fine noble fellow , and has beeu aide-de-camp to Schamyl for thirty years . No man was more capable than lie to give authentic accounts of Schamyl , for be never left his side during his many hairbreadth ' scapes and battles with the Muscovite . " Upon this plea Dumas triumphed over Merlieux , who was condemned to pay the costs ot his action . " People then began to ask ( says the amusing

correspondent of the Morning Advertiser ) Which Captain Warner ? Could he be our old friend of long-range celebrity , served up to us as a rechauffe by Lord Talbot , his former inveterate patron ' ! At last Ave discovered the captain iu the person of a cataloguing clerk at the Public Library here , name D'E pinglos , an humble scribe , who lias never left his garret in Paris for .-my voyage farther than St . Cloud or Asnieres . He thought the moment opportune—the public ripe for a book about

Schamyl ; so he wrote one , and being in AA' . int of a name , he borrowed that of our late projectile friend . This discovery has got wind in literary quarters in Paris , and has subjected Dumas to much ridicule ; but let thos : ; laugh that Aviu—lie won his action by pleading his intimacy with this mythical personage , and he can have the double satisfaction of laughing in his sleeve at the judges whom he has duped , and at- the publie whom he has gulled . "

The many English friends of Director Haidinger , of Vienna , will be pleased to loam that his imperial majesty has lately been pleased to confer on this distinguished mineralogist and geologist , the title of Court Counsellor ( fof-rutk ; a very high distinction in the Austrian official . sphere ) , " on account of his able direction of the Imperial Geological Institute , " as expressly announced iu the imperial rescript . All votaries of science must rejoice at so ivell deserved a favour having been thus

bestowed by the sovereign , and will regard it as a symptom of real interest for science gaining ground in the governmental circle of the Austrian empire . Messrs . Hogg and Sons publish a reprint of Mr . Frank B . Goodrich ' s " Man upon tha Sea , " under the title of " The Sea and its Famous Sailor .- ; , " following up their series of "Books for the 'Young ; " also aimiuiQcas "Pictures of Heroes and 1 . esssons from their LiA- . "— both ivith illustrations .

The prospectus ofthe forthcoming meeting of the Association for the . JYoinotiVm of Social Science , to be held ,-ifc Bradford , on the 10 th of October , and live following days , lias been issued . The President for the year is Lord Shaftesbury ; aud tho Vice Presidents are the Mayor of Bradford , Sir John Rauisdcn , Bart ., M . P ., the Bishop of Ripon , and F . Crossley , Lap . M . P . ; the Presidents of Departments—Viue Chancellor Sir \ Y . l' . Wood , " Jurisprudence and Amendment of the Law ; " the

Right Hon . C . B . AiUerley , M . P ., "Education ; " Monckton Millies , Esq ., M . P ., " Punishment and Reformation ; " the Right Hon . W . Cowpsi-. 3 T .. P ., "Public Health ; ' ancl Sir J . Kay Shuttieworth , Bart , , ' 'Social EcononiA-. "

lhe botanical world have to deplore tiie loss of Professor Henfrey . oi King ' s College , London , and member of several learned societies , ivho expired at Turiihaiii Green on the 7 th iust . Mr . Henfrey is extensivel y known for the excellent articles in the " MicrographieDictionary , " tthich he contribute ,.- ! in collaboration with Dr . Griffith , besides many interesting works on vegetable physiology . Messrs . Constable and Co . announce a neiv and cheaper edition of Sir V ) .

Literature.

Brewster ' s "Memoirs of the Life , Writings , and Discoveries of Sir Isaac NeAvton ; " second scries of "Hera ; Subseeivco ; " and a "Monograph of . Dura Den and its remarkable Fossil Fishes , " by John Anderson , D . D . ; also , by tho same author , " The Course of Revelation . " The local journals speak highly of the exhibition of paintings HOAV opencd by the Worcester Society of Arts . More than four hundred works have been contributed by about a hundred and fifty artists , and

among those most highly spoken of are ( 203 ) " Clapton , in the Vale of Port-bury , AA'ith Portishead in the distance , " by H . H . Lines ; ( 105 ) "Market day in a Country Toivn : arrival of an Equestrian Troupe proclaimed b y the Beadle , " b y G . B . O'Neill ; ( If 4 ) " Scene on the Coast of Devon , " by H . Moore ; ( 77 ) "Ben Ledi , " . _ fine landscape , hy B . Leader ; and some good fruit pieces by W . Duffield . It is impossible to overrate the influence of those provincial exhibitions when as well managed , as this

appears to be , or to exaggerate the importance of their action in bringing together the artist ancl a public that is tp be taught into buying , -Mr . Weale ' s well known rudimentary , educational , ancl classic series , will in future be published by Messrs . Lockwood and Co ., of Stationers ' Hall Court , The J ublisliers' Circular says : —Mr . Thackeray ' s neiv monthly magazine ivill , it is decided , be published , at the bold , price of Is ., and . a vigorous effort will be made to attain a success shadowed out to it by

the great magazine of 3 Iessrs . Harpers , of Neiv York , which , by a rare combination of good contributions from pen and pencil for Is ., circulate ? some 170 , 000 monthly . The Bengal Ilirrl-aru , property was brought to the hammer the other day . A Jew bought the buildings for 161 , 500 rupees , but no bidder could be found for the paper , burdened as it is with au annuity of 500 rupees a month to Mr . S . Smith .

We have good authority for contradicting a paragraph which appeared in tho columns of a contemporary , to the effect that the Duke of Devonshire had authorized four eminent Fellow's of the Society of Antiquaries to make a formal examination of the Perkins-Collier folio . We are fold that there is not the slig htest foundation for such a statement . His grace on leaving toivn simply handed over the folio to the care of his solicitor , with directions that it should be shown to Mr . Collier or any

ofhis friends who were anxious to inspect it for the purpose of examining tho margins with reference to the statements of Messrs . Hamilton and Maskelyne . Although not actually asserting it , our contemporary would , nevertheless , lead the literary public to suppose that a committer of examiners had been formally sanctioned by his grace ; no such sanction has been given : nor we believe , has the Society of Antiquaries , as a body , delegated to any of its members tho task of examining into the nuthent-icitv or othei " , vis . o of the corrections .

The Masonic Mirror.

THE MASONIC MIRROR .

MASONIC MEMS . W . utn . iNTS have beeu granted by the M . W . Grand Master fur Cm following new Lodges : — _ S ~ o . 1 , 006 , Warden Lodge , Sutton Col . lfiolfl , Warwickshire : No . 1 . 097 , St . John ' s Lodge , Maidenhead ; No . 1 , 09 ., North Australia Lodge , North Brisbane , New South Wales ; No . J , 0 ! . iP . Hanley Lodge , Dartmouth . Wj-: greatly regret to hear that the contemplated banquet to Bro ,

Benjamin Bond Cabbell , Prov . G . M " . of Norfolk , by the brethren of that province , has been postponed in consequence of the illness of the rig ht worshi pful brother , whoso indisposition , however , though sufficiently serious to prevent his appearing in a hot and croivded room , does not , we are happy to say , involve any grave apprehensions . A PUOVIXCI . AL GHAND LODGE for West Yorkshire is to be held at Huddersfield on the 5 th inst-., AA'hen the foundation stone of a ue »'

Mechanics' Institution is to be laid by the Right Hon . and R . W . lire , the Karl of Ripon , Past S . G . M ' . THE M . W . Grand Master has appointed to hold a Provincial Gr .-nv . . Lodge of the Province of Yorkshire , North ami East , at Richmond , on the o'th instant . Tin : Prov . Grand Lodge of Warwickshire is sununone . l for tho lit !' - instant , at Sutton Coldfield , on which occasion the Warden Lodge ,

No . ] , 0 t >(_ , is to be consecrated , the R . W . Bro . Col . Vernon , Pi ' ov . 0 . 31 . for Staffordshire , having consented to perform the ceremony . Ai- ion _ » l the notices of motion is cue , to pre .-ent _ i' 21 and an annual subscrip tion of _ £ 5 "> s . to tlu- Warwickshire Iceformatory Institution for Boys and tin ' A UP .-- by Ri-forma . ory for Girl-. ; : and another , for presenting - C 52 10 ;' . t"