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Until ample justice can bo dono , let us have this expression of awakening gratitude and public care . The following valuable piece of information lias gone tho rounds of nearly the whole of the continental as well as tho English press . Europe will be delighted to learn that the great Lamm-tine tumbled down and didn't hurt himself : — "M . de Lamartine ( says a Paris correspondent of
¦ -lie jYord ) has just met with an accident that his friends will hear of with pain , but which , fortunately , h -not lihely to lead to serious results . In stooping to pick up some papers , he struck his forehead against the corner of an arm chair with such violence as to cause him to fall back Insensible . He was raised immediately , but found to be so seriously bidisposed that he was compelled , to keep his bed for several days .
Not . the fli yhtest danger -is apprehended . " AA ' e hope shortly-to learn from the same source , when tlio post last had his hair cut , and whether his corns are troublesome this changeable weather . A propos , the Paris correspondent of a daily contemporary writes : — " The booksellers of Paris , who can afford to be generous , beholding ( as their advertisement states ) with grief and regret the insufficiency of
the national subscription raised in favour of M . Lamartine , have in the most munificent manner come to his assistance ancl undertaken the publication of his works , which L . unartine ' s friends are collecting , ancl have made over to him the full possession of the copyright during his life , or for ten years in caso of death . M . Lamartine has , on his side , generously contributed to the good work by adding a number of unpublished prose works and poems , and thus the speculation is rendered as
complete us possible . Let us hope that Lamartine , like Micawber , may liave found that something has turned up at last , and that ho will be content in his good fortune , and give us occasion to bo content likewise in hearing no more of his misery . Theso works are advertised as being the result of lialf-a-century ' s labour , and consists of one hundred and one volumes , — ' A biographical monument' says the advertisement
, , ' which , can only bo obtained by subscribers . ' The subscriptions are received at his residence . Four years' delay is allowed for payment . Everything is done , as- you must perceive , in a high-minded gentlemanlike way , and we make quite sure of the success of the speculation . "
The Aihcnieum makes the folloiving interesting statement : ¦—Since our fliinoimcDmcnt of the discovery at Eden 'Lodge , we have had further opportunities of seeing the letters . They are of very great interest . Among the confidential correspondents , not named in our brief note of last week , ive find the names of Archbishop Moore , Lord SUelbume , . )> . Priestley , Gibbon , Lord Malmesbury , Hugh Elliot , Minister of England at the Court of Frederick the Great , Jack Lee . Lord Grey ,
Lord J . ldou , Duke of York . Many now bans mots of Selwyu arc found in the papers . Mr . . 'Elliot ' s letters from Berlin are most curious and important for the story of tho Court and Times of Frederick the Great . Mr . Carlyle should see them . There is a work in six manuscript volumes , written by Mr . Eclen , called "Notes on tlio French Revolution" ; also numerous letters from Paris during the Reign of Terror . Mr , Eden was intimate with Mario Antoinette . Tho details about the
struggle of 1782 . between Pitt , Fox , North , and Slielburne , aro extremely curious . AVeddcrburn ' s letters are excessively clever . Respecting tho American AA ar , we have tho secret correspondence of . Lord Suffolk ' s office , including intercepted lettora of . Frederick the Great , Franklin , Silas Dean , and many others . Theso letters are full of
interesting details . Thoy contain , in fact , something about everybody ivlio was anybody . " . Lord Palmerston has granted £ 50 from the Royal Bounty Fund to Samuel Bamford , the wellknown Lancashire Liberal . It is at the same time understood that Mr . Bamford ' s name is not permanently placed upon the list , there being several other claimants whose titles to the aid have not yet been decided upon .
AA'e observe the announcement that two works of Mr . Georgo Augustus Mala , his " Baddington Peerage" ( contributed to the Illustrated Times ) , and Iiis olla padrida , " Lady Chesterfield ' s Letters to her . Daughter , " which appeared in the Welcome Guest , are each to be published in a collective form by Messrs . Houlston and Wright . Mr . Sitla is a writer of great and unquestionable poiver : but the tivo works mentioned are beyond doubt his very weakest efforts , and indeed totally unworthy of
his pen ; their reproduction will 'be a mistake on the part of the publisher , and will injure the fame ofthe author . The Homeward Mail says— " It cannot bo said that the authorities are dilatory in making the arrangements for the transfer of tho India Office to ihe West-end . If equal diligence wero used in all departments , on every occasion , things ; would come as near perfection as is possible in
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mundane matters . Of the thousand tons of records five hundred ,- con- ' sisting of duplicates and occasional triplicates , have been sold at a failrate , and realized , wo are informed , altogether , something under five : thousand pounds . The papers so sold , by a process well known to the trade , ivill have the ink removed from them , and will be worked into n pulp and remade into paper , which will fetch double the price given for them as they are . The library of the East India Office , so rich in
Oriental manuscripts , is to bo transferred , we understand , to the Board of Control . To the same place will go , perhaps , the valuable collection of industrial specimens , perhaps even the museum of animals . According to some , however , this latter collection will be sent to the British Museum . Such a . course we would earnestly deprecate . The mass of articles at the British Museum is already so prodigious as to defy supervision ; besides , it is very desirable to retain all the Indian collections in
oue spot , and that spot the most accessible to Oriental students . Lord Dufferiu lias been excavating on the banks of the ] S ile , and we understand that a small temple , with the columns in situ , and a considerable number of inscriptions , have rewarded the search . The AVroxetci- excavations were brought forward as the topic of the
evening at the meeting of the Boyal Society of Literature on the 7 th inst . Sir J . J . Boileau , Bart ., "V . P ., was in the chair , and after the election of a neiv member , M . Alf . hoii . se Mariette , Mr . Tliomas Wright gave " An Account of the Recent Excavations at AYroxeter , " from whieh it appeared that these researches have now been conducted with great success , that they are still progressing favourably , and that there is every reason to hope that the result of this year ' s diggings will be even
more valuable than that of previous years . At present Mr . Wright has uncovered a long lino of rooms adjoining a cross street , a part of the town lying between three streets , with good reason to anticipate many further successful researches , both among private ancl public buildings ; one large structure , comprised within a square of nearly two hundred foot each way , which , from tho extent oi tho liypocausts under it , has boon in all probability part of the public baths , and which , moreover ,
contains no traces of the tesselated pavements usual in private houses , but is floored with a hard ancl solid concrete 1 or cement . iNear this is a tank , possibly used for a swimming bath , flagged at the bottom , and full , when opened , with refuse of all kinds , which ivould seem to havo fnlle-n into it at the time it was in use . Bound this tank were the usunl
ambulatory passages , and near it a small room full of charred wheat . Another large structure , two hunched and twenty-six feet long by thirty feet broad , Mr . Wright has conjectured to have been a basilica . Curiously enough , it is the same length as that at Pompeii . It was paved with bricks set herring-bone fashion . Along the side of the basilica was the ordinary public street , paved on one side , apparently for a trolloir . A . third building was a square , with a central court and several
little rooms about ton feet long running out of it . In somo of these were charcoal and mineral coal , with a large number of bones , some sawn through , as though it had been used for a shop , for the manufactory of articles of bone , as hair pins , & c . The floors of these rooms appear to have been about three feet above the level of the court . Among other curious , objects found here is a curious iron box , the object or use of which has not been satisfactorily determined . Beyond this building
would seem to have been the forum , which was paved with smooth round stones ; and then another small street , on the side of which was a well-constructed gutter , with the flat stones still remaining that once covered it . In different parts oftlie excavations a large quantity of the
bones of animals was met with ; and among these those of extinct species of the "bos longifrons and of the elk , move than thirty skeletons scattered in different parts of the . buildings , and an abundance of female ornaments , especially of hair pins . The so-called deformed skulls were found away from tlio rest of the excavations , near the river side , and adjoining what has been , with reason , supposed to havo been a postern gate , for the defence of the bridge over the Severn ,
The thirtieth annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of . Science will take place at Oxford . The first genera ! meeting will be held in the Slieldonian Theatre , at three o ' clock * , on Wednesday , June 27 th , when it is expected that his Royal Highness the Prince Consort will resign the presidency , and Lord AVrottesley , M . A ., of All Souls' College , V . P . R . S ., F . R . A . S ., the President elect , will take the chair and deliver an address .
Mr . Buskin delivered a lecture at the General Meeting of the AY ' orking Men ' s College , on tho 7 th instant , ihe subject being three pictures , respectively by Paul \ cronese , Rubens , and Rembrandt . Mr . Buskin lias authorized Mr . Jeffrey , of Great Russell Street , to publish photo , graphic- lac-similes of the complete series of Turner' , ') . Liber Stiidioruin .
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Until ample justice can bo dono , let us have this expression of awakening gratitude and public care . The following valuable piece of information lias gone tho rounds of nearly the whole of the continental as well as tho English press . Europe will be delighted to learn that the great Lamm-tine tumbled down and didn't hurt himself : — "M . de Lamartine ( says a Paris correspondent of
¦ -lie jYord ) has just met with an accident that his friends will hear of with pain , but which , fortunately , h -not lihely to lead to serious results . In stooping to pick up some papers , he struck his forehead against the corner of an arm chair with such violence as to cause him to fall back Insensible . He was raised immediately , but found to be so seriously bidisposed that he was compelled , to keep his bed for several days .
Not . the fli yhtest danger -is apprehended . " AA ' e hope shortly-to learn from the same source , when tlio post last had his hair cut , and whether his corns are troublesome this changeable weather . A propos , the Paris correspondent of a daily contemporary writes : — " The booksellers of Paris , who can afford to be generous , beholding ( as their advertisement states ) with grief and regret the insufficiency of
the national subscription raised in favour of M . Lamartine , have in the most munificent manner come to his assistance ancl undertaken the publication of his works , which L . unartine ' s friends are collecting , ancl have made over to him the full possession of the copyright during his life , or for ten years in caso of death . M . Lamartine has , on his side , generously contributed to the good work by adding a number of unpublished prose works and poems , and thus the speculation is rendered as
complete us possible . Let us hope that Lamartine , like Micawber , may liave found that something has turned up at last , and that ho will be content in his good fortune , and give us occasion to bo content likewise in hearing no more of his misery . Theso works are advertised as being the result of lialf-a-century ' s labour , and consists of one hundred and one volumes , — ' A biographical monument' says the advertisement
, , ' which , can only bo obtained by subscribers . ' The subscriptions are received at his residence . Four years' delay is allowed for payment . Everything is done , as- you must perceive , in a high-minded gentlemanlike way , and we make quite sure of the success of the speculation . "
The Aihcnieum makes the folloiving interesting statement : ¦—Since our fliinoimcDmcnt of the discovery at Eden 'Lodge , we have had further opportunities of seeing the letters . They are of very great interest . Among the confidential correspondents , not named in our brief note of last week , ive find the names of Archbishop Moore , Lord SUelbume , . )> . Priestley , Gibbon , Lord Malmesbury , Hugh Elliot , Minister of England at the Court of Frederick the Great , Jack Lee . Lord Grey ,
Lord J . ldou , Duke of York . Many now bans mots of Selwyu arc found in the papers . Mr . . 'Elliot ' s letters from Berlin are most curious and important for the story of tho Court and Times of Frederick the Great . Mr . Carlyle should see them . There is a work in six manuscript volumes , written by Mr . Eclen , called "Notes on tlio French Revolution" ; also numerous letters from Paris during the Reign of Terror . Mr , Eden was intimate with Mario Antoinette . Tho details about the
struggle of 1782 . between Pitt , Fox , North , and Slielburne , aro extremely curious . AVeddcrburn ' s letters are excessively clever . Respecting tho American AA ar , we have tho secret correspondence of . Lord Suffolk ' s office , including intercepted lettora of . Frederick the Great , Franklin , Silas Dean , and many others . Theso letters are full of
interesting details . Thoy contain , in fact , something about everybody ivlio was anybody . " . Lord Palmerston has granted £ 50 from the Royal Bounty Fund to Samuel Bamford , the wellknown Lancashire Liberal . It is at the same time understood that Mr . Bamford ' s name is not permanently placed upon the list , there being several other claimants whose titles to the aid have not yet been decided upon .
AA'e observe the announcement that two works of Mr . Georgo Augustus Mala , his " Baddington Peerage" ( contributed to the Illustrated Times ) , and Iiis olla padrida , " Lady Chesterfield ' s Letters to her . Daughter , " which appeared in the Welcome Guest , are each to be published in a collective form by Messrs . Houlston and Wright . Mr . Sitla is a writer of great and unquestionable poiver : but the tivo works mentioned are beyond doubt his very weakest efforts , and indeed totally unworthy of
his pen ; their reproduction will 'be a mistake on the part of the publisher , and will injure the fame ofthe author . The Homeward Mail says— " It cannot bo said that the authorities are dilatory in making the arrangements for the transfer of tho India Office to ihe West-end . If equal diligence wero used in all departments , on every occasion , things ; would come as near perfection as is possible in
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mundane matters . Of the thousand tons of records five hundred ,- con- ' sisting of duplicates and occasional triplicates , have been sold at a failrate , and realized , wo are informed , altogether , something under five : thousand pounds . The papers so sold , by a process well known to the trade , ivill have the ink removed from them , and will be worked into n pulp and remade into paper , which will fetch double the price given for them as they are . The library of the East India Office , so rich in
Oriental manuscripts , is to bo transferred , we understand , to the Board of Control . To the same place will go , perhaps , the valuable collection of industrial specimens , perhaps even the museum of animals . According to some , however , this latter collection will be sent to the British Museum . Such a . course we would earnestly deprecate . The mass of articles at the British Museum is already so prodigious as to defy supervision ; besides , it is very desirable to retain all the Indian collections in
oue spot , and that spot the most accessible to Oriental students . Lord Dufferiu lias been excavating on the banks of the ] S ile , and we understand that a small temple , with the columns in situ , and a considerable number of inscriptions , have rewarded the search . The AVroxetci- excavations were brought forward as the topic of the
evening at the meeting of the Boyal Society of Literature on the 7 th inst . Sir J . J . Boileau , Bart ., "V . P ., was in the chair , and after the election of a neiv member , M . Alf . hoii . se Mariette , Mr . Tliomas Wright gave " An Account of the Recent Excavations at AYroxeter , " from whieh it appeared that these researches have now been conducted with great success , that they are still progressing favourably , and that there is every reason to hope that the result of this year ' s diggings will be even
more valuable than that of previous years . At present Mr . Wright has uncovered a long lino of rooms adjoining a cross street , a part of the town lying between three streets , with good reason to anticipate many further successful researches , both among private ancl public buildings ; one large structure , comprised within a square of nearly two hundred foot each way , which , from tho extent oi tho liypocausts under it , has boon in all probability part of the public baths , and which , moreover ,
contains no traces of the tesselated pavements usual in private houses , but is floored with a hard ancl solid concrete 1 or cement . iNear this is a tank , possibly used for a swimming bath , flagged at the bottom , and full , when opened , with refuse of all kinds , which ivould seem to havo fnlle-n into it at the time it was in use . Bound this tank were the usunl
ambulatory passages , and near it a small room full of charred wheat . Another large structure , two hunched and twenty-six feet long by thirty feet broad , Mr . Wright has conjectured to have been a basilica . Curiously enough , it is the same length as that at Pompeii . It was paved with bricks set herring-bone fashion . Along the side of the basilica was the ordinary public street , paved on one side , apparently for a trolloir . A . third building was a square , with a central court and several
little rooms about ton feet long running out of it . In somo of these were charcoal and mineral coal , with a large number of bones , some sawn through , as though it had been used for a shop , for the manufactory of articles of bone , as hair pins , & c . The floors of these rooms appear to have been about three feet above the level of the court . Among other curious , objects found here is a curious iron box , the object or use of which has not been satisfactorily determined . Beyond this building
would seem to have been the forum , which was paved with smooth round stones ; and then another small street , on the side of which was a well-constructed gutter , with the flat stones still remaining that once covered it . In different parts oftlie excavations a large quantity of the
bones of animals was met with ; and among these those of extinct species of the "bos longifrons and of the elk , move than thirty skeletons scattered in different parts of the . buildings , and an abundance of female ornaments , especially of hair pins . The so-called deformed skulls were found away from tlio rest of the excavations , near the river side , and adjoining what has been , with reason , supposed to havo been a postern gate , for the defence of the bridge over the Severn ,
The thirtieth annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of . Science will take place at Oxford . The first genera ! meeting will be held in the Slieldonian Theatre , at three o ' clock * , on Wednesday , June 27 th , when it is expected that his Royal Highness the Prince Consort will resign the presidency , and Lord AVrottesley , M . A ., of All Souls' College , V . P . R . S ., F . R . A . S ., the President elect , will take the chair and deliver an address .
Mr . Buskin delivered a lecture at the General Meeting of the AY ' orking Men ' s College , on tho 7 th instant , ihe subject being three pictures , respectively by Paul \ cronese , Rubens , and Rembrandt . Mr . Buskin lias authorized Mr . Jeffrey , of Great Russell Street , to publish photo , graphic- lac-similes of the complete series of Turner' , ') . Liber Stiidioruin .