Notes On Literature, Science And Art.

NOTES ON LITERATURE , SCIENCE AND ART .

Two eminent Oriental scholars have already announced themselves as candidates for the Boden Sanscrit professorship in the University of Oxford , now vacant , in the persons of Mr . Max Midler , M . A ., Fellow of All Souls' College , Tayloreiaii Professor of Modern European Languages in the University , Member of the Royal Bavarian Academy , Corresponding Member of the Institute of France , Honorary Member of tho Koyal Society of Literature ; and Mr . Monier AVilliams , M . A ., of

University College , Boden Sanscrit scholar in 1813 , Professor of Sanscrit at the East India College , Haileybury , from 1 S 4 I to 1 S 5 S . The election is vested in Convocation , ancl the admission is to be within two months from the day of election , except in the case of a person elected when resident abroad , whose admission shall be within eighteen months from his election . M . Horn , one of the editors of the Journal des Debats , has been

named Honorary Member of the Statistical Society of London , " iu consideration , " as the diploma sets forth , " of the eminent services rendered hy him to statistical science . " The diploma is signed by Lord John Russell , as president of the association . Tho Athcinzeum announces the foundation of a new public gallery of art—the Ellison Gallery—henceforth to rank in name and standing with the Vernon Gallery and the Sheepshanks Gallery . Mrs . Elizabeth

Ellison , of Sudbrook Holme , in the county of Lincoln , has made to the Department of Science and Art at South Kensington , a most noble gift . It consists , for the present , of fifty splendid original watercolour paintings ( the production of British artists ) , the property of her late husband , Richard Ellison , Esq ., who always intended that some of his collection should ultimately be bequeated to the nation . The pictures now made over to the public comprise specimens of the following artists : —G . Barrett , 1 specimen ; C . Bentley , 1 ; G . Cattermole , 8 ; G . Chambers , 2 ; David Cox , 1 ; Sydney Cooper , 2 ; P . Deivint , 3 ; Copley Fielding 2 ;

C . Haag , 1 ; L . Haghe , 2 ; Hills and Barrett , !; AA . Hunt , 3 ; AA . L . Leitch , 1 ; S . P . Jackson , 3 ; C . F . Lewis , 2 ; F . Mackenzie , 2 ; John Martin , 1 ; iSfesfield , 1 ; S . Oakley , 1 ; S . Palmer , 1 ; T . M . Richardson , 1 ; D . Roberts , 1 ; T . S . Robins , 1 ; G . F . Robson , 1 ; C . Stanfield , ] ; F . AY . Topham , 1 ; J . M . AY . Turner , 1 ; W . Turner , 1 ; J . A arley , I ; Carl AA oi'nev , 1 ; , 1 . M . Wright , 1 ; in all fifty paintings of the highest class of watercolour art . The main conditions annexed to this gift are :

—The pictures shall be deposited in the national collection of watercolour paintings , at Kensington , commenced by the Department of Science aud Art , until a separate and permanent room or rooms shall be erected for the purpose ; that the professional adviser for the preservation of the said ivatercolour paintings shall be the President of the AVatereolour Society for the time being ; and that they shall be exhibited to the public as constantly as the oil paintings in the charge of the Science

and Art Department . Mrs . Ellison expresses her desire ( in which her late husband , it is said , ivould have concurred ) that the pictures shall not be exhibited on Sunday . The gift has been formally accepted by Lord Granville ou the part of the public , and the works are in pi-ogress of arrangement under the judicious care of Mr . Redgrave . The Liverpool Society of Fine Arts is preparing an Exhibition of ancient and modern pictures in oil and water colours , which is stated to be rich and interesting ; especially so in those contributions from the

collections of gentlemen resident in and near Liverpool . The Treasurer of the Liverpool Academy read , at a recent meeting , a financial statement , which showed the position of that body . There has been a loss of £ -323 In . 2 d . on the last exhibition , leaving £ 963 10 s . Sd . In hand , at the commencement of the present 3 'ear , or rather that just ended , £ 1 , 286 ; income , £ 702 ; outlay , £ 1 , 025 lis . 3 d . ; loss , £ 323 * 1 * . "d . Of the balance there will be a claim for £ -200 hy the landlord , should the

Academy give up the rooms . It is not probable , unless the public support is more liberally extended to the Exhibition , that it will be repeated after next year . The Observer informs us that the Queen has appointed the Rev . Charles Kingsley , Rector of Eversley , Hants , Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge . Mr . Kingsley is the well known author of A Hon Troche and other popular works . The Board of

Moral Sciences Studies , in a report just presented to the senate , express their regret that they have not had the assistance of a professor of modern history in making arrangements for the moral sciences tripos . AVby the government have not sooner filled up tho appointment no one at the University can understand . The professorship has now been vacant nearly eight months . Tho second conrersaxione of the Society of Arts will take place this evening at the South Kensington Museum ,

The Liverpool Mercury says that iu Mr . Mayer's museum , at Liverpool , are a great number of Egyptian , Coptic , and Greek papyri relating to various subjects , historical and religious . Mr . Mayer has entrusted the unrolling of these to Dr . Simoiiidcs , who has found parts of three leaves of a papyrus scroll containing the 19 th chapter of the Gospel according to St . Matthew , written in Greek uncial characters , the reading of ivhich will show that that part of the 21 th verse relating to the

passing of the camel through tho eye of a needle has been a wrong reading of the Greek text . The date of the manuscript has every appearance , as the form of letter and other rules which are used as guides to pakeographists indicate , of belonging to the first century after Christ , which is older than any other Christian document known to exist . Mr . Mayer is about to publish the original writing in fac-simile , with au English translation . Tho papyrus was brought from Thebes by the Rev . Henry

Hobart , along with many others . The first part was sold to the British Museum , but the remainder was purchased by Mr . Mayer . - Prof . Tischeadorf , of Leipzic , has returned to St . Petersburgh , in order to take preliminary steps for the publication of" The Bible Codex , " discovered by him on Mount Sinai . According to his plan , which has met with the approval of the Emperor , the whole codex will be reprinted , exactlin the character of the originaland with types founded for the

y , purpose , in three large folios ; jiud a fourth volume is to contain the editor's Latin commentary , together with his remarks on the history , the age , and the critical value of the manuscript . Twenty photographic plates are to reproduce those pages ivhich are most interesting and curious . The work will be published , in the summer of 1 SG 2 , at St . Petersburg ; and immediately after a separate editon of the New Testament , accurately printed from the original , in small Greek type , is to

appear . The annual report of the Camden Society records the death of thirteen of its members , including Lord Macaulay . Tho following works have been issued since the last general meeting : " The Camden Miscellany , " volume the fourth , containing : —1 . A London chronicle in the reigns of Henry VII . and Henry VIII . ; 2 . The Childe of Bristow , a poem , hy John Lydgate ; 3 . Expenses of the Judges of Assize riding the AVestern

and Oxford Circuits , temp . Elizabeth ; 4 . The Incredulity of St . Thomas , one of the Corpus Christi plays at York ; 5 . Sir Edward Lake ' s' Interview with Charles L ; 6 . Letters of Pope to Attevbury when in the Tower ol London ; 7 . Supplementary Note on the Jesuits' College at Clerkenwell . This volume , which belongs to the subscription of the past year , has been found fully equal to its predecessors in the variety and interest of its several papers . The miscellanies are generally

approved , and the council will have pleasure in receiving valuable short papers suitable for a fifth volume . Some such are already in hand . " The Journals of Richard Symonds , " au officer in the royal army , temp . Charles I . Edited by Charles Edward Long , Esq ., M . A . ; a volume full of interest to the historical student , as well as abounding in materials of great value to the genealogist aud topographer . " Original Papers illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Milton , " now first published

from MSS . in the State Paper Office ; edited by AY . D . Hamilton , Esq . The name of Milton ivould justify and vindicate the publication of any volume of papers iu which his hand could be traced ; the present volume , ivhich has been edited with great care by Mr . AVilliam D . Hamilton , of the State Paper Office , confirms and illustrates Milton ' s scholarship , by publishing various new Latin letters written by him for the government of the day ; it contains also the papers ivhich explain the nature of the

pecuniary dealings between himself and the Powell family , many of them now published for the first time , and the ivhole now also for the first time thrown into one entire series . The last published volume , which has only just been issued to the members , is— "Letters of George Lord Carew , afterwards Earl of Totnes , to Sir Thomas Roe ; " edited by John Maclean , Esq ., F . S . A . ; a volume full of gossip about the notables of the time , and containing many interesting particulars of the court and courtiers of James the First .

On Sunday last the Rev . George Pearson , B . D ., for thirty-five years rector of Castle Camps , Cambridgeshire , and formerly Christian advocate of Cambridge University , died at Saffron Walden , aged sixty-eight . It is somewhat singular that his daughter Anne , aged twenty one , died on the same day . Mr . Pearson was originally of Emmanuet College , where he took his B . A . degree in 1814 , but was afterwards elected a fellow of St . John ' s . In 1814 he editedfor the Parker Society , " The AVritings

, , Translations , and Remains of Bishop Coverdaie , " and was author of other works . He was an active magistrate for the count }' . On . Thursday , the 31 st inst ., S . C . Hall , Esq ., F . S . A ., will deliver a lecture at the Marylebone Institution in aid of the fund ? of the S . ima-