... it is not valued higher than about £119,114. 3d. The Sancy diamond, which formerly belonged totlie crown of France, was named after the Baron tie Snrti5 French Ambassador at Constantinople wio brougit itrto Lewis XIV. It cost about £26,250., and is thougirtto ...

... stone has been lately disco- vered in Russia. It is- a minrerallikegranitein one ?? pet. and green as emerald. It has been named after 'the President oftthe Russian Academy, Onvarovit . The Afoniteur contains an ordinance, authorising the Minister of Finance ...

... arrive at half-past ten o'clock. r WVeippert's band was in attendance, and commenced with | a set of new quadrilles-one named after the Duke de I Nemours, and the other in compliment to the House of t Saxe Coburg. At one the supper was announced ; it was ...

... fame of Washington Irving there can be no doubt; indeed we go the length of proclaiming it his master- piece. The book is named after an infant colony established beyond the rocky mountains, by a party of adventurers who penetrated to the shores of the Pacific ...

... Easter at the above house was- not Mr. Lancaster's tragic drama of ' Gunpowder Treason and Plot,' but-a piece in four parts, named after dear old lzaak Walton, the angler. In it Madarhe Vestris is repre- sented as a young maiden, in love with Arthur Graham ...

... Wanisford. The Countess of Munster's eldest daughter, Lady Adelaide Fitzelarence, and grand-daughter of the Earl of £gremo$e named after her Majesty the Queen Dowager, row in 17th year, will be introduced to the beau monode at the ir drawing-room of the next ...

... impulse, a courageous queen, full of vengeance, her pretty and interesting daughter, and an ardent searcher after knowledge, named after the celebrated Venetian traveller, Marco Polo, who becomes the partisan of either side, as suits the occasion of thodramatist ...

... appears, from the Mechanics'- Magazine of this week, that the two steam carriages of Messrs Braithwaite and. Ericsson (named, after their Maje- sties, the William the Fouirth and the Adelaide), about which there was so much talk a few moniths ago, are ...

... was so inconsiderable, and their actions so unimportant, that nothing in art or nature throughout the whole country was named after them. Now the context to the yerse in question, the ' Gaudete quicquid est domi, cachinnorura, calls upon the play and ...

... ierroneous impressions, yet there would be danger in e changing them,. The signs of the Zodiac, and tics stars, I were, named after the Greek mythology, and yet no a navigator would give his assent to their being changed. ,f It would cause endless confusion ...

... spectacle called King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, but which might quite as properly, if not more properly, be named after some of the noble animals engaged in the performance, was entirely successful last night; and looking upon it as a mere ...

... endeared to him by early recollections. The above intimation from Mr. Colman referred to his first visit to ' Twig Hall, so named after its nominal owner, little Charles, who had soon after his birth been named ' Twig, by the same sponsor (Mr. Litchfield) ...