... L (TERATURE. fibA Three Lectures on Natiornal Education, by GEORGE WADDINGTON, D.D., Dean of Durham. [Longman. ?vggestions on CLhureh Extension and National Educea- tion, by the Rev. Jolu BnowN, Vicar of St. Mary's, Leicester. Printedfor p2avate cis'culation. J [Crossley, Leicester. These two publications (if we may be permitted to call Mr. Brown's pamphlet a publication) are proofs of the ...

... TrIDOCQ AND H111 EXHIBITION. Everybody has heard of the wonderfully organized secret police of France, and every one has heard of Vidocq, their celebrated chief, the Jonathan Wild of France, the very | Napoleon of Continental thief-takers. The memoirs of his curious life are probably in many of our reader's hands; and his extraordinary adventures-his Owcn escapes from prison, and from the ...

... COVEN- GARDEN THRATRE. Last evening the Brussels company performed AUB.BR'S comic opera, Les Diamana de la Couronne. An English version of this piece, it will be remembered, was brought out with success at the Princess's Theatre during Madame ANNXA TIuILLON'S eugagement there; but Its performance on that occasion gave a very imperfect notion of the merits of one of AuBER's best works. When we ...

... LITBRATURE. -The Smuggler, a tale. By a. P. R. JAMBs, Esq. Thanks to the improvements in our systems of finance, and still more to the rapid growth of free-trade principles, the smuggler promises ere long to become a personage l as purely historical as the buccaneer of the Spanish main, or the stark mosstrooper of the border. Even , already his profession has sadly degenerated from that bold ...