... The library of the late Baron Hammer Purgstall will nut be sold, as formerly reported, by public auction. The King of Saxony has bought it, in a lump, for his private collection. The Jerrold In memoriamis sufficient to secure annuity, we are told, of £120 year for Mrs. Jerrold and her unmarried daughter, and th© survivor of the two. Illustrated London News. The march of intellect is evidently ...

... A painting M. Ivanoff, a painter of note, tbe subject of which is St. John Preaching in tbe Wilderness, now being exhibited in the Academy of Fine Arts at St. Petersburg. It has cost M. Ivanoff, letter states, twenty years labonr, and he made journey to Jerusalem expressly to make sketches for it. It is said that the Imperial Museum of Russia has purchased it for 40,000 roubles (160,000f.) ...

... Pugsley, of Long Ashton, near Bristol. He made acknowledgment of his guilt. Calcraft was the executioner. About 10,000 persons were present at the execution. Thk Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition will end, it said, in law ; and not unjustly so, if all we hear is trae.as in truth we believe it to be. The seven wise men of Manchester constituting the Committee of Management have taken fit upon ...

... Prince Lotnaire, youngest son of Prince Metternicb, has lately entered on a public career in Austria. Baron de Bach, Minister of the Interior, has attached him to the press division of his department. Moliere's celebrated '• Tartuffe, which the Spanish ecclesiastical authorities have always succeeded in getting prohibited, has been translated into Spanish, and is about to be performed at the ...

... ROCHDALE.—WooI.—Great complaints are made of the advances that have been demanded for wool these few weeks pasl. Staplers oontinue quite firm in th. ir demands of last week. A few bave done moderate business, while others have been very quiet. Generally operations been very limited. Some of the staplers say their stocks are light, and that further advances may be expected. Good i brokes ...

... of the British Ska, Anemones, by P. U Gosse, F.R.S. Part I. (London : Van Voorst) —Mr. Goese's name revives host of pleasant recollections. There are few readers who have not spent many happy hours in his companionship, either amid the gorgeous tropical vegetation of Jamaica, or the sombre pine woods Canada, or the green winding lanes of our own beautiful Devonshire. He has done more to ...

... The present government have just returned a final answer to the matter of the Soulages collection., declining to ask parliament for grant to purchase it. The sum required for the purchase would have been £14,375. Novel Machine for Ploughing.—A windlass for ploughing or cultivating land means of a wire rope, the windlass being driven by ordinary portable engine as used for thrashing, is being ...

... West Bar, I-eeds, ! •n ™nnecti..n with the SCARBRO' HOTEL. .ii?.tov?Svs?t_, tka WELLINGTON HAl_L.cspaWsof !«« PeSE^rtSb- OPENED »s a PUBLIC REFRESH- I 55? SioM B^eaifacts will be supplied from Ei»ht to Elsvsn N l with Cold Meats, Ac. ftSL. ad libitum. | 0 r ?S_b«rrs'atl- Dinners from Eleven to Six o'clock, with every ?? ofthe Season, at 3». per Head. Test. Suppers, Ac, from Six during the ...

... Mr. Richard Ansdell returned from Spain about ten days ago, where he has been passing seven months of hard study. Rumour says tbat he brings home sketches of pictures very striking in character and finer than any be has previously produced. understand that the government have commissioned Mr. Szereliny, tbe inventor and patentee of a composition for preserving stone and iron from injury by ...

... Village Rhymes ; or Poems on Various Sub- ECT3) PRINCIPALLY APPERTAINING TO INCIDENTS VIL-4Ge Life. Edwaito Burlend. (Leeds D. Green, |oar-lane.) —It is now fashionable, amongst those who sßume the character of critics, as well as amongst the matter-of-fact seekers after wealth and applauders f facts, to descry almost every scrap of new poetry that offered to the public. The age is pronounced ...

... permitted to experiment upon the cable, witb view its restoration and maintenance, bas been answered, their behalf, by Mr. George Saward, their secretary, tbe decision being to decline compliance with Mr. Whitehouse's request. The fate of the cable may be considered settled. Mr. Whitebouse made a reasonable offer, and one wbich was worth consideration. It seems, however, from all tbat appears ...

... Mr. J. Twining, vice president of the Society of Arts, has placed bis economic museum the disposal the council of that body, to form the nucleus of tbe projected Great Exhibition 1861. The rupture in the Liverpool Academy, arising out of the aliened preference given to the works of the pre- Raphaelites, has led to the formation of another institution, has assumed tbe name of the Liverpool ...