... 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 banker asked young lady what kind of money she liked best. Matrimony, she replied. What is the difference between a Garotter and a Thug ?—The one is white ohoker and the other a black one. The press, the pulpit, and the petticoat. The first spreads the news, the second spreads religion, and tbe last spreads all over the pavement. La Belle Hamilton narrowly escaped being left behind wben the ...

... 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 ...

... a-long time past baa been, the excuse of tbe smoke producers, when they have been asked why they did not consume it, that there was complete and effectual apparatus for tha purpose that, ia met, there waa real smoke-consumer, and tbat it was an act of injustice put them to the expense of purchasing and fitting up machines which did not answer the intended purpose, and whichihad the ...

... The Trustees of the British Museum have purchased the Bliss Correspondence from the executors of tbe Oxford Doctor. new catacomb and a basilica have been discovered some miles from Borne, on the road to Naples, in some property belonging to tbe Prince Barberini. Six columns of precious marble and several interesting inscriptions have been already brought to right We are glad to be able to ...

... UPWARDS OP FORTY LIVES LOST. A terrible explosion occurred, on Tuesday last, at the works ot the Bardsley Colliery Company, in the village Bardsley, and which stand close on tbe west ride of the highroad between Ashton and Oldham. the company's mine, there are two pits or shafts. The one nearer Ashton, known as the Diamond pit, is used as the downcast shaft, and for tbe descent and ascent of ...

... Prince Frederick William of Prussia has given Mr. Ernest Rieck a commission to paint a large picture of Windsor Castle, to be bung, probably, in the Princess's new home. Athenaum. Government has determined that a scientific exploration shall be made in Vancouver's Island, and, with this view, the Boyal and Geographical Societies hare been requested to furnish suggestions for tbe efficient ...

... Abraham Cox, cook, aud Peter Williams, seaman, were recently tried and convicted in Portland, Maine, for the murder of the captain, mate, second mate, and one seaman of the brig Albion Cooper, on the the 28th of August last. It appears that the cook confessed to the crime, and gave circumstantial account of its committal. He had grudge against the mate and captain, consequence ol ill-usage. Ou ...

... 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 ...

... Mrs. Thorneycroft's marble bust of the Princess Royal has been lately on view at Messrs. Colnaghi's. The Queen expressed her approval of it, and kept it for some time at the Palace after the departure of the royal bride for tbe city of Linden. Athenaum. Very gratifying accounts have reached the Beechey family, from Tripoli, where the ladies Beechey are prosecuting researches among the ruins of ...

... 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 ...

... There 8 a picture of what I might be, as the country said to tbe badly drawn map. Wat am de diffurance, Sambo, 'twixt de vatch and de politishun Umph, me gib dat up. No, spoke it out, Sambo. Umph, no, me gib It np. Vi, you stupid nigger, not know de am full ob tic-tacs, and de politisbun am full ob tac-tics? Ya, ya, me know dat, nigger. Vi den did you not spoke it out Nigger looked ...