... In the night of the Bth inst., Dr. Winnecke, of the Observatory at Bonn, discovered a new comet. is rather pale, large, and of a watery appearance. The Congress of the Archaeological Association for 1858, will be held at Salisbury, during the month of August, ander the Presidency of the Marquis of Ailesbury. It appears that the King of Holland has sanctioned the opening of Art and Industrial ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...