... | SCHOOLS OF XRT~ AND THE TEACHING I 01F DESIGN The tecond number of a recently started journal, the Art YrWo71, contains a searching article on the Govern- ment Schools of Design, and the way in WhiChh they have been managed by Mir. Henry Cole and his colleagues. The followina passage, extracted from the article in question, wo commend to the attention of the committee of the- Birmnliugham ...

... The following notice had been published:- WASHINGTON, February 24. The undersigned, on behalf' of the Commissioners appointed by the President to repres6int the interests of such American citizens as might desire to appear at the Exhibition of the Industry of al Nations, to be held in London during the present year, submits the following statement The Congress of the United States, after ...

... NOTFS ON NEW BODKMK. TilE LiuR oe SIR MARC ISAMBAXID BRUNrI., Civil Engineer, Vice-President of the Rloyal Soeiety, Cor- respondiling Member of the Institute of France, c, ?? By RncAxRD BEADMISIf, F. U.S.-[LouoIon: Lannul u and Longmiani.] Marc lliarlbld Bruncl-onc of thoe13 einn to wliolsl England stands largely indebted for her progress in the mechanical arte-wias born iii Normandy, in April ...

... NEW PATENTS. (CoWlrqibuted lby Mr. Georse Shlew.) Theo following Patents wero sealed during the week ending March 6, 1802:- Charles Edlins, Birmingham, certain imiprovements in ladies dress suspenders. Dated September 6, 1861. John lihodee, Wolverhanipton' and James Barker, Birming- hem, certain im~iprovements in comyosite for funeral and other purposes. Dated September 6, 1861. 'lfred Grcen ...

... BOOi;S OF TrtAYvELS-HOOnSS WORKS-MEN OF THE TIME-ASThONbI)Y, ANCIENT AND MOmiEmN-Titti ALBERT OBELISK-Alt T-CoPYIvncosT -. LITERARY Books of travel, if not always the most important, are certainly thle most nullnerolns of nioderis works. Our last week's list failed to exhaust evenI the names of those which have recenftly app'tarcd, and this present notice will not include all their names. The ...

... THE OLD WIHEEL IN THE MILL. 1 13v S. H. 1v];.lA1j1Yit (QCALLON). In the silence of thle evellniVg, - I eICI) the 5511 ]5III gO!IC to rost And left its rosiest giliry Onl the-river's trall(iljil breast, O'er the crumbligl blridge I wanlder, Spamling Io-lw thle llipid rill, And I listen to the tur1illilg Ot the old Nhlecl in the mill ! Theo I Watch tile water babble,- See it struggle fro(,a the ...

... SOCIETY OU BrIrJlB ARTISTS, SUFFOLK STRE.Ti The Obscrvr of yc'terday has the following niotice od the private view of the Society of British Artists' Exhiltioh. which opens to-day (519nday) :-The aggregate of the contributions of all denominations (amounting to 97f3) appeals upon the whole to present the same average xange of pleasant and respectable ability. No work of a sta't- ling, or even ...

... MI. FARRELL'S COIERT. Benefit concerts in Birmingham, whatever their musical recommendations, have of late proved so utterly barren i in profit to -their ostensible ?? that it is quite a new sensation to have to speak of one whielhmust. have been as gratifying to the pfojector as to the~patrons. In: stvucted -by 'tlie failure of concerts of the conventional. type- -Mr. Farrell wisely ...

... -NOTES ON' NEW BOOKS. ~1-~ ~.c vouv. Iysir E. B. LYTTON~. ELondon: ~ tukof thsnoel, wljiish is nlow issue ill i a connected u,-mitlis graced tle pages of I a~cs'e''llthe Year Round, has been most i~*~ ~e~ychosn. ideedl, if thle author, substituting tie ~pil~ltit fo Ih positive, liaed christened his workc .-ie Sllillgvst Story, no0 exception could have been j;h-1 to thie title. We imnaginied ...

... On Friday, the Earl of Derby, the Earl of Clarendon, Mr. Cubitt, the Lord Mayo, and Sir ChHles Eastlake, the President of the Royal Academy, who were recently Pominated by the Quiebn to advise her Majesty in the choice and mode of execution of a design for the proposed national memorial of the lamented Prince Consort, held another conference oil the subject, in the. Council Chamber of the Fine ...

... A ROSE SI-OW FOR BIRMINGHAM. MEETING YESTERDAY. Yesterday, at noon, a meeting was held in the Town Hall, to appoint a committee and make other arrange- nents for the establislhsment of an annual Exhibition of roses, to be held in the Town Hall, Birmingham. His Worship the Blayor presided, and there were also present the Rev. P. M. Smythe (Solihull), end Messrs. T. B. Wright, John Lowe, Gausby, ...

... REPORT OF THE OllCHESTRAL COOMlITTEE. A meeting of the General Comnuittee of the Musical Festival was hel'd yesterday in the committee room of the Town Rall, to receive the closing report of the Orchestral Committee, and to pass the accounts. J. 0. MisoN, Esq., chaihman of the committee, presided, and after the trais. action of some formal business, read the following report:- The time ...