... A valuable collection of modern oil paintings and water colour drawings, the property of A r. Alexapder, of Waandsworth, Surrey, will be disposed of by auction ;o- day, by 3-%. WVilliam Hol ...

... .TI . LFG], D LIBEL O01 A MUIjlIC-EALL., I ?? l 1 The fiartlee h iring of the summons agasseec John Heather Lewin for writing .a defamatorybe of and oncerning Messrs. Speedy andPoole, the pro- pridtots of the South London. music-ha, and pub- ishing it ii the London . 'igaro, was resumed on Wednesday, it the Guildhall, before Alderman Sir Francis Truseotto- yr. John: Joshua Poole;; one of the ...

... PUBLIC MUSSUMS AND GALLEEiS. A meeting on this subject, to which the mayors of corporatioos, cheirmen of art and science schools, and others interested in museums and art galleries were in. vited wan had at ibe roama of she Society of Arta, for tso purgose of appointing a deputation to the Prime Minister to urge upon the GoverLment th3 im. poxtance of bringing all the national mueumes azd ...

... LACE AT a- IE INTERN.ATION T4L En EIBITION. To all Inlyse's end v. carets of lace, still more to all .vho I Ito C tt it I stiiC and1 Iistorical ?? of vic-, 3ic inteiesi ad in ?? ?? its moanlactilro, WO healitlty recomlluned a visit to tine cr'lecttoia tow to be foundI in Ci 8is S at the Ilntelit:tlioilai ExhibitioU. Inl ?? class, witt ?? leoth I, ud dilli meltcitie manie lace, thert ar'- to be ...

... (If Lcospa~n'5 eis't-oofts of Sciecre.c We ?? this volume as being the corn- a to the excellent hand-book of Quantita- 0,e Ma~s lately published by Prof. Thorpe; 5vtbO0th the number of works on elementary . ht-tvch yearly make their appearance yhewl: set it is not a difficult task to select Ia a real scientific value, and to ,iewl .1 irET orpo sboots certainly belong. : ui t u. i.,tolry to ...

... GO S SIP. There is no very great merit in literary discoveries, for a writer of particularly distinguishable talent is always cer- tain to be found out and pointed to; but it is not perhaps out of place to remark that the discovery of a young French poet, named Maurice Bouchor, which is claimed by M. Edmond About in last Saturday's -Atheneumn, was anticipated in our last monthly review ...

... THIE RUSSIANS IN CENTRAL ASIA.`'' ANIMATED, as we are led by the translator of this work to believe, by a. desire that England should fulfil her destiny in the East by exerting her humanizing influences throughout that part of the world, the author rates, us rather severely for our blundering policy, for the faultiness of our- administrative system in India, and for the lethargy of our ...

... BY SEA AND BY LAND. ' THIS little book, as Mr. Merewether himself admits, is rather a meagre account of 50,000 miles of travel. But it is a pleasant and cheerful per- tonal experience, in which our sympathies are from the first enlisted by admiration for the energy and spirit with which a man, confessedly of sixty-two, undertakes a trip to various distant countries- all round the woild, ...

... ,;jfAL H i S Lr lit I Ttt~ttiO~ rt {-bl 1 I . v ?? , ?? F ,. t, it' I' groUkmds! sm' be thkhi'ae atthe, hsd p~ebCs> thej Exhibition itself d6ds nbt' po0te Tom ' popular, features as did some of its pr c' ?? We, believe it is in cdatemplation to o aW OiRIb the additional, fee :denimded for admissiii;o i 4 forlign- gmem cellars, axid -Vth it' tojpilti'&t` n t -thel iprivilege, of tastiig ...

... at 12 o’clock Noon, The following descriptions of SAWN TIMBER from Gothenburg and Drammen, viz. „ 19.000 Lin. Feet 11 x 3 WHITE DEALS. 15.000 „ 9x3 do. 6.000 7 x 3 WHITE BATTENS. 15.000 „ x do. 24.000 „ 61 x 3 do. 70.000 „ 6i x 2i do. 15.000 „ 21 do. 18.000 „ 11 x 3 RED DEALS. 8,500 „ 9x3 do. 4.000 „ 7x3 do. With other Goods. Credit usual. JAMES AIKEN, Ju.n., & CO. ALEX VNDER MASSON, ...

... AMATEURS AT ST. GEORGE'S THAATRE. The various gentlemen of varied clerical accomplislsnents in the large establishment knowl as the Railway Clearing House ate, no doubt, estimable public servants, but what should induce them suddenly to tern actors is one of those impenetrable mysteries which probably will never be divulged. But the mystery of the sudden and umnatural bloom of the amateur ...

... On Thlursday morning and evening performances were given at the Adelphi Theatre for the benefit of the above-named well-known and highly esteemed gentleman, the treasurer of the establishment, wlose friends, professional and non-pro- fessional, gathered round him in goodly mlmbers, and assisted to make the occasion a success. At the morning entertainment the bill of fare was as extensive as it ...