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47G Mal turn it may be. A mere inconvenient arrange ment could scarcely be made, inasmuch as it brings a prtiVilleial musician, wholly Unt1e4111111.1111,411 with the management of a large orchestra, 01141 especially of the superior (41444 of musicians engaged, into position where he can be of little use, but where he dray protium+ great eetifusien and embarrassment. We make no invidious allusion to the gentleman, Mr. Antott, of fileurester Clitlwdral, to whose lot it fall to renthiet on this : whatever inemt venience the practice may lead to iv *litany partici pated in by his contemporaries of Woreester and Hereford. When so much expense is gone to in colleeting ve va! and instrumental artists, and when the musical !adobe respond se liberally to the 414. 11a1& Houle on theta by the stewards, it does seeia ammialetis that smite thoroughly efficient coliduchir should not he Ilreught down from London, and that the risk of failure should be incurred by entrusting the most important duty etameeted with the festival to come untrained WM professor. Unless this evil lie remedied, we may expect that these triennial festivals will relapse into their more recent torpiir and away. The m11'44441 of sixty twill", f"ll.+ tour altos, forty-eighi tenor, and sixty lasses, nut the orchestra numbered :ton performer. Among the patrons of the festival were the Blike of Beaufort, president, Earls Fitzhartlings and Somers, and Lord Lyttelton, who are the lord lieutenants of the emu. ties of tilimcester, Ileretianl, aunt Woreester—the bishops of the three counties—Lord Leigh, the Hon. Ashley Pensonliy, M.P., Mr. Nigel Kingseete, Mr. W. I'. Prim, M.l'., and Mr. .1. R. 'Mullings, M.P., the Rev. Dr. Evans, Sir .1. 11. Sep tttttt r, the Rev. Canon Iluteltinseti, As a whole, the performanees wont elf greatly to the satisfaction of the visitors, and the &eat attend ing the festival may heexpected to act favourably on the next triennial celebration of the Lind, tottign Art, Sittraturt, ttr. LATEST Wolths FitENcli I.ITERATERE.—It la Raid that MM. Guizot, A. Thierrv, 1 illemaln, Thiers, have associated to eilit a new journal called Recite Historique, especially with the view of neutralising the haul of of a silly and immoral feuilletonism. Georges Sand will publish her autobio graphy under the title" Ma Confession. - M. I .anutine is compiling anew work," 11 istoi re des Medieis," which has been purchased for the Cutoditistiounet and .Pay:i fur the sum of 140,04141 francs. M. Montalembert, with the seceders of the Univers, work now at. the Correspondent, to which the propriettaN intend to give sufficient development to connterladance the l'oltairian spirit of the Berm. des lkwx Moindes. To the many works on the subject. of Abelard and lie loise will be added one by M. and Mine. tittizot. It will contain the complete correspondence between the two lovers, and several other documents hitherto unpublished. Tuzmni.Ev's Ni:w STE 11 1-!SliI5 lis engine has been brought to the notice of the Society for En couraging Ereneli Industry at Paris. It has been finit used in a screw steamer plying between Mar seilles and Algiers, and the improsement consists in the substitution of ether for water as the !aie • rotor of elastic vapour, by which 111 saving of 75 per cent. is to be achieved. This is about the Warne prliportion as Mr. Ericsson contemplate: in his new calorie engine, when., le kwe%er, then seems to be a screw loose somewhere. Iltreiwa.—Of the descendants of Held Mar shal Mueller the following recent information has appeared. The two sons of the !Mission hero are dead ; the youngest. died without issue: but of the elder there is a son left. who has married an Austrian lady of the family of I.arish, and lives on his large estates near Tropism, in Silesia. lie has suceeeded by great agricultural enterprise in recruiting the squandered riches of the grandfather. Another grand son of Blucher, Gustaph, is married to a rich English lady, and lives mostly near the Rhine. THE CREAT PUIZE o AIicHITIRCTURE, PARM—The exhibition of the drawings of the competitors for this prize had attracted the more curiosity, as the present Government is known to foster all conspicuous enter primp in the fine arts. The programme of the com petition was for the plan of a minanim capable of containing specimens of sculpture from the Assyrian and Egyptian epochs to that of the Renaissance ; saloons for the exhibition of paintings of the four great schools, Italian, Ereneh. Spanish. and Flemish; with the neoesaary dwellings for the officers, etc. The opinion on the plans proposed is very unfavour able ; still those of MM. Guillaume and Coquare seem to be the most commendable. THE " SOLOONE."—M. lleeillterel, member of the council-general of the department de la Marne. has made to that hotly a report on the fertilisation of this vipt district, hitherto barren. and which has attracted much of the solicitude of the Emperor. 31. Itecquerel argues that the menial aridity of the Molegne is owing to the destructi , in of its forests, and the uncontrolled tun of the cattle user it. nib Oen ) blonde sikir so THE PRESS. many and diverse trials. consists of three chief expe dient's—the manuring with marl (marriage ), knelt tion, and the planting of new forests. All this, how ever, presupposes a system of complete canalisation and water communication, without which even timber, or any other produce gained, ...mid out be disposed of to advantage. Tetroitteme Cosoness.—The Prussian Minister of Commerce presided at this year's meeting of the shove body. It comprised the German-Austrian telegraph league. Deputies have been sent from all the (governments composing this association—Prusaia, Austria, Bavaria, Saxony, Hanover, and the Nether lauds. The subjects for deliberation were—time further extension of the league ; the completion of the German telegraphic tact; the apportionmeut of the receipts, the improvemeut of the internal ser v ce ; &c. EETINO OW GERMAN PHAR)IAI'FI'TISTS AT NURICM • semi.—This aggregate meeting of the profession, perhaps unique in Europe, was attended by more than one hundred apothecaries from the whole of Germany, and even Austria and Switzerland. The second day of meeting was devoted to the business affairs of the pharmaceutical profession, as, for in stance, the private pharmacies of physicians, which were generally objected to. The concessions (li cences) for apothecaries were next disethosed, as there exist in Baden even privileged chemists. The next subject treated was the help to be given to indigent assistants, inaster4, and their families. Each apothecary of the union 'says 2(1. (3s. (id.) every year towards this fund. This year 1,•2370. were divided ((((( igst fifteen persons, amongst whom were two widows. The exhibition of pharmaceutical speci mens was most creditable, amongst which were those of the firm 41rundherr and Hertel. THE. CRYSTAL for the Industrial Exhibition of the Oerman Customs Union, to be opened at Munich next year, will he constructed in the botani cal garden, entirely fro nil glass and iron. It will be 764) feet long, the transept. :130 feet limed, with side naves of 165 feet. The height will be feet. A single manufactory will furnish the materials neces sary for the etlitiee, which will remain after the exhibition is closed. Tee Cernyu belonging to the Belgian Ecelesiasti cal College at Rome, dedicated to SS. Joachim and Anna, has been recently restored and decorated by two Belgian artists, MM. liobbelaer anti Renier, with several pictures representing scenes from the lives tit' Belgian apostles and missionaries. AN IMPORTANT SALE OF l'irreevs, the collection belonging to Mtulamie Molkeithoer Seltenklmyzen, has rem'ently taken place at Amsterdam. A sea-piece by Bakhuysen was sold for 1,50416.; a Berghem landscape, :1,04W) ; Van 4 'appelle, marine, 1,115 ; Haekaert and Lingelbach, landscape. 9,154); De Hooglie, interior, 1,575 ; Rembrandt, portrait of a young man, 110; Ilnysdael, landscape in Norway, 2,050; ditt o c view of Ilaerlem, 6,3211: Wynants and Van de N'elde, Dutch landscape, 1,000; Schotel, ma rine, 910. 'l'm: Nautical and Meteorological Congress at Brus sels has just terminated its labours. The report and appendices, written by Lieutenant Maury, U.S. navy, and Captain Beechey, British navy, in French and English, will be published forthwith. 1 . env important materials for the History of the German Middle Ages were brought to light some days ago in Westphalia, by the discovery of 1,000 medals, belonging to an almost unknown period of German history, between the llth and 15th cen tury, in the reigns of the Emperors Henry VI., Fre derick 11., Rudolph of Hapsburg, anti Louis IV. Among them are many medals froin the Bishops of Utrecht, Osnabruck, Munster; Dutch and %littlish, from the Counts of Cleve, Juliers, Mark, Ravens &e. THE Prussian Ministry of Public Works is jest preparing the publication of a curious atlas of thirty nine plates. of whirl twenty-seven are consts.rated to the representation of the church of St. Sophia at Constantinople, the model of Ilyzantiiie architecture; and the rest to other Christian monuments at Con stantinople 'whinging to the sth and I . 2th century; the churches of St. John, I.ergins and Bacchus, funning a medium between St. Sophia anti St. Vitale at Ilavenna ; St. Irene ' St. Theodokos, the Holy Panto Krator, and the Intll with fountain on the Iltb demon, &c. The work will he published by Ernst and Korn at Berlin, and costs 60 dollars. It will ap. pear before the cud of the year. M. Witneta Mentes, the proprietor of time cele brated editing-house for maps, &c., died at Gotha some d a y s ago. His manufactory' of maps and other geographical apptusttus, in which men like Baer, Berglinus, Diez, Reichard, Von Spruner, Von l.ytiow, were oeenpied. employs 200 workmen, and his con nections extend over all Europe, to America, the East Indies, and Australia. THE ELECTRIC TELEORAPII between rpsala and Stockholm is now fully employed, both by the au thorities and by private persons. MLLE. FOY is performing at the Vaudeville Theatre at Brussels, together with 211 e, kargettil. SATURDAY, THE Paris Odkon will open this evening, the 17th, after having undergone a process of redecoration in the most costly style. The Empress has engages' a box, which will be furnished, by special desire, with pale green silk hangings. The season will be opened with the first representation of MiTy's new piece, Don thizman, and of course their Imperial Majesties will be pre-Nut at this performance, in which au an cestor of the Empress is to be personified. As ILLUNINATED'ELECTRIC C1A4421i has been placed in front of the Hotel de Ville at Brussels, so that the time can be seen as well in the night as in the day. Electric clocks have also been attached to the lamp posts in some of the principal streets, which are placed in communication with the regulator in the llotel de Ville. They have perfectly succeeded. A TAME ELEPHANT is now exhibiting in all the files and fairs in the neighbourhood of Berlin. The Kuhns' shows great docility, and performs a num ber of cum ions tricks. As it would be very expensive for the owner of this gigantic animal to remove it from place to place in a close carriage, it has been trained to draw a vehicle containing its provisions and the property of its keeper. It is harnessed like a horse, but without any bit or bridle; a man walks by its side, and guides it by the ear. In order not to be impeded by the public, its journeys are always performed at night, THE READINO COMMITTEE OF THE HOLT INQUISI TOO:, sitting in judgment on various publications, have condemned" Uncle Tom's Cabin" as a damnable and pernicious work. The Italian version so con demned is designated in the sentence, " I 1 tugurio dello Zio Toni, Romanzo American°, di Miss Enrich etta Beecher Stowe." _ _ . THERE has just been diseovered, between Seafati and Sarno, at no great depth from the surface, a villa of ancient architecture, similar to that of Pompeii. Tim .I.tmoN HES PtAsTrs has just lost one of its most interesting animals. The zebra, which had been domiciled there since Itc2ll, has died of old age. THE ACADEMY Or FINE ARTS OF THE PAM% INSTI - rrrE held a sitting on Saturday to judge of the works :cottt, in for the great prize of sculpture. None of the works were considered worthy of the great prize ; but the second great prize was awarded to M. H. Chaim, of Mee, department of the Seine-et-Mame, aged 21, pupil of M. Prattler and M. Buret ; and an hononn - ble mention wai given to M. A. Houblemard, of WI.. vins, department of the Aisne, aged 1.7, pupil of M. Buret. AT THE (IRAN!) OPERA IN PARIS, which has just reopened with the Huguenots, there will shortly he presented a new ballet, the Atellanes, for Mine. Privra, and an opera in two acts, the Master of Sing ing, by the Belgian composer, Lemnander; the Nonne Nanglante, by Scribe and Gounoil ; and the Ex-Afrienine of Meyerbeer, with a new libretto. It is probal•le the Italian Opera will not reopen this winter. The new opera by Meyerbeer, the North Star, will positively be performed next winter at the OpCra Comique. Os October 18th there will open at Weimar an exhibition of pictures by Lucas Cranach and persons who were in relation with him, portraits,,Ve. Tlw product) is to be applied to the restoration of the monuments of the old German masters. T tit: railway line between Norrkiiping and Link'- ping will not be proceeded with at present. The other Swedish railway schemes depend upon the reception they may meet with in the approaching Diet: Du. hiss's PASIPIILET against the lc andy-drinlitp, which is now consuming Sweden has been reprinted ; 121,000 copies have be•'n &head disposed of, the largest number ever sold in Sweden, if we except the Catechism, and Almsume. CoccEtt, worn next the skin, is again spoken of in Sweden as a specific against the cholera. It is laid that no coppersmith in Sweden has ever died of this disease. THE FEENsuonn 'RAILWAY iS lad approaching completion. It will probably be opened this autumn, although the stations will tot be quite ready. THE REMOVAL. OF THE SCHOOL OF DENION FRAM 50mW4E1.41014): has now commenced. 1/tiring the last few weeks the school, with its ornamental (lists, anti various artistic apparatus for teaching, has been gradually transferred from the rooms formerly occu pied by the loyal Academy, which are now given up to the negistrar-General of Births, Deaths, and 111arriages. The school is removed to 'Marlborough house, and will form part of the Central School of Art of the Department of Science anti Art. The several district schools already established in the metropolis, at the Mechanics Institute, Westminster, St. Titolnas, Charterhouse Schools, Finsbury. and about to be established in St. Martin's parish and elsewhere, will supply the elementary instruction in art formerly given at Somerset-house—whilst the higher branches will be taught at Marlborough home. F, .~