The Press.
London, England, 1853-09-03 00:00:00

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GOTHA INDUSTRIAL EXIIIIIITION.—Saxe Gotha is
acquiring some importance under its reigning Sove-
reign (brother of Prince Albert). The present in-
dustrial and art exhibition attracts thousands of
visitors, who, there can be no doubt, derive some ad-
vantage, at least instruction, from this sight. On
amount of the great interest shown by even foreign
exhibitors, the time of admission for industrial %peel-
11101K has been prolonged to the list of September.
.IKrx FLousex IN PnovnNcg.—On the t2lst of
August some eighty Provencal poets, amongst whom
were several ladies, held a meeting at the Town-hall
of Aix, where a number of poems in that dialect
were recited. They intend to revive the ancient
Comm d'Amour and Jeux Fier:tux, which, in the
middle ages, shed so much lustre on the land of
Provence'.

Seii,'ol.s AND noSPITAL AT JERUSALEM.—The
establishment of a Protestant bishopric in the Hebrew
metropolis has been already followed by the most
beneficial results. The inhabitants, to whatever
religious profession they might have previously be-
longed, can now read the Bible without molestation.
There are already two schools of Vroti?stant children
at Jerusalem, numbering nearly one hundred pupils
of both sexes. The hospital, also, attended by the
Prussian Protestant Sisters of Mercy, is doing
mense good.
HOMAN WALLS IN ENGIAND AND GEnium.—The
eombined German historical and antiquation 11.450-
ehitions hove convened a general meeting at Nitrem
berg, which will be presided over by Prince John of
Saxony. As English archaeologists have of late
visited Germany for the sake of examining the limes
imperii Romani, viz., those Roman walls erected
against the encroachment of the German aboriginal
inhabitants, the central association has nonutiated nn
especial commission to examine these remnins ; and
they have published a number of queries and in-
structions on the subject of the limes imperil, the
solution of which will east much light on the history
both of the English and Gentian monuments.
CoLosso. MosumEsT Ilt.rrtmo.-09 the •214th
ult. this monument was inaugurated at Erieblowits,
in Silesia. in presence of the King of Prussia. It
consists of a square, measuring at its base eighteen
feet, but tapering upwards. The intsrior of the

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structure has the form of a cross, and is lined
throughout with large slabs of granite. This
forms the mortuary chamber of the defunct tiele.
marshal, and is shut by two huge doors of cast
and wrought iron. Above rises around tower-shaped
structure, in the front of which the colossal marble
bust of Blucher is placed in a niche, a masterly work
by Professor Rauch. An immense balustrade sur-
rounds the whole stucture, and a slab of seventeen
and a half feet diameter serves as a roof to the monu-
ment. The entire height of the whole is thirty-six
feet. 'lt is formed of huge granite slabs front the

quarries of Staehlen.
AMMONIA VONTAINED IN RAIN-WATER, SPPINGS, AND
SNOIC—M. Botufflingault, of the French Institute,
has of late made experiments on the presence
of ammonia in rain and other water, which are of
some importance to agriculture, ke. It appears that
the greatest quantity of ammonia is contained in rain-
water. Some that had fallen on the roof of the Patis
Observatory yielded 4 milligrnmmes in the French litre,
while the water of the rivers does not contain 1-10th
milligramme in the same quantity. Known as it is
that snow atfords a protecting covering for young
crops and other tender plants, the observation is of
importance that snow gathered after lying 30 hours
on some fields yielded ten times more ammonia than
that gathered immediately after it had fallen.
AT Pommt, in the street loading to the theatre.:,
three human skeletons, belonging apparently to the
same family, were recently discovered, and near to
them the skeleton of a dog, which had probably re-
fused to abandon his masters at the moment of peril.
They were trying to escape the terrible eruption,
bearing with them a great quantity of silver and
bronze coins in a linen hag. One of the skeletons
is that of a young girl, probably the daughter of the
two others, and a flirt, to judge from the jewels 1 y
which she is yet adorned. She had put on all her
rings, of which two are gold. They had nearly suc-
ceeded in their flight, but were overtaken by the
burning torrent below the l'orta Stable, and died
together holding each other tightly embraced.
THE TRIENNIAL ART EXHIBITION was opened at
Munich on August 25, the birthday of King Louis of
Bavaria. The day was also commemorated by the
conferring of the grand cross of the Order of Merit
of the Bavarian Crown on the Nestor of naturalists,
Alexander von Humboldt, at Berlin.
MANY TRACER of' ancient Roman establishments
have been recently discovered on the Rhine, espe-
cially in the vicinity of Niederheimbach. A whole
group of Roman tombs has been found at Vreelt-
tingshausen ; some were opened, and led to the dis-
emery of a considerable quantity of rings and col-
lars ; NO coins, mostly of the era of the Roman em-
perors, were found at Sonneck.
M. WOLFGANG KAMEN has exhibited at Berlin a
cyclorama of the civilisation of all nations, with tau;
most important epochs and monuments of their his.
tory. It is 1,500 feet in length.
A RECENT TRAIT OF BIGOTRY has given rise to a
good proof of artistic comradeship. The celebrated
Uerman sculptor, Rauch, had completed for the Pro-
testant church at Arolsen, his native town, four
statues representing the cardinal virtues, Prudence,
Strength, Temperance, and Justice; the church-
wardens refused to admit them because they did not
seem sufficiently Christian. The not less celebrated
painter, Cornelius, on knowing the decision, refused
to deliver up the two large pictures he had just
finished on command for the same church. The
wardens were obliged to submit, and both statues
and pictures will go from Berlin to Arolsen.
THE GRAND DUKE OF SALE WEIMAR has engage
Professor Schwind, at Munich, to decorate with
historical frescoes the Castle of the Wartburg at
Eisenach, which the sojourn of Luther has rendered
celebrated. The work will comprise three halls, and
occupy Professor Schwind during three years.
THE LONG-EXPECTED MEMOIRS BY VERON have
begun to be printed. The work is entitled "The
Memoirs of a Bourgeois of Paris, by Dr. Louis
Veron." They are to comprise the end of the hist
empire, the restoration, the monarchy, the gown -
ment of July, the republic, and the restoration of
the empire. To excite public attention the cicver
doctor will have his work preceded by a special chap-
ter e-ntaining his own life, entitled " Who I am,"
and in which he promises to show in their month g
ymens a host of political and literary notabilities, la
Lamartine, Alexander Dumas, Eugene Sue, °cone
Sand, Louis Napoleon, Thiers, tae.
A MixEnvtootest. CELEBRITY on the Continent,
Councillor Karsten, has just died at Berlin.
AT one of the last representations of " 17n4 le
Tom's Cabin," at Bale, in Switzerland, the directs r,
M. Loewe, who was the impresario of an unlucti
troop of singers in London some years ago, wee
wounded by an accidental shot and died some how a
after.
A GRAND SAM: OF PICTURES is announced for oito-
her at Brussels, comprising the rich collection of
one of the best amateurs in Belgium, and authentic
pictures by Rubens, Teniers, Jan Steen, Ostade, Bcr
ghem, Both, Wouvermans, To these may be added