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found in the humbleiot habitations. The cotwtry is very
rich in Paleotheria t tapir like annuls's), so touch so
that iu one single excavation 20.000 teeth have been
found. Great interest Was excited by the exhibition of
the skulls of two antediluvian men t Ur-Nlettschenh
which presented a strange strneture of teeth. Alla
conformation of skull far different front that of the Or
Cassian race (!). lint there are to he riallid
Of a human race still older than this ; and there are
teeth which have been found in the seams of ore
littlin-erzen) of these mountains. Professor Frans
stated that he saw no WaSoll Why at this most re-
title period of the globes formation. men should not
have as well existed. are there e‘isted all conditions
for his life and SllSienlinee.

PARIS At•CIWINV OF• ARM—This branch 44' the
Institute of France has decreed the prizes of paint-
ing for this present year, but no tiNt great pnze was
considered to have been desericil. 'the littltioct prti►-
posed was Christ driving the money-changers out of
the Temple. The second grout prties were given to
pupilsof MM. Delaroche and Flandrin. The
tion of all the tu•t objects to which prizes Were de-
emed by the Academy. conjointly with the ,peei
menu sent by the Academy pupils at Rome. will Is'
exhibited during this week in the /wale of the Eisele
des Beaux Arts.

AGGREOATE MEETING or GERMAN NATI itAtisTs.—
On the 19th Sept. this association. instituted in Ist3
by ()ken, and being the prototype of all others of the
sante kind, began its meetings at Tubingen. On
the receipt of the member's tickets, a well-compiled
description of that town outtl its environs seas handed
to the savants—a custom which deserves commen
dation. The principal memoirs read were—Quenstedt
on the geognostie position of Wurtemburg ; Schulz
on the development of the science of natural history
up to the middle of the sixteenth century ; 11r. Moll
on historical medicine, dc.
MME. STOLTZ. who in at present singing at Flu
rence, has been engaged for the next season by the
impresario Giaeeone.
MAIE. CABEI., n young Belgian artist, will shortly
make her dibut at the Theatre Lyrique at Paris.
Roger and 9lme. Tedeseo have made their rentre
at the Opera in Mt yerbeer's Prophet. Temberlik
and Mme. Lagrange have left for Petersburg. and
will lie followed by Lablache. birth!. rgalde has
left for Nice and Italy.
A Niw DRAMA in the 9111110 strain as the Pak* de
Marbre, and called The Hells qf Paris, has been per
formed in Paris. It is by Roger de Beauvoir and
Lambert Thiboust. It is a success.
A GRAND PomoLooma. Exult:twos is to take
place at Naumbourg between the 10th and 1:Ith of
October. South tiermany. Bavaria, Wurtemlierg.
Baden, and Alsace have sent their produce.
JoIIANNt WAGNER made her What at Viemot iu
ftellini'a Romeo. Her success was not rater great.
dime. Marlow, on the contrary, who played the part
of Juliet, was called bair times—after her death.
IT is affirmed that Mme. Goldschmith, late Jenny
Lind, proposes to return to the awe.
A tiat.AT MuSIcAL FESTIVAL will take piece at
Carlsnthe on October 3, with the orchestras and
choruses of the theatres at Darmstadt, Mannheim,
and Carlsruhe, all under the direction of Fran/
IT is stated that the basso. M. Formes. will shortly
lead to the hymeneal altar Miss Areon, an actress at
he Berlin theatre.
Tilt; LAwsos OusEavATuav Puma has been aug-
mented by a munificent subscription of '2OO guineas
from Prince Albert. On Tuesday last the aggregate
amount of donations exceeded 7:NW—leaving only
2,300/. to be collected.
A CONVENTION OW LIBIURIANN bait been assem-
bled at New York, "for the purpose of conferring
togs titer upon the means of advancing the prosperity
and usefulness of public libraries, and for the sug-
gestion and discussion of topics of importance to
book collectors and readers." _ .

THE EMPEROR „ IoF ItUbSIA had decided thnt the
ukase which interdicts the Jews from e‘tabli,liing
themselves in the towns on the eastern show of the
Black Sea dues nut apply to the srel. of the haraisu
(Tnlmudists). _ _

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THE EMPEROR or ArsTRIA has conferred the Cro4lll
of the chevalier of the Hungarian order of St. SW
phen on 31 ujor de K urger, to whose exertions is owing
the discovery of the Illingariaii regalia. .

A SCRMAUINE rixoß %Hi has-been projected to
connect an Diemen's Land with Australia, in con-
nection with a line to Melbourne.
SwEntsit 11‘11.WAVs.—Mr. Lionel tiisls,rne, civil
engineer, in the service of lox, liender,on, and
company, has arrangc.l a contract with the Mahno
Railway Society. according to which lie has engaged
to deliver them by the 12th of January, P 454, on pay-
ment of 2,0001., complete sections and estimates for,
1. A railway line from Mahal' in Sweden. through
Lund, south and east of Ringsji*b towards .16nkOping ;
2. A line from Lund, west and north.west of
Ringsjii to Lake Fiala; 8. A line from Ystiul, to h..
connected with the one from Mahon. to Finja lake ;
4. A line from Liebiogbarg toward* Liapja.

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'fur I.llnaing singithir diaeovery has been made
en the small Danish island This little spot
is situated 141 wesen the islands of Thor.eng and
Fuhnen. some people. obsening near a le%
holes in the ground %etersl coins lying about, com
incliced digging up the soil close thereto, when. to
their surprise, they found the remain: of a leathern
bag, which had been decorates) with gull oraiments.
in which, and round shout it, were a iniatiiity of
broken necklaces mil lancelets of silver of very
etiri tttt s workmanship, and vs) pieces ll'. silver coins.
These coins in part cemented on the ~hverse aide
the bust Of some person, with the inscription, " Adel
red Rx Anglo:" and on the reverse a cross, with an
inscription which AS yet has not been made out. It
is thought these coins lielongi•il to some IN►rtiun of
the " 1)&41(4/eh " imy wlkiell King •• I.'.thelreit the
'nwhie," at the eimehision of the 10th ventury , sought
to compromise the devestating incursn. is of the
Danish King " Svc'( Tveskjog,'' Besides these
'stilts there Were others. hearing Byzantine and Latin
inscriptions, with busts and bishops' mitres on them.
In all there are :10 different sorts of coin found, all of
which will be ferwanleil to the Ancient Northern
Museum at Copenhagen.
Tim inuillwr of literary institutions in union with
the Society of Arts n • amounts to :NW During the
quartet just completed seventeen institutions have
joined the iustillit