The Press.
London, England, 1853-09-17 00:00:00

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unpublished.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

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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; dittoc 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 days 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.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 1553.

THE PROGRESS or THE TELEoRAPH, at home and
abroad, will, it is calculated, soon outstrip the stretch
of the railway system, in consequence of its success
ful submarine extension. The submarine lines now
in daily operation are, the line between Dover and
Calais, .10 miles ; between I►over and Belgium,
miles ; between Orfordnesa, on the coast of Suffolk.
and Holland, 115 miles ; between Donaghadee and
Portpatrick anti the Great anti Little Belts, a
total distance of 255 miles. This extension of the
submarine telegraph is the result exclusively of
English enterprise•, it being a singular fact that no
other European kingdom possesses, or hag promoted
up to the present moment. this magnificent means of
international communication. By the Mediterranean
electric telegraph, contracts for which have just been
entered into, England will be united with France,
Piedmont, Corsica, Sardinia, Algeria, and Egypt—
Europ►e with Africa—the East Indies with Australia.
This, again, is under the auspices of English enter-
prise, with the concurrence and support or the
various foreign Governments. The vast capabilities
that will thus be placed at the command of civilisa-
tion and commerce almost perplex the imagination.
continued from the coast of Africa to Bombay, the
electric link is to be connected with the :000 miles
of telegraph now constructing in the Indian empire.
and thence to Australia, to supply which, some time
since, the Australian Telegraph Company, for com-
munication with India, Van Diemen's Land, and the
whole interior of New South Wales, wag projected,
lint the credit of which appears likely to be taken
from the mother country by cell air Americans, who, it is
said, propose to (14) it. Nearer biome the telegraphic
wires have just been completed between Cork,
Dublin, Belfast, and Killarney. They have within
the last few weeks been carried from Cornhill to the
London Docks, and are being taken on to the end of
Scotland.

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Mn. WILLIAM CHAMBERS is about to proceed to
North America, for the purpose of writing a
descriptive tour through the United 4tate4 and
Canada, and collecting accurate information respect-
ing the condition and prospects of emigrants in these
countries. _

MONSIEUR JULLIEN gave his find. concert in New
York on the '29th ult. The Nese York Herald eon
eludes a long article upon it as follows :—" Altogether
Jullien's first reception by an American audience
must have been highly Nattering to him. His initia-
tory concert was a brilliant triumph, as, we have no
doubt, will be every one of the scrim" - . .

SF.VERAL STATUER, representing some of the kings
and queens of England, have knit been placed on
their allotted pedestals in the recesses of the Central
Hall of the new Palace of Westminster. The statues
are of stone, and have been executed by Mr. Thomas,
of Regent's-park. The sovereigns represented are
Henry IT., Edward 1., and his Queen, Eleanor;
Eleanor, Queen of Henry III.; Isabelle, Queen of
Edward H.; Edward 111., and his Queen, Philippa;
Richard II.; and Henry IV. Several other statues
are nearly completed, and will shortly be placed in
the recesses prepared for them.
Ginsos's STATUE OF THE LATE SIR R. PEET. has
been erected in the north transept of Westminster
Abbey, under the superintendence of the sculptor.
The statue was made at Rome. It is of the life size,
in pure white marble, and stands on a pedestal of
blue-veined marble. The likeness is good, and the
attitude expressive, representing the late statesman
in the act of addressing the Senate, and marking an
emphasis by the pressure of the palm of the left
hand with a scroll which he holds in the right.

MONSIEUR GARRIEL SURF:NNE 'IRS
•completed
n literary tour in France and England, undertaken
ter the purpose of discovering the residences,
cemeteries, and various historical circumstances in
connection witl► the royal houses of the Bruces, from
the first baron to the eighth inclusive. His an-
tiquarian researches have been crowned with suc-
cess. Bruit; or Brix in Normandy, Sawtrey All
Saints in Huntingdonshire, (iiseborough in Cleve
land, and Holm Cultram in Cumberland, besides
several fields of battle under the reign of King
liobert Bruce, have been visited by the learned
t►aveller, with the view of elucidating the history of
the barons, whose careers, as yet, have remained in
the dark.