Glasgow Courier. — 1866-01-11 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

SCIENCE, LITERATURE AND ART.  Nicolai's II Templaio is in preparation at the Italian Opera in Paris, _  Gustave Doi e has undertaken to illustrate Tennyson's Idylls of the King. It is said Dean Alford is the editor of the new "Contemporary Review." The Era contradicts the report as to the death of Airs Charles Dillon, the actress. " Half-hours with Sir D. Brewster" is the title of Professor Pepper's new entertainment. Signor Verdi is writing a new opera for the Grand Opera on the subject of Schiller's Don Carlos. M. Leon Duprez, son of the redoubtable tenor, is about to make his first appearance in Paris as a baritone. A translation of Beethoven's collected letters, including those recently disinterred by Dr Von Kochel, by Lady Wallace, is announced. Dr Jeaffreson, who was formerly resident medical officer to the London Fever Hospital, has recommenced his letters on the causes of fevers and epidemics. . . _ _ _  It is stated that orders have been issued that the Trajan column, in bronze, which has been deposited in segments in the Louvre, sh9ll be erected in the centre of the Court of Napoleon 111. A Paris architect, M. Osselen, borrowing the idea from the Romans, has invented a brick which hardens with time; completely resists humidity, and is said to realise an economy of forty . per cent in building. _ _ _ _ _ _  • A. magnificent ccillection of Assyrian f;s reliefs, from the palace of Nimroud, presented to the Mu.ee Imperial by M. Delaporte, the French Consul-General, has quite recently been placed in he galleries of the Louvre. M. Lacroix, the publisher of Proudhon's "Commentary on the Bible," is to be prosecuted by the Government for spreading freethinking tendencies in the couotry, and it is said that be will be banished from France.  An enterprising lace maker has propounded the question why the colours of lace should be confined to black and white. He proposes a daring innovation, and offers Chantilly lace of various colours to suit all tastes and complexions. The Cotta'sche Morgenblatt, the well-known periodical founded by Jean Paul, and to which Goethe, Voss, the two Schlegels, Schelling, Hegel, and many other German literary men were contributors, ceased to exist on Christmas Eve. It was founded on the Ist January, 1807.  M. Emile de Girardin has returned to Paris; his friends assert that he is about to break his long silence by a series of letters in the Presse, which will bear the title of " Lettres d'un Mort." The first one will be on the delicate subject of "the French Government and political parties." It will be remembered that M. de Girardin adopted the same title in 1861, when replying to M. Clement Duvernois' pamphlet "Un Suicide Politique." According to La Presse, a rather interesting discovery has been made by MM. Farwooth and Pizzicani, in the course of their excavations near Tripoli. A search for Greek or Roman remains has eventually led to the turning up of a tenement forming a complete Jewish household, such as were in existence two centuries before the Christian era. Some of the apartments are in a remarkable state of preservation, the domestic utensils being such as were commonly found in the Nile Valley. It is further stated that Hebrew rolls of the Pentatouch and the Psalms are still recognisable besides a volume of original Jewish poetry utterly unknown to Oriental scholars. What truth there may be in such a startling, announcement may be shortly ascertained by the London Asiatic Society, to which the relics have been forwarded.