There has been very recently found, at the shop of a butcher, a considerable portion of a very fine copy of the first edition of Aristotle's Works, printed by Aldus, at Venice, in 1497, and also fragments of other works of less rarity, but still of considerable value.

The Athenaeum says that a new Catalogue has been added to the shelves of the reading-room of the British Museum, of some 2,000 Pamphlets belonging to the Royal Library, which were presented to the nation more than thirty years ago, and the existence of which was made known to the public on the 5th of January last. A catalogue was made of them fifteen years ago, but chiefly for the use of the librarians. This catalogue has been revised and re-copied, and is now accessible to the public. The collection contains, besides a great number published during the reigns of Charles I and II, James II, and George I and II, all the most important pamphlets written during the reign of George III, on trade, commerce, finance, administration, and politics generally. It embraces also, an immense number of tracts, placards, statutes, &c., in Dutch and French, having reference to Spanish rule in the Netherlands. The old collection of King's Pamphlets, known to bibliographers as the "Thomason Collection," was made during the reign of Charles I and the Commonwealth. After experiencing a variety of vicissitudes, it was purchased by George III, who presented it to the British Museum Library. It is catalogued in MSS., in 12 small volumes, folio. On the fly-leaf of the first volume is written, "Actions that may be presidents to posteritie ought to have their records; and doe merit a most carefull pre servation." The tracts are entered according to

their sizes.

Mr. Jolley's collections, recently sold, contained some curious works. The first lot which attracted much attention consisted of thirteen tracts on the famous rabbit case of Mary Tofts, the pretended rabbit mother: they were bound in rabbit skin, and brought £3. Painter's "Palace of Pleasure," Garrick's copy with his autograph, brought £18. Hakluyt's "Navigation and Discoveries of the English Nation," a copy containing the suppressed "famous voyage of Sir Francis Drake into the South Seas, in 1577," brought £19. Garrick's celebrated Cup, made of the mulberry-tree planted by Shakspeare, sold

ity in North-western India."

The Cambridge Seatonian prize poem for 1855 is to be the "Plurality of Worlds." The value of the prize is £40.

Sir E. B. Lytton has addressed the London Critic the following letter, which tells its own story:

Museum of Ethnography.

A French paper states that Lord Brougham has placed the following inscription over the

entrance door of his chateau at Cannes:

"Inveni portum; spes et fortuna, valete;

Satis me lusistis; ludite nunc alios." That is, "I have reached my haven; hope and SIR:-In the Critic of December 15th, I read fortune, farewell; you have sported with me enough; now find another dupe." Lord that a New York paper states, "that, Bulwer, the novelist, in a letter to a gentleman at Bos- Brougham's French neighbors construe this as ton, says: 'I have closed my career as a writer "an announcement of his intention to retire • of fiction. I am gloomy and unhappy. I have from public life, and to pass the remainder of expended the powers of life, chasing pleasure his days among them in the genial climate of where it is not to be found.'" Assuming "Bulwer, the novelist" to be myself' I beg to state that I know no gentleman in Boston to whom I should write upon any matter concerning myself-that I never wrote any thing of the sort to any one-and that the whole statement is a complete fabrication.

Var."

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Coll. Nicholas Bayard, in the Province of New York, for supposed high treason, 1704. Collected from several memorials taken by divers persons privately, the Commissioners having strictly prohibited the taking of trial in open Court. Folio 17, 44. 1702, New York. ACTS and Laws of his Majesty's Colony of Connecticut, in New England. Folio. Boston, 1702,

The correspondent of the "Tribune" says:The article by Carlyle in the current number of the Westminster gives the lie to the report that AN ACCOUNT of the illegal Prosecution and Tryal of the great man had declared it to be his intention to deposit his future writings as manuscripts, sealed, in the Record Office or some such place, not to be produced for some two or three thousand years, when the world may be sufficiently enlightened to receive them with benefit and MEMORIAL of the present deplorable state of New Eng profit. Let us hope that old Fritz is not to be caged in such a manner.

The new edition of Tennyson's Poetical Works is to be illustrated by such artists as Malais, Stanfield, Creswick, Rosetti, and others. Each poem is to have one or more illustrations. •

land, under Joseph Dudley, Esq. 4to. Boston, 1707. THE REDEEMED CAPTIVE, returning to Zion: a faithful history of remarkable occurrences in the captivity and the deliverance of Mr. John Williams, minister of the Gospel, în Deerfield; whereto there is annexed a sermon preached by him upon his return, at the Senate in Boston, December 5, 1706. 8vo. 1 v. 104. Boston. THE LAWS of the Province of Pennsylvania, collected into one volume. Folio. Phila. 1716.

ACTS AND LAWS Passed in New England. Folio. Bos

ton, 1716.

ARTE de la Lengua Mexicana, par F. Francisco de Avila.

Relacion de la sorpecha hedra por los Franseses de la Morila en el Castillo de San Carlos, y punto de Liguenza. Sinall 4to. pp. 8. Mexico, 1719.

PRIZE FOR ASTRONOMY AWARDED.-At a recent sitting of the Paris Academy of Sciences the prize for Astronomy was divided amongst MM. Luther, belonging to the observatory of Blik, near Dusseldorf; Marth, attached to Bishop's observatory at London; Hind, belonging to the same observatory; Ferguson, attached to the ob- A VINDICATION of the Ministers of Boston, from the servatory at Washington; Hermann Goldschmidt, historical painter; and Chacornac, attached to the observatory at Paris-each of these persons having discovered a small planet in 1854. The prize in Physiology was awarded to Prof. Müller, of Berlin, whose physiological labors have been lately crowned by the Royal Society awarding to him the Copley medal.

Abuses and Scandals lately cast upon them in diverse printed papers. By some of their People. Svo. Boston, 1722.

GENERAL Aclamacion de la lealtad Mexicana; en la mas

solemne jura del luminar mas flamante el Señor del Luis I. Por Don Patricio Antonio Lopez, Cazique de uno de los valles de Antequera. 4to. pp. 8. Mexico. ACTS of the Assembly of New York, from 1691 to 1725.

Folio. New York, 1726.

THE HISTORY of the Five Indian Nations depending on the Province of New York. By Cadwallader Colden. 1727, New York.

The Athénaum Français draws attention to the fact of a quantity of spurious Greek manu- BRIEF HISTORY of the Pequot War, especially of the scripts being in the market, and warns librarians

and collectors.

memorable taking of the Fort of Mistich, in Connecticut, in 1037. By John Mason, with an introduction and notes, by Thomas Prince. 8vo. Boston, 1736. AN APOLOGY for the liberties of the Churches in New England; with a discourse concerning Congregational Churches. By Samuel Mather. 8vo. Boston, 1738. SOME MEMOIRS of the First Settlement of the island of Barbadoes and other Carribbec islands, extracted from ancient records. Svo. pp. 108. Barbadoes, 1741. REPORT of the Committee of the House of Assembly of the Province of South Carolina, appointed to inquire into the causes of the disappointment of success in the late expedition against St. Augustine, under General Oglethorpe. Folio. Charleston, 1742.

Chateaubriand received for the publication, in the feuilletons of one of the daily papers, of his Memoires d'Outre Tombe, £3,884, or a little more than £20 for each feuilleton. Lamartine received £2,000 for his Confidences, or £18 4s. per feuilleton. To George Sand, for the History of Her Life, now in course of publication in a Paris newspaper, £5,200 have been paid; and it is probable that her remuneration will be greater than that of either of her distinguished contem-IN poraries.

A proposal is entertained by the French Minister of Public Instruction, to add to the depart

CHANCERY,-Breviate. John Penn, Thomas Penn and Richard Penn, Esqrs, Plaintiffs; Charles Calvert, Esq., Lord Baltimore, in the kingdom of Ireland, Defendant. Royal folio, pp. 116, and two maps, Phila, 1742.

WORK OF GRACE among the Indians of New Jersey and Pennsylvania. By the Rev. David Brainard. 8vo. Phila, 1746.

CHRONICA APOSTOLICA y Seraphica de todos los Colegies de Propaganda fide de Esta Nueva España, de Misioners Franciscans Observantes por Escrita por el B. P. F. Isidro Felis de Espinora and Parte Primera. Folio, pp. 590. Mexico, 1746.

PLAIN TRUTH, or Sericus Considerations at the present state of the City of Philadelphia, and the Province of Philadelphia. By a Tradesman. 8vo. Phila. 1747.

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