EDINBURGH ART Exiirarrams.—The example of the London, Paris, find other
exhibitions of more extended scope, is to be followed in Edinburgh by an art-manufacture exhibition to commence in the National Gallery there in December. An association has recently been formed in Seed...rad, under the presidency of the Duke of Hamilton, for the encouragement of art as ap- plied to objects of utility and ornament. For the first exhibition a. large number of articles have been already promised from English houses, as well as by Scottish artificers and manufacturers. The association is also an art- • union for the encouragement of art, by purchasing objects, exhibited, to be balloted for by dubseribers. Improvements in articles of desiiestic ornament are among.the specified objects of the association, with the view of diffusing a-taste for household art. The promoters of the society look especially to "the encouragement of- design, and perfection of execution, as applied to bronzes, carvings in wood, metal, or ivory, to porcelain, glass, textile fa- brics, and other materials susceptible of receiving the aid of high art in their productions."—Literary Gazette.
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