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From the second report of the Royal Commissioners of the Exhibition of 1851 it appears that they have purchased the Gore House estate, for 61,000/. ; and that, on the assurance that Ministers will contribute a like sum towards carryfng out the views of the Commission, they have pur- chased forty-eight acres of land adjoining Gore House for the sum of 153,0001. They propose to erect a new National Gallery on the Gore Rouse estate ; at the Brompton extremity of the property, an institution like the Commercial Museum or Museum of Manufactures ; and in the intervening space, "a building in which the different societies might pro- cure that juxtaposition, the means for effecting which they have been for several years considering ; while the two sides might be devoted to the departments of Practical Art and Practical Science.

Government has granted the Charter to the Crystal Palace Company, but without authority to open the Palace on Sundays. The prohibition rests on the legal construction of a statute of George the Third, enacted with a very different object. The proposed opening will therefore re- quire the express sanction of Parliament It is decided that Major-General Proctor will have the Ninety-seventh Regiment; and it is very generally supposed that Major-General Sir G. Arthur ill have the Ninety-third Highlanders, vice Lieutenant- General Wemyss.--Globe.

From official documents issued by the Board of Trade we learn, that no vessel whatever will be admitted into the parts of the Argentine Confe- deration, unless her papers shall have been vised by the Argentine Con- sul at the port of clearance, after the expiration of six months from the 13th August, the date of the official notice on the subject

The current obituary records the death of the late Lord B on's daugh- ter, Ada Augusta, Countess of Lovelace. She had been suffering from a painful disease for the last year or two. She was born in 1816, and was therefore in the thirty-seventh year of her age. Her father had reached the same age when he died. In 1835 she was married to Lord King, who was created Earl of Lovelace in 1838. She has left, we believe, three chilriren, who have been much under the care of their grand- mother, thepoet's widow. Lady Lovelace has been long recognized as a distinguished member of literary and philosophic circles ; and she inherited much of her father's mental energy and activity, though her intellectual labours have never been of the poetic kind. She was highly accomplished as well as highly gifted—shone in most things, but excelled in her know- ledge of music, philosophy, and physical sciences. Her death will be sin- terely mourned by many beyond her own family circle.

Solemn and imposing rites for the repose of the soul of the Earl of Bhrewsbury were performed on Monday evening at St. George's Cathe- dral, Lambeth. The Cathedral was crowded by Protestants and Catho- lics, although high prices were charged for seats.

Lieutenant-General Wemyss died at Cumberland Lodge, in Windsor Great Park, on Tuesday morning. He had resided there for the last eleven years, as Clerk Marshal to Prince Albert. He was Equerry in ordinary to the Queen, and Colonel of the Ninety-third Regiment.

The representation of Merthyr Tidvil is vacant, by the decease of Sir John Guest, who died on Friday last week. He was one of the largest ironmasters in Wales.

General Castelbajac, French Minister at St. Petersburg, was received by the Emperor on the 14th November, at a private audience.

The Emperor of Russia has conferred the cross of St. Waldimir on M. de Kisseleff, his Ambassador at Paris. M. de Kisseleff returned to his post this week, and dined with Louis Napoleon.

The King of Prussia attended the funeral of General von Thile last week, at Frankfort-on-Oder.

Count Appony, Austrian Minister at Turin, has been ordered to return to his post from Vienna, where he had been staying.

At the annual meeting of the Royal Society, on Tuesday, the Copley medal was awarded to Baron Humboldt, for his eminent services in Terres- trial Physics.

U. Huve, the architect who completed the Madeleine, has just died, in his eighty-fourth year. M. Huve was one of the senior members of the Institute, and member of the Academy of Beaux Arts.

According to the Spener Gazette, the Medial were to be set at liberty en the 1st of December, at the direct intercession of the King of Prussia, through Count Arnim Blumberg.

It is now reported that the cholera has broken out at St. Petersburg, and is on the increase.

In the pressure upon our space last week, we omitted some new in- cidents in the great plagiary case, Literary Detectives Ver3U8 Disraeli the Younger, Chancellor of her Majesty's Exchequer. The theft from niers and its detection had a sequel ; and the whole is summed up this week in the current number of Fraser's Magazine. Mr. Disraeli found an apolo- gist, in Mr. George Smythe, late Member for Canterbury, and, it appears, a contributor to one of the leading newspapers. The passage from Thiers had been published in the Morning Chronicle of July 4, 1848; and Mr. Smythe now explains that it was communicated by him to that paper, aul to him by Mr. Disraeli six years previously ; Mr. Disraeli having read it fifteen years before that—in the Revue Trimestre, says the Times, but this lax reference is corrected by the painstaking research of the writer in Fraser, who gives the original French from the Revue Francaise. The Times contributed further explanations, and an original apology. The apology amounted to this : Mr. Disraeli, greatly admiring the pas- sage, had committed it to memory ; "it is one of the evils of a well-stored memory that a man cannot help quoting; but nothing destroys the interest of a speech or the confidence of the hearers so much as avowed quotations " ; besides, "Mr. Disraeli found himself in the pas- sage before he had time to affix the proper titlepage, introduction, and table of contents." "Plagiarism had been practised and inculcated by Cicero"; and the indignation was "the mere ebullition of envy in a packet' jealous litterateurs," who ought to have had more consideration for one of their own body ! The discovery suggested other searches, and in Mr. Dis- raeli's novel of Venetia is discovered a page or so from Macaulay's Essays, copied verbatim, but just introduced with the phrase " it has been well ob- served." Possibly further search may be attended by further discoveries. One of the "great" passages of the vituperative orations of 1846 has been traced, we believe, to a pamphlet by poor David Urquhart. The question is mooted, what in Disraeli's works is Disraeli's ?

The Council of the Royal Agricultural Society, under the preeidence of Lord Ashburton, at their monthly meeting in their rooms in Hanover Square, settled the conditions of competition for a prize of 10001. and the gold medal of the Society for the discovery of a manure equal in fer- tilizing properties to Peruvian guano. The competing manure will be judged by the standard of guano, ascertained by Professor Way - and no claim for the prize will be entertained, unless it be shown that an un- limited supply of the manure can be obtained at a price not more than and within the reach of the agriculturists of the United Kingdom.

A few years ago—say, even this day five years—M. Louis Napoleon Bona- parte was three years in arrear of rent in the parish of St. James. He could not pay his tailor's, or his upholsterer's, or his wine-merchant's bill, or meet one-half of his engagements in the City or in the West-end.—Fraser's Ma- gazine for December.

Dr. Joel Parker, of New York, has commenced an action against the au- thoress of Uncle Tom's Cabin for defamation ; damages laid at 20,000 dol- lars. It is stated that Dr. Joel Parker, on hearing the mention Mrs. Stowe had made of his name as the author of an atrocious sentiment, wrote to her, offering proof that she had been misinformed, and that he was not the au- thor of that sentiment. Mrs. Stowe made no reply until a third letter elicited from her the assertion that she had documentary evidence of the truth of her statement. Hereupon Dr. Parker commenced his action.

The executors of the will of the late Mrs. Mary Raiford, of Newcourt, near Exeter, have just paid the following munificent charity legacies left by her will. The Deaf and Dumb Institution 1000/. ; the Blind Institution, 10001.; the Exeter Diapensary, 1000!.; the Exeter Eye Infirmary, 10001.; and the Governesses Benevolent Institution, London, 10001.; all free of legacy- duty.

The Corporation of London have acceded to a request from the Crystal Palace Company for the materials of the crypt of Gerard's Hall taken up for the new line of street ; and we may expect, therefore to Bee it reorected at Sydenham.— The Builder.

Mr. George Howson, Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, a young man but a ripe scholar, who was much esteemed in his College, has come by his death from an accident while riding in Parker's Piece. His horse, usually a quiet one, started off, dashed close by a tree, and Mr. Howson's head struck against the trunk : the unfortunate gentleman died next day, of concussion of the brain.

The use of iron casks had been introduced at Liverpool for the palm-oil trade and other purposes. The advantages are, economy of space and pre- vention of leakage. An iron cask, it is said, occupying the space of a wooden one of 160 gallons, will hold 214 gallons.

0 Galignani s Messenger says that several of the fashionables of St. Peters- burg lately conceived the idea of smoking green tea instead of tobacco ; and at all the tobacco-shops in that capital cigarettes made of it may now be purchased.

A few days ago, as some men were making the necessary excavations for the sewerage in a field below the Ormskirk parish-church, on the Southport road, one of the men found a mussel lodged in a bed of sand, about six feet from the surface. The fish was alive and healthy. The sand in which it was found was of a light and porous nature similar to that on the sea-shore, and quite unlike the soil by winch it was surrounded. It must have been lodged there for a vast number of years.—Freston Pilot.

There resides in Castlewellan, in the county Down, a poor idiot, whose mother died, and was buried, about five weeks ago, in Bryansford churchyard. The helpless lad was evidently deeply affected by the loss which he had sustained; and last week, conceiving that his fond parent had not been interred as she ought to have been, and that her body was floating in water under the soil, he proceeded with wheelbarrow and spade to the grave dis- interred the remains, and carried them away. The operation was witnessed by several neighbours ; who, when they attempted to interferes were obliged to withdraw, the idiot threatenine their lives,—imagining, it is believed, that they had some interest in the body, and were resolved at all hazards to obtain it. The parties in question, finding they were unable to restrain him, gave immediate information to the Police; and in a short time, the unfor- tunate, who had the coffin placed on the wheelbarrow, and was on his way with it to the mountains, was arrested, and obliged to return. He was subsequently allowed, under surveillance, to carry off his wonderful burden; and it is stated that, during three days and nights he proceeded in the manner described, among and over the mountains in the neighbourhood ; that he dug three graves, which did not seem to satisfy him; and that, eventually, exhausted by fatigue, he reached Rostrevor, where he had the remains decently and carefully interred.—Belfast Banner.