11 JUNE 1859, page 13

South Kensington Museum.

An addition of considerable interest will, we understand, be shortly made to the oriental objects of art exhibited in this collection. Lord El- gin is about to lend various......

The Practical Benefits Of Parliamentary Reform.

Sin—I have always looked upon the Spectator as preeminently a practi- cal paper, and I doubt not the late Sir Robert Peel did the same, as many of his measures were clearly out......

Instantaneous Photography.

A lecture was delivered on Wednesday afternoon at No. 5, Haymarket by Mr. Skaife of Vanburgh House, Backheath, upon a new method of employ- ing the art of photography. beveral......

Irttuo To 4t Elam.

THE HAPSBITRORS AND THE SIDONIAS. Sin—The Right Honourable Chancellor of the Exchequer remarks, in one of his cleverest politico-theological works, that "The Jews, indepen- dent......

Births.

On the 31st of May, at Ryde, Isle of Wight, the Wife of Commander J. D. M'Crea, R.N. St. Jean d'Acre, of a son. On the 91st, at the Glen, Peebleashire, N.B., Mrs. Tennant, of a......