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Life In Central America..

Mt. GEORGE BYANI is a ci-devant officer of the Forty-third, who appears to have passed some years in Chili in the superintendence of mines and searching for metals. His reasons......

The Arts, Royal Academy Exhibition: Historical Pictures....

be said that there is no historical picture in the exhibi- tion, except Mr. Patten's Destruction of Idolatry in England; so far do the others of a cognate class stand either......

Publications Received.

BOOKS. Mornings among the Jesuits at Rome. Being Notes of Conversations held with certain Jesuits on the subject of Religion in the City of Rome. By the Reverend M. Hobart......