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New Prints.

THE first picture engraved for the members of the Art Union of London, is the clever one by WILLIAM SIMSON, a young artist of greit talent, representing a Canialdolese Monk......

Fine Arts.

PICTURE-BUYING FOR THE PEOPLE. INTELLIGENCE of the purchase by Government, for the National Gal- lery, of Mr. BECHFORD'S famous little RAFFAELLE, the Saint Catherine, which he......

Mr. Parris's Picture Of The Coronation.

Ms. PARRIS has made a very effective picture of the gorgeous spectacle of the Coronation of Queen VICTORIA in Westminster Abbey, viewed in the light of a court pageant: it has......

Publications Received.

BOOKS. The Life of Edward Gibbon, .Esy., with Seleethms pun his Correspon- dence, and Illustrations. By tbe Rev. MB. 3.1irsiAN, Prebendary of St. Peter's, &c. Histo r i ca l Sk......