PUBLICA.TIONS RECEIVED.

The History of the Papal States, from their Origin to the Present Day. By the Reverend John. Miley, D.D., Author of Rome under Pagan- ism and the Popes." In three volumes.

Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellanaons. By Archibald Alison, LLD., Author of the " llistory- of Europe," &c. -Volume I.

,More Verse and Prose 'vac Corn-law Ithyoner.1 In two volumes, Vo- lume IL The IVays of the Hour. By d Fenimore Cooper, Author of " The Red Rover,' ecc. In three volumes.

The Life and Character of &<. Job:. the.Eva»gelist. By the Reverend Francis Trench, Incumbent of St. jOhnis, Beading.

[Too little is known of any of the Apostles to furnish sufficient materials for a

life," where the biographer disreg,ards idle or unsvarrauted traditiens; nu. less perhaps it be in the case of PauL Their characters and the incidents connected with some of the principal Apostles are remarkable enough to offer a fair field for biographical commentary, either parery religious or with a mixture of general criticism. This biographical commentary is the ohs- raster of Mr. Trench's new- publication on the Life of St. John. Each air- aumstance in Scripture, and the most probable circumstances from tradition, are taken up and discussed in reference to the personal character of the Apostle, the religions truths they contain, and the probability of the facts when they are doubtfid in their nature. In carrying- out his object, Mr. Trench clisplavs a thorough azqecrintariee with his subject, a religions but liberal and tolerant spirit ; and hesensibly applies the incidents in the career of the Apostle, where they admit of it.] The Acts of the Apostles r with a Commentary, and Practical and De- votional Suggestions, for Readers and Students of the English Bible: the Reverend F. C. Cook, MA., one of her Majesty's Inspectors of [A very excellent edition of the Achs with explanatory notes, religious re-. &aliens, and introductory matter : the critical exposition drawn from a great variety of sources; the-more religious suggestions-original. Mr. Cook's ob- ject is first, to supply whatever information may be required by the English reader in order to understand the text ; and secondly, to assist him hi draw- ing practical inferences from the word that was given to make us "wise mato salvation " : both of which purposes the book is well adapted to fulfil.] Revelations of Egyptian Mysteries. History of the Creation, &a. With a Discourse on the Maintenance and Acquisition of Health. By Robert- Howard; Practitioner of Medicine. [Among the various "revelations" a Mr. Horan', is one respecting the object of the Pyramids, and another touching the manner in which man's "interference with the mineral kingdom" altered the original form of the earth; which was at first what some of the ancients considered it, a flat cir- cular plain bounded by a wall. He has also found out the true origin of evil: is very•erlilent that man's degeneration has been occasioned by his departure from the vegetable kingdom, whose fruits were appointed far his food, and making use of mineral substance, which had not by the vegetable elaboration been refined, &c. ; and as salt is a substance more likely than any other belonging to the mineral kingdom to have invited to its use, there is 'the greatest reason to believe that the eating a salt did cons saute the act, of transgression alluded to by Moses.").

English Ballade, and other Poems. By Lord John Manners.

[This volume contains fourteen ballads on subjects relating to English his- tory, with several miscellaneous poems. The majority of them are reprints from various publications ; but they will answer the modest hope of the au- thor, and "afford pleasure to some who have not met them before," and to some who have.]

Impediments to the Prosperity of Ireland. By W.Heilson Hancock, LL.D. &c. [A revised shilling edition of pr. Mitneocles examination into the evils of Ireland and his suggestions for their improveinent. This edition has been. judiciously broken down into short chapters, each containing a specific sub- ject; by which means it is more distinctly pnesented to the reader's mincLI Webster'e Royal Bed Book; or Court and jashionable Register. Poe

April 1860. [The sprang edition of this very cheap and useful book, revised for the bene- fit of those who have anything to do with the London season.]

Readings for Railways; or Anecdotes and other Short Stories, &c. To- gether with points of Information on Matters of General Interest By J. B. Syme.

[A volume of miscellaneous selections from modern writers, designed for pass sengers by rail.]

SERIAL. •

Half-hours with the Best Authors. By Charles Knight No I. fith April. [" At the beginning of this month there were issued from the London prets, to be continued in weekly numbers, at a penny and three-halfpence-each, one hundred separate publications. Of these sixty were wholly works of fic- tion [chiefly of the "Jack Shepherd" school]; and eighteen miscellaneous journals, for the most part made up of fiction and ribaldry. * * * The in- fluences of such publications are counteracted by only twenty-two weekly, for the most part mnexious.. Of these7 ten are economical and twelve mis- cellaneous."

Such are the statistics of cheap literature, according to Mr. Charles Knight; and he justly intimates it is not a satisfactory state of things, for even dm most harmless of the publications he has mentioned do not tend to enlarisa

or elevate the taste or understanding of the reader by setting beforestandard composition. To do this is Mr. Knight's object in his Half-lwars with the Best Authors. Every week will furnish its twenty-four three' halfpenny pages of clear close printing, containing seven selections of varying style from our best authors, the seventh from a theological writer of nrica versal acceptation and authority." Each piece will be prefaced by a biographies)

and critical notice, and will extend to three or four pages; furnishing some- thing like half-an-hpues ordinary reading for every day in the week from a number, or for a year from a volume._ _The volume will contain as much reading as six ordinary octavo volumes; it will cost only six 'shillings and six- pence, and will certainly form an excellent seleefien of elegant extracts.]

- Notes and Queries: a Medium of Intercomniunication for Literary Men,

• Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, &e. -` Nos: Ito 23: -

LB. accident we overlooked this periodical_ on its first appearance; and its iJJit to 'scholars, artists, antiquarian; 8r.e., has conducted it to a stage.of lift when it may be said to hare weathered the dangers of infancy, for it has reached the twenty-third week of its age. Tim primary object of Notes and Queries was to revive old Mr. trban in a mode proportioned to the cheap and rapid fashion of the day:. It offered a Medium Where a student could state- his doubts, or ask for- infosmation on any point, no matter how seendugly miuute,.....and. get an answer _thus extending his circle of . ac- luaintance to, thejegned, world, oft ifsrit.4 It was also a place where he might record any -useful fact he met with in his studies, or any criticism his readily-, suggested. Oeeasion, hoifeVe_ ,r has produced some extension of the orie plan. ThoTiliitar numbers have store miseelieneous matter, notes on ooks, original letters, short paper; and learned news. The utility of the work as "-a medium of intercommunication" is of course its first feature, but its numbers also fotm a OA-cotton of curious anecdote and_ gossip. It may be added, that men, of mark are -among its acknowledged- contributors,-as Bel- ton Carney Lord Braybrooke, - Rimbault; Payne Collier, besides many ama- teurs, andltathe alphabet.] • 'J PeasEenmers.'

iflecondliettee. u the Right Honourabk Sir George Gum), Bast., on the Scheme of Mr. W J. For' w M.P., regarded as affecting the Baptis-

mal Question" B Reverend the. eresid William Henry Hoare, M.A.

A Few Words en the Spirit in. which men are meeting the Present Cri- sis in the Church, &c. By the Reverend Edward Monro, ALA., Ittetitabeit of-Hatrow-Weald, Middlesex. '

A Letter-to the Nonourabfiqtiehard threndish, on the recent lodgment of the. COUrt clf Appeal; as affeeting the Doctrine of the Church. By Julius Mertes Hare) •, M.A Archdeacon of Lewes.

The TrUe'Reniay.for the Evils of the Age : a Charge to the Clergy of the Arelideitconry of Lewes, delivered at the ordinary Visitation an 1,819; with Notes, especially on the Educational, Matrimonial, and Reprisal:Us Questions. By Julius Charles Hare, M.A. -A Letter to all Members of the Church. of England. Containing Words of COMMon Sense- for Common People on the "One Baptism for the Remission of- Sins." Bs- the Reverend Alexander Watson, M.A.

Substance. of _a•-.Speech- delivered -before the Judicial Committee of the Priog Council; au Monday thell7th and Tuesday the 18th of Deceni- . ber.1.813,tman an Appeal in a cause of Duplex Querela, between the Reverend George Cornelius Gorham, Clerk,. Appellant, and the Right - Reverend-Lord Bishop of Exeter Respondent. With an Introduction. By Eths'ard Badeloy, Esq., M.A., Barrister-at-law. - A ..Utter to the Reverend Noel Thomas Ellison, Rector of Ilunthpill and NettIeeombe; See. By the Reverend E. Douglas Tinling, H.M. In- spector of Schools for the South-westorn District. • VW First .Appendix to Mr. Turner-'e Letter to- the- Bishop of Masa- ; cheater ; consisting of six letters on the Collegiate Church of Man- chester% , add-eased principally to Henry Charlewood, Esq, of Man- chester.

Speech in the ..7.1ouse of Commons of W. J. Fox, Esg.,N.P., on National Education 4' with a copy of his . Bill for its Promotion.. Don't Tax, hat Untaz:, the Dtoollings of the Poei% By G.. Pealed

Scrope, ALP.

The General Malaria of London" and the Peculiar .Kalaria of _Pimlico, vestigated ; and the Iffeansof their Vi•onann-carRemoval ascertained.

By Andrew tire, &c.

• On the State of the Law of Arbitrement, and Proposed Tribunal of Commerce. A letter to '1'. H. Horsfall, Mq.' President of the Liver- poet Chamber of Commerce, &o. By Leone LeYi., Chambers and Tribunals of Commerce, and Proposed General Chamber of Commerce. in Liverpool. lity- Leone Levi. - Vie Foreign Debt of Mexwo ; being- the Report of a Special hassion to that State, undertaken on behalf of the Bondholders. By W. Parish Robertson.

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Metropolitan Water Supply, ,Present and Milli' 6 ; Four Letters V

the Daily News" :Newspaper. By John Londe Tabberner..

A MicroseopleEvamination,of the Ti miter supplied to time Inhabitants of London.' and time Subterban Districts. Illustrated by coloured &c. By:Arthur Will Hassell, MB., F.L.S., &c. _

• Spade usbandryWndllanual Labour, with Lou' or Cheap Farming,

a certain meanykof Removing Irish Distress, &c. By Alexander Yule. The: Letters of eieis-' on Indian Affliirs, from 1842 to 1841). By Sir

Henry Russell.

The Case of _F,deriek William Dunne, &c. By F. W. Dunne.