The Site Of Solomon's Temple Discovered.

The men and women of Biblical times will no longer be mere puppets , living in a mythical temple Avhose sits no one can identify . A reality will now pervade the narrative , its stories will come to us like a new revelation , with a location and name

making the actions of those Avhose deeds were done in the Temple intelligible and clear , Avhich beforetime were seemingly fantastic , and oftentimes inexplicable . Fact Avill take the place of fancy , and topographical knoAvledge and clearness will take the place of conjecture and ignorance . To know this Temple intimately , to be able to describe its peculiarities , to illustrate

the ancient story and narrative of the Old and New Testament , and to give life-like reality to incidents occurring in the Holy City and Temple , are results of the very highest order . Every writer on Biblical geography and history , every minister who attempts an illustration of his text

, every teacher in a Sunday-school Avho associates the Gospel history with illustrations , does this more or less vaguely only because the maps mislead , or the standard text-books are defective in their descriptions and inaccurate in their pictorial representations .

Notes On Literature, Science And Art.

NOTES ON LITERATURE , SCIENCE AND ART .

BY BKO . GEORGE MAKKHAM TAVEDDELL , Felltno of the Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries , Copenhagen ; Corresponding Member of the Royal Historical Society , London ; Honorary Member of the Manchester Literary Club , and of the Whitby literary and Philosophical Society

& c , & c . IT speaks well for the taste of the people on the banks of " the coall y Tyne , " that at the Theatre Royal , Newcastle , the fine tragedy of Antigona—that noble display of female heroism—written bythe "Attic bee "

, Sophocles , forthe ancient Greeks , should not only be reproduced for two ni ghts , the chorusses being rendered to Mendelssohn ' s music , but enthusiastically received . iEschylus , Sophocles , and Euripides , are names that will last for everand the few of

, their tragedies remaining to us will be treasured for all time as choicest literary gems ; but one rather expects to find them appreciated by scholars than by English p laygoers ; to see them in good libraries ,

rather than on the stage , especially of a provincial English theatre . The immortality of genius , too , is Avell illustrated by finding a Northumbrian audience entranced by the same great dramatic production which drew tears from the eyes ,

and moved the blood in the veins , of the men , matrons , and maids of Greece , twenty-three centuries ago , when the victory of Salamis Avas still fresh in the memory of the people . Though only seven of his hundred and thirty pieces have

come clown to us , those seven Avill ahvays be dearly prized by all true lovers of genuine poetry . There is scarcely a thought in modern authors but Avhat can be traced back to

the writers of antiquity . Who has not felt and admired that beautiful conclusion of Gray ' s Ode on a distant prospect of Eton College ?—" Yet , ah ! Avhy should they knoAV their fate ;

Since sorrow never ccmes too late , And happiness too swiftly flies , Thought Avould destroy their paradise . No more ; Avhere ignorance is bliss , 'T is folly to be Avise . " And yet is not this the same thought

which Sophocles put into the mouth of Ajax on the Athenian stage more than eleven hundred years before our OAvn trulyclassical poet was born 1 The passage occurs in the second act of Ajax , Avhere the warrior ' s boy Eurysacesis brought to him

, by its mother , Teomessa , and is thus Englished by Professor Franoklin : — " I envy thee , my child , For that thou seest not thine own

wretchedness The happiness of life is not to know . Thy ignorance will keep thee free from pain , Till time shall teach thee Avhat it is to

grieve And to rejoice . " Lead ore has been discovered at Pateley Bridge , but whether in sufficient quantities to pay for working remains to be seen . Mr . W . A . Gunnell is preparing for publication " Sketches of Hull Celebrities ,

being an outline of the character , personal appearance , manner , and peculiarities of those gentlemen who have offered themselves as candidates for Parliamentary honours for the ToAvn of King-