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with Lord Byron , which resulted iu the discovery of the Temple of Jupiter , aud of another exquisite Grecian Temple , at Phig . ile ; .,, in Arcadia . The work is complete in a handsome folio volume , and will be published by Mr . Weale , of Holborn . " ' The fourth volume of Colonel Mure ' s singularly laborious , accurate , aud original " Critical History of the Language and Literature of Ancient Greece " has attained the honour of a second edition—a fact creditable

to the book buying scholarship of the country . Mr . R . 11 . Madden ' s " United Irishmen , their Lives and Times , " published a few years ago , is promised in a new edition , with several additional and authentic memoirs hitherto unpublished . The curious theory broached in "Pre-Adamite Man" has brought that singular book to a second edition . Mr . Bentley is publishing the second series of "Tho Curiosities of Natural History , " by Mr . Frank Bucklaud of the 2 nd Life Guards , who inherits the scientific tastes of his father , the well known geologist mid Dean of Westminster .

Miss S . Williams has undertaken to edit , for the Camden Society , the Elizabethan letters of John Chamberlain . These letters record the movements of the court , the acts of public men , and the general occurrences ofthe clay . All readers of history will rejoice to see them in print . The Messrs . Longman are determined that the '' 'Life of Robert Stephenson" shall be well done . In addition to the engagement with

Mr . Jeaffreson , they have signed with Mr . William Pole , professor of civil engineering in University College , for the purely scientific , technical , and engineering part of the work . This is preparing iu the right spirit . Mr . Bernard Woodward , of Bungay , has been appointed Queen ' s Librarian , in place of Mr . Glover , deceased . Amongst the Civil Service estimates we find these items : — .- £ 2000

, for the British Historical Portrait Gallery ; £ 2 , 50 ( 1 for purchasing for the British Museum drawings by old masters formerly in the Lawrence Collection ; , £ 5 . 000 ( part of .- £ 2-1 , 000 ) for a National Gallery at Dublin ; £ 5 , 000 ( part of .- £ 10 , 01 ) 0 ) for an Industrial Museum at l-. 'dinimrg . i ; £ 15 , 000 for increasing tho accommodation in tho Natimial Gallery in London ; two votes of . £ 2 , 000 for the erection of a guard room at Windsor Castle . For public works and buildings there is to be voted . £ 1 . 8 , 000

towards the site of the proposed Foreign Office ( a rovote of -money not expended ) , and £ 118 , 110 for Westminster Bridge and approaches ; - £ 1 , 500 for the repairs of Carisbrooke Castle . From an excellent article on the book trade ( understood to be contributed by Mr . William Chambers ) in the new number of " Chambers ' s Encyclopedia for the People , " wo extract the following : — " Unitedly , the whole trade of publishing and bookselling forms an important staple of national industry—inferior to some other manufactures and trades ,

yet great when viewed in relation to its past history , and to the still imperfect state of education among large masses of tho people , and respectable from the number of men of high character who are connected with it . In reckoning the number of new works issued from thc press annually , we may take the number of entries of distinct books , volumes , sheets , maps , & c , lodged by publishers at tho British Museum , in terms of the Copyright Act . The following is an abstract of the return for

1853 . Books : complete works , 5 , 507 ; consisting of volumes , in process of publication , 5 , 0-12 ; parts , 15 , 767 ; single sheets , 230—total , 21 , ( 545 . Music : complete works , volumes and pieces , _ , 0 ( iG . Maps in sheets , 3 , 071 ; atlases , whole or in parts , 25—total , 3 , 000 . Grand total of articles , 28 , 807 . In 185-1 , the number was 10 . 578 . The difference shows the rise since that period . Iu IS 5 ( i , according to the tables ni the Board of Trade , the imports of books into the United Kingdom amounted to

5 , 771 ewt .., of which 2 , 220 cwts . were from France , and 700 cwts . from the United States . The exports in hundredweights were as follows : — Russia , 20 ; Hanover , 158 ; Hanso Towns , G 37 ; Holland , 553 ; franco , 070 ; Turkey , 201 ; Egypt , 2 , 001 ; United States , 11 , 077 ; Chili , 117 ; Malta , 267 ; South Africa , 826 ; Mauritius , 71 ; East Indies , 2 , 113 ; Australia , 0 , 535 ; British America , 1 , 373 ; West Indies , 617 ; all other states , 1 , 622—total , 30 , 091 cwts ., the value of which , at £ 1-1 per ewt .,

is about £ -125 , 000 . it is seen that the exports are five fold more than the imports ; also that we export to Australia alone more than we import from all countries , and to the United States double as much . A system of more free and untaxed import of foreign printed English works would , in various ways , introduce changes into the book trade , and have a tendency to alter some of its traditional usages . " Sir Benjamin Brodie having resigned the office of President of the General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United

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Kingdom , the Council on Saturday elected Mr . Joseph Henry Green , F . R . S ., their president iu his room . The government have proposed to the committee who have permission to erect the Guards' statue in Waterloo l'liieu -which , for trial , has been placed ou tho pedestal—that it should be placed , instead ou the site of the circular reservoir in Hyde Park , it being considered that the group erected is too large for thc situation in ivhich it is now

contemplated to place it . Italian journals speak in high Italian strains of the success on the stage at Leghorn , in "La C ' -r . erentola , " gained by Miss Anna Whitty . There is news from Naples of a new comic opera , entitled "Monsu Gnazio , " by M . Nicolas d'Arienxo ( nephew of the known poet ) , the music of which is pronounced to lie ' - ' agreeable , original , and gay . Signor Moroni's "Amleto "' announced some time since , and tho other day produced at Rome , seems to have been a doleful failure . Madame Gazzaniga is returning from America—to retire , it is added ,

from the stage . For the Worcester festival , which is to take place in September , the usual amount of Ho-novelty seems to be in preparation . The principal singers are to be Mesdames Novello , RudersdorfF , and Sainton-Dolby , Messrs . Sims Reeves and "Weiss , and Signor Be . letti . It is said that a new opera , by Mr . I ' . Clay , the amateur whose drawing room opera has been so favourably spoken of—and which is going to

be performed shortly at Bridgewater House (¦ r the benefit of a charity —will possibly be given , during the ' coming English season , at Her Majesty ' s Theatre , —the libretto , ive hear , by Mr . J . Palgrave Simpson . It is stated that Mario has accepted an engagement from M . Calzado , for tho Theatre Jtalien , Paris . He is to have H 0 , 000 f . ( £ 3 , 000 ) for tho season . The prospectus has been issued of a company calling itself "The

Music Publishing Company ( Limited ) , " the object of which ( in the words of the prospectus ) is " to produce music for Uio present and the coming generation . " The company has purchased the business and plant of Mr . G . II . Davisdon , audi has got his publication a-i a nucleus to work upon . A subscription excursion to Mont Blanc is being got up by well known agents , who propose to atld to tbe charms of the expedition photographs of the party as a whole , and—not least—the " subscribers own portrait , in all its exactness of travelling costume , and surrounded by the actual accessories ofthe exciting episodes through whicli . he has passed , "

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CORRESPONDENCE .

[ Tin-: TCui'L-of . dots not hold himself responsible for any opinions entertained by Correspondents . GRAND MARK MASTERS' LODGE . TO Tin ; Eni TO si OP THE i- 'nicKiiASOxs' IIAO . IZI . N-K AND JIASOXIC amnion . Y ) RA \ I SU : ASU BKOTIIKI ; , —I am much pained and grieved in reading ; i letter in your last impression , signed " Anti-Spurious

Mark , " because , so far from embodying thc principles of Freemasonry , it has all thc elements of party , as generally understood . The Brother who styles himself as above appears to me to assume far too much , and to base conclusions upon premises ivhich certainly , in eveiy sense ofthe word , arc hogged . The real point at issue is , whether the Mark degree lie genuine , and whether the existing authorities are in u positionand are endowed with the

, power to carry its objects out . lam doubtful whether "Anti-Spurious Mark" considers the degree in itself of any authority , though it would appear the Craft and higher grades have his approval . If the degree he correct , why should the Board of General Purposes prohibit thc jewel being worn in a Craft Lodge ? Docs the countenance of the Grand Lodge make ii degree correct or spuriousand if sohow

; , do the higher grades suffer in connection witli the Mark degree ? Let these matters lie fully understood before conclusions are arrived at so inconsistent and untrue . Has " Anti-Spurious Mark" considered the comparative modern "Arch" in contradistinction to the ancient "Mark" ? I will not enter into thc question us to the advisability of joining the Mark to thc second and the Arch to the third degreebut I

, do protest against thc idea so prevalent that the "Arch , " because recognized by Grand Lodge , is right , and the * " Mark " wrong by the same rule . 1 . need hardly add 1 deem your correspondent an exponent of this view . \\ ith respect to the caustic remarks made b y your correspondent , miil the general ill feeling displayed , I regret to have to point this