LITERARY.--Postponement of the French Exhibition of Paintings, 129. Goethe's Manuscripts, 423. Mr. Hartley's bequests set aside, 423. History of Spain, by St. Hilaire, 568. Sir Robert Peel's MSS., 568, 712. Miss Strickland's forthcoming Lives of the Queens of Scotland, 569. Bulwer's new novel, 710. Copyright of foreigners, 710. Sale of the Paintings of the King of Holland, 710. Lamartine's Confidences, 710. Notice of Ticknor's Spanish Literature in the Morning Chronicle, 710. The North British Review, 711. Sale of the Barbarigo Gallery at Venice, 711. A new singer, 711. New edition of Owen's Works, 853. Copyrights paid to American Authors, 854. Theological Faculties in Germany, 854. Translation of Dante and Ovid into Hebrew, 854. Books issued, 126, 282, 422, 564, 710. SCIENTIFIC.--Papers read by Murchison and Lepsius before the Geological Society, 125. Before the Royal Society, by O'Brien, Faraday, and Mantell, 125. The _Pelorosaurus_, 125. Lead for statues, 126. Operations of Mr. Layard, 126, 280, 854. Discovery of ancient Roman coins in the Duchy of Oldenburg, 128. Opening of the submarine telegraph between Dover and Calais, 129. Experimental slips dropped from balloons, 129. Box Tunnel, London, 129. Transplantation of a full grown tree, 129. Glass pipes for gas, 129. International railway commission, 129. Russian expedition for exploring the Northern Ural, 129. Invention for extinguishing tires, 280. Experiments on light and heat, 281. Discovery of a new comet, 281. Unswathing a mummy, 423. Society for investigating epidemics; for observations in Meteorology, 423. Depredations on Assyrian and Egyptian antiquities, 568. Apparatus to render sea-water drinkable, 568. Improved mode of producing iron, 569. Prof. Johnston on American Agriculture, 569. Telegraphic wire between Dover and Calais, 711. Iron unsuitable for vessels of war, 853. New submarine telegraph, 853. The atmopyre, 854. A new star, 854. The Britannia bridge, 855. Ascent of Mount Blanc, 855. SOCIAL.--Great project for agricultural emigration, 129. English criminal cases, 129. Building for the Industrial exhibition, 567. Lord Campbell on the Sunday Letter Bill, 707. Extension of the Franchise in Ireland, 707. Introduction of laborers into the West Indies, 707. Tenant-right conference in Dublin, 707. Peace Congress at Frankfort, 424, 712.