_Rev. A. Butler._--The Rev. R. Gibbings, M.A., did some years since give to the public an exact reprint of the first Roman _Index Expurgatorius_, in the lengthened Introduction to which he has treated of the whole literature pertaining to the question. The same rev. gentleman is author of the following elegant inscription on the monument of the Rev. Archer Butler, recently professor of moral philosophy in Trinity College, Dublin. Your miscellany seems an appropriate place wherein to enshrine matters of this order. "D. O. M. "GUILIELMUS ARCHER BUTLER, A.M. Rathmothachiæ Rector in Dioecesi Rapotensi, Apud Dublinienses in Ethicis Professor, Theologus, Poeta, Philosophus, Optimis ingenii dotibus, summâque eloquentiâ præditus, Multa pro Ecclesiâ Christi feliciter conscripsit, Plura moliebatur. Viris ille bonis doctisque juxta carus, Integer vitæ, maturus animi, Religione devinctus, concionibus potens Æqualium decus, simul et exemplar, Malignâ febre correptus, Eheu, quàm intempestivè! E terris migravit A.D. MDCCCXLVIII. ætatis suæ XXXVII., Triste desiderium superstitibus relinquens, Amici piè memores hoc illi monumentum poni voluere." O. T. D. _Birthplace of Bishop Hoadley._--On the west side of the London Road, Westerham, Kent, are some neatly built brick cottages: before one of them stands a yew tree, which, I was informed by an intelligent inhabitant of the town, was planted by the Rev.--Hoadley, on the birth of his son Benjamin. Although the tree still marks the spot, the house itself does not now stand; it was razed to the ground some years since to make room for the present buildings. Benjamin's brother, who was afterwards Archbishop of Dublin, was also born in this house. I may add that this is not generally known in the town, but I think the above "Note" is accurate. H. G. D. _Humboldt's "Cosmos," and Nares' "Attempt."_--Observing that the learned and accomplished Humboldt has concluded his _Cosmos_ in German, although the English translation of the last portion has not yet appeared,--an extremely valuable and interesting scientific contribution towards a general view of human knowledge regarding the universe,--will you permit me to observe, that as it perhaps did not enter into his plan to consider the _religious_ considerations that arise from a _Christian's_ view of the universe in its relation to our small portion of its apparently illimitable extent, any reader of Humboldt's work who wishes to see how a scholar and a divine of a former generation has treated the subject, will, if I mistake not, peruse the following work with singular pleasure, making all due allowance for the imperfect state of scientific knowledge at the time when the author wrote:--