Among the English announcements made in the last month are, _Personal Recollections of Mary Russell Mitford_ and _Anecdotes of Her Literary Acquaintances; Memoirs of the Marquis of Rockingham_, from original letters and documents, by the Earl of ALBEMARLE; several new books on the war in Affghanistan; _The Convent and the Harem_, by the Countess PISANI; _Pictures of Life in Mexico_, by R. H. MASON; _Women of Early Christianity_, by Miss KAVANAGH; _Hippolytus and his Age, or, Doctrine and Practice of the Church of Rome under Commodus and Alexander Severus_, by the Chevalier BUNSEN; _China during the War and since the Peace_, including Translations of Secret State Papers, by Sir J. F. DAVIS; _Sketches of English Literature_, by Mrs. C. L. BALFOUR; _Symbols and Emblems of Early and Midiæval Christian Art_, by LOUISA TWINING; a new work by Dr. LAYARD, entitled _Fresh Discoveries at Nineveh, and Researches at Babylon_; a new work by Sir FRANCIS HEAD, with the facetious title, _All my Eye; Some Account of the Danes and Northmen, in England, Scotland, and Ireland_, by J. J. A. WORSAAE, of Copenhagen; _An Illustrated Classical Mythology and Biography_, by Dr. WILLIAM SMITH; _Buenos Ayres and the Provinces of the Rio de la Plata_, by Sir WOODBINE PARISH; and two new volumes of GROTE'S _History of Greece_. * * * * * The English Dissenters have recently established a new college. It is the result of a union of three existing similar institutions, at present belonging to the Independents--namely, Coward, Homerton, and Cheshunt Colleges; and it is anticipated, from such a concentration of Nonconformist resources and energies, that the standard of learning among them will be raised still higher than it is at present, though it is not now below that in the established church, which, controlling the great universities, is pleased not to admit that a man may understand Greek or Mathematics unless he subscribes to the thirty-nine articles. * * * * * SIR CHARLES LYELL, lately, in an _Address to the Geological Society_, demolished again the paltry affair which for some time has constituted the main artillery of the atheists, _The Vestiges of Creation_; and _The Leader_ thereupon declares that, "In proportion as any branch of inquiry rises out of mere _details_ into the _higher generalizations_ which alone constitute science, we find our scientific men, with rare exceptions, _pitiably incompetent_." * * * * * "CHRISTOPHER NORTH" (Professor Wilson), has been compelled by ill health to make arrangements for dispensing with the delivery of his lectures on moral philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, at the ensuing session. The great poet, philosopher, critic, sportsman, and humorist, is in the sixty-third year of his age. * * * * *