Mr. HENRY INGALLS, a writer of considerable abilities, displayed chiefly in anonymous compositions on questions in law, writes to a friend in New-York from Paris, that he has devoted two years to the investigation of pretended miracles in modern Europe; that the number of alleged miracles in the Roman Catholic church of which he has exact historical materials, is over one thousand; that the analyses of these will be amply suggestive of the character of the rest; and that his work on the subject, to make three or four large and closely printed volumes, will conclusively show complicity on the part of the highest authorities of the church, in "the frauds that are now most notorious and most generally acknowledged." Mr. Ingalls is of opinion that his work will be eminently curious in literary, philosophical, and religious points of view, and that it cannot fail of usefulness, especially in illustrating the silly credulity which has obtained in such poor juggleries as have lately been practiced by the Smiths, Davises, Fishes, Harrises, and other imposters and mountebanks of this country. * * * * * Among the new works in press by the Appletons is a new novel entitled _Adrian, or the Clouds of the Mind_--the joint production of Mr. G. P. R. JAMES and Mr. MAUNSELL B. FIELD. Such partnerships in literature were common in the days of Elizabeth, and in our own country we have instances in the production of _Yamoyden_, by Sands and Eastburn, &c. Mr. Field is not yet a veteran, but he is a writer of fine talents and much cultivation. Among the original papers in the present number of the _International_ is a poem from his hand, under the title of _Greenwood_. * * * * * The first volume of a _History of the German Reformed Church_, by the late Rev. Dr. LEWIS MAYER, has been published in Philadelphia; and Professor SCHAFF, of Mercersburg, has printed in German the first volume of a _History of the Christian Church, from its Establishment to the Present Time_. Dr. MURDOCK, the well-known translator of Mosheim's History, has published a translation of the celebrated Syriac version of the New Testament, called the _Peshito_. * * * * * PROFESSOR HACKETT, of the Newton Theological Institution, has added to his claims of distinction in sacred learning by a very able _Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles_, (published by John P. Jewett & Co., of Boston). It is much praised by the best critics. The last _Bibliotheca Sacra_ complains that there is a decline of activity in this department, and that in theology and biblical criticism no important works are now in progress. * * * * * Mr. MELVILLE's new novel, _The Whale_, will be published in a few days, simultaneously, by the Harpers and by Bentley of London. * * * * *