J. MONTGOMERY.--This hand is far more redundant in ornament than one would have expected from so gentle and talented a Quaker; but the Quaker has been lost in the poet, as an old grey wall is concealed under a luxuriant mantling of ivy. The autograph now engraved is copied from the signature attached to the original of his beautiful poem on Night, beginning--"Night is the time for rest."--_Edinburgh Literary Journ._ CH. MAURICE DE TALLEYRAND--whose life will hereafter be traced throughout a volume of the history of the last and present century. His age is 77. This signature is copied from the Frontispiece to the last edition to the _Court and Camp of Bonaparte_, in the _Family Library_, which is a fine portrait of Talleyrand, engraved by Finden, from a picture by Girard. H. MACKENZIE--author of the _Man of Feeling_, &c. He died during the past year, in Edinburgh. * * * * * FINE ARTS. * * * * * PANORAMA OF HOBART TOWN. Mr. R. Burford, the most successful panorama painter of his day, has lately completed a View of Hobart Town, Van Dieman's Land, and the surrounding country, which he is now exhibiting in the Strand. It is not, perhaps, the most striking picture this ingenious artist has produced, yet it is certainly one of the most interesting. The embellishments of books of travels, the sketches of tourists, and the extravagant _annual_ prints, have familiarized the stay-at-home reader with almost every city on the European continent; but a view in Van Dieman's Land is much more of a novelty. It is comparatively a _terra incognita_, about which every one must feel some curiosity, though more rationally expressed than that of a King of Persia, who asked what sort of a place America was--"underground, or how?" For the purpose of giving a general idea of a country, a panoramic painting is well adapted: the size of the objects is at once natural, there is no straining of eyes to make them out, and the effect of the whole scene is that of being dropped in the midst of the country, and its surface at once spread before us. Of Hobart Town we quote a brief description from Mr. Burford's pamphlet, or key to the picture:--