The Rev. Dr. RAFFLES, of Liverpool, one of a party traveling in Italy, was recently arrested there for wearing a white hat, and having in his writingdesk a pen-wiper which assumed the shape and color of a cockade. His books and papers were all seized and submitted to examination; but, after three days' detention, he was liberated, and his papers restored, upon the payment of the expenses of his imprisonment, and the keep and charges of his military guard.

A subscription has been commenced for a monument to the memory of Professor WILSON, of Edinburgh. The honor of a public funeral, at which the magistrates of the city, the Professors of the University, and other public bodies attended, has already attested the high sense entertained of the late Professor's genius and his services to literature. In private life being as much beloved as he was respected in his public character, it is not surprising that his friends have projected some more permanent memorial. Edinburgh is renowned for statues and monuments of its illustrious men, few towns being richer in such public memorials. With the names of Burns, Scott, Dugald Stewart, Playfair, and Jeffrey, that of John Wilson is not unworthy of being thus associated. The subscription-list contains some of the names most distinguished in literature or in public service in the northern part of the island, but many who have elsewhere been delighted by his works or instructed by his lectures may be glad of the opportunity of joining in this monumental tri bute. The amount of money already collected is upward of £477.

The journals announce the death of the Dowager Lady DACRE, aged eighty-seven. This lady will be missed in the select literary and artistic society of London, as almost the last of those accomplished women—a group memorable for intellectual grace and cultivation-whose recollections could go back to the days when Johnson's "little Burney" was the novelist elect, and when Mrs. Siddons was still the "handsome and awkward woman in pink" of the morning papers.

lishing firm of Paris has already bargained to give him £4800 for it. It is, however, not yet certain whether, on account of the restrictions on the press, it can be printed at Paris.-The sale of the library of the late celebrated savant Arago, is shortly to take place-the number of volumes is 3000.-Isabey, the great painter, is about to produce his Mémoires," in imitation of so many celebretés of one kind or another. It is said that they will be very interesting, inasmuch as his position as an eminent artist has thrown him among the great men who have played a part on the European stage dur ing the last half century. Of the first Napoleon and his first wife, Josephine, in particular, he will, it is expected, be able to tell something new.-The eccentric Dr. Veron has brought out another volume of his Mémoires;" it contains a good deal of readable gossip about the Grand Opera, of which he was for some years director.-The famous cha teau of Monte Christo, which Alexander Dumas built near St. Germains at an expense of £18,000, has just been sold for £1240-no more! The wild manner in which this clever literary charlatan has squandered his enormous earnings is almost incredible -Proudhon, the once dreaded socialist journalist, is writing a "Universal History" in a financial, material, and economic point of view. In his able hands the book will no doubt be a curious one. He is also preparing a conclusion to his famous "Contradictions Economiques."-M. Berryer, the great parliamentary orator, has at length consented to be formally received in the Académie Française, to which he was elected some time back. He has delayed his reception thus far in order not to be obliged to visit the Emperor Louis Napoleon, as custom requires, he being one of the chiefs of a political party bitterly hostile to him. The two new members of the Academy, the Bishop of Orleans, and M. de Sacy, will be received shortly after M. Berryer.

A correspondent of a London journal, writing from Dresden, May 14, gives an interesting notice of the arrival of the celebrated Danish poet, HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN, in that city:

"Yesterday the poet Andersen arrived here, from Copenhagen, on a tour to Italy, accompanied by a young Danish nobleman confided to his care. Andersen was very well-looking, and in good spirits. He went the same evening to the theatre, where a box was offered to him for every night as long as he should remain here. After the play was over he went to the house of Frau von Serre, who had invited his friends to meet him, and among them the poets Gutzkow, Auerbach, Hammer, Otto Roquette, and the well-known traveler, Neigebauer, whose

The Literary Gazette has a favorable notice of Memoirs of Celebrated Characters, by ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE, recently translated and published in London. "This work," it says, "will materially raise the reputation of Lamartine. Along with the brilliancy of style and warmth of imagination which characterize all his writings, we find here gravity of thought and earnestness of purpose, befitting his maturer years and riper experience. The subject, also, is well suited to his peculiar genius and tal-guide-books are to be met with every where, and ents. A formal history requires laborious and pa- highly approved of by any body visiting the southtient research in collecting materials, and severe self. ern parts of Europe. Andersen is very tall and restraint in their systematic and impartial exposi- lank; he surpassed in size every body in the room. tion. M. Lamartine is deficient in some of the first He expressed great satisfaction in seeing again so requisites of a standard historian. But as a sketcher many well-known faces, and put on a great liveliof historical scenes and of historical characters, ness of manner, not altogether becoming to him. He choosing his own subjects, suggested by his own will only stay a few days, and then go on to Ventastes or sympathies, no living author is capable of ice; for, unfortunately, he is compelled to hurry, in greater and more successful efforts. In these vol-order to be home again after a lapse of two months, umes we have a gallery of illustrious portraits, drawn in bold and striking style, and most of them glowing with life-like feeling and expression."

as his proof-sheets are waiting for him. He speaks German very badly, and by no means fluently; still, when telling one of his charming little fairy-tales. his mistakes are so naive, and his manner is so well adapted to the thing, that they bear a thousand times' repetition. Singularly enough he has met Dickens here, who was never before in Dresden, we sup

VICTOR HUGO is busily engaged, in his exile at
Jersey, in putting the finishing touches to a philo-
sophical romance in four volumes, called Les
Misères;" and it is rumored that an eminent pub-pose."

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