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 184 has been a contributor to the Messenger, and now resides in Paris, where Mr. Thompson met him, is taken from the London Examiner. Smithson's bequest; its objects and issues are presented. "Gonsalvo of Cordova; or The Conquest of Granada," in nine books, is translated from the Spanish, by A. Roane; the Ladies' Mt. Vernon Association have a celebration and Rev. J. Lansing Burrows makes an address for them and so does Beverly R. Wellford, Jr.

Tenella, besides some poetry, contributes her, "Reminiscences of Cuba." Marion Harland (Miss Hawes, of Richmond) has out her "Hidden Path," which is noticed. There is an exceedingly able article of 44 pages on: "The Black Race in North America; Why was their Introduction Permitted?" The editor says that the author had commenced it two years ago; but threw aside his half-completed MS. Very recently, at the urgent instance of a number of gentlemen to whom the leading views were explained and who thought the present crisis demanded it, he resumed his work and finished it. Mr. Thompson thought it was worth publishing, without being divided, notwithstanding its length. Who was the author?

There is an investigation, in continuance of that instituted by Mr. B. B. Minor, of those extraordinary brass French cannon in the armory