The Dutch Chambers have resolved that from next session they will suspend sending parliamentary papers to the newspapers.

The Madrid Gazette of the 29th August contains a royal decree interdicting the entry and circulation of the Times throughout the whole extent of Spain, on account of ite attacks on Spanish institutions, and its "scandalous calumnies" on the Queen, &c. Letters add that some enthusiastic partisans of the monarchy proposed making a grand auto-da-fé of the offending journal.

October was a busy month with the publishing trade of France, because it is "almanac month." In no country in the world are so many almanacs published; and in none is such an immense number sold as in France. Everybody there, in fact, has his almanac; and it is the only thing in the shape of a book which the peasants (the French peasantry are about 30,000,000 in number) purchase from year's end to year's end.

Mr. W. Chambers is about to proceed to North America, for the purpose of writing a descriptive tour through the United States and Canada, and collecting accurate information respecting the condition and prospects of emigrants in these countries.

The Interim Acting Committee for the promoting a great industrial exhibition for Scotland have come to the resolution not to attempt to carry out the proposal next year, as originally announced.

Mr. Eyre Evans Crowe, for a long time the editor of the Daily News, is a constant contributor to Bent: ley.

The Palace of Industry, in the Champs Elysées, is rapidly advancing: the external walls are mostly completed to the second range of windows, and the foundations of an inner wall are finished. These are entirely of stone, and the building will have no pretensions to be called a crystal palace, as the windows and a portion of the roofing will alone be of glass.

The Gazette des Hôpitaux, one of the oldest medical journals in France, has just received a donation of 10,000f. a year from a physician attached to one of the hospitals in Paris, on condition-1st, that the donor's name shall be kept in

violably secret; 2d, that 3000f. of the sum shall be employed in encouraging the authors of useful and practical papers published in the Gazette; and 3d, that the remaining 7000f. shall be employed in distributing copies of the Gazette to physicians or students who are too poor to pay the whole or any part of the subscription, the simple declaration to that effect of the applicants being all that is to be required. This is probably the first time in the history of the periodical press, that a journal has been. the object of such munificence.

The Madrid Gazette of the 11th contains a royal order to the effect that, in compliance with the request of newspaper proprietors, original, political and literary articles published in their papers shall be considered private property, protected by the laws, and shall not be quoted or copied without their permission.

Mr. Ruskin has nearly ready the third and concluding volume-"The Fall"-of his architectural work, The Stones of Venice.

A posthumous work of M. de Balzac is announced, entitled the Deputé de Arcis. This work has been completed from notes of the deceased author by M. Charles Rabou, a distinguished writer, who succeeded M. Véron in the direction of the Revue de Paris.

Young Dumas' novel, La Dame aux Perles, has proved a great disappointment.

A new journal, the Innovator, Shoemaker's Journal, has just come out in Paris. Its founder is a shoemaker and poet, M. Paulier.

Mr. Bentley has issued a circular, announcing that all his new and original novels and romances will henceforth be published at two-thirds less than the amount at present charged for such works. The 3-vol. novel, hitherto published at a guinea and a half, is to be 10s. 6d., the 2-vol. novel 78., and the 1-vol. novel 38. 6d.

Government has granted the sum of 5000l. to Sir William Snow Harris for perfecting a method of applying lightning-conductors to the safeguard of ships froin storm. Her Majesty has assigned a literary pension of 1007. a year to Sir Francis Head.

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A committee has been formed in Paris for raising subscriptions for the purpose of erecting a national" monument to the late François Arago. The committee is very numerous, and comprises the names of Sir D. Brewster, Professor Faraday, Mr. Airy, Baron Humboldt, M. Stuve, the Russian astronomer, and other eminent savans. comprises a great many Frenchmen of literary and scientific eminence, and amongst them M. Villemain, M. Mignet, M. Babinet, M. Decaisne, and M. Flourens. But some objections is taken to it in Paris, on the ground that M. Dupont (de l'Eure), M. Goudchaux, M. Odilon Barrot, M. Manin, exPresident of the Venetian Republic, and other noted political characters, have been allowed to join it; and that some of the most active members of it are seeking rather to do honor to Arago, in his political capacity as a stanch republican, than to Arago the great savant.