ELIHU BURRITT is presented with the Prince of Wales in one of the
designs for medals to be distributed on the occasion of the great
Industrial Exhibition in London; and the Athenæum properly suggests
that such an obtrusion of the "learned Blacksmith" (who has really
scarce any learning at all) is "little better than a burlesque."

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HORACE MANN, President of the late National Convention of the friends
of education, had issued an address inviting all friendly to the
object, whether connected with and interested in common-schools,
academies, or colleges, to meet in convention at Philadelphia on the
fourth day of August next.

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LIEUT. MAURY says that the new planet, _Parthenope_, discovered by
M. Gasparis, of Naples, has been observed at Washington, by Mr. J.
Ferguson. It resembles a star of the tenth magnitude. This is the
eleventh in the family of asteroids, and the seventh within the last
five years.

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GEORGE WILKINS KENDALL is now in New York, having visited New
Orleans since his return from Paris. His History of the Mexican War,
illustrated by some of the cleverest artists of France, will soon be
published here and in London.