ter_ showed such rare ability in the
portrayal of the hidden workings of the heart, has a new work nearly
finished, called _The House of Seven Gables_; it will be eagerly sought
for, and we trust may prove as admirable a performance as the
first-named book.

The purchase of the _Greek Slave_ for distribution has brought the
Western Art Union three thousand subscribers this year. It is an
increase of nearly one hundred per cent upon the subscriptions of last
year, but is hardly enough to warrant the addition of many other prizes
to the great one.

JENNY LIND continues her triumphant progress through the country,
delighting the world and doing good. Each place which she visits gets up
an excitement, which if it be not equal to that at New York, is at least
the result of a conscientious endeavor to accomplish the most which can
be achieved with the means at command. Her four concerts in Baltimore
are said to have produced forty thousand dollars, which is even more in
proportion to the wealth and size of the place than the average receipts
at her concerts in New York.

It is stated that the existence of a third ring around the planet Saturn
was discovered on the night of Nov. 15th, by the astronomers at the
Cambridge Observatory. It is within the two others, and therefore its
distance from the body of Saturn must be small. It will be remembered
that the eighth satellite of this planet was also discovered at
Cambridge, by Mr. Bond, about two years since.

Mr. JUNIUS SMITH, who has been for some years very zealously engaged in
introducing the culture of the tea plant into the United States, gives
it as the result of his experiments that the heat of summer is far more
to be feared for the tea plant, than the cold of winter, and requires
more watchful care. In his field at Greenville, S. C., he has shaded
every young plant put out the first week in June, and so long as he
continued to do so, did not lose a single plant by the heat of the sun.
The young tea-plants from nuts planted on the 5th of June last, and
those from China set out about the same time, and most of them still
very small, do not appear to have sustained the slightest injury, but
are as fresh and green without any covering or protection, as they were
in September. He thinks it not at all unlikely that the cultivation of
the plant will become general in New England before it does in the
Southern States.

Mr. DARLEY, whose outlines of _Rip Van Winkle_, and _