ary of State for the Home Department, and was
succeeded in the secretaryship of the Board of Control by the Hon. John
E. Elliot, M.P. for Roxburghshire. In his present office Mr. Lewis has
served on the Smithfield Market Commission, appointed in November, 1849,
which has just brought up its report; and upon that subject, the Irish
Poor-Law, and Mr. Disraeli's motion as to local burdens, has spoken in
the House. Last year he brought forward a road bill to consolidate the
management of highways, and dispose of the question of turnpike trusts
and their advances. The bill was not proceeded with last session, and
has again been brought forward this year, with reference, however, only
to highways. Mr. Lewis has earned reputation as the translator of
"Boukli's Public Economy of Athens," which, as well as the "Dorians,"
has become a textbook, and passed through a second edition; and is known
as author of an able essay on the "Use and Abuse of Political Terms,"
published in 1832; on the "Origin and Formation of the Romance
Languages," published in 1835; on "Local Disturbances in Ireland, and
the Irish Church Question," in 1836; on the "Government of
Dependencies," in 1841; and "On the Influence of Authority in Matters of
Opinion," in 1849.

ORIGINAL LETTER FROM DR. LAYARD UPON ANCIENT ART, &c.

We present in this number of the _International_ a communication from
the most celebrated traveler of the nineteenth century, AUSTEN HENRY
LAYARD, upon the sources of _Ancient Art_. It was addressed by the
distinguished author to his friend and ours, Mr. MINOR K. KELLOGG, the
well-known painter, who was for some time with DR. LAYARD in the East.

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MY DEAR FRIEND:

I frequently wish that you were here with me; I could find you subjects
which would astonish you. However, I suppose you are desirous of hearing
something about my proceedings. When I said that the arts may have
passed from Egypt into Greece, I merely alluded to the popular opinion,
without adhering to it. It is not altogether improbable that they came
from another source. Phoenicia was too much of a trading province to
devote any great attention to the higher branches of the arts, and I am
not aware of any monuments existing which can be traced to that people,
and show a very high knowledge of architecture or sculpture. The designs
we have on their early coins, and particularly if the coins called "the
unknown of Celicia," a