ury, last Friday.

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Rev. WARREN BURTON, a graceful writer and popular preacher among the
Unitarians, has resigned the pastoral office in Worcester to give his
undivided attention to the advocacy of certain theories he has formed
for the moral education of the young.

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RICHARD S. MCCULLOCH, Professor of Natural Philosophy at Princeton
College, and some time since melter and refiner of the United States
Mint, has addressed a letter to the Secretary of the Treasury, in
which he states that he has discovered a new, quick, and economical
method of refining argentiferous and other gold bullion, whereby the
work may be done in one-half the present time, and a large saving
effected in interest upon the amount refined.

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THE LATE SIR JOSEPH BANKS lies buried in Heston Church. There is
neither inscription, nor monument, nor memorial window to mark the
place of his sepulture; even his hatchment has been removed from its
place. Surely, as President of the Royal Society, a member of so many
foreign institutions, as well as a man who had traveled so much, he
should have been thought worthy of some slight mark of respect.

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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 Athenaeum 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 t