every cent of the money should
be sent to the artist, expressing only a regret that the country suffered
the loss of a performance so admirable. Mr. Powers had not at this time
heard of the loss of the statue of Mr. Calhoun. This great work has not
yet been recovered, but Mr. Kellogg has still hopes of its being rescued
in perfect safety.

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The Venice _Statuto_ of the 13th August announces that Venice and Italy
have experienced an irreparable loss. The celebrated Barbarigo Gallery,
known for ages, comprised amongst other masterpieces seventeen paintings
of Titian, the Magdalen, Venus, St. Sebastian; the famous portraits of
the Doge Barbarigo, of Philip XIV., &c. After the extinction of the
Barbarigo family, Count Nicholas Giustiniani, the brothers Barbaco, and
the merchants Benetti, who became proprietors of the collection,
presented it to the Government. The Viceroy Raniere offered it for sale
in 1847 to the Austrian Government, which refused to buy it. It has been
lately purchased by the Court of Russia for five hundred and sixty
thousand francs.

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PAINTING AND SCULPTURES of the early northern artists from the eighth to
the sixteenth century have just been discovered in great numbers in
Gothland, by Dr. Marilignis, of the Stockholm Royal Academy of Fine Arts.
He was sent to search for them by the Academy, and has spent eighteen
months in his mission. A large proportion of the pictures were found in
chapels built during the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and were covered
with thick coats of plaster, which had to be removed with great care. The
results of Dr. Marilignis' investigations will be published by the
Swedish Government.

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THE INAUGURATION OF THE STATUE OF LARREY, the famous surgeon of the
Imperial army, at the Val-de-Grace, took place in Paris lately. Among the
assistants at this solemnity not the least interesting portion was a
corps of one hundred invalids upon whom Larrey had operated. The hero of
the day was Dupin, who walked in to the flourish of drums and trumpets at
the head of the commission of the monument. The statue of bronze, by
David, of Angers, was unvailed amid the clang of "sonorous metal blowing
martial sounds." Old Dupin, in a fit of happy inspiration, jumped up on
the chair from which he presided, and delivered perhaps the best speech
he ever made. He drew, in li