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Fanny Osier was to commence her engagement at the Park

Theatre, New York, on liaonday the i 1:11 May. People were literally mad to see her, and all the boxes were engaged for several nights.

A statue of Minerva, of exquisite Grecian workmanship, which had long stood its the garden of the Villa de Medicis at Rome, but had remained negleoed from having been injudiciously restored, has been purchased amt sent oft' by M. Ingres, Director of the French Academy at Rome, for Paris, where it will form one of the fittest ornaments of

the Louvre, and even rival the Venus of Milo.—Galignarti's Mes- senger,