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Dr. BUCKLAND, the Dean of Westminster—­the eloquent and the learned writer of the remarkable “Bridgewater Treatise” is bereft of reason, and is now an inmate of an asylum near Oxford.

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Dr. WAYLAND’s “Tractate on Education,” in which he proposes a thorough reform in the modes of college instruction, has, we are glad to see, had its desired effect.  The Providence Journal states that the entire subscription to the fund of Brown University has reached $110,000, which is within $15,000 of the sum originally proposed.  The subscription having advanced so far, and with good assurances of further aid, the committee have reported to the President, that the success of the plan, so far as the money is concerned, may be regarded as assured, and that consequently it will be safe to go on with the new organization as rapidly as may he deemed advisable.  Of the sum raised, about $96,000 have come from Providence.  A meeting of the Corporation of the University will soon be called, when the entire plan will be decided upon, and carried into effect as rapidly as so important a change can be made with prudence.

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SIR JAMES EMERSON TENNANT has in the press of Mr. Murray a work which will probably be read with much interest in this country, upon Christianity in Ceylon, its introduction and progress under the Portuguese, the Dutch, the British, and the American missions, with a Historical View of the Brahminical and Buddhist superstitions.

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CHARLES EAMES, formerly one of the editors of the Washington Union, and more recently United States Commissioner to the Sandwich Islands, is to be the orator of the societies of Columbia College, at the commencement, on the evening of the 6th of October.  Bayard Taylor will be the poet for the same occasion.

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CHATEAUBRIAND’S MEMOIRS.—­The eleventh and last volume has just been published at Paris in the book form, and will soon be completed in the feuilletons.  An additional volume is however to be brought out, under the title of “Supplement to the Memoirs.”

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THE THIRD AND FOURTH SERIES of Southey’s Common-Place Book are in preparation, and they will be reprinted by the Harpers.  The third contains Analytical Readings, and the fourth, Original Memoranda.

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WASHINGTON IRVING’s Life of General Washington, in one octavo volume, is announced by Murray.  It will appear simultaneously from the press of Putnam.

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MRS. JAMESON has in press Legends of the Monastic Orders, as illustrated in art.

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Dr. ACHILLI is the subject of an article in the July number of the Dublin Review—­the leading Roman Catholic journal in the English language.  Of course the history of the missionary is not presented in very flattering colors.