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A Frankfort journal states that the colossal statue of Bavaria, by SCHWANTHALER, which is to be placed on the hill of Seudling, surpasses in its gigantic proportions all the works of the moderns.  It will have to be removed in pieces from the foundry where it is cast to its place of destination,—­and each piece will require sixteen horses to draw it.  The great toes are each half a metre in length.  In the head two persons could dance a polka very conveniently,—­while the nose might lodge the musician.  The thickness of the robe—­which forms a rich drapery descending to the ankles—­is about six inches, and its circumference at the bottom about two hundred metres.  The Crown of Victory which the figure holds in her hands weighs one hundred quintals (a quintal is a hundred-weight).

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The death of SIR ROBERT PEEL, says the Literary Gazette, has awakened a busy competing spirit for the production of articles relating to him, and especially in connection with Literature and the Arta.  In the one, Memoirs, Speeches, Recollections, Anecdotes, &c., have been abundantly supplied; and in the other, every printshop window in London displays its Peels of every style and every degree, but mostly very indifferent, absolutely bad, or utter caricature.

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Goupil, Vibert & Co. have published a series of portraits of eminent Americans which is deserving of the largest approval and sale.  The head of Mr. Bryant is the best ever published of that poet; it presents his fine features and striking phrenology with great force and with pleasing as well as just effect.  A portrait of Mr. Willis is wonderfully truthful, in detail, and is in an eminent degree characteristic.  The admirers of that author who have not seen him will find in it their ideal, and all his acquaintances will see in it as distinctly the real man who sits in the congress of editors as the representative of the polite world.  The head of the artist Mount, after Elliott, is not by any means less successful.  Among the other portraits are those of Gen. Scott, President Fillmore, Robert Fulton, J.Q.  Adams, Mr. Clay, Mr. Webster, and President Taylor.  They are all on imperial sheets, and are sold at $1 each.

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The Paris papers tell a story of a young actor, who finding no engagement in that city, came to America to try his fortune.  From New Orleans he went to California, was lucky as a digger, embarked in business and got immensely rich.  He is now building in the Champs Elysees a magnificent hotel for his mother.  All actors are not so fortunate.

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Expected arrivals from Nineveh.—­The Great Bull, and upward of one hundred tons of sculpture, excavated by Dr. Layard, are now on their way to England, and may be expected in the course of September.  In addition-to the Elgin, Phigalian, Lycian, and Boodroun marbles, the British Museum will soon be enriched with a magnificent series of Assyrian sculptures.