MR. GLIDDON’S MUMMY.—­We find in the Boston Transcript a long letter from Mr. Gliddon, telling the whole story, which the latest and complete examinations of papyrus, straps, bandages, &c. have unfolded about his mummy early this summer in Boston.  It seems the said mummy was all right, in the right coffin duly embalmed; the body being that of a priest who died about B. C. 900.  The Theban undertakers, in this particular case, were honest; and all suspicion of fraud on their part is unnecessary and unfair.  Mr. Gliddon made a slight mistake, before the opening of the coffin, in reading the fragments of the inscription; and so got the notion that the contents were a female body.  The frank, manly, good-natured, and generous manner in which Mr. G. explains the whole affair and owns his error, should now stop the laugh, and satisfy everybody.

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RACHEL is making a lucrative professional tour in Germany.  The last accounts leave her in Berlin.  She has lately had built in Paris, not far in the rear of the Madelaine, a hotel for her private residence.  It is not large, but is a perfect gem of taste, (as the French understand it) and luxury.  She receives there a choice circle of gentlemen of all professions.  The ladies who frequent her salons are rarer, if not more select.  Of course none but ladies of the same profession, or of equivocal reputation, would enjoy the elegant hospitality of the illustrious tragedienne.

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INDIA RUBBER is now so cheap and common, that the following reference to it in the “New Monthly Review” for February, 1772, sent to “Notes and Queries” by a correspondent, may cause a smile:  “I have seen,” says Dr. Priestly, “a substance, excellently adapted to the purpose of wiping from paper the marks of a black lead pencil.  It must, therefore, be of singular use to those who practice drawing.  It is sold by Mr. Nairne, mathematical instrument-maker, opposite the Royal Exchange.  He sells a cubical piece, of about half an inch, for three shillings; and, he says, it will last several years.”

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CONVENIENT UMBRELLA.-A gentleman residing at Taunton has constructed an umbrella on a novel principle, the main feature of which is that it can be carried in the pocket with ease.  He intends sending it to the great Exhibition of next year.

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THE CORRESPONDENT OF THE DAILY NEWS at Constantinople; writing on the 25th ult., says:  “Yesterday, the 15th of Ramazan, witnessed a famous ceremony, which consists in adoring the shirt of the prophet, preserved in an apartment of the old Seraglio at Topkapon (Cannon-gate).  The Sultan, ministers, and high dignitaries, were admitted to kiss this sacred relic, which will remain exposed during some days for the veneration of the faithful.”