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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 lively touches, the mission of the man whose hospital is the battle-field, of his intrepid coolness and humane devotion.  Larrey was wounded, while binding the wounds of others, in Egypt and at Waterloo, in the days of glory and of disaster.  The President of the Assembly spoke with much feeling, and when he came down from his chair a general rush was made by his friends to embrace him.

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THE STANDISH GALLERY OF PICTURES in the Louvre was decreed by the French courts, a few days before his death, to be the private property of the late Louis Philippe.  It was left to the king by Mr. Frank Hall Standish, in 1838.  The library of this collection is very valuable.  It contains among other rare books the Bible of Cardinal Ximenes, valued alone at $5000.  One of the last acts of Louis Philippe was to present it to the French people.  He was desirous only of vindicating his rights in the courts.  The gallery therefore will not be removed.