Daily National Intelligencer

Magnificent monuments of ancient splendour still continue to be discovered in searching the ruins of Pompeii.

Behind the temple which was lately noticed, a public building has been found, built at right angles, 260 Neapolitan palms long, and 120 broad and surrounded in the interior by a portico of 50 columns. It is ornamented with beautiful paintings, some of which are very valuable, as among others, one which represents a warrior precipitated from a car drawn by fiery horses. The pavement is a Mosaic, formed in part of small white and colored stones and in part of large slabs of marble of various colors. Several inscriptions have been traced, that ascertained the use of this monument.—One of them indicates that the right luminum obstruendorum (a right established by the Roman laws, preventing, in certain cases, neighboring proprietors from having lights or prospects over the contiguous estates) had been purchased at the price of several thousand sesterces.

This discovery has afforded new riches to sculpture—several statues have been found. A Venus 5 palms high, and a Hermaphrodite may be placed among the finest specimens of the Greek chisel that have come down to us. Several distinguished Artists think that in this Venus they have discovered one worthy to dispute pre-eminence with the Venus de Medicis. This opinion, inspired perhaps by the pleasure of the discovery, may be before long discussed, as these precious monuments of sculpture are to be transported to the Musee Bourbon.

In the same place have been found two arms of bronze, adorned with bracelets. The Chevalier Ardita, who directs the search, hopes to be enabled in a short time to expose the whole extent of Pompeii, which will probably be a mine fruitful in objects of the Fine Arts.—French Paper.