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EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY OF AN AN GENT PRINTING PRESS IN INDIA-When Warren Hastings was Governor General of India, he observed that in the district of Benares, a little below the surface of the earth, was to be found stratum of kind of fibrous wooden substance, of various thicknesses, in horizontal layers. Major Roebuck, informed of this went to spot where an excavation had been made, dis playing this singular phenomenon. In digging somewhat deeper for further re- search, they laid open vault, which on ex- animation, proved 10 be of some size. and to their astonishmeht, they found kind of printing press, set up in the vault and on it moveable types, placed as if ready for printing

 Every inquiry was set oa foot to ascer- tain the probable period at which such an instrument could have been placed there, for 1t was not evidently of modem origin and from all the Major collected, it appear ee probable that the place had remained in the state in which it was found fearly 1eOO years. We believe, the worthy major, on his return to England, presented one of the learned associations with a memoir, con- tainlng many curious speculations on the subject.

 Paper, we know to have been manufac- tured Tn the East many centuries before we had any Knowledge of it; and we have ma ny reasons to think that the Chinese have been acquainted with the mode of printing they now employ, many centuries before Faust invented it in Europe. It certainly does no credit to the inventive genius of the Romans to know that they approached so near as 10 engrave, in style not to be 'equalled in the present age. on gems and stones, and Of course the taking of impress slons from them, and that they still should have remained ignorant of tbe art which has-bestowed so many blessings on man. kind