From the Philadelphia Saturday Courier. THE DISCOVERY IN PRINTING.
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Our readers have been informed that an invention, called 'sAnastatc Printing" has been set forth as having been made i'll Eng land, which, should 1t turn out to be any thing like what it is claimed 10 be, will ln- deed prove the most t.wonder.ul discovery of the age" By it, the inventor declares he has the ability to give copies of books, news papers, engravings, &c., in very brief space of time. The process is declared to be re- markedly simple, the operation being to trans fer the impression of type or any print to the surface of a polished plate of zinc, and then to bring 1t out in slight relief to receive the ink, and so to work from it as from the stone of the Photographic press.

 In one of the accounts of this invention, it is stated that the writer having desired CO., py of the page of a newspaper with three il- lustralions on wood, the inventor engraved the page, type, cuts, and all, and gave him six copies in less than ten minutes! the zinc plate thus engraved being capable of produ- cing 10000 impressions, and then of being fe-engraved, ad infnitum. Thus an octayo volume, with wood or steel illustrations to any eXtenty they assert, may be reproduced in two or three days or less, hundreds of thousands struck off, equal in all respects to the original.

 We present what is said about this inycn- lion, as we find il, il is indeed discovery that would be scarcely less in importance than printing itself There would be an in- tire revolution in printing, publishing, stereo- typing and engraving. No limit could be placed to the multiplication of copies of works. It is stated that an agent for the in yention isnow in this country, and supposed that it will not be long before there will be an opportunity to find out whether the won- derful promises of this discovery are what is claimed for it.

 A writer in the Boston Courier states that Mr Dixon, then of Trenton, discovered the art of transferring 10 a blank sheet distinct and complete impressions of printed page and all engraving, and that he made at Boston, in the year 1859, in the presence of Edward Everett, and others, in few minutes, copies of page 524 of SchaaI's Syriac Lexicon, as perfect and beautiful as the original. Subse- quendy, in the presence of many other gen llemen, whose names are. given, lie took many other impressions, and was entirely successful in all his experiments.