The following appointments are officially announced: JOHN B. MELCHIORS, of New-York, Consul for the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt, the Elector ate of Hesse-Cassel, and the Duchy of Nassau.

The prize is named after the playwright and revolutionary Georg Büchner, who was born in the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1813 and died in Zurich in 1837.