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JUST PUBLISHED, 1853, IN TINTED LITHOGRAPHY. AN INTERESTING VIEW OF CONCORD NEW HAMPSHIRE, (U.S.), FROM AN ORIGINAL PAINTING BY G. HARVEY, A. N. A. ____________ In presenting to the British and American public the accompanying print of Concord, the seat of government for one of the New England Commonwealths, the publisher deems it proper to offer a few prefatory remarks. A view of this village formed one of the sixty illustrations employed by the artist, Mr. HARVEY, in the lectures which he had the honor of delivering before the members of the Royal Institution, as well as before many other literary and scientific societies of Great Britain. The view was selected as embodying in a picturesque, as well as in a characteristic manner, many of those general features common to the villages in the northern part of the United States, and as such it has been published, in the hope that it will possess a popular interest in both countries. At the time Mr. HARVEY drew the original sketch, from which the "illustration" and the painting were made, there was not the slightest indication that this retired community was destined to have the attention of every American citizen, as well as the intelligent of all Europe drawn to it, from its being in the place of residence of GENERAL PIERCE, who has since been called to fill the most honorable, but at the same time the most responsible office in the gift of a free people, that of presiding over a "Federal Government," which links into one body politic more than thirty commonwealths. In the present day, when the thoughtful and governing minds of the people, express themselves as being most anxious to cultivate honorable and amicable relations with every country, there is not only a peculiar applicability in the name of "Concord," but also in the opening remarks employed by Mr. HARVEY, when lecturing on the scenery, resources, and progress of North America. They have, therefore, been extracted to accompany the print, in the hope they will prove acceptable. After the usual preliminary statement, relating to the subject of the lectures, Mr. HARVEY would remark - "That from the earliest period of the world of which we have any authentic record-that is from the time of Moses to the present day-it has been customary to bestow peculiar honors on the first-born of a family; and as there is a striking analogy between national and individual offspring, I can see no good reason why England should not look towards the United States with sentiments similar to those which most parents love the entertain and cherish for their first-born. Unfortunately, as it relates to