The Express. — London, England, 1858-05-06 00:00:00

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'AU BTUS' IPAON CANTON. —Doi • D• 11 TO .—timanisso oil. P111N1.141101. Tan From 1.111 WO. II 110114111011; at. Trite Ilmi• FAUST AID 11•11VIIIIITIL Mr. O. lar..—Aad 11 101A1C11 Or 111M4YLI—Opea AS 11. 41 , Tags Winos, NITS& TOO LaTI TO YRp. Warn lemb. & NAM/ MIMI IL ° ll4)T i l i a Wlddbewsb.—.lla4 CII4EIOIII D MO. Mi Inns Jena& —oftressist 11.10 H WATER AT LONDON BMW& reea l ig:A.roA It If ...... ....Afterrift IL -umiak TX Um. •116 LONDON, THURSDAY, HAY & LORD BURT has carried by amajority of 40 the mooed reading of his Bill tot legalising marriage with • deceased wifs'e sister. The arguments in favour of abolishing this vexations restriction have so recently been eefurmd in these ooltimns that their repetition would be wearisome and unprofitable. Nothing new was, or indeed well could be, advanced on either side. The theological objection, the senti mental objection, and the Scotch objection were duly paraded by their advocates, and successfully answered by their opponents. In reply to the first, it was shown that the Levitical text, by only pro hibiting such marriage in the wife's lifetime, im pliedly sanctions it after her decease. With regard to the argument founded on the sup- . . posed unpossibility o( easy and virtuousinte r course between the brother and sister in law if the prohibitory law were repealed, it was pointed oat, as it had repeatedly been pointed out befall, that this apprehended inconvenience was not, in het, found to exist in countries where law opposes so bar to such unions; that the objection is baud upon views of human nature as degrading se they are false ; finally, that the imaginary grievance supposed likely to arias from this source is infinitely outweighed by the real end practical discomfort which this artificial law is at the present moment inflicting in hundreds, eye thousands, of virtuous and respectable English homes. The question was asked—bat it was not, fur it could not be, answered —why, if such marriage.' were prohibited by the text of Scripture, did the Bench of Bishops permit the Act of 1835 to pus, legalising such marriage@ in the past while declaring them void for the future? It was also urged that the proposed change in the law only went to make these marriages legal, sot, as might be supposed from the tome taken by its opponent", to render them compulsory. People entertaining conscientious objections to such unions will have the same power of giving practical effect to their objections after the legislative restriction has been removed as they had before. The oaly difference will be that these who have no objection of this kind will be then enabled to do with the sanction of law what they now do on the prompt ing of affection and with the approval of conscience. What can be urged against their right to do so ? A text which is scarcely doubtful, and an argument which is wholly sentimental. Grounds like these are of course amply sufficient to justify individual disapprobation of the marriages in question ; but tan it be for a moment contended that they form the adequate basis for a prohibitory law of universal application ? The question is really one of grave import. Here is a cam in which law is on one side, nature on the other. Three and twenty years ago the British Legislature, with strange inconsistency, was pleased to dselare that these marriages should be valid se regarded the past, void asregarded the future. Down to a given day in 1836, the supposed Levitical prohibition was decreed to be nugatory ; after that date it was decreed to be binding. But the people did not participate in the incon sistency of the Legislature. They took their own view of the Levitical text ; they paid no attention to the legislative prohibition. They went on, and to this day, in spits of all the hardship and injustice created by the prohibitory law, they still go on forming the forbidden connexion. At the present moment there exist in England thousands of such unions. In order to escape from the reproach of living in a state unsanctioned by the law of the land, many of the wealthier classes, under legal ad vice, repaired to foreign countries, there to cele brate marriages which our own law is almost solitary in prohibiting. The recent decision ia Baooi's case has established the point that the courts of this country will regard such marriages as illegal under the Act of 1835, though valid at the time when and in the place where they were yaw traded. This constitutes the climax of the hard &hip. It is not enough that an artificial law makes oat of the supposed prohibition of a dubious text an impassable barrier to the celebration in this country of marriages in which vast numbers of the popula tion can see nothing objectionable. It goes further. It stamps such marriages with illegality wherever solemnized : it brands them with nullity: it bastard ises and disinherits the offspring, even though at the time and place of their celebration no law was violated, no social feeling in any way contravened. There is another perplexity. The Legislature of one of our Australian colonies hes just thrown wide the restriction, and in express terms legalised marriage with a deceased wife's sister. This act of the South Australian Parliament requires the sanction of her MAJWIT in Council. What is to be done? Is the sanction to be withheld or granted? Lord Dilator very wisely told the deputation the other day that he left the question of the,, marriages quite an open one. In the face of the fade jest adverted to; of this last majorityin the Ccennons ; of the pest and growing interest excited out of deers; oldie notorious adhesion of a most influen tial portion of the clerical body—even the House of Lords cannot surely insist on keeping up a restrio tin so useless, so demoralising, and so vexatious. Tin Judges of the Queen's Bench have, it will be observed, unanimously discharged tha rule foe a new trial in the Royal British Beak ere. They Lave done so on the substantial ground that the jury, upon the evidence, were abundantly justified in lad ing that the conspiracy charged in the information Lad been intend into, sad that each and all of the i THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY AVENING, MAY 6, defendants, though with different degrees of erimi- nality, were implicated in such eoispiracy.. T j refusal of the Court to grant the rule having beak unanimous, the application is conclusively dleposed of, the verdict of the jury remains unimpeadisil i , and the prisoners whose term of punishment is un expired will have to undergo the full residue of their sentence. This result is satisfactory. It would have been much to be regretted had any way been found through which these wealthy culprits could have escaped the meshes of the law : it is quite enough that, to the deep discredit of certain mercantile circles, expressions of sympathy, almost testimonials of approbation, should have been prof fered to one or two of these delinquents. To have found the law balled in punishing the fr►uds at which men of business have shown only too much disposition to connive, would have been a sorry con clusion to the history of this miserable and dis graceful swindle. As it is, subtlety and ingenuity have done their utmost, but Justice keeps fast her gripe. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—lnerrzatay. NAAWIAI3I LAW AIIINDMINT BlLL.—Order for second t=reed ; motion made end quell= pr.pmed, " That he now reed • mooed Hum" Amendment proposed, to leare est the word " now," end at the end of the game - Hon to add the words " upun this day six months "—(Mr. Hope) Qaeetloo put, "That the word ' now' send part of the qesstica."—The house divided : Ayes, 174 ; Nina, 134. - - AT lib Agar. B. Z. Forunra, U. F. D. Pam, H. Abaft & Frnearre, 0. S. mt , ,, . : °.l Aslgawa.ll: J. For. W. J. AA*, Litt Own. & & J. W . 112. J j. . Albinaaa Orgligil, J. 11. Mama. IA Ma. T. M. rigliir 'Tr . !. d Oillord, earl al Peed( F.& Oiro. U. 0. M ) =ILL KA IL T. 01 ,.i.m4 r5. 17. G ib., ai.i... G. FILL w. bets& T. srmarkt = j a. w. k. E Oar. twang =. II W7W. D. Oronganr, FM = j i. a to ma& l & w. lea liarCiar tr. J. t=d. O. 11110111. IL = a ll IL Reailiga. Ladling/ WaTig. Mr I. V. Erraiim. IL Dai lliM MA . L IM" MIK J . Reamis JI. ll_ .=4 . IMilth. J. & Dpi, J. Hanaggig, J. A. Pula. 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Thatch the Jens cannot get into Parliament they It see contrived to get admission into the &Pesti° House of Com move, for at least one active member, in the person of Mr. Hart, represents them in glowing colours in his scene from their ancient Lietory—" Athaliah's dismay at the coro nation of Josiah" (79), • picture imp enough and showy enough to serve as an altar-piece for any synagogue. We would rather be excused from criticising such an ambitious performance, but it certainly furnishes a proof that an ar tist may have a thorough acquaintance with the theory Of lie art, as the painter of this picture has shown in his learned lecture*, and yet be unable successfully to apply principles to practice. This large, gaudy, theatrical I yea, " killing" every picture in its vicinity by its sickly mew, deadly whites, end dirty yellows, must be a beaten ' does eyesore to the artists whose pictures are placed near it. The action is ea exaggerated as the colour is forced, and adly waits some of the more stately and classical, but equally veltennu, intensity of Racine's Atha'. Mr. Leslie's contribution (No. 152) should previously have received attention for the elevation of its ettbjeut, sad for its situation in the " place of honour," as well as—we might almost add—for oar high estimation of Mr. Leslie's former works. But, alas I we are again ernbanmeed how to expense our impression honestly. We certainly think that—like tido sellers countryman, West, who was likewise born an Await= —Mr. Leslie has in the painting of religious subjects mistaken his vocation. This picture (a repetition aorta painted away years since) represents Our Saviour calling a little child unto Him in order to rebuke the dispute of the disciples as to who should be greatest. The head of Christ is surrounded by the orthodox nimbus, but not a spark of divinity emanates from it, and it is altogether the weakest in the picture. The heads of the Apostles are simply those of honest, inoffensive, end rather gentlemanlike men, with which the old-masteriah grouping and the academic draperies are curiously incon gruous. There is, we need not say, in all Mr. Leslie pro duces, however alight, propriety of expression ; but, beyond all comparison, the sweetest part of this picture is the bend , Ina mother encouraging bra beautiful Luis timid half-naked child to go to Jesus. This mother and child, however, is only a variation of several repetitions of pictures Mr. Leslie has painted (roman exquisite drawing of Raphael. The colour ing is of the authorised religious tone, and therefore less crude than usual, though the green foliage is quite intolerable. Mr. Phillip is certainly noe of our most rising ornate. He is a rich sad powerful colourist, manly and vigorous in his essentlen, end original in conception, The felicity with which he his caught the Spanish character proves him also a &ea observer sad accurate delineator of man and nature. Certainly no country in Europe oilers more picturesque mate rials to the artist than Spain. The stimulus this afforded may be seen also in the superiority of Mr. Ansdell's works since he accompanied Mr. Phillip to Spain. Mr. Phillip's dramatic power and pathos are displayed very conspicuously in his large picture of "Spanish Contrabsndistas" (406). A young smuggler lies mortally wounded in the stable d• oases, whither he has been canted, the rosary has fallen from his relaxed hand, and the spirit seems just to have writ away. Over him bends a glpey girl —one of her hands feels for the beating of his heart, and the other holds a smell looking•glase before his month to see if he still breathes, The effect of this is extremely original, the refection of the glass adding fearfully to the ghastliness of death in the pallor of the bloodless cheek and lips, and the cold glisten of the glazing eye. At a small window near stand., on the look out, a somewhat older oontrabaadista, with his blunderbuss treirwjo raised ready to shoot down the Bret doganero thee comes in eight. Another armed comrade is hurrying oil with the smuggled bales. The deadly determination in the fellow's face at the window, sad the agony in the girl's knit and contracted brow, are expressed with the utmost Force. The striped draperies, the curious trappings of the mule, eniff_ng over his master, and all the accessories, are capital, and the colouring superb. A c.hoice specimen of the Spanish type of beauty may be seen in, we believe, the portrait of a intone singer, with heraco3mpanying dolma (No. 118). "El Cartijo" (183), a man taking the Mensal cigaretto from his mouth and politely lifting his sombrero to • not displeased young woman as he offers her safe conduct, is a bit of truth from humble life. To see " Youth in Seville" we have only to look Tip at the Moreno, window in No. 487, and te admire the "Daughters of the Alhambra" we must linger before No. 600. Mr. Solomon's principal performance, " The Lion in Love" (464), tempts as to repeat Mr. Buskin's famous tirade ea Millais, for verily here is " not merely fall, but cater trophe." The extraordinary and unsuspected power dis played by this artist when he had to grapple with the seriousness of his " Waiting for the Verdict," induced a general belief that Mr. Solomon would become one of our most distinguished painters. But, alas I what • falling off is here, due partly, perhaps, to the critics, who would turn artists into little better than maa-milliners or Daguerreo typirs, and partly to the fact that that fine Crabbe-like pic ture has reenered, we believe, on the artist's hands till within a few weeks, while the present was sold before exhibi tion, and will be engraved immediately after. This "Lion" is a grey old general, with dyed moustache, who, smitten with the ruddy charms of a sprightly young lady, like Hercules is the toils of Omphale, is vainly saying with much carica tured energy to thread her needle, while she sits roguishly leashing at his awkwardness. The mere painting is equally a retrogression with the subject. But with an utterly worth ier three, we would as soon, nay rather, have doggrel than the most polished versification. Much better as • work of art, and more humorous, is Goldsmith's " Madam Blake" (No. 464), asleep in bar pew under the influence of emlionpotist and the summer enemas'. mu 'hieing through the red curtains, tendering her a still greater contrast to her slim, wakeful, pale, devoted companion. " The Flight" (228) a family trying to escape in lad* u we leant from the servant, the embroidered scarf, and the palms, Is still mare careful. Mr. 13olomon's sister, Mime A. Solomon, hen, however, this year evinced far mon Invention than her brother in " Behind the Curtain" (1,094), in which reel do mestic misery present. an affecting contrast te the try* woes the poor strolling players are about to assume. There is also a pew Raphaelite attempt to depict the " Real lee of Abraham" (1,006), by a very young brother of Mr. Bolamos. One of the most marvellous work' of minute imitation, mid likewise beautiful in colour and true in expremica, Is " The Binidy Trysts" (29), by Mr. Piton. Accordbig to at old ballad, "The Harts and Hyndr," • proud, beset/hl black-haired lady meets her knightly lover at the preom certed spot—in the hollow by the clear bubbling rill—and during the interview, mistaking his jesting for earnest, stabs him with hi■ own dagger. Learning her mistake from his dying lips, we see her frantically struggling to escape from the sight of that too-fondly-leved, handsome, and gallantly attired, but now lifelem body. The leafy luxuriant vegeta tion beside tire Own, the mosses, fermi, grasses, weeds, and Sowers, the adder on the boulder, and every object in every fractional part of the picture, is picked out with almost pre ternatural delicacy. Similar truth of imitation will be NM in pert of Mr. Paton'• "In Memoriam" (471), but the whole effect is comparatively hard and edgy, dry, and fiat. Tbe subject, however, • Christian mother in India, ear reandad by her terrified family looking up with ratignatkin to heaven, as the bloodthirsty Sepoys seen through the opiates have, as is evident from their savage yelling, duos eared Asir biding pleas—the subject, we my, will touch •11 hearts sad wooed tray. Boaceccio relates of Dante, that ;miming one day • doorway at which some women ware smerabled, one of them re marked, " That le the man who goes down Into hell sad comes away when he likes, and then write, what he has gems." This is the Incident Mr. Elmore has taken for • picture (No. 8), which be contributes atter • year's abeam* freak the walls. The blended cariosity and superstitious ewer in the women, who huddle up oat of hie path ; the lank, abroad like purple dress In the bright sun of Florence, and the sardonic smile cm the ascetic tare of the author of the " Initura" me well given. The " Subject from ' Two Oestiemea of Verona"' (120), though evidently a study of Weer, le net in this quality quite astidectory. As • picture the fereehortenhig of the Duke's kge is a grave mistake, sad all the Weis appear too large, though the expression In that of the Doke felicitous. This is a dipiosea plasm Whoa as artist receires hie diploma as fall Amass*** it is cus tomary to proem a lamp* of hi. ability. la this way the Royal Academy his became posemead olds. highly isterestbqg calleseise of *tura (ilimemetlng, es they tier • mmelier able ere* the Istmory of Brit*►h art), which wee lately ex hibited et Maasbasitar. Meath, dlplana pietmre le " The Bribe" (173), by Kr. F. R. Mere% white we Nippon hoe only rematly bees preemdeL Ike the bat, it is little more Kam • ley-figure study of costume sad odour , not mithstomding that mane Hass which It is inhaled to illwanste me legged in it hi the (eulogist. Val Wawa?* is dm ocatrast with me worealiss per mil r "Ertwafd, He "--a transport about OD lave with tramp it ha, by Kr. H. 01%4 aa lAA vtao, 'Aar haying dp7 advanced for some years, has at bat made • Apia* stride. Down the side of • troop alp • arum of friend& and relatfiss, mothers, sisters, sweethearts, and fathers, are lingedigly descending, and reluctantly entering the boats which stew moments hence will saw them, per haps for ever, from all on earth they love best. 'One honest, weeping wife scarce dare look back to recognise her husband through her tears. The widow turns in mute de jection from her son, • daughter only remaining to comfort her; another parent takes the last look of love; the young officer leaves the long-to-be-remembered kiss on the lips of his betrothed, and sn old pen►ioner shows proudly to his grandson a medal, which be also is expected to win. All, and far move than this, such as the red-faced captain aloft, who sings out, " Time's up," and the half derisive boatman below, who looks upon his expected boat-load of human suffering as so truck freight, is discriminated with the broadest feeling of humanity. There is • commensurate largeness in the treatment, also, and this picture will place O'Niel henceforth among the most distinguished artists of the day. Mr. J. 8. Clark, whose " Sick Child" attracted consider able attention in the last year's exhibition, has • kind of com panion picture in "The Doctor's Viat " (89), even less satisfactory in colour, but full of intelligence th the woes scrim of the room, the quiet same:Mai look of the dog, the purring of the cot, who seem both to approve of the visit, and the higher merit of truthful expremion in the languor of the poor sick boy, and the anxious watchful hanging of the mother on the words as they drop from the doctor's lips. Yr. It. Carrick likewise, an artist previously almost un known, whose exquisite picture of a young mother bending over her sleeping boy also elicited so much admiration, haa, In " Weary Life" (300), another excellent work. A poor mountebank, exhausted with fatigue, has, together with his poor tired boy, literally "got into clover," for they are lying in a clover bed, end under •clover rick. Here a country isms finds them, and mingled compassion and astonlahmsat at the I strangely dreamed figures are plainly written to her face. The imitation throughout is very exhaustive. Mr. C. Lucy has • large canvass representing "General Bonaparte on his voyage to Egypt" (20). According to the partial Boer- Aeon., the general wee a religious man I and one Bas evening on the voyage rebutted some materialistic arguments made by his philosophic companions by demanding, " Who made all that?' pointing to the deep blue firmament. But argument cannot be put into • picture; the subject is, therefore, a mistake. It has, however, the merit of sobriety of effect, simplicity of arrangement, sad the interest of containing portraits of the eminent wawa who accompanied that expedition. Mr. Cope has • Highland salmon fly-fisher helping • blushing Issue over " The Stepping-stones" (94) of • glancing, dizzy, stream. Her trepidation, if real, is pretty, and still prettier if only as sumed. The figures seem embossed, from Mr. Cope's peculiar white, mealy, execution, and the exaggerated dark ening of the shadowy recess of the bark-ground. In No. 61, " Upward Gating," a girl holds her infant sister, who le looking up with cherub rapture in its full blue eyes at the stainless, eternal, deep blue sky —type of the unclouded, heavenly vacancy of its own spotless immortal mind. Mr. Cope, to judge from the frequent repetition of then baby "objects, meat be a highly favoured paterfamilias. Mr. Charles Landseer's scene of gallantry, from " The Devil en Two Sticks" (192), taken by Itself, is rather watery sad jejune, though with the proper foils in the pages of Le Sege It sparkles like a gem. Such subjects are only desirable for a *lgor like Mr. C. Landseer, who is strong in the weak parts of the picture ; who excels in painting elaborate interiors and richly-dressed puppets, but who leaves no impres 'ion on the mind ; whose flora do not move and breathe, sad whose faces do not think or feel. Mr. Calderon has made a notable advance in " The Gaoler's Daughter" (442), a wane from the first French revolution. A young priest is incarcerated—an intended victim for the insatiate maw of the guillotine. Conscious of his inevitable fate, he hes carved on the back of his rough wooden prison -chair the woe& " eformir," esounr," self to persuade himself that sleep sad death are identical. And then, as it were further to assure himself, be has— just as he sat carving those words—quietly bowed his head over that chair-back, as he must so soon under the bloody knife, and fallen asleep peacefully as an infant. The rough gaoler will not disturb him; but, alter placing his coarse leaf and jar of water, is leaving the oell, followed by hie little son. The poor young pritre to nor yet beyond the sympathy of his race. The gaoler's daughter, though wearing the records tricolor, also still lingers in the oell itself, with loving pity very sweetly expressed in her whole attitude, unwilling to be drawn away by her little brother. This child's head is • failure ; but the expression of the sister is the great point of this touching picture, which is also in other respects we l painted. In concluding the present notice we would draw particular attention to the remarkable picture by Mr. G. A. Thome, of that most interesting mew, the "Presentation of the Crimean Medals" (599) before the Home Guards. This ex cellent work is bung a trifle too high for the visitor of ordi nary stature to appreciate the miniature-like delicacy and ad mirable faithfulness of the innumerable portraits of heroes which occupy the whole of the front plans, but it is not too far removed to compel admiration of the skilful manner in which the very nnpictorial peculiarity of our foggy London atmosphere is taken advantage of to conquer the chief diffi. calties in such a subject, the preservation of breadth, and the avoidance of confusion in dealing with the broken maim or monotony ►n the rank end file. Thus, roadster Junk is preserved, and pictnreequenese not sacrificed. In Erse, the truth and art in the aerial perspective, in the gradual lei/Minton of the distance, in the white light of a summer morning struggling through a beautiful composition of clouds, and permeating a hazy, foggy London atmosphere, are effects se anceeedul as anything In the exhibition. VA eoun. THE DRAWING-ROOM. TIN Queen held a drawing-room yesterday alter ation is St. Jaime's Palate. The court was auraeroosly at the Waded, Moot two handled end slaty lathes were preeeated to Qum. Thar Majesty ad the Prince Comport !arrived from Bucking ham Pekoe, seasaded by the Ladies end Osedems& Weid&g. Bar ][dealt wore a trate of gram satin covered with lam of BMW meeallacture of the roes, shamrock, sad thistle steers, trimmed with embalm of Blom, whita sod lilac. The peeheess of whits stiff Isaias skirt at the same Moe. The Qum MVO • gimlet et dlessemle se a hastolrem. The lamiga Aashaseadom end llllelawire were Snit intro dusk eke& the Isl iamet iva lo iag d zrearadoss to bar Majesty took OM the_ dip By Mae EleVes—Nrs. Charles Amory, of Boston Yam., end bar deeper Idles Suet. Amery; Mr.. Ba ldwia, Beelcm, MM. wed bar daught Kies Baldwin. By As Censtess of Melros e, bury —Le Marquise de T Ism= de Owed d'Ailidree de pas Naples • Ida de Barged& By die radars tram the United Ststse—Mr. George Darr, of New York; Profewor Alexander, United States Commie. stoner is latereseional Coinage ; Lieutetiant William Stokes Boyd, commeradieg Mariam United SWIM share Moto Sen N T a rtiglontatio and gearsl ciralee ware numerously re ded. _ TM Qum sod Priam Consort afterwards returned to 11•51pastsai Palm. . Attar the sraviag- room the Queen, accompanied by Primes Atka and Priam Arthur, drays out in e= sad tear. In aliendence sere the Hon. flora !I Lard Weak and Major-General the Hon. C. Orry. The Prime Consort rode oat on horseback, attended by Liestamint-Celonsi Pesseaby. In the evenig bar /dajeety's Maser party iscinded the Darien of SAM. the Duke sad Dumber of BuoMeucb, the Haase Town. Minister end Madame Rucker, the Bari and Canteen of Durham, Lady Panay Howard, the Bishop of Lendea, Lord end Lady Regtea, Imdy Peel. the Roc Premole Seasor, sad Lleabmens-Colonel Evert, NM Heigh. Yearn Thairoasibir Gam& bud was In attaadaaas. TIM Priam Caoscat ertlay at a amarlaar at On Bac aus klash.. ed tido Decay ar m brad at the DripsSoh .pas, Ba.rt A Cabinet Council was bald yesterday at the official residence of the Chancellor of the Ex. chequer, in Downing-street. The Ministers present were :--Tbe Earl of Derby, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Hardwicke, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Secretary Walpole, the Earl of Maltneebury, Lord Stanley, General Peel, Sir John Pakington, the Earl al Ellenborough, the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, and Lord John Manners. A desinkatfon,lncloding Lord Raselack Kr. William Lee, Mr. Jobs Eiger, Colonel Fluidal*, Mr. Jobn Kelk, Mr. WlMem Wlleceoindlroyd, had an interview with Lard he Measers. First Commissioner of Pub& Work., rarretr, as Ma aloe of Public Works, Whitehall- Plow CANeanl. AND On'PAX—Notices were gives is tat Cart el Comm Camoil el t. City of Looks mime.- day el melt= for eraioniag thehowloak al Um Cremes die Cam Campbit oaf ham Oalam lo perm/ she to ghe •Modred piss serce4 le etch gouthma. The Christian Knowledge Society has Loved a for lam They yeepoe• te rheas MOW rr il follbrer al amanso far Ihre pen) learunla the penal= et venous *aft eameolei Ida ihe anoomila elAeillaa ia ibet bad. lb neat Ihto pest WI/q. obey " begs awl Mud efillohao will be mai to oho gootalor y more Oda ofebolff." Ala maissea= obe woolose agreed diat rte be the endowneet a the seer aie 1617 — obeny rid& taw Diejestro gorwoloom ben Nair him kestag oat of the arrthora portion cello, lima Wain. THE TURNER DRAWINGS. • On the 16th of May, 400 of Turner's drawings, forming pert of the national collection, but which have not hitherto been exhibited, will be ready for public inspection. They include Alpine subjects of great value, the Rhos of RagLoid, the Rivers of France, the Vignettes of Rogwe's Poems, Studies of Mountain Sosnery in Scotland and Switzerland, and many precious drawings from nature at Rome and Naples. Besides these 400 drawings, which will be framed, 1,000 of leas value will have been mounted by the middle of May sufficiently for purposes of protection and display. Mr. Ruskin, under whose care theme drawings have been prepared fur exhibition, is framing an illustrative catalogue of the whole. Three are also about 200 large sketches sad drawings, many of them very noble, for which it is difficult to suggest any arrangement, and which can only be exhibited to the event of an enlargement of the N►tional Gallery. They had been ranch crashed, and otherwise ill-trusted by Tuner, sad were nearly all moth-eaten. Nevertheless it would be possible to exhibit than in glazed panels, although not to portfolios. _ But besides these there era a very large number of draw ings in pocket Dote-books, both sides of every leaf being covered with its pencil sketch. Mr. Raskin bas desk with 36 of these note-books, containing in all 3,132 haves, but the total number of note-books is 267. To mount all these so that they may be handled without injury will be a work of time. The remaloder of the Turner drawings Mr. Rookie thinks might profitably be divided into five or iii collections, and went to the Academies of Edinburgh, Dublin, and the principal English manufacturing towns. EXAMINATIONS AT THE INCORPORATED LAW SO CIETT.—At the Heater Term examination of candidates for admission on the roll of attorneys and solicitors of the ape nor courts, the examiners considered the following gado man as the candidates, under the sera 26, who dawned ho norary dietialion of the first _ —l. Herbert Henry Watford, of 65, Lowsdee-square London, aged 22, who eared cler k ship to Meters. iron. Barnes , and Elli s , o f Spring-gardens, Westmin s t er; ' . Thomas William Mar chat, 8.A., of High-street, Deptford, aged 24. who mined hls cdeekship to Mears Walters, Rouniien, and Young, of New-gnats, Lincoln's-inn. The Council of the Incorporated Law Society have accordingly awarded—To Mr. Watford the rise of books of the Ho n . S oc i e ty o f Cliff or d' s -i nn ; , to Mr. Merchant, Um prise of books of the Incorporated Law !Moiety. The examiners have also certified that the fullow log caadidatos palmed examinations which tulle them to commendation :—lleney Barker, of Hodder/geld. aged 21, who raved ids cl•rkship to Marrs Baiter, of Huddersfield, and Mr. Charles Lever, of Fre dmick's-plaes, Old Jewry, Londou. Walter Lewis Bellamy. of I, Tavitow.streer, Gordon-square, Loodon, aged 23, who served his ckekship to Maws. Rakes, Ford, Losg boars*, and Viclorrran, of Scatth-square, f3rafeinn. Jamas Betreghtee Edge, of Holum-a-Moore, aged 21 , who served his clerkship to Mr. Owego Monas%f Beitomlo•Moore, end Mown. Newman asdilledlay, of Cbmasids, Leedom. Edward RIMS nom, of Promo* nod who arVed Mm olseimitip to Mears. Keyes Yet Pillabortes. of ?moot ; Mr. Slword Boasw, of Loomed ; Moomo. Wright and Da , dhems • an Moms. 0 mow, sad • Bodfordlrow, Loam. Many of 26, Word star*, Hparpeelt, aged 26, vao mead his . clerkaltip to Mr. Thome WHO* Nolooo. et cloak-lase, London. 0110 p Bas of 7, 'Pestamvills, London, aged 21, who sawed his to Mr. Healy Jenkins, of Liverpool, sa. Ilkers, FMK oad Jaokka, of Boilbrtviw, Lesi 1841j ti wer 4 EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (swag ova Owx ooszieroranorr.) PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The Menacer announces that the gardens on the south-east and north-east of the Louvre, extending from the Apollo gallery opposite the river to the parallel gallery in the Rue Ricoh, have been thrown open to the public by order of the Emperor. This is a very important addition to the public prome nades of Paris. These gardens are quite new. There are numerous lawns and flower-beds in ad mirable order, in the midst of which meats are placed for the accommodation of the public. The boon is probably intended se a compensation for the lose of a portion of the Tuileries' garden. The Correspondance Battier, which has a con siderable circulation in the departments, mentions as a fact a orthy of notice, that at the Salon des Am bamadeurs, a cafe chantant, exactly opposite Lord Cowley's garden-gate in the Champs Elysees t the orchestra played the other night the celebrated air from the opera of Charles VI.: Non, non jams's en Franoe Josonto l'Anglais no r4rnara. This air, it affirms, hu never be'ore been played in France for the last ten years, and in order to give more point to the observation, it adds that the per formances at these open air concerts are " very strictly watched by authority." The inference, therefore, is irresistible, that the same influences which prompt Id. Renee of the Constitutionnel, M. Louis Veuillot of the Univers, and M. de Calonne of the Revue des Deux Mendes, to endea vour to light up the uhes of old animosity between England and France, have now encouraged the revival of this song. I repeat in the most emphatic manner what I have before stated, that there is no hostile feeling against England among the people of France, and that the assertions that the govern ment is likely to have any difficulty in preventing the nation from making war upon us, are pure in ventions resorted to by particular individuals, for purposes best known to themselves. The Moniteur de la Flotte, the organ of the Ministry of Marine, has been instructed to throw discredit upon the statements of the croakers in the English House of Commons who habitually allege that our coast defences are insufficient. It says: At every discussion in the House of Commons on the navy estimates, we find that, in spite of the various coatis dictory opinions expressed by mambas, all the pants asked by the ministers are voted, while the cabinet is implored to place the meat, ports, and commerce of Old England once for all in a state of defence. As a raise, the naval prepara tions made by other countries, end principally by Prance, are vigorously described, and this policy never falls to create the desired effect. This rem is reproduced every year with complete success, sad it is thus that the British fleet attains annual development. In this year's debate, very grave enters held forth on the possibility in an invasion of the shores of Old England, which have been imprudently left without protection from the insults of a foreign soldiery. Have, then, the Eng lish fleets vanished from the ocean which they ploughed in every direction? Have the dockyard. of Portsmouth, Pem broke, Devonport, &c., &c., been destroyed, and the work men discharged ? What has become of the Mediterranean Beet and of that of the Channel ? Wo can relieve the anxiety of those who are alarmed at the fate of the English squadron in the Mediterranean, in which are serving comrades and friends of our officers of the Crimea and the Baltic. That squadron is still in existence. (Oar contemporary here enu merates the formidable fleet of Lord Lyons.) The Coast Guard service bee been completed, and an exact idea may be formed of the circle of iron and steam which encloses the English coast by the following statistics. (Here follows a detailed enumeration of the vessel of war In or out of com mission, blockahips, &c., &c., devoted to the protection of the coast.) We trust that these details will enlighten them persons on this aide of the Channel who have treated in a serious light the parliamentary complaints respecting the inability of the British naval forces to meet every eventuality that may arim. The Bourse, which opened rather heavily, was firmer at the close in consequence of news from Lon don that France and Euglaud were agreed about the Danubian Principalities, and that the Cagliari question was as good as settled. The Rents rose 15e. for cash and 10e. for account, closing at 69fr. 15c. and 69fr. 65c. Mobilier rose 32fr. 50c. The Northern, Eastern, and Lyons railways rose from 2fr. 50c. to Mr.; and the other principal lines remain with little change. Graisseesac and Beaiers fell 25fr. in consequence of a lawsuit in which the company is involved. A letter from Berlin of the let, in the Hamburg News, says:—" The Volkszeitung has been seized, and it now appears that proceedings have beau in • stunted against it for publishing an offensive article against the Emperor Napoleon. It consisted prin cipally of quotations from the pleadings of Mr. James at the trial of Bernard." The Empress Eugenie yesterday completed her 32nd year. This being the anniversary of the death of Napoleon 1., there wu the usual pr cession of old soldters of the empire from the Invalides to the column in the Place Vendome. The following telegraphic despatches have been received here : MARIEILLE/, MAT 5. The Avast &Orient says that the Porte persists in its resolution not to allow the treaties to be submitted to the Greek tribunals, but that it does not threaten Greece with any rupture, even ■ commercial one. Letters from Persia of April 3 state that 30,000 Persians bad beaten the Turcomans, and were hying siege to the capital. The English envoys were expected. VIENNA, MAY 6. The Turkish frigate Feiai•Bahri, with Fad Naha ea board, arrive at Trieste yesterday. Ha is impeded at Vitoria to-day oa his way to Paris, to take part is the awareness. PIEDMONT. In the sitting of the 2nd of the Piedmontese Chamber of Deputies, the bill for a loan to the Eo clesiutical Fund was brought on for discussion. After an animated debate, in which M. Deforesta, Minister of Justice, supported the bill in an able speech, the measure was passed by 78 votes to 9. Accounts from Turin state that the works voted by the Piedmontese Chambers for the creation of the naval establishment of La Spezzia are being carried on with great activity. The Bing will visit the spot about the end of this month, and Isy the first stone of the careening dock, which it is intended to make one of the finest in Europe. Se veral important questions will be decided during the visit of his Majesty, and particularly those which relate to the arming of the batteries intended to protect the entrance, and the construction of three forts on the heights which command the roadstead. M. Lafon, who has been named Vice-Consul of France at La Spezzia, has taken possession of his poet. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. A letter from Frankfort, in the Augsburg Gazette, says :—" We learn from a good source that, MOM". lag to the conclusions of the comatiesica of the Duchies, a delay of six weeks will be given to Denmark to make known the manner is which she intends to carry into action the resolution of the Diet of the With February. The oommiedea pro. posies moreover that Denmark shall be prohibited from Mining any farther decrees ooecrerning the constitutional question of the Duchiss." PORTUGAL. LISBON, IC All the government candidates have been e in the capital, and the government has obtain immense majority in the provinces. AUSTRIA. A Vienna letter in the Augsburg Baseless. "Great political importance is attached to the I the Archduke Maximilian to this city. We I mired that during his stay several questions n to Austrian policy in Italy will be closely eau and that the result will probably intineno subsequent course of proceeding. More than has passed away since the new system of ad tration in the Italian provinces was adopted is, since the journey of the Emperor and the nation of the Archduke as governor ; and that of time is sufficient, if not to produce all the of an entirely new policy, at least to make I if it be likely to have the favourable int expected from it. The report of the gove: those provinces will have a decisive imports the point." MONTENEGRO. A letter from Mostar, in a Vienna journal, that on the 21st a combat took place at Zi between the Bashi-Basouks and the insurgent latter being assisted by a number of Montene and that the number of killed and wounded wi CONFLICT WITH REBELS AT AZISIG (COM) OOLONSL MILLMAN TO BRIGADIER GORDON, COMM AT lIRNARES. Camp Acimghar, hiarc Sir,—l have the honour to report, for the madam of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, consequenos of a oommunication received from R. Esq., magistrate of Azinigbur, I marched from Balsa, about 3 a.m. on the 21st instant, and prose AU:owlets, so as to a.m., at the latter plats at dayligl 96 rank and gle of her Idajarty's 37 th, °Ka 24- pounder In one9-ponnoer, 22 European gunners Bengal Artillery, Madras cavalry. Information had been received that • considerable I mutineers were in the neighbourhood of Attrowlees. them posted in several topes of mangos trees, and I at with aldrmishersthrown out in front, the grace being an bye party of her Majesty's 37th Regiment, and the Cavalry on the flanks under Colonel Cumbelsge. lowed them u they retired for some distance, when afterwards they were driven into the open country cavalry were then enabled to act, and cut up a Let rebels ; bat the ground was so very marshy and u for the horses that the pursuit could not be con Lieutenant Welsh, however, opened fire •Rh • 24-f howitzer, and, sending a shell right in the midst o completed the discomfiture of the rebels, who quicl paned among the neighbouring tress. After this I co my march to Lula, which place I reached witho farther occurrence, and set the village on lire, effected the object fur which I set out from Roam I searched beck to Ant-owlets/. The men were halts neighbourhood of this village in topes of trees, and le was being prepared by the cooks, when news was ben soddenly that the rebels were advancing in great force. carded with some skirmishers to asoertsin their struts found them strongly posted behind a mud wall in the topes of trees and sugar canal. I then sent back on the troops to advance ; but the number of the rebels in so fast, and they covered such • large awe of grow both my flanks were threatened. Accordingly I took potation on • rising piece of ground slightly in my ret rebels attempted to turn my left flank, and I withdr and through the village of Attrowleea, at about 12 az moved slowly on Koeles„ my flank, and rear being an the oavalry. The rebels, though they followed and I a distance the whole way, never inflicted the slightest d Finding, on my snivel et Koalas, that the out threatened, and that the whole population in the disto disaffected, I despatched a squadron of cavalry, euppo a small infantry picket, to watch the rebels. The quickly charged by the cavalry and su ff ered a heavy I deed bodies being counted on the field besides wounde formation was, however, received that a large h rebels, estimated at about 6,000 men, were advancing camp. This meted such a panic amongst the car lowers that many of the hackevy drivers left their car all the companies' cooks ran away. Under those c stances, and taking Into conalderatlon the position camp, which wee very =tenable in case of s night and that no supplies or liquor of any kind whatever o obtained for the men, I judged It expedient to r Aninghur, which I nched safely this morning. In I this movement, I regret to say that owing to many hackney driven having run away as I previously eta was compelled to leave a few tents and some baggage I The loss of the rebels, I judge, must have been kmed. The orualtiee on our side were very trifling: two grazed by bullets ; one trooper, 4th Madras Light C severely wounded, and one sower mortally so (since Nothing could exceed the steadiness of the troops an command, and I roust particularly mention the able awe of Colonel Comberlege, 4th Madras Light Cava Captain Peliy, commanding detachment of her M 37th Regiment; of Lieutenant Welsh, Bengal Article quokka in firing and moving his guns on bed groom men marched nearly 48 miles by road, exclusive ground that was gone over in action, and upon very fare during the whole time. Lieutenant Ricketta Bengal Light Infantry, acted as staff officer to my fort displayed great seal and activity in his duty. The rebels consisted chiefly of &Toys of Kooer force, and on the bodies of the slain were found Sufi other mrdets.—l am, &0., (Signed) EORRTON MILLMAN, Colonel her Majesty's 37th Beo Commanding Azimghur Field n (Extract from a Priests Letter.) Thies Mesas had field gums, Riegel., and ammuni perfection and profusion. One of my men gave me posse hammered shot which had parted overeat heel faros was inadequate, sad we were lucky to get so en of the dilemma, and with so little damage. My little was attacked by between 5.000 and 6,000 men altos the magistrate's original information being 500 or 600. 4th Cavalry behaved well. My Rifles most have boo sweatiest. The brutes would Oct let the Infantry tom enough to try the cold steel. The Bengal Artilisry beautifully. Coked Cumbetiege and the 4th deli emmeibared to you. I have so much to write now, not have time to send this home, and I have had so knocking about in light marching order. Cohost I hasarrived, and taken command of the station of nsiou The Colombo, with the Calcutta mails of the of March and the China mails of the 16th of March, =England on Saturday. On the some de, is expected to arrive home with the Bombay a the 9th alt. The Colombo hes the long lost Aria mg board, and the Became is believed to have the Awn mail brought by the Bmen. If so, they will be land inglend wand The next Indian telegram will be it dodo/ next Tao MANTIPAOPURE OP All BALLS. Cummins Porsortnn.—An inquiry wee conno i T a dL day at the Quanta's Heed, Horan Old Tows, deaths of Homy Alfred Maarten, aged 3 roe months, and Gagne Moisten, aged 2 years ad 6 inf when father b a meindecturer of coloured Innis Tubb balls, at 68, Mary-street, Horton. Sarah Lambe* grandmother of the children, having stated that dm noticed the children dwindling away doting the Ise months—exhibiting in particular a bleckage under the and a heavy drowsy apprentice—added that Oen* youngegt, was seized with • fit on Monday week Haf t expired on the following Wednesday—his brother similarly attacked on Saturday last, and dying on 81 afternoon. A medical gentleman named Eakins, att them from Bret to lest. Leeches and hot baths applied under his direction. She int thoaght Ste were consequent upon teething, bat now believed won the result of being , present when their r marinfactared `' air bells.' Her daughter had plain* of Ulan while so engaged. James VII Mauston—l am a cabinet-maker, live at 68, street, and am the father of the deceased children. Fe loot six month/a bate been engaged in the inflation of f rubber bells. The inflator' is produced by ama by bresaldair from the chest. The pointed end ista powder of varier oakum and then introduced month of the ball. My wife generally inflated, end I them efloreretele to prevent the escape of the air. TM chine was kept tram the children bemuse ft wee expect but when a hall bee burst, the powder would 4 about men ILLS smoke end dirs, as whoa Wows ken I red iltnetserfse ben Mows red, end rose plak. ass Ihneawkis bat desisted when .nosier maw roe he bed Famed hype with it. By ajerar—l known the iY6a sth ap • bell alter h W am& bare sewn the pesrder about end by ws always Ina* It el when we sods* *ls. by be IM of mother Pwer, this witness Mined end bust • bell, the s tl=g awap p : w ist e d=r,:r a s h e muu sher: seen orint *Nem% lb !Wry was adJesra* 'I