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HEATR E-R OYA L, HOLBORN. li Sole Lessee and Manager, BARRY SULLIVAN. THIS EVENING, at 7.30, THE MISTRESS OF THE MILL. At 8 o'clock, Lord Lytton's Great Play (in five acts) cf FRENCH GALLERY, 120, Pall-mall.—The SIXTEENTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION of PICTURES, the contributions of artists of the French and Flemish Schools, IS NOW OPEN Admission, ls. ; Catalogue, 6d. MUTUAL ASSURANCE without MUTUAL LIABILITY. NON-FORFEITURE POLICIES by a LIMITED NUMBER of POP ICI PAYM ES ENTS. PROFITS may be APPLIED so as to make PAYABLE in LIFETIME. B RITISH EQUITABLE ASSURANCE COMPANY. 4, Queen-street -place, Southwark Bridge, E.C.I NEW POLICIES ISSUE D. New Policies issued. 86 —t14,250 108 1'4,481 1 6S 1869 In Weeks. ~ 3 3 Excesa .. • • . • In 52 creeks ending April ith, 1869 22 £4,211 3,105 -£539,442 ABOLITION OF THE DUTY ON FIRE INSURANCES. THE Directors of the ROYAL INSURANCE OMPANY, in antic'paticrn of the above, beg to intimate that on all new I. surances now effected there will only b. payable (provisionally) the proportion of Duty for the time between the date of the Order and Midsummer Day next. ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY. HEAD OFFICES: Royal Insurance Buildings, Liverpool, and Lombard-street, London. CAPITAL, TWO MILLIONS STERLING. Important Announcement. Increased Share of Life Profits. ALL NEW INSURAWT.S, with Participation, EFFECTED AFTER IST JANUARY, 1868, will become entitled to an INCREASED SHARE OF THE Paoprrs, in accordance with the Resolution passed at the Annual Meeting of Shareholders. JOHN H. McLARF.N, Manager. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London. LONDON, TILBURY, AND SOUTHEND ItAILWAY.—SOUTB END and BACK for 2s. 6d., from Fenchurch-street and Stepney Stations, on Sundays, at 8.7 and 10.40 a.m.; on Mondays, at 7.40 and 10 52 a.m. Fares-Ist Class, 3s. 6d.; 2d Class. 2s. 6d. The Tickets are available only on the day of issue, to return from Southend, on Sundays, at 6.40, and on Mondays at 6.45 p.m., and not by any other Train. J. LOUTH, Manager Fenchurch-street Station, April 28, 1869. THE RAILWAYS (EXTENSION OF TIME) ACT 1868. THE SWANSEA VALE AND NEATH AND BRECON JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY. 1, Westminster Chambers, Victoria-street, London, S.W., April 23, 1869. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That in accordance with the Railways (Extension of Time) Act, 1868, an Extraordinary Meeting of the Shareholders of this Com pany will be held at their Offices, as above, on MONDAY, the 10th day of May next, at Three o'Clock in the after noon, for the purpose of considering and, if thought fit, approving of an application being made to the Board of Trade, pursuant to the said Act, for an extension of time granted by the Swansea Vale and Neath and Brecon Junc tion Railway Act, 1864 (which expires on the 28th of July next), for the completion of the Railway therein de cribed as follows, viz. A Railway commencing in the parish of Cilybebill, in the County of Glamorgan, by a junction with the Swan sea Vale Railway, at the north end of the platform of the Ynys-y-Geinon Station of that Railway, and terminating in the hamlet of Coibren, in the parish of YstradAynlais, in the county of Brecon, by a junction with the authorised line of the Neath and Brecon Railway, at a point in the field numbered 42, on the plan of the last-mentioned Railway; and also for an Extension of the time granted by the Swansea Vale and Neath and Brecon Jnnotion Railway Act, 1865 (which expires on the sth of July, 1870), for the completion of the Railway therein described, as follows, viz:— A Railway, commencing in the parish of Ystradgynlais, by a junction with the authorized line of the Swansea Vale and Neath and Brecon Junction Railway, at a point in an enclosure, numbered 165 on the plan deposited in respect of that Railway with the Clerk of the Peace for the County of Brecon in the month of November, 1863, and terminating in the same parish, at or near to the bridge carrying the tramway or tramroad belonging to the Aberciare Colliery and works over the river Tawe. D. ROWELL MORGAN, Secretary. THE EAST GLOUCESTERSHIRE RAIL WAY COMPANY. Incorporated by 27th and 28th Viet., cap. 285, 29th July, 1864. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that an EXTRA ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Proprietors will be held on FRIDAY, the 14th day of May next, at 12 o'clock at noon precisely, at N 0.4. Old Palace-yard, West minster, pursuant to the "Railway (Extension of Time) Act, 1868," for the purpose of obtaining their assant to, or dissent from, an application to the Board of Trade for the following purposes, that is to say:— To extend the time for the purchase of land, and the construction of works for the railways, authorised by "The East Gloucestershire Railway Act, 1864, and "The East Gloucestershire Railway Act, 1866," except the whole of railway No. 4, and that portion of railway No. 1, which lies between a certain turnpike road in the parish of Fair ford, in Gloucestershire, leading from Fairford to Lech lade, and numbered 102 on the deposited plans for the said railway No. 1, and referred to by the East Gloucestershire Railway Act, 1864, and the proposed junction of railway No. 1, with the said railway No. 4 at its commencement, in the parish of Lechlade, for two years from the time limited by "The East Gloucestershire Railway Act, 1867," tor those purposes. - - By order, GEO. 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PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE. Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton Tins EVENING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montague, Addison, Glover, and Bancroft; Mrs. Bnckingham White, Miss C. Addison, and Miss Marie Wilton. After which, A WINNING HAZARD. And A LAME EXCUSE. CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ST. GEORGE'S THEATRE, REGENT STREET. THTS EVENING, at 8, THE ROYAL ORIGINAL CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS' Ethiopian Entertainment: and the Burlesque Extravaganza, THE VERY GRAND DIITCH—S ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. is. Box-office open from 11 to 4. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regert's-pack, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, is.; on Mcndays, 6d. Children under twelve, 6d. r:Si 3 • 111 j it LONDON, MONDAY; MAY 3, 1869. The Royal Academy Dinner is always the choicest banquet in the year. Saturday's, however, was one of an especially interesting character. It inaugu rates the second centenary of the Academy's exist ence. It did so, moreover, when the Academicians could for the first time receive in a house of their ' own as their most welcome guests the pick of the most illustrious personages in the land. The reigning dy nasty, the Government, the Lords, the Commons, the Bench of Bishops, the Courts of Law, the aris tocracy alike of birth and of genius—Art, Science, Literature—were all, there, (as usual) fittingly and worthily represented. After the loyal toasts had been duly honoured, his Royal Highness the Field- Marshal Commanding-in-Chief returned thanks for the Army, aptly recalling to the remembrance of those who were listening to him the circumstance that that very date, the first of May, was the centenary of the birth of " that great and illustrious general and patriot the immortal Duke of WELLINGTON." In a humorous speech, the ex-Chancelor, Lord CHELMSFORD,hy reason of his having once upon a time been a middy in the Royal Navy, returned thanks for the National Ser vice, saying when he did so that it reminded him of a circumstance that occurred to a noble friend of his, a most distinguished lawyer, who many years ago being at a public dinner, by some mistake, when the navy had been proposed as a toast, was getting up to do it honour, when he was pulled down by his neigh bour, and told that navy was not spelt with a " k." Called upon to return thanks for the Navy, upon the spur of the moment, the ex-Chancellor, Lord CHELMS FORD, passed it off as a capital joke—good liumouredly deprecating his selection as the mouthpiece of the maritime profession, simply because of his having once been a very small officer in the navy, and this not withstanding the well-known fact, as he said, that if there is one thing more than another that a sailor dis likes it is a lawyer—Jack generally designating him a land shark—and (added the noble and learned lord whimoically) " I don't know that I should be looked upon with more partiality because I had passed for some time into a great seal." For the Volunteers, responded one of the Royal Academicians them ' selves —and, among the younger of them, cer tainly not the least distinguished—Major LEIGHTON, R.A., " but," as the President serio-comically ex plained, " not of the Royal Artillery." Coupled with the toast of " Her MAJESTY'S Ministers" was of course the name of the distinguished Chief of the Government, Mr. GLADSTONE, the First Lord of the Treasury. In recognition of his eminent dignity as the personage coming next in the order of prece dence immediately after the Royal Family, the Arch bishop of CANTERBURY was selected as the one to g—to wit, th a t o f propose the Toast of the Evenin " Prosperity to the Royal Academy," coupling with it, as a matter of course, the name of Sir FRANCIS GRANT, the Academy's President. Speaking hi m . self as an ecclesiastic and addressing him self to the Academicians in their capacity as artists, his Grace observed very beauti fully,—" We have this in common—and it i s common to us with those who give their lives to lite rature—that it is very generally to old masters and their excellencies that we have to look back for our own improvement and to them that we point the ad miration of those we would influence ; for the know ledge and appreciation of the beautiful, like the knowledge of the Italy, is not a thing to be gained through experimental empiricism, but seems to come in some sort from above." The Archbishop of CAN TERBURY adding—" Therefore both of use are linked wi h the love of old things ; and while we, I trust, as you, are rising daily to greater efforts and making fresh progress, yet we ever look reverentially back wards and upwards, and are not occupied entirely with the present nor even with the future, greatly as they must interest us, since here now and in the years to come must lie the especial scene -of our own present usefulness:' THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 3, 1869 , for the President's response, it was, in its artistic retrospect, in the highest degree graceful besides being appropriate to the occasion, that, namely, as - we have• already said of inaugurating the Royal Academy new home and its second centenary together. The Academy, he reminded his hearers, commenced its career under the auspices of [as he said very ex extravagantly] a Great King, and [as he said by no means extravagantly] a great painter— GEORGE 111. and Sir JOSHUA REYNOLDS. The glories of the Academy he indicated succinctly enough by enumerating sixteen names of artists dead and gone—such as those of NOLLEKENS, BARRY, COPLEY, BANKS, SMIRKE, STOTIIARD, LAWRENCE, HOPNER. FLAXMAN, TURNER, CALCOT, WILKIE, MULREADY. LESLIE, ETTY,NEWTON, and CONSTABLE—particularis ing among their living successors of eminence but on , only—the illustrious name of the veteran Sir EDWIN LANDSEER. After honouring the American Ambas sador with a toast all to himself—a toast almost as ii happens of farewell, seeing that Mr. REVERDY JOHN SON is immediately to be replaced by Mr. MOTLEY, tht historian of the Dutch Republic, the Lords and Commons were pledged together by the President. the Lords coupled with the name of that Last of the Barons Lord LAWRENCE, the House of Com mons (as Sir FRANCIS GRANT observed, amidst the applause of the distinguished assemblage) 66 with the name of one of its greatest orators and most distinguished Statesmen," Mr. DISRAELI, the ex-Premier, and now Leader of the Opposition. After Mr. DISRAELI'S response, the rest of the toasts were little less than formal—the Lord Mayor ac knowledging that of the City of London, General SABINE that]of the Royal Society, and the Dean of Westminster that of the Interests of Literature— Literature, oddly enough, being pledged the last of all by the Royal Academicians ! LORD STANLEY made a speech on Friday evening which makes us regret more than ever that he speaks so seldom. It was eminently wise, temperate, and statesmanlike. It was so different from the speech which almost immediately followed it, that it is well nigh impossible to believe that they were made in the same assembly, or on the same evening. Lord STANLEY expressly exonerated the Govern ment for not bringing in a land bill this session. He considered that to pass two such measures as that and the Irish Church Bill in the same year is impossible ; and thus he had the frank ness to say openly what Mr. DISRAELI admits tacitly. At the same time he contended that the Government ought to give some general intimation of their policy, so as to allay the excitement and the wild expectations which prevail in Ireland with respect to the land. On the other hand, Lord CLAUDE HAMILTON made such a fierce attack upon Mr. BRIGHT that it drewfrom Mr. TORRENS a vehement protest, from the SPEAKER-AR expression of "regret," and from Serjeant DOWSF. the humorous suggestion that the MAYOR of CORK should, as the heaviest punishment that could be inflicted upon him, be shut up for a whole day with the member for Tyrone. Mr. BRIGHT, in his reply, made one unlucky mistake. He spoke in the first person singular, and said that he was prepared to bring in a measure to put greater numbers of people in possession of land than now hold it. The mistake was not unnatural in the case of a man of Mr. BRIGHT'S antecedents. H e has been for so many years standing alone, warring alone, that he forgets that he now has allies, and is under the command of a superior officer. Of course the Opposition were keen to mark the blunder; all the keener because they connected it with certain proposals made by Mr. BRIGHT on a former occasion, which, it is understood, the Liberal party generally, and Mr. GLADSTONE in particular, are not prepared to accept. But the debate that followed was not with out use. It set forth pretty clearly the principles of the Government policy, though whether it would not have been better to be still more precise is a matter fairly open to question. The principles of the intended Ministerial measure are clearly these : that there shall be compensation to tenants for unexhausted improvements, and that facilities shall be offered for converting tenants int( owners. To the first principle both sides of tilt House are already committed. The Conservatives unhappily compelled the RussELL-GLADSTONI Ministry to abandon their Tenant Right Bill in 1866. just as it was compelled to give up its Reform Bill. We know what happened. With regard to the second matter, we know that the limited extension rejected in 1866 brought about household suffrage in 1867; and so it will be with regard to the first. The day is gone by, we fear, for any measure so mode rate as the Irish Land Bill of 1866 to suffice. We must have that and something more. Fortunately that something more is offered by the Irish Church Bill. A large quantity of land will come more or less under the control of the Government, and we have no doubt that it is with this Mr. GLADSTONE and Mr. BRIGHT are prepared to deal. There will be no " confiscation." The lands will not be taken from the Church in order to t fo o r th t e he pr p e u se rc u h t as t e ens o u f t them class. be given t o th e peasantry. B ut every f ac ilit y w i T ll h us be a lt o h ff o e u r g ed h the Government wisely decline to introduce their land bill this session, they might, we think, state with greater precision the intentions which are to be inferred from, rather than were expressed in, the Ministerial statements on Friday night. In the meanwhile, if Mr. BRIGHT'S former speeches have led to any extravagant expectations on the part of the Irish people, he has done his best to dissipate them by his explicit disavowal of the projects which are imputed to him. LITERATURE. Imitations of George Cruikshank. German Popular Stories. By the Brothers Grimm. Two Series. With Illustrations. After the Original Designs by George Cruikshank. One Vol., pp. 335. J. C. Hotten. Under the most alluring guise, shining radiantly in apple-green and gold, there comes back to us, in the shape of this goodly volume, one of our old especial favourites. And what a book it is ! A fairy-tale book among fairy-tale books—a collection of apologues among a collection of apologues! Hans in Luck and Tom Thumb•—The Jew in the Bush and King Grisly-beard—Rumpel-Stilts-kin and Cherry or the Frog Bride—The Salad, the Goose girl, The Turnip, The Juniper Tree, the Three Sluggards, the Seven Ravens, and The Nose ! rSrit, fun, wiadom, absurdity, conceits the wildest, ;oinicality the most extravagant, fable, allegory, irollery and diablerie Sport that wrinkled care derides, And laughter holding both his sides► •illausm'archen" is the name of it—being (as it is) a eathering together of the German Popular Stories by he Brothers Grimm. The elder of these two brothers wing Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, born in 1785 at lanau. The younger, Wilhelm Carl Grimm, born 1786 at Hanover. Like Dr. Johnson, they are &flown and honoured among lexicographers. But, ,core effectively than the author of Rasselas, they weilded the pen of the fabulist. One of them, Jacob, writing of his literary association with his brother Wilhelm, said, "We lived, from our youth up, in brotherly community of goods —money, books, and collectanea belonging to us in common :" so that, as ne adds, " it was natural to combine our labours." And, in this way, they worked together. Earlier than we can by any possibility recall to our remem brance, in point of fact before we were born, a trans lation of these famous GermanPopularStories, of the renowned " HausmUrchen" was given to the English public—this was 'in 1823—by Mr. Edgar Taylor Lad his partner, Mr. Roscoe,then practising as soli citors in the Temple. The first volume was published by Charles Baldwyn, of Newgate-street, tad the second by James Robins, of Ivy-lane The Jtc:iings—the wonderful etchings—illustrating the Seaglish version of the Stories, were by George Cruik shank. Forty odd years have flown by since then ; and the work we are here referring to, after having passed through a greatnumber of editions, has long eeen regarded as a choice rarity—whenever they lave been fortunate enough to light upon a stray copy of it—by the collectors of the vast multitude if scattered works produced by the etching-needle if George Cruikshank. According to a statement .nade in the " Advertisement" prefixed to the volume now under notice—a statement made on she authority of its publisher, Mr. Hotten, of Pic iadilly—the original issue of Edgar Taylor's and ltoscoe's English version of the " Hausrnarchen"of Brothers Grimm, embellished by the hand of George Cruikshank, sold at the time of its first publication at six shillings the volume, that is for twelve ehi.- , inge the two volumes—those two volumes being ,ow, according to Mr. Hotten, worth, at the least, £5 or £6 sterling. Now, it is this book which, iu sae form, as nearly as possible, of a facsimile, has .iere, in this attractive shape, bean reproduced. fhe title-page is frank enough where it speaks of the illustrations as " A fter the Designs of George Cruikshank." Otherwise, as it status to us, the work—intentionally or unintentionally—is decep ..ive. And, it is so, or at any rate it strikes us as so, .or this reason, that externally—as though the iook were his, or were duly authorized by him— here is emblazoned the well-known autograph of the great artist : while, internally, there is perfectly legible, under each seeming replica of the aeginal etchings either G. Cruikshank fecit, or, at any rate, his initials. Over and above ill which, in the course of a charming introduction to this Edition (written expressly for the volume under notice) Mr. Ruskin him ;elf writes, among other things, the words im mediately following—" These copies" have been so ;arefully executed that at first I was deceived by .hem, and supposed them to be late impressions from the plates (and what is more I believe the .naster himself was deceived by them, and sup posed them to be his own)"—aud so on. Now the words italicized in parenthesis wa have it.ilic:zed purposely-- for inasmuch as thereby hangs (if not tale, at any rate) an explanation. Aud the xplanatioa is simply this, thitt it was at the irst glance, but at the first glance only, that the nester was for a passing moment, deceived. Re nember, that forty-six years ago these famous etch uga from his hand—from his master-hand—were irst produced. They are among his masterpieces. t'wo or three of them, are all but his masterpieces. ['hough, to accord them the palm, off-hand, as such, would require some courage, recollecting the vast multitude of etchings this incomparable master of Lhat exquisite art has in his time with affluent genius and marvellous industry—stroke upon stroke, touch upon touch, with the n e e dl e ' s point— produced. One Cruiksbankian Collector alone awns to the possession of Sixteen Thousand original etchings from that deft, and agile, and laborious hand I Reverting, however, to these particular etchings in illustration of the German Stories, by the Brothers Grimm, they were daintily scratched an the varnish, and bitten by the acid into the metal, as we have said some six and forty years ago. Thirty years ago, however, the very plates themselves were suddenly missing. For sixteen years they had served their purpose, but then — nearly a whole generation back—they somehow went astray. Aud for thirty years they were supposed to have been lost, or stolen, or destroyed. Several months since—this being the actual state of things in regard to the original plates—a friend calling in upon him, related of George Cruikshank's, how he had been told that these very plates had then recently been discovered, and had been, there upon, purchased by Mr. Hotten, the publisher, of Piccadilly—Cruikshank's friend shewing to the artist, at the same moment a couple of proofs which re held out to him with this inquiry—" Are these your etchings ?" Then, it was. at the first superficial glance—more particularly seeing his name written (one might almost say forged) under each subject—George Cruikshank thought for the moment they were his owe—answering his querist, haphazard, Yee." Looking at them directly afterwards, how aver, a little more carefully—asecond glance showed nim at once that they were copies. Examining them through the very same magnifying glass, with the lid of which, nearly half a. century before he had produced the original etchings—the fact glared ipon recognition that they were not Cruikshank's ['rue, no doubt, that when scanned with the naked eye these copies appear to have been cleverly imitated. But the master himself protests to us —and we don't wonder at it—that he should be very sorry in deed if his own work, more particularly the faces, were not better ! "At a distance," as he says, " they may pass ; but a comparison, particularly through a magnifying glass, will detect the differ ence in an instant !" Not a doubt of it Conse quent upon the recognition of which fact, we cannot wonder in the least to know that George Cruikshank has objected, in the strongest manner possible, to having his name or his initials even placed under what, at the best, were only extremely good copies, or that he has requested - .he publisher of this otherwise most acceptable volume to have written under each subject, "Copied from George Cruikshank's original designs and etch ings." So also in regard to the external emblazoning upon the book of the famous Autograph. Naturally enough the owner of that autograph regards as "an in warrantable liberty," the use of a name which ne is very comprehensibly desirous of retaining to distinguish exclusively as his, works of his own actual production, and his own actual pro perty. It cannot but be interesting to a Id, here for the information of Air. It'iskia as the author of the introduction, of gr. Hotten, as the publisher of the volume, and of every purchaser ~f the book itself in its present guise—that, by the oddest coincidence, the hitherto missing Copper Plates, with George Cruikshank's original etchings upon them—have been recently found, and are now in the possession of a friend of the artist. The plates so long lying perdu were formerly the property of the late Dir, Robins, of Tooley-street, in the Borough, shortly after whose death these identical plates were discovered, among a mass of old rubbish, buried away in a cellar, the whole stock, rubbish and all, being thereupon sold off, and the etched copper- plates eagerly bought up by this friend of George Cruikshank's. Reverting, however, from the Originals to the exceedingly in genious Imitations here under review, we cannot but commend, even in these sha,do wy reflections from the etched copper-plates, as they came, six and forty years ago, from the hand of George Cruikshank—the consummate art with which an almost microscopic line or two, the faintest scratch, the merest dot, serves to indicate a whole world of character. Look at that grotesque procession of the Golden Goose . opposite p. 124, with Dummling, staff in hand, followed (one after another) by the three sisters, by the parson, by the clerk, by the two labourers—all treading on one another's heels ! Look at the Elves capering with their (literally) small-clothes opposite p. 96—watched, from behind the curtain, by the grinning shoemaker! Look at the ursine smirk upon Bruin's face, or muzzle rather, opposite D. 192, where he is dancing a pas soil to the sound of the fiddle ! Look at the " Heads Off" opposite p. 120 in the embellishment to the King of the Golden Moun tain ! But—for that matter—we might run through them all seriatim. For, they a re, certainly, all of them, deliciously humorous by reason of the same subtle touches of droll extravagance. Our only regret, and (as far as that goes) our principal wonder in re gard to this revival, or reissue, or republication of Cruikshank's Grimm, is that—the artist being, still, as he indubitably is, in the fullness of his powers, and, that, too, alike in his manipulative skill, and in the grotesque sprightliness of his imagination— our one regret, our sole wonder, is that George Cruikshank himself was not employed to make copies of his own etchings ! It would at the least have been judicious. For, certainly, in his instance —" none but himself can be his parallel." George Cruikshank's Omnibus. New Edition. One Vol., pp. 300. Bell and Daldy. Another old favourite, here, claims our attention. Twenty years and more have sped by since it began running. And, nevertheless, here it is once more upon the road—true to time- up to time—and ready for all corners. Lamau Blanchard was originally its Conductor. The Proprietor of the " Omnibus" the driver of the team, an admirable Whip, master of the iibbous—George Cruikshank himself—is still happily amongst us, though his con frere the Conductor has years since passed away. And •‘ 1 he Omnibus" appears in its new aspect under its projector's own direction. Republished in a single volume, fhe work is really worthy of preservation. In its way, it is a comic classic. And, this we say, with an eye at once to the letterpress and the illus trations. Who that knows the book at all, can fail to boar in recollection the serial story of " Frank I feartwell; or, Fifty Years Ago," by Bowman Tiller --whoever he was. An enthralling narrative of adventures ashore and afloat, embellished by a suc cession of charming etchings from the masterhand George Cruikshank—some of them finished pictures, if regarded purely as works of art? Then, again, the very exordium, or introduction, or prologue, or however you may please to call it—George Cruik shank's illustrated fragment of Autobiography ! With the revelation of his first sense of pictorial fun—his casual limning of a chance-seen bust of Shakspere with a clay pipe stuck in its mouth ! The portrait of the artist prefixed to this fragment of his autobiography is, if possible, more interest ing even than it was of old, now that we glance atits truthful delineation of him, as he looked then, more than a quarter of a century ago—and, yet, in spite of the lapse of time since then, in the expression of it—the very man himself, as he is now, with the keen bright blue eyes, the acquiline (and, as the French would call it, " pronounced") nose, the half moustache from the corners of the kindly, vigorous mouth, the tag of hair trail ing sideways down the forehead!! Among the tid bits that may still be relished with a gusto scattered up and down the volume, maybe particularised that wonderfully droll story about Little Spitz, told by Michael Angelo Titmarsh, and pencilled by George Cruikshank. That same M. A. Titinarsh who was afterwards to drop his puesodnym and appear in the world of letters under his own proper title as W. M. Thackeray—and who was to write in succession " Vanity Fair " and " Pen'lennis," and " The Newcornes," and " Philip," and " The Virginians," and what not. But, already, there, in Cruikshank's Omnibus, even in that preposter ous story about " Little Spitz," he was giving evidence of his extraordinary powers as a humorist —evidence so unmistakeable that we have known a reader of the tale [query, tail `E] cry with laugh ing over the comicality of that same whimsical little story. Then, moreover, one might ask the readers of "The Omnibus" when it first came out and appeared from month to month among the magazines—have they not still to this day (we have) the most vivid recollection of Mrs. 7'.? Mrs. I'., with her "little bit black legs," and her " coal-scuttle bonnet," and her apparently determined attempt at suicide — and all the rest of it ! Why—we used to look out for her, with indescribable eagerness in the successive numbers—as the " Omnibus" drove on from stage to stage—and we used to dread the appearance of a number without her putting in an appearance ! Altogether the book is full of fun, frolic, and fascetiousness, open it where you will. Say, at." Ghosts," or at " Frights," or at the pictorial jest on Homes apathy, or on Photography, or on any of the then new wonders of the hour. As an amusing miscellany we don't know any volume of equal bulk to compare with this one of Cruikshank's " Omnibus," a work produced by our great artist when he was iu the prime of his life and in the fullness of his powers—the peerless master of tha art of etching and the prince of comic illustrators. THE MAYOR OF CORK AND HIS COL LEAGUES ON THE BENCH. The Pall Mall Gazette correspondent at Cork telegraphs tbat at the Police-office, on Saturday, Mr. Pollock, one of the Conservative magistrates of the city, re fused to permit the mayor to take the charge sheet as chairman. A struggle for possession of the document occurred, and the sheet was torn. Of course there was "a scene in court"—a scandalous scene, the despatch says. The magistrates held a meeting to consider the mayor's conduct. PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. The committee on the Irish Church Bill is to be resumed to-night, the first amendment to it on the paper being by Mr. Gregory, who wishes to change the expression "private" endowments in the bill into "reserved" endowments. But the tug of war will probably come upon the thirty-second clause. This relates to the tithe rent charge, and provides that the charge may be sold to the owner of the land at twenty-two and a half times its amount. Mr. Fawcett moves the omission of the clause altogether, and failing to carry his motion, will endeavour to substitute for " twenty-two and half times its amount" the words " equal to such an amount of consols as will annually yield the amount of such rent charge." Mr. Disraeli wants the money paid to be the average market price of the charge, and Mr. Henry Herbert would have it to be eighteen times its value. The clause goes on to provide that the purchase money and the interest may be discharged by payment of 4i per cent. of the total amount annually for forty-five years. On this Mr. Gladstone moves the substitution of "fifty-two" for "forty-five," and Mr. Morrison of "al" instead of "4." But it would be wearisome to go down over the amendments seriatim. There are nearly a dozen pages of them. For the same night Committees of Supply and of Ways and Means are appointed, and Committee on the Contagious Diseases Animals Bill. Among the questions is one by Mr. Dawson, referring to the conduct of the Mayor of Cork, and asking whether he will be allowed to maintain his position. Mr. Baines inquires whether the Postmaster could reduce the charge for money orders to one penny for each order below twenty shillings. Mr. Pemberton wants to know what the Lord Chancellor thinks of the law courts, and will ask the First Com missioner of Works. Mr. Stevenson demands of the Postmaster-General whether the West India mails can not be despatched on fixed days of the week ; and Mr. Whalley is anxinbs to know what the Government intend to do about the turnpikes. To-morrow Sir Robert Anstruther will ask whether branding has been forbidden in the army. Mr. Headlam moves the abolition of light dues, it being unworthy of this nation to charge upon the shipping of other countries the maintenance of the lights, &c., on our coasts when our own ships are afforded the lights of other countries free of expense. Mr. Seely also moves his resolution on the mail contracts. He asks the House to demand that mail contracts should be submitted to it early in the session ; to declare that those with the United States should not be made for longer than three years, and that payment to the carrying companies should be made according to the letters, &c., sent ; and that a penny postage should be negotiated. The Libel Bill is down for committee, but Mr. Newdegate will move an adverse amendment. The Marriage with Deceased Wife's Sister Bill is down for com mittee. Mr. Collins will more as an instruction to the committee that they have power to make provision for a woman to marry her deceased husband's brother. The University Tests Bill is down for Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Bentinck will oppose its going into com mittee. On Thursday Miners' Regulations and the Customs and Inland Revenue Duties Bills are down for second reading. Mr. Gregory apropos to the Irish land laws, will, on Friday call the attention of the House to the management of their estates in the west of Ireland by the Law Life Insurance Society. The affairs of Central Asia will be discoursed upon by Mr. Eastwick. A neat point is raised by Sir Lawrence Palk, who will call the attention of the Government to the Acts passed in Queen Anne's reign prohibiting Government pensioners from sitting in the House of Commons, and ask if, having clue regard to these statutes, a recipient of a yearly allowance from the Treasury, in consequence of abolition of office, but under the age of 60, and liable to serve again, is dirqiutlified from sitting and voting as a memberof Par. liament. Mr. Fowler will again raise the western mail question, and move a resolution declaratory of the advan• taxes of landing mails at a western port. ARGYLL ROOMS. Most playgoers are familiar with the brilliant spectacular effects produced on the stage, through the employment of the electric light, in grand trans formation and sensation scenes, in pantomimes, and melodramas. From experiments recently made by the direction of Mr. R. R. Bignell, proprietor of this popular establishment, it has been most satisfac torily demonstrated that the same illuminating element may be most advantageously employed in the ball-room. Any one who has witnessed the production of the shadow dance from " since it has been introduced here, can have no doubt on the subject, and those who have not already enjoyed the sight will be amply repaid for their trouble in paying an early visit to this popular place of entertainment. The rapidity with which the light is varied in colour and thrown on the different groups of dancers in this elegant ball-room is particularly effective, and the result is novel to a degree. Since it was first established more than twenty years ago under the late M. Laurent, the celebrated orchestra of this establishment never ranked higher than it does at the present time. The practice that each artist has had in playing in company with one another forsolongaperiodhas given a " oneness" and precision to the band, which enables the talented leader to perform the composi tions of the greatest masters with fine effect, ataenbrdltyaomcnomenetnaoitfnstisle s t omt g hea re t at th a e ttractions of the en operatic selections knownoft programme invari t o ft ntehset musical s e i r e t a u l r overtures an operatic er I n d d . It would be an injustice to Signor Curti if we ohmistattretdatnd to to obs t e li r s v n t t h iri at n i g t d i e s vo o t w io in n g to to the duties 'clk-ll i of his office such a d es i ra bl e state of thingsisoring: Individual soloists of unquestioned ability ould shine and make reputations forsuc bandha m .ster at themselves .4 any where,couhinaasmtiar many would, but without their head, as this gentleman has proved him self to be, the perfection of the playing would cease to be a theme of general satisfaction. Under the management of Mr. Pitts the arrange ments are of the most satisfactory nature, and cal culated in every possible way to give satisfaction to the visitors, whether they be dancers or spec tators. From the combination of attractions pre sented at the Argyll Rooms during the current sea . son, they doubtless will maintain all the prestige they bays so loDg enjoyed. THE ROSICRUCIANS• A book of 400 pages, illustrated with numerous engravings, carefully prepared, and mostly from ancient originals, now for the first time appearing, will very soon issue, published by Mr. Hotten, the antiquarian publisher, of Piccadilly, and of which book Mr. Hargrave Jennings is the author. The real views and beliefs of that extraordinary body, society, sect, or brotherhood, named that of the " Rosy Cross," are a profound secret, though many guesses (mostly absurd) have been made of them. It is to clear up some of this doubt that this present book, which is the result of great labour and time expended upon a most curious study, is to be published. Curiosity must always accompany such a publication, because to profess to deal seriously with the claims of philosophers of such stupendous mark is no common or familiar ambition. It will be remembered that the " Rosicrucians" were (or professed to be) alchemists—that is princes or fathers of chemistry, able to rea'.ise " transmutation," claimants to the possession of further unheard-of secrets—such as that of the elixir vitm, the grand magisterium, and the mastery over occult art in the widest sense. A book seriously advocating the claims of these re markable men is therefore a phenomenon, still more interesting to us when it comes before the world illustrated with graphic illustrations. HOLBORN 7 BEA? RE. Mr. Barry Sullivan on Saturday last entered on his career as manager of this very pretty theatre, of which he has become the lessee, with the object of enabling the public to have at least one house at which they can enjoy plays of the highest class, re presented by good actors and mounted with libe ralty and ju igment. We sincerely wish him every success in such a laudable and praiseworthy en deavour, and it is to be hoped the public will earnestly and energetically support the new ma nager, and unable him to carry out his intentions with profit to himself and the very excellent corn pally he has engaged. The audience that as-etn bled to give him welcome on Saturday was both numerous and distinguished, and on the curtain rising for the performance of Lord Lytton's splen did comedy " Money" the entrance of Mr. Sulli van, who, of course, supported the part of Eve lyn, his reception was, extremely one of the highest gratification to the audience. Miss Amy Fawsitt made her first .appearance in the farce " The INtis stress of the Mill," which preceded the comedy, and met with very great success. TRADE AND FINANCE. Notwithstanding the heavy importations of foreign stock, the price of meat continues very firm, and prices, if anything, skew an upward tendency. Yet we find, or, a comparison of the numbers of both beasts and sheep disposed of in the Metropolitan C a ttl e M ar k et, that there is a large excess this year over last season. Many circumsta nces , h owever, have con spired to keep up the quotations. In the first place the removal of the cattle plague restrictions has allowed country butchers to purchase live stock in the London market, and to remove them to the provincial towns. It seems hard that London consumers should be put to inconvenience for the sake of supplying the southern watering places with the choicest descriptions of meat, but there can be little argument against unrestricted trade in live stock, as in all other articles. The drought of last summer led to many forced sales of both beasts and sheep towards the close of last year, and the herds and flocks were decimated. Consequently graziers have been compelled to retain a larger number of animals this season, in order to endeavour to supply the deficiencies caused by last year's drought. Accord. ingly, the arrivals from our own grazing districts have been unusually small, and the increase in the supplies sent to market Las consisted entirely of foreign stock. This increase, however, is not one that would be likely to affect prices to any material extent. The dif ference in quality between English and foreign beasts is so great that the plentifulness or scarcity of the latter scarcely influences the value of the former. The advance which has taken place is in good English animals, and in this improvement foreign stock has not partici pated to a like degree. The future does not look encouraging, and we see no reason to expect any change in the course of the trade throughout the summer season. With regard to mutton, there is a qualifying clause, which may have some little influence upon the market. The lambing season is now over, and has been unusually prolific, owing to the very mild winter that has been experienced. At the same time, the pasture lands are in excellent condition, and the rearing of the lambs has been attended with less difficulty than in more severe seasons. The mortality has accordingly been greatly below the average. There is little doubt, however, that English beef and mutton, to which alone we must look for the regulation of prices, will continue scarce, and buyers must make up their minds to prices varying but littlefrom the present range of quotations. If, however, animal food is likely to continue dear, the prospects of the wheat trade are decidedly in favour of the consumer. Probably at no time within the last twenty years have all circumstances pointed more decidedly to a progressive, although gradual, decline. There is still a large amount of English wheat in the country, the quality of which is unrivalled for its excellence ; and at the same time the prospects of the growing crop are eminently favourable. The plant is well above ground, and looking strong and healthy. But a short time since we heard complaints from various quarters of a loss of colour in the plant. This, however, may arise from one of two causes, and may be either a bad sign or a good one as the case may be. It may be caused by an accumula. tion of water under the ground, which is bad, and would lead to disastrous effects, or it may he the result of frost, which, at certain seasons of the year, is pro ductive of good. That the latter was the cause in the present season there is no doubt. At the close of February the plant was unusually forward, and great apprehensions were expressed for its safety. The cold winds of March checked its growth, however, and it cannot now be said that the plant is more forward than usual, while the mild weather of April has restored its vivid green. While the home crop presents such favour able prospects, there is a great probability that the imports will be extensive, considering the prices now current here. From the United States unusually heavy shipments have been made, and it is difficult to discover how the Continent will get rid of its surplus produce except by sending it to the British market. These facts lead us to anticipate a decline of from Gs. to 88. in the value of foreign wheat before the reaping of next harvest, although we fully believe that English wheat will not fall more than 3s. to 4s. per quarter, as the last crop, from its acknowledged superiority, will always com ma id a range of quotations varying from 425. to 455. per quarter. There is very little of interest to notice in the money market. Money is quiet, but there is no prospect of any return to lower rates. It is true that there is a large amount of gold on passage from Australia, and that the course of exchange at New York is such as to lead to the expectation of an influx of specie from that quarter. The large amount of foreign loans now on the market, and in prospect, will probably absorb a considerable proportign of the surplus capital, and yio 14 10p4.0- to lament eta taillewstititArd• fr.= enfe="Pf BANQUET AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY' High festival was kept in the new rooms of the Royal Academy on Saturday evening. The president and coun cil of the great art institution gave the usual annual banquet —the first one in the new building—to many distinguishe d guests. There were present the Duke of Cambridge, the Prince of Teck, Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord President of the Privy Council, First Lord of the Treasury, Secretary of State for the Home Department, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Secretary of State for the Colonies, Secretary of State for War, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the President of the Board of Trade, the First Commissioner of her Majesty's Works, the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, the Lord Chief Baron, the Master of the Rolls, Archbishop of Canterbury, Archbishop of 'York, Bishop of London, Dean Stanley, Bishop of Oxford, Dean Alford, Dean Manse], Bishop of St. David's, Bishop of Peter borough, &c., &c. Amongst the speakers were the Duke of Cambridge► Lord Chelmsford, Mr. Gladstone, and Mr. Disraeli, Sir FRANCIS GRANT—who occupied the chair—in pro posing the toast of the Queen, announced that the Princess Louise had sent to the Exhibition a marble bust of her Majesty, a work which, he raid, was full of truth and genius. The Queen, he stated, was to visit the AcadonY on the 12th inst. The Duke of CAMDRIDCE returned thanks for the army , his speech being full of congratulation. Lord CHELMSFORD of all men was called upon to retina thanks for the navy. Mr. Childers was absent; and 5° the learned lawyer who held the great seals in Lord Derby's Government was called upon to return thanks. He recalled an episode in his life which the general nubi le has probably forgotten. "Many, many years ago (be said) —it is so far back it is more like a dream than a remern' brance—l was a very small officer in the navy ; but I think that, considering what I have passed through since, if the navy were called upon and asked whether they would take me as their representative, they would be very much in' disposed to do so, because, in the first place, I arn deserter from them, and in . the next, if there is one thing a sailor dislikes more than another, it is a lawyer. He is, indeed, generally termed a land shark. I don't know that I should be looked upon with more partiality because I had passed fur some time into a great seal, but I must, on behalf of the navy, say this, that although times have very much changed since now upwards of sixty years ago I was in the navy, our ships and men being now so very different from what they were, the one being then our wooden walls,' and now wear ing armour,' and the other, instead of sailors, beings in fact, stokers and pokers,' I am quite confident that officers and men still possess the hearts of English men, and that if called on to fight, they will show they have not declined in the least degree from the character so long and so worthily possessed by the British navy'." "Her Majesty's Ministers" was the next toast honoured. It was replied to by Mr. GLADSTONE. ? Th e right lion. gentleman referred to the great service of the Royal Academy in the way of education. "We cone here annually," lie said, "to receive a part, and much valued and prized part, of our education ; for we all know that education does not terminate in youth, but goes on in a process continued through ou r lives ; and I do believe that some elements of civilisatio n enter into our minds and temperaments from all circuity' stances which place us in relation to humanising cause'' Among the most conspicuous of these are those which bring us in connection with works of art on these walls. 1 3" 11 even so sanguine as to believe that the influence of that civilisation might be traced by discriminating observers in the moderated character of the conflicts which we wag e in other places, although on that subject, as some might have scruples, I will not press the argument too far. Rather suggesting that it would be better to waive the toast of the Government of the day, as being unsuited to a non' political institution, Mr. Gladstone went on to congratula te the Academy on its migrating to the enlarged building " I am afraid of paying compliments to you and to the body of artists which might justly be considered only 115 compliments from pupils to teachers; yet I know that all artists skilled in their profession are glad to receive the knowledge of our ignorant impression a, and I know the secret of extracting advantage from them. Without pretending to minute computation, sa far as my experience goes, the pictures of the RoY al Academicians are this year represented on the walls in numbers unexampled, and in genius and excellence perhaps never exceeded. And the veterans of the art ar e followed, I think, according to the general verdict, so far as it has yet been pronounced, by younger Men of this noble profession of an order, and with a s uccess full of the richest promise for the future, and leading us confidently to believe that when those who ne ar form the object of our delight and admiration are gen e .'_ they will be succeeded by others who will maintain t he ': traditions and their fame. I trust, sir, that the imnet u i which has been given by this migration to the power an euurgy of British art may prove to be of no mere teinP°. rary stimulus, but that this era may be the commen ce• went of a yet brighter period for B r iti s h ar t, an d that, time rolls on, this Academy, and those whom you front time to time may aggregate to your body, may establish yet higher claims on the admiration of their countryineli and the acknowledgments of the world at large. The ARCHBISHOP of CANTERBURY made some arP r° ' priate remarks on the relation between religion and art' " Coleridge introduced the use of the word cleresy, made it include all the institutions of the nation, and P',,`" clergy proper certainly have usually felt that there is a , great affinity between their mission and yours. We c° skier it to be our high privilege to promote Christia e civilisation at home and throughout the world. V lo r e may have been times when religion and the arts dissociated—when a gloomy form of religion averted, ite eyes from the study of beauty, or the arts for a uni t unnaturally associated themselves with worldliness ~4 90 heathenism ; but you will agree with me that there lia: r been exceptional times, and not the best either „ religion or for art. And as the Christian Church n°" o , given to painting its most inspiring subjects, so the anon went of the House of God has called forth in old times .„„ of the very highest specimens of the skill of the pain the sculptor, and the architect. Indeed, we liavlio common mission, and I trust that we shall work band hand. The PRESIDENT, in replying to the toast of his healtebi; spoke of the coincidence that at the beginning of th a second century the new room should be used. He gals. history of the institution, reminding his guests how, 0 0 merly the Academy occupied auctioneers' rooms. P ro s e thence the institution went to Somerset n' - to by the express provision of George 111., thence e . Trafalgar-square, and now it was in Burlington-gard e r , " We are proud to reflect," he went on to say, " that tn°., Royal Academy has never applied for or received Pinhje grant of public money. On reviewing the efforts ef a ' t a past century, although we might possibly have hop e the produce still greater results, I think when we recall ea names of some of those eminent artists who have th e n students in this Academy, who derived all tli s , inspiration and knowledge of art within its fa ile d I feel it cannot be said that we have ~ „0, in our mission - such names as Nollekens, Barry, Copley, 'Banks the sculptor, Smirke, r cl hard, Lawrence, Hopner, Flaxman, - Joseph iVra ll° ,-- Turner—a name alone sufficient to glorify a cent° ll e ci Calcot, Wilkie, Mulready, Etty, N ewton, I 'o Constable. There are some who are now members of as ar" t'''s Academy whose woks will be admired as long jo y appreciated. There is one name which I feel assure d e brother academicians will forgive me for singling out"own whose works are known- and admired in every eo, and capital of Europe and America—one "to though he certainly has greatly contributed 05 the glories of the past century, has at the 5 / i e• time inaugurated the coming century by the Prc ws e tion of a work no w on th ese wa ll s , w hi c h, I ven d to say, he has never surpasse d, if h e h as ever eq ualLe b p need not mention th e name o f Si r Ed w i n L an d seer . m v el I recall to mem or y th ese illustrious pupils of the Academy, who have b roug ht g l ory an d f ame to t.' - t country, I feel we have no occasion to blush for the 1) 4 , - 0 0 or the present. But I an ti c ip a t e a s till more glor— future for art in this country, because our -.nseay,, s ,eo instruction will be far more compl e t e th an th e y have '''„" e t in times past. No a r ti s t s s h ou ld cons id er th ems elves:, it side this institution. All artists should seek to be allied 0 and all should strive to paint so well as toensuresucces sa u - st demand recognition. But a standard of excellence i n t be be maintained. In the Academy we must adopt e ra , levelling-up,' certainly not the levelling-down' sY s " 0 01 The Academy has all along had to contend with 0 ; 0 01 difficulties. They have constantly had to suffer,',jcs, attacks, often unjust and frivolous—stereotyped a its which have never ceased to assail the institution fre':ag, foundation to the present hour. Yet. notwithstanc!leo,ro we have continued to maintain our position. Of late 3 th is we have also suffered from wart of space, and I {ea r bet is a difficulty from which we s h a ll never b e altege d es , absolved. Increased space has been accompanie been increased demands. This year 1,600 pictures have s ize., sent in more than in any form er y ear — man y o f large b and so good as to demand recognition; and, althtes o am glad to be able to say that every accepted vo r- f th e this year been placed, and also a large number 0 f e re best of them that were marked doubtful, still. ',belt remained a few pictures of sufficient merit to juStifY ',set being placed if there had been room, and we much r e l' their exclusion." Mr. REVERDY JoiismoN repeated th, - to story _ Le pt he had so often told. W ar b etween t h e U n ited a and this country wa s i mposs ibl e, un l ess t h e GoverPrfle of both countries were absolutely insane. • AO Mr. Dm RAELT drew attentionto some points of on 1001 between the house of Commons and the A-ca" - a iP " You have recently reformed your institutio n 'a so have we; you have got a new house, , av d to have we ; you have many who have app le bas' e enter that house, and whose claims Y° ll tie°' been oblig e d t o re j ect, an d we are i n t h e sa me 1 1 ,°' i ! mi er° I doubt not, M r . P res id en t , you h ave more Pet itl- 13 0 " . even than the House of Commons in that r espect; eas itig of a more P' this I can s a y, an d it i s some s i m il ar i ty ter character, th a t i n the political academy a t Westn a ha t we find a suffi c i en t number of the old P.A.'s, an d w ilea ce still more, a very gratifying promise of future We, voti on the pa r t o f y oung mem b ers . I mus t congratulave_;ioor and the members of the loyal Academy uP°ll„/°l//13 meeting to-day for the first time really under roof. I must say for myself, having now for t hat than a generation participated in your hospitalitYl meeting you here to-day, I feel as if some kind friell u w i l et! has a long time favoured us with agreeable dinne r r . s ve d he lived in lodgings has, like a wise man , when ar that age when he should settle in life, has built uf;t_u cor ol self a house, and received his friends with all tha.c,, A t and comfort, and all that befitting splendour, wtilcAzato certain period of existence—and 'we are told t.ir, tr .--bq,; Academy has arrived at that period of exist comes, I think, all men and institutions. 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