The Sun. — London, England, 1865-03-30 00:00:00

----- LIFEBOAT SERVICDaring the 4torms of the past year 1864 the boats of the National Lifeboat Institution have saved 432 persons from different wrecks on our coasts. The Institution also expended £19,531 14s. sd. in the same peri.d on lifeboat establishments, in addition to granting £1,569 as rewards for saving 693 shipwrecked per alias by its lifeboats, and other means. The Committee of the Institution earnestly A ?PEAL to the public for ASSISTANCE to enable them to meet the continued heavy demands on the Institution's 140 lifeboat establishments. Contributions are received by Messrs Willis and Co.. Herries and Co., Coutts snd Co., snd by all the London and country bankers ; and by the Secretary. Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Institution, 14, John-street, Adeiphi. TII EATR E-R OYA L, DRURY-LANE, Managers. Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, a New Farce, GOING TO THE DOGS. Mier which, Tom Taylor's Play of THE FOOL'S REVENGE. I,lr. FhAps ; Messrs. it. Sinclair, A. Hayner, E. Phelps, G. F. Neville, Miss Atkinson, and Hrs. Heraiann Vezin. 'l'o conclr de with the Farce of A YOUNG LAD FROM THE COUNTRY.. Mr. G. Belmore and Miss H. flow:lrd. THEATRE -It OYA L, HAYAIXEKET. Lessee..Nlr. Buckstone. TIIIS EVENING, THE WOLF AND THE LAMB. Mr. Chippen 'ale, Mr. W. Farren, Mr. Gord...)n, ac. ; rs. }'itzwilliam, Miss Bill, bliss Lovett, &c. After wAcb, a New Sensation, THE WOMAN IN MAUVE : Slessrs. Sothern, Compton, Howe, Farren, Braid, White, Weathersby, Butler, &c. .Mesdames Stuart, Lovell, Buckstone, &e. And EASY SHAVING. bliss L ouise Keeley, Miss F. Wright ; Mes.rs. Clark, Gordon, Rogers, &C. To commence at 7. NEW THEATRE-ROY, ADELPHI.— oah3 Yropriutor and 51a.nager, Dir. B. W abater. THIS EVENING, THE RISH TIGER. Mess: s. C. H Stephenson and Eburue ; M l ss K. Kelly. Af er which, THE HUNCHBACK. Julia (14th time), Miss Bateman, supported by 7Alessrs. George J. rdan, Swinbourne, BiLington, Stuart, Ashley, Eburne, J. L. Toole ; and Miss H. Simms. To conclude with THE STEEPLECEIASE ; or, In the Pigskin. Messrs. J. L. Toole, Paul Bedford . ; Miss K. Kelly. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. Pechter. THIS EVENING, THE ROADSIDE INN. Robert Ma claire, Mr. Emery, Bertrand, Mr. H. Widdicomb ; Messrs. C. Horsman, Fitzpatrick, Moreland, Garden, Raymond, Vollett; Miss E. Lavenu and Miss Elsworthy. ---- To be followel by THE STRANGER The Stranger, Mr. Ryder; Mrs. Haller, Mdlle. Beatrice; Messrs. Widdi c C. Horsman, Fitzpatrick, 51•Intyre, Garden, Raymond ; Miss M. tienrale, E. Lavenu, and Mrs. C. tiorsman. Doors open at Hall-past Six. The Box-office open daily from ElLv,_n till Five. LYCEUM THEATRE.-MR. FECHTER'S reappearance will take place on Easter Monday, on which occasion he will perform, for the first time at this theatre, a new character. RCYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, a new Farce, by Mr. David Fisher, entitled HEART-STRINGS AND FIDDLE-STRINGS. Alter which, AR RAII NA. POGUE : Messrs. Dion Bonet milt, J. Wong - ham, IL Vandenhoff, 1). Fish, D. Murray; Mrs. Boucicault and Miss H. Oliver. To conclude with AN AMPLE APOLOGY. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress. Mrs. Swanboroug.h. THIS EVENING, at 7, CROSS PURPOSES : Mr. Par selle ; Miss Palmer. After which, the great Comic Drama, MILKY WHITE. 711e,srs. Craven, Stoyle, Jamei ; Aliss Swanborough. To conclude wAh MA ZEPPA. Messrs. Fenton, James; Mesdames ltaynham, Simoon, Johnstone, &c. • GRATIS AND POST FREE. E. MOSES and SONS' New Pamphlet, THE PHILOSOPHY OF DRESS. MOSES AND S 0 N _E• respectfully call attention to their large and well assorted stock of JUVENILE CLOTHING. The newest tanrics are combined with the latest and most fashionable cesigns, and the best workmanship. E. MOSES and SON give particular attention to this important branch of their business, and they can with confidence affirm that the prices az such as must satisfy the most economical. 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IV Non-Purchasers of the Newspaper can obtain Card copies of THE SUN PHOTOGEAH ready for framing either at THE SUN Office, 112, Strand, or at any Photographic Publishers in the United Kingdom. Price 6d. ; by post, 7d. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TUIB DAT . — Morning, 4h. sm. —Afternoon, 4h. 30m. 110-11onnow.-Morning, 4h. 50m.—Afternoon, sh. 15m. ttg _Slut LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1865. It 4s satisfactory to find that affairs in India are sufficiently tranquil to enable the authoriti es to turn their attention to internal improvements. Some of -these reforms have been long much needed, a n d it is only wonderful that they have been so long neglected under English rule. One of the most important questions to be settled in India is the provision to be made for the health and well-being of the English soldier. It is certainly not too much to expect that when the troops are despatched to a i climate which is under ordinary circumstances pre judicial to the European constitution the Go vernment under whose orders they go thither should take all possible precautions for their safety. Instead of our having done this, it is notorious that the arrangements of the Indian Barracks were for a long period most defective. The drainage was bad, the water sup ply scanty and impure, the ventilation most defec tive, and there were no means of disposing of the rubbish and refuse, so that heaps of mouldering vegetable and animal matter encouraged every form of pestilence. Added to this, no attempt was made to care for the mental and moral welfare of the soldier. He was kept in enforced idleness during great part of the day, and positively encouraged by the lack of employment and the heat of the climate to take to drink and vicious courses. The result, as we know, was that the official report proved the mortality among our soldiers to be at the rate of sixty per thousand annually, so that in ten years a regiment required to be virtually renewed. It was not likely, with all our negligence and in difference abont Indian affairs, that such a state of things could remain unnoticed, and accordingly a better system has gradually been introduced. The sites of all new barracks are carefully selected, and the old ones are improved as much as pos sible. The orders just issued by the Indian Go vernment show the fortunate change that has come over the spirit of our legislation in this re pect. No more than 66 men are to be under one roof, and no more than 20 men to sleep in one room, which is always to be on the upper floor, unless the barracks be situated on the hills. In the plains every man is to have 90 superficial feet of space, and 1,408 cubic feet of air. The laboratories are to be in detached buildings, and separate blocks will be ar ranged for the quarters of the married men. Such arrangements are no more than just, and we are sure that the necessary expenditure will not be be grudged by Anglo-Indians. Miss NIGHTINGALE, always the soldier's friend, did good service in this cause by her remarks on the sanitary condition of our Indian barracks, and after the publication of the report of Lord HERBERT'S Sanitary Commission some change was imperative. Other changes are to be made in the military arrangements, owing to the extension of the railway system, which will enable the authorities to alter the disposition of the troops. Some stations will be given up altogether, others of importance, such as Delhi, will be considerably strengthened. We are glad to find that some consideration is to be shown to the old historical relics of Indian great ness, such as the ancient buildings in Delhi and other cities. A Public Works Loan is said to be likely, and it is to be hoped that the Government will not fail to devote some part of it to the de velopment of the canal and irrigation works throughout the country. robbing them. The destruction of the city of Columbia is, indeed, an awful instance of the crimes which mien may commit when once they have given theme elves up to fury and revenge. When the mayo r had delivered up the place and entreated the convieror to show moderation, it was the acme of barbarity to adopt such a system of persecution and extermination. This passage aptly represents the state of things, " Your line of march can be traced by the lurid light of burning houses, and in more t han one household there is an agony more bitter than that of death." It is a lasting disgrace to any General that such should be said of him, and any man who is alive to the sentiments of honour will admit that these well-merited re proaches are far more damnatory to his reputation than any defeats he may sustain, or losses he can encounter through negligence or miscalculation. General HAMPTON alludes to the treatment of the female captives, and truly states that the conduct of the Federal soldiers is worse than that of the Indians. It is, indeed, a sad theme to reflect upon this policy of the Federals, and the more we reflect upon it the worse it is. How can the Manchester school at all reconcile the policy of their friends with the customs of civilised nations and the usages of Christian people. Prejudice and partiality can make people go a long way in the pursuit of their purposes, but it must be ' infatuation indeed that can sanction the perpetra tion of real atrocity, or tolerate the vindictiveness of vengeance carried to such an excess and pushed to such an extremity as we witness it in the Federal armies. It is probable that one very great grievance which has for the last few years pressed heavily upon the industrial classes will soon be greatly lightened. Not the least of the attendant evils of the cotton famine has been the high price of one of the most useful and übiquitous of domestic com modities ; a price, in fact, which has for a large number of persons amounted to a prohibition. Calico is so extensively employed for household purposes that the families of the working classes have felt its deprivation greatly, and even persons of a higher station have suffered inconvenience. Besides the high price, the quality of the costly goods of the last few years has been con siderably inferior to that of the cheap calico of old, so that after paying double or treble the money of former days, the purchaser has the satisfaction of finding that the " dress " or stiffening with which it is whitened conceals very poor stuff. It is therefore good news for all house holders and mothers of families, besides the larger grounds of congratulation to the manufacturer and the mill hand, that better days have dawned for the cotton trade, and there is now on hand a larger supply of cotton than there has been at Liverpool since 1861. The stock on hand' in the week end ing last Saturday, the 25th, was 630,000 bales, while the corresponding week of last year only showed an amount of 307,410 bales. The first quarter of this year has exhibited an increase of more than two hundred thousand bales, an en couraging sign of the times; so that we may hope that the darkness of the cloud has finally passed away, and that we may now look out for the dawn growing to the daylight. It will be necessary, however, to bear in mind the lessons of the past, and carefully to avoid the errors which have occasioned so much anxiety and distress. We must never again depend upon a restricted source of supply, and we should hope that our merchants and manufacturers will profit by the bitter expe rience of the last few years, and encourage the cultivation in every favourable place. But there will be the inevitable reaction attending reduced prices to guard against. In India, especially where the exorbitantly high prices have encouraged specu lation, the cultivators must prepare themselves for the loss of a portion of their extravagant profits. Even supposing the profits to be reduced two-thirds, they would still, now that the preliminary expenses are over, have ample return for their labour, and it will be necessary to convince them of this if we would avoid a collapse of the Indian supply. We are glad to find that at the recent meeting of the Cotton Supply Associa tion it was resolved that a deputation should wait upon the Indian Council, so as to represent the importance of adopting speedy measures to ren der India a more satisfactory and permanent source of supply. The members of the association do wisely to keep their attention fixed upon that coun try as one of our principal resources for the future. It has been amply proved that the cotton cultivation can be carried on to a vast ex tent and with great success ; indeed, so various is the climate and the soil, that it scarcely needed experience to decide upon their capacities. As a source of profit and plenty to both England and India, the cotton cultivation can hardly be over estimated in importance, and it will have the immense advantage of supplying one of our principal manufactures with the produc tions of our own dependency. All war is suggestive more or less, but the annals of the American contest contain much that is alike deplorable in itself and disgraceful to human nature. This is the worst feature in the affair ; losses of life and property may be sustained, and the consequences averted, but so long as history records the actions that have distinguished the Federal Generals, so long will a lasting stain be affixed to their memo ries and to the country to which they belong. All that barbarity can suggest, all that hardness and harshness can devise, seem to actuate the course pursued by these unworthy soldiers throughout the whole of the war. The correspondence between Generals SHERMAN and WADE HAMPTON is very characteristic of the manner in which the war has been waged by the agents and emissaries of the North from the outset. It is quite revolting to dwell upon the theme, but it is necessary to do so, in order rightly to understand the case. A more unseemly tirade than the communication of General SHERMAN cannot be imagined, and if it were possible to form a worse opinion of him than we have already, this document would make us do so. He is, or else pretends to be, excessively indignant respecting the hostility displayed to " foragers," as if it was not enough to arouse the ire of any one to behold the havoc committed, and the devastation that is spread around upon our smiling plains and fertile spots. Retaliation, however, seems to console General SHERMAN, and to make great amends to him for any losses that may occur in the ranks of his foragers. He threatens that he will revenge himself, and boasts that as he holds about one thousand pri soners he can stand it as long as his opponent. He then boasts of the right he possesses to exercise forage, which he says is a " war-right as old as his tory," but even he is compelled to admit that there are different ways of using the privilege. Certainly he and his friends chose the most vindictive and un scrupulous way of doing so. General SHERMAN goes so far as to admit that he has no doubt the habit of collecting directly from the people is the occasion of much misbehaviour on the part of his men, but yet he says he cannot permit an enemy to " judge and punish with wholesale murder." Who so fit to judge as those who suffer from the conse quences of the depredations. The general defies criticism, and, though he says he regrets the " bit terness" of the war, the eagerness with which he defends it makes us doubt his veracity. He tries the to quoque style of argument, which is the worst form that can be employed. He says it might have been expected, and that those who struck the first blow ought not to complain for such " natural consequences." It would be difficult to say what could surprise us in the conduct of the Federals after what they have done. One of the worst episodes in their actions has been the treatment of Capt. BEALL. The sad fate of this gallant officer will long be remembered as ',.an instance of what cruel men can do without provocation. Such policy is alike unworthy of Christianity and and furnish— es a solemn warning o f civilisation, of the sin and danger of boasting. The Americans have been for a long time vaunting their great superiority, and now they are giving miserable proofs of the falsity of their assertions. The reply of Gen. HAMPTON is a very admirable one; he fully enters upon the subject, and answers the charges of his adversary with spirit and candour. It is some sort of satisfaction to find anything like a proper retort given to the self-sufficiency o f the Northerners, even if it can be productive of no actual benefit. In Gen. HAMPTON'S remarks we may trace much that is true and telling relative to the course pursued by the Federals ; and we gather from his expressions what are the sentiments enter tained by the Confederates relative to the conduct of their fierce and relentless persecutors. The General truly states that " murder" is the right term to apply to the order which has caused the death of so many prisoners. He further says that he has ordered his men to shoot all those whom they catch burning houses. This inhuman mode of prosecuting the war cannot be too strongly reprehended, and any severity of proceeding adopted in consequence cannot be designated harsh or extreme. General H AMPTON is very effecti ve i n hi s remar k s concern ing the course pursued by the ruthless invaders. He asks, with proper retort, whether General SHERM.CI includes in his " rights of war" the pri vilege to fire upon a defenceless city without warn ing, and to burn the houses of the cituens after OPENING A GRAVE.—In terms of the remit to the Sheriff of Banff to have the grave of the late Hans George Leslie of Dunlugas opened to search for a parcel stated to have been placed in the coffin at the time of the burial, Sheriff Gordon had the grave opened on Friday last. The Dunlugas burial ground is in the church of Alvah, within three miles of Banff. The family ground is enclosed by a wall, the masonry being carried several feet down wards into the soil of the graveyard. The Sheriff arrived at the churchyard about 9 o'clock in the morning. Besides the Sheriff, there were also present at the opening Drs. Manson and Barclay, Banff ; Mr. G. Cumming, writer, Banff Mr. Allan, solicitor, Banff ; and Mr. Crawford, S.S.C.; Edinburgh. The parish minister and sexton, at the request of the Sheriff and parties, were present to point out the grave ; and we are glad to say that besides those officially connected with the proceedings there were no other persons present. Under the direction of the Sheriff, and after the usual forms, the workmen commenced to open the grave. The work was one of considerable labour, the coffin being 81 feet below the surface. When found the coffin was en- tire ; it was raised to the surface by means of tackle erected by Mr. Lawrence, mason, Banff, and, being placed upon an adjoining gravestone, was opened. The remains were found partially imbedded in a moist dark substance, and part of the grave-clothes were to be seen. At first, and for some time, it seemed as if there were nothing like a packet in the coffin. On closer examination, however, and on touch ing the chest there appeared to detach itself from the left side what had formerly seemed to form part of the body, but what was not unlikely to be the parcel said to have been deposited at the time of the funeral. It appeared to be about 10 inches long by four inches broad, and about half an inch thick. That it was parchment or paper, or indeed what particular substance it might be, was not, at least at first sight, very evident, the substance having an almost Pulpy consistency. There could be little doubt, however, that it was a packet of some kind or other, and on being c w e a sar Allan.ye d l a c o Te f dh t ne e e a n coffint v i ri e Ic o va p a ss i enveloping lvo m hs ie a cd t h t , e re andc beene w d a in s h p e tr h d o Nei t dhgeirdsa grave, and packet covered, and the Sheriff then l e ft f or B an ff , ta ki ng with him the box and its contents. The operations occupied from 9 o'clock in the morning till nearly 6 in the evening Of course, we ar e no t i n a position to say that the parcel found contains the deeds said to be missing, nor probably will the full information be known until the Sheriff makes his official report. The instructions from the Court of Session, we may here recall, were to search for the parcel, "and, if found, to examine the contents thereof, so as to ascertain whether it does or does not contain the said writs, or either of thorn, and to report the result of said search, and if said writs or either of them are found, to transmit the same, along with his report, to the clerk of this process, Mr. Currie." From the term of the remit, it is evident that the Sheriff would not have taken possession of the p ac k e t unless he considered there was prima facie ground for be lieving that it contained the missing papers.—Banffshre Journal. A VERBAL DIFFICULTY.—IrritabIe Captain : Your barrel's disgracefully dirty, sir, and it's not the first time; I've a good mind to --. Private Flannigan: ,Shure, sor, I niver Captain (Irish too): Silence, Air, when you spake to an officer !—Binh. rnE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 30, 186 k EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS. By Ford Madox Brown, At 191, Piccadilly—opposite Sackville-street. Another and a very welcome proof, this really remarkable Exhibition affords of the fact that Mr. Holman Hunt's example is in a manner contagious —his good example, we mean, in displaying his pictures, apart from those of a crowd of other artists, in a gallery of his own. Mr. Madox Brown has gone, however, we rejoice to add, yet one step further. Instead of opening to public view, on his own account, a single isolated picture, such, let us say, as " The Presentation in the Temple "—nay, in preference to displaying merely a couple of paintings such as the " Afterglow" and " London-bridge on the Night of the Princess's Marriage," in companion ship with a work of art from another hand, such as " The Last Day in the Old Home," by a brother artist like Mr. Martineau—the gifted painter to whose genius and industry are attributable the one hundred works of art now on view at 191, Piccadilly, has gathered together the labours of a life-time, in illustration of the bent of his genius, and of the scope of his industry. More than that, even, he has—simultaneously with the flinging open of the doors of this gallery— issued from the press a very interesting and tho roughly manly pamphlet or catalogue raisonee, in which he volunteers the expounding and never once the trumpeting of his aim or object, now in one, now in another, of these widely-contrasted productions from his easle. Foremost in import ance among these 100, or, to be precise, these 99, pictures by Ford Madox Brown—last in the cata logue, farthest in the gallery—is one of them, tersely and most significantly as well as symbolically entitled " Work," in many ways a very extraordinary picture and one that we earnestly trust may yet one of these days be worthily engraved. So much is there in it of its own title, that the reproduction of it in the form of an engraving, in a suitable style of art, would necessarily be a very costly undertaking. Cela va sans dire. Yet—the picture is really worthy of it, at once as a first-class work of art, and as an arch-portraiture. as we may say, in a typical manner of— " The very ago and bcdy of the time, Its form and pressure." " WORK," Mr. Madox Brown's undoubted master piece, was begun, as he himself relates, as many as thirteen years ago, that is in 1852, in the well-known suburb of London, of the High-street of which the picture is the vivid representation, namely, the High-street of Hampstead. It, was painted (as every one may recognise) on the spot—the background of the picture pourtraying the upper part of the main street where it trails off towards the Heath. Excavations, connected with the drainage we may presume, are going on in the middle of the roadway. A cluster of navvies make up the cen tral group—one of these navvies, a young fellow in glowing health, glorious in brawn and muscle, in stature and proportions, being the hero of the scene, so to speak—certainly the very arch-type of Work as it is familiar to men's eyes in the middle of this nineteenth century. " Work !" as the artist himself takes occasion to apostrophise that Boon, not Bane, in a thoughtful sonnet prefixed to his explanation of the painting thus entitled— CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. Work ! which beads tho brow and tans the flesh Of lusty manhood, casting out its devils ! By whose weird art, transmuting poor men's evils, Their bed seems down, their one dish ever fresh. Ah me ! For lack of it what ills in leash, Hold us. It's want the pale mechanic levels Tu workhouse depths, while master Spenthrift revels. For want of work, the fiends him soon immesh ! Ah ! beauteous tripping dame with bell-like skirts, Intent on thy small scarlet-coated hound. Are ragged wayside babes not lovesome too ? Untrained, their state reflects on thy deserts, Or they grow noisome beggars to abound, Or dreaded midnight robbers, breaking through. Around the British Excavators, in the middle of the picture, there are varied groups enough,selected from all ranks and classes of the population. Yonder the picturesque tattermadalion with his basket of groundsel and wild flowers! Here, leaning against a tree, leisurely smoking his pipe, on the look-out, with half an eye, for employment, is the tramping Patlander with his larry. There the London street boy, the genuine gamin de L ondres, kept in order (hardly !) by a motherly little sister, barely in her teens, upon whom, nevertheless, in spite of her youth, has devolved (by reason of poor mother's death) the care of theyounger children--one of these latter enjoying a suck at a bit of carrot in the absence of the more luscious luxury of a sugarplum. A wealthy gentleman—Mr. Brown suggests, probably an M.P. and a Colonel—rides within view, accompanied by his fair young daughter (both of them well mounted) in the background. The policeman is there ; the orange girl is there ; a couple of - middle-class ladies (one of them a tract-distributor) are there—there, too, in a wonderful portraiture —pencilled to the very life—you can hear him bawling, " Beer, ho !" with his hand clapped to the side of his mouth, while you stand looking at the picture—there, too, in a really wonderful por traiture, is the London Potboy ! Well to do, comfortably dressed, sleek about his well-cropped head, a bit of a buck in his slangy way, strong, stunted, clean, though with the rainbow-tint ing of a late black eye, received, no doubt, while preserving order in his master's tap room or bar drinking-place ! Finally —though unnamed by the artist in his catalogue— yet recognisable nevertheless upon the instant as arch representatives of the intellectual workers of the present age h ere i n E ng l and—there are two admirably lifelike portraits of the Reverend Mr. Maurice and of Thomas Carlyle the celebrated author—the man of letters and the working clergy man of the Church of England. Altogether, we repeat, this is a remarkable picture, in the mere purpose of it, as an exemplar of Work as it is nowadays. In the manipulation of his wonderful art----in the working out, as we may say,of work— the artist, moreover, has afforded signal evidence, indeed, of his extraordinary powers of observation and of reproduction afterwards in form and colouring of the varied phenomena around him, for which he has shown so keen an eye. The mere dashing up of the shovel-full of lime against the screen, or sifter, is shown there precisely as he saw it—not something like it, so to speak, but the very thing itself. And so with the meadow-plants in the creel of tho groundsel gatherer—the very material and texture of the pot boy's waistcoat—the sun-flecks showered from among the green leaves upon the black coat of the clergyman—and all the rest of it ! Here, in faot, is Work—not in a typical sense merely, but in an artistic sense also—the work of a true artist, of a genuine lover of nature, of truth, of reality— the work, too, of a very keen and yet of a very gentle and sympathetic observer of his fellowmen ! Elsewhere than in this one remarkable picture—scattered hither and thither in various parts of the gallery —are evidences of the like dis tinctive qualities of the artist upon whose works we are here commenting rare gifts many of them— yet hardly one among them a gift but what he has also sedulously and most laboriously cultivated, with a view to its wiser and subtler application. How he has cultivated those naturally fine gifts of his, the visitor may see very readily in this Collective Exhibition of the artist's works. He may recognise the course of the development of the artistic career of the painter. In Scripture scenes—in portraits large and small—in historical groups—in landscapes— some of these latter, one or two of them in particular, being eminently beautiful. Instance this (No. 13), a noble limning of " An English Autumn After noon." Instance, again, as affording accumulated evidence of two or three of his qualifications, as an artist true to the world as he sees it around him (No. 11) ,‘ 'The Pretty Baa-lambs." Speaking of which—he says himself—very characteristically—that upon its first exhibition " I was told that it was impossible to make out what meaning I had in the picture." Adding thereupon—" At the present moment, few people I trust will seek for any meaning be yond the obvious one, that is—a lady, a baby, two lambs, a servant maid, and some grass !" Upon many others of the all-but one hundred Pictures exhibited in this gallery we would fain have commented here at no incomi, derable length, as, for example, let us say, upon (No. 14) " The Last of England," or upon (No. 33) " Elijah and the Widow's Son," or upon (No. 35) " Toothless." But—as it is —our present purpose has been already ful filled, if we have evidenced, as we have here striven to do, our recognition in Mr. Ford Madox Brown of an artist true to his craft andto his country —a painter racy of the soil, thoroughly original, conscientious in his love of truthfulness and of reality —one of those laborious, and gifted, and earnest cul tivators of art whom England ought to delight to honour, the worth and value of whose career as an artist Englishmen ought at the least to recognize. Having said which, it is but justice to Mr. F. M. Brown here to add, no less and emphatically, that he is only known to us as an artist—that, in other words, we know nothing whatever of him beyond what any chance visitor to his gallery may there learn about him from an examination of his works, as they are now displayed to view at 191, Picca dilly. FALMOUTH, March 29. The Diamond Company's steamer Eastern Pro vince has arrived here. She left Natal, 7th Feb. ; Algoa Bay, 19th ; Table Bay, 23d ; St. Helena, 4th March ; and Madeira, 21st. The Eastern Province brings 42 passengers, among whom are Dr. Cotterill, Bishop of Grahamstown, and family ; Colonel Bissett and family ; 15 bags of mails, and a full cargo of wool, hides, sugar, horns, ivory, ostrich feathers, skins, &c., together with one case of silver plate and seven boxes of specie, value £8,700. The mail steamer Anglian left Table Bay on Feb. 17 with a mail for England, via overland route, and 37 passengers. The mail steamer Cambrian arrived out Feb. 15. In the colony it was still rumoured that the long contemplated annexation of the little territoryknown as British Kaffraria was not to take place at present; and, secondly, it was declared that the Home Go vernment seriously contemplated the conversion of Kaffraria proper, the western boundary of Natal, into a convict station. Such proceeding on the part of the home authorities would, it was said, excite the greatest disapprobation among the Cape. people. The military scandal at King William's Town had been further ventilated. The Supreme Court had decided that the words alleged to have been used by Lieutenant-Colonel White to Major Hare, at the garrison ball in King William's Town in May last, were not libellous as applied to Major Hare. The fall in the price of wool in the London markets, advised by the last mail, was producing disastrous results in the colony. One of the largest shippers of wool in 1864 had stopped payment in Port Elizabeth, with liabilities to the extent of £lOO,OOO. Nearly 70,000 bales of wool were shipped from the eastern province during 1864, the loss on which is estimated at £200,000. From Natal the accounts were encouraging. The • cotton plant had suffered, but was recovering. The difficulty in getting bills had caused large consignments of gold. The Case of Dr, Pritchard, DISCOVERY OF POISON IN THE BODY OF MRS PRITCHARD. (From the Glasgow Herald.) In consequence of a letter received yesterday by the local authorities from Dr. Maclagan this case has now assumed a more tangible, and, we may add, a much more serious cha racter than it had formerly done. We learn that, in the communication referred to, Dr. Maclagan conveyed a dis tinct intimation that antimony had been found abundantly in the urine, liver, spleen, intestines, and blood, of the late Mrs. Pritchard. It thus seems evident that the poison in question had been swallowed by the deceased lady in large quantities—indeed, to an extent far beyond what could have been administered in any preparation of antimony as medicine. Hitherto the investigation has mainly taken the form of what is known as " quantitative analysis," the ob ject being to ascertain whether there was poison in the system or not. The examination, however, is still pro ceeding, and from this point it will be conducted chiefly as a " quantitative analysis," with the view of defining in the most exact manner the quantity of poison discovered in the various parts of the body. At the same time the analyst will conduct his further operations so as to ascertain, if possible, whether or not there be other poisons besides an timony in the remains of Mrs. Pritchard. Shortly after the receipt of Dr. Maclagan's important communication Mr. Procurator Fiscal Gemmel proceeded to Edinburgh for the purpose of having a consultation with Crown counsel as to the grave aspect which the case has now assumed. Jcle carried with him, we believe, a warrant for the exhumation and examination of the body of the late Mrs. Pritchard's mother. There are undoubtedly cer tain suspicious circumstances connected with her death. Dr. James Paterson was called in to visit Mrs. Taylor, and saw her almost in articulo mortis. When he was applied to by the registrar for a certificate with regard to her death he distinctly refused to give one, accompanying his refusal with a letter, in which he gave it as his opinion that the death was one of a mysterious character. Under these circumstances Dr. Pritchard himself furnished a certi ficate, in which, if we are not mistaken, he stated that the death of his mother-in-law took place after twelve hours of paralysis, and one hour of apop exy ; whereas it is a matter of certainty that Mrs. Taylor died after only four hours' illness—that, in fact, she was in the act of writing a letter to a friend at 9 o'clock at night, and was a corpse at 1 o'clock on the following morn ing. Taking these things into account it will be seen that the authorities have some grounds for inquiry touching the death of Mrs. Taylor. We have reason to believe that now, when the presence of poison in alarge quantity has been discovered,the autho rities will be in a position to adduce material evidence bear ing on its administration. Mary Paterson, a young woman who succeeded the old servant, Catherine Latimer, and who went to the doctor's house before Mrs. Taylor's death, and has remained there ever since, states, we believe, that on the Monday before Mrs. Pritchard's death she happened to taste a small piece of cheese which had been sent down from that lady, and subsequently felt a burning sensation in the throat, which was followed by sickness and vomit ing. Again, on the Wednesday following she was asked by Dr. Pritchard to prepare an egg-flip for her mistress. The doctor put in the sugar with his own hands, and the girl alleges that having taken a sip of the mixture before it was sent to the patient she was again attacked, but more violently than before, with pain in the throat, with sick ness and vomiting. She further asserts, we believe, that Mrs. Pritchard after tasting this liquid, ordered it away. If we are not misinformed the girl M'Leod also states that Mrs. Taylor at one time expressed some suspicion as to the character of the food or cordial sent up to her daughter, and subsequently, down to the time of her death, attended to these preparations herself. So far. as matters have gone we have not heard any mo tive alleged at all sufficient to account for the perpetration of so great crime, if it be the fact that murder has been really committed. The girl M'Leod, in the course of an examination lasting over the whole of ono day and part of another, gave a great deal of information as to what tran spired in the doctor's household during the period of her service. She at the same time admitted, in the most ex plicit manner, the circumstances of her illicit connection with Dr. Pritchard. This may be held as proving that the doctor had ceased to cherish feelings of respect and affec tion for his wife; but at the same time, as we formerly hinted, it is inconceivable that a gentleman in his position would do his wife mischief in order that he might after wards form a matrimonial connection with an unpolished and uneducated person like the girl M'Leod. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) ROME. ROME, MARCH 26. (Via Marseilles.) Two numerous bands of Neapolitan brigands, wearing uniforms, and supplied with arms and ammunition, have penetrated into the Pontifical territory. They have carried desolation into the provinces of Frosinene and Velletri. All occupiers have fled from their homes. Count Paris de Frosinone having fallen into the hands of the marauders, was compelled to pay 50,000 francs ransom. The French troops, in conjunction with the Italian soldiers, have adopted vigorous measures to destroy the brigands. The Italian troops frequently pass the Pontifical frontier. It is thought that the Papal Government will remain inactive in the matter. LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY, March 30. The Inman steamer, City of Limerick, from New York on the 16th inst., passed Point Lynas at 10 a.m. to-day. News anticipated. ALLOCUTION OF THE POPE. ROME, MARCH 29. In the allocution delivered at the last consistory the Pope expressed his surprise and sorrow at the sad events which had recently taken place in Mexico. His Holiness hoped that the Emperor Maximilian would abandon the course upon which he had entered, and satisfy the just desires of the Holy See. The Pope further thanked the bishops of the Catholic world, and especially those of Italy, for their zeal in defending religion and the liberties of the Church, despite the decrees of secular autho rities. WEST INDIA, PACIFIC, AND MEXICAN MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 30. The Royal Mail Company's steamer Atrato, with the above mails, has arrived here with 138 passen gers $2,274,809 in specie, and 1,100 packages of cargo, consisting chiefly of cigars, jalap bark, indigo, and silver ore. Amongst her passengers are Gen. Buanaventuara Baez, ex-President of San Domingo, and Admiral Riestra, of the Peruvan navy, from Callao. The Atrato left St. Thomas's on the 15th. She experienced during the first five days head winds and a heavy sea, but since then fine weather. The steamer Hayti from Liverpool arrived at St. Thomas on the 10th. The steamer Palays arrived at the same port on the 13th, with news from St. Domingo to the 11th. The Spanish authorities were anxious to prevent the intentions of their Government from becoming known, but their manceuvres had tended to show that the Spanish troops intended to quit the island. The Spaniards were massed in Ports St. Domingo and Puerto Plata, and the Dominicans profiting by their inactivity were strengthening their forts, and preparing for another campaign if required. No thing appears left for the Spaniards but to carry on a war of extermination or to abandon the island. Trade was very languid, and every branch of business in the island paralysed. Several families had emigrated to Porto Rico in consequence of the high price of provisions. Her Majesty's ships Duncan, Aurora, and Steady were at Trinidad ; the Aboukir, Fawn, and Cor delia, at Jamaica ; and the Wolverine, Bull Dog, and Petrel at Sacrificio. The Tribune had sailed from Esquimault for the South Pacific. The excitement which pervaded all classes in Peru had quite subsided, and a fortnight prior to the sail ing of the mail everything was dull and quiet. Ex-President Castilla had been sent away in a Peruvian war vessel, where is not publicly known. His influence is ended for the present. One vessel of the Spanish squadron had sailed for Valparaiso, and another for Paita, others remain in Callao bay. Heavy shipments of cotton had been made from the Peruvian ports, and from Callao alone nearly 4,000 bales had been shipped. Exchange on Lon don, 37 pence per dollar. The press of Chili lamented the solution of the Hispano-Peruvian question as derogatory to the honour of the whole of South America. In the Southern provinces of Conception and Valdivia gold mines had been discovered, and new coal mines were to be opened in the south. Fav ourable reports had been given of the quicksilver mines lately discovered in the hills about Valparaiso. The arrivals of vessels at Valparaiso were few. Business was quiet and money scarce. Exchange being quoted 4s. 7id. to id. per dollar, checked transactions. The journals of the different republics of Central Africa were still discussing the question of the right of Costa Rica to afford asylum to the ex-President Barrios. The States of Nicaragua, Salvador, and Guate malahad cut off all relations with Costa Rica, both commercial and diplomatic on this account. The volcano of Turcalba, in Costa Rica, con tinues the rain of ashes, and the heat resulting therefrom is almost insupportable. The coffee crop averages from 80,000 to 100,000 quintals. The weather at Barbadoes was dry, and the sugar crop rapidly progressing. Cotton was arriving from the interior for shipment. Emigration was going on. Fever and cold were prevailing. Exchange-90 days, pa At Trinidad the weather was unfavourable for crop operations ; the yield, however, was good, and the shipments of sugar were proceeding slowly. Manufacturing operations on the sugar estates of Grenada were proceeding favourably. The yield was good and the weather was propitious for cotton picking cocoa curing. Purchasers of both articles were actively competing. There were considerable shipments of both commodities for Europe. Ex change-90 days, $4B. Trade ivas dull at Jamaica, and a severe drought continues throughout the island, and was severely felt by the stock. Diphtheria and small-pox was very virulent in several districts. Coffee, ordinary, 50s. to 535. ; mountain growth, 545. to 60s. Rum, 24d. to 27d. ; proof, 18 in bond. Sugar, dark to middling, 15s. 6d. to 17s. ; fair quality, 19s. to 21s. Exchange, 90 days, 1i per cent. premium. SPAIN. MADRID, MARCH 29. The Epoca of to-day says the Minister of War has tendered his resignation. It is asserted that General Lersundi has refused to replace him. Marshal Narvaez will probably retain the port folio of the vacant Ministry. Footings from the Owl. A marriage is arranged between Lady Anna Melville and Mr. Stirling, M.P., of Keir. Lord Duncan will stand for South Warwickshire. Captain Hors, R.N., Naval Attacb6 to the Embassy at Paris, is to be accredited to the Italian Court. We are glad to learn that Mr. Baillie Cochrane, M.P., is about to publish a work, to be called " Historic Pictures." MONSIEUR BOUCICAULT'S LAST.-00 Monsieur Buck stone, c'est un mauve-y sujet. HER MAJESTY'S SHIP AGINCOURT.--011 Tuesday and yesterday steam was got up on board the Agincourt, now lying in the New Morpeth Dock, Birkenhead, for the purpose of trying her engines. They worked smoothly and easily, and the trial was quite satisfactory. The Agincourt will be masted in one of the Government dockyards. THE PUBLIC-HOUSE CLOSING ACT.-A deputa tion from the Metropolitan Cattle Market, and Compositors engaged on the morning press, had an inter view with the Right Hon. Sir George Grey yesterday, at the House of Commons, foi the purpose of effecting an al teration in the Publichouse Closing Act, 1864. The inter view resulted in a suggestion from Sir G. Grey that the second reading oflMr. Cox's bill for amending the above act, which was fixed for this evening, should be postponed for a few days. The following members have promised their support to Mr. Cox's amendment ; Lord R. Cecil, Mr. Roe buck, Mr. Lock, Mr. Salomons, Sir S. Northcote, Mr. Henley, Baron Rothschild, Mr. H. Lewis, Mr. Butler, Mr. Angerstein, Mr. Goschen, Mr. Crawford, Mr. P. Bentinck, Colonel Clifford, Sir H. Stracey, Colonel Edwards, Sir it Clifton, Mr. Sheridan. FRANCE. BOURSE, March 29.—The market is not quite so buoyant as yesterday. Threes, for the Account, are now at 67f. 40c. Italian Loan 64f. 90c. Mo bilier have been done at 860 f. Railway Shares are not so firm, and prices have in some cases give way. The market was very heavy towards the close, with a decline in almost all Securities. The following are the last quotations :- 4i per Cents 66 20 Do. end month — 3 per Cents. 67 35 Do. end month 67 35 Credit Mobilier 855 Do. end month Bank Shares 3500 Credit Foncier 1292 50 Roman RAIL' Italian Loan a 80 Do. end month 64 80 Ditto Threes — New Mexican Russian — Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt Deferred "A,YS. Cast. Acct. Orleans Northern 1032 50 ... 1040 Lyons and Mediterranean 973 75 ... 970 Southern 590 ... 585 Western 551 25 ... 550 Eastern Sardinian 302 50 ... 276 75 Austrian Lombard 540 ... 541 25 North of Spain 3OO ... 301 25 Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona l7O ... TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH 22. The Levant Herald says that the Powers have rejected the demand of the Viceroy of Egypt to re cognise his son as his successor. Saveret Pasha has been named Ambassador at Paris. An Envoy from the Khan of Khokand will pro ceed to England to appeal to the British Govern ment against the Russian invasion. rt 17 , Atli_ heb-i! , • v t I ritual. HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, March 29. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal High ness Princess Louise, honoured Mr. Armstea,d and Mr. Philip with visits at their studios yesterday afternoon, to inspect their models for the bas-re liefs to be placed on the Prince Consort's Memorial. Her Majesty arrived at Windsor Castle at a quarter before seven o'clock last evening from London. In attendance were Viscountess Jocelyn, Lady Augusta Stanley, the Hon. Florence Seymour, and Lord Alfred Paget. Her Royal Highness Princess Helena, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington and Colonel the Hon• A. Hardinge, returned from London last night. The Queen walked and drove in the gro unds this morning, attended by the Lady Augusta Stanley. Viscountess Jocelyn has succeeded the Countess of Gainsborough as Lady in Waiting. Viscount Torrington and Lieut.-General Sir a Bentinck have succeeded the Earl of Caithness and Lieut.-Col. H. Cavendish as Lord and Groom in Waiting to her Majesty. The Prince Prince and Princess of Wales. IThe Princess of Wales took a carriage drive yes terday, attended by the Countess de Grey. The Prince of Wales visited his Majesty the Ki' of the Belgians at Buckingham Palace. The Prince and Princess of Wales had a dinner party in the evening. The company included his Royal Highness Prince Alfred, the Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe, Earl of Hardwicke, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Earl and Countess do Grey and Ripon, Lord Llanover, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. H. and Mrs. Byng, Sir Edmund and Lady Head, Lieu tenant-General Knollys, Lieutenant-Colonel KeP pel, Major Cowell, Lieutenant Haig, the Rev: C. T. Tarver, Dr. Bernhardt, and Mr. Holzmann. After dinner Mr. Thomas Gryffudd performed a selection of music on the Welsh triple-stringed harp• The Countess de Grey has succeeded the Hon. Mrs. Bruce as Lady in Waiting to the Princess of Wales. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge is still confined to her apartments in St. James's Palace, but we learn her royal highness is somewhat better. _ His Excellency the Turkish Ambassador and Madame Musurus intend to give a series of dinners at the embassy, the first of which is fixed for Monday next. His Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and the Countess Bernstorff received at dinner last evening his Excellency the Spanish Minister and Madame Comm, Lady Egerton of Tatton, M. and Madame de Katt°, his Excellency the Hanseatic Minister, Mr. Cowell Stepnen Countess Unsdale, &c. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland received Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston and a select party last evening at Stafford House. The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury en tertained a select circle at dinner last evening at their mansion in Arlington-street. Viscount Palmerston received several members of the House of Commons at dinner last evening at Cambridge House : later in the evening the noble Premier attended the Speaker's levee. Lord and Lady Chesham are expected in town shortly. His lordship has taken 3, Grosvenor-crescent, f or tho season. Lord and Lady Delamere received a select part/ at dinner last evening at their residence in Bruton-stree t. Mrs. Disraeli has issued cards for assemblies for this evening and on Friday, the 7th of next month, at her residence, Grosvenor-gate. China and Japan. The remnant of the Taepings, under their " pro tector General," Shi Wong, who is said to be 3 brother of Chung Wong, the best leader in th e old army, have issued two notifications, one to the people of the country, and another to the Foreign Treaty Powers. In the address to the people, the Protector General informs them that the Tartar dynasty must be displaced, and that the empire of China must be governed by Chinese. The people are informed in distinct terms that u° violence will be offered to those who submit t° Taeping rule ; that they will be protected and ea' couraged to industrial and agricultural pursuits ; that the payment of taxes will alone be insisted upon ; and that, as there is nothing to complain of in such conditions of submission, the people who tied at the approach of the Taepings ought at once to return to their dwellings and continue the P ursuits of peace. It is pointed out to them that the er°P s , are ready to be cut down, and that they are inviteu to return and reap the fruits of their hushusband'' otherwise they will be treated as offenders, and liable to punishment. The second notification issued by the Taeph3g leader is addressed to the Treaty Powers. The Pro tector General deprecates all feelings of hostility between his people and foreign Powers. He inti mates his intention of pushing his campaigns aver the empire. He proposes terms of co-operation with the Powers. These terms are a constant suPP II of arms and ammunition to begin with. The n it , proposed that foreign nations shall commence a career of conquest under the sanction and authority of the Heavenly dynasty. The plan laid down is that the Powers shall ravage the coasts ; seize what ever ports they choose, to become their own Pr e .; perty ; and retain for their own use all the spo i l they can lay their hands on. Furthermor e, th e Taepings undertake to conduct operations in t il interior and move towards Pekin simulta neously with our progress along the coast. They go on t° say that every city they take will be duly Pill% dered, and one-half of the proceeds in each Os handed over to their powerful allies. The Taeping head-quarters are at Chang Ch °l( ._.' in the province of Fohken. The chief seat of thei r r influence lies between Amoy and Fuhcha u, or both of which ports, it is said, they m ight easily threaten. In Japan no change has taken place in our po ll ,: tical relations with that country since the last raa P il Two regiments, however, will rema i n there, as we as the men-of-war now on the station. THE LATE CARDINAL WISDIAN. --A. so le requiem for the repose o f the soul of his Eminence 01! l ate Cardical Wiseman was performed y esterday ni Tia ja o ing at the Royal Bavarian Chapel, Warwick -street. ' Right Rev. Dr. Morris, Bishop of Troy , officiated, sn f the the service service was attended by a large nu mber 0 _c tholic nobility and gentry. The mu sic was that of Mozart. 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