The Sun. — London, England, 1867-08-20 00:00:00

prosecuted by the descendants of Michael Angelo and Macchiavelli for defamation. Columbus's lineal descendant still exists in Spain, and might be urged by the angry shade of his ancestor to repulse the imputation of Protestantism, not yet invented in his time. Petrarca and Raffael, the celebrated preacher Tauler, Cervantes, and probably Shak spere would all enter their protests against figuring in such a picture. Nor can we imagine what Harvey's discovery has to do here. There is im mense science in the balancing of the different groups, giving variety to the picture without de stroying the harmony of its outlines. It is pro bably the conception that is in fault, if we find here neither the marvellous mastery of the ideal, and the animation of the battle of the Huns, which is one of the finest creations of historical painting. It exists only in grisaille on the wall of a banquet ing room in the north of Germany. The coloured picture originally contemplated has never been painted. This circumstance is not unfavourable, for colour might not adi to, but mar the effect. In the epoch of the Reformt.tion, the composition of each group is pyramidal. In the battle of the Huns it is the arch. The dead and dying strew the ground forming the chord of the arch; the spectre host, which half waking warriors rise from the heaps of dead on each side to join, forms the arch. Be tween them the long lines of the walls of Rome and the monuments rising above fill up the distance. In proportion as we are admirers of this and several others of Kaulbach's pictures are we disappointed with this cartoon. Paris Exhibition. PAINTING.—There is something significative in the fact that in this huge bazaar of all things sale able, the gallery which is always the most crowded is that of the fine arts. It is sometimes almost im passable when every other part of the building is empty. Is it an involuntary protest is it against the materialist tendenc ies of the age, or due to the artistic temperament of the French people? The jewel department is always as well filled as the picture galleries, filled with admirers of its brilliant and very positively valuable contents. As the attraction to this department is not purely esthetic, our only alternative is to believe that the crowds the picture gallery collects assemble less from any intelligent feeling of art than drawn together by the curiosity which gathers an admiring crowd round every prietseller's window on the Boulevards. For our own part we believe that this gigantic ex hibition of all that contributes to the well-being, or social advancement, or economical progress of the present times, is for the Parisians and for very many of their visitors a mere show, ou a larger scale than the old Foire St. Germain, but having no other significance. The people come to be amused, not to learn ; and as interminable lines of linens, or chintzes, or broad cloths have no interest for them steam engines and spinning machines do not go to their hearts or appeal to their heads ; they naturally turn for the amusement they come to seek to the p i c t u res, which, whether they be good or bad, are at least suggestive of something they think they AGRICUL7URIL PROSPECTS. enjoy. To the student of art the present gathering within a small space of the works of so many coun tries affords a rare occasion of forming some judg ment, although necessarily an imperfect one, of the relative value of each. Before attempting to make even a cursory review of some of the works there presented to our inspection, it is important to come to an understanding with our readers as to the meaning of the word " Art." Art is not the simple imitation of nature (it would be a mere photo graphy), but it must not exclude its reproduction. Art does not consist in a certain, or indeed any com bination of colours ; if it did, to what limbo must we consign nearly all modern painters ? Nor is it th e grouping of figures, however correctly the muscles of each may be designed, for if it were " David" might be put on a line (some hundred miles between them) with Raphael. Art, whether in its highest or lowest walks, alike means Creation. There are artists of sentiment —Giotto, the saintly Angelico, the Perugin o, and Raffael, in his good time, with a host of others in the interval. Then comes another school, still full of feeling, although that feeling grows more earthly, while its mastery of the mere accessories, colour as in the Venetian school, breadth of drawing as in the Bolognese, becomes more striking. And so we may go on, finding artists, that is, creators, in every branch of painting, however much the inspiration which guided them may differ. We believe that high art is necessarily dedicated to the idealised re presentation of the passions, by which we mean the feelings ; but this by no means excludes other subjects. Hogarth and Teniers are humoristic artists, whether they idealise the vulgar pleasantries of a village Kermesse, or the panic terror of the ill-doer. The great landscape painters were not less idealists and creators. Their task was to transfer to canvas some aspect of nature refined by its pas sage through their visual nerves, not to count the knotty excrescences on some lightning-blasted trunk in the foreground, but to convey an impres sion not of dead, embalmed nature, such as the camera obscura would give us, but of nature ani mated by each gust of wind or gleam of sunshine. Nothing better illustrates what we require from a landscape painter than a p ortrait. A portrait is simply a reproduction on canvas of the features of the model. At this rate it may be said that any one can at least draw the outlines of a portrait, but such a definition will suit ninety-nine in a hundred of the portraits produced at a few shillings a head at any fair. The crooked nose or squinting eye are there, and kind friends exclaim, " What a capital likeness !" The patient does not feel flattered, but be dare not wince. This is as like portraiture as an e xact production of the first row of wheat in a field world be a landscape. Something is felt to be wanting, and that something is the substitute for what no man gives.—life. Real artists have this Promethean faculty, but they arc and always have been few. We do not pretend to lay down canons of taste, but we have said enough to explain the principles which will guide us in the excursion we propose into the sections of foreign art. We may on a future occasion venture some remarks on the modern French school, and the specimens we have here of the English, which we think and hope hardly do it justice. Three very important collections, too numerous for the narrow space assigned to them within the walls of the iron building, are placed in separate constructions in the park. These are Holland, Belgium, and Bavaria. Switzerland also has a separate gallery. We acknowledge that we looked to Bavaria an d the cognate groups of artists of other German countries with curiosity to see the results of their valiant struggle against the conventionalisms of the first quarter of the cen tury. It was due in great part to the ardent encouragement of King Louis of Bavaria that a fresh inspiration seemed to have been breathed over Germany. First is Schadow, at the head of the school of Dusseldorf, the correct, conscientious, but highly idealistic, worker-out of biblical scenes, which breathe a freshness of feel ing as if painted by an artist learned in all the studies of modern practice, but living in the atmos phere of a malireval convent. His Wise and Foolish Virgins may be cited as a characteristic specimen of his style. Bendemann, younger, more graceful, leaning rather to a mythological treatment of his subjects, was a worthy second to the master. This school still exists, but in accordance with the taste of the age it has changed its direction, and now turns its attention to representing scenes of every day life. There is a peculiarity in this school which speaks well for the genial temper of its founders they have all learned to obey a common impulse and all have trod in the steps of their masters. It is possible to make conscientious painters, good draughtsman, but not to give artistic genius, and this seems to be wanting in the present generation. While Schadow was painting at Dusseldorf, Over beck and Cornelius at Rome were working out, each independently of the other, new developments of art. Overbeck with the mystical piety of Fra- Angelico, an art of arrangement, which in some re spects recalls_ Pietro Perugino, and a correction of outline not surpassed by Raphael, is unquestionably the most original painter of the present time. He is somewhat deficient in the charm of colour, although there are pictures of his which do not merit this reproach ; but his drawings, his new testament for instance, place him at once in the highest rank, in a line with, but independent of, the acknowledged princes of the art. The studies which made a Raphael, a Francia, a Leonardo de Vinci, a Michael Angelo, are those which have made him. Had he been the contemporary of these painters, in each of whom a phase of art culminated, he would at the present day have the same place in popular estimation. Cornelius was perhaps less self-made ; we trace in his works reminiscences of Michael Angelo which show that he was content to accept, to some extent at least, the deductions of another thinker. For art is thought, without which there can be no creation. We shall have to speak of him at !ength when we come to Prussia. The distinct tendency of all German art is the careful elaboration of outlines, but in this they bear not the remotest resentblance to the treatment adopted by that French school of which Ingres was a brilliant example. Some of the Bavarian pictures are on so large a scale that we regret the impossibility of getting to a sufficient distance to see them. Of course the great object of attraction is Kaulbach's cartoon of the Epoch of the Reformation. This is a subject treated like Raffael's "School of Athens," and Over beck's "Triumph of Religion." The artist has taken strange liberties with history and private character in the composition of his groups. If French law pre vailed throughout Europe he might find himEelf LITERARY LOYALTY. A new " comic" journal, the Tomahawk, has recently appeared. In the numbers of it which we have examined we find but little comicality, if that term imply what is provocative of honest, healthful laughter. We find, indeed, some things that might make the unthinking laugh, but much more that strikes us as calculated to make the judicious grieve. If, however, the columns of the new rival to Punch are illumined with few flashes of genuine merriment, there runs through them instead a vein of malicious inuendo against exalted personages whom society idolizes, or, at least, did so not long ago, and against whom calumny itself has never formulated any accusation. True to its strangely-chosen title, the Tomahawk's satire is unlike the " polished razor keen," which " wounds with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen." It is more like the clumsy strokes of the Indian war hatchet, when the fury of some painted savage falls indiscriminately on the unresisting and on the combatant, on friend and on foe alike. In a word, its pretensions to popularity consist but in a single feature. The Tomahawk is the vehicle for cer tain rumours that have of late begun to float through the town. They are of a tenor that is dis paraging—to use a mild term—to the private life of that exalted lady who hitherto has been held up as a model of private worth and unsullied purity, and domestic virtue. And, if the character of the Queen of England has not been spared, so neither has that of her eldest sou, the HEIR APPARENT to her throne. Nor (we say it with shame) are there wanting insinuations, no less base, against others in high station, whether those whom advanced age and great public services, or those whom youth and innocence might have shielded from the shafts of the calumniator. But they, whose trade is scurrility, spare nobody except him from whom they apprehend personal danger ; and now-a-days it seems the number has diminished of those by whom an insult to their Sovereign is looked upon as a thing to be personally resented. Last week the paper in question gave the full length representation of a Highland " whose repulsive physiognomy is turned with supercilious scorn on the British lion, crouching in the suppliant attitude of a beaten spaniel at his feet. The legend of the cartoon is " A Brown Study." Now, to the vast majority of onlookers, perhaps, this queer device and inscription would not convey any idea, for it would be simply unin telligible. Nevertheless, it would arouse curiosity. But to those to whom it would convey a meaning, that meaning could be no other than the embodi ment of a very foul imputation launched against the first lady of these realms by a vile and obscure Continental print, and no sooner launched than overwhelmed with universal reprobation and disgust. We have little doubt that the conductors of the Tomahawk would indignantly disclaim any deliberate intention of assailing their Queen with the hideous calumny of the Swiss editor ; and yet their offence really amounts to this, though the at , tack is so artfully veiled as to elude probably any of the statutes of scandal= magnatum. It is, however, a melancholy symptom as regards the health of society. Why, if there were manhood or chivalry in the nation, a thousand swords would have leaped from their scabbards, or, at all events, a thousand cudgels wielded by British muscle would have been ready to avenge the das tardly insult to our widowed Queen. Such is loyalty in this age of material progress that no indignation has, so far as we know s been even vented in words against the editor of the Toma hawk. On the contrary, the picture and the newspaper are publicly displayed and vended, and the concocters evidently expect money and popu larity to reward their endeavours to amuse and instruct the public. If we were seeking arguments against the freedom of the press, or proofs of the decadence of English spirit, here is a telling one ready to our hand. Of one thing we arc certain, and it is that, as Catholics, at least, we owe it to ourselves and to our principles to show no ac quiescence in, or community of feeling with, these symptoms of social rottenness. After centuries of persecution, and distrust, and suspicion, our loyalty is at length beginning to be admitted by candid persons. We arc not even thought the worse of that we were not carried away by the exuberant torrent of somewhat slavish adulation which it was the fashion, a while ago, to offer to British Royalty. Of the greater importance does it become that we should give no countenance to the reaction that is pretty sure to succeed to this, as to all other forms of popular extravagance. It is on this account that we feel called upon to say how much we were pained to observe that one of our Catholic contemporaries, the London Weekly Register, should be of the whole London press the a w nd elc s o p m ec e ia a ll n y d to puff generally the Tome li described m t e r a s b , v t h above. It It ° .s atrocioussusurely l y a c u a p d r caricature urge scarcelyle dear N phgruaivacee- fi ha rs u t •k t ; ° for the co-operation of the free lances of " light literature," if the Catholic press is to find itself ever and anon committed to an approbation of any vileness to . which the competitive demand and supply in the merchandise of literary sensationalism is driving more and more the purveyors to the depraved appetites of the godless many.—West minster Gazette. (From the Mark-lane Express.) The week opened with a very fine day, sunny and breezy. Monday also proved fine ; wind S.W. ; thermometer in the morning 68 degrees ; in the afternoon, 76 ; barometer 30 inches. Tuesday was a very hot and scorching day, with the wind round to the east, and harvest work progressing vigor ously in all the early distiicts. Our advices on that day were—from Suffolk :—" Wheat-cutting will be general in a few days. Hot and sunny wea ther." Again (fromthe same county) :—" The qua lity of the new wheat is disappointing, and com plaints of the yield are general. About 400 qrs. appeared, all the samples being, with one exception, of the early sorts of white, but the colour, in most instances, wanting whiteness, and many samples present a shrivelled appearance. The crop, thus far, does not promise well, and we hear to-day several complaints of mildew and shrivelling of the later wheats now in the fields. Weather scorching and wind east, but the barometer is very gradually fall ing." From the West Riding of Yorkihire :—" The weather since my last has been hot and forcing, and, with a few weeks such like we should see a rapid change and the country under a far better state as regards the food-prospect for next winter and spring. The root crops to-day droop, from the effects of the midday heat, which is such as we seldom have for more than three days without a break by thunder storms, So." From the East Riding :—" The wea ther is now hot and forcing, which, if it continue, will bring harvest forward rather sooner than at one time calculated upon ; still it will be late, and, con sequently, more precarious." Wednesday was the hottest day experienced for a long time past, the thermometer in the shade registering 85 deg., baro meter 29.90, and the wind inclined to change. From the east coast of Scotland it was stated :—" The weather has been everything that could he desired since in our last." From the west coast it was re marked :—" We have had forcing weather since the beginning of the week, which keeps the trade in suspense." The tropical heat of the previous day brought on a heavy thunderstorm early on Thurs day morning, and the day proved a very wet one, stopping harvest work wherever it reached, and it bad a tolerably extensive travel before it ceased. From Warwickshire it was stated :—" We have had six successive days of scorching-hot sun, such as was much to be desired for ripening the corn. To-day it has been showery. With the most favourable weather it will be a week or ten days before harvest is general in this district. The potato disease has again appeared in many places, which causes them to be forced upon the market at lower prices." From Suffolk, near the coast : " We have had a week of glorious weather, but the temperature of the last day or two has been almost too sharp for our barleys; a change to rain is near at hand, for the glass has been steadily falling since yesterday morning. Our reports of the new wheat crop cutting up are not gay, and we hear of mildew to some extent. Shall know more accurately next week." From the interior of Suffolk it was ob served :—" Although late, we have now the most brilliant weather, with intense heat, and under its influence our crops come rapidly forward. Harvest has commenced generally, and is being vigorously proceeded with. From reports generally the yield of wheat does not promise to be large. Barley ripens quickly, and in most districts is ready for cutting." Friday morning was showery, but the afternoon was fine. From the West Riding of Yorkshire our advices stated :—" We had a change yesterday from I bright, hot weather t o rain, which came freely. To 1, day is fine thus far." From the East Riding it was I observed :—" The weather during the week has been extremely hot ; in consequence the crops are rapidly ripening, and cutting bids fair to be general next week in this part of the country." From Lincoln shire it was remarked :—" The corn is ripening fast, after two or three of the hottest days (Tuesday and Wednesday) ever known, thermometer in the shade marking 87 degrees, and harvest is now general. Should the weather hold favourable, the quality of both wheat and barley promises to be good, barring a few cases of mildew in wheat, which always, more or less, obtain hold every year. The rain of Wed nesday and Thursday, though impeding progress, has done immense good to the barley, which was likely to be white and flinty, and I am sending you a few grains as a sample of what I am now cut ting." (This is the finest sample the writer has yet seen in Mark-lane, kindly and mellow, and far superior to the Kentish sold during the past two weeks). From Devonshire, neighbourhood of Exeter, our correspondent stated :—" We have had a brilliant week of harvest weather, and are in all the height of harvest. Many samples of new wheat at market to-day, partly of fine quality, but much of it very thin and poor, having been affected witk rust. Barley seems to have improved within the last two or three weeks, and promises a better crop than at first. Oats and beans arc also good." Saturday proved a fine day, with a strong breeze from the west to the S.S.W., and harvest work would again proceed vigorously. From the thrash ing of wheat in the fields previous to Thursday it has been ascertained that there is a great deficiency in the yield, and the present comparatively high prices will scarcely compensate for the short quan tity turning out, and if the great vicissitudes of weather in the spring and up to June are taken into account, with the severe frosts occasionally ex perienced, we can account for a bad yield, and a better return could not fairly be looked for. The weather during the coming two weeks will be vitally important, and on it a great deal will depend for the final result of harvest in England, whilst in Scotland another month of fine weather is wanted to be safe as to the supply of food for the coming 1 cereal year. Miscellaneous Foreign News. The Standard's AtnericAn correspondents furnish good specimens of the attempts made in Europe to decry everything American, more especially United States' inve3tments. " Within the past five days," says one writing from New York, July 20, " three National Banks have failed—the Unadilla National Bank, situated at Unadilla, New York; the New ton National Bank, of Newton, Massachusetts ; and the Weedsport National Bank, of Weedsport, New York. The liabilities of the first named institution amount to $750,000, at least, its capital was $lOO,OOO ; the liabilities of the second amount to $210,000 ; and those of the third to $200,000 ; the capital of each of the two last named was $150,000. Aside from these, the Peg nonnock National Bank, of Hartford, Connecticut, has just lost $50,000 by the peculations of an offs The cause of all these disasters was reckless speculation, and the equally reckless extravagance in living induced thereby, on the part of the bank officers. In every instance numerous poor deposi tors have been ruined. . . • • • _ _ _ The result is that hundreds of poor people have been hopelessly ruined. Struggling farmers, widows, and orphans, who have looked on the bank for an income, small shopkeepers, dealers in produce—these have lost their all. Men and women once in comfortable circumstances have become paupers. One man committed suicide ; two persons have become insane. Black despair crouches at almost every hearthstone in the smiling valley of the Susquehanna." Now, without attempting to lessen the evils which have produced such ruin, let any one add up the total sum of liabilities —take the whole as absolutely lost —contrast this with the loss of a single institution in the city of London, and the tone of gross exaggera tion will be apparent. A quarter of a million ster ling is the whole loss which has led to these gloomy remarks, an insignificant item in the accounts of Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; in the Joint Stock Dis count, in the Imperial Mercantile, or in fifty later English failures, and a sum that might absolutely be overlooked in its insignificance in the bungling accounts of any great English railway. The same correspondent gives an interesting account of the influence exercised by A. Oakey Ball, New York district attorney, which derives additional interest from the discussion on the bench of that city, raised by the allegations of the North American Review. It appears that gentleman has filled the post for several successive .years, and he has now issued a proclamation, stating that he must be re-elected, and hemust be, for he controls the criminals. Mr. Bill Sykes is captured cracking the dry-goods house of A. T . Stewart ; newspaper para graphs appear, " Capture of the notorious Burglar Sykes—Determined resistance —Gallantry of the Police!" The honest rejoice that the villain Sykes is at last in limbo. The trial is announced. But Mr. Sykes and his friends have political influence. They wait on the party leaders of the " unfortunate gentleman's" ward and district, who wait on the district attorney, assuring him that party strength AQUATIC SPORTS ON THE HUD ON.--Some ad venturous epirits have been indulging in queer aquatic sports on the Hudson, near Troy. Three men raced across the river in washtubs for a stake only large enough to make the same int, resting, and two of them were upset. Another race was between blindfolded boatmen, i❑ skiffs, from the shore to an island in the river. One of the con testants ran into the shore a mile below on the same side from wbich he bad started.—Ncte lork Herald. The American Watch Company at Watertown turns out a watch every two and a half minutes during the working hours of the day. . . . _ LADVERTISEMENT. I —Holloway's Ointment and Pills are an infallible remedy for bad legs and all kinds of wounds. The surprising sale of these invaluable medicines in every part of the civilised world is the most convincing proof of their efficacy. They speedily cure bad legs, old wounds, scrofula, and diseases of the skin. Thousands of persons suffering from these dreadful maladies have been cured by these medicaments, after every other means had failed, and it is a fact beyond all doubt that there is no case, however obstinate or however long-standing, but may be quickly relieved and ultimately cured by these wonderful raedi e:ues. Their united action is irresistible. More need not be said iu their praise. Let those who doubt their excel lence give them a trial, zines. He mentioned, not in a complaining way, that he had received but three hundred pounds, in all, for " Our American Cousin," well knowing that it has produced to the managers of the theatres in the United States as many thousands of dollars. Although his plays are generally successful, and he is accounted at the head of living English drama tists, yet he has not escaped some failures, and his last, " Antipodes," now being performed at the Holborn Theatre, is savagely cut up by the critics, and will probably have a short run. The best play and the best playing in London is in " Caste," at the Prince of Wales Theatre. Unlike Mr. Meade, Mr. Taylor meditates an early visit to the United States, where he is well assured a warm welcome awaits him. Mr. Bancroft will be received in private audience immediately after the King's return to Berlin, to present to his Majesty his credentials as United States' Minister at this Court. Colonel Luke Lyman, of Northampton, Massa chusetts, formerly of the 27th Regiment, has been pro moted Brigadier-General, which appointment was con firmed by the Senate on July 20. The wife of Admiral Farragut was received at the railway station of Stettin, last Saturday, by the Com mandant, Lieut.-General Boehm, who accompanied her on boar]. the United States steamer Frolic, which is about to leave for Cronstadt. The officers of the Stettin garrison have given a banquet to the officers of the Frolic in return for the hos pitality accorded to those on board that vessel. At the Sailors' Home, Liverpool, on Thursday, a gold chronometer watch was presented, on behalf of the American Government, to Captain Rowland, of the coaster Margaret Jane, of Barrow, as an acknowledgment of his services in rescuing six persons from the American ship Toscano, when she was foundering at the mouth of the Irish Channel in March last. Senator Morrill, of Vermont ; Senator Doolittle, of Wisconsin ; lion. E. B. Washburne, M.C., of Illinois ; Hon. James G. Blaine, M.C., of Maine ; Ex-Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania ; Hon. F. W. Morse, U.S. Consul at London ; Hon. J. A. Kasson, U.S. Postal Commissioner ; A. M. Beckwith, General Commissioner from the U.S. to the Paris Exposition ; James W. Simonton, of the Associ ated Press; Alexander P. Stewart, the New York mil lionaire ; and Dr. Johnston, the well-known " Malakoff" of the New York Times—were among the guests at a recent dinner given by Mr. Gibbs, of the U.S. Treasury Depart ment, at his residence in Paris. Wilkes's Spirit of the Times observes that the choice of the next President has been narrowed down to a few leading Republicans, of whom Grant, Stanton, and Chase have thus far been the most prominent. Marcus Ottenburg is to remain Minister at Mexico, having received a special order from Mr. Seward to that effect. Canover, the perjurer, has been sent to Albany to work out his ten years' sentence. Charles Anthon, the distinguished classical scholar and author died at Now York on Wednesday, the 30th July. General Sir John Michel, K.C.8., commanding Her Majesty's troops in Canada, has resigned. General C. C. Washburne, member of Congress from Wisconsin, arrived by the Cuba. He will visit France and Germany. Mr. D. A. Wells, Revenue Commissioner, having completed his English and Continental researches, is now at Paris. Mosen, the American artist from Rome, is at Homburgh-les-Bains, for the benefit of his health. Daniel Gould, American Consul at Leith, died the latter part of July last. His son, W. M. Gould, is acting as pro tem Consul. General Hugh Ewing, American Minister at the Hague, is spending a few weeks at the village of Ringen on the Rhine. His Excellency General John A. Dixon, Minis ter at Paris, is with his family at Homburgh-les-Bains. The General returns this week to Paris, but his family will remain some weeks at Homburgh. Miss Charlotte Cushman, the noted actress, has been living eight years in Rome, except for a short period when she visited the United States in aid of the Sanitary Fund. Her nephew, E. Cushman, is the American Consul at Rome, and Miss Stebbins, the sculptress, is living with her. General Rufus King, late United States Minister at Rome, is expected to visit his old home in Milwauki© in September next. Mr. L. Motley, late Minister at Vienna, has delivered his letter of recal to the Emperor. His family will spend the summer in Switzerland, while ho will go to London to superintend the publication of the two con cluding volumes of the " History of the Netherlands." The health of his daughter is such as to probably require a winter residence in Italy. Mr. Motley is not very rich in worldly goods, and would have liked t 3 remain at Vienna a year or two longer, so as to have written whore he had such great facilities his "History of the Thirty Years' War." The infamous M'Cracken, the great anony mous, was too much for him. Messrs. Motley, J. R. Bartlett, T. B. Laurence, and Dr. James Sargent have Ib e en appointed, by the American Antiquarian Society to attend a Congress of Antiquarians, which meets in Antwerp in August. Professor Whitney has ascended Mount Hood, California, and finds it to be 12,400 feet. Longfellow luxuriates in the sea breeze at Nahaut. Stoddard's summer home is near Nowburyport. The Springfield Republican says that Miss Hough ton of North Adams, who was lately mixed up in the Rev. S. M. Merrill scandal, has written to the gentleman, since his pretended drowning at Plattsburg, telling him that it is now his duty to leave his family and share his fortunes with her, even if they have to go to the ends of the earth. will be lost if Sykes is convicted. Mr. Hall admits Sykes to bail, postponing the trial from term to term till the affair is forgotten, and Sykes continues his triumphant career. Minor affairs are similarly treated till hundreds of indictments are collected in the district attorney's office, and he rules the roast. When the period for election comes round he issues his mandates much as Jonathan Wild did, and is nominated by his myrmidons at the conventions, and they control the elections. But the assertions of the correspondent do not stop here, for he says, " The majority of our judges are made of dense and hopeless ignorance, elevated to the bench from the bar-room by the votes of brother roughs. They find in Mr. Hall a guide, counsellor, a friend, who tells them what to do when they have cases to decide. There are not three judges, justices, or magistrates in this city that dare disobey Mr. Hall's commands. As a consequence our district attorney's power in elections—controlled, as ours are, by the worst classes of the community—is simply enormous. There is no office in the gift of the people of this city that he cannot, an' he wills it, obtain. Why ? To use the language of a New York weekly news paper, If the leading men of the nominating bodies of our city were to refuse to select Oakey Hall as the man of their choice, half of them would be in prison within a week ; there would be a dearth of members of county conventions; a quorum would have to be hunted up behind iron bars.' The facts that I have related are known to every citizen of New York. Perhaps the English advocates of un restricted suffrage may find something in them worth thinking about." The correspondent has forgotten to add that what is true of the corruption he asserts is mainly due to the Democratic party— the Conservatives of New York. The death is reported on the 31st ult. of Miss a popular writer of the C u a n t i h te a d r i n s e ta l\ t l e a s r . i a Smeidsgs w s i cekd , gwick was born in 1789 , being at the time of her death in her 78th year. Her first book, entitled " A New England Tale," which appeared in 1822, gained her reputation and success. In 1824 she published a second tale, " Redwood," which was republished in Eng land and within a brief period translated into French, Italian, and Swedish. In 1827 was published " Hope Leslie ; or, Early Times in America." In 1830 she issued " Clarence ; in 1832, " Le Bossu ;" and in 1835, " The Linwoods," and a collection of shorter tales. In the next three years she issued a series of books whose popularity was and continues great—the " Poor Rich Man and Rich Poor Man," " Live and Let Live," " Means and Ends, Home," and " Love Token for Children." In 1841 she published, on her return from Europe, a charming volume of travel, '° Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home ;" in 1845 ap peared "Milton Harvey, and other Tales." In 1857 appeared from her pen a novel of American society, " Married or Single ?" In 1858 she issued a life of Joseph Curtis. She was the author, be sides, of a great number of essays and stories in magazines. The following items are from the Round 7 aide of August 3 : Mr. T. Buchanan Read, on the conclusion of a tour in Maine, where he now is, will sail for Europe. Mr. Charles 11. Brainard is preparing, for use next winter, a lecture on the life and genius of John G. Whittier. The Rev. Edward C. Towne, who is recommended as a lecturer by Messrs. Wendell Phillips and Ralph Waldo Emerson, announces a lecture on " John Brown : a Lesson of American Manhood." President Hopkins, of Williams College, will next winter deliver a course of twelve lectures before the Lowell Institute, Boston. Mr. George Vandenhoff, who has already ac cepted engagements to deliver a course of lectures next fall at different points in Massachusetts and Connecticut, has, in addition to his usual readings, two new lectures--" Moliere, " and " Our Mother Tongue and How we use it." Mr. William L. Alden, hitherto editor of Harper's Weekly, has relinquished that position to Mr. W. F. G. Shanks, formerly a correspondent of the Herald, in order to devote his time to a book which he is preparing for the press. Professor Hubert A. Newton, of Yale College, has added to Eaton's " Common School Arith metic" a brief treatise on the metric system of weights and measures, on which the candidates for admission to the academic and scientific depart ments of Yale' are henceforth to pass examination. The Rev. Cyrus Byington, for many years a Presbyterian missionary to the Chickasaws and Choctaws, has, with the assistance of the Rev. C. C. Copeland, completed the translation of the Pen tateuch into Choctaw—the New Testament and parts of the Old having already been printed in that language by the American Bible Society. Mr. Byington to New York to put the Mr. S. J. Ahern —for som e seven yea rs the to g t to o n pr is ess a . bout coming pub lisher of the Albion, and also for some time con nected with the business department of the Times —has purchased one-half of the Evening Gazette, whirl will henceforth be published by Sweetser and Ahern. The Rev. C. T. Brooks will publish, in the autumn, a translation of the Layman's Breviary. M. Louis Blanc is said to have collected the pri vate papers of the Emperor Maximilian, with a view toward a work upon the unfortunate prince. Mrs. Ann S. Stephens is said to be indefatigable iu her attendance upon the Surratt trial, with the design of drawing from it the materials for a novel, in emulation perhaps of Mr. Cyrus Redding, whose novel, " A Wife and Not a Wife," is founded on the notorious Yelverton case. Mr. E. G. Squier, now in Paris, is engaged upon an elaborate work on Peru. Southern Episcopalians those, that is, of the dioceses of North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, L ou i s iana, Texas, Arkansas, and Ten nessee— are bestirri n g themselves to build a university, which, we understand, is to be located in the last-named State. The movement, we presume, is a High Church one, as otherwise Cenyon ought to be able to supply all that is needed. The example of Trinity, with its signal failure, is enough to forbid sanguine expectations from the new institution ; but circumstances alter cases, and enthusiasm may be abundant now which was want ing before. Newspapers for our negro population, s uch at leltst as are edited and published by them, are eight in number, published in San Fra ncisco, New Orleans, Baltimore, New York, Ph iladel p hia, Brooklyn, and Cincinnati. One of the se, that one published at New Orleans, is a da il y , with an issue of 10,000, the others being weekly , and with an average circulation of perhaps 3,000, wbich, all things considered, is by no means a discouraging condition of things when we remember how much more numerous their readers are likely to become within a few years. A London correspondent of Frank Leslie writes : 1 —" Tom Taylor, celebrated in the United States as a dramatic author, is equally famous in England as art critic, historian, and litterateur, holding at the es same time a high post under th e Government. His beautiful residence, Lavende r Swee p , at Clapham Junction, some four mil from the centre of Lon don, is the very ideal of an artist's home. A large and commodious house, literally crowded with books and gems of art, divides the attention and delight of guests with the landscape. garden and flowers. Mr. Taylor is some forty-two years old, of medium height and handsome form. Like Charles Reade, his hair and beard are turning grey, but it is the only sign of age about him. llis dark eyes flash when talking, always animated and rapid, in deed I have no hesitation in crowning him the best conversationalist I ever met with ; and as chairman at the annual dinner of the Dramatic he Aut illustrated hors' So ciety at Greenwich, last S unda y , equal talents for public' or private. His accom plished wife contributed much to the fete a la cam pagne, last Sunday, at their charming place, by her rare musical powers, as well as iu those graceful attentions which are so pleasing to guests. Mr. Taylor was a barrister in fair practice before ac cepting office, and his experience at the bar is of vast advantage to the Government in the Home Depart ment. His busy nature finds time forplaywriting,his• tory art criticism, and contributions to the wags. JEAN IIILAII?E BELLOC. (DIRECTEUR DE L'ECOLE IMPERIALE DE DESSIN.) The provincial museums of France are, as is generally known, much better worth seeing than similar institutions in our own country, as the French Government frequently enriches them with fine specimens of the work of native artists who have risen to fame in the great arena of Europe. At Avignon, for instance, are many beautiful examples of the genius of the three Vernets, and the collection at Nantes is in the highest degree interesting and well arranged. This latter gallery has quite lately received from the Ministre de la Maison de l'Empereur et des Beaux Arts, a remark able picture from the hand of a recently deceased artist, born at Nantes in the year 1786, and whose long Parisian career of public usefulness will have ensured his name being well known to those who • - - zealous kindness of an excellent and revered mem- ' policy. If some time-honoured names in the City ber of the Family of Allam—Madame Adelaide— have been somewhat tarnished, let the melancholy that M. Belloc received the appointment to the truth be openly avowed. At all events, if such be directorship of the Government School of Design the opinion of the highest tribunal in the realm, it is grievously unjust to those eminent men who , re in Paris, to which he henceforth devoted the best luctantly as they themselves admit, have pronounced of his powers ; for that which he undertook he a verdict of condemnation , to conceal their opinions, loyally performed to_the last, without regard to or to attempt to diminish their effect by misunder the sacrifice of his own career. The school, in his standing them. No man can doubt that the tone hands, produced a marked effect upon the applica- of public morality must be seriously affected by the tion of Art to Industry. In 1832, he created the opinions thus solemnly expressed, and the best ser- Class of Ornamental Sculpture, from which went vice which can be ren dered b y the p ress is neither to " extenuate" nor to suppress them, but to give them forth all those young brethren of the chisel who the widest publicity. have embellished Paris by the decorations of the TIIE "WESTMINSTER GAZETTE" ON ROME, MAXIMI Hotel de Ville, the Nouveau Louvre, and other LIAN AND REVOLUTIONARY LIBERALISM.—By the public works. He introduced the study of living murder of Maximilian Revolutionary Liberalism plants among his pupils, causing theth to draw and has got a bad name in Europe. Such a crime will model after nature. Ile made them work from lessen its influence over its disci p les and du p es ; the life in modes that now enter into the plan of theories and principles, the for men who praised effects of which they never clearl y realized, shrink every good school of design, but which then were c lassed among the novelties of popular instruction. back in horror at results s uch as Mexico now wit nesses. How to do away with such an evil effect Although much absorbed in the work involved is the aim of the leaders of Liberalism. The plan in his new post, M. Belloc yet found time for oc- they have hit upon is characteristic ;itis to make casional exhibition. In 1837, 1843, 1845, 1848 his out that the Church is, in reality, guilty of the name a blood of Maximilian. It will be a real triump h if eared attached to several remarkable they can manage, by hook or by crook, to shift the portraits, among whom may be cited those of odium from their own shoulders to those of the Boissy d'Anglas, Emile Souvestre, Michelet, and clergy. It is curious to note how the public is Maclame:Herbelin. being prepared for such an attempt. Paris, of M. Belloc was named Chevalier of the Legion course, is the head-quarters of this conspiracy. The first sign of activity was the appea rance of an of Honour in 1846, Officier in 1864 . He died on the 9th of December 1866, aged eighty years , but anon pamphlet " On the Relations bet ween some months before his death the contents of his the Court of Rome and the M exican Em p ire," a from which, even before its publication, extracts atelier were sold ;he at the time being a complete appeared in the Inde'pendenee Beige. It begins and hopeless invalid, and his pictures and sketches by imputing "to the Holy Father a share in the were bought up by lovers of art, many of whom responsibility in the melancholy catastrophe of the then learnt, as a revelation, the genius of a man Mexican Empire," and ends by insinuatin g that it was the' Court of Rome that killed Maximilian." who for five-and-thirty years had chiefly spent his life and his powers in helping others to make Out of such audacious state ments and unfounded their fame. insinuations the Liberal pre ss in France and Bel gium are making political capital, with the view The picture, quite recently presented by Govern- of diverting from their party in Mexico the uni-_ . men - tito the town of Nantes, is the " Conversion of versal reprobation - w hich the assassination of Maximilian has excited. The writer of this anony the Magdalen." It is the only completed portion mous pamphlet has had access to privileged sources of a series for which M. Belloc had executed o f i n f • , sketches. The painter has greatly dared in his of ocu ormation. -He has had possession d ments referring to religious matters in Mexico rendering of the subject. The sinning woman, —to a confidential letter of the Empress Charlotte touched by the prayer of Martha, lies:unclothed and —and to a private and detailed account by the grovelling at her sister's feet, smitten by repent- Emperor M ax imilian of the military pos i tio n of Mexico in 1865. But it is well k nown that there ance, agonised by shame. With one hand Martha are, seeks to raise Magdalen from her posture of abject v arious in the same quarter whence t hese emanated, other important documents which throw grief and humiliation, with the other she takes up considerable light on the Mexican expedition, on a veil wherewith to cover the bare and shrinking the obstfylles it had to encounter, and on the state form. The sublime figure of Christ looms in the of the country. But why are not these also pro background, intensifying the expression of the pie- doted ? What is the motive of this conceal ment, which amounts to no less than a deliberate tore—repentance and pardon. mutilation of the truth? The other unfinished compositions make, as it " Why," asks the Univers —in an article on this subject, which we shall give were, a trilogy of womanhood of the whole. The in our next week's "Foreign Opinion"—" ou t of first represents Eve as she came from the hands of these numerous documents was so arbitrary and the Divine Creator; Eve pure and beautiful in her incomplete a choice made ?" Did the writer not native innocence, know anything of those confidential documents exchanged from 1865 to 1867 , betwe en Maximilian In whose sight all things joy ; and Marshal Bazaine—between the Mexican and but Eve, already listening to the Tempter [who, the French Governments ?" It is evident even with voice and eyes and insidious gesture, per- from these documents, incomplete and inexact_RS s suades her to eat the fatal fruit. The third gives they are, that no blame attaches to Rome in th . i., unfortunate Mexican matter. The Holy Father did the Virgin Mother, Mater Salvatoris; Causa everything in hisower to keep Maximilian in the Nostrat Latitia,, Rosa Mystics, bearing the youth-could • ld to demands which right path, but not yield . ful Saviour in her arms ; and symbolises woman- amounted almost to threats. Even the Journal do hood, raised by purity, love, and reverence to a Debats, c ommenting on this attempt to throw the. height far greater than that f r o m w hi ch Eve fell. blame of the Mexican failure on the Church, saYris " L'amour, dans sa plus be lle acce p tion est entre —" We always considered the Ch urch to have bee . inthe right • it could not but regard the conduct cet bras, sort d'elle, et bent le monde. C'est Dieu of the Emperor' whom it created as a treason, for lui memo inearne dans ses flancs. En elle se resume it is quite clear that the Church did not send hire ' toute souffrance, tout devoir , tout a m ou r . L 'e s p rit to Mexico to continue and to complete the seen a remporte la victoire, le matiere est vaincue, et larii ation- remarks that " Jo cannot be ignorant that the Mexican Empire was rendue it la mission premiere. Elle fut la perte the work of the French Government, and tha t du monde, elle en est l e salut."—Blestininster M ax i m ili an , i n s pite of the Pope's most earnest Gazette. admonitions, chose to follow other counsels." It is ._ but too true that he did not s cru p le to raise 112,5 hand against the religious or ders, to interfere his ecclesiastical discipline, and to attack the fu nd" t mental rights of the Church. How, then , is tn.o mil _ Church to blame for the failure of Maxiian it establish a sound Government in Mexico ? difficulties which he had to co ntend a g ainst weru, enormous, if not insurmountable, but he did 1 1 °„' lessen them by hearkening to the voice of e'v_l; counsellors, by endeavouring at the expense _ principle and of justice to conciliate the Liberr by attacking the Church , t hus throwin g away I only chance of saving and re g enerating a count i y . so long a prey to the worst species of Liberalis v It is not, as this writer of the anon y mous p amphib pretends, the Catholic Church in Mexico—not the ' Court of Rome,' which are responsible for ot' 1 , failure of the Mexican expedition, and for the clea of Maximilian. Napoleon and Mexican Liberalisill_ and its upholders in Europe mus t share betwe l them the blame and the guilt. This spee l °,_, l attempt to shift the blame on other shoulders—t l r, conspiracy to involve the Church in a share of t l ': .. guilt of the blood which has been shed by rot, derous hands, is one evidence the more of the ree"_, less and unscrupulous character of RevolutionarJ 'beralism. THE suN, LONDON. TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 20, 1867. cer. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, have toiled, not unsuccessfully, to develope some local knowledge of art in England through Schools of Design. But even to them it may not be well known that the man who sacrificed himself with untiring energy to help others to achieve fame, and to spread a knowledge of the principles of art, had within himself the genius and the fire which concentrated solely upon painting might have placed his name beside those of the great French artists whose names and whose works are perfectly familiar to the English public. Jean Hilaire Belloc came of an honourable mer chant stock, in the city which may be considered as, port of the Loire. Ms father took part in-the military struggles of the revolutionary times, on the side of " the country" against the Royalists. A certain delicacy of health, a decided talent for art, prevented the boy from following the profes sion of arms ; and ho studied painting under Reg nault, Guerin, Gros, and Proudhon. In those early days he had for a friend . and fellow student, Gericault, whose undeveloped genius and career he foresaw and prophesied. In 1810, M. Belloc exhi bited an historical painting, "The Death of Gaul, Companion in Arms of Ossian." It was one of the successes of that year, and gained the great gold medal for the .youthful artist, then hardly twenty four years of age. In 1812, he exhibited several portraits, and a picture entitled " A Lost Traveller in an Egyptian Catacomb." The political changes of 1814 and 1815 brought reverses of fortune and family trouble which for some years compelled M. Belloc to relinquish his beloved profession—years which he numbered among the saddest of his life. But, in 1823, he reappeared triumphant upon the old arena, exhibiting several fine portraits. In 182 G, he produced a " St. John the Precursor ;" in 1827, again, a series of portraits; in 1828, a " Flight into Egypt ;" in 1829, an " Assumption," and also a portrait of the Duchesse de Berri. In 1830, when the Revolution of July took France by storm, M. Belloc was in mid-career, building up that fame which to artists comes in middle life, and occupied with numerous commissions, never, alas ! destined to be executed ; for when politics are disorganized and commerce suffers, the Arts — the fairest and most delicate children of Civilization —have but faint chance of a healthy existence. And, moreover, the last picture exhibited by M. Belloc having been the portrait of the Duchesse de Berri, it may be imagined that his artistic connec tions were likely to be seriously injured by the Bourbon downfall. It was, however, through the DAILY NEWS.—Tbe long and elaborate judgmen delivered by the Lord Chancellor, Lord Cranworth, and Lord Colonsay in the case of Overend, Gurney, and Co. (Limited), seemed to leave little to be de sired in the way of explanation. It is true , as we have pointed out, that the Chancellor expressed an unusually strong opinion as to the necessity of shareholders ascertaining at the very earliest period the contents of the Articles of Association. But upon one point at least the three law lords were not only strikingly unanimous, but most decided in their opinion. The first question to be decided was whether Mr. Oakes had been induced to take shares in the new company by the fraudulent misrepresen tations of the directors. And the answer to this question was answered in no hesitating manner. The Lord Chancellor, after stating that at the time when it was proposed to form the new company the old partnership was insolvent, proceeded to quote the prospectus, in which it was declared that the goodwill was to be sold for £500,000, one half being paid in cash and the remainder in shares, with £l5 per share credited thereon ; " terms," it was added, "which in the opinion of the directors cannot fail to insure a highly remunerative return to the share holders." Now, what does the Chancellor say of the prospectus and of the conduct of those who framed it It had been said that the facts stated in the prospectus were literally true. Yes, replied Lord Chelmsford, but it concealed material facts which ought to have been made known, and " the very concealment gave the truths which were told the character of falsehood." It had been said that if all the facts had been revealed not only would the formation of a new company have been impossible, but the old firm would have been inevitably ruined. True, said Lord Chelmsford; but then no attempt should have been made to form a new company, because such an attempt was only possi ble b y co ecealing facts which ought to have been made known. It is true that the most damaging facts were all set out in a deed, but this deed was care fully concealed from those who were to be enticed to become shareholders, but who certainly never would have become shareholders if the contents of the cecret deed !lad been published. " The parties" to the transaction, said the Chancello r, " some of whom were both vendors and purchasers, arranged among themselves for the payment of a sum for this unmarketable good-will, the half of which must have come out of the moneys of the shareholders." It had been said that the directors really believed that the company would be a profitable concern, and upon the strength of that opinion they took shares themselves, and never parted with them, although at one time they were at a premium. True, said Lord Chelmsford, but then each of the direc tors was compelled to have 200 shares as the quali fication of a director. " I entertain no doubt, how ever," he added, " that the directors were honestly and sincerely of opinion that if they could procure additional capital and could carry on some of the business of Overend, Gurney, and Co. on a healthier system, the company would succeed." But does this amount to saying that the directors " were not actuated by any dishonest motives ?" On the con trary, the Chancellor declared that as the desired success could not be obtained without procuring fresh capital, and as fresh capital could not be obtained without " suppressing facts material to be known," the attempt to form a new com pany should never have been made at all. Nor does the Chancellor stand alone in this opinion. Lord Cranworth said that the first question in the case was the question of fact, whether Mr. Oakes had been induced to take shares in the new company by the fraud of the directors ? It was unnecessary, indeed, to express any opi nion on this fact ; " but," said his lordship, "it must, not be supposed that because I do not investigate closely the question of fact, therefore I doubt the soundness of the opinion expressed by my noble and learned friend. For the honour of the great mercantile community of the City of London I wish 1 could have believed that the prospectus was honestly and fairly framed. But I cannot. I must believe that the truth was intentionally concealed, and hopes held out by those who framed the pro spectus which deceived those who trusted to it. There was both suggestio falsi and suppressio yeri." Though the terms used by Lord Colonsay have not been reported, still those who heard him can have entertained no doubt that his condemnation of the conduct of the directors in issuing the prospectus was not less severe than that of his colleagues. It is indeed a melancholy task to be obliged to recall the strange perversities of those who, having plunged into the quagmire of s peculation, strove with all the wildness of desp air to regain the position t h ey abandoned. But if leading merchants in the City of London will loud their names to induce the in - nocent and the unwary to embark their fortunes in ruinous ventures, it becomes the duty of those who are called to sit in judgment upon such conduct to visit it with just con d em nation. Above all, it is the duty of the press and the public not to gloss over or to explain away the severity o . f the condemna ides tion thus pronounced, but to give it the wt circulation, and, if need be, to enforce the prin ciples upon which i t rests. Amid the disasters of the Crimean war and the break-down of our admi nistration, nothing excited so much admiration abroad as the w a y in which the Parliament and the people of England summoned the whole world, as it were, to listen to the history of our blunders and shortcomings. Amidst the commercial dis asters for which this country has of late been so eonspicuou.s let us not be ashamed to adopt the same COUNTRY MARKETS. ;R—Ava. 17. supplied with wheat, Pri,°,,c„ig slow, and last week's rs- COLCHEST. This market was largely pally new, but business was declined s per qr. . 2 ,, 3 4 ° Wheat, white 658 76s Beans, Mazagr,an......o,- 423 43 3 red 648 72s Middle and 5ma11,.443 Barley ... 425 48s Peas, whitt . ......... 333633 .4/0 Oats .... —s —5 grey ......... .•• CHELMSFORD —Ara. 16. sa le t o- There were several samples of new wheat on , si ts day, but the demand was not very brisk. All old eats at late rates. A few transactions in Spring corn , prices unaltered. n 41 8 Wheat, old white 58s 72 s 1 Peas , P artrid g e ...... 4. 8 3138 new (08 758 White ...... ....Vie 401 old red 568 66s B. cling ........368 oil new. Ms 70s Dun.... ..... ... 3 S B ,f/ 8ar1ey...... 26s 335 ditto, new. • - --5 45 8 Chevalier 115 535 Beans, Tick, 01d...,..405 0 Grind no ?6s 325 Melt 6ris 743 1 Ilarrow ne riC .k5..432968 4A6506 C h eva li er 6Ss 760 1 new....4t 0 ' 4 30 Oats ... 2os 260 Blazagan . ..... 393 ABERDEEN—Au G. 16. At our market to - day ther e was a q uiet business d'Pre; with a thin attendance. Pr i c es for all kinds of grain vr° on a par with last week White wheat 58 s Od to 63s Od) 621b761 bowl. Red wheat 50s Od to 58s Od Potato oats 28s Od to 29s Od " lb . i i build' C om mon oats 26 s 6 d to 27s Od --- Bore 3ss 6d to 36s 6d 35s 6d to 36s 6(1) 531 b 11 131111 ; 1 ; Barley Oatmeal 20s 6d to 21s 6d V boll of 2.,,,m, Oa Flour, fine 52s Od to 51s Od V sac k of 2°' KIRKCALDY—AuG. 10. Small supplies of wheat and oats. There wa s no b6ri.,6l' 0 Wheat 6d below the currencies of last week . No c 113" in oats. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First..... 618 Gd ' —s Od 29s 6d second.... 62s Od I—s 0,1 33s Od Tolrd . 63s Od Od 31s Od COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the closeof the market. 0. 3 s. d. 1S g Holywell Main l7 0 Hartlepool ............ „ Tunstall Walls End Iletton Cassop lB 9 Kelloo .................. 16 North Pelton Gas 12 9 'Oowndon ............... West Hartley ships at market, 45—sold, 39. The Paris correspondent of the Standar° 11.0 marks, "The Horne - o ffi ce h ave left o ff SOiZiDg Pgtia papers, but they have, en revanche, taken to colifi sejs i , OS/ the American journals. The embargo has been laid 47- i , Of New York Herald of the 23th ultimo, and the T r i litg. the same date." Births, Ol e loYCr' Emacm—On the 17th inst., at Brook Honse, D' wife of Major-General Ellice, C.B. of a son. 00 . FRASER—On the 17th inst., at Beaufort Castle, th e Mrs. Fraser, the ovat, of a son. tero io MORETON —On 17th inst., at Lindridge, Le iceo— lion. Mrs. R. Moreton, of a daughter. Marriages. fi r, e, B oss y—LONG—On tho 17th inst., at St. Pancras .o.tee,o ''' Edwin A. Bonny, son of M r. Jas. Bonn y , of 'g a i t '' 1,0 to Maria Charlotte , yo un g est dau g hter of Mr. gib, also of Maidstone. COMB—COT roN —On the 17th inst., at TriultY C t il e til lci Stepney, Mr. John S. Cobb, second son of the ~, tp,, 3. S. Cobb, of Strood, Rochester, Kent, t 0f ,,,,° ° „ 1 0 - itts surviving daughter of Mr. W In. Cotton, -'''' terrace, Bow, and 4, Commercial-road. Deaths. I CU - Fl' e ' B ARTHOL OMEV—On the 18th inst., at 58 , Brn nsw , City-road, Mr. W. Bartholomew, aged 7 3 . Jo l°6 HorE—On the 18th inst., at 3, King-street, St. Lt.-Gen. Archibald White Hope, ILA., aged 77 ' , ifil lic c FEEBLE—On the 18th inst at 90 , Cl t n-street, .3 ' aver o .I. f ' Mr. John Keeble. EA., LEE—On the 17th inst., at Balharn, Henry' 1 ,0 1 - aged 72. lir s Sa e° PHILLIPS—On the 19th inst., at Stopney-green, " c i - 921 , nt Phillips, relict of the late David Phillip' ' age Wes', RocKETT—On the 16th inst., at Quantock Ifouse,..o ,a,' wiper-31,3re, Hugh Rockett, Esq ., for auto , Y e ' gistrato for the.eouuty of Somerset. 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