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On Friday morning, at nine o'clock, says the Journal Officiel, the sergents-de-ville at the Prefecture arrested a man named Baurie, recently arrived from England. He had upon him a sum of money, a loaded revolver, and a letter from London, written by an individual greatly compromised in the plot of February, This document, coupled with Baurie's confession, leaves no doubt as to his object in coming to France, or as to his intention to carry out his project im mediately. In the course of the evening other individuals were arrested i a the Belleville quarter. At the dwelling of one of these persons there was found a box filled with bombs, a quantity of powder, and also a recipe for making powder. This conspiracy appears to be connected with the plot, the "instruction " as to which is now nearly concluded. The principal managers of the International (Parisian section), an illicit association, the centre of which is not in France, have been arrested. The plot of February, alluded to in these particulars, is another conspiracy for which many persons were arrested, a large proportion of whom are still in prison ; but no details of this earlier • scheme have been furnished to the public. The plan to assassinate the Emperor in the act of pre senting a petition is not the only version. Another states that the conspirators intended to blow up the Tuileries with picrate of potassium—that terrible substance which caused such a deadly explosion in Paris only a little while ago. In an early edition of Saturday, the Figaro came out with the following information : • " According to our information, though no attempt was ' made yesterday against the Emperor's life, people have gone a great deal too far in supposing that there was abso lutely no foundation for the rumour. There was no attempt, but a deserter was arrested on the charge of intending to murder the Emperor (d'avoir vould assaesiner l'Empereur). It may be remembered that some time ago five men deserted from the 7th battalian of Foot Chasseurs. It is one of these men who has been arrested. A letter written by M. Flourens giving him instructions for the execution of the crime, is the strongest evidence against him. In that letter M. Flourens recommended him only to go out at night time, and to act with the greatest circumspection. This advice was scrupulously followed, for it seems that this soldier never slept twice in the same place. It is a curious feature that what drew the attention of the police to this indivi dual was the report of a young woman, who noticed that he was strangely "preoccupied" for so young a man. It is not near the Tuileries that he was arrested, but Rue Rochechuart (near Montmartre). This same deserter, at one of the last reviews, distinguished himself so greatly by the warmth with which he shouted Vive l'Empereur,' that his captain exclaimed, `At the first eineute I'll have that fellow in the front rank' (!) The smallest incidents are important in the eyes of the police. The departure of M. Ledru Rollin was one of the indications which awoke suspicion. It was understood that if M. Ledru Rollin left Paris after so short a stay, an event must have been in preparation which he was acquainted with, but which, from his years and his fortune, he did not wish to be mixed up with. It is believed that the projected attempt was not likely to be isolated. The Palace of the Tuileries and the Prefecture of Police were to be blown up." This alarming news was not very favourably received in the matter of confidence. It excited general incredulity. Later in the day, however, the Figaro had more to say on the subject, and there is much reason to believe that its facts were this time derived from the Prefecture of Police : " The police had been informed that an individual bad left London for the special purpose of murdering the Emperor. There were but very few indicationsrespecting this conspi rator, and up to this time the precise period at which he arrived in Paris is not known, but it is not supposed that he has been lmre more than two or three days. The police had been hunting for him in vain, when yesterday morn ing it was ascertained that an individual, whose descrip tion corresponded to the description of the man 'wanted,' had slept at a house of ill-fame in the Butte des Moulins, and he was arrested there, sent to the prefecture and thence to Mazas. As he stated this morning, he turns out to be a deserter from the army ; his name is Baurie. On being searched a six-barrelled revolver, loaded, and a sum of one hundred francs (24) were found about him. The money had been given him that morning, he said, to assist in the perpetration of the crime, and in making his escape. One cannot say that the secret societies waste their money. Baurie had also about him a letter from London. bearing the London postmark, and signed `Gustave Flourens.' It contained the most precise and minute instructions. M. Bernier, the juge d'instruction, went to Mazas to examine Baurie, who made the most ample con fession. Thanks to his revelations, the police were able to arrest, near the Boulevard du Prince Eugene, three individuals gravely compromised ;. a fourth individual, against whom c h arges were pending, was met with on the Boulevard de Belleville. As soon as the policemen collared him he shouted, ' Help ! they are arrest ing a Republican !' A band of ragamuffins attacked the police, and released the prisoner. At the lodgings of one of the individuals arrested a large trunk was discovered, containing ten cases of cartridges and twenty-one bombs. Several bottles were also discovered, containing an explosive substance, which is believed to be pi crate of potassium. Inside a bust of Garibaldi and a• bust of Lamartine papers were found con nected with the business, and, among others, a recipe for the manufacture of picrate. This morning a great many arrests were made in virtue of warrants. The prin cipal leaders of the International Association have been imprisoned in Mazas. At seven o'clock this morning M. Lermina was arrested at No. 12, Vue Richer, in a house where he had been hiding since yesterday. [lt was this person who read the acte d'accusation sent you yesterday.] M. Germain Casse has also been arrested. A guard of the Northern Railway has also been arrested on the charge of having brought from Belgium a large quantity of revolvers ordered from a Liege armourer by French Re publican refugees. It is believed, however, that this man did not know what he was doing. Here is a description of the bombs; they are flat and circular, and consist of two plates rivetted together ; the outer edge is cylindrical and pierced with air holes ; a handle is at tached, which enables it to be projected a long way. Inside are four thin glass tubes, meant to contain the ex plosive substance, and closed by common corks ; the vacant space is filled with nails, with a view to smash the tubes when the bomb hits anything, and to scatter like canister shot after the explosion of the picrate. The diameter of these bombs is about twelve centimetres, so that they can be easily carried in a coat pocket." Other journals publish substantially the same details ; but the fact that they appear in such papers as the France and the Centre Gauche is itself some testimony to their accuracy. The Centre Gauche says that " the plot " was to " break out "on the Bth of May. The Patrie states that the chief agent in the conspiracy— the man who was to kill the Emperor,' and blow up the Tuileries, &c, is a young fellow of two and twenty, " licentiate Of letters," and belonging to a " very good family." After a life of reckless debauchery, he enlisted, and then deserted. He was, according to the Patric, arrested at about three o'clock on Friday , near the Hotel de Vile. The semi-official print adds :—" He was the instrument of the London Revolutionary Committee, and particularly of Flourens, it is said. Since his arrest he cries, laments his hard case, and confesses everything." The Soir, the latest evening paper, says the arrests amount to forty-two, and that the instruction will be carried on " most publicly and rapidly." LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 2, 1870. Tin Pull Mall Gazette is rather severe upon the mad doctors. We do not doubt that there are black sheep among them—that some are tyrannical, some even cruel—and that they charge a long price for looking alter their patients. But we do not see why they, more than other persons, should be condemned indiscriminately. The point of our contemporary's argument is that, inasmuch as the keeper of an asylum is paid a very heavy yearly sum so long as a patient is under his care, his pecu niary interests will induce him not to cure the patient. To this we reply that the doctor who never cures is not likely to have many patients, and that a mad doctor has the same reasons for treat ing his patients fairly and curing them if he can, as any ordinary medical man has. Moreover, the medical profession is a peculiarly honourable one. There is none, save the clerical, in which so much work is done without pecuniary reward, done for the love of science, done for the love of humanity. At the same time there can be no question that private asylums are not what they should be. They are often opened by persons of low station, professional ignorance, and insufficient means. In the case of very small asylums, where the removal of one patient would seriously diminish the income of the master, there is also a strong temptation—not always resisted —to detain a patient when the proper reasons for detention have ceased. To prevent such abuses as these the Commissioners in Lunacy ought to have more power. They ought to assure themselves that the persons opening asylums are qualified by social position and professional knowledge, and that the patients are allowed all the comforts and even luxu ries which should be secured to them in considera tion of the heavy payment which they make. But the field of inquiry most urgently demanding the attention of the commissioners, is the public asylums. The disclosures of the shameful injuries to which patients have been therein exposed, and which must have involved the most brutal violence, are a disgrace to the land in which we live. Our contemporary has done good service by calling attention to this almost incredibly horrible state of things. It is to be hoped that when M.P.'s have done discussing such matters as Colonel Boxer's patent, and the appointment of Irish sheriffs, they will find time to deliver those poor creatures, so terribly afflicted, from the hands of the men who were bound by every consideration to be their pro tectors, but who have too often been their murderers. ANOTHER batch of official correspondence respect ing- the massacre by brigands in Greece has been published. Unquestionably no charge of neglect or lack of vigour can be alleged against either, the Foreign Office at home, or our embassy at Athens. Mr. Erskine did all that the circumstances allowed him to do, and Lord Clarendon fully supported him. Unfortunately the very reverse verdict must be passed upon the conduct of the Greek authorities; their proceedings are con spicuous for terrified contusion and misplaced asser tion of dignity. The correspondence is not of suffi ciently late date to contain any notification of the murders ; all our news of that dismal denoil znent has been received by telegraph; but the negotia- tions anterior to the massacre are fully detailed, and sufficiently expose the horrible tomfoolery by which these lives were muddled away. The brigands required not only a ransom, but a free pardon for all past offences. In other words, they desired to make such terms as would ensure them the safety of their lives after the booty was given up, and the captives set free. Granted the primary fact of brigandage, and it is impossible to overlook the reasonableness of such a stipulation. Any civilised person who can imagine himself a brigand will at once conclude that, in the position of the robber chief, he would have hold out with all the obstinacy and contempt of the regular authorities which characterised that indi vidual. The Ministry at Athens pleaded that the Con stitution would not allow them to grant an amnesty. The brigand chief, hearing that the nation made the Constitution, naively suggested that the nation should be gathered together to alter it for the especial benefit of himself and his troop. This neat proposition . was of course inadmissible. At length the Greek Ministry conceived a fine idea. The King could not grant an amnesty; but it was quite within his constitutional power to give a pardon after a trial, and if the brigands would come to Athens, be tried and con demned, they should receive their pardon and their money, and go wherever they chose. It is almost incredible that such a miserable sub terfuge, wasting time, and bringing contempt on all concerned, should have been made at such a crisis by a set of men in a responsible position. And yet it was not only made, but deliberately insisted upon. The brigand chief, however, would not risk himself in Athens. He despised the Administration, and therefore he would not trust it. He was willing to undergo the degrading farce of a mock trial and condemnation at the village where he was encamped. Come to Athens be wouldnot. The Greek Ministers insisted for their " honour's " sake that he should. And this point, it would seem, decided the fate of the Englishmen and the Italian secretary. The letters terminate whilst Tots low comedy is being pl a y ed . w e know, now ever, that the massacre followed immediately. It may be easy enough for foreign critics to decide that the Greek Government is not to blame for what happened; but Englishmen will mostly conclude that if the honour of the Greek Government were so far gone that it could concede a mock trial, it mattered little where the trial took place. In fact, the whole negotiation about this .process of justice is a most miserable and ruinous farce. The plain duty of the administration in such a position was to acknow ledge the supariority which the brigands had gained ) make a tabula rasa of the past, and grant a pardon. Such au honest course could not hare been so de grading as the trial expedient. ict;E (IT , II LIB .11AJESTY. OSBORNE, May 1. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon. Her Majesty and the Royal Family and the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting attended Divine service at Whippingham Church this morning. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess attended Divine service yesterday at the Chapel Royal St. James's. LATEST INTELLIGENCE (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) FRANCE. PARIS, May 1. The France of this evening states that the amnesty which was expected after the Plebiscite will not now be granted. The Univers announces that the reply of the Vatican to Count Daru's memorandum has arrived in Paris. It simply refuses to communicate the memo randum to the Council. Neither will Cardinal An tonelli enter into any discussion on the questions raised by Count Daru. CREUZOT, May 1 (Evening). M. Assy, the fomenter of the repeated strikes, and another suspected person, were arrested to-day. While the prisoners were being conducted to the railway station numerous masses of people threw stones and other projectiles at the authorities, whereby several of the police were wounded. The prescribed warning having been given a body of cavalry dispersed the crowd. Nine of the rioters were arrested, amongst whom two natives of Switzerland, one of whom had se riously wounded a lancer, whilst Assy attempted to incite the crowd. Work continues as in the various establish. meats at Creuzot. tiOURSE, April 30.—Three o'clock—The marl e ~used as follows : If per Cent. { per Cents 74 25 Ital'an vives 57 .50 End of month_ 74 67} Austrian Fives `Jfeclit Mobilier ~. 237 50 Ottoman Loan Transatlantic 197 50 Do. Debt 4B 75 Credit Foncier ...1303 Spanish Threes - Paris Gas 1675 -. Home Debt — Suez Canal 295 Deferred — RAIL WAY S Cash Orleans Western Northern Strasburg rayons and Mediterranean Southern_ 605 Sardinian Austrian . Lombard. North of Spain Saragossa Roman. 792 k 4021 681 85 43i ROME. ROME, April 30. A general congregation of the Council, held yes terday, commenced the discussion on the subject, "De parvo Catechismo," which terminated to-day. The vote will be taken on 'Wednesday next. The first portion of the papers referring to the " Schema de Romano Pontifice" were distributed yesterday. The second portion of these documents,—namely, those treating of Infallibility, will be issued to-day. ITALY. FLORENCE, May 1. Advices received from Buenos Ayres state that the Italian Consul iu that city has been assassinated. PORTUGAL. LISBON, April 30. Popular tumults have occurred at Castro Dairo. Several persons were killed and wounded. The monument to King Pedro IV. was inaugurated yes terday. An immense crowd assembled, but no dis turbance occurred. The British squadron sailed at noon to-day for Vigo and Corunna, en route for England. AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, May 2. The North German Lloyd (extra) steamer Her man, from New York on the 21st ult., has arrived. On the 30th ult. she passed a wreck painted black outside, with a white stripe around her stern, her deck-house yellow. She appeared to be a barque, with only the foremast standing, painted white. The mails will be delivered this afternoon. (By Cable). WASHINGTON, May 2. Mr. Bontwell, Secretary of Finance, has ordered the Treasurer at New York to sell $4,000,000 of gold, and to purchase $6,000,000 of bonds during the current mouth. The Supreme Court has adjourned. It is reported that the Mormons are secretly arm ing, for the purpose of resisting the enforcement of the national laws against polygamy. NEW YORK, April 30. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 115 ; the highest quotation during the day Ras 1151; the lowest, 1141. Sterling Exchange on London 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 1885 1141 1867 10-40 Illinois Erie 1131 1081 141 Cotton—Mid. upland Petroleum—Standard White Flour—Extra State, $4 70c. to $5 30c. Corn—Old mixed, $1 16c Yesterday having been the anniversary of the birth of Prince Arthur, the ships of war in port hoisted national ensigns at their mastheads, and at 1 p.m. a Royal salute was fired from the guns on the fortifications and of the ships. The death is announced this morning of the Vis countess Boyne, wife of the second viscount in the peerage of Ireland. The annual meeting of the Reform Club will take place on Thursday next. Mr. William Alexander M4Kinnon, formerly M.P. for Lymington, and afterwards for Rye, died on Saturday last at the age of 81. Mr. Gladstone, it is stated, has returned a favour able answer to the memorial on the subject of the ballot, which was recently presented to him by Sir Wilfred Lawso❑ on behalf of upwards of 200 members of the House of Commons. The Scotsman professes to have heard "on good authority" that the Government intends to withdraw part second of the Irish Land Bill relating to the sale of land to the tenants. Easter Vacation at Eton College will terminate on Wednesday with the return of the Lower Boys. The fifth form arrive on Thursday, and the sixth form on Friday. The command of the flying squa'lron will more than likely be given to Rear-Admiral F. Beauchamp Seymour. Mr. Childers's private secretary. This morning the new line of tramway laid down from Brixton to Kennington Park was opened for public traffic. Tho large and convenient carriages, which are capable of carrying 24 persons inside and 23 on the roof, conveyed good loads of passengers. The fare is 2d., and a very large number of persons availed themselves of the new mode of travelling. The omnibus fares are reduced to the same tariff. The carriages are well horsed and have rever sible roles, &c., so that the turning round of the carriages is avoided. A PUBLIC MEETING DISSOLVED. Another arrest— though not immediately connected with the plot—is deserving of notice. M. Lermma has been put in prison for !in offence against the Emperor's person at a public meeting. He was the mover of a bill of indictment against the Emperor, proposing a Plebiscite to declare him guilty of a capital offence, but that the Republic wishing to abolish the penalty of death, only sentenced him to penal servitude for life. The meeting at which this motion was made is the only one hitherto dissolved during all the " Plbbiscitary period " by the commissary of police in attendance. Even in this i n stance the commissary, after listening to much violent language, seemed asleep until ha heard the Emperor de scribed as Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, alias Napoleon 111. Then be started up from his seat and declared the meeting dissolved. At many of these meet ings, several of which have been attended by 3,000 or 4,000 people, cries of " Vive la Republique," an d " Down witlithe Emperor," have been uttered without molestation. The Paris correspondent of the Daily News o b serves : d‘ Up to a certain extent the Governme n t b e li eves it se lf a gainer by this outrage of the Opposition, and shorthand writers are employed to take down all the most intem perate passages of the speakers, which before the Ple biscite are to be collected togethe r an d l arge l y di str ib ute d in the provinces, with the view of corroborating M. 011ivier's statement in his first address to the electors of the Var, that Republicans only seek to pillage and cut throats." LATER DETAILS OF THE PLOT. The Gazette des Tribunaux says that the police for some time past had suspected a man named Baurie, who had been pointed out as an agent of the revolutionary com mittee of London. He is a young man of 22 years of age, who, after a life of dissipation, was found guilty of a robbery, enlisted as a soldier, and shortly afterwards deserted. Among the letters found upon him was one from Gustave Flourens, who is at present in England. In face of the overwhelming proofs against him Baurie made a confession, and, in consequence of his information, warrants were issued against many persons who were seriously implicated in the affair, In the course of these operations the police seized, inde pendently of important papers, some of the engines which were designed to carry out the plot, either as an attempt on the life of the sovereign, or to aid in the insurrectionary struggle which was to follow on the attempt. The person at whose residence the bombs were discoverod is named Roussel, and his house in the q uar t er o f Pb re l a Ch a i se . W 4831 t ile police arrived, he oiled for help, and the police were surrounded by a number of people, who rescued the prisoner. Twenty bombs were found, which were well made, and of an explosive force which is calculated at five times beyond that of the Orsini bombs. Fourteen members of the International Association have been arrested, and eleven other arrests were made afterwards. The Gaidois says that a letter is extant which is signed by Gustave Flou rens , an d d a t e d A pr il 24th, in which instructions are given relative to the mode of making the bombs. The authorities are, it is supposed, in possession of proofs that Flourens paid for the bombs. The man who made the bombs, and who is a very skilful workman, has taken flight, but the person who gave the order for them has been arrested. The mechanic who has constructed these terrible chefs d'oeuvre was at the head of an establishment for the manufacture of warlike imple ments which Marshal Leboeuf visited a short time ago, and congratulated this foreman upon the improvements he had introduced into the manufactures. The Moniteur Universel says that the conspirators were Warned not to shew themselves during the day, but to concert measures so that at a given signal, aided by all those they could persuade to join them, they might attack the Palace of the Tuileries, the Staff Office in the Place de Paris, an d the Prefecture of Police. The plot was fixed for Sunday, the intention was to blow up the Tuileries, the Staff Office, and the Ministry of Justice, with the aid of bombs. The Rappel believes that the whole affair is got up to create an excitement, and asks if it is a plebiscitary manoeuvre, and if they wished to prejudice the people in favour of the Emperor, and irritate them against the Revolutionists. Until lately the Bonapartes have been rather those who fired pistol shots than those who received them, The Liberte gives the following account of the arrest of Baurie, who, it states, is a deserter from the 7th regiment of the Line, and was compromised by the late affair of military propagandism, of which M. Flourens was one of the originators. Three days before the arrest of Baurie the English police had given warning of his arrival, and measures were accordingly taken. The police agents took care not to lose trace of him, but they were anxious to seize him with the compromising letters in his possession. On Saturday morning M. Lagrange and two of his men followed him from an early hour in an open conveyance. As they had expected, Baurie only went out in a closed carriage. Intending, no doubt, to receive the latest in telligence respecting the state of feeling in the workmen's quarters, Baurie went to the Faubourg St. Antoine and to Belleville. He came back about nine o'clock, ordering his coach to drive fast and to come back by bye ways, as he believed he was being followed. He stopped at the Rue des Moulins, got out of the coach and looked about him. Then he went towards the house where he had feft his trunk. At that moment M. Lagrange got out of the open chaise alone, and told his agents not to move until a given signal. He went up to Baurib and addressing him by his christian name, Camille, asked him how he was. " I do not recognise yoir," said Baurie ; " who are you ?" While he Was trying to remember who it was that addressed him, M. Lagrange made the signal, and the police agents, hurrying forward, seized Baurie's hands and held them behind him, while M. Lagrange said, " I am Lagrange, commissioner of police, and I arrest you !" As they stood in the street itself, which was little frequented at that hour, they took from Baurie the letter of M. Flourens, a revolver with six barrels loaded, and the rough copy of a letter written by Baurie himself to M. Flourens, asking for money and • saying " The amputation will take place on the evening of the 29th I am ready !" Baurie was immediately transferred to the Prefecture of Police, and, after the ordina r y exam i na ti ons, h e was imprisoned in Mazes. There M. Bernier, the juge d'instruction, made him pass through a preliminary interrogation, from which it appeared that Baurie and seen MM. Fayolle and Flourens in London, and had arranged the plan of attack with them. Baurie readily under took to be the first to make the attempt. He often said to his friends, "If it is necessary to sacrifice my life for our idea I will do so willingly. What have Ito fear ? Nothing ; you may rely upon me." It appeared from his answers to the interrogations put to him that he came into France through Boulogne, and that on the 24th at Paris he received a telegram informing him he could draw a sum of 400 francs. A similar sum was sent to him on the 29th, the day on which he was arrested. Since his arrival in Paris he dared not stay two nights in the same hotel. His revelations led to the arrest of many persons both in Paris and Lyons. At the latter place eleven were arrested. The Gaulois and • Flom.° publish large illustrations of the bombs. THE ROYAL ACADEMY. After a careful examination on the Private View day at the Royal Academy of the collection now arranged on the walls of those noble galleries, we came to the. -conclusion quite unhesitatingly that, as a whole, it is simply about the average, certainly not above it—although the Academicians, as a rule, have very greatly distinguished themselves, and although two or three of the outsiders have by their achievements leaped per saltum to an eminence far beyond any to which they had already attained. Three of the chiefs of the Academy we have to lament as having passed away since the last year's Exhibition—our Eng lish Wouvermanns, Jones, one of the very best of our battle-scene painters—our later Collins, Creswick, a most charming painter of landscapes—and, only a week before the Opening Day, last and greatest, not merely of the Three, but we are tempted to say of the whole Forty, Daniel Maclise, the noblest artist of our generation. It is one of the melancholy in cidents of a visit this season to the Academy, stand ing in front of the last canvas on which Maclise lavished the skill of his hand and the wealth of his " The Earls of Desmond and Ormond" are there, in the midst of [the Bulvers, on the battle field. The Picture (197) hangs upon the identical spot on which was displayed last year the great artist's latest achievement, " King Cophetua and the Bvggarmaid." A bluish, greyish, darkened hue mars the general effect of the colouring. The same blemish being observable, by the way, in Sir Edwin Landseer's (155) rather after date deli neation of Queen Victoria meeting Prince Albert years ago on his royal highness's return from Deer stalking. Historically interesting, the group thus pourtrayed unquestionablyis, but otherwise the huge ainting is to all intents and purposes an artistic failure. Sir Edwin's masterhand is, however, re spleL dently discernible in two others of his contri butions this year to the Academy collection—in his superb life-size portraiture of the great race-horse (105) " Voltigeur," and in his marvellously comic, nearly human, and yet wholly animal delineation (265) of the Monkeys, one of them nursing a sick little one, another sucking an orange most voraciously. Millais is t),is year in full force—the very Georgione of English colourists. His most ambitious picture (202) is that cf the " Knight Errant," armed cap-a-pie, severing with his sword blade the cords by which some caitiffs have bound a fair damsel clothed only in her golden hair to the silvery trunk of a lady birch. The contrast of the rosiate flesh tints and the glittering armour is a marvel to bear in remem brance. Charming is the same artist's scene of " The Flood (91) with the wooden cradle afloat, bearing a happy unconscious baby with a little woolly spitfire of a kitten. As for (334) " The Boy hood of Baleigh," the face, the sweet, radiant, child face of the future poet and hero, the great Sir Walter of the Hereafter fairly haunts as, as he sits there huddled up with bis chin on his knees on the beach, and Budleigh Salterton listening to the Geneva sailor, as the latter tells the boy Raleigh and his half brother Gilbert of the won derful countries teyond the ccean to which he hns voyaged, and from which he bas probablyonlyjust returned. " A Widow's Mite" (928), a sempstress dropping a fenny rather ostentatiously (for she is a long while about it) into a poor-box, and a portrait of Mr. Kelk (48) are Mr. Millais' lesser performances —but each of them in its way is remarkable. Her bert has two grand historical and classical landscapes in the collection, one of them (337), " The Bay of Salamis," with a singularly atmospheric effect. Poole has, beyond .all doubt, this year surpassed himself. He contributes a single picture (176), but it is a masterpiece. The scene portrayed is a memo rable incident from the Decameron—Anastasio's love story brought to happy consummation at the banquet in the forest, by the spectral vision of the naked lady and the armed Huntsman. Such a glory colour Mr. Poole has never before squandered on any canvass—not even in Goths, in Italy, or in his Solo mon Eagle during the Great Plague in London. Anything like mannerism has vanished in his delinea tion of the whole marvellous spectacle. The dreamy, spectral, ghost-like apparition of the flying lady and the pursuing knight, with the scared look of the ghosts and the dazed and wildered aspect of Signor Paolo's daughter are all admirable. The background of the front scene of itself is an achieve ment. Frith also, this year, is in a happy vein, though he prefers for once rather to fritter his powers away on a number of comparatively minor contributions. Very felicitous is his rendering (157) of " Sir Roger de Coverley and the Perverse Widow," from the Spectator, and equally so (267) his lim nings of Sterne feeling the wife's pulse, and sourl y observant of the husband' s g ri m acing bow en pass ant. As for Mr. Frith's portrait o f M r s. Rousby ( 364) ' well, seeing it, shall we confess as much ? we are disillusioned ! Mr. Hart's one big picture (135) re veals a very Jewy mob, cleanly washed and respect ably got up, grovelling at the feet of Ferdinand and Isabella; with a highly melodramatic Torquereade interposing. Hook's briny, salt-water views are, ss . ever, simply incomparable, He has never surrassee either (93) " Fish from the .Doggerbank," or (158) " Brimming, Holland." The latter as a mere effe ct of colouring is delicious. Cope's (144) " The Gen tle Craft," would have gladdened the heart of old Iza e; *Walton, and of his son-in-law Charles Cotton. Horsl e y never yet produced a finer interior than his ( 14 !) " Banker's Private Room." Every detail is inimit able. The light through the upper part of the Cur tain across the window is an effect absolutely astonish' ins. Calderon, among other pictures, contributes two to the collection worthy of the highest admire" tion ; one of them (143) " The Orphans," hn ,a street snow scene, the other (369) " The Virgi n s Bower," a sylvan, flowery, watery haunt of beso t} '' like some leafy nook in a land of enchantment' The President contributes as many as five portraits+ but not one of them comparable to Mr. Wells', th e associate's, grand and imposing group of Lot' llatherley, as Lord High Chancellor, en grande otherwise in full fig, accompanied by his State l' t " tendants. Redgrave is mainly noticeable this Ye r , er for a quaint little (188) "J ac k o ' L an thorn"--"; M. Ward's principal contribution being his animate" i epresentation of the ruffianly Jeffreys bullyraggleg Baxter, of the " Saint's Rest," during the latter' . trial in Westminster Hall, while yonder, in prospecti ve, one catches a glimpse of the infamous Titus Oates standing in the Pillory in Palace Yard. Nr. 31. Ward, on the other hand, has never done anythi n g better, either in sentiment or manipulation, than 016), the "Interview between the divorced Be l " press Josephine and the little King of Rome," l e the presence of the Great Napoleon. G coda ° " lochebed" (504) is a noble rendering, in wholly unconventional way, of that sufficie nt trite theme in art the biding of WO among the bullrushes. Cooler and Lewis ar e this season both prolific contributors, but are other wise in no way remarkable. Among the illustriou s foreign contributors foremost stands M. Gerorne, whose (118) " Death of Marshal Ney," is profoundly affecting, impressive, and even appalling in its sever e simplicity of treatment. The great Marshal, Duke , Prince, Victor in Eighty Battles, one of the first of the Paladins of Napoleon, has been just shot down in the grey of the morning. He lies there prone on his face. His bat bas rolled off in falling. His close' cropped reddish hair is discernible. He is arrayed in no resplendent uniform, but is simply dres'ed ° : a civilian in black, with black silk stockings an d shoes with buckles. The soldiers having just dove their murderous work, are marching off with the ir backs towards us, their commanding officer alon e glancing round at the catastrophe they have wool' plished. The bullet marks are starred white, one of these deadly flaws occurring in the very middle of 3 chalked-up Vive l'Empereur I The wadding of th e guns yet smoke on the ground where the muddy foot prints of the Marshal are observable at the point from which he has toppled forward at the moment of execution. • Marcus Stone's (891) " Henry VIII. an d Anne Boleyn observed by Queen Katherine," is an other step onward towards his enrolment as an As' sociate. C. Goldie, again, in (89) "His Trial of St , Perpetua" has bettered anything he has ever done before as a thoughtful, historical illustrator o f Christianity. As for H. S. Mark's (409) " Sain t Francis preaching to the Birds," the picture is ill' comparably his masterpiece. As a combination of pathos, and humour, and quaintness, and tendernes s it commands our admiration. Pettie's (412) " bly the Mayday" is the very thing itself 1 O'Neil is as unlike himself as possible in (261) " Haidee" an d " Don Juan," and in his limning (134) of Miche l Angelo. Altogether, having nom run through one by one the principal pictures in the collection, we must reiterate, or rather endorse, here the opinion we expressed at the commencement of these remark s in regard to the general character of the Exhibition. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) The May session of the Central Criminal Court was opened at the Old Bailey this morning. Th e calendar contains the names of 87 prisoners, of whom 3 are charged with arson, 7 with burglary, 17 wit h uttering counterfeit coin, 7 with conspiracy, 1 .with forgery, 9 with misdemeanour, 2 with murder and attempting to murder, 1 with perjury, 10 with rczh bery with violence, 2 with feloniously wounding &c• The Recorder, in charging the grand jury, ad' verted to a charge of wilful murder against a ma ll named William Parker. It appeared that the pri soner called at his mother's house, and she mad e some claim upon him for his lodgings. He said Ile was only able to give some small sum-Is. 3d. quarrel, therefore, ensued between him and his sister , and the latter said she would fetch in her hue' band, which she did. Her husband struck the prisoner, and twice knocked him down. The prisoner refused to fight with him, an d asked him to listen to reason, but he refused to do so, and again struck him. Upon that the prisoner stabbed him with a knife, causing almost immediat e death. It was quite clear there was not the amount of peril which would justify the prisoner in using the knife ; but if he had acted on the spur of the moment, and without previous malice, the offence under the circumstances of the case would not be murder, but manslaughter• There was also a charge of arson against R. Ross and G. Jackson, who were inmates of the Wandswort h Reformatory. The only evidence against the pri soner appeared to be their own statements, and th e most important of these would not be admissible on account of the circumstances under which it was made• A very serious charge was against a policeman name d Moriarty, who was accused of indecently assaulting and robbing a woman named Wilson. The e vidence was conclusive that the prisoner followed the woman/ and she was afterwards positive that he was the man. It would also be shown that he had endeavoured to induce other witnesses to make misstatements. Th e learned Recorder having alluded to several other minor cases, dismissed the grand jury to their ha bours. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—(tHis DAY.) WESTMINSTER. Patrick Welsh was charged with assaulting Thus' llibbs, 38 B R, and further breaking a man's are' , ' The prisoner was fighting a man, and was separate d from him by the constable, whom he struck three o r four times ; he then rushed at the man, threw b l ° l down, and broke his arm. The man was taken t ° the hospital, but this morning declined to prosecute' Mr. Selfe fined him 10s. or seven days. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. John. Doherty, a lad, residing in Peter-street, S t ' James's, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with , as saulting his , sister, Ann Doherty, a tailoress. he complainant, who had a black eye and some bruise : on her face, said that on Saturday night she We ll , home and gave her mother the money she had Woe' as a tailoress, working 16 hours a day, when the Fr y soner, her brother, came in, and called her what sl it ; was not, and on her retaliati ng h e t oo k off his coat and struck her about the face and body, and she wa s covered with bruises. She also said that her mot her bad turned her out of doors because she locked be r brother up. The magistrate fined the prisoner 6 8 ' , or one month. close shut van ( PPri; geri, gate the Bon are lett( coup With, r.c eol Paid ( lona he P r th at 'Tat e by ti 01 8L A 1, Q , ~. , . 2 i,~, .) 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