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IVIR. ALBERT SMITH'S MONT BLANC, TO-NIGHT, ancl EVERY EVENING (except Saturday), at 8 ()Week, and Tuesday, Thursday, and saturday Mornings at .1. 3s- ; area, 2s. ; gallery, la.—Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. ARULL ROOMS.-LAPRENT'S CASINO NOW OPEN for tho winter season. Principal Cornet a Piston, M. Boulconrt.—Doors open at a. Admission One Shilling. 11. Laurent's new Varsoviana and St. Patrick Quadrille every night. anIVR. W. S. WOODIN'S OLIO of.ODDITIES. TO-NI G HT and every evening, at 8. A Mornirg Per ce every Saturday at 2. Box-office open from 11 till 5. PH ,ate boxes, 11. Is.; stalls, 35.; area, Is.; amphitheatre, Is. The above entertainment has received novel additions and embellish- Merits, Vocal a-id Visual, including a New Loco-Jcllco-Motive Lyri; entitled OFF BY THE TRAIN, illustrated by numerous changes, facial, lingual, and corporeal.- Polygraphic-hall, King William. street, Charing-cross. DR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, 4, Coventry-street. Leicester-square. —Open (for Gentlemen only) from I 0 till 10, containing upwslts of one thousand models and preparations, illustrating every part of the human frame in health and disease. the race of men, &c. Lectures delivered at 12, 2 . 4, and half-past 7, by Dr. G. SEXTOif, ; and a new and highly -interesting series of Lectures is now in course of delivery b./Shilling Dr. KAHN, at half-past 8 every evening. —Admission, One BY COMMAND. -Mr. GORDON CUM - MINCYA ENTERTAINMENT, as represented on the Morning of Thursday,,May Bth, 1856. by Command, before H.R.H. the Prince of Wales and IT R.G. Prince Alfred, will be repeated every evening (except Saturday) at 8. Morning performance every Saturday at 3 o'clock. Mr. Gordon Cumming personally cLescribes the beautifully painted DIOR kMA, which places before The • be '.-holder the Lion Hunter's startling encounters with the stnpen*ous. curious, and beautiful animals which roam the mighty solitudes of the FAR INTERIOR OF SOUIII AFRICA. Ilan° by Mr. Har ries Wilson. Admission, Is.: reserved seats. 2+. ; stalls , Zs. Children half• price to the reserved seats. 232, Piccadilly. BE PARTICULAR to address at full length BENJAMIN EDGINGTON, 2, Duke-street, Southwark. MARQUEES, TENTS, and RICK CLOTHS. RICK CLOTHS .—A. large quantity of canvas intended for the Crimea Ms been made into ItICIt CLOTHS, to be sold as second-hand at GREA.'ILY REDUCED PRICES. A List forwarded by post.— Address in full, Benjamin Edgington, 2, Duke-street, Southwark. DANIi OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA. Incorporated by Royal Charter. The DIRECTORS of the RANK or BRITISH NORTH A'SIEIIICA do hereby even notice that the YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of Proprietors will he held, pursnaut to the Deed of Settlement, on TUE.DAY, the'l3th June nest, at the Office of the Corporation, 7, St. Helen's-place, Ilishopsgste-street, at 1 o'clock precisely, when the Election of Three Dir,tors, in the room of those going out by the provisions of the Deed, will take place. " Dv order of the Court. A. Olt 11.1A.11 DUNLOP, Secretary. London, sth, May 1856. ONDON and NORTH-WESTERN . .9 and CHESTER and HOLYHEAD RAILWAYS.—TOURISTS' TICKETS.—On - and after the 15 , 11 instant, Tickets available for THREE WEEKS, will be issued from the undermentioned 'stations on the Chester and Holyhead Railway, enabling the holder to vidt all Points of interest and the numerous watering places on the North Wales coast. Tickets available for the same places can also be had to the fa. Yourite Lancashire watering places, Lytham or Blackpool. Lytham or Blackpool and Back. Ist Class. 21 Class. 61s. 455, 455. 351. 355. 28s. 355. 28s. From. FATIE3 North Walt a and Back. London Ist Class. 2d Class. 70s. -50 s. Oxford ..... ••• • • 50g * 35'. I llrmintham W olverhampton Ey order. (qgned) M. MUSH Oeneml Manager's Office, Easton Station, May, 1855. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN AND SIDE. MIDLAND RAILWAYS.—EXCURSIONS to the SEA The. public are un that, tiler noe, SIN - GLE re RET 4 , at REDUCED FARES, will furth tic be issued from Eustoe ;nate Station, London, to PIA RRo WGATE, Scarborouch, Whitby, ileS, or Bridlington, available for tDe Return Journey on any day n ot exeeedmq twenty-eight days from the date of issue. nARROWOATE and Back, tor each Passenger—First Class, 435. ; Second Class, 325. Ed. S eARBOROUGII and Back,for each Passenger—First Class, 515.; Second Clans, 355. WHITBY and Back, for each Passenger—First Class, 61s. ; Se cond Class, 355. ~,PILRY and Back, for each Passenger—First Class, 51s. ; Second 'los, 355. BII MU/COTO:8' and Back, for caeh Passenger—First Class, 51e.; fond Clans, 355. These Tickets are not transferable, nor will they be available for Li lo Return Journey unless they hays been endorsed at the Booking °Mee of the Station on the day of returning. By Order. General Manager's Office, Euston Station, May 1, 1856. r rIIE GREAT OYER of POISONING.—Let t h Judges and others beware, on the approaching Trial, how 1• 1 3 ' Puff the so-called scientific admintctration of deadly pokons. Nothing*safety of society denends upon their conduct hi this particular. 1,.., can so favour the potboiler as the knowledge that he Is only ...faun:: what are termed scientific persons. „ 'nssu fed by t he ociety of ygeist COLLEGE of HEALTH, New-road, Lon s,. r the Hs. APril 10. 1856. _ SOCIETE GENERALE des CLIPPERS FRANCAIS. (En Commandite.) Capital, , 0,00 0,000 francs, or 800,000/. sterling, in 200,00) Shares of 4 0 francs, or 4/. each. COUNCIL L` , / PARIS. Vice Admiral Count Casy, Senator, and former Minister of the - AA : - Luarine and of the Colonies, Paris. '"'° 11 8- Le Comte Simeon, Senator, Director of the Lyons and 'M editerranean Railway, Paris. tear -Admiral T. Deloffre, former Prefect of Cherbourg. -I.o na- Le Comte Williams de Nieuwerkerke, 104, Rue du Fau ,..1:b0,,,„.6 St. Honore, P ar i s . tas. Ernest L a f on d , 9 , R uo St. Florentine, Paris. • ' t ons. S. Bellone, Shipowner and Manufacturer, 2, Rue de Mons. Paris. 'lons. Auguste Odier, :13, Rue Neuve des Mathurins, Paris. COMMITTEE OF SUPERVISION IN ENGLAND. Colonel G. E. Pratt Barlow, Chairman of the Southampton Dock Company. Phillip Patton Blyth, Esq., Wimpole•street, London. John Borradaile, Esq. (John Borradailo and Co., Calcutta), Gloucester-place, London. Chas. Saunders, Esq. (IV Calmont Brothers and Co.), Liverpool. Captain Henry Shuttleworth, Elder Brother of the Trinity Rouse, and Director of the General Screw Steam-Shipping Company. 1, R. Thomson, Esq. (I. R. Thomson and Co.), St. Peter's C hambers, Cornhill, London. Colonel G. A. Underwood, Director of the General Screw S team-Shipp;ng Company. GERARTS—Graham, Do Linares, and Co. BANKERS. lo London—Messrs. Currie, and Co., 29, Coinhill. In Paris—The Bank of France. LEGAL COUNCIL IN PARIS. Monsieur Raveau, Notary. • Petit Bcrgonz, Solicitor. g o 9) Baudouin, Agree of the Tribunal of Commerce. Merrop.s IN LONDON. — Messrs. Oliverson, Lavie, and Peachey, 8, Frederick-place, Old Jewry. R., OFFICIAL AUDITOR.—J. E. Coleman, Esq. -naoKsas IN LONDON.--Messrs. Huggins and Rowsell, 1, Threadneedle-Street. A P EN Ts AND SIDP-BRORERS IN ENGLAND.—MOSSTS. Cunard, '-'rett, and Austen, L*ndon, Liverpool, and Southampton. %vices IN PARIS.-21, Rue Nenve des Capncines. , ° "icts LONDON.-11, Kirg William-street, City. f eet . passel with the resolutions passed at a Genera' tn e l in g of Shareholders, held at4pe Offices in Paris on Sa wil;!‘'Y, thorigin March, 1856, the objects of this Company, leh wasally formed for the commercial purposes of -Ipinunication between France and Ports in the Indian Seas, t e l ia t sl ipper -built Sailing Ships, have been considerably ex liele`` and the system of operations materially improved ; it andvng been del - ermined, to=unite.the maritime enterprise of t ., W ° greatesCmercantile communities in.Europe—England ) , ...., , , e '' a nce—and to substitute screw steam clippers, of first , sailing capacity, with auxiliary propelling power. e a „', ll ° undertaking combines all the elements of success that oe contributed by each country. The newly-developed tarnercial requirements of France afford high profitable em- Plop, cciu ent, and the cheap 'and long-established constructive the Of England provides the best immediate means ; whilst bot - h ca Pitali mercantile connections, and nautical genius of imps, countries are united in a common object of the most :gitaut and remunerate character. Under such ancou ng ci rcumstances the Company have arranged . to com 4be„a_ec operations at once by a line of Screw Clippers, of 1 e , 14 t 2,400 tons average register tonnage, to sail regu- I V from Havre to Calcutta, touching at the Ile de la D e ,,T l ion (Bourbon), and Each other intermediate Indian - " 8 as may be selected. It is also proposed to open a et:l4l4aunication, upon an early day with the Brazils, and via ate3razils, with the Cape of Good Hope. The ships will call eei ‘ho port of Southampton, outward and homeward, to re vs or laud goods, specie, and passengers. 1 ,:"° open these lines without delay, a fine fleet of clipper r„ cur steamers, of establised reputation, has been purchased ' Ol 4 the General Screw Steam-Snipping Company, viz.:— J'sson. Argo. Golden Fleece. I Queen of the South. Indiana. I Lady Jocelyn. Calcutta. Hydaspes. f.,, 25 3r this important purchase the Company will be protected '°M. the loss which would necessarily follow from their capi etal lying unproductive while a new fleet was being built and Q ui PPed and be at once prepared to open their trades with 1 , 0 6 'llost faithfully -constructed steam clippers in existence— th„BBesaing the prestige of their previous employment, and ti t , o "ler high character they have since sustained in the trail 1' of the British and French Governments, ti;'Portion of the capital will b e o p en f or su b scr i pt i on i n I,..giand and th e C o l o nies. fo l Z °ll application for shares must be made in th e a p pen d e d thes:' ac companied by a payment of •25f. or 1/. p er s h are on the unaccompanied required, for which a voucher will be given. In h e ipeut of l ess th an t h e w h o l e num b er of shares applied for war g allotted, th e num b er pa id i n excess will be applied to %o„clia,,tho balance of 75f. or 3i. per share, then payable. thuno allotment bo made to the applicant, the money fro i -° ,dged will be returned, free of charge, within a week ;'ne day of general allotment. th e 4t'culations carefully made by those most experienced in laoa i raf ile of France, and the exports from Belgium, Switzer i "ka rt:l an d Germany, via Havre, with the ascertained want o Pab y . " r arnunicatiOn between the ports selected by this Cora -414- wa rrant the Directo r s i n s t a ti ng th e i r conv i c ti o n that no aN. lnle enterprise ever commence d un d er more f avoura bl e th e Ic es. or with fairer prospects of yielding large returns to w trop lie tary. made t he capital is•fullY subsc r ib e d, an app li cat i on w ill b e ustab l 2°l' P e rmission to convert this comp an y, w hi c h i s a t pre coished under the French commercial law as a Societe eekp nlolandite, into a Societe Anonyms , and the gentlemen oeu ie °B ng the Committee of Supervision in England will be 41.eMbers of the Council in Paris. byPheations for shares accompanied by the 25f. or 1/. deposit % 4 ° , ll :lade to Messrs Cowie and Co. 29, Cornhill ;to Messrs. Afeet°and Rocvsell, stockbrokers, I ' , Threadneedle -street ;to 150 , l a ' Cunard, Brett, and Austen, agents and shipbrokers, Pool 'eade nhall-street, London; 5, York-buildings, Liver the COQ and Canute -road, Southampton ; and at the Offices of Pn in London and Paris. Foam or APPLICATION FOR SHARES. 'raha.rri, De Linares, and Co Gerants of the Societe 1 1.d enti emen Generale des Clippers Francais. r , hereb enclose the sum of , being ' l4 4ii e e l :" s " shares in the Societe Generale des Clippers or 4 1 "4, I reuest ou me shares f 100 f. l e • •aand ea I ° l, n and and I hereby agree will to allot accept such shares, o or any t aaii i i,:acr that m a y b e a ll otte d t o me, and to pay the re -75f - or 3/, per share at the time that may be appointed. am, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, • Date Name iu full Profession Residence in full • Place of Business _ ........ .............. 1 slow business s. Flour at Gd roved is 6d per fling smoznb 2 ° f la ve anbinittou rley M market' Ts& nit Quid' ag , 36e to 40 1 42s to 4 0 425t 0 436 —s to k —s to 10, 1856. V 75 71 Us 04 Os Od 2s 51 is 01 3rs b u t which es ' runs of red Foreign in i?" 3arley more 1 1 t it sale at laid I are scaroe an [ black to -75 Sea._ 50 to irgh —t ° [ Arch- -to -- )rg and 38 04 Per Tli 1 Os to 9/ 5 s u, j 71 10s 8112`' • OZ Os oa t• oi ° I ow os t. 0 01 Q° Od —s 01 t o 135 5 i L —s to 1 4 00s to 11 O s Si tol2/ 1„ ' A [lss Od to --- B ` l 7 1 355. 4e" ;metal Poet OW ~.0 due 13 Ear 1106. May 7 unoortio May, 16. May 16 , 0 Uncert.. Irti.TlLS it May 20 irwicedo Twice,l4l Daily 16thotalo 4 Ec 20 I rivicedai l i At ar 16 1 4, - 20: 150 ' 1- . luny 1•' I ;linear 4. 1& 16 ECAO npton! nall3 Klit of tho in e; dosoatolv•J CETS. a dull to.deff closing at the re, 881 9 9.1 -- 6 i—LoncOu n'n, Berwick► Droughplc' good busineo g ag yesterdol• Westerns Igor ; irewsburY lin die. )een doing an imprna e • nabire, 2S ii, 10—Leeds' AY, Tuesday ditto by sea ±.ater, the Hyde-park, he Rev. D• ;ent's-park, patead, ths , James P• arrister at. 3erij. Lao, ly Trinity , , u lry-groYe, per-street, in's-wood, (fr. DaYid iston-hiD , )eth, A.nri Igo, Esq•? ards of 4 4 louse, 15, John B• ney, Bt., roUNG , No. 112, Can* °I tche . 00l •. Lmoton timptor uth .. impton Lmplor. 3 port impton mpton mcoo mpto vaptoi .mptor, 1 . • • • • ,117 ptA)r. mpton uth .. mpton mpton, mph; mptor 3 port rupton rupto* ports aapton i June 1 Sporting Intelligence. , SHREWSBURY SPRING RACES.—TUESDAY. The Herbert Stakes (Handicap) of 5 soya eaeb, 2 ft. The winner to be sold for 501. About three-quarters of a mile. 11 subs. Mr. G. Drewe's Philip, 3 yrs, 4st 71b (Britton) 1 Mr. E. R. Clark's General Picton, 4 yrs, 6qt (Fordham) 2 Mr. ijaWson's Double Mixture, 3 yrs, sst llb (Bullock) 3 Cineas and Mameluke also ran. Betting---a to 4 agst General Picton, 2to 1 agst Cineas. Won easily by a length ; bad third. The win ner was bought in for 95 guineas. The Salopian Stakes of 10 sovs each, h ft, with 20 added, for three-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 41b. Cer tain penalties and allowances. The second to save his stake. About a mile and a half. 16 subs. Mr. Gulliver's Illuminator, Bst 41b (Yates) 1 Mr. Copeland's St. Dunstan, Bst 71b (G. Whitehouse) 2 Captain Christie's Lawn, 86t 91b .(Weill) 3 Betting-5 to 2on Lawn, 4to 1 agst Illuminator m a d e near l y all the running, and won cleverly by a neck ; a length between the second and third. The Longner Hall Stakes of 5 sous each, with 30 added, for two-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 51b ; fillies, Bst 21b. Cer tain allowances and penalties. The second to save his stake. T.Y.C. 13 subs. Lord Wilton's Peeping Tom, Bit (Flatman) 1 Mr. G. Drew's Dexterity, Bst 21b ...(G. Whitehouse) 2 Mr. Barber's Naughty Boy, Bst (J. Forster) 3 The following also ran :—Captain Christie's The Ab bot, Bst 51b (Wells) ; Mr. J. H. Whitehouse's filly, by Phlegon out of Amaryllis, Bst 21b (W. White) ; Mr. Hal ford's Sweet Briar, Bst 21b (T. Cliff) ; Mr. E. R. Clark's Brother to Shoreham, Bst (F. Maroon); Mr. J. S. Forbe's Roulade, Bst 21b (Quinton). Betting— 7 to 4 agst Naughty Boy, 4 to. 1 each agst Peeping Tom and Roulade, 6 to 1 agst The Abbot. Won by a length ; a neck between the second and third ; Bro ther to Shoreham was a bad fourth, Roulade was fifth. The Abbot was sixth, Sweet Briar seventh, and Ama r3llis filly last. The Stanley Handicap of 5 soya each, with 50 added. The winner to be sold for 100 pounds. One mile. Mr. Morris's Corin, 5 yrs, 7st 91b M(J Quinton) 2 r. Stanley' s Wh a l e b one, 6 yrs, 7st 121 b (Mundy) 1 Mr. Gullive r ' s F re d erick, 4 yrs, 7st 31b (Pr i or ) 3 The following also ran :—Usurer and Gen. Picton. Won in a canter by two lengths. The Great Cleveland Han - dicap of 15 aovs each, with 50 added. Twice round. and in, Cleveland House, about 2 miles and a quarter. Mr. Payne's Quince, 5 yrs, 84t 51b (Nat) 1 Mr. Elwes's Mayboy, 4 yrs, 7st 12Ib (Bates) 2 Mr. Saxon's Sir Rowland, aged, Bst 51b....(F ors t e r) 3 Mr. Drew's The Cropper, 4 y rs , 7 s t 31b .... (Quinton) 4 The following also ran :—Defiance, Flatterer, Shore ham, Redemption, Libellist. Won in a 'canter by two lengths. The County Members Plate of 60 Bove, 2 sous entrance. About a n pile and three-quarters. Mr. T. Hughes' Westminster, 4 yrs, Get 13th (D. Hughes) 1 Mr. William's Atfiers tone, 4 yrs, Bst (Wells) 2 Mr. Woods, The Vine, 3 yrs sst 61b... ..... (Fordharn) 3 Mr. Minor's Minotti, (Bullock) 4 3 yrs, sst 13113 V 7013 easily. The Queen's Plate of 100 guinea, three mike, was won in a canter by Mr. T. Parr's Saucebox, (Wells) ; Mr. J. Little's Ugly Hag, (T. Cliff). Only these two ran. The Salop Cup (Han (Heap), a piece of plate value 50/. One mile. Mr. Harrison's St eon en 4 G eral, 5 yrs 6it 71b (Quinton) 1 Mr. Henley's Ph'''in] ?, (101 b extra), 3 yrF, s st 13 Ib (Bray) 2 Mr. Morris's Corir., Glib extra), 5 yrs, 7st Slb (Mundy) 3 The following a Jso r.zn :—Roving Betsy, Boer. Won by two 'mots, the Fame between second and third. 41s .g i Le* .. • 19 , 943.) ' Vtzt [PRICE 4D. STAMPED SD• PUBLICATIONS. On Thursday, the 15th inst., price Three Shillings, will be published, J UNE : a Book for the Country in Summer Iding's sentiments are on record. In a letter to the Ilea in finer of the 23d of March, 18,30, he says—" A. very beautiful pie turn, supposed by the poisesser to be an Andrea Mantegna, was put up for public auction, in London, .a fe* weeks ago. Mr. Morris Moore, as soon as he saw it, knew what it was, in fact, a remarkably fine Raphael. Fortu nately for him, nobody else thirst think so. I say knew, 44e;oftusa-- judging not by my own impressions, which are Worth nathing, but by the Opinions of persons whom• I know to he co iapetent have no doubt -myself that the, picture Will, ore long,' he generally acknowledged and established not only as-an eisquestionabie Raphael, but as an unusually fine . specimeu, in unusually good preservation, and not the less .recuerkehleier the boa.utY of the subject and the treatment than fur the painting or drawing." Mr. Sped ding's testimony, thou, is valuable not puly on account of his own impressiens, but because ho backs it by the opi nions of parsons whom he knows to, be competent. The editor of the E'xamincr comments on his letter thus— " We recommend it to the dieectors of the National Gal lery. The picture to which reference is made ought un.- questionably to have been purchased for that Collection. We care not whether or • not it be finally admitted as a ftaffaelle. We have seen it; and can confidently say that its intrinsic claims and consummate merit as a specimen of the period to which it belongs, entitle it to a place among the great masters an.: ' °lides to our k now l e d ge an d appre ciation of early ar t." Apia; I might cite one member of the Legislature who said, that "if he possessed fifty votes, he would give them all to place the Apollo and Marayas in the National Gallery;' another, that I " de 'served & Vote of thanks for having proved to the world that Englishmen can appreciate such works ;" to which he added with emphasis ; "it would have been a disgrace to the nation had a foreigner been the purchaser of that picture. But Mr, Stirling requires "constituted" authority. Hera, then; are five more Trustees to catalogue among his " foolish friends." Lord Lansdowne and Mr. Rogers Isreatly extolled the " Apollo and Marysas." Mr. Thomas Bating has on various occasions expressed his admiration of it, nod has said that it is "always a treat to see it again." Sir James Graham, aftei extolling its ,beauty gcnezally, pronounced the " ,„„,p o" the " most God-- dike figura he had seen ;" while dr. Gladstone thought the picture "such a work as one could wish Ra phael hal painted," and regretted that it did not rest with bins "to lend it the authority it deserved." Subsequently, gr. Gladstone lieceme Chancellor of the Exchequer, and ex-officio a Trustee. But when presumptively—l say pre sumptively, for on no terms, I repeat, would' have treated with the actual managers of the National Gallery—it did rest with him to lend to the " Apollo and Marsyas" the ,authority it deserved, he proved his consistency and his financial tact, by expending 3,000/. upon hi s un k nown Germans, the ; Yon Wardens, Von Liesborns, and " Tom Rings," and that aseetic Lambert, whootccording to the Esetlake-Wornam 'catalogue, was so devout a worshipper of the mystical " Three," that three wives and three families were the reward of his " sanctimonious rhetoric," and who, to believe the same authority, had a knack of " executing- his pictures"—and why. not his families ? "in a manner somewhat peculiar to himself." Were we a Pagan nation, and the strange edifice in Trafalgar square the temple of our God, although we could not expect much grace for the architecture, yet those votive ' daubs to say nothing of their sugges ti veness of the sacr e d geese, might attest our island piety, or the chaste and recondite yearnings of the Chief MYsti tier, but in this age of- income-tax and Tractarian light it bean hard upon au orthodox and not indocile people to be mulcted for the symbols of au exploded creed. One more " conitituted authority" and I have dome with the " foolish friends" of= my " doubted or doubtful Raffaello." In 1851, Um. Stirling's client, Herr Mttedler himself, more than once saw the " Apollo and Marsyas," and, after some persuasion from me, became one of the most v e h emen t o f its panegyrists, an d a true believer in it 83 a Raphael. Awl this brings me to a curious instance of German Art criticism. Dr. Waagen, as he is called, was then in London. Herr giindler expressed the greatest desire that the Doctor should sea my picture, assuring me, at the same time, that from his report he would come prepared to agree with us. But the German Doctor, according to Heir Miindler, wished to see the picture and to give no opinion upon it. If he disagreed with me, I might attack him ; if the re verse, he might be placed in an unpleasant p)sition with his fdends, my opponents. and their patrons. • I could not consent to such terms. His very silence would be used as a weapon against me. I was at a loss to conceive why a learned German Doctor should trouble himself about any attack from an ignorant Englishman. I said that Dr. Waagen should sea the "Apollo and Marsyas" as often as he liked, but on condition that after a reasonable time he should pronounce a decided opinion upon it. All I would promise was, that if the Doctor agreed with me, whatever course I might adopt iu the other case, I would never quote his authority. Since the "Apollo and Marsyas" became mine, Sir 0. Ea4tlake has laid out 14,0J0/. iu pictures, including his " Adoration of the Magi." Let no one prematurely ask how many pictures he has secured which it would be a treat to see again ;" how many, such as "one could wish Raphael had painted ;" how many " God-like figures." As Mr. Vernon says, "Let him have a fair trial, and he will prove himself more worthy of public confidence than the recent unfortunate purchase of the ' Adoration of the Magi,' which has justly caused so much sensation, would make him appear tp be." "Pellegrina Morosiui, a young woman of considerable embonpoint "—whom Sir C. East lake,lactiording to page 56 of his last report, hall just se cured for the Trustees, has yet to make her appearance ! By H. T. STAINTON. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmaus. COMPLETION OF TIIFi TRAVELLER'S' LIB :ARY, In 25 - Volumes, price Five Guineas, in cloth. On the 31st inst., In I Gmo., J price 2s. 6d:cloth; or In 2 parts, price Is. e a ch, pSSAY on the LIFE and GENIUS of THO3I.IB:FULLER: Wit - , Feiectio ns f rom his Writings. • By HENRY ROGERS. Forming Volume L. or Parts 101 and 102 of the " Traveller's Library," and c , mpleting the series. v.* % clasdifled Catalogue of the contents of the " Traveller's Library" may be had of Me srs. Longman and Co., and of all Booksellers. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. GUILDHALL, May 10,1856.--The Committee for Letting - the City's Lands will meet at Guildhall on WED NESDAY, the 21st instant, at One o'clock precisely, to receive Pro.: posals for Leases; in lots, of sev,-ral Houses and Premises, No. 1'23, Fenchurch-street, No. 8, Billiter•square, and a workshop in Cull , r court, Fenchurch-street ; No. 1, Banner-street, Finsbury, Nos. 1,2, 3. St. Luke's-passage adjoining, Nos. 47 and 48, and Nos. 64 t 71, Banner-s net ; No. 2, Artillery-court. Chiswell•streer, .Nos. 28 to 31, Mark-street, Nos. 1 to 4, and a workshop, in Mark-;dace, No. 24, Aratthew-street, No. 58. Great Leonard-street, Nos. 102 and 103, Paul-street, and No 4. I to 20, Pant-square, Finsbury, and Nos. 4,5, G, 7, P.uteher-row, Batcliff. Plans of the property may be seen, and further particulars end forms of tender obtained at the Architect's Office, Guildhall. FE RD IN IND'BLIARD, Comptroller. 27, Soho-square, April 30. " AN. UNSCRUPULOUS FOE." I have said that the " Apollo and Marsyas" was sold at Messrs. Christie and Manson's on the 2d of March, 1850. It had been pointed out to Sir C. Eastlake while on view. Three acquaintances of mine were in the auction-room at the same time as he was. One of them exchanged some remarks with him about the picture, but he treated it as unworthy- of particular notice. We shall see how his per ceptions were q sickened. At this time Sir C. Eastlake held no official appointment at the National Gallery. He hail resigned the Keepership since two years and a-half, but he maintained a secret influence there under the pre text of revising the official catalogue. Thus, he was still the final authority for the nomenclature of the pictures. The Minutes of the Tiustees of 1817-52, pp.2B-9, show that he interfered in other ways also with the National Gallery. Moreover, he was, and is still, besides his I,ooo'. a year as Di rector of the National Gallery—in the receipt of 7001. a year as Secretary to the " Royal Commission for the Promotion of Art." Had he comprehended the value of the "Apollo and Marsyas," it would have been his duty, as a highly-salaried officer " for the promotion of art," to apprise the Govern ment of the possibility of obtaining it for the nation. But the unfitness of Lord Palmerston's "undoubtedly fit triend " comes to the rescue. Sir C. Eastlake stands ac quitted of inattention to his duty for reasons that must satisfy even the most captious objector. First, it was his interest to obtain for the nation so consummate a work ; secondly, as he speculates in pictures as well as paints them, he would, at the worst, have perceived the thrift of alempting '4O secure it for himself. It has been stated that evidence upon evidence has accu mulated to confirm my judgment respecting the " Apollo and Marsyas." For instance, Raphael's monogram, R.V. —RAPHA.EL VRBINAS —has been discovered in certain golden dots on the border of the quiver at the feet of the Apollo; the dots standing for the high lights of a relieved ornament. This signature is peculiarly interesting from its serving the double purpose of representing at once the name of the master and a feature of the design. I quote it for no more than its worth, and, though a feature of the design, rate it as evidence extrinsic, in contradistinction to the evidence of art. But the extrinsic evidence which eclipsosallotherisßaphael'soriginaldra w i ng for the picture. That drawing is in the Accademia I. It. delle Belli Arti at Venice, where is preserved one of the most important collec tions of Raphael drawings extant. Until a recent date the " Apollo and Marsyas" drawing hang with the rest of the Collection in a room set apart for ancient drawings. Friends of mine, now in London, saw it there within the last five years. But "an unscrupulous foe" also had heard of that drawing. In the autumn of 1832 Sir C. Eastlake appears in Venice, and as a liberally-paid functionary for the Pro motion of Art in England manifests a singular interest in it. The drawing disappears, and is smuggled into the private room of Signor Salvatico, the Director. For some time I remained ignorant of this startling coincidence. Judging it important to bring the picture and the drawing side by side, as it were, and so put the seal to one of the most striking incidents in the history of art, I asked an acquaintance in March, 1851, to request an Eng lish friend resident at Venice to obtain a photograph of the drawing. This request was met by a rude refusal. In May, 1854, another Englishman, resident at Venice, made a second application on my behalf. Again a refusal, but this time civil, and coupled with the information that two demands for a photograph had already been made ; the one on my account, above-mentioned, though for whom was unknown to the Director; the other by Sir C. Bastlake. The Director refused the photograph on the ground that he " stood pledged to Sir C. Eastlake" not to let any per son have a photograph of that drawing until Sir C. East lake himself had had one. Strange ! that he who had cared so little for the picture should so bestir himself about the drawing. After some ur,iing the photograph was pro mised, but it never came. The pledge to Sir C. Eastlake had to be kept. In theaututnn of 1851, another acquaintance about to proceed to Venice with a friend who holds an im portant office at the British Museum, undertook to pro cure the coveted photograph. Lest he might be discour aged from the undertaking, I abstained, from mentioning the result of former attempts. These gentlemen were four days in Venice, but although they repeatedly applied, and although the official title of the one was put forward for that express object, they Were una bl e t o o btain a sight either of the drawing or of the Director. They learnt, ho %!- ever, from an officer of the A cca d em ia dells Belle Arti, that a photograph of the " Apollo and 3/lamp's" drawing had been taken, but that it was useless for them to apply for one, as the " Presidents dell'Accademta R.eale delle Belle Arti di Londra," that is, Sir C. Eastla ke, was the only person through whom a photograph coul d be obtained. About this period Sir C. Eastlake again appears in Venice. The National Gallery job was about to pass its first sta ge . Those clandestine arrangements , whi c h subsequently Lord Palmerston twice repudiated in Parliament, were on th e eve of consummation. A corroboration of my judgment on so great a question as the givingto the world a Raph ae l, might, just then, prove inconvenient. During 1854 I made a fourth attempt. In that year Professor Boehm, the Direc tor of the Academy of Me:Whets of Vienna, and one of the most eminent connoisseurs of ancient paintings and draw ing, i n Europe, was sent to Milan by the. Austrian Go vernment, as Commissioner to examine Leonardo da Vinci's " Cenacolo," and to report upon its condition. Having heard of my picture, he availed himself of hi s journey to Lombardy t o visit Venice anti in spect the drawing. As I was acquainted with his sons, I thought thi s an auspicious moment for obtaining what I d es i re d. A letter was accordingly de- , spatched to urge my wishes. But Professor Boehm had kindly anticipated them by requesting Signor Salvatico to let him have a photograph of the drawing. To an Am. Ulan functionary of Professor Boehm's standing a ready compliance was, of course, expressed. The result of this demand, as well as the character of the drawing, is de scribed by Professor Boehm himself. Towards the end of July, 1855. I received the following communication in Italian. The original was published in the Morning Advertiser on the let of September, and in Bell's Weekly Messenger on the Bth. " Vienna, Li 22, Luglio, 1855. " Pregiatissinio Signore—With regard to your question whether the drawing in the collection of the Accademia delle Belle Arti, at 'Venice, of which you paesess a painting—the ---...----- - -- wilif,:,.. * 111 -- - - 7 --- - - 1,7.7 - - - - - ' --"77-1-- • . _ _ _ __ . . :•i . , , t / 1 11 16 :,4 , A , ..„.,..4 , . , ... . . ,-- •. • ; ..„...., , ........ .... . ....,.-- -- //Z• LiAa,l,, nad a itosacut is a gttlaine draw . '''....i ho: • dor . -. .4"."... , ' , . - f t. ' - s O' . ~,, • 4 -* 1 1 S 17: iYS , 4 I. ~''`; . ‘ 1 - ( 411416"" ..0 , 4„, j. I • . . ..., --, „4 , ..1 « , '. ' Z*' Rl' 44' \ :,.t:V."1: - - ''' \ \ ~.' 4 : 4, ....') 1.".4 1, ,„,..e . V , '‘kt, 4. *iit - - A.\,...,-,.,.. ,-.. ,-- -7 . . ~,,,,4,k. .. .. - 1 - 4 , -.- 4 ; 4; - . ; • ;- . - . - 4- a ,--, ...—, ~,,,. -, \ ' , --.-1,...... ~ - -lAA?, ' g hl :: 'l ,, - 1: ;*1 " ,' --‘-' . ‘','k7--;22,-- i t>' - 'r:3' - ,...4:, ~, art ? , ~...--• ,;, • • : .-' 'r 7 -., :. . _ .. , ---•••••• - 1 - "•-... ' "t ' ' ,' ' •' 4 ,_______ -• ` '4..;..4.• .:. " .2 \ :.! L'rr , I'l , - 4 ' C '' L_—-"t-u I ' , 4f- k •J. ki: 4 ll , .4 4 4,4 W : ../ ' ~..Z'fr,,.'" ' ' / fi 4 )l' 97 ~ •, ' tl , 1 al 1- ~ t ,•'''''' '4 1 '''' ...":',... , „ et c 'l .c) , ~ . : 44, , . ~..4 „ 1 . ,..,,,,.• - -0/' w 4 ? - ..., it-t,...z. ; iLv ,- 41 ,-,-... 4i1 z,,„,_ • ,i;„„ ~, z ..,,, ,k .0 , ..,,,,ati-... DRoll''''''''' - I . l i \ dt• , - . - ... - -- painting of which you sad,. ing by Raphael or not, I have the Jnour to declare,, , t, .161 that without doubt I hold it as suck. That drawing is *l— aical. inform, and of the youthful age of Raphael That*. *nonce of Perugia° is still perceptible in it, but, at the sane time, a tendency to emancipate himself from -the usual and kffaritable manner of his master, in search of the Beautiful and the Sublime. " I have begged of the Marchese Salvatico, both by word of mouth and in writing, that he would forward me a pho• tograph of it, but, in defiance of his most positive promises, I have not been able to obtain it. Most sorry, therefore; not tote able to meet y our d esire except by this letter, instead of by the above-mentioned phoSograph, I subscribe myself with esteem, "GILTS, DAN. BOEHM , " Direttore dell Accademia degli Incisori di Zecea, ed I. R. Incisors di Camera. Mr. Morris Moore." A fifth attempt was less unsuccessful. After fourteen months, in May, 1855, through the interest of another ac queintance, and, I believe, the influence of . the English Consul at Venice, a feeble copy by hand of the " Apollo and Marsyas" drawing was extorted from the Venetian Director ;. I say extorted, for he had pushed opposition to the very verge of suppression. Further he durst not ven ture. Too many eyes had seen the drawing before it had grown to its present importance. Yet tile photograph was still withheld, because that alone could give the lines of Raphael, and these alone I wanted. But falsehood was now enlisted to maintain the pact with our Presidential Secretary for the Promotion of Art and National Gallery Director. Now, the drawing was " too indistinct for the operation ;" " too indistinct" to allow the convicter of a German nominee the means of vindicating, by Raphael's own handwriting. the accuracy of his judgment and the Arf-criticism of England, but not " too indistinct" for the photograph which had already in the autumn of 1854 been taken for the private use, as it is asserted, of Sir C. Eastlake and Buckingham Palace. I made this state ment respecting Sir C. Eastlake and the " Apollo and Marsyas" drawing on the 27th of August and on the Ist and Bth of S ep t em b er l ast, in the f - omit:9 Adver tiser and Bell's Weekly Messenger. I forwarded Sir C. Eastlake a copy of the papers. A few words more, and I quit this humiliating episode, and with it the Vernon " man above all sordid considerations ;" the Eleho most estimable, amiable, and thorough. gentleman," whose " acquaintance is a pleasure ;" the Baring " Direc tor, of knoWleige, taste, and discretion, upon whom perfect reliance can bo placert"—the Gladstone-cum-Stir- ling man " whose name requires no testimony tha t the first 'could render," and who, to believe the other, has been " sufficiently defended " the Otway " honourable man," and Palmerston's " friend," " tbe di rector of high.character, undoubtedly fit to hold the office entrusted to him."* Of all men, lam the one whom Sir C. E tatlake is most deeply interested in .thwarting ; the -7 . man whose good name he has most reason to dread. Twice have I been instrumental in driving him from the National Gallery, once froth the Keepership, for his Vandalisms in ISM, and again from the es-officio Trusteeship, for their revival in 1832. Success to me is defeat to him. Under such circumstances, who can doubt that could the "Apollo and Marsyas" drawing have served any other purpose than to confirm my judgment, the Secretary for the Promotion of Art, instead of so carefully taking means to prevent its publication, would have stretched a point "in the in terests of truth and for the welfare of the community" to have made even a prodigal distribution of the photograph? It is notorious that on my account, and on my ac count alone, did the Government for nearly two years sub sequent to the publication of th e R epor t of the Committee of 1853, hesitate to " Reconstitute the Establishment of the National Gallery." It is equally notorious that on my account alone did the Palmerston Government, on the 22d of April, and again on the 23d of June, 1855, uncondition ally deny the appointments, they had made on the 27th o f March.. Mark how our servants justify our confidence ! In June, 1851, Lord Elcho, then a Lord of the Treasury in the Aberdeen-Palmerston Ministry, said to Mr. Hurl stone, the President of the Society of British Artists— "We know that Mr. Morris Moore is the man for the Directorship of the National Gallery, but we will not ap point him because he has given us so much offence." They have their convictions, then, as to who is competent, but" slaves to their own passions and to a vicious influence, they crown the most incompetent. Yet these are the men who denounce me as "personal !" Lord Elcho owes it to the public to explain that offence. I will meet him on that ground.; One thing I have earned by my plain speaking on the 17th. The calumny of "disappointed competitor ship" has at times made me pause. A fitting occasion to answer it appeared never to arrive. Uttered by the Prime Minister, for his position, if not for the man, it was at length worthy of my notice. I met the calumny and strangled it. He must be a bold man who would now do. nounce me as one with whom self-interest has greater weight than truth or the welfare of the community. MORRIS MOORE. * Debate on the Estimates, for the National Gallery during 1856-7, April 7th. • t The statement respecting Lord Elcho and Mr. Hurl stone was published on the 20th of October, by Mr. Barnes, a barrister of Lincoln's-inn. A copy of it was forwarded to each. It has never been denied. ~,~,.r.-- :.. HEA £TII OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK. (From the Report of the Registrar-General.) Since the middle of April, when, in a❑ improved state of the temperature, the deaths in London were reduced to little more than 1,040 in a week, the mortality hag shown some tendency to increase. Last week the deaths rose to 1,154, the effect, probably, of atmospheric change; the mean weekly temperature, which had risen to 48 5 deg., having afterwards fallen to 41'3 deg. In the ten weeks corresponding to last week of the years 1846-55 the average number of deaths was 1,009, which, if raised proportionally to increase of population, becomes 1,110. Hence it appears that the rate of mortality last week was above the average. This return exhibits an increase in the deaths on those of previous weeks at all periods of life except the third, namely, that which extends from 40 to 60 years of age. Those which occurred to persons under 20 years amount to 557, being not much less than half of the total num ber returned. Thirty-nine persons had arrived at 80 years or more, and of thes3 8 were nonagenarians. A. man, one of the Dulwich collegians, was 93 years old ; a widow in the workhouse of St. George-in-the-East was 95 years ; the widow of a labourer at Putney was 97 years ; the widow of a farmer, who died in Kennedy court, St. Gile=, was 93 years ; and a spinster at East Dulwich•road bad attained the great age of 99 years. It is stated respecting the person last-mentioned that she retained her sight and hearing till within two months of her death, and that she has two sisters now living in Ireland whose respective ages are 93 and 96 years. The deaths caused by typhus and common fever were 48, a number which is less than that in any of the three previous weeks. On the other hand, hooping-cough, from wh ch there were 43 (besides 14 from croup), and scar latina, from which there were 35, discover an increase. Five infants and an adult died from syphilitic disease. Five women died of puerperal fever, besides 7 who sunk under other illness accompanying childbirth. Phthisis was fatal to 173 persons. The deaths of 7 men in the Royal Artillery, which occurred in the Royal Ordnance Hospital between the 19th of April and 7th of May, were caused by this disease--consumption. Last week the births of 886 boys and 815 girls, in all 1,701 children, were registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1846.55 the average number was 1,521. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29195 in. ; the mean, on Friday, was 30.015 in. The highest reading occurred on that day, and was 30 . 04 in. The mean temperature was higher than in the preceding week ; it was 44.3 deg., which is 7.7 deg. below the average of the same week in 38 years (as determined by Mr. Glaishez.) The mean daily temperature rose slightly above the average on Saturday, but on all the previous days it was much below the average, the extent of de pression having varied from 7 deg. to 11 deg. On Satur day the thermometer in the shade rose to 681 deg., the highest reading in the week ; on the same day, in the sun, it rose to 90.1 deg. The lowest reading in the shade in the week was 29'8 deg. on Monday, and the entire range was co nsequent l y 38 ' 5 deg. The mean dew point temperature was 36.9 deg., and the difference be tween this and the mean temperature of the air was 7'4 deg. The mean temperature of the water of the Thames was 49 deg. The wind was in the north-east and east till Wednesday afternoon ; thereafter it blew constantly from the north. The amount of horizontal movement of the air on Wednesday was 306 miles ; and the pres sure on the square foot, as measured by Osler'e anemo meter was 101 b. Rain to the amount of 012 in. fell on the same day. MORTATiITY IN THE METROPOLIS. NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WRP,W ENDING SATURDAY, MAY 10. Zymotic Diseases ........... , 236 Diseases of Uncertain Seat Tubercular Diseases . .............. 234 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses ............ 125 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 52 Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of Respiration 179 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion . ........... .. .. , 62 Diseases s s e e a a s s ee Childbirth, ss oOff DtthhieeseKjaosieithinstoesySf:l3o,haetnles. Uterus,an mateies l6 pmDriaselfeamoasrmetyetfioEtnhirtse Skin, &c. ' 7 4 .. 6 h and Debility 37 Atrophy 4O Old .A ge 40 Sudden Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 22 Causes not specified DEATHS PROM ALL CAUSES 1,154 Population Deaths in corre- Deaths . Enumerated. sponding week in t he 1851. Of 1855. Week. 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Keieerich his excellency had been pleased to appoint us, intkoixing a general Oxa mination of the,line of the Grand Trunk Railway in Our suance of the 4th sub-section of he first clause of 'the :statute of , 18' Vie., c. 174. Having consulted and!ar ranged with Mr. Killaly as to the course to be adopted: that.would most facilitate the procuring of the neces sary information, and acquiring a knowledge of the de tails, we adjourned to the office of the contractors, where a room was at or ce.placed at our command for our meet ings, and the },laps, sections, specifications, monthly 03. timates, contracts, and other documents, showing the state and progress of the works, were unreservedly laid befere us. Knowing the desire of Government to , have our report end estimate as soon as practicable we have laboured assiduously, and are now enabled to Pub the result of our exa m i na ti ons . ' F rom t h e docume nts above adverted to, and the data furnished us by the chef engineer of the company, we proCeeded, in the first in stance, to form an estimate of the cost of completing and equipping the line from this city to Brockville, being the portion to.which our attention i:vas more perticulaely directed by our letter of instruction from the commis-, sioners. From these dato,!which we give in detail—the quantities of work of all classes, including station aad other buildings remaining to be done on theist of Fel). ruary last , calculated, at liberal rates—it appears tht rn the'coat of cop'hziting the line fro m T oronto :tee' Broc vine,k exclusive of rolling stock and contingencies, wont I ' 292,392/. Gs. 6d, sterling Halifax Compary at that date. .: Having concluded these calculations our next step was to proceed to Montreal to inspect the rolling stonk finished and in progress , and then to r e t urn along the line, in order t o judge, rom pereonal inspection, of the character of the several works, and the manner in which they Have been executed ; and also by seeing t'le actuil date of the excavations, embankment., and other works, and comparing it with the. sections furnished us en which the estimate of completion is based, to be enabled to determine how far they were safely to be relied on. At Montreal we devoted three days to a careful inspec tion of the depot grounds and buildings, which are con structed in a most creditable and substantial manner, and which, when fully competed, will be found sec )nd to none that we have seen on this continent. The se veral workshops are admirably erovided, and every means and appliance are at hand to turn out a large amount of work of the best description. To the roll , nig stock we also gave the attention which so im portant a branch of railway work demands. The result of our scrutiny was highly satisfactory both in regard to style of construction and the suitableness of the mate rials. After taking inte account the amount of rolling stock, finished and unfinished, and the value of materials prepared, we estimate the amount required to equip the line from Toronto to Brockville, as required by contract, at 65,8351. 12e. 4d. sterling. It is to be observed that we have given the company no credit for a large amount: of rolling stock-22 locomotive engines —stated now to be on its way from England. Having concluded our surveys in Montreal we re turned-to Brockville by rail, and then followed the line to Toronto; and, having devoted six days to this part of the road, and inspected all the important point., and compared the state of the work on the g ron n d with that shown on the working sections, we are satisfied that the latter truly represent the progress of the work, and that ihe measurements derived therefrom on which the esti mate is based may be relied upon. In the foregoing it is shown that we estimate the cost of c )inpleting the works and buildings of the line from Toronto to Brock ville at 293,302/. 6s. 6d. ; add for contingencies and interest on this sum 10 per cent., 29,838/. 18s. ld.; also to complete rolling stock on the same portion. 65,835/. 12s. 4d. ; total cost of completing line from Toronto to Brockville, 394,0661. 16s. 11d. With a view to esti mating the cost of completing that porti,n of the road west of Toronto, so far as the provisions of the act 8 Vic., c. 174, extend, namely, to Stratford, we called for documents and vouchers connected with it, similar to those furnished for that portion from Toronto to Brockville, and from them we gather that the elmple tion of the works of the section from Toronto to Strat• ford will require the sum of 27,6841. 13s. 2d. ; and for contingencies, 2,7681. 4s. sd. ; total, 30,452/. 17s. 7d. Although we have not had an opportunity of person ally examining this portion of the railway and comparing its state, as shown on the sections from which the esti mate is formed, with the works themselves, yet from the satisfactory verification of the result of our caloulationsi, coupled with the fact of Mr. Kil/a.ly's having lately made an inspection of it, and being satisfied with the correct ness of the documents, we have no doubt but that this estimate for its completion may be relied on. In order to arrive at the whole cost of fully completing and equipping the road from Stratford to Brockville, it is necessary further to aid a sum for the portion of it in front of this city. Assuming this to be 10,0001. for the graded track to be furnished by the city, and 5,0001. for the permanent way laid, :the estimate for the entire line will be :—Toronto to Brockville, 394,06 G/. 16s. 11d. ; Toronto to Stratford, 30.4521.175. 7d.; in front of the city of Toronto, 12,3281. 15e. 4d.—Total, 436,8481. 9s. 7d. In conclusion, we feel it our duty to state for the in formation of his Excellency, that in our opinion the works on this portion of the line, so far as they h ave pro gressed, are in a ccor d ance with the terms of the contract and specification ; that the bridges, viaducts, and import ant station buildings are constructed in the most perma nent and substantial manner, and that the p re p ara ti on which has b een ma d e , an d the amount of materials pro vided, evince the intention of the contractors to finish the road in a style creditable to them and the province. —We are, sir, your obedient servants, ROSWELL G. BENEDICT. Thomas A. B ee l e E JAMES C. STRUT. y, Qq., Secretary, Department of Public Works, Toronto. The undersigned was a party to and engaged with Messrs. Benedict and Strut in the several calculations and estimates referred to in the foregoing, in the correct ness of the entire of which he fully believes. He did not accompany those gentlemen along the works between Toronto and Brockville, being otherwise much engaged, and having but a short time before made a very close inspection of them. He entertains strongly the same opinions as to the character of the works as those ex pressed by Messrs. Benedict and Strut. The portion of the line from Toronto to Stratford he has likewise had a late opportunity of visiting, and he had no doubt of the correctness of the estimate for the consplction of that section also ; the works of w hi c h are not to be surpassed for sound and durable construction. HAMILTON H. KILLALY, Assistant Commi,sioner of Public Works. Toronto, April 18, 1856. . - - 11erapath, adds to the foregoing report:--" During March and April the amount of work done has been 120,2551. Only 316,590/. will be required from the latter date for the completion cif the line from St. Mary's in the west to St. Thomas', 40 miles below Quebec, and likewise to Portland in the stat e o f M a i ne. The total length of these lines will be 862 miles." .ILAiILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS LONDON AND , SOUTII-EASTEIIg RATLWAL—Traffic re turn for the week ending May 10,1856 £16,86? 11 5 Corresponding week last year 16,823 8 9 Increase in 1856 £39 2 8 LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RA/LWAY. Traffic return for the week ending May 10, 1856 .................................................. 212,726 8 2 Corresponding week last year 12,321 13 8 Total of the half-year to this date, 1856 215,413 14 11 Total of the half-year to this date,lBss 197,869 3 8 GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—Traflic turn for the week ending May 10,1856 £5,771 17 1 Corresponding week last year 5,375 9 5 Increase in 1856 £396 7 8 It is stated that the trustees of the British INluseum have recommended to the Lords of the Treasury that a grant of 5,0001. should be made for decorating the it.- terior of the new reading-room. COLLISION, AND SINKING OF A VESSEL AT SEA. —The total loss of the ship Planet, Captain Beckham, while on her voyage from China for London, has been reported at Lloyd's. The disaster occurred by the unfortunate vessel coining in contact with a large brig (name unknown) on Saturday, at 11 p.m., about 18 miles N.E. by E. from Beachy Head, and, such was the violence of the con cussion, the Planet sank a short time afterwards, hardly leaving the crew time to escape in the boats. - Wider these circumstances they were soon after discovered by the ship Margaret, of Liverpool, and by the instrumen tality of the captain and crew of that vessel were safely landed at Portsmouth on Sunday evening. The cargo of the lost vessel consisted principally of silk and tea, and the total loss must be very considerible. The fate of the brig is not referred to in the accounts. MISS BURDETT COUTTS' IN HER DIAILONDS.--In the month of May following there was a ball at the Queen's, to which "I was not invited, nor shall ever I dare say again, having lately declined two or three of her invita tions." Moore was, however, sufficiently amused by going about to different houses, where ho saw some very pretty specimens both of dress and beauty. The next day he called upon Miss CouttF!, whom he says "I had seen in all her splendour the night before, and found her preparing to send it all back to the bank. Would you like,' she asked, 'to see it by daylight ?' and, on my as senting, took me to a room up stairs, where the treasure was deposited. Amongst it was the famous tiara of Mario Antoinette ; and on my asking her what alto gether might be the value of her dress last night, she answered in her quiet way, I think about a hundred thousand pounds." "—Moores Le ING, MAY . 14, 1856. TH4 NATIONAL GALLERY; THE DEBATE, •Ma STIRLING, M.P., AND IcAPIIA.ELA t ",,A POLL° AND, MA.RSY.LS ." TO TA EDITOR OP THE SUN. Skit,—My friends and Supporters have bean divided as to the expediency of ivy notici;o. 'a latter signed "Williani ' Stirling," which, with the air of .a reply to, mine of the 17th inst., entitled'"' The National 'Gallery, the Job, and the Division," appeared on' the 21st. Some have thought that inasmuch as that letter does not attempt to invalidate any statement I have adviinckd affecting the main question before the nation, it might be consigned to that " oblivion" from which, in spite of my ite author has deigned to rescue mine. • They are now unanimously of opinion that Mr. Stirling's letter containi Matter which, not less for the advancemeat of, al great cause 'than in justice to myself, it is imperative on Me not to leave linaol'icel In this I concur. • On the 17th instant, I stated that "on the 13th of May, 1853, after my second and rast examination on the cleaning, the same Mr. William Stirliug wh,e now votes in support of Eastlakeand Vandalism, Germanism and daubs, accosted me near the western door of the Rubans-room, and."law •teerecl the highest cOmplia6nis on my .evidenee ; that ha went so far as to say hal.inade out my case; and that. to cap all, he said, 'as for old-Uwini ha's an Ass.'" I added. that " this w as no t th e only time Mr. Stirling had so expressed himself." ,quirt', was a charge against, ed a s s i a aal" Trustee Sir C.. Eastlake, and Keepir Mr. trwins, thatduring the pawed ing vacation they h I extensively damaged nine My case, tin to this 'period of the in of the public pictures. These " allegel conversations," as he calls • them, Mr. saps " Mr. Moore has thought' it baconfiag to, report to the public without soy sanction or knowledge.'-' Thies the sum of the ob jections which Mr, Stirling, in a letter knocked off i n th e vici vein ; sets 'skp against my report of those conversations. By not denying, ha) plinits my accuracy, and so proclaims as stoutly ae any 'Onb"the.incomPategleY Of, him is s apo 6 it - of-whoaer'c'empeteribrhe votes. But we have also the admission direct. " Mr. Moore has proved himself to be au unsafe depositary of casual and careless talk."' "Unsafe " let him say, so long as that • talk " w as f a ithf ully r e ported. " Depositary," in, deed! Tius prim personage should consult his John son. The violated trust, I have used for the benefit of the public,land—in spite of hitiiself, au " item" of thatptiblic,- for his own. Henceforth, Papageno-like, let him wear a padlock on his mouth, if ha would indulge in "a disintegra tion of his iudividuslity," by a snug vote at the expense of c , nsJicucts. Will any one, not having a peculiar interest in the sentiment, maintain that by reporting what was volii,teered to me on a public question, in such a place, on such an occasion, and by one with w h om I h a d n o in, inicT, I am guilty of a breach of trust ? After deteetio; the " - hon. gentleman" in giving a vote in flat contradie, tion to his now recorded co iviction, was I to hunt him under the benches, and in the holes and corners of the Treasury to ask his "sanction" for divulging that fact ? Such allegiance to him was to betray the public, and to sacrifice Until. I can well divine that it would conduce. to the convenience, and to the perquisites of our "repre sentatives," could the public be „ersuaded that this is the golden ago, or some epoch of like simplicity ; that the phrase " honourable gentleman", is not a sham ; and that Germanism and jobbJ,fy, pa•cked c.mninitters and false re ports, so flaz,r4ntly false that the Caairineu who preside at their drawing up for very shame repudiate them, are myths.* • In the face . of th 3 rebuke administered to me for the " politeness" of my sentences, I mast not' again pre sume to call a certain vote "discreditable." It is enough t h ive proved it so ; but I will just observe that a pre judice obtains, that " ignoble," and "underhand," and even • • discreditable," terms au objectionable in my letters, are as " polite," and tamest as harmonious, if not so " calm," as " the cap fitted him," " thinsakinned," and " Washing," with which the Master of the Ceremonies from Perthshire embellishes his own. And here we have another specimen of Parliamentary straiehtforwardnese. Mr. Stirling s a y s h o " s h a ll seek no nuttier intercourse" with me. Tuis slashing" announcement is an abuse of victory. My unceremonious treatment of him on the 17th should have spared him such waste of energy. But the Sacrifice will no - better aPpreeiated by wind fol lows. Oa the evening of that same day, strange to relate ! an appeal reached me frOm Mr. Stirling to act as umpire in the great Ass controversy which has been raging in the Times about the skinning and " cooking" of sundry asses iu the Velazquez "Boar Hunt," touching whose fate Mr. Stirling, "au authority" on this subject, has a near interest. That appeal is a tribute to my trustworthiness, the more precious now that 1 am impugning his. With Mr. Stirling's note was a , stamped envelope directed to himself, inclosing a paper upon which I was to write my "impressions." Reluctant to appropriate the property of one so often the victim of his liberality, I was anxious to return his peunyworth of Queen's heads. Oa the following morning at the chambers of a barrister in Seige.iiits' Inn, I wrote across his paper my impressions, as follows.—" Mr. Mor ris Moore declines to- hold any cemmauication with Mr. Stirling ALAI 18, 1816." Thi s I p os t e d a t T emp l e B ar before half-past one. It must have been delivered by half past four 01/ the same afternoon—mark ! the afternoon of the.lBth. Mr. Stirling's letter is dated the 19th. I now conic to a subject upon whim) I eater with ex treme reluctance, for although one of national imp,rtance it may, at the first bluso, appear to relate more eApezially to myself. I hope to remove such misconception. That subject is the "Apollo and Marsyas." by Raphael. Mr. Stirling says :—" Iu the Committee of the House of Corn moms, on Monday the 7th inst., i said that Mr. Miindler's alleged mistake in imagining himself the possessor of a Correggio was a kind of mistake into which collectors were very apt to fall ; and th et I had known persons so ported by their imaginations as to believe themselves the owners of Raffaeiles—or words to that effect. In these simple words, naturally suggested by the remark to which I was replying, his (le. Morris Al eora's) fine critical faculty at once detected a personal and particular attack upon himself and his property." I must decline the pe. destal here designed for me. That " tine critical faculty" which it suits Mr. Stirling to treat as my distinctive at tribute, is common to all with whom I have conversed upon his speech. All detected that he did make a personal and particular attack upon me and my " property," as he has it, anti I have yet to hoar any one object to the epithets by which 1 designated that :Ate*. The Times is the only journal, as far us I know, which gave the part of Mr. Stir ling's speech just quoted. I was present at the debate, and can vouch for the accuracy of the Times report. After " nations," " the words to that effect" were, "as to be lieve in the possession of a Raphael." Under the pecu liar circumstances of the case, the phrases " a Correggio," and "a Raph ae l," h ave a correlative significance which is weakeised by gal-bang the latter phrase into the plural. I claim both the difference and the gar bling as additional evidence against the "hon. gentleman." The remark to which Mr. Stirling was replying, was made by Mr. Otway. On the vote of 17,6391. for the ex penses of the National Gallery during 1856.7 being put, Mr. Otway, in moving that the vote be redtthed by 6501., the sum of the travelling expenses for the travelling agent, said he " rather thought that Mr. Miindler was not very favourably known in this country; that by an effort of imagination that gentleman had persuaded himself to be lievesthat he hid discovered a Cortegedo, and had tried to induce the t rus t ees o f th e National Army to purchase it; and that that transaction, he must say, appeared to be enough to raise some suspicion as to the propriety of the appointment." In all conscieuce ! both the amendment and the "remark" were moderate enough for the occasion. Note the chain of evidence against my opponent. 1. I am the authority, ae Mr. Stirling knew, for the statement that Herr Miindler did attempt to sell to the Trustees of the National Gallery, as an original Correggio, a dingy and bedaubed Bolognese copy. I stated this on the 27th of last August in a letter to the Morning Adver tiser, in which I gave a description of the picture from my own personal observation, and named its locality. As a test of my accuracy and of the scandalous cha racter of the Milndler job, I defied the owner to pro duce his "Co r r egg i o ." an d a t th e same ti me pro p ose d that a council of men of acknowledged connoisseurship and character should deciste between us." On the very day of its publication I posted that letter to Herr Miindler. On the Ist of September, in a second letter to the Morning Advertiser, I repeated the substance of my previous state ment, and informed the public that I had forwarded to Herr Miindle the naper which contained it. This second letteralso leant to Herr Miindler. Beth letters werereprinted in Belt's Matz/ Messenger on the Ist and Bth of September respectively. The only rep'y I have as yet seen to my challenge is the "Adoration of the Magi,"and a scraped and vampod-up " Mantegoa." 2. I am a person , "known" to Mr: Stirling, as "so transported by his imagination as to believe himself in the possession of a Raphael." But there is this difference be tween the E as,lishman and the German, that evidence upon evidence has accumulated to confirm my judgment ; that, instead of fearing to pro lace any picture, I have ever made it a point of honour to show it to all who have applied to see it; and that I maintain, defiantly, if need. be, what from the first I proescimed that picture to be, what that picture is now renowned throughout Europa as being, namely, one of the most transcendent Raphaels in Eng land. 3. In the Lobate on tha National Gallery Mr. Stirling starts up as the advocate of his " unfairly" used Miindler, whom he "had beard montioned by saveral artists in Paris, two or three years botore," (remarkable creden tials !) " as a parson rein trkable"—for his knowledge of Art? No --"for his honesty and integrity." Are we English, then, such rognes that we must hire German "honesty and integrity" to look,after us lest we purloin our own money ? Now, to a man who could belie his conscience to don the wig in a cause so disreputable, so unpatriotic as the dragging of his fellow-countrymen at the heels of an in competent alien, would not my exposure of his client and his client's "Carreggio " have " naturally suggested" a stab where, to the apprehension of many of his hearers, I might, perchance, ba equally vulnerable? However, Mr. Stirling may attempt to mystify by now calling the " Apollo and Marsyas" an " interesting and beautiful pie ture"--a judgment he presently reverses, by sneering at it as a "gem," which means that it is not a gem, although that terns is an accepted metaphor for " beautiful picture;" so that, according to tha " conclusiveness of his reasoning," what is, is no:—no candid and sensible man acquainted with the merits of the case could fail to consider his vindi cation of Herr Miindlor an " underhand. ignoble, and obvious attack" on myself and Raphael. To have over looked the affront put, upon me by Mr. Stirling in the House of Commons on the 7th inst., with regard to the " Apollo and Marsyas," would have been to renounce all pretensions us au authority on art, and so from the con victor, to sink into the presumptuous and unscrupulous calumniator of the men in Trafalgar-square. It concerned the nation, therefore, no l ess th an myself, that I should resent that affront. f rom a misplaced delica c y I In my l e tt er o f th e 17th , avoided naming the speCial subject of Ur. Stirling's attack-, and contented myself with the general rebuke that, in this, as in his vote, he had falsified his expressed convictions. But Mr. Stirling is less squeamish. The meaning which he disavows for the 7th, he proclaims on the 21st. He * Colonel Mure, the Chairman of tho Committee on the National Gallery of 1853, in a letter , to the Morning Post, December 15th,1853, repudiated the Report of that committee says, "Improbable as it may appear to Mr. Moore, I 'uttered those words in total forcetfuluess that, he, too, was subject to like hailucination; and' had' been the purchaser, and possibly the vendor, pf ,a dolibted or doubtful Raffaelle." Mr. Stirling there fore 7•entembers that I was the purchaser, and have.pbssi bly been the vendor of a doubted or doubtful Riphaol. Irpon_his knowletlye of the one, he builds his sarteiJo of the other. See the superstructure disappear,! " The A pelf° and Marsyas" is still mine. 'I may yet shake the fouudation. Mr. Stirling then, is as unsornoelone in his Linsirmations as he WAS abject in his vote. ITpin reading Air:Stirling's list sallY a friend remarked, " that srestence might have been indite I by a costermonger." My fit iewl, whose notions are obsolete, was at a loss to understand how any one re ceived among gentlemen could mike loch an imputatioh unless he had proof of what he was stating; and he ne tarally inquired whether I had ever ,p traded or sold as panicle a spurious Icaoliael. It was easy to reply in the negative. I appreciated the poychological affinity which had 'Mizell upon my friend's imagivation ; but I impressed upon him the superior dignity, socially, of an hen. gentle man who barters his conscience and the good of the Corn monwealthTor the smile of a Min'ster, and wise, a stranger alike to good manners and to good feeling, halts at no in sult, however coar se a n d reckless, to men who, it is mo lera- Lion to say, are his inferiors in nothing save their share of that dross of which even the mightiest among U 3 can boast hitt a transient loan. I will not dwell upon the modesty of the man who characterises as "hallucinations" tha juigneent of one who, not without Baal) dis inction, h Ls. made art the study e life, while he hiniself, though pos sessing atnp:e means to become the owner Of mater pieces, is, nevertheless, content to groYel among the cheap and murky refuse of a degenerate age;- but I this oppor tanity to mark another difference between myself and fir. Stirling's client, that whereas that German would not hesitate ta fasten upon us hi ,spnriOne and dam Lged Cot.- reggio, I, on the contrary, as friends have often heard-me say, would rather present my Raphael as a gift to the meanest of foreign public galleries, than sell it at any price that could be named to the National Gallery 'of 'England as now conducted; and this, not, as Lord Palmerston dared to insinuate, because "personal resentmeets have greater influence with me than_ the interests -of truth or the Welfaie orthe - community," but because I can make sacridces for both. To consign to the clutches of an East lake, a Wornum, and a Altintiler, and their disingenu me patrons, so sublime a work as the "Apollo and Marsyas," would be to lend them support, unreal if you will, bat sufficient to stamp me as accessory to one of the most barefaced frauds ever practised upon a nation. Mr. Stirling further says :—" By ne uuscrupulmis foe or foolish friend did the pretensions of the picture ever seem to me so likely to be seriously dsmaged, as by the admission of the happy, though thin-skinned owner, that he cannot bear a casual allusion to the possible existence of a spurious Raffaelle without holing and proclaiming that such allusion is ' an ignoble and u aderh in 1, yet ob vious attack' upon him anti his gem." Mr. Stirling has given me a hint. In return, leaving it to him to deter mine the value of each, I will bring him face to face firs, with a "foolish friend" or two of the "Apollo an. Marsyas," and then with an " unscrupulous foe." " THE FOOLISH FRIENDS." On Saturday, March the 2d, 1850, the "Apollo and Marsyas" was purchased for me loya a friend at Messrs. Christie and Manson's, at the sale of Mr. Duroveray, de ceased. It was catalogued as an Andrea M oategna, and had been on view for an lintiro :we. - ck. The name of Andrea Mantegna was an obvious misnomer. As at that period some cordiality existed between Lord Elcho awl myself, he was among tho earliest whom I invited tcf see what I knew to be a Raphael This was on the 4th. On the fith he called, and such was the imp •ession its " sur passing beauty" made upon him, that for some time he repeated his visit almost daily, atoning for intermissions by as many as even three visits on the same day. It is due to Lord Elcho to state, that from the first he-accepted the " Apollo and Marsyas "as a Raphael. Within a few days of its purchase he begged of me as a f 'your to take it to Lord Ellesmere, a Trustee of the National Gallery, who, as he informed me, had expressed great desire to sae it. I declined. I saw no rea son to think so meanly of myself, or so highly of any one else, as to run after him, especiar.y with a Raphael, unless indeed some valid reason ware given for such un usual exercise. For once the mountain might come to Mahomet. But Lord Elcho perseve-ed. At length on the ,14th of March, he called to armourlC3 that h had actually made an appointment with Lord E leemere for me to call with the Raphael on the following morning, ut his resi dance in Balgrave-square. I still demurred. Feeling for Lord Elcho's disappointment, and pleased with his ea thu slam, satisfied, moreover, by his assurance that Lord El lesmere would have called upon me, but for his being an invalid, I consented, and kept the appointment. After a few words, Lord Ellesmere asked me to allow the pic turn to remain with him for an hour. I agrael. Oa' my re turn he declare emphatically that he entirely concurre 1 with me respecting the "Apollo and M,rsytas," and that he hoped Mr. Chart orris (Lord Elcho) woali lose no time in bringing it under the notice of Parliament. On the 21st of March, 1850, under thehead,"NationalGal lery," thepublic journals speak thus : —" Mr. Charteris( Lord Elchoj has given notice that, after Easter, he will call the attention of the First Lord of the Treasury to the recent sale, by public auction, at Messrs. Christie's, of .a picture which is confidently believed by many p,,isons to be a work of Ralfaelle." This notice was given without my sanction, but with the approval, as Lord Elcho informed me, of Lord Ellesmere. When Lord Elch,e announce i his intention of giving his notice I discouraged him from it. It would, I thought, place me in an invidious light, awl, if not followed up, might retard the establishment of the au thenticity of the picture. I said this both at the time and afterwards. But Lord Elcho was ambitious of the honour, as ho sail. of having his name associated with such a work, by formally introducing it to the public. Oa the 10th of June, 1330, appeared the following letter in the Morning Post : "ma. MOORE'S RAPHAEL. " Sir,—l trust that you will be able to .find a place in your columns for a fe willies in explanation of the circumstances which have provented my publicly calling the attention of the First Lord of the Treasury to Mr. Morris Moore's Raphael, in pur suance of a notice to that effect which I gave in the early part of the session. In giving that notice I had two objects in view; I was anxious, in the first place, publicly to call the attention of the Trustees of the National Gallery to the exist ence, or, rather to the discovery of a % work of art, which I, in common with most of those who have he, , l the good fo: tune to see it, believe to be of great national importance ; and, in the second place, I wished to give expression to the uni versal feeling of dissatisfaction which prevails with regard to the management of the concerns of the National Gallery. But, inasmuch as I felt that an unseasonable discussion of these subjects would create little interest in the House of Commons, I thought it advisable to wait until - the grant was moved for the current expenses of the National Gallery, which would have offered a fitting opportunity for bringing ou my notice. Time has, however, run on ; the session is far advanced ; and I am obliged to leave England before this branch of the miscellaneous estimates has been brought under consider• ation . ; I must, therefore, postpone the subject to another session. Public attention has been alreadyse fatly drawn to Mr. Morris Moore's Raphael, and public opinion ha; been so strongly expressed in its favour, through the medium of the press, that I would fain hope the Trustees will make a point of securing it for the National Gallery. I have no fears as to the result of their deliberations upon it, provided they do not allow their better judgments to be influenced by the criticisms of a foreign gentleman (Herr Passavant) who, on a Friday, an nounces, ex cathedrd, that this picture, which he admits to be a first-rate specimen of the finest period of Italian art, is the work of Francia ; and who, on the Monday f )110 wing, with equal confidence, ascribes it to Timoteo della Vite, two painters who cannot by any possibility be confounded, pro vided likewise that they are not guided by the opinions of those professional connoisseurs who had neither the taste nor the feeling to appreciate so fine a work, nor the critical know ledge which should have led theta to discover, under a false name, the master-hand of Raphael, My own conviction is that this picture isnot only a Raphael, but, perhaps, the purest and most beautiful specimen of the master in this country ; but I care not, as regards its claims upon the Na tional Gallery, whether it be by him or not, for when a pic ture is universally pronounced to be a first-rate specimen of the finest period of Italian art, its title to a place in our Na tional Collection is clear and indefeasible, and it then be comes the bounden duty of the Trustees not to suffer so im portant a work to leave the country, or become the ornament of a private Gallery. " F. CIIARTERB (Lord Mello). " 27, Chesham-street, June 8." Did Lord Echo redeem his pledge ? His "other session " is still due. Yet, from June the Bth, 1350, to July the sth, 1853, the perio,l at which our acquaintance ceased, he often repeated., and with increased emphasis, if possible, his admiration of my picture, and his faith in it as a Raphael. That infirmity of purpose which has marked his conduct throughout the National Gallery question—for this is still that question —was foreshadowed in the abandonment of his notice. With regard to the "Apollo and Marsyas," he advo cates only to desert. So, for my denouncement of East lake's Vandalisms and waste of public, money on daubs, first, I "deserve the thanks of all ;" then he again deserts, and, to cover his apostacy, discharges his share of the debt by undermining me in a Parliamentary R-port, and by private slander. Lord Elcho's abandonment of his notice has boon distorted into a reproach from which I have had to defend both myself and the Raphael. Bat here are more "foolish friends" of that Raphael. 1. Private Colleeters.—Messrs. Walter Savage Landor, William Coningham, Fuller Maitland, and Alexander Barker. These gentlemen, who are or have been the pos sessors of first-class pictures of the Italian school, have I pronounced the "Apollo and Marysas " one of the finest Raphaels in England. As agreeing with these 1 may men tion Mr. Francis Palsky, an amateur who has given no ordinary attention to art. 2. Artists.— Messrs. Alfred Stevens, Hurlstone, and Samuel Laurence —all well known to have had every op portunity for studying the best works of Raphael. They agree with the collectors above named, With these I may class the late Mr. Brockv, an artist of talent and an ardent admirer of Raphael. He often declared the "Apollo and Marsyas" to be the finest Raphael he had seen in England. 3 Collectors deceased„—Messrs. the Rev. John Sanford, Chambers Hall, James Dannistoun, and Samuel Wood burn. These likewise accepted the " Apollo and Marsyas" as a Raphael. 4. Collectors of Marc-Antonio Engravings.— The three most celebrated professional collectors of Marc-Antonio engravings in England concur with the preceding. To the gentlemen, already, named, I a•ld Mr. Holford, Sir John Hippisley, and Mr. Sackville Bale, who virtually, if not literally, a lmit my nomenclature. All have re peatedly seen the picture. From the first they pronounced it admirable, and each succeeding visit snore than con firms I the former imp' ession. Raphael alone, of all the Umbrian school, to which only the Apollo and Marsyas" can be ascribed, is entitled to the prais 38 they have lavished upon it. The first is one of our most liberal collectors, in every branch of art. The two last are well-known cultiva tors of Raphael, and the possessors of Raphael drawings and fine Marc-Antonio prints. I will now quote two gen tlemen of a different category, who, if not the possessors of masterpieces, at least avoid the cheap and tenebrous "gems" which mark the apogeum of Mr. Stirling's aspirations. Thesa gentlemen are Mr. Alfred Tennyson and Mr. James Spedding. To name the first is enough. Both are fami liar with the "Apollo and Marsyas." Men of culti vated minds, and having access to the finest creations of art, their impressions must be valuable ; but, as painting has not been their leading occupation, they have too much good sense to dogmatise upon a name. I regret that I am un able to recall the phrases of the former, but I have seen him wrapt in admiration at the beauty of my picture, Mr. Sped- • ortio -• n . METROPOLITAN COUNTIES and p the GENERAL LIFE ASSURANcE SOCIETY, 27, :Regent. directed by k trees, Waterloo-place, Lundon, Capital, 100,000/. sioners. 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