The Express.
London, England, 1862-05-06 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY MINING, MAY 6, 1862,

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENa

(arcrTs'a man Alts.)
ITALY.
NAPLES, iiAT 4, Ensura.

The French fleet in this harbour to-day enter-
tained the spectators with a sham sea fight. The
spectacle was of a very brilliant character, and ter-
minated with an exhibition of Bengal lights in the
Italian and French colours. The King and the
Viceroy of Egypt were present. The manoeuvres
were greatly admired by the people, who received
them with loud acclamations.
TURIN, KAT S.
The subscription to the great canal irrigation
scheme in Upper Italy has been two-and-a-half
times covered in eight days. This bar produced a
very favourable east.

INDL&
(By balograph to Point as Galls sad from Eiris.) •

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CIAIMUTTA, Aram lA
Mr. Laing has made his financial statement.
lie anticipates a surplus of 1,500,00 W.
rold`b2k
port duties on pleas goods ars reduced to 6
cent., and on yarn to n per cent. The
is.to_ootne into operation from the 93rd April.

INTELLIGENM

CALCUTTA, Ana 15.

Bhirtings firm. Mule twist active and advancing.
The indigo season has tereniaated. Copper 2
amuse higher. Saltpetre unchanged. Exchange
on London, 2e. Ojd. Government securi*s Four
per Cents., 914. Government securities Five per
Cents., 103 k. Freights, 63e.
BOMBAY, Amur. lfi.
Cotton steady. Twist advancing. Piece goods
in moderate demand. Linseed prices advancing.
Five per Cent. Government ,S'emritita, 108 f.
Freights quiet.
CHINA.
(By telegraph from Baas.)
CANTON, Arm 1
Grey shirtin,gs and water twist unchanged. Tea
bra, but little doing : total export to daily
81,893,0001ba. Exchange on London, 4a. 60.

SHANGHAig, 11Aioz 1.
Grey shirtings advancing. Tea active. Bilk, 10
taels higher, No. 3 Teatlee, 390 ; settlements in
fortnight, 3,500 bales • export to date, 62,900
bales. Exchange on India, 298. Freights for boa,
1100. ; for silk, 120 e.

AUSTRALIA.
(By telegraph from Baez.)
MELBOURNE, Mmica 25.

The total export of gold since the departure of
the last mail amounts to 133,019 ors. Martell's
and Benneesy's brandies, oats, hams, tea, and sugar
advancing in price. An active business doing in
Geneva and butter at advancing prices. Bass's ale
and flour higher pries demanded. Rice dull.
Coffee unchanged. Exchange firm.
ADELAIDE, Emma Et.
Exchange rising. Trade dull.
SYDNEY, lLsacn 22.
Exchange unaltered. Trade active.

THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY.

The fifth report of the trustees of the National
Portrait Gallery, lewd this mot., adds Vim Ss Oa last
of 42 doestioas gives in farmer reports. The geese las
also graciously promised a partasit of the kits Prises Cau-
se& The purchases here inersased fun 20 to • /IL

The great difficulty which is now encountered by the
trustees, and which is telt more and more in proportiee m
the collection tinder their charge exteeds, arises front the
always inadequate and now utterly deficient moaned exhi-
bition. The trustees in the course al last month addressed
the following letter to the Board of Treasury :
" National Portrait Gallery Trust, 29, Great
Georgeatrest, Westminster, March 20.

"My Lords,—At a meeting of the trustees of the Na-
tional Portrait Gallery, held this day, Berl Stanhope in the
chair, I was directed to represent in the strongest terms to
her Majeety's Board of Treasury how utterly inadequate is
now the space as their disposal compared with the pictures
which they have been enabled to obtain. Them pictures,
accruing partly by purchase and partly by donation,
amount up to this date to 139, as the enclosed
catalogue will show. To display these pictures
for public exhibition, the trustees have only at
their disposal two apartments of very moderate sin, a very
small back mom on the same floor, sad the walls of the
Manama They are unable to place at all the great picture
of the House of Commons, by Haynie, which was presented
by the government in 1838, and which, of necemity, re•

Line for the present in a committee-room of the House at
Commas. Many of the pictures that are played by
the Madam are also of neccasity placed in a most an•
favourable light ; ell are crowded, and the trustees aro
wholly at a loss to provide for fresh secessions. It may be
said, with entire truth, that the complaints which have
lately been made of this institution in the House of Com•
moos and elsewhere proceed altogether from the want of
space, for which the trustees ere not responsible. The
trustees, therefore, desire to make an urgent representation
to her Majesty's government for a more eateaded space,
that may enable the trustees to display, with less dissdvan•
tags, the very numerous, and, in great part, very valuable
works which this gallery has acquirod.—l have, &c.,
(Signed) " Gnomes &near,
" Secretary aid Keeper.
"To the Lords Commissioners of Her
Majesty's Treasury."

It ia gratifying to be able to add that, in spite of these
great deficienoim in spas and in light, the number of visitors
to the temporary apartments has steadily increased. A
return of these numbers has been laid before the House of
Commons in obedience to their order dated March 13, 1862.
It has been subsequently printed, and will be found to give
the particulars in full details month by mouth. Without
recapitulating these details, it may be sufficient here to
state th►t the number of visitors, which in 1859 was 5,306,
and in 1860, 6,392, rose in 1861 to 10,907. The armless
have the fullest confidence that with improved aircocumoda-
tion, and, as one consequence of it, an increase of open
days, the number of the annual visitors would be further
and very largely augmented.

LIGAL APPOINTMINT.—Mr. John A. Russell, of
the Northern Circuit, has been appointed SolicitouGsmend
for the amity palatine of Durham.
FATAL AMIDIINT ON TEI Noss BRITISH RAIL-
wAT.—A fatal accident occurred on the North British Rail-
way on Saturday afternoon, near St. Boswell's. It "
that u the train leaving Edinburgh at 3.45 p.m. for LTC
eau proceeding between Newtown and Marton, the az-
riasee, eight In number, including the guard's break-van,
left the rails, and the last err broke their coupling from the
others, and were precipitated down the railway bank, about
fourteen feet in depth. The destruction of the car-
riages wee serious, and one gentleman Mr. Easton,
skinner, of museuntrgn, was killed on the WAWA ; hie
body wee found under the carriages. Many of the pee-
mongers received serious injuries, emoept other a son of
Mr. Easton, Mr. David Sherrill, of near Deem, and Mr.
Hunter, teacher, Kelso. The injuries these pullss have
sustained appear to be concussion of the brain. Interiml
injuries were sustained by the Rev. Mr. Mackie and Mr.
Stow* of Geleabiela ; Mr. Grierson, ormensereial traveller,
Hawk& ; Mn. Buttes, of Hawk& ; Mr. Nisbet, ember,
Hawick ; Mr. Mills, of Drumhead, Ert-Lothian ; and 12 or
14 others. The reports late on Saturday night as to the
first four named parties seriously injured were
very unfavourable, but during Sunday the repute were
more favourable. Mr. Sheriff and Mr. Hunter were removed
to Melrose Boon after the widest, and were attended to by
Dr. Brews. Mr. Easton, pus., Was tam to Newtown.
The body of Mr. Easton, senior, lies at Maztoa maim •
large staff was employed during Saturday night and Sudsy
mania, in moving the flibris of the carriages, and re-
=the line of rails, which had been esenadtrably &-
We understand that up to hot night Mr. Lan,
jets., Mr. Buster, and Mr. Marti, were paper*
favourahly.—Semessism.
The show of fruit blossom in the south of Eng-
land this moos is the guest that has been bourn for
years, and there is every prospect of a prolific crop of fruit
the year.

TS* INTERNATIONAL ZIERIBITION.

Yesterday was the first five shilling day and its
results were,'of course, anxiously looked forward to
by the financiers of the Zxhibition. The weather
was favourable fora good start, being very different
from that of Saturday, and the consequence was,
combined with the reduction of price, a larger in-
flux of visitors. We were very much surprised to
find, however, that the management had not
quite made up its mind as to how they were to be
admitted, as several persons were sent to the south-
east tower, then refused admittance there and for-
warded to the entrance in the middle of the façade,
and finally admitted, only after long debate, and
an exceedingly rigorous and searching examina-
tion of their credentials. It is really to be hoped
that all the entrances will be open and in working
order by the time the shilling public require ad-
mittance.

Within the building it becomes daily more evi- I
dent that the opening on the Ist of May was more
a form thane fact, as not one of the courts is yet
quite ready for inspection, whilst the galleries have
still full a month's work in them. There was
.irirrnete4riidenoe in pusMm forward the "!?rectors
" the " B6smut Onefft," and 'the Picture
Gallery, as without them, it is to be feared, the
Conimlaaieners would have had to deal with a very
unruly public. However, so far as the melees are
concerned, rt is satisfactory to know that those who
pay a shilling for admission at a month's end will
be infinitely better of than the ticketholders
of the earliest issue, The shilling public
will have no " vouchers" to obstruct them, but
will have a good and uninterrupted view of a well-
arranged and attractive exhibition. There is some-
thing being done with the iageniously-oonstructed
system of detached forte with which the manage-
ment had fortified the nave against a too formidable
advance of promenaders. The ground has been
considerably cleared at one end, and it looks all
the better ; but there is a good deal yet to be done
at the other before it can be made either sightly or
convenient. People atop before each monstrous
and unsightly hoarding, hold up their hands in
wonder, and ask under what possible system could
such excrescences have been permitted to sprout
up within the building. There is one hexagonal
erection of great ildtitucle, which causes as much in-
terest and curiosity as if it were a sarcophagus
lately dug up at Nineveh. Round the top cornice
runs a rhapsodical inscription, and over each sec-
tion of the sentence is perched a little flag, with
some touching legend, such as " Bristles," em-
blazoned on its field. Under this is a portion of
the inscription, say, "The ocean's foam ;" and
immediately beneath that scenes, " Gulls percha-
works, West HMO The foreign visitors read the
inscription right down, and have immense difficulty
in making good sense out of " Bristles, the ocean's
foam, Gutta-percha works, West He This mon-
strosity sought to be removed at once, as every
hour it remains gives rise to fresh reflections
as to the capacity of the persons who per-
mitted or superintended its erection. One of
the forte is well garrisoned by Mr. Harry
Emanuel, and we only wish for hie own sake that be
had selected a better locality. The turret in which
he exhibits his precious gems is of the most cum-
brous design, so as quite to dwarf the brilliants,
which, if they had fair play, could hardly be sur-
passed in the Exhibition. There is a brooch the
centre stone of which, a prodigious emerald, once
adorned the turban of the "Lion of the Punjaub,"
and the pendant is a pearl as large as a plover's
egg. 10,0001. is considered a moderate price
for this jewel, which would be admirably
suited for a wedding present. Then there
are tow brilliants mounted an eters, worth
20,0001., and a suit of opals and diamonds which
would be an enormous sacrifice "at 9,0001. Alto-
gether, Mr. Emanuel exhibits jewels to the value
of 350,0001. ; but more than all the high-priced
gems, he piques himself on the production of articles
of both artistic, and intrinsic value, each of which
should come within 201. in price. We were shown
several bracelets of elegant design and high order
of workmanship, any of which could be sold at the
above moderate figure. If Mr. Emanuel could
only be persuaded to emigrate to the side,
and allow his present Bomsrsund to be'
blown up, he would immensely serve the
public, and, we are mire, obtain a better
position for himself. It is a fact which may not,
perhaps, have struck the pleased visitors, that five
or six jewellers, the great majority British, exhibit
more value than the whole remainder of the. Exhi-
bition. There never before was got together so
brilliant and valuable a collection of diamonds, and
never so many particular stones of enormous value,
and each with a history of its own. Next to the
precious metals, the Roman Court develops new
features every day. The superintendents were
yesterday busy arranging a wonderful collection of
cameos, which will be exhibited to-day. Some of
the beet are by Eliza Piatruan, daughter of our
eminent medallist ; but the wonder of the collec-
tion is a Medusa's head by Benedetto, to which
no doubt all the virtuosi will be attracted.
There is also a table of solid Carrara marble inlaid
with malachite and coloured stones and minerals,
which it is snorted occupied the artist eleven
years in the construction. It did not strike us
that it was an equivalent result for so much patient
labour, but it is considered to be one of the great
rarities of the court. The sculpture, which is very
graceful, but somewhat feeble and monotonous in
character, will of course require a notice to itself,
but as in 1851 the " Broken Drum" became every-
one's favourite, we prognosticate that this time
" The Shepherd and his Dog" will achieve uni-
versal popularity. A boy offers • piece of bread to
his dog, and suddenly draws his hand away ; the
dog bounds and barks, and it is this moment which
the sculptor has fixed. The group tells its own
tale—the laughing boy, the eager dog, and the
accessories. Everyone will understand it, and so
marvellous and expressive is the execution that
everyone will admire. It is the work of a young
sculptor, Malpieri, but he will not be for long au
unknown one.

From the splendours of the Roman Court, and
the glitter of the diamonds, to the grim iron and
steel giants of the annexe is rather a violent tran-
sition. As yet the giants--that is to say, the great
locomotives—are by no means comfortably settled,
but fidget about on the central trains, as if they did
not know where to run to. Some of the cotton
machinery has been got to work, and visitors
gather round and ask how it is with the people
down in Lancashire. As this department had the
most interest for the working people in 1851, we
trust it will be hurried on to completion in time for
the shilling days.
It has been pointed out to us that the mention of
the house of Caster, of Amsterdam, in connexion
with the great diamond, " the Star of the South,"
is likely to lead to the impression that they are the
owners of the precious jewel. This however, wo
are informed, would be erroneous. Messrs. Coster
were merely the polishers of " the Star of the
South," as they were of the Koh-i-noor. They
were intrusted with the stone for the purpose of
exhibition, but have no further interest in it than
any other exhibitor. The interests in the stone are
represented by a highly respectable firm in Paris
to the extent of one-fourth, and by an equally
respectable firm in London, who represent the
remaining three-fourths.

THE ItaILKOAD Ta2.—ts deputation of railroad
in here to appal the Pianos Committee of
=at. to
to sad* the tax of raikeed corporatism, so as
to be squally distributed over tier satire receipts, baresd el
beim meeened, ea ia the present fees, shoed entirely en
.UllOOlO4 tram yaseenpre, leaving the income hiss freight
to bear bat a sena parties al the berdes—Waelaingtes
correspondent of Phekeddyshirs /liirtirer•
CZYWAL PAZACIL 0,11 finuaiNce DAT.
MONDAY, MAT s.—Adaissious ea psynisat, 1,730; ditto,
ti soma tickets, 448; Wad, 2,178.