The Express.
London, England, 1864-07-09 00:00:00

THE ARTS CLUB.

This club held its first fine art conversazione on
Thursday evening last, when a large collection at oil and
watercolour paintings, portfolios of sketches, inlaid eabinets,
specimens of wood carving, of old shim, sad vssiohes ware,
antique ornaments and jewels, were exhibited. It should
be mentioned that the Arts, despite its similarity of
title is not by soy means to be confounded
with a fashionable visiting society, known as the Fine Arta
Club. The former entered upon its mem in the autumn at
last year as the Milted Arts Club, and occupies a commo-
dious and comfortable mansion in Hauovernquaan It has
offered the usual facilities of club Isle to VDU**
men whom conoexion with lissessors,

the arts has rendered theca eligible for election ;
differing only from other London clubs in the tacit en-
couragement it gives to the consumption of tobacco, by
permitting smoking is the best, instead of the wet
"cribbed. cabin& and coedited" of its rooms. The unity
el this brotherhood is sufficiently marked to make them
henceforth discard the word " united " as irrelevant
and unnemmeary, and from to-day the club is to be
knoll nsa The Arts. Although the qualiAcatiou clause has
been latterly insisted upon with some rigour, the number ef
members has rapidly iscremesd, sod both at the waver-
axiom ca Thursday, and in the report and fiancial
statement presented to the anual general meet-
ing last night there was abundant evidence of
the prosperity of the cluh. Most of the pktunm exhibited
were from the easels of members, and it mans probable that
these special gatherings will become as popsies., as they are
novel features, in club life. Mr. Leightca's " Italian
Orombownma." Mr. Millais's " Righkader is the
Trenches," the some from Christen!, by Mr. Val
Primer, which received so much favourable criti-
cism when exhibited at the Royal Academy ;
some valuable architectural studies by the WO Pfeil/MR
Oeckerell, which have been carefully restored by hie
awe Mr. F. P. Cooluirell ; and several panne by Mr. F. W.
Berton and Mr. Carl Hoag were amooget the works of art
szldhited. A limited number of strangers were admitted,
sad the rooms were full soon after the hear named for
wieeling. The men of three COUTOrMiiOIIOII will Ink* place
on Thursday, the eth August.

IL Tempel, astronomer, has addreesed to the
Journal de rostrum a sole, dead the 541 r iamb, is which
M aye :—.* Al 2 tide* We =raw I disooveeed a saw
teleseopie reset, I. the aseteLleties of the Rms. Ile pod.
ties Tee shoat 2h. 67m. right seaseiea. bad 18 deg. 12 min.
berthas deeliaatiou."

The Director of Police at Warsaw has just pub-
lished a sods* ea the subject of the proidlitiles for Mies
to weir moarsisg. He now Wow e Bei of the style of
drew which be madden se easelitaiise ref. sad at
the wee time advises soy lady wile ow evader basal
to he felmely sesseed, to welt es his ~leg the articles
of drew *weed to._

BILANDT. —ln the year ended 31st Dec. last,
3,132493 pikes of hourly was imported into the United
Leedom ; 2,911,169 gallons easing bum Frame. 706,366
pikes of Brits homely were permitted from the reetifien'
storks daring last year, and 61.256 pikes permitted to
customs windows. for exportation. The duty paid os the
spirits from which British brandy is eerie Is 10e. per piles.
The drawback co exportation le 10s. 3d. per plloa, bet the
warts in manufacture is such that the higher rats of draw-
back dose not 'awe' the duty originally paid. The revenue
therefore sustains no ler. No British beastly was permitted
from rectifies'. Maim end warehoused la deg-free ware-
houses for home soneenspeioe.
THE PAILLIAMINTARY DIED LOCI TN Bgtotrit.
The Belgian Chamber of Deputies met es Wedsesday, bat
at before a "house" weld sot be formed. Only one member,
however, was wanting to complete the kepi amber, and
it wee thought that he would be well eseegb to &timid on
the following day. There was a peat arowd outside the
Chamber, sad considerable'excitenesat prevailed. One at
the deputies moot, the Has. M. Heal de Brmeekere, had
left a sick bed to be at his post, sad was dal eeffering from
illneos.

A MAILIELLL 01 FUNZZA.IB.-.-HO was, indeed, •
muter of the ciermonies &Molted to the or•Ui of
Undertakers—to the PampaFasibms—ated in that
capacity had tiondeetsd some of the most smiendid butyl
Processions of mien times The turbinkiag and tin
malicious coiled his • crorwreart, a umpire, &ghoul ; bat
nilibert smiled philesoplureily at Wier sneers. The plump
sad rosy ma me sot only enstashid, bat press of his pro-
blem,. " I thell 7•6 live," he meld my "to ocednet the
iallaneng ogremaise beidental to the iblbribbet at the
great Napalms., whom nand remain ere still clekaised
by his lierberou and perfidious measly op the
Atlantic Rook, were thy slew Ws. Whet •
toesul that will be With the aid of the NM-
hry force, the peasphientelie of the pide-ambie,
and the cheekier, of the opera. the Mapes Fusible shell,
ipleate heaven, far enrpree all tbe, have hitherto done.
Irnarils of F We Lows the Kigliteseth,
the Duke of Harry—bah' three little parades of the The-
atre shall all be thrown Me the shade. Wire we it.
down the Champs Elutes on our way to the Lubber
something shell be IMO." Wealtrar Millen was aa
artist. Than, theugh be belt forgave Minh' for shooting a
marshal of Francs who amid be eampkamly interred, he
professed the utmost horror sod iadigastioe st the fate of
the humble workmen aid workrooms, victims so the
indiscriminate mamas camel by the Waned makine. " Is
not the fosse commune—the women ditch at llonipmerbe
—forged enough," he meld say, " bet that we resit ebbe
to choke it still more with goissesbbe, Mimed is white deal
with tie tacks, sad shovelled into the earth at as =peen
to the good city of Paris of eight lime urea sole ? And
these r;toriates, theme riots, which iu aIY 0•11•0117 as •
member of the civic gaud, I have the boom to mist is
gulling. Cites moi dose as pozacLrb= is it shoot-
ing and *onetime all these cad WI
starved ea an piedo I It is nobody's Mime to bury them
deosetly, sad alter cambering your rooster for • time,
rod papa, what is therefor then bat • *Wei with quirt
? It is immosivable. Poor people mot eel le
die. They should go away etamehow,or, at be" they
shouldsari the administration the trouble of beeps' them
at a tariff which I have no hesitation in affirms( to be
isdecently sad absurdly low. Why is Were sot • Gages
Into which the carper of ces Amuses de Ma du tout mid
throes, or • insured pyre whereon their bodies could be
inciaerated? For such • earesuisy, performed an mime, the
Pampas Minikires could, perhaps, Wir • 1.1" cad a
boozy from the use of is iradi ease, ft le air
bona" This was Mossier Mulberry rand eraser.
There was so ham to him, however. He wee ese et tbr
modest ad mat placable of men. He me • widower, wed
hit wife bah once kept • baby-lima mishonee what the,
ere he Wood! led pm tate the mileolebbig liobbble.
Porlibert had mot dielained to bold • seam elorkeldp in •
Baran do Nog:Tier : am mew .m.. fur wet annes.—
luctoree au tke Yawl' naafi.

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OWN LAW snow e gums).
Fonanis-ownes, JOLT 1. —The Queen boo been
gmakusly signori to appoint Presisriek A/Arabes, Esq., new
• third sear=to be s mooed asaranars in her lisjsky's
diplomatic
WITINIZALT" JULY 6. The Queen has been
to preset the Bev. Marks Yong, e °rooky, IL A.
the of Toyotas, in the county al Glooocessr, and
dhows al Glocasrom sed Bristol, void by the promotion al
Dr. Prowls Jenne the bishopric al
Csown-omon, Jutv —Th•Prnbeselneete been
plowsedit&srel letters prosat msiawmilthee Greet sea or the
UMW ormshroto rod Joke
sad JahnAssee•ll. Esq., of the Wadi*
Lowden, to be el hw Mojsky's eromil Lanni la the kw.

We ( Waters Tiatat)dasply regret to state that
ear eandlent amber, Mr. Innen, is wry eariewsly IL Tise
ripest as Wednesday wee that is the asteruft. el ewe-
imam the several amersbere el the fatally hod been ',m-
rimed to Basks*. 11de bast tie asst, bat the partly et
the ease am bray be ben {.sores.
trees Lewin :=l, alter Wilke &ye py-
jama ia ham Be sedired leash ea We mama sad the
=IaWIPP passeassed to he way swims try Yr.
va, was wad ta. Hat we an idssi Mb. ebb to
lithe repeals dish have powened per* oz-