The Express.
London, England, 1847-01-19 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL.

A MEETING IN Fisvoun OP OPENING THE PORTE was
called rat Manchester on Friday night, which led to an ex-
traordinary scene. The meeting had been called in the
Town-hall, at seven o'clock, in • room capable of holding
probably 2,000 people, but the door IMP besieged before
six o'clock with applicants for admission, at least equal to
its capability of accommodation , and by seven nit only was
the room densely crowded, but many thousands were col-
lected in King stmt, Cross-street, and other approaches. The
steps of the Loll and the colonnade were also crowded with
people, together with the lobby and staircase, and thus the
pressure from without at one time was so great that it was
thought serious consequences must ensue. In this state of
things the parties holding the meeting determined to divide
their forces, and have an open air assemblage, in addition to
the meeting within doors—a course which mgt with the ap-
probation of the superintendent of police, who directed •
number of officers to keep the street clear of carriages and
other means of disturbince. Outside the hall, Mr.A.Heywood,
bookseller, was celled upon to preside, and inside Mr. J.Watts,
draper, took the chair. The same memorial was adopted
at both meetings. It set forth the great distress, and starva-
tion existing throughout the country, and more especially in
this neighbourhood, in consequence of the dearness of food
and the general want of employmetit, and called upon
government to remove the remaining duty of 4s. upon corn,
and to suspend the navigation laws. The speakers detailed
some eases of frightful distress, and it was stated that
amongst other trades which were suffering, at least two
thousand people belong to the fustian cutters and hatters
were out of employ. The memorial was carried unani-
mously in both meetings. The meeting in the hall lasted
nearly four hours, and when a great number of
persons had left it. alter the carrying of the memorial, a
Chartist moved a resolution, and succeeded in carrying it,
calling upon government eo inquire into the conduct of
individuals said to be employed in forestalling the markets
and buying up corn. The meeting, or meetings, presented
a marked cousrast with the gathering which took place in
the Town-hall. three months ago, for the purpose of memo-
rialising government to open the ports. Then, the pressure
of scarcity had not begun to be felt here, and was only seen
in the distance ; now, it is present, and its hideous
and dreaded features have been seen by thousands
At the former meeting, the hall was barely filled ;
on the present occasion three such buildings would hot have"
held the numbers presenting themselves for admission. It
has been said that these famine meetings of the north are
dreaded by all thinking men in other parts of the kingdom;
and, certainly, any stranger witnessing the meetings on Fri-
day night must have gone away with a mind deeply, if not
fearfully, impressed with the scenes they presented. It is
right to state, prhaps, that the meetings were only ad-
dressed by working men, and that the leaden of the late
League took no part in them.
YORKSHIRE.
A MURDER MAE BEEN COMMITTED AT SHEFFIELD, the
perpetrators of which are at present undiscovered. It appears
that yesterday week, a respectable tobacconist named Riley
had been drinking at the Newmarket Hotel in that town,
and left the inn late at night on his way home, when he was
attacked and robbed by three men, and so severely beatee
that he died on Saturday-last. An inquest was commenced
the same day, when Mrs. Riley, the widow of the deceased,
who had to he supported into the room, was then sworn. and
deposed, my husband left home about nine o'clock on Mon-
day morning is his usual health. He did not return to
dinner. I was in theshop from ten to twelve o'clock. I eat
up for him that night. He usually came home from half-pant
nine to ten o'clock. Helot home about twenty minutanne.
two o'clock on Tuesday morning. He came by
His face ass covered with blood and din, was
his hat and stick. The rightehandimiet antis trousers mu
turned inside out, and his bum beam He bad injuries
about his fain; 1.• *ma &large lump upon his forehead,
bruned. His hat has not been found. His
. mane revered with blood. He said tome, " Mary,
• Miry have nearly-killed mt." He said be saw three men,
and he heard ea* say, with an oath, "He is here." He
was then streak on tie heed with what he called a life pre-
server, and then fell to the ground ineensible—as he thought.
He had lost a deal of blood. He smelt of liquor a
little, but appeared sober when he got home. His watch,
and about 30s. in money, were liken from him. He had
26e. in silver in his left-hand benedles pocket, which were
not taken from him. I bathed Ms forehead with warm
water, and then put on a bend genktice. He walked up-
stairs and went to bed. Deem, ibe night he complained of
pain In his head, where be bee been struek. I sent for a
s who Minded Ma up ft. the time of his death. H.
died twealissomisraise ie two this (Saturday) morning.
told
'He me ke the knew the voice of the man wko
said " He as bereC and that he thought the man came
from Orbweedempe. The inquest was adjourned till
Thursday,

. Rarazonmee es lismerist.—.The inhabitants of
this city swit all in • boilb.ilimpent upon Mr. littecte
retirement from the repeemenielleet, and the e?rtainty of a
new election almost imusedisilliy. Their other member, Mr.
Campbell Wyndham, eognrlgnidu sines announoed hie in-
tention of retiring at the disiointion of the 'present parlia-
ment ; and upon his determination being made known, Mr.
. Baring Wall, the praent,Liberal member for Gadfordond
Mr. B. Martin, of Ilingsten-hoagie,near Dorchester,. on the
Conservative interest, signified thew intention of bcoming
candidates when the Tisane, occurred. Mr. Ulmer's COS-
' templated retirement from parliament was then rumoured,
Asa he heing absent Qll the continent, Inc authexitati7l,
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OFFICIAL VISIT TO THE Fouts r OF
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CORNWALL
DIMADFUL MIMOSA MILL ErLUSION.—A tremendona
explosion, involving fatal cows quenen, took place on Thurs-
day morning last, at the Keunal Vale Possd.l.-milla, the
property ofldessre. Sampson and Lanyon, at Kensal, in the
parish of Stithian's. The explosion took place in the stamp-
ing-mill, which was almost a new building, and was blown
to atoms. Two men were working in the mill, named Martin
and Dunstan, and these unfortunate individuals were shock-
ingly mutilated by the force of the explosion. A num-
ber of persons on hearing the r. port congregated around the
spot from the neighbouring village of Ponsworth, and great
was the lamentation among them. it not being known what
family had been bereaved of it., members. The bodies of the
two men were soon known. Part of Dunstan's body was
blown into the river; his arms and one of his legs were rent
from the body! his face frialit:ully disfigured, and toe whole
remains in such a mangled coedit ion that they wire obliged
to be taken up in a sheet. klartin's body also presented a
shocking appearance, the skua bru g blown entirely off.
Both men were married, but have left no children.

pmt Arts.
TIIR PICTURES IN TII E NATIONAL GALL ERE.—
We return to the subject of the alleged injury done to the
pictures in the National Gellery by elcanint. and t .ke, as
we have promised, the" Peace and War" of Ruben. for our
example. The removal of glinting* end body-colour—the
malionity of skinning—the tli.turb ince of gradation and
subordination.—and the subversion of the laws of aerial per-
hpec: ye—have been familiar charges for some months past in
the earn of that public wh.ch reads the Times. One critic seeks
to frig`iten his audience by learnedly denouncing to them
the loss of that luminous colour and aerial perspective which
can be produced by glazing only—.r compliment on his part
to the.r assumed ignorance (it it he not a piece of ignorance
of his own), which odds pleasantly to the other ingredients
i that compose the animus of his accusations. The effect of
glaxings, as many of them can inform Mr. Coniogham, is
rather to subdue that luminous colour and approximate the
aerial distances. Before enquiring if this great picture of
Rubens be really injured— as now sk ca for the first lane in this
country as it came from the master's mind and hands—a few
partied .rs relating to its history will be interesting to our
readers. . . .

It is first mentioned in Vanderdoort's "Catalogue of Charles
the First's Pictures" (published in 17.17, front an original
MS. in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford), page 86 : • No.
13. Item. The picture of an emblem, wherein the differenoe
and advantage between peace and war are showed, which Sir
Peter Paul Ruben., when he was here in England, did
paint, and:presented it himself to the king, containing some
nine figures." The measure is given 9 ft. 11 in. by 6 it. 8 in.
It now measures 9 ft. 81 in. by 6 ft. 54 in. to the actual
sight. Vanderdoort's supplementary inches may be the
canvass beneath the frame, In page 3cf the same catalogue,
we read—" Peace and Plenty,' with many figures se big as the
life, by Ruhens, appraised at and sold for 1001." This was
after the king's death.
Rubens appears to have been in England about nine
months, from) the beginning of June, 1629, to the latter end
of February in the following year. (See the second part of
Kugler's Band-book of Painting," p. 236, note by the editor.
Sir E. Head.) According to the above extract from the
catalogue, therefore, the picture was painted in that interval.
—lt next appears in the possession of Prince Doris, at Genoa.
Mr. Irvine, acting for Mr. Buchanan and others, purchased
it there in 1802, for 1,1001. Mr. Irvine writes (Genoa, Ist
Oct., 1802) : " It is an allegory that Ruben. has repeated in
, another picture, but composed differently, and of which there
is a modern print, engraved by one Henriques ; but I
greatly prefer this. . . . . It is known in Genoa by the
name of ' Ituberts. Family.' " (.' Buchanan's Memoirs of
Painting," vol. 2, p. 107, and vol. i., pp. 172-176.) Mr. Bu-
chanan adds that on its arrival in England, the picture was
re-lined, as advised be Mr. Irvine; and on taking away a
former canvass nn which it had been lined, the Royal crown
of England, with the letters " C. R." in )arse characters, were
found on the back of original canvas." (lb. vol. ii., p. 109.)
It was sold by Mr. Buchanan for 3,000 guineas, to the Mar-
quis of Stafford, by whom it was presented to the National
Gallery, in 1827.
The canvass of this picture has been enlarged on se-
: etre! aides. The principal portion, on which the main
subject is represented, was evidently not large enough to
contain the figures originally designed thereon ; so that the
increase in the dimensions cannot be supposed to have taken
place after it was presented to Charles I. The charming
portraits are not of Rubella' children—nor of the m',narch's,
for no daughters were born to either, at the time when this
picture is said to have been painted. Ruben, had two sons,
but no daughters, by his first wife; and married his second
wife after this picture was painted. It does not appear how
this picture got its title of" Ruben.' Family."
Wherever the similar picture engraved by Henriques may
be, to which Mr. Irvine alludes, it maT safely bo concluded
that the one in the National Gallery is no repetition. No
duplicate is ever painted on pieces of canvass stitched on to
eke out a composition. It is worth,' of remark that the
centre picture is painted on a dark ground—a very minimal
mode of • • •mwding with Rubella. This is apparent, among
other • • .10' *OM the dark outlines left next the princi-
pal kmmt In 'the piece addel on the ;eft side, the addi-
tional figured= to .be painted on a light ground. It
may give a of how musk of all those fine emends'
charaetors maks the individuality of true genius most
of areenty be sonosslat beneath that veil which time draws
over the oil painting as surely se he grows the lichen on the
grave—to state that this fact of the different ground shades,
as well as that of the patched canvass, ro conspicuous
now, were not seen nor suspected before their cleaning.
What as be the value of a picture sitting under a cloud
which could conceal a grow materiality like this last?
The inferences in favour of the national officers and of the
safety of the pictures entrusted to their charge, can be pro-
perly confirmed only by an examination of the works them-
selves, conducted es part of an inquiry into the maser in
which the masters represented by them wrought. It is ob-
viously desirable, we nipper, that the nisesers of different
colourists should not be reduced to a unions tone; and woe
to the operator, who would treat a herd balsa pique r
he might a Ceyp. A florid painter Wm Odom , *Ohl net ,
be made to resemble the decker raadmo, timmgh. enek Way
be expellent in different war. All who knew the walref, ,
Sabena are aceuroased to look for variety of tint—de rim ,
of his finest pictures it is carried to ezerse—end ours with
el=ntint from a mortatooons brown whirl% &bids*
ier to him. Amireomed to the 'bedew irides • ,
width a Pbtar Weis see Buena Waists, the-apparition et
a Reiss, in Ids reeked beighentes sf doh, wee hie the ,
rersistion of s new bird. " The skis used," cape a writer
who! defends the deeming,' to Mr es the urn' ascompan-
rent of old pictures, and rimaldeg siesetemy kw harmony,
is startled by the apporesee of essinest he wish:ilia eye sr .1
not prepared, and rises or cosy that the, Wren has '
been swabbed to de e*" Mr saw at these beak and •
pearly thee is greatly heigleismi. as We bees well observed,
by the dark and low-toned pietism* that surround, it in its
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extremely hod. Wllamoiorsokido b and with eisonows,
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to our Dudley. ins a errs bre g~iivw reltee to the sees-
pieties WSW Orme"; iiensedtatelyinten they wee welted.
Oa the Ode of Way f 1616). Reber melees thst us pie-
terseolidahe nem ea, were tisialsed. " The lit Peter
he "di la dr meg in, "weirs some little." He then ele
fermi, "isterettall I tail, with Dine aid, en Meaday next, W
get turd to the"' Hutt" and the " gamma." 8o that the
We last nansed,o rowined to be ~touched.
On the Nth May hierwing, be whet " for sore time
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OW E. ; Waist ell the pierares, 'MI the' Rare
es@ the !ewer ,a,' together with thst drib Witham= ow
ieb*lfft•L erre! . as threat ow hist agreement, will by Dine*
da, ftar tea 04 weer day tithe 98th. I doubt sot
itt lliribeek• / that the client/lad the draws' will
riginekr." That b,—thins works, ware
Ire nerd Wore Ocile by his seholesslead been so
/d/htelth7 dived Wessell, distle
toe~ eessidend it allowable
seas-.., ends I saunas, however, dim
air i wild' with the War day when eU them
bethy ; week the truth, it to
•me hat► er that y WSW go wry altogetherse,
eves * e first see whir eisidid. Still, with the sad of
the ear ~ if it shim' rase, and without wind the Width
stimets .g ap thwart la WWI* to newly-parted
//e./ WV hi ins* WNW es bidled up with Ivbetrelis
elle of llMOMomefits.' rot *riff, I should whh to be skis
is • ..1147::: imerdistely, being ready to do everything
ter eggerthe td 'you but I should be ewy wiry
tr lad, too ash *admen they viers to soft any
Airy ea their waikEd•
On the woe , apparently in the evening, he witse
erre
wein: N'llliftif to-day so fine a sun, that (a tow ex-
the mike ot your pimps dry at they
eeilW be pried td town The Nameare rasow be *Writ et
the seine in the corm of three days, Wain*" to Me
appeseanoe of die good resin."
-Os the let of Tone he writes that he had hawed limi
piano, mksa with' ore," to the person who wits ilia
Vif
vre, et lads Won b there any
sraden whit& tes
be etedrsed tato the oplesillea of On the err
bury it Is 'vibe thst to mkedie "Hunt" an the"Burnea"
(on en* Ruben was to weak till the 28th) "originals,' it
was rase yto repaint therin a peat measure. No sane
11= make the wick di* seholare his own. The
" of the pictures was the Mehra at ideal Tio•

touching*. 1,1 Is alit; to lie reMeeked that, Omagh-thus
obliged tolgmet!stely after pew
were eampkientedd these
h'esemapiresurenso awayrequest that they she"'
varnished after their arrival. It is Indio., appannt that
the vehicle which he employed must have been of a firm and
elniele-drylng nature, since the pictures could hear rolling a
veg few days after they had been touched upon.
Then, as rega.-ds the tone of Rubeng' pictures when first
painted :
On the 9th of Angs'•t, being then in London, Hu-
fistgi shuth tlnpipeitll 0
freshth c out air. and whether,
it has not taken •
?tens writes to Peirerc " I thought that my portrait was
bee
si pnn. k.
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se:l at Antwerp, I would ilirs'et it to be detoititd, and the
eman.opened, to see whether it Tea not spoiled, alter having
yellow tons which would cause it to lots' all it. original
effect. The eemcdy, however, if that should hove happened,
is to expose it se vend times to the sun ; for ttse sun's rays
cheek this auperfluity of oil, which causes the alteration:
and if at any tone it should again incline to brown, it would
be necessary again to expose it to the sun. [The din's] heat
is the only remedy for the serious evil."—Oariat. 1-zilree
Inidites de Pierre Paul !Indent, Brureli^s, 1:00, p. 237.
In a letter (pre-erved by lisililittucci, in the " Life of Sub.
termans dated Antwerp, I2th of Horeb, 163 i, Rultens
commends one of his work., "An Allegory of It at," now in
the Pitti Palsce—and of which Mr. Rogers has the original
sketch—to hi. countrymen residing in Florence. lie concludes
as follows:—" I fear that in • picture peeked op while in a
fresh state (tom *Mins o fresco ineollata), the colonn
may undergo none alteration, particularly in the flesh;
and the whites also may bee -mit a little (rusk se }woo)
yellow. But cne so great to nor profession as you can many
remedy this, by expreina the picture to the sun, leaving it an
exposed at intervals and when it teems to tequire it. You
hate also my permission to put your Land to the picture and
retouch it whero it may want mending, either in vino quence
of scei.:eut or from my overeiglit."—lie thus inches his
friend not to varnish, but to retouch a 'picture which he
himself was not to see again.
These ii-teresting documents prove, beyond all question,
that nothing could be too height for Rube... fie could not
bear" a little" yellowing in his whites, and was ao shins that
the extreme aeshness of his carnations should he unimpaired
by the rising of the oil. Of the pictures which he rent to Sir
Dudley Carlton some may lie still in England. Wherever
they are, they might, on Holistic's own word, be entirely
stripped of their brown varnish; and if the l'itti picture could
be restored to a state that would exhibit the whites with
the least potisible degree of yellowness remainiag,itts equally
certain that it would be more 1 ke what the master intended
it to be.
On these grounds,—the safest on which criticism can he
founded,—we express our di liberate opinion that as regards
the mere brielitness of the all, gory of Peace and War in the
National Gallciy, there is not th, slightest reason to suppose
that anything has been removed which the master left.
And here let us offer a remediable and beautiful example at
once of the necessity of this cli ening. the skill with which it
has been done, and the hardness of the vehicle in which
Rubens wrought. It presents an infallible test to those who
desire to judge honestly if any injury has been dune to the
picture----and might alone be a sufficient answer to the
objector.. Let such look at the fine and perfect line formed
by the jet of milk pressed from the bosom of the principal
figure. Here is • beauty which was scarcely visible before
the picture was cleaned. When we saw it in its freshness
after the cleaning, for a m'.m nt we fancied that it might
have been restored—in the more objectionable sense of the
word. On touching it with the nail, we found it as hard as
a flint —We are far from wishing to apply the criterion of
Ruben, to other schools—or to every master of his owe
school: but the evidence above adduced respecting the
original freshness of his works is, we COCCI ive, irresistable.
A private collector may, if he phase., have • gallery of
brown pictures: but the purpose of • national collection, if
it is to exist at all, is to exhibit the characteristics of
different masters;—not merely their modes of inventing
and groupiug—not merely their designs reduced to • uniform
tint—but their varieties of taste in colour. To critics who
have not attended to these saritties, a picture by such a
painter as Rubens, when tolerably like its original state,
looks overcleaned. We have spoken of the effect of accumu-
lated varnishes. We hear of a picture in the National
Gallery (the large Paul Veronese, in the great room),
which arrived in this country, imported by Do la liante, a
silvery picture. It was seen, and while alone was admired,
in this state. But as soon as it was Mina up with old pictures
(before it was in the national collection), it was found to
be too crude ; sad wag covered—with what—with varnish t
no, but with several washes of liquorice water—and this
"lazing " remains on it still. Boschini, a Venetian
painter and well known writer (who heard the methods of
the great Venetian masters described by those who had lived
with them t in his Rieehe Minere della Pillars Veneziano
(Intraduzone) makes this remarkable observation "He (P.
Veronese) never glazed any drapery of whatever colour; so
that, seeing in a picture attributed to him a glazed drapery,
it is necessary to consider it very attentively so as not to be de-
mind." We repeat, we quarrel not with tastes. A picture may
eft may not be imp:treed in the eye* of some persons by such
treatment ; hut we desire, above all, to see each master like
himself. Here is an instance of a fine work by a Venetian
painter who is celebrated for hispearLlike freshntes, reduced,
or raised—no meter which—to a level with painters of a
totally different style in colour.
In thence of the " l'eace and War," thedegree of warmth
and harmony which is desirable is sure to be attained as the
varnish yellows:—the right point of mellowness will, unfor-
tunately, be too soon overpaid. In six or twelve months
from this time, the allegory of " Peace and War" will have ae-
quired the plow which some may think it wants.—There is
a ease exactly in point for the critics. Few people are aware
that the *torso( the " Brazen Serpent," by Rubern, on the
opposite aide of the tame room in which hangs the " Peace
and War" was cleaned two years ego. It was never quite
finished by the Master; and there was scarcely • particle of
Taxing on it. The brown varnish was retnized without
mercy: and many exclaimed that the picture was overclesned
—was stripped. It is now pointed out as one of the finest
examples of tone in the Gallery.
On the whole, this discussion hag not bees without its is
and the parties who have descended to scurrility will finally
have their reward. The question, divested of arbitrary and
onsosided dogmas, is now fairly before the public s—and, for-
tunately fur the muse of real knowiedge it art, evident*
which deserves the name will always command assent.

lithlSK.
THE i{ULLAfI TESTIMOMIAL FUND.—It will be
remembered that a series of cotmests seam given but season LI
Exeter Hall, in aid of " the Mullah Testimonial Fund," M
the erection of a musk-ball for theme of his sier4ing classes,
and fur mu-ical performances in general ; an objest
which, we understand, there is every prospect of being
asoomplished. The tnt of another series of four am
cots, in the same place, and in furtherance of the
same object, took piss last evening. They are intended
do be illustrative of the history of Daj faith music; and last
othes concert consisted of a selection item the
works of the English composers who flourished between the
middle of the sixteenth and the middle of the seventeenth
motorise. The solo performers were Miss ltainfooh, Ilia
i.= Mr. Manvers, and Mr. W. H. Seguin; and the
consisted of the pupils of Mr. Mullah's upper singing
isolate. The performanee wee divided into two parrthe }test consisting of leered: the second of ocular amis.
lin sowed pleas were, a ' Gloria in Excelsis" of Dr.
i '}ye; Farrane& anthem, " COI to remembrance ;" Tanis's
payee, "Hem the voice ;" Byrd's anthem " Siag joy.
Dal ~.." • metrical psalm,. harmonised try Allison ;,. Bats
' anthem, '' 0 Lend, I will exalt thee ;" and a .. Te Hems"
of Orbode Gibbons. These grand specimens ot.=
iteeha eeeleeiteheel harmony were admirably p
The effect, in patticular, of the intermixture of the sole
yokes with tho vsW swell of the full Moir lathe anthems ef
Yenest anti!. 'Lem iiMbirimead beautiful. Throng/smith*
whale of the sewed yieseei, hiwaxr, the organ was toe Weir
- La *se of shiewing, it weakened the eg*
'gram& seism, RNA einia ' bed the distinction& of *rig
=VW*, es is ear attenuated cathedral choirs, Me
moat imsliehot to fill the building; or whiltie
mhos ere untrained susianateady, thomgao must be
.plopedt is the one case to conceal the penury oi=l
eiremitile, sod, is the esker, to coved Abe driosw et iho
atiarae. Bat are Mem reasons applienhiss Milo. HaDable
delemes,, which era bosh numeramlb .atragg a
ll essel-
imelly amilltt as I I Ailig4iisecti latheof tire
i.
essome, Me sigma assisie,
mining
wm 'lb.
, *al erseempeakt. and . ' .to groan we-
wielage the admirable mining, eilisisier et=
himbing iatentered with, we elesused,
1 Vilkpleisioa with whisk own ford smd leateldwia
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to sp.. Xs* pert of the hemmay seemilsiUldie
vise; mod tha lisits.smd
were'
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suevell. I..eeethet of airs rhesperbeciass were
blke *ad* manses. Wen
sZre74
Dos the wens of Dewy Lama; mid :the. df„ _
pisses, with their Asa on the monism, a gesetiell
village= of the emapoier's reputation, whisk tee ea lees
MI eitireitirod from the =lost *elm sif bde elm-
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tie .by those who Hama to them.. Pro**
ao lithe tot helm Iteatd,them sung is .pald.Mam
=l.which edema say bat amour on the
1 the mote of easiest made. Poe the Tr**
of swim mule the pahlie will have to thank Mr. Haab.
Aiwa the *sealer }isms there We. a part soak fox Ono
velem " Where the bee Melo," composed by Wilms, wili
how *Wok Dr. Atmo, a mature lasm, aridently..deured
sableciell~Mr .01 hie melody, Tice Newt, altogether.
Ina . oils" °moot tan to draw sites-
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