The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-28 00:00:00

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tent the euriace, okay. every teadesay to ialiammeties, and them
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and • .ther cutaneous vialbithana. The wartime bloom it
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011 the hands and SSW, Midi" It indlapensabia to every toilet. GO*
tennis, alter during, will And it allay ad irritates and tawniness al
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lialjdon for ode. The word* •• Rowlasele liel7des • are on the
"riapplr nt the genuine 'reel., and A. Rowland and doe, 20,
Batton Garden," are lean engraved an the government *tamp allied
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alemorts eel Perfumer&

FINE ARTS.

NATIONAL GALLERY.

The two or three novel accessions to the scanty
store of the National Collection, which was yesterday
again thrown open to the public, will not tend to dis-
turb its mediocre equilibrium. There are pictures I
made seemingly to stop gaps and fill nooks in every
collection where they can conveniently be made to I
fit. The present Dutch and Flemish twins thus
safely delivered to the public !pre may rank ,
in this category ; but the mischief is that
we were ahmuly in possession of a consi-
derable number of productions, which seem de-
stined at ❑u remote period to perform the same func-
tions. Keeping. however, in view the venerable
adage relative to the impropriety of ,looking a gift-
horse in the mouth, it is only becoming to acknow-
ledge the gift of the late M. Charles A. Bredel,
whose bequest was so lately exhibited at the British
Institution. The former title, "The Dutch Admiral,
I ft: Itayter, and his officers embarking," has been
siniplitied into " Brisk Gale at Sea;" we think
judiciously. It is quite as bard to distinguish
or identity these marine subject pieces, as it
is to discriminate in Dutch naval annals,
the successive actions of the three Van Tromps. The
trim moustache, the eropped head, the collar and
gorget, nay, the wart itself are generally attributed
to one and all of them, though we believe in reality
confined to Martin Van Tromp. Just in the same
way may many a Backhuysen be attributed to the
head master l.udolph, which by right should be
fathered on a remote relation. Fur be it from
us to insinuate that Mr. lireders picture is
a spurious one ; on the contrary, if compare.•d
to that which bears the same signature in the
collection, it will appear as froth and cleanlily
painted as its rival is the reverse. One fancies that
the date and signature are, as usual, fixed on the
buoy ; but the picture being placed " above the line,"
it was impossible to distinguish whether it lay
within or without the limits of his birth, or that of
Backhuystres contemporary, Vundevelde, to whose
manner the present offers a strange analogy.
The claims of the Van Eyck to authenticity are
more legibly imprinted on the frame surrounding the
panel than on the panel itself. The inscription runs
thus :—Jolo a. de. Eyck. toe Ord ant, 1433. I. October
—a charming piece of dog•latin pleasantly in keeping
with the grimy, puckered, and unshorn visage of
the individual then and there represented. It may
be the worthy John himself, though more likely to
represent his elder brother Hubert, who was up-
wards of sixty years of age at that period. The red
cloth cap, cut into quaint and many folds, is that
which was universally worn in the fifteenth century.
This elaborate portrait was, along with that of
Iknibrandt, noticed on a former occasion, purchased
at Lord Middleton's sale; the first fur the sum of
341;:d., the latter fur 400 t.

Tilt RETIREMENT OF MR. St:LLIVAN On deputy-
userettry at war will make three retired deputp•reeretariea
at war cm largo allowances, •ia., Mr. Moore, Mr. Merry,
and Mr. Sullivan.

CONVICTION Or .t GANG OF THIEVES AND RE-
exttains —A wholesale system of robbery of tradesmen by
their errand boys and porters having been discovered by
the Bath police, the parties implicated were tried at the
quarter sessions for that city, just concluded, before D.
Jardine, Esq., recorder. There were no less than ten of
the gang indicted together. Their names were William
&visor, 46, and Jane Sevier, 4i, his wife, who were charged
as reeeiven, and the following for stealing the articles
named iu the several indictments:—William Sevier, 20,
Edward Sevier, 16, James Wilkins, 19, Herbert topple-
stusie, IS, Menge Kingston, 16, Jacob Millard, 18, Thos.
Reynolds, 18, and %Villiam Coles, 17. The whole of the
prisoners charged with stealing were porters or errand boys
in the service of leveret of the leading tradesmen of the
tits ; and the elder Sevier was a carpenter, who, to the time
of his apprehension, was considered a highly respectable and
moral men, and his attendance at church was regular in the
extreme. So numerous were the stolen articles discovered at
his house by the police that the table of the court would not
contain all those produced. The prisoner. were all tried
first upon an indictment, in which Messrs. Withers. hoeiers,
were the proserutors, and goods to the value of 301., belong-
ing to their firm alone, were produced. The ewe occupied
the court tor see.. ral hours, but the following brief state-
ment will conviy to the reader all the essential particulars.
lo August last the prisoner Wilkins, who was related to
and lodged with the Soviets, was apprehended by the
police, who went to his lodgings for the purpose of ex-
amiuiug his box. They were refused admittance by Mrs.
Se vier,upos which they procured a search warrant, and upon
searching the house they discovered that it was a literal
depot fur stolen property. The (Bawer', cupboards,
and, Lin fact, every part ,of the house were crowded
with new hats, caps, silks, scarfs, handkerchief', gloves,
loins, and various miscellaneous articles, a large store
being also found under the boarding of the staircase. At
the houses of two neighbours also the police discovered
bundles of articles which Ides. Sevier had len there be.
tween the tint and second visit of the police. Edward
Sevier was errand boy to Messrs. Withers, and to them a
large portion of the property was found to belong. Other
tradesmen identified other:articles, which led to the appre-
hension of the several prisoners named above, and who
were in their employ. item the evidence of a lad mussed
Sheldon, an accomplice, it appeared that the robberies at
Messrs. Wither.'s were committed between eight and nine
o'clock in the evening, when the shutters were being put
up. Edward Sevier was accustomed to remain in the
area below, and attach the boxes and parcels to a string,
by which another pulled them up through an open
grating, whilst others kept watch to see that they were not
observed, and the property was afterwards taken to the
elder Stvier's house. The whole of the prisoners, except-
ing Calm and Kingston, were convicted. The learned re-
corder remarked that they had been found guilty of being
connected with a system of robbery of great aggravation
and wickedness, and sentenced the lads to terms of impri-
eminent varying from de to eight months with hard
labour, As to the elder Sevier,. he observed, there could
be no doubt what their fate should be—a more disgraceful
sad shameful mode of bringing up a number of lads, and
one more dangerous to society at large, he had
known—they were therefore sentenced to be transported
beyond the seas for the term of ten pain. No evidence
was offend upon the other indictments.