The Express.
London, England, 1847-05-14 00:00:00

The Marquis of Foukits, civil governor of Lisbon,
resigned his post s few days ago; lus resiipplion went
accepted, but it is surmised that he will seen he te.
pieced by Don Csrlee de Mariearenhos, lie The
promptitude and energy evinced by both thine moans
during the recent prison outbreak, are
notwithstanding the wretched eyetontilair reCiamisitabilar,
which they have encouraged during the pemeig wee.
Many of the politieal semi who else tido amps
/ea thmetord*ko bate lee& preladea altdar
bawd the thtle la the Teem. whisk bee lam teat
le them. Aartiat abash DOM Chelatessa
Mena
bowel(a ns ed. the Dake et tkagatla) was aseived
on the netioilegadlip, whentatlinearo=gera
llt hi le bastailliell Set Ibt anareeteat
Wee no deeds et the perms killed in the streets dating
the disturbance of the 29th ult. Neither his any return of
the killed and wounded on the part of the Queen's forces at
St. Übes been published. The number stated in Viscount
de Sa's letter are in all probability correct.
The information conveyed in the latest letters from Oporto
is highly interesting. It appears that the orvette Ono de
J Who, (Bth of July), which has been blockading the Douro for
some months, was carried by her crew into that river, and
surrendered to the 'Junta. This event took pleas on the
28th ultimo, but as the weather off the north coast of Por-
tugal has been very stormy for the lest fortnight, it is probe.
Me that the home-bound packet which left on the 29th did
not eommunicate, and consequently that intelligence of the
surrender of the corvette was not sent by the last mail. It is
currently stated he-e that the vessel was given up through
the treachery of her officers; but my private letters, of the
30th ult., state that twelve of them (all, in fact, save one)
were confined in thelielacon prison at Oporto.
Cassl, with the division under his command, had crowed
the river Douro at Regoa, General Povoas having threatened
to attack him. Saldanha, it is stated, had been called to
Lisboa, but had not obeyed the order ; fearing, probebiy,
that his troops might commit themselves in his sheens'. lie
still remained in the same position at Oliviers d'Asernais.
The corvette and 74 gun ship (Portuguese) recently block-
ading St. Übe. have reamed to the Tagus. 11.•

EXHIBITION OP THE ASSOCIATION TO PROMOTE
THE Paaa EXHIBITION or MODERN Aar.—Yesterday
was the private view of a novelty in art, 42 competing
painters at the Royal Academy opening an exhibition of
their own, at the Egyptian hall, in Piccadilly. The number
of works exhibited is 208, and though there is much that
will make you laugh—because the Committee of Manage-
ment reject nothing—there is something to commend upon
the walls, ant something to admire in the manly and gene-
rous emulation of artists, who have nothing to ask but to be
hung where they can be seen. There is a capital letter of
Dr. Johnson's on this subject addressed to Sir Joshua Rey-
golds. The academy had rejected a picture of Lowe's, and
Johnson wrote to Reynolds, and to Berry, to induce the
council to reverse its own determination. " Mr. Lowe," he
says, " ("maiden himself OA eat off from all credit and all
hope by the rejection of his picture from the exhibition.
Upon this work he has exhausted all his powers and sus-
pended all his expectations; and certainly to be refused an
opportunity of taking the opinion of the public is in itself a
very great hardship. It is to be esindemned without a trial."
Such intercession and stash argument were too powerful to
be resisted, and Lowe's performance was immediately ad-
mitted. The leading members of this novel exhibition are
Hornelium Varley (chairman); It. R..tbwell, the nortrsit
painter: James Inskipp Ali sander Fearer, J. E. Lauder,
Mr. and Mrs. M'lao, John Zephaniah Bell, F. Biacd, the
French artist ; Patrick Park, the sculptor; and C. E. Wag
I staff, the engraver. Mr. Varley contributes a email pi:eti-
I lam:mope, much in the manner of the elder Varley ;e
Mr. Rockwell has the full R?yal Academy somber
—one called " Harm Capiives, ' exceedingly cold and
chalky; and another, a male and female portrait, in one
frame, not devoid of merit, and that is all ; Fraser's eiogle
work is "The Scotch Drone's Repast." Inskipp contributes
" Fishing Boys," two full-length figures, in his over. Brae
style of tnatmont, and a small portrait, called "Study of
a Head." Lauder Ina a wane from "Measure and Mea-
sure." Mn. M'lsn, one of the beet pictures in the exhibi-
tion, "Highland Refugees on the French Coast looking
towards Scotland, A.D. 1747." Mr. Whin (never bet-
ter), • picture of " Spaaish Traders selling Weapons,
to the Highlanders in the 15th Century." Mr.
Lucy, " The Interview between Milton and Galileo,"
the figure of Milton not ill-imagined or ill drawn.
F. Beard (the French artist), "Shipwrecked People
on a Raft, attacked by a Shark," well drawn, and
the incident not ill told. Mr. Park, harts both in marble
and in plaster; and Mr. Wageters proof' of *event of his
engravings. The exhibition as been got up in so much
haute, necessarily so, that the walls ere hung with sheets of
brown paper pinned clumsily together. This is at lawn
• suggestive etiolation. If the wells ef the Royal Academy
are ample enough to take in (as they certainly are) all the
good pictures of one year's produce in this country, they ale
just as notoriously too scanty to afford the accommodations
which artists require, and not obtaining, are now willing to
find elsewhere fur themselves'. The Royal Academy, like
the church, should allow as little dissent as possible. Here
a second Wilkie may spring up, and here and to Suffolk.
street the Academy may some day coma to try and recruit
its members.