The Express.
London, England, 1858-09-11 00:00:00

FINE ARTS.

"The FZUIT GIRL OP THE ALPS" is certainly
one of the best, the prettiest, without being meretricious,
and the mart finished specimen of Bailer'. so-telled oil
process we have seen. A blue-eyed, fiaxes-haired, pro-
vokingly Innocent looking insides, the very typed mountain
beauty, stands, confident of attracting attention to hang{ at
ham as mace as to the basket of fruit—figs, metes, peen,
In., needing among vise leaves—which ohs heads at her
side. Her straw hat hasp at the beak of bat Iliad like a
nimbus, and oh I how nicely the broad black strings est of
the felt meek. What gold or gems, either, could bring out
the beauty of the white arm like those simple black silk
breadth. As 631 the purple Wake, and skirt, how oan a
bachelor be presumed eompetent to describe them, much
his the soft whits drapery—we do ant know what etn to
all ia--oonoealing the shoulders and bosom ; yet so mach
acre attractly• than your habit:ruble low Arum. Bat we
"era nothing If not critical." We find, the, the hair a little
dowdy; the finish obtained by the finely stippled and en-
graved peend-work is really wonderful, but the mechanical
perfection he malted, as it is ept to do, In • little hardness,
and this effect Is 0:4061111110 increased by the edginess of the
outline. But the artist would no doubt contend that this
sharpens is in keeping with the rarilled Alpine atmosphere.
A friend had the assurance to suggest something about
"crinoline," but he ought to have observed that our fruit-
girl has elevated her knee to rapport the basket. The chief
merit of this print is Ito sobriety of colour, with the exontion
of the afoesaid white drapery, In which the bell-data ere a
thought too blue, sad the reflected lights too yellow. This
may be like Ruben*, but the method in which Correggio
treated white drapery would bare harmonised better with the
rest of the colouring. However, upon the whole, the colouring
is • great improvement; for when It we. discovered that colours
might be printed, the elwerso-lithogrsphers and others set to
work at first, like ime any savages putting on their war.
paint.

►ICIB9ITUDEE IM THE LIPE OP A NOBLEMAN.

The Bt. Louis Republican records the death of
aa old meta in that illy, sad in regard to his lit fernishee
the following :
.. Many years ego Boma Frederick ma Owed, whose
iii:E. family was one of the most admit tad misesermic in
&may, fell is love with a poor I and determined to marry
her. He thee iseamsd the of hie wealthy Mier,
who, on Isismiag it the reposed album, st ease dila-
ballot the yew( asillman snd turned him boa his doers.
Tide guides mew woussoled sad naddestal the lover,
sad Way a sliest ferewell to the ham it hie sididhood.
sad without lakewiag the object of his aleello., be beat his
snares le thle esmary. Oa seriviag here he Joined the
United BMW filmy, sad awed lea 7111“ se a soldier. It I.
mid Mathis bravory and tnobsrelme ea the dude of Mexico
won the etLimia at all nob hod opportnuitioe to
observe Mem. At the &spindle of the ten veers'
1111,000 he Marred to Gamow to ascertain how the
albite of his family was managed. Hs found that his pa-
rests were in their graves, sad that the was distri-
buted squally among his brothers &adaptors, b being
wholly overlooked sad tilempeded is the will. To add to
his dark hew, he newitheed that the girl who was the
Mutant come of his rain hod married end moved sway.
Yon Osman mind bed sever folly recovered from the sleek
ibis Intelligence had crested. Wandering In ream, he m-
aimed to the Hatted BMW, sad same to St. lamb. Hero
he was prostrated by violist sickness tar some maths.
Whoa he convalesced be bandehimself entirely destitute of
omens. His pride wee thoroughly brakes down, end, for a
livelihood, the biros sotaelly took to selling 'britselo, a kind
of miry made in Lvov with the Germans. He costinued
in this paltry, but bonset, business for 16 or 17 years, end
teed the appellation of 'Brasel Frits.' Three years ago,
era owed top the awl et 900 dole, and having met
owring gills, opposite am la whoa he thought he could ma-
ids, sad wheals Wheal mould make him • good sad
isithfal wife, though elle was were! yawl his junior, Voa
Osetel woo married. Om day, •• few months afterwards, on
going home with Ids bred, he found that his wire had
eloped with • seducer, laity lain hie mosey sad every-
Wag of any value about thebouss. The old man, for he wss
sow thy-Mess yeue of fig quietly bore his new grief, end
age* with perhaps sa ou the false one, ad-
dressed himself to the one great task of his lite—forgetting.
• &Mud Felts' has been well know4n St. Lout—e wrinbkvi. 1
olow-Paold eteopiag old meat with his basket on his arm,
and rarely a ladle on his few In the last those he
bus hid away 400 dollars, the profits of his Uttle bueww
Yesterday he woe buried, having bets sick three or bur
weeks. Betas he expired, he bemendestly bewailed his
smell ponessioas to Use orphan children of a poor mss, well
known to Tom, of our citizens, who died about a year ago.
And so ceded the eventful career of Baron Frederick You

A COS rr.—A *mat was seen from 8 to 10 p.m.
on Smithy evenbw, Is the north-oast, by Captain Firerstar,
of the slesm•tag ROM whin between Buthey sad Tasks.
It worn also am by =Lb ideate* of the seem tag Re-
triever, +his or P lowa. et box o'clock on Mestley
moraieg. The tall was Allis to the asked eye.— Larrad
Ilfereary. We leers trees the Vattern Rut that the comet
agent was tams from Bristol ea awl Mosley meals., with
the asked eye. A of the Pres writes:—
-TM nethtes me and, aided by a telsempe
et law power, I thelnetly permits the WI
gs
to a onsibuieble thiam in is a math +NM direr
tion."!lidemu* le may neer Urea Major. sad may be thend
by these motaustamei to salrenoniod observation by draw.
tag s Has amity to the haulm through A and St, salloithe
tmrthtses ia Ursa blskr" A ocamageadant or an SAM
yaw writes :—" time is violas to the b
ed
9 the .heal leg. above the borthan, about
9 ▪
o'clock. It we meta as Friday. Saturday, and again on
&today evatiag. The tell Is meal, the heed has a coati-
&fable ham, the light beconiag strong at the omtre, sad to
the eye at time appears sharp. The oomet is molly digit-
guildship tram the by elms around it."