The Express.
London, England, 1861-04-27 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY.

The trustees, in their fourth annual report,
Mated this day, give a list of seven additional donation■.
The purchases now amount to 110. In their various ar-
rangements the truster bays found the present apartments
am too small for the fees circulation of the pablio, while
apes the walls the portasite are inocoveniently pressed
together without the possibility of any clarification ; and
~CO any space is now remaining for fresh soorsiossi
whether by purchase or donation. Tho traitor, therefore,
desire to wipes, a hops that the question of larger and
MOM commodious apartinents for this growing collection
may ere long engage the serious attention both of the
government and of the hours of parliament

IwroEm or Fonniou Virms.—A parliamentary
MUM Mimed this morning gives an acenant of the quantity
of foreign wine cleared for consumption, from the let of
January to the Mat of March, both inclusive. The total
number of gallons from all parts is 3,306,417. Of this
quantity 361.473p110ns ere charged with customs duty at
the rate of Is. per gallon ; 106,012 at Is. 9d. ; 2,622,769
at 2a. 6d. ; 73.740 M. 114 ; and 249,423 gallons at 2s. sd.
in bottle.

INDIAN FAWN' Raw FUND. —The committee
for the Indian Famine Food met yesterday at the Man-
siombouse, and it was weed to send out 15,0001. by the
mail that left bet night Mil Marseilles. The amount
received during yesterday wee 1,9701., exclusive of a large
amount which has been advised, but not actually received.
Among the principal ware :—Front the Merchant Taylors,
2101. ; from the fund at Cambridge, 10.51. ; collected at
Cambridge, air.; from Bury, 5001. ; Mr. Dickenson, 1001. ;
from the congregation at Blackbeath•park, by the Rev. J.
Lase, 841. 21, ld.; Leeds, 1714 ; and 83!. from the
British Chapel at .Nice. The total amount received is
about 68,0001.

A Munich correspondent of the A theweum writes,
on the bbd :—" Great excitement during the past fort-
sight in theological circles. SOWS ladies of positive ►eli-
gious faith '—which I take to be a name for extreme
bigotry- requested some of the heads of the ultramontane
party to give a series of lectures, as a set-off against the
series of Liebig. Dr. Dellinger—the court chaplain and
professor of theology in the University of Munich, who is
justly regarded as one of the most learned theologians in Ger.
many, and one who adds to his special knowledge a mar-
vellous extent of general learning, the greatest authority on
the history of the church of Rome, and a man of unques-
tioned orthodoxy—delivered the first lectures of the series,
and devoted his first two lectures to the temporal power
of the Pope. The ladies found themselves somewhat in
the position of Itilak when he sent for Belmun to curse
his enemies, and, behold, he ' blessed them altogether.'
Requesting a known ultramontauist to lecture oa re-
ligion, they bad some right to expect an edifying
tissue of abuse of liberals and prophecies garbled from the
New Testament, of praise of a government which protease
religion and defeats morality—a tissue of ultramontane
seam, to borrow a phrase from Giusti. Dr. Didlinger, so
far from answering their expectations, entirely annihilated
the temporal power, more completely than any liberal, any
protestant, has ever done or ever could do ; for he never
overstated the case, never disguised bin religious symp►-
thies, sever connected the Pope as head of the church with
the Pepe as King of Boma."
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THE ILLNIII or TEN Brzsus.—Mr. Speaker
is so unwell with lumbago that it is feared he will have to
succumb for a time. Is that awe hie totem taxes will be
Mr. Mersey. Chairman of Ways and Means. Until /Me V,
n.. provision had been weds for supplying the place of the
Speaker when absust cat account of ill•health, and when he
was unavoidably shiest no business could be dons ; but is
1853 a revolution was passed to remedy this evil, which re-
solution lima been ansandad since; and now, iu case of
ill-
nas or other cause of *became, the Chairman of Ways and
Mesas takes the Speaker's chair, invested with all the
points el the ereekee.—lihiatreged nom