The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-11 00:00:00

strength. The lesson thus taught to the unscrupu-
lous and the powerful is one that Europe will yet
have to mourn over through long years of conten-
tion and disaster. Such seeds do not bear fruit at
once. The life of nations is unlike the life of indi-
viduals, but as surely as such political crimes are
committed and are tolerated, if not sanctioned, the
hour of retribution comes. But what matter, cry
oar materialists, so long as trade and commerce
fburish, so long as our wares are in demand and
our manufactories thriving, what matter about such
empty words as nationality and freedom. We are
not going to war for an idea. So the Danish king-
dom is dismembered under overwhelming odds, and
the English world goes quietly on its accustomed
way, taking for its motto, "Apres moi le deluge."

HOLMAN HUNT'S PICTURES,

" The After Glow" and "London Bridge."

These two wonderful pictures, by one of the most
gifted of living artists—the "London Bridge,"
picture,lsimply remarkable to our mind as a curio-
sity, " The After Glow in Egypt," a marvel of the
beautiful as well as of the ex.iraordinary—are still
on view at the New Gallery, 16, Hanover-street,
Regent-street, and are yet likely to remain there
upon view for two or three months longer. The
genuine London scene, commemorative of the Night
of the Macriage of the Prince and Princess of
Wales, is, in its way, a pictorial pheno-
menon. It excites one's astonishment, but
fails altogether—at any rate, we may speak
thus for ourselves—it Lila altogether to afford
one any sense of real pleasure. Not so the
grander, nobler work from the hand of the same
rare colourist. " The After Glow in Egypt" takes
rank immediately after "The Finding of the
Saviour in the Temple," as among Mr. Holman
Hunt's masterpieces. Of itself it is an instant and
triumphant attestation of the genius of the Painter,
not only as a great master• among colourists, but
intensely and essentially as an Artist—as a Poet.
The picture itself is like the realisation
visibly of a dream of Poetry. It was in obedi-
ecce to the true thought and feeling of a poet that
Mr Holman Hunt selected the subjeet of this picture,
the season of it, the hour of it, one might almost
say the vary moment of it. For, is it not during the
evanescent " After Glow'' of an Egyptian sunset—
that after glow that divides by a luminous haze of
10 minutes' duration the light of day from the dark-
ness of night—is it not during those fast fleeting
moments that he has here in this wonderful picture
revealed to view, the Egyptian maiden standing on
the banks of the river Nile, bearing upon her head
a golden sheaf of ripe corn and scarlet poppies,
raising aloft in her right hand the green glazed
ghooleh or water-bottle, while the Barbary pigeons
cluster about her feet pecking the grain, one of the
more adventurous of them selecting the unshaked
corn from the sheaf itself, close to which the bird is
flattering all but audibly, half clinging with its
talons, half hovering upon the wing ? Those who
have not yet seen this marvellous painting should
on no account omit doing so before the time arrives
for its removal from the Gallery. The visitor will
be yet further rewarded for his attendance there by
seeing in the apartment containing the " London
Bridge" commemorative picture of Mr. Hunt, the
very masterly and pathetic painting by Mr R. B.
Martineau of " The Last Day in the Old Home," a
picture that tells its tale as distinctly and as im-
pressively, and as completely in its way, as any one
of our great Hogarth's masterpieces.

WHALLEY THE WISE,

(From Punch.)

Mr G. H. Whalley has lot no time in giving an account
of his ParliamentarT Stewardship to the intelligent electors
of Peterborough, who do themselves so much honour, and
so thoroughly vindicate their title to the franchise, by re-
turning tb st determine.] enemy of Popery. We regret we
can fin,ff.. room only for a portion of his admirable address to
his constituents,

Mr Whalley, after a sketch of the past session, and refer-
ences to his introduction of a protest against the Church of
Rome on the Third Reading of every Railway Bill and
other domestic measures, proceeded : "I shall continue
this course. I am asked what Popery has to do with
railways ? I answer, Everything, I know that nearly
every stationmaster is a Jesuit in disguise, and some e.dy
when there is a Roman Catholic rebellion, and troope are
wanted, the lines will be blocked, and protrAOly collisions
will be arranged for the destruction of the Queen's
soldiers. The Jesuits are everywb.ere. Do you know
why the Nelson Column ie not complete ? Be-
cause Popery obstructs homage to the victor of
Roman Catholic fleets, tend Sir Edwin Landseer has been
converted. (Cheers%) Do you know that the Lord Chan-
cellor of Englaltd, in utter defiance of the law that the
keeper of the Queen's conscience shall have no Popish
leanings, has favoured the interests of Mrs Yelverton?
Why? Because that lady is a Catholic. (Sensation.) Do
you know that the Queen of Spain has ordered a statue to
Columbus ? Why ? Because the Emperor of the French
has founded a new Catholic empire in America, and that
in ten years Federals and Confederates will lie at the feet
of the Pope. Gentlemen, I have often felt the pangs of
conscience at representing a borough called atter St. Peter,
and I do wish you would change the name of your town.
(Cheers,) Are you aware that in the heart of London, in
front of the most magnificent railway terminus we have, is
rising a beautiful and costly copy of an Eleanor's Cross,
the superstitious monument erected by a Popish king ? Do
you know that the conductor of the music at our noblest
opera house (visited I am sorry to say by the Heir
to the Throne) is M. Costa, a Catholic, and that
he has got a dispensation for leading the Hugue-
nots and the National Anthem ? Have you heard
that Earl Russell, the pretended enemy of Popery, is going
to bring in a bill for restoring to his relative's property its
old Popish name of Convent Garden ? You knew, gentle-
men, that the London General Omnibus Company was a
foreign speculation, but do you know that all the conduc-
tors are Jesuit priests, that they charge halt fares to pas-
sengers who cross themselves, and misdirect to Catholic
chapels those who inquire their way to Protestant places of
worship. (Shame.) Yes, gentlemen, and can you hear
with patience that a Catholic I'l-act Society has obtained
Does n
ti:zi 'a
leave from Mr Panizzi, of the British Museum, to insert a
tract in every volume of the library
Speechibrary?D
leasst l‘
week
ePe name remind you of England or of Italy ? Wee there a
word, gentlemen, in the Queen's
re-
mind us that the Sovereign is a Protestant? Not ono,
But the Queen was made to go out of her way to express
satisfaction that she is on good tunnel Vitb the
Emperor of China, Who cares for tht Emperor
,
of China in himself ? But what
tian religionists have had for 'do- called Chris-
12,undreds of years the
greatest sway in the Chinese •
rated when Protestan—
.e.more—who have been tole-
have been excluded ? Why, the
Jesuits. (Cheer
matter of I-
) ...
Again, do you note that it is made
; ...oast that the French and English are drawit g
'" eioser alliance, Catholic with Protestant? (Cheers.)
Ay, you cheer, but that is not all. Who is our friend's
friend? Who, at this moment of the increased amity is
about to visit theTuileries. The King of Spain. Does that
anti-Protestant bigot come_fer nothing ? Will. Lord Cowley
see him ? We live in awful and perilous times, gentle-
men. I know for a fact that there were hundreds of
Catholics among the Riflemen at Wimbledon, and that if
one of them had been the beet marksman of the meeting,
Lady Elcho would have unhesitatingiy presented him with
the Queen's Prize. (Sensation.) Yes, and how soon
would that silver vase have become the ornament of a
Popish mass-house? It was providential that it fell to
Mr Wyatt, who is a Protestant, but no thanks to the
authorities. Why have passports just been so universally
abolished on the Continent ? In order to entrap English-
men and Englishwomen into Catholic countries in order
to promote proselytism ? Why has the cross on St. Paul's
just been ostentation 31yand splendidly regilt ? Look at that.
And why is a magnificent bridge being constructed, at vast
expense, at Blackfriare—and observe that Popish -name,
gentlemen. Because Blackfriars-bridge will open a tempt-
ing and delightful toad from mid •Lmdon to Cardinal
Wiseman's Popish cathedral, St. George's. Lastly, gen-
tlemen, though I could give you a hundred similarly alarm-
ing demonstrations, hear this. You have heard of Mr
Banting. Hie system is artfully promulgated all over the
country. It is pretended that he merely desires to reduce
the over-corpulent. Bah I He is a Jesuit priest, and his
object is to introduce and make popular the Popish practice
of regular fasting. Yes, gentlemen, I repeat that we live
in perilous times, and the Triple Crown will soon domi-
nate the Three Kingdoms."
_ _

Mr Whdley sat down amidst loud cheers and passionate
cries of " No Popery 1"

SUDDEN DEATH DURING A HONETMOON.—A
terribly sudden death occurred on Sunday fortnight
to Mrs. Arthy, wife of Captain Arthy, whose maiden name
was Miss Winstanley, and who had been married at
Beverley only on the previous Tuesday week. They re-
paired to Scarborough to spend a portion of the honeymoon,
and were residing at one of the hotels. On Sunday morn-
ing Captain Arthy awoke about his usual hour and found
his wife a corpse by his side. A coroner's inquest was held
the same evening, and a verdict of " Death from natural
causes" was returned.