The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-20 00:00:00

TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION.

This is certainly one of tie very best exhibitions in
lbe metropolis, abounding, as it does, with such a multi-
tude of objects highly pleasing and intersting to the
lisitor. Since the enlargement of the exhibi-
tion, many subjects of interest have been added.
and at the same time greatly improved the v.hole
13CellTattee of the establishaient and given twofold
interest to the various groups of figures by increase of
*Pace, thereby displa)ing them to more advantage than
formerly, when 11:1-37 were much too crowded toge-
tbei A
• new interest, we may say, is here called
fforth by the loss of she Great Duke, who is represented
like lire, in the costume of en Erigiish reral ; and, if
this figure alone constituted the whole of the exhib Hon,
It would well repay the treuhle of a visit.
In the first of the new mite of rooms are displayed a
number of portraits,
grf at personages, and among
them we observed a splendid painting
copied by Sir George II iy ter of the Queen,
, by the kind permtssion
of her Majesty, from the original, at Windsor Castle.
executed by the stn& distingui.htd artist.

ART IN THE CRYSTAL P
ALACE.
has
have received
Information up to the 9th instaet as
from Mr. Owen Jones and Mr. Wyat., whocryataiPalacebeetn
appointed by the directors of the new
o
collect illustrations of the art of the continent. The
travellers had reached Rome. The results of their jour-
ney appear hitherto to be highly successful. At Paris
permission had been ohutincti to mould several of the
fin,,tat works in the Louvre, amongst others, the Great
Yunrood, from Egypt. several of the best Venuses, sad
colossal statues by Jean Gouion, in all about 400 pieces,
130 of which will be above life size. Casts of the Ghi.
berti Gates have also been secured, as well as of the
principal of Michael Angelo% figures in the Medici
Chapel, at Florence, an important series of cinque cento
ornamentals, and fine works of Lucca della Robbie,
Donatello, &c.
From the museums of Naples a most valuable collection
has been obtained, and arrangements have been made to
enable the Pompeian court to be so carried out as to pre-
sent a faithful transcript of that peculiar mode of con-
struction. To this end the services of the first painter
officially attached to the excavations have been secured,
who will bring to this country at the close of this year
the result of his studies made on the spot during the last
twentytrao years; every ornament will thus be painted from
and Pisa
wade on the walls of Pompeii. From Lucca
several fine works of the Pisanos have been
ve"erlorrLecr and some interesting works of the Cinque Cento
tall
1
rau,..
beets furnished by the Foreign-office have natu-
the' a""ecienti,siof. great assistance in smoothing the way for
of these treasures. As, however, they
'ldr't lirfttl'rettler Mr. Junes and Mr. Wyatt till after they
oses none o'Di.the following paragraph from the Siicle
sent being
tarenunwelceme force:—" Casts are at pre-
also of a certain number only of the great Sphynx, bnt 1
Greek, Roman, „Ide? of the finest statues, Egyptian,
gra French, the whole being destined
to form part of a
r.ew Crystal Palace, near to be formed in the
London. Last year the
French Government tourer
application to the admi-
nistration of the Britishmtiounaanza
, for leave to have casts
taken of some Greek
artisetnsta there, which would
have been useful to monuments there,
board at once
refused. This year the Administration
the Crystal Pa-
bc;:eunraeb.led to admire
ap-
plication made to it by the founders °llf
accords the sP"
Pa-
lace. The English will now soon
in the French
the casts of the finest pieces of sculpt
museums."

RACKETS.—EXTRAORDINARY
EAgliAinztoctutArAzi
of a very extraordinary character was played here T—hati`rc,"
day afternoon, at the Racket Mau
lin..street, for 421., between Mr.o
Jo'hn Mitchell, the'
Plfm of England, and the proprietor of the house, and a get
V eman of Clifton, who is considered to be one of the best
'players in the west of England. By the conditions of the
match the champion was to have his wrists locked with a pair
of figure of Bha dcuffs ; the winner of the best three games
(ot 15 each) out of five to be the winner At three o'clock,
the hour fixed for commencing, the matter had proved 30
attractive that the galleries of the court were completely
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crowded with gentlemen of Clifton, Bath, and Bristol. After
four very severely contested games on both sides, the chain-
pon winning the first, 00,i in the third the game
at 0.10
time being 14 all, the amateur won, nod was greeted with
loud applause by his friends. We understand that on Mon-
day next (this day) the Clifton gentleman means to play a
match to decide the championship of the west of England
with the present champion, \lr. Jefferies ; after which Mr.
Mitchell, the champion of England, is to play them both,
giving them 7 in each game, but, of course, with his hands
free.—Bristol Journal.
APOTHECARIES' HALL.—Narnes of gentlemen who
passed their examination in the science and practice of me-
dicine, and received certificates to practise, on Thursday,
Sept. 16, 1852 :—George Yates, Birmingham
gtett. ; Henry James
Pranks, Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire; Stephen Walmsley,
l' taffe, Lancashire; Charles Royston, Harrow House,
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