The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-21 00:00:00

ITALY.

The last accounts from Turin, received at the Pied-
montese Legation, Paris, state that the entire Cabi-
net had tendered its resignation to the King, who had
accepted it, and that his Majesty had charged the
Marquis of Azeglio, President of the retiring Ministry,
to construct another.

THE ARAB CHIEFS IN PARIS.
The Arab chiefs, who formed so marked a feature
in the ceremony of the 10th, and the ball of the
12th, and who have since attracted the attention of
the Parisian population, lsft Paris on May lath
on their return to Africa. Since their arrival they
might be seen at all hours of the day in the streets,
sometimes singly, but often in parties of two, walk-
ing in the places of public resort, where their pre-
sence usually collected curious groups, who watched
them at some distance, hut who, it must be added,
never annoyed them by impertinent staring, or en-
cumbered their passage. Several also might be seen
driving about in cabs, the front thrown open to allow
an unimpeded view, and visiting the remoter
quarters of the city. They were remarkable for
their easy graceful deportment and calm dignity, in-
dicative of thorough breeding. They had not the
appearance of being surprised at any of the numerous
objects that met their view for the first time, and
were seemingly heedless of the effect their peculiar
costume produced on the public. Their deportment
in society is described as exquisitely polite.
They expressed a wish during their sojourn in
Paris to visit the widow of Marshal Bugeaud. On
being introduced to her and her family, the Kelifa of
Constantine thus addressed her :
" We wished to visit in her mourning and in her grief
the companion of him whom as enemies we feared,
and who, after our submission, we loved. We have
all had at heart to lay at the feet of his widow
the testimony of our personal gratitude and the
souvenir of our people. The good which the Marshal
has done is immense; he has sown it in our country as a
labourer sows barley ire the furrows, for his name is
written not only in oar hearts, but his works are engravers
in indelible characters on our mountains and in our
plains."
The conversation then becoming general, the chief
began recounting some particularity in the life of
the Marshal. " God bless his Government," said
one " the six years of his rule were years of re-
markable fertility ; his spur brought U 3 happiness."
Another related the combat of the Sikaf, and the
moment when General Mustapha bou Ismael, when
wounded in
the hand with a musket ball, deposited
at the feet of
had himself cut off. conqueror three Leads which he
Isly, another had Oar; chief had been present at
campaign
of
the Winter
the Marshal during the rude
winter of 1846.47 visit the pri-
soners, and provide
them with goats for the nou-
rishment of their children. Moun brother,
exclaimed one of o
and he owes leis lifee g
toe hief y y
s, was among them,
the Marshal. As the
remarks made by the chiefs
drew tears from the
eyes of Madame Bußeaud,
her emotion, said, " Be patient—it
of them observing
—it sometimes hap-
pens that an olive tree, the
king of our forests, is
its trunk springs up
he
levelled by a tempest ; but from
a shoot which often surpasses
parent stem."
And then, taking the hand of the
sere is
aung Charles
d'lsly, he pressed it and said,
bears a resemblance to his father; let himl son who
day amongst us ;he will be there much
ciovnaede
and
n e
respected as our benefactor was. And now, thanks
be to God for having procured us tho satisfaction of
seeing the son and widow of him who fills our heart
and our mouths; in contemplating them, it appears to
us that our august Marshal is not entirely lost to us.,;

have
LONDON ILLUiTHATA
TIONS.
The illuminations on the Queen's birth-day
found a severe, but not perhaps altogether unjust,
critic in the correspondent of the Prussian National,
and as it is useful sometimes to see things through
the eye of a foreigner, his remarks, though not flat-
tering, are subjoined; one or two points are worth
attending to :
" The Queen's birth-day has been celebrated in the
usual form. In the morning haif_a.dozen soldiers
were inspected in the park ; at noon about twice as
many postmen drove through the streets in their
new red coats, cut on the principle of the men grow-
ing to fit them; and in the evening some thousand
' V.'s," V. R.'s,' and 'V. A.'s,' with suns and stars,
and stars and suns, as a variety, were displayed
in gvilight. I have always to mako the two same 010-
PN-rations as to those illuminations—that tho popular
fancy is hnomiug poorer and poorer, and that
proper artistic application of gas as the mate-
rial of an illumination has yet to be discovered.
In the old times of oiled paper, what a variety
of witty mottos and pithy phrases were exhibited.
Now all invention seems to be exhausted in three let-
ters, and, at the utmost, a wreath of laurel. The
indifference as to artistic effect is really barbaric.
ritab-pots on the roof of the house, lights placed
in regular lines in the window, or rows of
lampsthat follow the architectural' outlines of the
structure,indivi allow the building to be seen, display it as an
does thuo individual
tit it, so to say, as a well cut garment
'A
sun Bung in the ; ill ( v the front
tn.( eof only throws th
spectator
may the house its-,lf into the shade, and the
else ho pleases, Baru-door, or anything
grg producedathe back-ground. Ii this
effect is not perfectly
because the wind at in-
tervals blows out half tl ,
susarx star, the window frames,
parapets, and other lines
s_oce building appear behind
the illumination, and the tack is a wretched one—
gardl ike a brilliant patch of a jr,,rrnent stuck on without re-
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THE CORK NATIONAL EXHIBITION.
The Corn Exchange buildings, intended for the pur-
poses of the coming National- Exhibition, are rapidly
increasing in dimensions, and presenting
an appearance
very different from their former aspect. By the constant
efforts of large numbers of workmen, and under the
continual superintendence of tae committee, new build-
ings are growing up around the small centre which a
short time ago comprised the Corn Exchange, astonish-
ing many a good citizen almost as much as the sudden
appearance of the magically constructed castle did the
Sultan in the Arabian tale. Ccnsidering the magnitude
of the work yet to be accomplished, one might be in.
clined to fear for the shortness of the time between this
and the day fixed for the opening, if he were not to
recollect in how brief a space the splendid additions to
the original building, now nearly finished, have been
brought to that state. It was not at first contemplated
that the buildings should extend over the area they are
now designed to cover, but the magnitude which the
undertaking began gradually to assume, and the vastly
increased applications for space which every day came
pouring in, rendered it necessary for the committee to
make preparations upon a far larger scale. The whole
of the building to be devoted to the purposes of the
Exhibition may be now said to comprise four rooms,
although the effect of the northern and southern halls,
running the whole length of the structure, will give to
the eye but the appearance of one. The visitor enters in
the first instance the northern hall. This is the fine room
known as the Corn Exchange Room, and in which so many
public banquets, balls, and concerts have taken place.
But little alteration has been made in this room, and its
proportions certainly appear at the first glance shrunken
in their dimensions when the eye takes in the vast and
lately-added extent of the southern hall. The northern
hall will be devoted to the exposition of native articles
of industrial manufacture and science. It will not need
much decoration, and its handsome proportions, filled, as
it will be, with specimens of every kind of artistic labour
and skill, will not be less continuously thronged with
visitors, and regarded with interest and admiration, than
the more brilliant adornments and attractive contents of
the Fine Arts' Gallery, which extends beyond. A
splendid arch, with a pedestal and statue at each side,
will form the entrance from the northern hall, through
the transept, that portion of the building known as
the southern hall, and which is to receive sculpture
and paintings. In the northern hall will be placed
Telford's great organ. The transept, which will be a
beautiful gallery, running the whole width of the
buildings, and roofed with glass, will also con-
tain specimens of native manufacture. Beyond the
trransept, at the west side, a large room will be arranged
to receive such works of native skill, as carriages and
similar articles of exhibition, requiring much space. It
is ascertained that there will be a very fine display of
carriages from the builders of Dublin and of our own
city, and many other parts of Ireland. Returning to
the northern hall, the visitor passes, by the entrance we
have mentioned, into the southern hall. This building
is now nearly completed. It will be roofed with glass,
and in its centre an elegantly constructed fountain will
throw up a high sparkling jet of water. Viewed from
any part of the northern hall, the aspect of this room
will be striking and beautiful. Around its walls will be
displayed some of the finest specimens of sculpture our
country has produced. Not a statue there which will
not bear the name of some rare genius now honoured
as a memory in the land, or yet existing to
add still greater extent to the fame that Ire-
land has ever justly earned in this glorious domain
of art. Among them will be two of the happiest
efforts of our own immortal townsman, Hogan—" The
Drunken Faun,* which the artist produced to convince
sceptics that the power of original conception had not
been extinguished in the world; and the noble, majestic
form which our citizens have so long admired, known as
"The Dead Christ." M`Dowell, Moore, Foley, O'Connor,
Barter, and many another sculptor of long-acquired or
rising fame, will add to the attractions of this room,
Paintings—a feature not possessed by the Great Exhibi-
tion—will be there, bearing the illustrious names of
Berry, Grogan, and Heffernan, and the more recent, but
scarcely less honoured names of Maclise, Elmore, Fisher,
M'Donald, West, and many others. Frescoes, models of
architecture, statuettes, bronzes, reliefs, and ornamental
specimens of every description of art, will be found also
in this hall. The room will be hung in a manner cal-
culated to display its contents in the fullest manner, and
to render its entire aspect magnificent. Mr. Jones, of
this city, has devised a beautiful kind of hanging, of
cloth covered with crimson flock, before only used with
paper, which will give the walls the appearance of being
lined with bright velvet. The view which this noble
room will present, with its dome of glass, its brilliant
crimson hangings lining every portion of the walls, its
beautiful fountain arising in the midst, and its long
array of marble groups and figures, paintings, bronzes,
and frescoes, will be such as will not soon fade from
the recollection of the spectator, when, standing at the
upper end of the northern hall, his eye receives its first
glimpse of it. The effect of the style of hanging we
have spoken of may be judged by a specimen of the
cloth which is hung oa the wall of a portion of the
transept, behind a cast of the " The Three Graces."
Beyond the Fine Arts' Court it is intended that the
room for the banquet and ball to bo given to the Lord
and Lady Lieutenant shall be erected. The banquet-
room will be a fine building, ninety feet in length by
sixty in breadth. The committee will also erect a re-
ception-room, a retiring-room for ladies, and the kitchens
and offices necessary for their preparations. In the ban-
quet room there will be seven tables arranged down its
entire length, and at the head of the room a table
slightly raised above the rest, and running transversely,
for the reception of the Lord-Lieutenant and the dis-
tinguished guests who are expected to arrive. The
time remaining for the completion of this work is but
short; yet, judging from the rapidity which has in irked
the progress of all the arrangements up to this point,
there can be little doubt that the committee will accom •
pitch what yet remains to be done in a manner equally
creditable and satisfactory.
In the northern hall the sub-committees sit every day,
and appear to have their time most fully occupied in
attending to the arrangements which are necessary.
We need not remark upon the value of the undertak-
ing as regards the employment it diffuses. The visitor
who enters the building at present, and sees every part
of it filled with busy workmen, feels proud of the project
which gives occupation to so many hands that might
otherwise be idle, and the means of life to such numbers
that without it could scarcely perhaps continue the strug-
gle for existence. And yet he sees but an insignificant por-
tion of the amount of good which is being accomplished.
In every part of our city and of meuy others, in wide,
crowded streets and large shops, and not less
in dingy, narrow lanes, and close, confined garrets,
thousands of hands aro toiling in preparation for the
coming display of our national power, and employment
revives where it had been long drooping, and well-re-
warded industry finds its way into places that before
seemed given up to the sway of idleness and poverty.—
Cork Examiner.