The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-27 00:00:00

FIN.N ARTS.

Photograph of Archbishop Manning.
BY JOHN AND CHARLES WATKINS.

A wonderfully successful photograph has just
been issued from the establishment of the Messrs.
John and Charles Watkins, of Parliament-street,
Westminster—a photographic likeness of the
Most Reverend Henry Edward Manning, D.D.,
formerly " Archdeacon of Chichester," now
" Archbishop of Westminster," and, as such,
head of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy in
England. The Messrs. Watkins have before
now evidenced, again and again, the validity
of their right and title to the position they have
long occupied in the very front rank among the
most:eminent photographers of the day. But, with
many of their previous successes still surviving
very vividly in our remembrance, we can-
not recall one so brilliant and, to our mind,
so conclusive, as an attestation of their skill and
mastery in the manipulation of this exquisite art,
as the one here afforded by the production of
this all but perfect vera effigies of the great Ca-
tholic Dignitary recently installed iu the vacated
archiepiscopal chair of his Eminence Cardinal
Wiseman, and who has but just now, we believe,
returned from Rome, after having been invested
with the pallium by the hand of His Holiness.
The head of Archbishop Manning, moreover, is
one well worthy of having been accepted by
any photographer as a test of his capabili-
ties in the conquest of all the subtler
difficulties of his art. Phrenologically and phy-
siognomically it is a head in many ways very re-
markable. Ascetic, even macerated, in the general
expression of the countenance, the moral and in-
tellectual scope evidenced by the contour of the
skull, cannot by the most superficial observer but
be noticed as something very extraordinary. Those
acquainted with the original, speak of the expres-
sion of the face as very felicitously preserved and
perpetuated in this photograph. However this may
be, considering it ourselves simply as a photograph,
it may be pronounced at once a picture worthy of
the highest admiration.

ROWING AND SWIMMING.----Every boy should
know how to row and to swim. Without undervaluing
reading, writing; and the " ologies," I am convinced that
the proper scope of a wholsomo education is to secure a
sound mind in a sound body. What God has so intimately
joined together cannot be separated without injury to both;
and one way to strengthen the body and develop° the physi-
cal powers is to accustom young arms to ply the oars, wield
the cricket-bat, and buffet the water in swimming. These
exercises ought to be indulged in without interfering with
mental training.—Cassels Paper.
TIIE ST. IVES PILCHARD FISHERY.—Three seines
were shot on Monday evening in St. Ives bay, belonging
respectively to the Cornwall, Wearne's, and Bolitho's com-
panies. The largest shoal is reckoned at 800 hogsheads,
the smallest at 400. Immense quantities of fish must have
passed during the afternoon and evening, but owing to the
foulness of the water they could not be seen from the hills,
As it was, the seines were shot at a venture without signals
from the shore. had the water been clear there is little
doubt that every concern would have made an abundant
season. On Tuesday morning a seine was shot at Gurnart&
Head, and enclosed a large shoal of 800 hogsheads. Tho
St. Ives drift boats also had largo catches on Monday
night, from 40,000 pilchards downwards. A few mackerel
wore taken, which hrought 38:3. per hundrorl.-117estern
News.