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

52. Fleet-street. At home from 10 till 5.

PURE WATER versus CHOLERA AND OTHER
DISEASES.

THE LONDON AND GENERAL WATER
PURIFYING COMPANY (Limited) SUPPLY on
HIRE or SALE in the Metropolis and its Guburbs, and on
sale in the country, their PATENT CISTERN FILTER,
which filters and purifies all the water used in the house,
whether for culinary or drinking purposes, at the rate of half
a gallon to four gallons per minute, requiring no filling or
attention from servants. Weter tested free of charge. 'Test-
lug apparatus easily u.sed. Sold by the Company.
For prices and terms apply to the Secretary, 15, Strand,
W.C., where testimonials from Dr. Letheby and other emi-
nent authorities, and the filters in operation, may be seen.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
way Terminus, I{ing•s-cross.

Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN.
Lee-Patron—His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, K.G
President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCIL K.G.
This Hospital, foended in the year 1828, the first to estab-
lish the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without
the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly de-
pendent for support on voluntary contributions and l!gacies
It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in
addition to this, the average number of attendance of the
destitute sick has for a con iderable period averaged between
5,000 and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the
benevolent, as the premises of this Hospital are capable of
containing several nundred more beds, had the Committee
the requisite funds to maintain them.
Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Mae•
!truism, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.;
Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; Ransom
and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ;
Barclay and Co. ; w Illams, Deacon, and Co.; Overend, Gur-
ney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co. , Berners-street ; T. Barned and
STANFORD IMITIT, Secretary,
c:o., Liverpool ; and at the Hospital. from 10 till 5.

16,723

Grand totals to.
Michaelmas, 1t 5

18,226

4,699

The Reserve Fui

22,925

ind to Michaelmas amounts

862,49 15 11

The total sale n:
is ... ...£415,55016 4
The total withdrawals since the formation
of the society (Sept. 7, 1852) to Michael-
mas, 1865, are ... £256,906 14 4
The returns of the register of rights are as follows:
Completed. Drawn. Seniority. Total.
5,743 3,305 1,758 10,806
Deduct rights unexercised on estates, ex,— 8,154
Unexercised rights ... 2,652

.£ll 471 6 4
land to Michaelmas, 1865, _ _ _

The last share number on the register of seniority (date
of membership) is No. 14,813.
The last share issued up to Michaelmas, 1865, is No.
22,925.

The balance-sheet for 1864-65 and the annual report of
the executive committee will be presented at the usual
yearly meeting, to be held at Exeter Hall, on Tuesday, the
sth of December.

The candidates for the two auditors to be elected by the
shareholders at this quarterly meeting, advertised under
rule 30, are—Mr. W. H. Clemow and Mr. James Goad.
The Rev. William George Goodchild had also given notice
of his intention to become a candidate, but subsequently
withdrew his name, owing to his departure from this coun-
try for two years. On his return, ho will again solicit the
suffrage of the shareholders. The committee have re-
elected W. Copeland Astbury, Esq., and Newnham Win-
stanley, Esq., as their two auditors. After this day's nomi-
nation by the shareholders, the accounts of the past year
will be examined and audited in due course.

The executive committee have the pleasure to report
that two eligible estates have been just acquired for the
society, viz., a property in Stafford, in South Stafford-
shire, and another at Hereford, in Herefordshire, both
being essentially building land, within a short distance of
important railway stations.
The third allotment of the Woodhouse estate, at Wan-
stead, took place on the 19th of July last ; and such has
been the rapid demand for plots on this suburban property,
that the entire estate, including the mansion, is now dis-
posed of, and many buyers of the land from the society
have realised considerable premiums on their investments.
Plots on the Sandown estate, Isle of Wight, as might
have been expected from such a rising place, have also
been in such request that but two plots remain unsold.
The Plough Lane Estate, Battersea, has been closed, the
whole of the plots having been sold, and building opera-
tions thereon are going on with activity. Many of the
purchasers have obtained either good ground-rents or have
re-sold at a profit.
The Fourth Putney Estate, close to the station, will be
allotted on Friday, October 27. The value of this eligible
property has been increased by an arrangemennt securing
au additional right of way into Wandsworth-lane through
College-street, situate on the society's second purchase in
Putney. The approaches to both estates will be consider-
ably improved by the new roads.
The allotment of the St. Austell Estate, Cornwall, and
the New Ferry Estate, Cheshire (opposite Liverpool), will
be proceeded with as soon as the purchases have been
completed, the titles having been approved by counsel.
The claims of the allottees for the freehold franchise in
the several counties in which the society has obtained
land, have been supported, free of expense, by the
solicitor.

The Executive Committee beg to draw attention to the
Into general election, to show the influence exercised by
land societies, especially in the home counties, owing to
the increasing tendency of the metropolitan population to
reside in suburban districts, or in more distant localities,
where railroad facilities bring men of business to their
occupation with such rapidity. Conservatives wishing to
qualify themselves for the 26 counties in which the society
has purchased 60 estates, can secure for themselves, at the
same time, a good intestment.

The Conservative Land Society is now in its fourteenth
year—the encouraging prospects of which it is gratifying
for the committee to announce to the shareholders.
(Signed) RANELAGH, Chairman.
(Countersigned) CHARLES LEWIS GRUNEISEN, Sec.
Office of the Conservative Land Society,
33, Norfolk-street, Strand, W. 0.,
London, October 10, 1865.
The two auditors having been duly elected, thanks were
voted to the executive committee, and the meeting separated.

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE.—The Rev. Robt.
Sparke Hutchings, M.A., perpetual curate of Monkton
Wyld, Dosset, has been presented and instituted by the
Lord Bishop of Salisbury to the vicarage of Alderbury,
near Salisbury, with the chapels of Pitton and Farley, vice
the Rev. Newton Smart. His lordship has appointed the
Rev. Edward Luard, rector of Winterslow, Wilts, and the
Rev. Francis Goddard, vicar of Hillmarton, Wilts, to be
rural deans, in the room of the Rev. M. Smart and the
Rev. H. M. Fletcher; and licensed the Rev. James Henry
Ghownes, M.A., to the curacy of Netherbury, in the county
of Dorset.

EASTERN LONDON
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which
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is intended as the basis of a local museum of science and
coiNnmOititTtilee-
art, have hit upon the idea of blending amusement with
the instruction to bo derived from the display of objects
of art. As the exhibition is set on foot principally for the
working classes, the now superadded entertainments aro
at eminently popular prices, and the result is that the vast
hall is nightly crowded. A series of fetes has been got up
by the veteran Nilson Lee, and they consist of perform-
ances by the Lauri family, Mr. and Mrs. Randall, the
Elliott family, c't.;., and of overtures and selections by
the orchestral band. Tho acoustic properties of the hall
are favourable, and it is surprising over what a large
extent of the huge building the words of the songs
and dialogues are heard. Tho afternoon performances
begin at three and are resumed again at seven, the earlier
audiences being permitted to remain throughout the even-
ing to inspect the various productions and visit the pic-
ture gallery. It is certainly a bold experiment to give the
masses a cheap entertainment. The admission to the fetes
is 3d. only and the stalls 6d. On the occasion of our visit
on Saturday afternoon we found the stalls occupied by a
highly-respectable class of persons. There was also a large
sprinkling of children, a family of whom can be admitted
for a sum not exceeding what an individual would have to
pay at other places of amusement. In the evening the
attendance was enormous. Islington seemed to have
drained itself of its population. But the immense crowd,
which completely filled the building, although of a motley
class, on account of the extreme lowness of the admis-
sion money, was perfectly orderly. We were informed that
no cases cf damage to the works exhibited have occurred.
Police, of course, are scattered over the building, just as
they are at other crowded entertainments, but their inter-
ference is not required. It would seem, indeed, that the
people are anxious to testify by their orderly conduct to the
boon of an entertainment brought thoroughly within their
means. The committee are now to some extent reimburs-
ing themselves for the losses they have sustained during
the earlier period that the exhibition has been open. The
hall will be required for the cattle show in December.
Whether the present series of fetes will be the forerunners
of other entertainments on the same plan we do not know,
but there can be no question that the experiment of a popu-
lar entertainment at prices within the reach of the hum-
blest classes is quite successful.

Yesterday Mr. F. Hayter Lewis, who has suc-
ceeded the veteran Donaldson as Professor of Archi-
tecture at University College, delivered his inaugural
lecture. After a suitable tribute of respect to his
predecessor, Professor Lewis observed that he had
selected the subject of the Fine Arts as a subject
because he held the only professorship connected
with the fine arts which exists in any University of the
United Kingdom. The fine arts ought to be spoken
of together, as being parts of one great whole ; the
one without the other is disjointed and fragmentary;
architecture without sculpture and painting is like
a strong-limbed tree throwing around its sinewy
arms without the delicately sculptured foliage to
give it grace, or the beautifully coloured flower and
leaf to give it life. The arts are dissevered now,
no doubt, in real practice, and the result is visible.
After contrasting the bald and lifeless works of the
last two centuries, wherein the sculptor and the
artist seem to have bid farewell to the architect and
the engineer, with the glories of times preceding,
when art was vigorous, in Italy and Greece, and in
our own land, in Westminster and Wells, Canter-
bury and York, Mr. Hayter Lewis proceeded—
" Walk round any of those cathedrals and see if you
can find a spandrel or a panel, or a vacant space in
which you seem to want the sculptor's art, and see
if it be not there applied. Defaced and half de-
stroyed as some of them are, enough has still been
left to show us what must have been the full effect
when their sculpture was still perfect, and their
mouldings and ornaments were glowing with gold
and colour. Study the remains which the Greeks
have left us, and imagine, if you can, the Parthenon
without the sculpture which clothed its forms
with life, and the painting with which it glowed—
or think of that same sculpture dissevered from the
glorious frame which binds the whole together into
one harmonious work ; they were not things to be
resolved into the different phases of framework and
decoration, but each formed one essential part of all,
without which there could be no perfect unity—
without which each would be a lifeless part, a por-
tion only of the perfect whole. But go back to earlier
times than even Greece—study, as our museums and
libraries may well permit you, the relics left to us
by the Assyrian and Egyptian, and of their palaces
and temples. No grander outline ever perhaps was
left to us than the Pharaohs have left on the banks
of the Nile; none more picturesque than those which
Sennacherib and his brother Assyrian kings have
bequeathed to us from the banks of the Euphrates ;
and each one of the great edifices has the history of
its founder, its nation, its wars and conquests, its
kingly customs and domestic life, sculptured on
every portal, coloured on every wall. Dissever the
three arts in these colossal works, and you would
have robbed the buildings of their history and con-
signed the sculpture and the painting to oblivion.
Now look at the history of the men to whom we owe
the works which I have described, and whose memo-
ries, if even their names have perished, shall live
for all time. We smile at the old writer when he,
tells us that the architect must be at once skilled
in literature, erudite in geometry, familiar with
history of all periods and countries, acquainted
with philosophy, music, law, the aspects of the
heavens, and the influence of seasons and climate.
But trace the actual lives of many of the men to
whom we owe chief art-works, and you will find his
dream has well-nigh been realised. We scarcely
realise it ourselves. How many of us are there
who, standing entranced before the beauties which
De Vinci has traced upon the canvass and the wall,
pause to remember him as the sculptor, the architect,
the engineer of his age, and the first geologist on
record ! How many who pace the Loggie at Flo-
rence, or gaze upon its richly coloured cathedral
walls, think of Arnolfo, sculptor as well as architect,
or of Orgagna, the painter, poet, and sculptor, who
chiselled with his own hands the sculptures upon the
edifices he designed ! Do you wonder at the marvels
which we owe to Giotto's pencil? Think of that
glorious campanile which we owe to him as archi-
tect. Do you tread at Pisa with reverential feeling
the sacred field of the dead ? Remember that it was
Giovanni the sculptor who designed it. Look on the
glorious outlines of St. Paul's, never to my mind sur-
passed, and recal to your mind that its architect was
at the same time the first geometrician and astronomer
of his age.' And when you think of the heaven-like
beauties which Raffael drew—of the prophets and
sibyls which awe us still in the Sistine Chapel of
Buonarotti, of the unearthly grandeur of his statues
which adorn the churches of Florence and of Rome
—remember that they came from the same hands
which designed many a palace there, and to whom
we owe the grandly towering dome of St. Peter's
and the splendid facade of the Farnese. Now in
considering the works of these great men, we must
remember that they are the chief outward visible
embodiment of their country's glory and power and
skill. And in every time since detailed records of it
have existed, these great works of art have been more
than the visible signs of the presence of the great,
exceptionally great minds. They have been, too, the
sign of progress in intellectual power and skill of the
general body of the nation, of whose advance the il-
lustrious men of whom I speak are the mere striking
representatives. The palace or cathedral is not a
mere exceptional work, to be studied and admired
as something quite beyond the ordinary verge of
art, but as the mere culminating point of it ; not a
mere isolated peak standing as a landmark for all
time, and utterly disengaged from anything around,
but as the summit point of the minds and works of
a people with whom art was ever present, and
amongst whom the appreciation of form and detail
was innate—who had been so used to see the beau-
tiful or severely true before them in every stage of
ordinary life, no matter how trivial, how common,
that they had been self-trained, unknowingly
taught and educated to understand, and appreciate,
and practise it. It is from the general training and
educition of a people that must ultimately come
those greater efforts of the mind which some would
seem to think may rise spontaneously from the bar-
ren soil of ignorance in art. Think if it ever did so.
Look at the objects now gathered into our museums
as things for us to value and study, classed now as
works of art, beautiful alike in form and detail.
Why, one half of them were the mere household
gods of the Roman and the Greek—the ordinary
accompaniments of the medieval convent or church.
You stop at a lovely bronze, a delicately moulded
piece of earthenware, and a delicately tinted page,
and you find that it was a lamp that lighted their
chamber, the frame of one of their little mirrors,
the missal which they used at prayer. You will
ass the most skilful of us will pass—many an
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hour before we design anything more graceful, yet
more useful and more true withal than the com-
mon household pottery of the Romans—their
wine vessels, the very spouts which took the
water from their roofs, the utensils of the
kitchen, the ladles, and the great bronze cauldrons
which they used there. And think of the skill
which the common blacksmith of our country showed
in the commonest things of use--the handle of a key,
the hinge of a door, the cover of a book. And these
things, though looked upon (as indeed they are) as
art-relics now, were not made up for us to see as
something special to be put aside as things for study.
I doubt if the most advanced of Romans ever
dreamed that the things his servants used—the lamp
that lighted his chamber, his ladles and his caldrons,
would be considered of so great value as to form the
ornaments of a museum. And little did the village
blacksmith think, as he forged the massive hinge or
chased the delicate little key, that it would be
covered up in after times in a glass case as a thing
to be admired, and considered, and talked about as
one that we would equal if we could. And even less,
perhaps, did he imagine that, in a few centuries only
and in his own land, the very traditions of his work
would be so lost that the fabric of the metal, the
' design in which he worked it, and the method of its