The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-02 00:00:00

BREVET.

Lieutenant-Colonel Robert B. Hawley, 60th Foot, hav-
ing completed the qualifying service with the rank of
Lieutenant-Colonel, to be Colonel, under the Royal War-
rant of 14th October, 1858.
Paymaster, with the honorary rank of Captain, John
Henry King, 2nd Dragoons, to have the honorary rank of
Major.
Paymaster, with the honorary rank of Captain, Thomas
Cassidy, 30th Foot, to have the honorary rank of Major.
Paymaster, with the honorary rank of Captain, John
Langran Giddings, who retires upon half-pay, Into of the
32d Foot, to have the honorary rank of Major.

ADMIRALTY, MAY 30.
Royal Marine Artillery—First Lieutenant 0 tway Wheeler

Cuffee to be Captain, vice Cox, appointed Instructor In
Gunnery. Second Lieutenants to be First Lieutenants--
George Farquharson Pengelley, the -Hon. Henry Aylmer,
William La Trobe Cockcraft, Patrick William O'Connor,
Augustus James Hill, James Sandys Bird, Charles Cooper
King, and Walter Miller Lambert.

BANKRUPTS,
That portion of the " Gazette" containing the Bank.
rupts had not arrived when we went to press.

Exhibition of Miniatures at South Ken-

sington.

The Department of Science and Art, with the aid
of a committee of noblemen and gentlemen, known
as the hereditary possessors of works in Miniature,
or as connoisseurs and collectors, have in less than
three months got together such a collection of
Miniatures as has never before been assembled. The
collection was opened for private view yesterday.
It includes more than 3,000 examples of the highest
interest, in enamel, oil and water-colour, chalk and
pencil, by the leading Miniaturists from the 16th
century down to the present day.
England is rich beyond all other countries in such
works, and the internal quiet the country has en-
joyed for the last four centuries—only- partially
broken as respects the succession to family wealth
and honours even by the two revolutions which
England has gone through within that period—has
allowed of a continuous accumulation of these trea-
sures such as has been possible in no other country.
All the finest family collections seem to have been
freely opened to the Department of Art and the
committee ; and the masterpieces thus brought toge-
ther are displayed with admirable effect in two of
the handsome rooms lately opened at Kensington.
Considering the short time in which the collection
has been made, arranged, and catalogued, the
organizers of the exhibition deserve great credit for
the way in which they have managed the business.
The only drawback of the collection—as we feel
painfully when called upon to give a notice of it on
the spur of the moment--is its abounding riches.
The great interest of the collection, apart from its
instructiveness to artists and those who wish to make
a critical study of miniature art, is historical. We
have here, in little, a gallery embracing almost every
notable figure in the social, political, and literary
life of England from the reign of Elizabeth,
and throwing light in a variety of ways upon man-
ners, family history, the relations of parties and per-
sons, the scandals, friendships, and fashions, which
makes up the warp and woof of the canvas on which
the historian works his larger pictures. The styles
of the successive schools of miniature reflect the
times as much as the personages painted. From the
earnest gravity, and unaffected, unadorned truth of
Holbein, whose intense grasp of character is as ap-
parent in the jewel-mounted card of three inches in
diameter as in the life-size canvass, we pass to the
dainty finish of Nicholas Hilliard, in whose marvel-
lous elaboration of dresses and ornaments we see the
influence of a Queen, whose feminine love of brave
apparel and manly beauty were as keen a§ if she had
not been one of the keenest politicians and most
active sovereigns who ever filled a throne, and thence
through the Olivers and Hoskins, on to the revival
of a graver and plainer taste, embodied inithe noble
heads of Cooper. The style that fitted the grim
times of the Commonwealth gradually disappears
to give place to the courtly grace of perriwigged
courtiers and the lavish display of loose-robed
feminine charms by Petitot and the French school,
which was on the ascendant on the revolution
of 1688 ; and this again is succeded by the more
native strength of our early academicians, Hone
and Cotes, Meyer and Ozias Humfrey, and the
enamellers who worked after Reynolds, till the
affected and luscious taste of the,Regency culmi-
nates in Cosway, Smart, and Shelley, and gradu-
ally gives place to the familiar style of our own
Ross and Newton and the higher refinement of
Thorburn, Moira, and Wells.
And now the work of the miniature painter seems
to have been handed over to the sun, and the photo-
grapher appears likely soon to be the only painter in
little. If this collection does nothing else, it will show
how much such a consummation leaves to be re-
gretted. For we may here learn that art on a small
scale may be fine art in the truest sense of the term ;
and before some of these true Holbeins and Hil-
liards, and these inimitable Coopers—never equalled
by anything on the same scale for character and
largeness of style, and not surpassed, in these re-
spects, by the best portraits of Vandyke himself--
we must admit that the mind as well as the hand of
the artist is just as necessury to produce fine minia-
ture portraiture as to paint fine historical pictures.
Among the richest cases and contributions in vari-
ous styles may be mentioned Lord Cremorne's (A)
for its enamels by- Hurter, and its Petitots, father
and son, in which last, however, the collections of
Mr. John Jones, Mr. Holford, and the Due
d'Aumale are richer still ; those of Mr. Samuel Ad-
dington (304 to 319) for Antonio Mores, Hilliards,
and Coopers ; those of Mr. Magniac for Holbeins,
Hilliards, and Mores ; those of Mr. Charles Polhin
and Mr. John Berners and the Duke of Devonshire
for portraits of the Cromwell family, and other nota-
bilities of the Commonwealth, many of them by
Cooper ; those of Mr. J. Heywood Hawkins for
small heads in oil of the 16th and 17th centuries,
some by Hoskins, Oliver, Jansen, Gerbier, and many
not to be identified with any particular painter, but
most of them of singular merit ; those of Lord Bos-
ton, for two Holbeins of the rarest quality (1,011
and 1,029), and a number of others, hardly inferior,
but too long to enumerate. Of family collections,
here are selections from the unrivalled miniature
gallery of the Duke of Bucgleuch, embracing all
styles of miniature art and all classes of notables
in the people painted ; from that of the Spencers,
remarkable for its value in illustration of the
Marlborough family and its branches, and of the
whole Spencer connexion; of the Duke of Richmond
and the Earl of Abingdon ; of the Earl of Gosford,
of equal interest for illustration of art and the
family history; of Mr. Alexander Trotter, contain-
ing such curious " Jacobite relics" as the portraits
by Sir Robert Strange of the young Chevalier, the
Countess of Albany, and Cardinal York, of his own
wife and children, his wife's father, Mr. William
Lumsden, who was " out in the '45," and, in
strange juxtaposition with all these, the miniature
of George 111., taken when the Jacobite painter had
become a favourite engraver at Court.
Hopeless, at present, of giving anything like even
a comprehensive outline of all that is to be found of
especial value in these 3,000 minatures, we may
refer to single examples of such interest as the por-
trait of Charles I. (1,064), set in the King's hair,
dipped in blood on the scaffold, an heirloom in the
Shelly family, and which belonged to John Winck-
ley, executed at Lancaster Castle with the Earl of
Derwenwater after the rising of 1715. On the back
of this relic are engraved the names of the family,
who rose again far the Stuarts in 1745, and the
Dowager Lady Shelley, to whom it was be peathed
by her father, a Winckley of Brockholes, or Lancas-
ter, remembers to have worn it when a child on some
Jacobite anniversary about 1790. Against this we
may set the miniature, after Cooper, in enamel, of
Cromwell (351), presented by him to his daughter,
Bridget Cromwell, on her marriage with General
Ireton (332), and a number of other authentic
portraits of the Protector, including the Crewe one,
left by Sir Joshua Reynolds to Burke. Here, lentby Miss 0 !Ivry, is the miniature of Emma, Lady
Hamilton, taken from the neck of Nelson after his
death. Here (987 and 988), sidebyside,:apoie
from the
hand of the same painter, Isabcy, , hang
and the Duke of Wellington, contributed
contrtibe rtutpeodbryaiLts oford
Cowley ; and a little further on, the
Louis Napoleon and the Empress Eugenie, presented
to Lord Cowley by the Emperor, in commemoration
of the Congress of Paris inislBasc6ur. And here,serie sleonftrbey
Captain _
cordfroDm. tpheainhaanrd' l‘olf.Pdosway of an ill-fated and
ill-requited attachment—portraits of Mrs. Fitzher-
bert and the Prince ; miniatures of her eye and his,
once, no doubt, interchanged, and their wedding
ring, with the name of George Augustus Frederick,
engraved within the hoop.
We have said enough to indicate, and we can at
present do no more than indicate, the extraordinary
wealth and interest of this collection, which will, no
doubt, form one of the chief art attractions of the
season, and which reflects the highest credit on all con-
cerned in getting it together and arrangingit.— Tinzes

Bank of England neturn..—Last Evening.

The alterations shown in the following particulars
of the Bank of England return are very en-
couraging :
Active Circulation
Increase...
Bullion

Increase..

Dcreasee
Public Deposits ...
Increase... ...
Other Deposits ...
Increase
Seven Day and Other Bills
Increase... .
Government Securities ...

Increase..
Other Securities ..

Increase...
Notes Unemployed
Increase...

.•• £20,910,595
48,680
... 15,838,491
539,223
3,190,279
2,551
▪ 8,706,848
709,743
13,919,431
▪ 367,571
511,603
83,028
11,480,025

495,584
... 19,823,240

103,964
8,658,780
511,340

The Bank of France return may also be viewed
in a favourable light. The bullion has been in-
creased £184,000; the Treasury balances have been
augmented £26,666 ; and the current accounts,
£504,000. An addition of £264,000 has, however,
been made to the notes in circulation, but a decrease
of £40,000 has taken place in the bills discounted.
The failure has been announced of Messrs. Ful-
cher, Cooper, arid Co., East India merchants, of
Liverpool and Bombay, with liabilities estimated at
about £400,000.

Business in the Foreign and Colonial Produce
Markets during the last few days has been rather
inactive, owing to the absence of many of the prin-
cipal dealers at the races, and prices generally have
shown little change of importance.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

JEWELLERY ROBBERY AT A GOLDSMITR'S.—Mary Webb,
a well-dressed female, who gave the address 25, New-
street, Birmingham, and described herself as a bonnet
maker, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with stealing a
bracelet and a pair of ear-rings of the value of £l3, the
property of Mr. Watherston, goldsmith, 12, Pall Mall East.
Mr. Watherston, jun., said—About half-past six yester-
day evening the prisoner came to my father's shop, 12,
Pall Mall East, and looked at a quantity of jewellery. She
then selected a bracelet and a pair of ear-rings, and a neck-
lace and a pair of •ar-rings, desiring that they should be
sent to No. 23, Oxford-terrace this afternoon, when those
approved of would bepaid for. The prisoner then left the
shop, and my father, having a suspicion of her, sent the
porter to see which way she went. Directly after I missed a
bracelet of the value of £l3, and a pair of ear-rings of the
value of £3O. The porter shortly after returned to the
shop, and said he had seen the prisoner talking to a person
in the street, and my father then sent the porter after the
prisoner, who was just getting into a cab, and she was
brought back. As soon as the prisoner got into the shop
she bundled up to tho counter and dropped the two cases
produced, one containing the earrings, and the other the
bracelet.

Mr. Tyrwhitt—You are sure you saw her drop them ?

Witness—l am
Mr. Tyrwhitt—Did they drop on the floor or on the
counter ?

Witness—On the counter. On my telling her that she
had dropped the articles she denied doing so. My
father, who had gone after the prisoner, having returned
to the shop, ga,-,t) tho prisoner into custody, when she again
denied having touched the articles.

Mr. Tyrwhitt—Are the earrings produced those you
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missed ?

Witness—They are. They had been shown to her as
well as the bracelet amongst other articles, but they were
not those she selected to be sent to Oxford-terrace.

Robert Stokes, 226 A—On prosecutor charging the pri-
soner with stealing the articles she denied doing so.
Sergeant Huntley, 32 A, asked for a remand, stating
that he wished to make inquiries respecting the prisoner,
who had given an address in Birmingham.
Mr. Tyrwhitt remanded the prisoner.