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London, England, 1854-05-01 00:00:00

THE ROYAL ArADEJIY.

art. The whole scene is suffused with the nocturnal
spieiidoUr—tile are: oy it—at.d 1.r.4,116
across the sea that broad flood of the glory of the moon-
beams, which we remember one of our most popular liv-
ing writers has said, very beautifully, appeared to him
in the day dreams of his childhood, to be the veritable
pathway up to heaven. One can hear, in imagination,
on that calm summer night in Provence, under the walls
of that grey old castle, in the midst of the lustre of that
divine moonlight, mingled with the sound of the surges
not far off, and with the rippling strings of the lyre
played in accompaniment to the war song, the grand,
vibrant, sonorous tones of the voice of Bertrand de
Boru, chaunting to the winds of night his triumph as a
trop badour. In (403) " The Last Sleep of Argyll," by
E. M. 'Ward, we have an affecting historical incident,
realised with all the vividness of reality. This picture,
we learn from the catalogue, is one of a series painted
for the Commons' corridor, by order of the Royal Com-
missioners. It is a work in every respect worthy of its
destination ; and cannot fail, we believe, materially to
enhance Mr. Ward's already high but still rising reputa-
tion. Unlike the majority of his productions of a similar
character—such, for example, as his representation of
the " Execution of Montrose," or of "Napoleon signing
his divorce from Josephine," or of "Louis XVI. and
his Family in the Temple," or of "Charlotte Corday on
her way to the Scaffold," wherein Robespierre, Danton,
and Desmoulins were portrayed as almost within arm's
length of the "Angel of Assassination "—unlike those
paintings, in all of which so many contrasting figures
were introduced, the production contributed to the
Royal Academy Exhibition for the present season by
Mr. Ward contains only three figures altogether—the
form of the recumbent Argyll, that of the gaoler, and
that of the renegade privy councillor. The incident is
taken from a passage in Macaulay's "History of Eng- •
land"—a touching incident here, most pathetically
treated. Sir Edwin Landseer contents himself with
two contributions to the gallery—one (360) being an-
, other of his inimitable dog-portraits, "Dandle Dinmont,
the favourite old Skye terrier of her Majesty the Queen,"
and the other, the more important work of the two (63),
a large painting representing " Royal Sports on Hill
and Loch," a picture in which the Queen, the Prince
Consort, the Prince of Wales, and Viscountess Jocelyn
are cleverly introduced. Prince Albert is assist-
ing her Majesty out of a boat— both gazing at
the same time with evident satisfaction at the
pile of slaughtered deer in the foreground, the
heir apparent on a pony to the left, and the Viscountess
unobtrusively in the background. Aithough Clarkson
Stanfield has three other pictures in the collection, (315)
will be regarded as the only one of an importance worthy
of his reputation—a wonderful glimpse of snowy moun-
tain scenery, being a view of the " Pic du Midi d'Ossau,'
in the Pyrenees. Mr. Webster indulges his many
admirers with three pictures—all of them small—but one
of them (85), "The Villager's Offering," capital as a
limning of rustic childhood. Mr. Roberts has contrived
to be almost as industrious as ever, though the loveliest
of his Venetian scenes cannot compensate for the lack of
another of his marvellous interior views of cathedral
architecture. Mr. Jones preserves to himself his pre-
eminence as a battle painter by his inspiriting memento
(13) of the victory of Hyderabad. There is another of
those luscious sunrises of mingled crimson and gloom, in
(34) " The Departure of Ulysses from Ithaca,"
which Mr. Danby paints as with the pencil of the
Magician of the Landscape. For all the picture tells us
to the contrary, however, the hero of it might be the
father of Gulliver quite as well as the father of Tele-
machus. The happiest product this year of the easel of
Mr. tr wins, is (79) " A Cabin in a Vineyard," a charm-
ing view, brought from the land of the grape, not a
hundred miles, we fancy, from Bordeaux. A graceful
embellishment to one of the daintiest passages in the
most delicately elaborated of all the poems of Pope, is
given, we are rejoiced to observe, by Mr. Leslie, in
(192) his well-selected scene from the " Rape of the
Lock." Sir Plume is the very perfection of empty-
headed foppishness, precisely the man in all the world
to be—

Immediately after her Majesty's visit to the Royal
Academy on Friday afternoon, we were amongst the
earliest of those who passed slowly round the three prin-
cipal rooms of the Exhibition. As a reward for our punc-
tuality in attendance, we were enabled to obtain some-
thing better than a merely casual glimpse of the paintings
arranged
the day
rntngedalong the walls --a rather unusual advantage
of " private view," when hats, elbows, and
bonnets ordinarily occupy afterwards the chief share of
our remembrance. It is perhaps not unworthy of re-
mark just now, when the evidences of loyal enthusiasm
possess a more than customary interest, that the Queen,
both on arriving and returning, was greeted on the 28th
'natant by the assembled crowd with acclamations. Her
Majesty and his Royal I.lighness the Prince Consort
were accompanied on the occasion by the Prince of
Wales, the Princess Royal, and by two or three of the
Younger children. During the stay of the royal family
within the walls of the National Gallery, the concourse
outside appeared to watch with peculiar sati-faction the
seven state carriages and the scarlet and gold liveries in
attendance. Directly after the Sovereign had taken her
departure, we ascended the staircase, and were rewarded,
as already intimated, with a leisurely, and what
Tight be called with more reason than usual, a really
'private view" of the present year's collection. Scarcely
any one had arrived at the time of our entrance, but
Prior to our taking leave of it, the gallery had become
tolerably well crowded with the privileged throng accus-
tomed to assemble on this annual occasion of the private
view of the Royal Academy—a throng including most
of the celebrities of the day, whether members of the
aristocracy or members of the republic of literature—
the vernal paradise of the tuft-hunter or the hero-
Worshipper where he may have the delight of rubbing
ibv
with eminent statesmen, authors, peers, and
academicians.
86th season of 1854 brings the Royal Academy to its
'uth exhibition. So that it has long since passed its
grand climacteric. It has survived even the three
;core years and ten allotted on the average to humanity.
It has advanced yet further, and has coma to be more
than an octogenarian. It is interesting to glance back,
siren for a few hurried moments across the interval of
°f those eighty-six years, from 1854 to 1768, from the
Present date of its existence to that of its original insti-
tau
t, 0°• Curiously enough it is the precise interval occupied
"Y the life of the recently deceased Marquis of Anglesey.
When that veteran was born in 1768, the Royal Academy
Was just then established. He expires, now, in 1854,
the
i° years and honours, almost simultaneously with
the
opening of the academy's eighty-sixth exhibition. At
c former date, namely, in the year of our Lord 1768,
the French Revolution had not commenced. It was not
.ar
'rom the eve of its breaking out. The last great
Eur
f
of its
war was, therefore, fast approaching the verge
"" its dread beginning. At this moment the nations are
somewhat similarly, nay, yet more perilously, situated.
"te this still more memorable year of our Lord 1854, the
Preliminary sounds of another great European war are
4lrea(l9 becoming audible—only under rather different
"cumstances —thanks be to God, under rather different
t 0 each
! Not with England and France opposed
each other in deadly animosity, but with a cordial
'nuns established between their people and their Govern-
)3lellts• Not a war in defence of the " right divine,"
et .absolutism of tyranny, of " legitimacy" not
ar,a war of conquest or of spoliation, but a war
ainst despotism, against autocracy, in behalf of
go weak, in defence of truth, in vindication of justice,
14t the triple cause of peace, freedom, and civilisation.
1
is a wonderful contrast altogether, that presented by
th
°°toparison of these two notable dates in the history
` the Royal Academy, 1768 and 1854, the date of its
glindation and the date of its eighty-sixth anniversary.
ew many brilliant triumphs of the brush and of the
chisel have been achieved by its more illustrious disciples
between the time when Sir Joshua Reynolds held and that
When Sir Charles Eastlake holds the distinction of its
Presidency ! How many noble reputations have been
made within its walls between the epochs when Oliver
Goldsmith anti when Henry Hallam enjoyed the hono-
rary title of the Academy's Professor of Ancient History
---between thEi marvellously contrasting, though after
all not such very widely separated, dates when Dr.
Johnson and zvhen Mr. Macaulay occupied the Aca-
demy's chair-of the Professorship of Ancient Literature !
k retrospective glance like this, we cannot but feel
kssured, will be, regarded as not altogether invaluable,
because we rest ;satisfied that among the majority of the
more reflective Pt will be found, especially at this pre-
sent moment, in many important particulars, altogether
Wonderfully suggestive.
Art flourishes ii a the midst of War. The truth has
's en often almost miraculously illustrated. Amongst
our neighbours, di( I not David rise into celebrity as an
historical p
v ainter, first of all through the civil agonies of
° Reign of Terror, and then afterwards through all
tiic
e sanguinary gloi ies of the empire ? It was the same
thearlY about the sa .me time with the sister art of Sculp-
ture fan me was contemporaneous with that
or Napoleon. Art, we repeat, flourishes in the midst of
t, • Ristory has declared this, experience has proved
rail' even in the c Imatinental lands which have been
ravaged by the armi, is of the belligerents. How much
m°
re
securely therefo re in those countries which, by their
f`scigr
al) ical position , are secluded for the most part
erx°-' calamities of th at appalling character ! As, for
P 41,,1,TPie, in our own " snug little island," where, as on
I"eri.a3' afternoon, the .monarch could saunter through the
told. es of her Academy of Arts, at the period when her
pos 'era are being clasp ttched to the Turkish frontiers to op-
-11,1.5 the advancing honles of the northern Autocrat, while
()
""e
111,11!iltY fleets have k,yone forth into the Baltic and
.`/•Enxine, to fight, side by side with those of
ante, the battle of civith3ation.
thl4°°lg-ing nearer home t •han to France and Italy—
e fatherland of David an d CanoVa—we certainly find
fitilia°llgst ourselves at the pi resent day, that whether art
f
VI-ribBhes in the midst of ivar or not, the rumours of
5 at any rate failed to affect it in any eon-
o n°llB Inpaunbnliecr
view within
The collection now
Zelecied to the walls of the Royal
fa,tor amy affords proof of th is, proof in every way satis-
'tie .3% The season of 1854 play in this respect, indeed,
t 17411 the average of its recent predecessors. The
I,re-o'43' of this is shown abundantly among the 1,531
toßrkmB of art, in painting and sculpture, here arranged
refetsr for exhibition. Especially is this the case in
rem-tlee to a considerable protportion of the 628 more ,
4lonl-iLable or more highly favoured pictures disposed
diet.'le walls of the three principal apartments.
few: of these, perhaps half a dozen of them, are I
41441 gu ißhecl by their extraordinary merit scarcely less
?Y their ambitious chara eter. Several others
Itiqe-1 by
the praise due to uncomm on excellence. A con-
theeburt le number secure approval by their evidences of
511:141"°11 of skill, ability, and application. The rest are
lo; "3' above, or are on a level with, or are a little be
the tilledi"ritY. Altogether, therefore, we repeat that
1/4?°h-ection for the season of 185-4, the 86th Annual
the a-ipti°4 of the Royal Academy, may compete with
tr:-raie of its recent predecessors.
say 011eStionably the most attractive, perhaps we should
it (37'4: Most arresting, picture in the whole exhibition
Pre by Daniel Maclise—an enormous painting re-
'" Strongbow's Marriage with the Princess
rogl: the bride being the daughter of Dermot MacMur-
Place' ;leg of Leinster, and the marriage ceremony taking
sad,ll the battle-field immediately after the terrible
asia theecasfu) siege of the city of Waterford. Gigantic
the vane canvass, it is for the most part crowded with
ektrao4:l°llB groups introduced, and every portion of this
nisll,,r(i'illarY picture, moreover, appears to have been
norm:- with the utmost degree o elaboration—an ela-
*ha"' indeed, kindred in its minuteness with that
44. delineated every petal of the May blossoms in
o M'aitbeliBe's " Alfred in the Camp of the Danes,"
VDelvi." that again which defined every individual
/4 We:: 11.18 " Caxton's Workshop" in the sanctuary
of tb, -rainstea. The principal personages in the centre
44RterPainting are arranged with admirable effect—an
e Pathos depicted on the visage of the defeated
the :I'6;
loveliness in the form of the bride, valour in
fueed~ed and knightly figure of the bridegroom. Con-
While usaPs of the dead and dying litter the foreground,
Vitie; .11 the rear and high up along the adjacent awn-
tho a the Melee of still contending belligerents fills up
or
tiatioulple measure of the composition. A single exami-
i„, n, however attentive, of this daring work of art,
ep..
ciatiotrso altogether inadequate for its complete appre-
sPieqo .uMr. Maclise's large picture occupies a con-
notables place in the "Middle Room," and two other
eaqern Painting. ^onfront each other—one on the
the
laebt. other on the western wall of the same apart
(352) "The Song of the Troubadours," by
Nur. yolk. we recognise the genius of that gifted
poet, whose hand has so often before commanded
fate
admiration—conjuring up with equal facility the
ll
qui3r of the holy home of Job, and the grim tragedy
of streets revealed by the lurid light of the brazier
lomon Eagle during the Piag
ue of London. Mr.
115ile has seldom revealed greater or
ewee raltehdano i nt
sti,
dh
t'le
lk° •
production in which he bashe p v
re
Ye
eobattlements of the Castle of Haute-Fort, inu Pro-
the seashore, the heroic form of Bertrand de
th:the warrior-bard of the 12th century, chaunting in
moonlight one of those glorious metrical romances—
va iar songs of the Troubadours. Never before on can-
L'ave we seen such moonlight ! It is a triumph oh

of amber snuff-box justly vain,
And the nice conduct of a clouded cane."

We venture to predict a wide popularity for Mr.
Frank Stone's (258) version of "The Old, Old Story,"
whenever it shall be reproduced in an engraving. It i s
delicious. According to Mr. Charles Dickens " the old,
old story" is Death, judging from his account of little
Paul Dombey's departure. According to Mr.
Frank Stone, " the old, old story " is Love —if
we may guess from that coy maiden listening, half-
fluttered, half-delighted, to the whispered nonsense of
the comely young fisherman. In (330) every one will
recognise at the first glance the delightful mannerism of
Mr. Frost—his chef d'auvre for 1854 being a group sym-
bolical of " Chastity," as suggested by an allegoric pas-
sage of exquisite beauty occurring in Milton's masque of
" Comus." Mr. Goodall has had recourse to a more
modern poet for inspiration. A couplet in Mr. Rogers'
"Pleasures of Memory" exactly depicts the central
charm of his admirable picture of (50) " The Swing"—
round which we have watched the observant faces of the
urchins wondering at the little lassie as she
" Soared in the swing half pleased, and half afraid,
Thro' sister elms that waved their summer shade."

From Mr. Goodall this season we are compelled to con-
tent ourselves with this one production. Somewhat
tantalising !
But then—how many are altogether absent from the
gallery this year among our more eminent artist-con-
temporaries ! Mr. Mulready, as usual, has nothing—
resting, as he well may at last, upon the ample laurels
of his reputation. Neither has Mr. Dyce anything.
Nor has Mr. Herbert. Nor has Mr. Elmore.
And we believe we might, with a little trouble,
still further extend the list of the defaulters among the
academicians. Conspicuous, however, among all the
more notable painters who contribute nothing whatever
to the collection of 1854--conspicuous, although only an
associate—is Mr. Millais, the leader of the pre-Raphael-
ites. His absence, for once, from among the number
of competitors for public applause, is sincerely to be
regretted. For of late his unquestionably high genius
has revealed the progress of a manifest and remarkable
development. The school, or rather the revival-of-the-
school, of which he may be regarded as the chief origi-
nator, and as certainly the principal champion and
ornament—is but indifferently represented even by a
gifted disciple like Mr. Hunt, the most notable among
all the disciples of Mr. Millais—from the former of
whom we have this year (337) " The Awakened Con-
science," and (508) "The Light of the World," each in
( its way astonishingly clever, but both wonderfully ex-
travagant. Although an academician, Mr. Cope, by
the way, has, particularly of late, shown himself some-
thing of a pre-Raphaelite. In testimony of which we
have simply to refer to (217) "The Friends," and to
(84) " Baby's Turn"—the latter especially fraught with
the graces of truth and tenderness.
Several humorous pictures of more than common
merit shine out through all the surrounding seriousness
of the collection. Pre-eminent among these we would
at once place (157) " Life at the Sea Side," by Mr. Frith
—an elaborate representation of the gaieties and oddities
of a watering place, pencilled with much of the fun of
Hood, and with some of the wisdom of Hogarth. Im-
mediately after this exceedingly clever performance, come
the companion paintings of Mr. Solomon.-(314) "First
Class : the Meeting," and (361) " Second Class : the
Parting"—the last mentioned, however, mingling some-
what of the pensive also with the broadly humorous. As
illustrative of the manners and customs of England in
this age of railroads, love, and adventure, Mr. Solo-
mon's twin pictures of First and Second Class are drolly
and delightfully characteristic.
Several attractive works of a somewhat less pretentious
description than those already mentioned deserve,
however, to be here especially particularised. The
visitor will not fail to remark with interest
the quaint little sketch (9) of " Cinderella," by
George Cruikshank—in which the crickets, and the
rats, and the pumpkin figure very prominently.
There is some humour too in (176) "Dr. Johnson at
Cave's the publisher," by H. Wallis—at least in the
supercilious expression of the serving-maid, who brings
the plate of meat behind the screen to the poor thread-
bare scholar. Considerable sweetness of expression is
brown into the faces of the tiny toddling "Children

in the Wood," (344) painted by J. Sant, with colours
taken from the palette of the Pre-Raphaelite. We can-
not but recognise at a glance, moreover, in (390) " The
Lady Emily" of G. Landseer, abundant promise both
in skill of hand and in liveliness of imagination, The
thought is taken from the " White Doe of Rvlstone."
We shall look for still bette things from the young
artist when he goes in quest of his theme elsewhere
than to the rhythmical feebleness of Wordsworth. A
smile will, we doubt not, be provoked from the lips of
the majority of observers by R. Hannah's representa-
tion (426) of "The Countess of Nithsdale Petitioning
George 1.,"—a picture distinguished by its preposter-
ously grotesque exaggeration.
Of landscapes, this year, there are but few in the
Royal Academy's collection deserving of any particular
commendation. Messrs. Lee and Cooper, however,
still labour together in such wise as to command every
now and then our cordial and unaffected admiration.
As, for example, in (362) that lovely perspective of
the bough-canopied road with the flock of sheep
scattered about it in shadow and sunshine. Mr.
Redgrave, in (212) "An Old English Homestead,"

" Like sportive deer they coursed about,
And shouted as they ran—
Turning to mirth all things of earth,
As only boyhood can ;
But the Usher sat remote from all,
A. melancholy man."

•

delights our eye with a truly national landscape, as in
02u) :le Cii ~1 La, a, v,it;l a giia,pk; ul Lite sylvan solitude
of " The Mid-wood Shade." A curious effect of watery
air is produced by Mr. Creswick in (302) " The Pass-
ing Cloud," one of the most notable works in this de-
partment of the exhibition. Another of Mr. Anthony's
microscopic delineations of foliage (420), " Nature's
Mirror," cannet by possibility be overlooked.
In portraits the Gallery is for the present season pe-
culiarly rich—in portraits, we mean, of superior excel-
lence. The most commendable among all which are un-
questionably two very noble paintings from the
master-hand of F. Grant, the academician (69)
"Mr. Macaulay," and (193) a full length of
" Lord John Russell." Both are wonderfully life-
like, and hit off exactly the character, or the intellectual
personality as it may be termed, of the two distinguished
statesmen. There are two other historical portraits, as
they may be called, which will be recognised by many
as having been already exhibited elsewhere in the galle-
ries of popular printsellers--(14) " His Imperial Majesty
Napoleon III.," by J. G. Middleton—a surprisingly
good likeness ; and (247) " Nelson meditating in the
Cabin of the Victory, previously to the Battle of Tra-
falgar," a picture some months since mentioned by our-
selves in these columns eulogistically. Personages of
various note will be recognised in effigy in all parts of
the collection. Here (74) " Viscount Gough," by Grant,
in the dress worn by the noble veteran in his battles in
Hindostan. Here (133) the "Duchess of Argyll and the
Marquis of Lorn," by W. S. Herrick—neither mother
nor son, however, in this latter picture, painted very
pleasingly. There (206) "Lord Dufferin in his robes as
a Peer, ":a production of considerable merit by A. Schyfer,
although marred in some measure by the hardness of
Pre-Raphaelism. There, again (372), the brave old
"Earl of Dundonald," by W. Ross. Yonder H. Wei-
gall's recollection (381) of the "Duke of Wellington,"
and, not far from it, T. N. Joy's well-known portraiture
of the gallant Sir Charles Napier, the Baltic Commander-
in-Chief. Several others might be particularised in de-
served terms of commendation. But among the many
meritorious portraits of private individuals scattered
through the collection, an especial word of praise is com-
manded for itself by (321) the exceedingly clever "Portrait
of a Lady," by T. Brigstock, an artist of already advanced,
but still advancing, reputation. It may not be forgotten
that it was to the brush of Mr. Brigstock the public
were indebted for that remarkable full-length painting
of Cardinal Wiseman, robed in his scarlet vesture, which
a season or two back arrested such general observation.
The present work from the same hand reveals in several
particulars an evid6nt advance in the artist's already
recognised skill as a portrait painter. Without any know-
ledge whatever of the original, it is obvious at a glance
that the picture has the peculiar merit of a vraisem-
blance. Another portrait revealing particular ability in
the artist is (198) that of the Rev. E. Hearn, by E.
Kaulbach—a work of art full of thoughtful expression
and intellectual individuality. There are numerous
other heads hardly less ingeniously pencilled, several of
them, as, for instance, the portraits of "Dr. Forbes Wins-
low" (128), of "Colonel Sabine" (182), and of the late
" Viscount Beresford" (125), depicting men of celebrity
in various departments or professions.
A cursory glance is all we have yet been enabled to
take at the numerous contributions to the collection of
sculpture arranged in the downstairs apartment. It is
difficult, however, to pass over without allusion in this
division of the exhibition, to the exquisite bronze relievi
by Matthew Noble— (1398 and 1400)—illustrative of the
"Bridge of Sighs" and of the "Dream of Eugene
Aram," portions of the now famous monument on the
eve of being erected over the grave of Thomas Hood
in Kensal-green Cemetery. The former of these emi-
nently beautiful works. of art is expressive in every
graceful line and swell of the metal of the pathos of
the poor poet's stanza :

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Besides these touching tributes from the genius of the
artist to that of the departed poet, Mr. Noble, we ob•
serve, has contributed to the Academy this year, besides
another bust, a vigorous and lifelike semblance (1489)
of George Stephenson, the Watt of Railroads and the
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Do., A Deferred...
Do., B B Guaranteed

Torili Loudon
o. New £lO

N. &S. Wstrn. , Hainp-
stead, and City Ju
North Staffordshire
North Western

N. & S. Westru. June.
Nuneaton, Hinckley,
and Leicester..

Oxford, Worcester,&
Wolverhampton
Portsmouth

Scottish Central
Scottish Midland
Shrewsbury & Bi i mg
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hrewsby. & Berefd
hrewsby. & Chester
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Do. Oswestry.

Shropshire Union
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paid up at per cent
South Devon
South Eastern
South Wales
S. Yrksh. & Riv. Dun
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16i
100

Staines,Wok. &Wok
Stockton & Darling.
Stockton & Hartlepl
Taff Vale
De. £lO shares.

In the room devoted to drawings and miniatures it will
be seen that Sir W. C. Ross has proved himself, as so often
before, industrious. No less than eight of his graceful and
inimitable portraits are contributed to the collection by
Mr. Carrick—the artist famed long since for his popular
and well-known drawings of such celebrities as the noble
Lord the present Leader of the House of Commons, as
the great Italian Basso, or as the yet greater Irish
Liberator. Lance, of course, contributes another of his
gorgeous fruit-pieces (435) : and, though last, not least,
the distinguished President of the Royal Academy con-
fides this year to his one isolated picture of "Irene"
(129), the difficult but not overwhelming task of sustain-
ing his artistic reputation.

Do. Pref., No. 1
Thames Haven Dock
and Railway
Vale of Neath

Closing Prices
Saturday.

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THE CANADA WORKS, BIRKENHEAD.

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The Canada Works are a thing of magic, in the rapi-
dity with which they have been constructed and brought
into active operation. Here it is that Messrs. Brassey,
Jackson, Peto, and Betts, the contractors for the Grand
Trunk Railway of Canada, are constructing their plant
and materials for carrying on that great undertaking.
The premises are very extensive and as complete as pos-
sible. The main building is 900 feet in length by 36 feet
in width, and there are also other erections. The yard
encloses a long water basin, where coals and other neces-
sary stores are landed at the very spot where they are
waited. Besides this, the line of railway is carried from
the docks to all parts of the yard. The establishment is
divided into two distinct compartments ; one for the
manufacture of locomotives, waggons, carriages, and
plant, and the other for the construction of bridges ; for
all the large bridges on the Canada Railway are to be
tubular ; and one of them, over the St. Lawrence, will
be a mile and three-quarters in length, throwing into
the shade all previous attempts at tubing, the famous
Britannia Bridge included. The general management
of the Canada Works is in the hands of Mr. Harrison, a
gentleman of great experience in such matters ; and the
" bridge department" is superintended by Mr. Evans, who
brings equal ability to the performance of his duties.
The main building is, of course, divided into separate
compartments, the principal of which is the fitting, turn-
ing, and erecting shop, a noble room, 300 feet long.
There is, also, the boiler-makers' shop, the smithy (with
22 furnaces), the brass-moulders' and copper-smiths'
shop, the pattern-makers' shop, the cast-iron foundry,
the warehouse, the store, and other smaller " shops. '
The bridge department includes two shops"—the
smithy and the plating-room. Spacious offices, and a
suitable house for the "foreman's " residence, stand
detached from the other buildings. There is, also, sta-
bling for a number of horses employed in " out-door "
work. The premises include an eating-room and a read-
ing-room, for the use of the artisans employed.
The locomotives and their tenders are entirely con-
structed at these works, as also all the castings, mould-
ings, and forging—in fact, all the iron-work—for the
carriages and waggons of the Grand Trunk Railway ;
but the wood-work and fitting-up of the latter are, for
very obvious reasons, effected in Canada, principally
at Montreal. Two large stationary high pressure
engines, of 30-horse power each, supply the motive
power to the numerous slotting, planeing, punch-
ing machines, steam hammers, and other me-
chanical contrivances for assisting the labour of
handicraftsmen. These machines are constructed by
Whitworth and Naysmith, of Manchester, Shank, of
Johnston, near Glasgow. The locomotives are constructed
ten at a time, and the first batch of ten are now drawing
towards completion—five of them for passenger and the
other five for goods traffic. It is expected that steam
will be up, and the first five of these ready for delivery
at their destination by the end of May. It will be in-
teresting to many to state that the Grand Trunk Rail-
way of Canada is on neither the " broad" nor the " nar-
row gauge principle. The Canadian gauge 5 feet 6
inches. The contractors have bought a large vessel to
be employed solely
nd fitted in conveyingttedso a
stht
o g
e locomotive
e vgaret andstowagecar-
riage work across the Atlantic, and her 'tween decks are
being opened up and
for such heavy freight. She can lay alongside the yard,
where there it a powerful crane that will hoist her car-
goes t
extent of the operations carried on at
the Canada Works, it may be somewhat premature to
of
the on buolatridina ase they are completed.
speak just now, but the number of men employed now
is upwards of 300, and every week additional hands aro
being taken on until the maximum of 600 is reached.
6 The monthlyot s,oooexpendi-
ture.and
Ile wages of the mechanics range from 28s to 34s per
weekinthweaagve-seraan
average being eing 31s. d.
isnow upwards
when the works are in full operation, it will be more
than double that amount, or at the rate of 120,0001. per
annum—all, or nearly all, of which will be spent amongst
the shopkeepers of Birkenhead. It is calculated that
the works are capable of turning out 40 locomotives, with
their tenders, in the course of a year, which, at the mo-
derate estimate of 2,5001. for each locomotive (they are
very large and powerful ones), gives 100,0001. per annum
for the work of that department alone. The carriage,
bridge, and miscellaneous plant work will probably reach
double that amount, and thus wo have 300,0001. worth
of work turned out yearly from the Canada Works alone.
The people of Canada have thus the assurance that their
great railway will be completed as speedily as possible,
for all bands are working over-time, and the machinery
is kept going night and day.—Liverpool Journal.

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Bris. & Ex. 4 p. c. St.
Do. 4 p. c. Shares
Caledonian £lO

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Chester & Holyhead
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Cork &Bandonsip.c I
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EastAnglian (£3los)
6 per cent
o. (x 5) 7 per cent
Do. (£7l7s) 7 p. c
Eastern Counties Ex-
tension, 5 p. c. No.l
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Do. New 6 p. c. St.
Eastern Union, Scrip
Guar. 6 per cent
Do. 51., 10 per cont.
Do. 101. Debentr.Sh-
East Lancash. 6 p. cts.
East and West York-
shire June. Pref...
Edinb Prth. &Dundee
per cent.
Glasgow & S. Western
Guar. 5 per cent
Great Northn. 5 p. c
Do. 5 p. c. Redeem.,
at 10 p. c. prem. ..
Do. 4,1 p. c. Scrip
Gt.N. of Scot. Ist Pref
Gt. Southn. &Westin.
(Ireland) Eighths)
Do. 4 per c. Pref. Sh,
Gt. Wcstn. (Berks &
Hants Ex. 5 p. c)
Do. cov. red. 4# p.c
Do. con. red. 4 p. c
Do. irred. 4 p. c
Lan. & York. F. £2O
Do. 6 p. c. Stock
Leeds N. 6 p. c. No.l
Do. Quarters, 1848
London and Brighton
Guaranteed 5 p. c
Do. Pref., 5 p. c. St.
Do. Convertible, 5 p.l
c.,1852
Do. New Guar.6 p.
Lon. &N. W., Coy. &
Nuneaton

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Londy. &Ennis.i Sh
Sian,, Shef., & Lin.

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Do. Consol. Bristol &
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Do. Pref. 4i per cent
Norfolk Debenture
Do. Pref. 4 p. c. Stock
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North Staffordshire
Oxford, Worcester, &
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Scot. Cent. , New Pref
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Shrewsby. & Chester
(Nor.W.Min), 8 p.c.
Do. 5 per cent

South Devon,

D. fixed, 4A per cent
S. Eastern (Readin
Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d.
Do. 4Aper cent.
S.Yorksh.4p.c.Guar
Stockton and Dar-

lington, 4 per cent
Do. do. do,
Stockton and Hartle-

pool, guar. 5 p. c.
till Ist July, 1856
Waterfd.&Kilk.6p.c.

York, Newcastle:and'

Len-vick,4 p.c. Pre

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Australian Cordillera
Australian Freehold
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Blaonarvon Ir. & Coal
("sritish Austrin. Gold
. British Iron
Brazilianlmp.(iisued
at £5 pm •
Do. Cocaes & Cuiada
Do. St. John Del Rey
Carson's Creek
Clarendon Con. Min
Co. of Jamaica_
Cobre Copper
Colonial Gold

Copiapo
Copper Min. of Eng
Do. Pref. 7h p. cent
English and Austrin

Copper Smeltg. Co.
General

Great Nugget Vein
Do. Registered
Great Polgooth
Liberty
Linares
Lond.&Californ.Gold

Quartz Crush. Co
11fariquita
Mexican&S.Amelien
New Granada

New Linares Mining
and Smelting Co
Nouveau Monde
Pontgibaud Silver
Lead Min. it Smelt
Port Philip
Quartz Rock
Rhymney Iron
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THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING-. MAZY' 1, 1854.

10 9 Antwerp&Rotterdam 4 —34 d xn xin
5 3 Belgian Eastn. June. A 1
20 8 Beziers to Gmissessac, 5 4cl
d2O 2s. Bombay, Baroda, an
Central India,Scrip ... —i p pm
. ... Central of Italy
20 all Charleroi & Erquelin ... ...
Hi all Demerara
20 14 Dijon and Besancon ... p
20 8 Dutch Rhenish. 44 3id
20 all East Indian lt —24 p
20 2 Do. Extension
1 A d
5 all Gt. Indian Peninsula 1 i p
20 10 Gd. Junct. of France ... ...
25 10 rd. Trunk of Canada . — d
100 30 10. Debentures .B
d d 24
100 all Do. do — ...
20 10 Gt. Central of France 41 3 d
204 all Gt.WestornofCanada
Shares .
... ... Do. Bonds (Ist is.ys7 9 -- 11
204 154 Hamilton & Toronto i —lp
100 all Do. 6 per cent.
20 5 Lake Const. & Basle ..,,
5 all 'Lucca &Pistoja 5 p.c
pref
20 15 Luxembourg 4i 5
10 10 Do. (Railway) 2A 3
5 2 Do. Pref 1- —1/
5 3 Do. (Canal) i 1
10 5 Do. 6p. et. pref li —11 d
20 8 Lyons and Geneva
20 12 Lyons & Mediterran
20 10 Madras i -- d
33i 33i Maria Antonia
10 all Do. do. New
20 2 Melbourne Dk. &Ry ,,, ...
20 all Namur & Liege (with
interest) 6i 7.}
20 all Do. (ex interest) — ...
16 all Northern of France 29A 30 293.
Do. 201. 3 p. c Bds
20 all (fmy. B. dr Ams. She.) . ...
10 all NorwegianTrunkPref 8 9 an
20 10 Paris and Lyons l2 1249
40 all Ditto Bonds
10 all Paris and Orleans 4l 43xd x a
20 all Paris and R0uen...... 32 —34
20 all Paris and Strasbourg 29 - - 294 291 i
20 10 ParisCaen & Cherbrg. ... .... ,pm
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20 all Rouen and Havre,....
20 12 Royal Danish 2 id
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MISCELLANEOUS
5 all Aubin Coal and Iron ... ...
25 1741 Australian Agricult. 37 38
20 14 Anstralsn.Pcific.Mail ... ...
10 8 Australn. Royal Mail .., ...
10 4 Berlin Water Works
... ...
50 40 Brit. American Land
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5 1 Brit. & Coln. Smeltg.
and Reduction Co ... ...
100 32 Canada 75 80
5 5 Crystal Palace 6a 6J- 6i /
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5 all Peel Rr. Ld. & Minrl. 1 i-d 4/ /
50 all Peninsular& Oriental .., ,„
50 35 Do.
2 all Portland Iron Co 4 -- 613
100 60 Royal Mail Steam , ~
1 all Scot. Austral. Invest'. 21 2Axd x d
25 25 South Austral. Land 31 36
1 all Submar. Telegraph i 1
1 all Do. Registered
100 28t Van Diemen's Land 10 —ll

DREADFUL COLLISION AND Loss OF 180 LIVES IN
THE BRITISH CHANNEL.—PORTSMOUTH, Saturday.—
The Bremen bark Favourite, Capt. Hoegman, with 180
passengers on board, which sailed on the 23d inst. from
Bremen for Baltimore, came into collision yesterday
morning, at two o'clock, off the Start, with the Ameri-
can bark Hesper, of Newburyport, Capt. Jones, from
Charleston for Antwerp. The Favourite was struck on
the starboard bow, and cut down to the water's edge,
her foremost at the same time going by the board. The
captain, mate, and four of the crew got on board the
American during the collision, leaving the unfortunate
passengers to their sad and untimely fate. The Fa-
vourite is supposed to have gone down instantly, with
180 human beings, as nothing could be seen of her at
daylight. Some of the crew were supposed to have got
into a boat, but nothing has been seen or heard of them.
The American sustained some damage, but proceeded on
her voyage. The captain, mate, and men that escaped
were brought on shore by the Agenora, pilot-boat, and
placed under the direction of Mr. Vandenbergh, the
Bremen consul at this port.
JUSTICE TO WOMEN.—Surely there is work wanting
to be done in the marital code of England ! Surely
there are wrongs to be redressed and reforms to be made
that have gone too long unmade ! Surely
.we have here
a righteous quarrel with the laws—more righteous than
many that have excited louder cries. Justice to women.
No fanciful rights, no unreal advantages, no propos•
terous escape from wottianly duty for the restless,
loud, and vain • no mingling of women with the
broils of political life, nor opening to them of careers
which nature herself has pronounced them incapable
of following ; no high-flown assertion of equality in
kind but simple justice. The recognition of their indi-
viduality as wives, the recognition of their natural right
as mothers, the permission to them to live by their own
honourable industry, untaxed by the legal right and
moral wrong of any man to claim as his own that for
which he has not wrought—reaping where he has not
sown, and gathering where he has not strewn. Justice
to women. This is what the phrase means ; this is
where the thing is truly wanted ; here is an example of
the great injustice done to them, and of their maltreat-
ment under the eyes of a whole nation, by the law.—
Dickens's Household Words.

1852.

1851.

1850.

1853.

I 1854.
Stockof
Irthis --1
dayc.: .. • • ..... 26,471 1 31,476 i 42,996 25,108 34,192
Price
ti Us 9d 38s (id •.0:363 Od to 47s 6d 48 Od to
'
ry last week .. 1,738 893 930 z 256 784
Ditto from June 1 .... 89,605 1 87750 98,730 98,081 89,741
, Arrivals last week.. 54 1 610 1,083 1,408 1,082
Dittofrom June 1.... 93,675 96,711 , 105,192: 82,561 100,618
Price of Town ...... 383 Od ••• 393 Gd I 383 Od 49s 3d , 64s 9d

SCOTTISH HOSPITAL.—On Friday a special general
meeting of this corporation was held in Crane-court, for
the election of pensioners. Mr. W. Kirk, one of the
governors of the corporation, presided. There were fifteen
vacancies, twelve of the first class, and three of the
second. Three scrutineers were appointed, and a ballot
took place at three o'clock. The meeting having been
summoned for the purpose of filling up the vacancies in
the list of pensioners, no other business was transacted.