The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-27 00:00:00

MORNING EDITION.

HAMBURGH MAIL.

ST. PETERSBURG, Arita 10.—Great numbers of peasants
belorigitig to the Crown in several populous Governments in
the centre of the Empire are now being sent to settle in the
lontlaern provinces. .By an Imperial order of the 29th of De-
cember last year many, of these peasants from' the Govern-
ments of Riasan, Tamboro, Kursk, Orel, Kharkoff, Pultawa,
arid Tschernigors are removed to unoccupied lands in the Go-
vernments of Saralow, Orenburg, Ekaterinortaf, and the pro-
vince of Caucasia, with the privileges secured by law to all
new setters.
STOCKHOLM, APRIL 16.—The Dagligt Allehanda says,
" We hear that his Majesty has been indisposed during the
Easter holidays, and is not yet quite well, and the Aftonblad
Kingpo(osfetdc-fdoraysk!ims,ale:ids:huysiits.,G.ALliaHjoesaustmyttuhNrerighALP
Lap:haraAss,pAbileipLern,2ll32a3ga. in indis-
Bills. Money
Austrian 0 per Cents. ........ ....... ............. 107% 1071 A
Bank Shares 166
Anglo-ltussian Loan lO. % 100
Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate ....„ 103 102%
Inscription, Ist Se.:l, lO2
Russian 5 per Cent. Hop., and Co. ad and 4th
Series irr, 9-
Ditto in Certificates
New 4 per Cent, (1540) B';',. i...; %
Dutch Actual Debt, 2;4 per Cent sl4i 51
Ditto 5 per Cent
Polish Bonds
New ticket
Anglo-Vanish Loan, 3 per Cert 75) 75%
Norwegian Lean, 1534, 4 per Celt... —
Spanish, New 5 per Cents. 16%
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, APRIL 23.-13 O.—Two months, 13 5.
STockiim.m, ;IPRIL its.—Seventy,fire days, 12. 0..: . .
BREMEN, APRIL 10 —Two months, 6 14.
isELt.l AN k U N Ds—isauessz, s , APRIL t
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent lo;t%
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent 'A :,,i
3 per Cent. .....
------ 7u% •
(1a40) llO%
Loan of City, 1832,4 per Cent bl % _
Societyot Commerce, 4X,per Cent lOO
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent tf%
National Society . ... —
Exchange on London (short)
—Brussels Papers, ,April 24.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.....VIBMNA, APRIL 13
five per Cents. Metalliques
Four per cents• •....... .......... .... ....... ... ........
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares 1056
--Allgemcine &Ming, April 21

Thirty.seven

FINE ARTS.
NFW SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER
COLOURS.
to the
This popular exhibition was opened.
public on Wednesday last. It contains upvords
of three hundred paintings in water-colours, some
of which appear on a first hasty glance to have
all the breadth and substance of oils. The col-
lection, as a whole, is hardly so good as its last
year's predecessor, but there are several clever
pictures in it, and two or three that may be pro-
nounced to be of superior excellence. 1\ o. 19
represents " A Dinner at Page's House ;." the
scene is taken from the first act of the "Mei.rY
Wives of Windsor," and shows us Falstaff seatet.:
at table in all his glory, filled with sack •
and all sorts of dainty viands, and chucking Mrs.
Page under the chin, who submits to his famili-
arities with a truly philosophic equanimity. The
figure of the fat knight is perfectly characteris-
tic ; his attitude is one of voluptuous indolence ;
and
.his face has that good-humoured, oily ex-
pression which the late Stephen-Kemble used to
hit off so admirably. Bardolpb, who stands be-
hind " plump Jack" is easily to be recognised by
that erubescent enormity which he called a nose.
The picture is spiritedly painted, and the artist is
Welinert. No. 60, " The Oath of Varges,"
ib
by Hagha, the subject is historical, and repre-
sents the furious Spanish fanatic, Jean Varges,
who lived in the sixteenth century, pronouning,
in the Council Chamber of the Duke of Alva,
an oath of extermination against all heretics.
There is considerable vigour in the drawing of
the figure, as also in that of the bigoted monk
who stands near him. No. 75, " Rebekah at
the well of Nahor," is chiefly remarkable for
the grace and picturesque beauty of the group-
ing of thq figures round the well. Rebekah,
however, is very tamely drawn, and one
would never guess, from her countenance,
that she was a Jewess. No. 83, " Dausenau,
on the Saline," is a pleasing landscape sketch
by Robertson, some of whose water-colours
have of late attracted much attention. No.
91, " The Bombardment of St. Jean d'Acre,"
by Campion, is a cleverish picture—especially
that portion of it which depicts the explo-
sion of the powder-magazine. Here, there is
some forcible and judicious colouring, the artist
having resisted the temptation to overcharge his
• colouring. No. 108, " Old Mortality," by Wei-
' gall, is a fancy portrait of the enthusiastic old.
Covenanter whom Scott has pourtrayed so mi-
nutely and beautifully in one of the " Talcs of
My Landlord." He is looking down pensively
on a rude, mouldering tomb-stone, with his pony
by his side. The expression of the benevolent
zealot's face is full of appropriate meaning. The
mountain back-ground is well defined. No. 156,
" The Battle of Agincourt," is the joint produc-
tion of Warren and Weigall. The chief per-
sonage in the picture is of course Henry the
Fifth, who is shown in the act of defending
the life of his brother, the Duke of Gloucester,
after he has been unhorsed, and thrown to the
ground by the Duke D'Alencon. There is much
of Cooper's vivid colouring iu this pic" ture, which
is replete with animation: No. 17Z), Valley of
the Rhone, Switzerland, with Castle and Village!
I of Martio.ny," is one of the most effcc:ive paint-
ings in the Exhibition. It is from the pencil of
Oliver, who-has handled a difficult perspective
with consummate skill. No.- 177, " Sunset,
View on the Tyne," would have been better, if
the artist had not thrown too much yellow into
his colouring. Of the remaining pictures, the cle-
verest is No. 214, " Mary,
.Queen of Scot?
Farewell to France," which shows the. unhappy
Queen looking-fondly from the deck of her gal-
ey towards the fast receding shores of that land
o which she was destined never again to return.

COURT CIRCULAR.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert was yesterday invested,
at Buckingham Palace, with the Ensign of the Order of the
Golden Fleece.
His Grace the Duke of Wellington, being a Grandee of
Spain, and also a Knight of the Golden Fleece, was nominated
by her Majesty the Queen of Spain to invest his Royal High-
ness with the Insignia of the Order. The Noble Duke ar-
rived at Buckingham Palace soon after three o'clock, and Vis-
count:Palmerston, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs, and his Excellency General Maya, the
Spanish Alinister, also arrived at the Palace soon afterwards to
be present at the ceremony.
His Grace then invested the Prince with the Ensigns of the
Order of the Golden Fleece.
His Royal Highness was attended by the Groom of the Stole,
Lord George Lennox, Gentleman in Waiting ; Capt. Francis
Seymour, Groom in Waiting ; and Colonel Bouverie, Equerry
in Waiting.
The Queen and Prince Albert went yesterday morning to
the Hanover-square rooms, and attended the rehearsal of the
Concert of Ancient Music. The Royal suite consisted of the
Duchess of Bedford, Hon. Miss Cavendish, Mr. Rich, Lord
A. Paget, Colonel Bouverie, and Captain Francis Seymour
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Prin-
ces= of Leiningen yesterday at Buckingham Palace.
Viscount Melbourne had an audience of her Majesty
yesterday.
The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace last evening
included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, their
Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Leiningen, Earl
asAerno Anson.
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and Countess of Surrey, Lady Mary Howard, Earl of Uxbridge
Lady Anne Maria Dawson,. Viscount Melbourne, Baronesse
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at the Palace during dinner.
were her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, pparnHty
at-
tended by Lady Caroline Legge, his Highness Prince Ester-
hazy, Earl of Pembroke, Lord and Lady Fitzroy Sonier-
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anLodrdcußlelianugmsemnt,ithA,lescosre.iontiefs
Keate and Jones, Major Stephens, and Capt. Macdonald.
The Duke of Cambridge visited the Duchess of Kent yester—
day at Clarence House, St. James's, and she Prineesi of
Leiningen, at Buckingham Palace.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal was taken an airing
yesterday morning in a carriage and four.
His Royal Highness the
Mr. Duke of Cambridge, attended by
Lieut.-Colonel Jones, did Hayter the honour to sit to
him yesterday for his portrait in tne picture of her Majesty's
marriage.
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The Rev. J. Prowett, Colonel O'Reilly, and Mr. Bellender
Ker, had interviews with Lord Juhn Russell yesterday at, the
Colonial-office.
. Muntz, had interviews With the
leose.ai the Attorney-General, the Mayor
n of the Excise, had an interview with
yesterday, at the Home Office..
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the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, in Downing,street.
Despatches from the Governor of th
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Off Cape of Good ale
were received yesterday, at the Coloni

TAFF VALE RAILWAY.—On Wednesday
last we witnessed, by the invitation of some of the Di-
rectors of the Taff Vale Railway Company, a proud
triumph of Cambrian enterprise and spirit, in the opening-
tlitooghout its entire length, of this very interesting and
important undertaking.
rttbbyer,imanmdencsoennierocnts
wwoirtkhsinhopan;2fhotuhre's interval of
It is now: completed fronv Cardiff
great outlet, I,
ttwroiatnhsiiet its
proofs of the irtepressible energies of our country, whiltt
f..c. port of Cardiff, bringlinginttP:ileitarY
to the tourist it urSulis the roost romantic and picturesque
scenery in the kingdom.—Monmouthshire
THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—This
magnificent line of railroad is fast approaching completion.
The most strenuous exertions arc being made for the ac-
complishment of that desirable object, and the opening of
the line in June or July, so conducive, it is to be hop.3u, to
the prosperity of Bath and Bristol.—Bristol Mercury.
theTa
ffhaei r Co
of
lco,Lunet
DCicamzeiatotefrsconnmcirrrmiegse tiht.evinnaccboeuennteox!
plained to the satisfaciion of the Emperor Nicholas, and
says that his Imperial Majesty has given the Count leave
to return to Paris.
It now affords us much gratification to commu-
tate to the' army our belief that Captain Anthony Rey.
nold?, of the 11th Hussars, will nest week be brought to
full pay of the 14th Light Dragoons, selling out in tho
wine Gazette t 3 Lieutenant Touge.—Natal and 31i1itary
Gazette.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston received a
distinguished party to dinner on Es:tnrday evening at their
mansion on Carlton-house terrace.