The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-03 00:00:00

THE ART JOURNAL.

Added to the attractions of the Art Journal the sub•
scribers to this popular periodical find thote of the
Illustrated Catal,,gue. As illustrations to the former
moiety of the publication there are engravings in the
current number of Hart's " Jewish Synagogue" and
ut Bonnington's " Columns of St. Mark, Venice,"
and of Stothard's sketch of " Intemperance," all of
them taken from the well. known originals preserved
among the Vernon Collection. Further wood cut
~.pecimens of Albert Durer are likewise given among
the varied pictorial embelli.hments--such, for in-
stance, as the " Great Horse," as the " Knight and
Lady," or as the " Virgin and Child." Au extraor-
dinary variety of engravings illustrative of the con-
tents of the Exhibition are mingled with the letter-
press portion of the catalogue.

MODERN CRUELTIES-FLY PAPERS.
Mr. Kidd has just taken up the cudgels, in a spirit of
rue humanity, on behalt ot that troublesome and an-
:io)ing race of summer visitors—flies. Not that he de-
precates their desiruction, quite the contrary; but he
proves to a demonstration I,ow cruelly they are " tor-
uri d," before they are killed by those fearful engines ot
pver.! Mr. Kidd thus writes in the
Gardentrs' Chronicle, of June 21, on this new invention
retinvi barbarity; and n, one who has ever witnessed
•he '• action" of it, can disprove one syllable of the,
statement:— _ _

" FLY PAPERS.—Your correspondent' Curiosus' has,
in his z-al to prat-et the • poor inventor of the fly
pspers,' not only • o'erstepped the modesty of nature,' in
4m:opting to [stove too much, but he has put as inter-
pretation on my remarks perfectly unwarrantable. So
'ar tr,:xo giving the poor inventor an • ignoble character,'
I voluLtia-red the charitable belief that he was • ignorant'
of the atria:it:us barbarities he way the author of, and
hinted rbat if be were enlighten. dor made ' wise' on
the nature of the tortures he hsd invented, it would
only acid to his own. As those aebtitnenis were dropped

;oea,npttaio.e.asieeuivt;utg,riannt,,oci savoured strovegly of ceuemon humanity
only, 1 am at a loes, and so must your general readers
wrir,yet'aCimuritoheeue'reeheu:d feel so anxious to
~.,:hisroaetad,lcu;lvreegi,ionand set him right inPutt'raetifiCtialt!ef otthicsrefealtlioown:'
4ountait.nfom,yorwieneydutelrgeidnjuurie
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it
would have been another thing. 'Curiosus' will please
to bear in mind, that I du en every possible occasion
examine the mute vegetable kingdom,' and that I am
quite alive to the' glutinous excretions' he speaks of. I
iltriU often admired the wisdom of nature in their rhea-
eon. These, however, • let me kindly remark, do not
;,1 all bear upon the question at issue. If Hinged insects
AV secured, by the ny, under such eircurnstareces, the%
are speedily released by birds, spiders, and a variety of
enimel-; it beie•g a wise law of Feature so to dea'roy
wi.etfluities, arid to send one animal to prey up n
soother. Let us considi r this point settled. I will now,
'a the hot weapon is at hand, put in a wend for the poet
flies; and be the means, let me hope, of sparing some
millions of them unnecessary torture. Killed let theta
be, by all means ; but not first put to the reek.'
riearken all ye who patronise these Hy-papers! Hear
how they area made. The two compounds are, common
resin and sweet oil; bested, amalgamated, and spread
upon sheets of old newspapers. Thus are they menu-
etctured ' -Now fer their • attractive' qualities. N% berever
flees abound, there it has been deemed advisable to spread
eut tbeee papers, one, two, three, or more. A little
aitted loaf-sugar lightly sprinkled on them completes the
'charm.' Let us note the result. In an instant some
tideless fly dencends, in search of a treat. He realizes
et by finding either a kg or a wing fixed as in a vice.
Escape is impossible. Tree more he struggles the .worse
the consequences. Here he must live, here be mu't fast.
sere he must linger, here he must 'stick' and groan, till
starvation arid insect endurance can hold out uo brew r.
Sometimrs the poor flies are glued down by their hinder
extremities, thus allowing freedom to their head and
'rout legs, which, being elevated, give free play to their
respiratory organs. and prolong lite—to be further tor•
cured by want of food. Every p'-rson possessing only
summon feelings of humanity, and who may be halting
het ween two opinions, must feel greatly interested in put-
ting my assertions to the proof. Let limb c irefully observe
(whilst his thoughtless neighbour is spreading the snare),
he almost supernatural endeavours of the poor flies,
when inveigled by these diabolical papers, to extricate
their feet 'row the rivets; and note how, in the vain
(fort, they tear out in their final agonies each several
iinsb from its socket—their n.is-shapen forms bring
elevated, after death, to thrice their naturul height!
'he distinctly audible vibrations of their wings in their
iast dying peng,, as they lie one glued to the other in
countless numbers, complete this picture of newly-in-
vented horrors (unfit even for Madame Tussaud's 'Chem -
ber')—a picture, alas! but too faithfully painted. These
ere simple facts,' which, by a few moments of close ob.
,ervation, anybody may verify, by gazing on a well•filled
sheet of files.' I have used the word groan' with re-
ference to their agonies; and if any of your readers have
over chanced to listen to the horribly' peculiar sounds
produce d by the motion of the prisoners' quivering
wing.,, either by day or by night (the latter eel), dally),
one moment's reflection will make them grateful that
'Curiosus' should have unwittingly drawn forth this ex-
itosition from his obliged collaboi attur in the field of
Nature, WILLIAM KIDD.
" New-road, Hammersmith, June 19."

NEW YORK AND GALway.The Galway voyage
is abandoned. The steam-ship North America was sold yes-
terday for 200000 dolls., • to run between Realeio and San
Francisco; in connexion, with Commodore Vanderbilt's
Nicaragua line. She was to have left tbr Galway at.out the
',mike hour that her sale was effected. The negotiation that,
iesulied in her detention was effected while her passengers
were on board and her steam was up, ready for departure.
Captain R. J. Vandewate-, the agent, who sold her, imme-
diately engaged rooms for her passengers on the steamer
Pacific, 01 the Collins' line, which sails on Saturday h,r
Liverpool. The North America wilt be 'dispatched fur the
pacific in two or three days.—New York Paper.
LTICE Ti) VOTERS FOR TH..; lII.TURN OF MEM.
BERS 'AND KNIGHTs OF THE SHIRE TO PARLIAMENT.- No
person
will be entitled to have his name inserted in the list
of voters for the cities of Louden and ‘Vtstminster, and the
metropolitan boroughs of the Tower Hamlets, Finsbu!y,
Marylebone, Lambeth, S uthwar Greenwich, and also for
the counties of Middlesex, &c., unless he pays upon or before
the 20th inst. all poor rates and assessed taxes due previously
to .the sth of JAnualy last.

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" THE PorE BE LEADS A HAPPY LIFE."--ThiS
i:ne of the old song was touchingly illustrated at a late revel
—the festival of dedication—by the clergy of St. Barnabas ;
illustrated by the following items :—" The gross weight of
the meat was upwards of 1,0001b2., and there were one
hundred gallons of ale, and port and sherry in abundance."
Out of compliment to the lope, the beef was, no doubt, bull-