The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-22 00:00:00

Never has the truth of the old adage, " extremes
meet," been moro clearly exemplified than in the cases
of Mr. GUSTAVUS RocRFoRT CLARKE, the Iconoclast,
and Messrs. MILLAIS, llntir, and COLLINS, the Pre-
Rapheelite brethren ; not more naturally does Pro-
tectionism, when carried out, run into Socialism
(witness the speeches of BUSEEILD FERRAND and the
letters of RICHARD OASTLER passim) than does
' Clarkeism run into Pre-Raphaelism. Mr. ROCIIE
FORT CLARKE objects to the generality of painting and
sculpture, that it is either voluptuous, and calculated
to excite impure ideas, or that it is blasphemous, and
to give vent to his indignation he actually did public
execution on a print of MURILLO'S magnificent pic-
ture of the Trinity by tearing it up, amidst, as he
tells us, the applause, but, as others who were pre-
sent tell us, the contemptuous laughter of an Exeter-
hall audience. At this point the Puritanism run
mad of Mr. CLARKE meets with and joins the Catho-
licism run mad of the pre-Raphaelites , they would
have joined him in this act of wanton destruction.
He upon principle objects to the represen-
tation either in marble or by painting of
"the likeness of anything that is in the heavens
above,th or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under
e earth." They carry out bis principle into prac-
tice,above the:coma
and. boast that they carefully avoid painting any
Such likenesses. The sublimity of MURILLO being
Prehension of Mr. CLARKE is by him
stigmatised blasphemy ; but the picture by Mr.
MILLAIs entitled The Dove returned to the Ark,"
which is exhibited this year in the Exhibition of the
Royal Academy,
of Mr. CLARKE'S admiration doubt not, the object
..blaetdgisowesnses,ntsitaalnlydiCnigariknya;
it represents two children inn
7 would
Aghaind been packing ham-
litter of straw (as if NOAH
no doubt be com-
ture of MA-
pers), cuddling a dove.
i
RIANA, by the same artist
proper and
mended by Mr. CLARKE as a mit'reftehieloupsiciy
most unvoluptuous picture, for even Mr. CLAR„; hi h
Puritan and rigid moralist as he is, might almost ex:se
Lord ANGELO for his desertion of such a MAR,ANA ;
at
all events, his subsequent condemnation to pass the re-
mainder of bis days in her society was, if she bore
the slightest resemblance to the MARIANA limned by
Mr. MILLAIS, quite punishment enough for any
faults of which he could have been guilty. Equally
would Mr. CLARKE admit the propriety of Mr.
RUNT'S delineation of the "Two Gentlemen of Verona;"
they are gentlemen such as were never seen
in the flesh from the days of ADAM down-
wards, and who, should they ever appear on the
stPge of life;
their days, would continue single gentlemen all i
seeing that their appearance is a perfect
cure for love. Les
extremes se touchent ' • and here we /
have the Bigotry
of the Iconoclast and the Bigotry of
the Ultra-Catholics •
in art uniting in a repudiation of

" regularly sold" eby the 2Vew York .Herald, and
that suspicion ripened into certainty on reading,
in the next place, the original document which
our contemporary thought fit to transfer to
his broad sheet in extenso. It is true
that productions of an extraordinary nature ap-
pear not rarely in the American newspapers, but
our friend of the New York Herald is by no means
such an ignoramus as to put forth seriously a tirade
such as that which galled the Times into an affrighted
belief in its sober import. The whole affair would,
however, have passed away like every other nine days'
wonder, but the English journal seems resolved to
try and have the last word, and thereby, with all re-
spect be it spoken, to write itself down a kindred
animal to honest DOGBERET. The Herald, in the
last impression which has reached Europe, announces
that the effusion to which so much importance was
given in Printing House-square, was—as it
needed no ghost from the
hand,"veto tbeullt,
withus—
"a slight missile sent from
a playful
an admirable gravity, baits its hook again for ano-
ther bite in the same quarter where it had in the
first instance been so successful. And our contempo-
rary, with some degree of ponderous jocularity, la-
bours to prove himself a little less frightened than
before, when (as the Herald remarks in a paragraph
which our contemporary did not include in his nume-
rous quotations therefrom on Wednesday morning)
" he treated the menacing intelligence with a terrible
anxiety to be cool, and devoted his serried columns,
day after day, to explanations, affecting to laugh, and
appearing very much like a traveller in some great,
dark forest, whistling to keep his courage up,while
looking backward and forward to see some frightful
spectre at every tarn."
It is really "milking a ram" for a print professing
to be "the leading journal of Europe," to address
itself to refute such a bouncing hoax as the assertion
that, when the aforesaid "playful missile" reached
London, "the Prime Minister sent off a note instanter
ifor the Duke of WELLINGTON—the Ministers ten-
dered their resignations—Lord STANLEY tried to
form a new Cabinet in vain, and the politicians, so
conservative, so grave, so self-confident in the Yeo-
manry and in the business population, did not even
dare to venture on a general election, to form a new and
reliable Government. England trembles from top to
toe, and even the QUEEN, who has considerable nerve,
was so much frightened, that Prince ALBERT
regretted that an American newspaper con-
taining such alarming suggestions should have
reached the shores of happy Albion ! Apprehensions
of this character soon begat worse fears, and with the
speed which an emergency only can create, thirty
thousand brilliant bayonets bristled in the neighbour-
hood of Hyde-park, besides we know not how many
parks of artillery were ready at a moment's call.'
Our contemporary has given the benefit of the im-
mense circulation which he enjoys to a full elucida-
tion of the marvellous treasures which are piled
within the crystal walls of the matchless Palace of
Industry, and that in a free and cordial spirit. It is,
moreover, mainly, if not altogether, owing to his
powerful pen that a check has been applied by the
Commissioners of Police to that excessive nuisance the
cab-extortion system, which, if permitted to riot un-
checked, would be found materially to interfere
with the comfort and accommodation of a great
number of visitors to the metropolis during the
present memorable season. But we must be per-
mitted to say that a worthier occupation might be
found than giving currency to humbug, which may
leave an ineffaceable and alarming impression on
the minds of many respectable aged females, besides
affording a hearty laugh in New York at the capacity
of gullet which exists in this instance on the part of
the foremost journal of " the Britishers."
We shall not enter now into a consideration of an
article entitled " The World's Fair in London. Its
Objects and Effects," published also in the New York
Rend of the 6th of May. We regret and pity the
uncandid tone in which a string of fallacies,
which may go down with the unthink-
ing or prejudiced among our Transatlantic
kinsmen, are couched. It is much to be ap-
prehended that there is just a leetle spice of envy or
disappointment lurking at the bottom. It is notorious
to the world that the display of contributions in the
American department in the edifice at Hyde- park is
far behind that furnished by any other country ; in
fact, to speak the word plainly, it is unanimously
voted "shabby." Whose fault is this ? The great
Republic is amply supplied with sources, natural and
artificial, sufficient to have rendered her a proud com-
petitor with the states of the Old World at the "Fair
of the Universe." And we confidently believe that it
would have diffused a sincere and wide-spread
pleasure amongst our own people had our Co-
lumbian kinsmen, or, as we may justly term
them, our Anglo-Saxon brethren, come out
with a little more strength and effect on such
a great occasion. But there is no use in assum-
ing the airs of a discontented child, and scolding us
in such terms as the following, which we extract
without a further word of comment, trusting that we
shall bear no more of a paper warfare which
reflects no credit on either of the parties con-
cerned, both of whom, and one in particular, ought to
know better than to make such an ado about nothing :
" The British see that their supremacy is gone—that
the glory of Ichabod is departed, and the cowed
bully becomes the abject sycophant. England sees
that her destiny is under our control." (1) * *
" Our opinion, then, of this great show is, that it
originated in selfishness; that it will not tend to advance
peace throughout the world, as it was intended it
should ; that it is a Yankee trick to make the rest of
the world contribute to England's wealth ; that as
far as arts and manufactures are concerned, it will be
a failure ; and that, on the whole, it looks like a
gigantic humbug." (I ! )

"In a-few days I hope to be among you : I know
that the agents of a corrupt and corrupting Minister
await that moment to give utterance to seditious cries.
If this should be done I shall seize the first who shall
be bold enough to do so, and deliver him up to the au-
thorities, that he may be punished. I am fully con-
vinced of the nationality of the banner which I have
displayed; persuaded as I am that my countrymen of
Lisbon know me, I feel certain that they will do me the
justice to believe that I will employ every means in my
power to cause the city to be respected.
" The Duke of "Head-quarters, Oporto, May 9, 1851." SALDANHA.
The same journal contains the following account
of SALDANHA'S movements :
"On the 6th the Marshal went, with the 9th and 14th
Regiments of Infantry, a battalion of the 13114 and the
3d Chasseurs, to Coimbra, where he was received with
enthusiasm. On the 7th he was at Agueda, and on the
Bth at Carvalho, and the same evening returned to
Oporto. On the 9th he commenced embarking troops
for Lisbon. The corps that will accompany the Duke
are the let, sth, and 7th Chasseurs, the Ist, 2d, and 6th
Infantry, and the Queen's Grenadiers. The Dake is to
embark on the 10th, and will probably enter Lisbon on
the 12th."