The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-31 00:00:00

TEE ART JOURNAL.

August brings us with the fruits of nature those
also of art, as may be recognised by a glance at the
pages of this splendid pictorial publication. In it we
find united the attractions of the original periodical—
and those, as its subscribers have long been aware, are
sufficiently numerous—and of an illustrated catalogue,
explanatory of the Great Industrial Exhibition. The
enterprise evinced in this twofold undertaking
will inevitably meet with the encouragement
to which it is so eminently and peculiarly
entitled. As additional engravings from the
pictures contained in the Vernon Gallery we have
this month Wyatt's noble head of " The Astrono-
mer," and Wilson's delicious representation of "Lake
Avernus," the former engraved by Bell and the latter
by Bentley. The plate portraying a copy from a
sculptured original, is by:.S. 11. Baker, and is taken
from Theed's marble group of " The Prodigal Son "
returned to the embrace of his father. As a bio-
graphy, embellished with woodcuts, we find likewise
in the current number of the Art Journal, the life of
"John Both," preceeded by a likeness. Woodcuts we
call the illustrations, though they appear to us in their
scratchy minuteness to bear a strong resemblance to
specimens of glypbography. The letter-press of the
Art Journal, it may be observed, is of average ex-
cellence, the leading paper in the instalment before
us relating to a subject of some interest, namely, to
the lighting of picture and sculpture galleries.
Among the illustrations given in the supplementary
portion, will be remarked a clever sketch of the colossal
equestrian statue of Godfrey de Bouillon, one of the
most extraordinary works of art contributed to the
Great Industrial Exhibition.

KNIGHT'S PICTORIAL SHAKSPERE.
Othello and Timon of Athens are the plays corn-
prised in the last instalments of this admirable edi-
tion, and fully bear out its reputed excellence, while
in addition to this, they justify its popularity and ex-
tend its reputation. The foot notes have been judi-
ciously selected from those more costly and volu-
minous editions which have gained for Charles Knight
such high fame as one of the most intelligent and
judicious among Shakspere's commentators.

ERASER'S TRAVELLING MAP of IRELAND.

A new Travelling Map of Ireland, secured by a
handsome and substantial cover, has just been pub-
lished by Mr. McGlashan of Dublin. It is a great
improvement on all its predecessors, having the dis-
tances between all the towns, villages, railway
stations, &c., carefully measured and marked in
statute miles, and all the main and principal cross-
roads inserted, together with the more remarkable
topographical features of the island. The heights of
the principal mountains are likewise given, by which
it appears that the highest mountain altitude in Ire-
land is that attained by Carrantuohill, in the county
of Kerry, which rises on the western side of the
Killarney lakes to an elevation of 3,414 feet. This
fresh production of Mr. Fraser's industry and skill is
unquestionably the most useful and the most easily-
read travelling map of the sister kingdom that has
ever been published. It is one with which no tourist
should omit to provide himself, and which will be
found to prove, for the purposes of reference, a most
welcome assistant even to those who May already be
familiar with the geography of the country which it
illustrates so accurately and clearly.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—The mercantile public are heavily indebted to
you for condescending to notice the unwholesome con-
dition of the share market. The mischievous conse-
quences of a railway panic are much more serious than
those great journalists who devote a whole column to
the wrongs of a gingerbread dealer can possibly sup-
pose. The evil effects are obvious to a moment's reflec-
tion, but, in the desire to be fair, we will state, as a set-
off, one good result. A little army of stockjobbers with
their wives and families are almost entirely supported by
trotting the public up and down by the nose. If ten
people set running in a crowded street with any symp-
tom of alarm, ten hundred will follow in breathless con-
sternation, till one strong-minded man discovers that it
is only a cow with a crumpled horn increasing hip walk
to a brisk trot; and precisely analogous is that baneful
ppahresnoonm,senon, a railway panic.
Now, in any case of causeless terror a timely word
will avert great calamity. If a church congregation
and the clerk shouts in explanation that the
great coat has been too near the stove, a panic
swahnneodareldlitlts effects are happily obviated. In like manner, a
feverish excitement. And healthy
freUssurance or caution when railway speculation
is running to extremes would maintain the market in a
guar-
dians ofy Stthatee, prevent groundless despondency, and allay
orwAiemnaellp, if
the daily press, as
publ*lC
olCitoinc,sitdheerirstlephoweinrit,uerlfeirnefinuce.
neither der
to the commercial
ence would be
community, exercised in
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unimportant
body a very humble member is your grateful corre-
-1 spondent,
A. B.

EXTRAORDINARY RAILWAY A CCIDENT.—An acci-
dent characterna.w happened on Monday
the line; but after some time both
night,ofonatnhe South-Western
Willilaimay,near Bishopstoke. It
appears Priswell had charge of a
luggage train, and, together
that a man named
p ro
e
with the fireman and a guard,
• driver and the fireman withoutp, d
gine-the en-
an the train was
left to proceed on its journey anyone to take care of
proceeded along
not
it beyond the guard, who t t knowing what had befallen the
two others, made no attempt to get towards them. The fire
in the furnace of the locomotive not having been fed with
fresh fuel, went out, which of course prevented the steam
from keeping up. Upon arriving near Bishopstoke, how-
ever, Priswell, the engiue-driver, fell off the locomotive,
and received very serious injuries; it is stated that both
his legs were broken. The guard,7,on witnessing the occur-
rence, applied the breaks, and, owing to the steam being so
low, fortunately succeeded in bringing the train to a stand-
still, when he descended, and on getting to the tender found
the fireman so fast asleep that before be could wake him he
was obliged to take him by the shoulders and shake him
violently. The injured driver was picked up and removed
to obtain surgical,assistance. The fire in the furnace having
been made up, the train was at length removed to its desti-
nation, but had another train come along whilst the one in
question was proceeding so slowly, it is impossible to con-
ceive what might have been the consequences, Both men
were perfectly sober when they started with the train, but
they were greatly fatigued, having been up they stated for
two days and nights.
LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION. ALDERS-
GATE-STREET.—Last evening Mr. Milne, the Scottish vo-
calist, appeared at the above institution, to give his second lec-
ture on the songs and ballads of Scotland. The songs were
excellently selected, and were received most favourably by a
very large and highly respectable audience. It cannot be a
muter of doubt but that Mr. Milne's entertainments are
becoming much more highly appreciated in London as they
become better known to the public, and that he will speedily
achieve that popularity in this country he has for some time
deservedly enjoyed in his own. Amongst the songs that were
most admired we may particula-ize the " Laird o' Cockpen' "
"Johnny Sands," and "John Grumlie," which were most
harm • onismAy given, as well as "The Flowers of the Forest"
and "The Lasso' G . "
Cowrie," which were rendered with much
feeling and sound musical judgment.

LON DON,

FESTIVITIES AT LOWESTOFT.

FURTHER COMMUNICATION WITH
NORTHERN EUROPE.
A feat of locomotion, unprecedented in the Eastern
Counties' territory, was performed on Tuesday and
Wednesday last, with a view to signalize this year's
Lowestoft Regatta, which was otherwise abundently dis-
tinguished beyond the anniversary of this time twelve-
month. At seven o'clock on Tuesday morning, Mr. D.
Waddington, M.P., chairman, and others of the direc-
tors, together with Mr. Gooch, of the locomotive depart-
ment, and Mr. G. Richerdson, the coaching superin-
tendent, started in a special mixed train of ten carriages
from the Shoreditch terminus, and arrived at Lowestoft,
the extremest eastern point of England, distant from the
capital 126 miles, in a few minutes over three and a half
hours. Even this speed, calculated as it was to astonish
the somewhat lethargic philosophers of the Fens, would
have been exceeded, but that the line was in several
places impeded by excursionist traffic, entailing the ne-
cessity of shunting between Cambridge and Ely; and a
considerable time was also lost between Norwich and
Lowestoft owing to the cheap trains, laden with an enor-
mous number of passengers, proceeding to the regatta:
Oa arriving at Lowestoft the party were met by Mr.
Pete, Member for Norwich, chairman of the Norfolk
Company, and by Lord Alfred Paget, lately become a
director of the Eastern Counties, who had proceeded
thither the previous day in his beautiful craft the Mona,
which however met with no competitor for the 50 guinea
cup, and the Noble Commodore of the Royal Yacht
Squadron set sail for Cowes in the evening.
The directors and their friends inspected the lions of
the place, now of a magnitude and completeness that,
considering they are but the growth of yesterday, can
hardly be credited by those at a distance, notwithstand-
ing the engineering skill and the continuous liberality of
the means well known to have been expended upon them.
The contrivances in particular for the accommodation of
the Danish cattle trade, which, though commenced but a
tew months ago, has already attained an importance alto-
gether bey ond the most extravagant expectations thatcould
have been formed, elicited great admiration from those
who saw them for the first time. No less so did the un-
usual number of religious and educational institutions,
compared with the population; and among those peculiar
to Lowestoft is that of Colville-house, situated on the salt-
water Lake Lothing, for imbecile children of the upper
classes, where Dr. Foreman is most successfully carrying
out a new treatment of mental complaints in young sub-
jects, having been induced to select that neighbourhood for
his experiments by Mr. Peto, whose donation of 1,0001. to
the Idiot's Asylum is but one of the many evidences of
the special interest that gentleman takes in the alleviation
of the disorders more immediately referred to. The staple
of Lowestoft, the fishing trade, being universally pros-
perous both this and last season, the resident inhabitants
were in the best possible frame of mind for the apprecia•
tion of the compliments bestowed on the natural and ar-
chitectural beauties of their town, whose buildings vio
with those of many of the older and more fashionable
watering places—the Royal Hotel in particular, on the
Marine Parade, the great boast of this part of East An-
glia, being an establishment rivalling the most famous
hostelries of Brighton, Bath, or Cheltenham.
At this house, en Tuesday evening, a aplendid dinner
was provided by Mr. Howest, the proprietor, in the su-
perb new banquetting-hall, at which upwards of 100 sat
down, under the presidency of Mr. Peto, who, in the
course of one of his addresses, which were for the most
part necessarily of a local character, communicated some
facts of general interest in connexion with the subject of
increased extension of our commerce in the north of
Europe, and which consequently deserve a wide-spread
publicity. In reply to his health, proposed in very elo-
quent terms by Mr. Waddington, M.P., who happily eu-
logized his well-known enterprise, far-eightedness, and
munificence, in various parts of England, especially on
the site of that day's festivities, in which nearly all the
leading gentry of Norfolk and Suffolk had participated.
Mr. PETO, after gracefully disposing of the personal
portion of the compliment, anti disclaiming the unqua-
lified disinters stedeess of the motives ascribed to him,

inasmuch as his own interest aas identified with that of
his immediate friends and neighbours around him, ad-
verted at considerable length to the greatly increased
development of the cattle trade between the north of
Europe and Lowestoft. Ile remarked, that he re- ,
garded the advancement of the latter lccality, on which
he had set his heart most intently, with the utmost con-
fidence from the moment he had fixed his eyes on the
distant shore opposite, and felt that its trade must be
theirs if sought. They were all aware that within the
last few months a new route had been opened to Den-
mark, and with the best results. By next Saturday he
trusted to be on his way to Norway, there to arrange
'for the construction of the first line of railway in that
country, forming a connecting link with the capital of
the former kingdom; and as the best evidence of the ear-
nestness and honesty of the Norwegian people, he might
mention that before they permitted them (the contrac-
tors) to move a step, the commissioners had deposited
in the National Bank a quarter of a million sterling as an
assurance that no risk would be run. By the next
regatta dinner ho hoped to announce that a railroad
was in rapid progress between Copenhagen and Chris-
tiana, as well as between the former capital and those parts
on the Danish shores with which Lowestoft had re-
cently commenced a direct trade. If, by these means,
there were brought into operation new facilities of inter-
communication between the nations; and that St. Pe-
tersburgh, for instance, was placed three days nearer
London than at present, he hoped his good friends of
the city of Norwich would take advantage of the cir-
cumstance, and by carrying to other countries the arts in
which that city was still unrivalled, as she had ever been
unsurpassed, wculd nobly emulate those foreigners to
whom they themselves were originally so greatly in-
debted ; for he need hardly remind his hearers that it
was to the emigration of the ingenious and industrious
Flemings from their own country and their settlement in
Norfolk, that Norwich owed its early pre-eminence, still
sustained amidst all vicissitudes, in pursuits so
long identified with her celebrity, and thus
reciprocate the obligations their forefathers had
incurred at the hands of the ingenious and accom-
plished strangers of the Low Countries. It was the duty
of all, as it was evidently the instinct of the great majority,
and the tendency of the age, to go forward; and he wits
proud to think that those in that neighbourhood showed
no disposition to stand still, much less to retrograde.
It', some very few years ago, he had told them that, from
the spot on which he stood, he could send a question to
the port of Chester, and receive an answer within an
hour cud a half, as was the case last week, they wreuld
have thought it high time to send him to Thorpe Asy-
lum; but it, on Saturday next, he should sot out fo,r Nor-
way, and having consulted and arranged with the autho-
rities of that kingdom and of Sweden and Denmark,
for bringing all three into closer proximity, and be able
to communicate that ho ;had done so by the 17th, he
thought ho would have supplied proof that what had
been lately done in the way of economising time and dis-
tance was hardly more remarkable than what might be
anticipated in the same direction.
It is unncessary to add that the Hon. Gentleman's
speech was received with all the enthusiasm to be ex-
pected from an assemblage of his personal friends. Most
of them, in common with the great bulk of those arri-
ving in Lowestoft that day, had met rather to observe
the prcgress of the works he had suggested so wisely,
and was carrying out so triumphantly, than to criticise
the strictly meanie entertainment to which they were os-
tensibly invited, though these were of a character suffi-
ciently gratifying to the amour propre of the proverbially
daring and skilful mariners of this coast, whose manage-
ment of the " yaivis" constitutes an unique feature of
sea craft. At night the front of the Royal Hotel was il-
luminated with great brilliancy, and fireworks were dis-
charged in a fashion highly creditable to the skill of the
" bloater" community.
The special train returned at eight o'clock yesterday
morning, iu the pleasantest manner possible; and, in-
cluding a more than reasonable stay at Ely and Cam-
bridge respectively, aceomplished the entire distance in
three hours and three-quarters—a c'alerity, as before
stated, previously never attempted on this line, and the
facile attainment of which is a fact of the highest im-
portance taken in connexion with the forthcoming deve-
lopment of the railway system in the north of Europe,
as indicated by Mr. Peto.

GRAND MARINE REGATTA AT

LOWESTOFT.

LOWESTOFT, TUESDAY NIGHT.---alais day the grand •
annual marine regatta took place atL. awestotr, under the
patronage of Sir Thomas Marion W! Json, Bart., S. M. •
Peto, Esq., M.P. and a large body of members of the
Eastern Yacht Club, and was most numerously and •
fashionably attended. Amongst the company present
were Lord Alfred Paget, S. M. Peto, Esq., M.P., Mrs.
Peto and family; Colonel and Miss H.a:rdy, Captain and .
Mrs. Lethes and family, the Rev. Dr.. Bird and Mrs. Bird,
Mr., Mrs., and Miss Clarke, J. Ouch in, Esq., J. Green,
Eq., Mr. Vernon, the Misses Leighs, GaptainEllis, Cap-
tain Preston, Mr. Webber, J. R. Burl tt, Esq., J. Clay,
Esq., W. Ashcroft, Esq., &c. &c.
From an early hour in the mornin .g trains continued
to pour In visitors from London, N .orwich, and Yar-
mouth, until mid-day. Several ve steels in the har-
bour were gaily dressed in the colc isirs of all nations,
and the pier and esplanade were crow •ded with elegantly
dressed ladies and their families. A considerable num-
ber of persons took advantage of the steamers lying in
the harbour, and accompanied the+ different matches
round the course. The course for 3re chts, yawls, and
beats, was from the moorings laid d, yivn abreast of the
New South Pier Head, thence to the South buoy off
Newcombe, thence through the Stamf Dv d Channel, round
the light-ship under the shoal buoy, tit ence to tho start-
ing place, passing between the pier and the cutter an.
ehored abreast. Twice round the co us se, passing all the
buoys on the port. The distanck t sailed was about
twenty miles.
The first match of the day was si tiled by yawls, for
a purse of 30 sovereigns. At half-past eleven the following
vessels loft the starting vessel off the South Pier Head :
u Victoria,Victoria,
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t, Yya
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Eclipse, 54 feet, Lowestoft—White..
Goye
eal rey hound, 44 feet, Lowestoft—Whi te, black, and yellow.
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Reindeer,Tinndeeseerv,
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Vic-
toria, however, slightly taking the l id; the --Blued
closely
by the Queen
throughout,
euVgfollowing order:
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siOcnoSmiwnegr
in
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fimaintainedrst round
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Queen Victoria...
Royal Victoria.,
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Reindeer._ •••
Greyhound
Eclipse
W.r.ts rendered
The most interesting from the
luintidesbouft tahebot
%prit
length
•••
tyral favourites, there
between
them. On coming round the pi err on the first round
nearly-balanced i
being c
n the match
fir s qualities
the Greyhound, having unshipped her gaff, gave up the
contest. The second round cause ti the greatest excite-
ment, and the vessels, after a very ! animated race, came
in in the following order:—