The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-14 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MA .Y 14 1856.

THE GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY OF ;

CANADA.

The followingreport, made by the engineers appointed
by the Government of Canada, shows the state of pro-
gress of the works on the Ist of February last. '
"Toronto, April 10, 1856.
" Sir—We have the honour to acquaint you. for the
information of his Excellency the Governor•Genera',
that on the 7th of last month we met at the office of the
department of public works in this city, in compile*
with the request of the commissioners, that we should,
prOceed, with the least possible delay, to enter upon the
duties connected with the office to which his excellenely
had been pleased to appoint us, involving a general exa-
-mina,tion of the line of the Grand Trunk Railway in pur-
suance of the 4th sub-section of the first clause of the
statute of 18 Vic., c. 174. Having-cOnsulted and at-
ranged with Mr. Killaly as to the course to be adopted
that would most facilitate' the procuring of the nece-e-
-sary information,' and acquiring a knowledge of the 4-
tails, we adjourned to the office of the contractors, where-
a room was at once placed at our command for our meet-
ings, and the plans, sections, speCifications, monthly es-
timates, contracts, and other. documents, showing the
state and progress of the works, were unreservedly laid
before us. Knowing the desire of Government to hate
our report and estimate as soon as practicable we hate
laboured assiduously, and are now enabled to submit
the result of our examinations. From the documents
above adverted to, and the data furnished us by the chief
engineer of the company, we proceeded, in the first in-
stance, to form an estimate of the cost of completing and
equipping the line from this city to Brockville, being
the portion to which our attention was more particularly
directed by our letter of instruction from the commis•;
sioners. From these clati.*hiph.we.give in detail-4e
quantities of work of all- classes, including station and
other buildings remaining to be done on the Ist of Feb-
ruary last, calculated at liberal rates—it appears that
the cost of completing the line from .Toronto to Brock-
ville, exclusive of rolling stock and contingencies, wont;
amount to 298,3921. 6s. 6d. sterling Halifax Company
at that date.

Having concluded these calculations our next step
was to proceed to Montreal to inspect the rolling stock
finished and in progress, and then to return along the
line, in order to judge, rom personal inspection, of the
character of the several works, and tha manner in whiph
they have been executed ; and also by seeing the actual
state of the excavations, embankments, and other works,
and comparing it with the sections furnished us en
which the estimate of completion is based, to be enabled
to determine how far they were safely to be relied qn.
At Montreal we devoted throe days to' a careful inspec-
tion of the depot grounds and buildings, which are con-
structed in a most creditable and substantial manner,
and which, when fully comp'eted, will be found secind
to none that we have seen on this continent. The se-
veral workshops are admirably provided, and every
means and appliance are at hand to turn out a large
amount of work of the best description. To the roll-
ing stock we also gave the attention which so im-
portant a branch of railway work demands. The result
of our scrutiny was highly satisfactory both in regard to
style of construction and the suitableness of the mate-
rials. After taking into account the amount of rolling
stock, finished and unfinished, and the value of materials
prepared, we estimate the amount required to equip the
line from Toronto to Brockville, as required by contract,
at 65,8351. 128. 4d. sterling. It is to be observed that
we have given the company no credit for a large amount
of rolling stock-22 locomotive engines—stated now to
be on its way from England.
Having concluded our surveys in Montreal we re-
turned to Brockville by rail, and then followed the line
to Toronto ; and, having devoted six days to this part of
the road, and inspected all the important points, and
compared the state of the work on the ground with that
shown on the working sections, we are satisfied that the
latter truly represent the progress of the work, and that
the measurements derived therefrom on which the esti-
mate is based may be relied upon. In the foregoing
it is shown that we estimate the cost of completing the
works and buildings of the line from Toronto t') Brock-
ville at 298,3021. 6s. 61. ; add for contingencies and
interest on this sum 10 per cent., 29,8381. 18s. ld.; also
to complete rolling stock, on the same portion, 65,8351.
12s. 4d. ; total cost of completing line from Toronto to
Brockville, 394,066/. 16s. 11d. With a view to esti-
mating the cost of completing that portion of the road
west of Toronto, so far as the provisions of the act 8
Vic., c. 174, extend, namely, to Stratford, we called
for documents and vouchers connected with it, similar
to those furnished for that portion from Toronto to
Brockville, and from them we gather that the comple-
tion of the works of the section from Toronto to Strat-
ford will require the sum of 27,6841. 13s. 2d. ; add for
contingencies, 2,7681. 4s. 5d.; total, 30,4521. 17s. 7d.

, • ,
Although we have not had an opportunity of person-
ally examining this portion of the railway and comparing
its state, as shown on the sections from which the esti-
mate is formed, with the works themselves, yet from the
satisfactory verification of the result of our calculations,
coupled with the fact of ?Ir. Killaly's having lately made
an inspection of it, and being satisfied with the correct-
ness of the documents, we have no doubt but that this
estimate for its completion may be relied on. In order
to arrive at the whole cost of fully completing and
equipping the road from Stratford to Brockville, it is
necessary further to add a sum for the portion of it in
front of this city. Assuming this to be 10,0001. for the
graded track to be furnished by the city, and 5,0001. for
the permanent way laid, the estimate for the entire line'
will be :—Toronto to Brockville, 394,0661. 16s. lid. ;
Toronto to Stratford, 30 4521. 17s. 7d.; in front of the
city of Toronto, 12,3281.155. 4d.—Total, 436,848/. 9s.
7d.

In conclusion, we feel it our duty to state for the in-
formation of his Excellency, that in our opinion the
works on this portion of the line, so far as they have pro-
gressed, are in accordance with the terms of the contract
and specification ; that the bridges, viaducts, and import-
ant station buildings are constructed in the most perma-
nent and substantial manner, and that the preparation
which has been made, and the amount of materials pro-
vided, evince the intention of the contractors to finish
the road in a style creditable to them and the province.
—We are, sir, your obedient servants,
ROSWELL G. BENEDICT.
JAMES C. STRUT.
Thomas A. Begley, EA., Secretary, Department
of Public Works, Toronto.
The underiigned was a party to and engaged with
Messrs. Benedict and Strut in the several calculations
and estimates referred to in the foregoing, in the correct-
ness of the entire of which he fully believes. He did not
accompany those gentlemen alonc, the works between
Toronto and Brockville, being otherwise much engaged,
and having but a short time before made a very close
inspection of them. He entertains strongly the same
opinions as to the character of the works as those ex-
pressed by Messrs. Benedict and Strut. The portion of
the line from Toronto to Stratford he has likewise bad a
late opportunity of visiting, and he bad no doubt of the
correctness of the estimate for the completion of that
section also ; the works of which are not to be surpassed
for sound and durable construction.
HAMILTON H. KILLALY,
Assistant Commi.sioner of Public Works.
Toronto, April 18, 1356.

. • --
Herapath, adds to the foregoing report :—" During
March and April the amount of work done has been
120,255/. Only 316,5901. will be required from the latter
date for the completion cf the line from St. Mary's in
the west to St. Thomas', 40 miles below Quebec, and
likewise to Portland in the state of Maine. The total
length of these lines will be 862 miles."

THE NATIONAL GALLERY.

THE DEBATE, MR. STIRLING, M.P., AND
RA.PLIA.EIA'S " APOLLO AND MARSYAS."
TO THE EDITOR. OF THE SUL

Sin,:—My friends and supporters have been divided as
to the expedieney,of My noticing a letter signed " William
Stirling," which, with the air of a reply to mine of the
17th inst., entitled "The National Gallery, the Job, and
the Division," appeared on the 21st. Some have thought
that inasmuch as that letter does not attempt to invalidate
any statement I bail) advanced affecting the main question.
before the nation, it might be consigned to that " ohliyioa"
from which, is spite of my "tone," its author has deigned
ire rescue mine. They are now unanimously of opinion
that Mr. gtirlipg's letter contains matter which, not less
for the advancement. of a great cause than in justice to
myself, it is imparativo on me not to leave unnoticed. In
this I concur.

•
On the 17th instant, I stated that "on the 13th of May,
1853, after my second and last examination on the cleaning,
the same Mr. William Stirlinc, who n w votes in support
of Eastlakeand Vandalism, Germanism and daubs, accosted •
me near the western door'of the Rebans-room, and volun-
teered the highest compliments on my evidenoe ; that he
went so far as to say Thad made out my case; and that,
to cap all, he said, 'as for oil U wins he's an Ass.'" I added
that ' this was not the only time Mr. Stirling had so
expressed himself."
My case, un to this period of the in-
quiry, was a charge against, Professional Trustee Sir O.
-Eastlake, and Keeper Mr. Uwins, that duringthe preced-
ing vacation they • had extensively. damaged nnu
of the public pictures. Those " alleged conversations,"
as he calls them, Mr. Stirling says " Mr. Moore
has thought it becomint, to report to the public without
my sanction or knowledge." This Is the sum of the ob-
jections which Mr. Stilling, in a letter knocked off in the
veni, vidi, vici vain, sets up against my report of those
conversations. By not denying, he admits my accuracy,
and so proclaims as stoutly as any one the incompetency of
hint ,in support of whose competency he votes. But we.
have also ills admission direct. Mr. Moore has
proved himself to be an unsafe depositary of casual
and careless talk."' "Unsafe," let him say, so long as
that " talk " was faithfully reported. " Depositary,', in-
deed ! This prim personage should consult his John-
son. The violated trust, I have used for the benefit of the
public, and—in spite of himself, an "item" of thatpublic—
for his own. Henceforth, Papageno-like, let him wear a
padlock on his month, if he would indulge in " a disintegra-
tion of his individuality," by a snug vote at the expense
of conscience. Will any one, not having a peculiar interest
in the sentiment, maintain that by reporting what was
voltiuteered to me on a public question, in such a place,
on such an occasion, and by one with whom I had no in-
timacy, lam guilty of a breach of trust? After detecting
the " hon. gentleman" in giving a vote in fiat contradic-
tion to his now recorded co lviction, was I to hunt him
under the+ benches, and ia, the holes and corners of the
Treasury to ask his " sanction " for divulging that fact ?
Sach allegiance to him was to betray the public, and to
sacrifice truth. I can well divine that it would conduce
to the convenience, and to the perquisites o our "repre-
sentatives," could the public be persuaded that this is the
golden age, or some epoch of like simplicity ; that the
phrase " honourable gentleman " is not a sham ; and that
Germanism and jobb,ry, packed committees and false re-
ports, so fi igrantly false that the Chairmen who preside at
their drawing up for very shame repudiate them, are
myths.*

In the face of the rebuke administered to me for the
" politenes," of my, sentences, I must not again pre-
sume to call a certain vote "discreditable." It is enough
t have proved it so ; but I will just observe that a pre-
judice obtains, that "ignoble," and "underhand," and
even "discreditable," terms so objectionable in my letters,
are 'as " polite," and almost as harmonioue, if not so
" calm," as " the cap fitted him," " thin-skinned," and
" slashing," with which the Master of the Ceremonies
from Perthshire embellishes his own. And here we have
another specimen of Parliamentary straightforwardness.
Mr. Stirling says he " shall seek no further intercourse"
with me. This "slashing" announcement is an abuse
of victory. My unceremonious treatment of him on the
17th should have spared him such waste of energy. But
the sacrifice will be better appreciated by what fol-
lows. On the evening of that same day, strange to
relate ! an appeal reached me from Mr. Stirling to
act as umpire in ' the great Ass controversy which
has been raging in the Times about the skinning and
cooking" of sundry asses in the Velazquez "Boar
Hunt," touching whose fate Mr. Stirling, "an authority"
on this subject, has a' near interest. That appeal is a
tribute to my trustworthiness' the more precious now that
am impugning his. With Mr. Stirling's note was a
stamped envelope directed to himself, inclosing apaper
upon which I was to write my "impressions." Reluctant
to appropriate the property of one so often the victim of
his liberality, I was anxious to return his pennyworth
of Queen's heads. On the following morning at
the chambers of a barrister in Sergeants' Inn, I wrote
across his paper my impressions, as follows...a" Mr. Mor-
ris Moore declines to hold any communicatien with Mr.
Stirling, April 18, 1836." This I posted at Temple Bar
before half-past one. It must have been delivered by half-
past four on ' the same afternoon—mark ! the afternoon of
the 18th. Mr. Stirling's letter is dated the 19th.
I now coma to a subject upon which I eater with ex-
treme reluctance, for although one of national importance
it may, at the first blush, appear to relate more especially
to myself. I hope to remove such misconception. That
subject is the "Apollo and Marsyas," by Raphael. Mr.,
Stirling says c—" In the Committee of the House of Com-
mons, ou Monday the 7th inst.' 1 said that Mr. Miindler's
alleged mistake in imagining himself the possessor of
Correggio was a kind of mistake into which collectors were
very apt to fall ; and that. I had known persons so teens-
ported by their imaginations as to believe themselves the
owners of Raffaelles—or words to that effect. In these
simple words, naturally suggested by the remark to which
I was l eplying, his (Mr. Morris Aloorde) fine critical -
faculty at once detected a personal and particular attack
upon himself and his property." I must decline the pe.
destal here designed for me. That "fine critical faculty"
which it suits Mr. Stirling to treat as my distinctive at-
tribute, is common to all with whom I have conversed
upon his speech. All detected that he did make a personal
and particular attack upon me and my " property," as he
has it, and I have yet to hear any one ob,;ect to the epithets
by which I designated that attack. The Times is the only
journal, as far as I know, which gave the part of Mr. Stir-
ling's speech jest quoted. I was present at the debate,
and can vouch for the accuracy of the Times report. After
" nations," " the words to that effect " were, "as to be-
lieve in the possession of a Raphael." Under the pecu-
liar circumstances of the case, the phrases " a Correggio,"
and "a Raphael," hate a correlative significance which
is ',weakened ley garbling the latter phrase into
the plural. I claim both the difference and the gar-
bling as additional evidence against the "hon. gentleman."
The remark to which Mr. Stirling was replying, was
made by Mr. Otway. On the vote of 17,639/. for the ex-
penses of the National Gallery during 1855-7 being put,
Mr. Otway, in moving that the vote be reduced by 6501.,
the sum of the travelling expenses for the travelling agent,
said he "rather thought. that Mr. Miindler was not very
favourably known in this country ; that by an effort of
imagination that gentleman had persuaded himself to be.
lieve that he had oiscovared a Correggio, and had tried to
induce the trustees of the National G7llery to purchase it;
and that that transacti he must say, appeared to be
enough to raise some suspicion as to the propriety of the
appointment." In all conscience ! both the amendment
and the "remark" were moderate enough for the occasion.
Note the chain of evidence against my opponent.
1. I am the authority, as Mr. Stirling knew, for the
statement that Herr Miindler did attempt to sell to the
Trustees of the National Gallery, as an original Correggio,
a dingy and bedaubed Bolognese copy. I stated this on
the 27th of last August in a letter to the Morning Adver-
tiser, in which I gave a description of the picture from my
own personal observation, and named its locality.
As a test of my accuracy and of the scandalous cha-
racter of the Milialler. job, I defied the owner to pro-
duce his "Correggio," and at the same time proposed that
"a council of men of acknowledged connoisseurship and
character should decide between us." On the very day of
its publication I posted that letter to Herr Miindler. On
the let of September, in a second letter to the Morning
Advertiser, I repeated the substance of my previous state-
ment, and informed the public that I had forwarded to
Herr Miindler the paper which contained it. This second
letteralse heat toHerrMiindler. Bathletterswerereprinted
in Bell's IVeelcly Messenger on the Ist and Bth of September
respectively. The only rep'y I have as yet seen to my
challenge is the " Adoration of the Magi,"and a scraped
and vamped-up " Mantegne."
2. I am a person "known" to Mr. Stirling, as "so
transpprted by his imagination as to believe himself in the
psi session of a Raphael." But there is this difference be-
tweet, the Englishman and the German, that evidence upon
evidence has accumulated to confirm my judgment ; that,
instead of fearing to pro lace my picture, I have ever made
it a point of honour to show it to all who have applied to
see it ; and that I maintain, defiantly, if need be, what
from the first I proclaimed that picture to be, what that
picture is now reeowned throughout Europe as being,
namely, one of the most transcendent Raphaels in Eng-
land.
3. In the Debate on the National Gallery Mr. Stirling
starts up as the advocate of his " unfairly" used Miindler,
whom he "had heard mentioned by several artists in
Paris, two or three years before," (remarkable creden-
tials !) "as a person remarkable for his knowledge of
Art? No—" for his holesty and integrity." Are we '
English, then, such rogues that we mast hire German
" h.oneety and integrity" to look after us lest we purloin
our own money ?
Now, to a man who could belie his conscience to don
the wig in a cause so disreputable, so unpatriotic as the
dragging of his fello ar-countrymen at the heels of an in-
competent alien, would not my exposure of his client and
his client's " Cerreggio " have "naturally suggested" a
stab where, to the apprehension of many of his hearers, I
might, perchance, be equally vulnerable? However, Mr.
Stirling may attempt to mystify by now calling the
" Apollo and Marsyas" an " interesting and beautiful pie-
tare '—a hidgment he presently reverses, by sneering at it
as a " gem," which means that it is not a gem, although
that term is an accepted metaphor for " beautiful picture;"
BO that, according to the " conolusivenees of his reasoning,"
what is, is not—no candid and sensibly man acquainted
with the merits of the case could fail to consider his vindi-
cation of Herr Miindler an "„underband, ignoble, and
obvious attack" on myself and R ipheel. To have over-
looked the affront .put upon me by Mr. Stirling in the
House of Commons on the 7th inst., with regard to the
" Apollo and Marsyas," would have been to renounce all
pretensions as an authority on art, and so from the con-
victer, to sink into the presumptuous and unscrupulous
calumniator of the men in Trafalgar-square. It concerned
the nation, therefore, no less than myself, that I should
resent that affront.
In my letter of the 17th, from a misplaced delicacy I
avoided naming the special subject of Mr. Stirling's attack,
and contented myself with the general rebuke that, in this,
as in his vote, he had falsified his expressed convictions.
But Mr. Stirling is less squeamish. The meaning which
he disavows for the 7th, he proclaims on the 21st. He

* Colonel Mure, the Chairman of the Committee on the
National Gallery of 1853, in a letter to the Morning Post,
December 15th, 1853, rephdiatedthe Reportof that committee

"Ts. "Improbable as it may appear to Mr. Moore,
I uttered those words in total forgetfulness that
he, too, was subject to like hallucinations, and had
been the purchaser, and possibly the vendor, of a
'doubted or doubtful Raffaelle." Mr. Stirling there-
fore remembers that I was the purchaser, and have possi-
bly been the vendor of a doubted or doubtful Raphael.
Upon his knowledge of the one, he builds his surmise of the
other. See the superstructure disappear ! " The Apollo and
Marsyae" is still mine. I may yet shake the foundation.
Mr. Stirling then, is as unscrunalous in his insinuations
as he was abject in his'vete. Upon reading Mr. Stirlitig'a
last• sally a friend remarked, " that sentence might have
been indited by a costermOnger." My friend, whose notions
are obsolete, was at a loss to Understand how any one re-
ceived among gentlemen could make such an imputation
unless he had proof of what ha was stating • and he na-
turally inquired whether I had ever p traded or sold as
genuine a spurious Raphael. It was easy to reply in the
negative. I appreciated the psychological affinity which
had seized upon my friend's, imagination; but I impressed
upon him the superior dignity, socially, of an hon. gentle-
man who bar Ors his Conscience and the goad of the Com-
monwealth for the smile of a Minister, and who, a stranger
alike to good manners and to good feeling, halts at no in-
sult, however coarse and reckless, to men who, it is moiera-
tion to say, are his inferiors in nothing save their share
of that dross of which even the mightiest among us can
boast but a transient loan. I will not dwell upon the
modesty of the man whacharacterises as "hallucinatioas" the
judgment of one who, not without 80029 distinction, his
madaart the study of a life, while he himself, though pos-
sessing amp:e means to become the owner of masterpieces,
is, nevertheless, content to grovel among the cheap and
murky refuse of a degenerate age ; but I take this oppor-
tunity to mark another difference beitween myself and Mr.
Stirling's client, that whereas that German would not
hesitate to fasten upon us his spurious and damaged Cor-
reggio, I, on the contrary, as friends have often hoard me
say, would rather present my Raphael as a gift to the
meanest of foreign public galleries, than sell it at any price
that could be name(' to the Rational-Gallery of England
as now conducted; and this, not, as Lord Palmerston
dared to insinuate, because "personal resentments have
greater influence with me than the interests of truth or
the welfare of the community," but because I can make
sacrifices for both. To consign to the clutches of an East-
lake, a Wornum, and a Miindler, and their disingenuous
patrons, so sublime a work as the "Apollo and Marsyas,"
would be to lend them support, unreal if you will, bat
sufficient to stamp me as accessory to one of the most
barefaced frauds ever practised upon a nation.
Mr. Stirling further says :—" By no unscrupulous foe
or foolish friend did the pretensions of the picture ever
seem to me so likely to be seriously damaged, as by the
admission of the happy, though thin-skinned owner, that
he cannot bear a casual allusioa to the possible existence
of a spurious Raffaelle without feeling and proclaiming
that such allusion an ignoble and underhand, yet ob-
vious attack upon him and his gem." Mr. Stirling has
given me a hint. In return, leaving it to him to deter-
mine the value of each, I will bring him face to face first
with a "foolish friend"
,or two of the "Apollo and
Marsyas," and then with an " unscrupulous foe."

" THE FOOLISH FRIENDS."

On Saturday, March the 2d, 1850, the "Apollo and
Marsyas" was purchased for me by a friend at Messrs.
Christie and Manson's, at the sale of Mr. Daroveray, de-
ceased. It was catalogued as an Andrea Mantagna, and
had been on view for an entire week. The name of
Andrea Mantegna was an obvious misnomer. As at that
period some cordiality existed between Lord Elcho and
myself, he was among the earliest whom I invited to see
what I knew to be a Raphael. This was on the 4th. On
the sth he called, and such PM the impression its " sur-
passing beauty" made upon him, that for some time he
repeated his visit almost, daily, atoning for intermissions
by as many as even throe visits on the same day. It is
due to Lord Elcho to state, that from the first he accepted
the " Apollo awl Marayas "as a Raphael. Within a few
dayi of its purchase he begged of me as a favour to take
,it to Lord Ellesmere, a Trustee of the National
Gallery, who, as he informed me, had expressed
great desire to see it. I declined. I saw no rea-
son to think so meanly of myself, or so highly of any
one else, as to run after him, especially with a Raphael,
unless indeed some valid reason were given for such un-
usual exercise. For once the mountain might come to
Mahomet. But Lord Elcho persevered. At length on the
14th of March, he called to announce that he had actually
made an appointment with Lord Ellesmere for me to call
with the Raphael on the following morning, at his resi-
dence in Belgrave-square. I still demurred. Feelinc, for
Lord Elcho's disappointment, and pleased with his enthu-
siasm., satisfied, moreover, by his assurance that Lord El-
lesmere would have called upon me, but for his being an
invalid, ,I consented, and kept the appointment. After al
few words, Lord Ellesmere asked me to allow the picture
to remain with him for an hoar. I agreed. On my re-
turn he declared emphatically that N) entirely concurred
with me respecting the "Apollo and Marsyas," and that he
hoped 'Mr. Charteris (Lord Elcho) would lose no time in
bringing it under the notice of Parliament.
On the 21st of March, 1850, under the head," National Gal-
lery," the public journals speak thus :—" Mr. C harteris ( Lord
Elcho) has given notice that, after Easter, he will call the
attention of the First Lord of the Treasury to the recent
sale, by public auction, at Messrs. Christie's, of a picture
which is confidently believed by many persons to be a work
of Raffaelle." This notice was given without my sanction,
but with the approval, as Lord Elcho informed me, of Lord
Ellazraere. When Lord Blett4 anuounced hts intention of
giving his notice I discouraged him from it. It would,
I thought, place mo in an invidious light, and, if not
followed up, might retard the establishment of the au-
thenticity of the picture. I said this both at the time and
afterwards. But Lord Echo was ambitious of the honour,
as he said, of having his name associated with such a work,
by 'formally introducing it to the public. On the 10th of
June, 1850, appeared the following letter in the Morning
Post :

"MR. MOORE'S RAPHAEL.

" Sir,—l trust that you will be able to find a place in your
columns fora few lines in explanation of the circumstances which
have prevented my publicly calling the attention of the First
Lord of the Treasury to Mr. Morris Moore's Raphael, in pur-
suance of a notice to that effect which I gave ;n the early part
of the session. In giving that notice I had two objects in
view ; I was anxious, in the first place, publicly to call the
attention o: the Trustees of the National Gallery to the exist-
ence, or, rather to the discovery of a work of art, which I,
in common with most of those who have had the good fortune
to see it, believe to be of great national importance; and,
in the second place, I wished to give expression to the uni-
versal feeling of dissatisfaction which prevails with regard to
the management of the concerns of the National Gallery.
But, inasmuch as I felt that an unseasonable discussion of
these subjects would create little interest in the House of
Commons, I thought it advisable to wait until the grant was
moved for the current expenses of the National Gallery, which
would have offered a fitting opportunity for bringing on my
notice. Time has, however, run on ; the session is far advanced ;
and I am obliged to leave England before this branch of the
miscellaneous estimates has been brought under consider-
ation ; I must, therefore, postpone the subject to another
session. Public attention has been already-so fully drawn to Mr.
Morris Moore's Raphael, and public opinion has been so
strongly expressed in its favour, through the medium of the
press, that I would fain hope the Trustees will make a point
of securing it for the National Gallery. I have no fears as to
the result of their deliberations upon it, provided they do not
allow their bdtterjudgments to be influenced by the criticisms
of a foreign gentleman (Herr Passavaat) who, on a Friday, an-
noences, ex cathedrd, that this picture, which he admits to
be a first-rate specimen of the finest period of Italian art,
is the work of Francia ; and who, on the Monday following,
with equal confidence, ascribes it to Timoteo della Vita, two
painters who cannot by any possibility be confounded, pro-
vided likewise that they are not guided by the opinions of
those professional connoisseurs who had neither the taste nor
the feeling to appreciate so fine a work, nor the critical know-
ledge which should have led them to discover, under a false
name, the master-hand of Raphael. My own conviction is
that this picture isnot only a Raphael, but, perhaps, the
p:i..est and most b itiful specimen of the master in this
country ; but I care not, as regards its claims upon the Na-
tional Gallery, whether it be by him or not, for when a pic-
ture is universally pronounced to be a first-rate specimen of
the finest period of Italian art, its title to a place in our Na-
tional Collection is clear and indefeasible, and it then be-
comes the bounden duty of the Trustees not to suffer so im-
portant a work to leave the country, or become the ornament
of a private Gallery. " F. CHARTER'S (Lord Elcho).
"27, Chesha-n-street, June 8."
Did Lord Echo redeem his pledge ? His " other session "
is still due. Yet, from June the Bth, 1350, to July the sth,
1853, the period at which our acquaintance ceased, he
often repeated, and with increased emphasis, if possibl2, his
admiration of nr, picture, and his faith in it as a Raphael.
That infirmity of purpose which has marked his conduct
throughout the National Gallery question—for this is still
that question—was foreshadowed in the abandonment of his
notice. With regard to the "Apollo aid Marsyas," he advo-
cates only to desert. So, for my denouncement of East-
lake's Vandalisms and waste of public money on daubs,
first, I "deserve the thanks of all ;" then he again deserts,
and, to cover his apostasy, discharges his share of the debt
by. undermining me in a Parliamentary Report, and by
private slander. Lord Elcho's abandonment of his notice
has been distorted into a reproach from which I have had to
defend both myself and the Raphael. But here are more
"foolish friends" of that Raphael.
1. Private Collectors.—Messrs. Walter Savage Landor,
William Coningham, Faller Maitland, and Alexander
Barker. These gentlemen, who are or have been the pos-
sessors of first-class pictures of the Italian school, have
pronounced the "Apollo and Ilarysas " one of the finest
Raphaels in England. As agreeing with these 1 may men-
tion Mr. Francis Pulsky, an amateur who has gives no
ordinary attention to art.
2. Artists. Messrs. Alfred Stevens, Hurlstone, and
Samuel Laurence —all well known to have had every op-
portunity for studying the best works of Raphael. They
agree with the collectors above named. With these I may
class the late Mr. Brocky, an artist of talent and an ardent
admirer of Raphael. He often declared the "Apollo and
Marsyas" to be the finest Raphael he had seen in England.
3 Collectors deceased.—Messrs. the Rev. John Sanford,
Chambers Hall, James Dennistonn, and Samuel Wood-
burn. These likewise accepted the " Apollo and Marsyas"
as a Raphael.
4. Collectors of Marc-Antonio Engravings.— The three
most celebrated professional collectors of Marc-Antonio_
engravings in England concur with the preceding.
To the gentlemen, already named, I add Mr. Holford,
Sir John Hippisley, and Mr. Sackville Bale, who virtually,
if not literally, admit my nomenclature. All have re-
peatedly seen the picture. From thefirst they pronounced
it admirable, and each succeeding visit more than con-
firmed the former impression. Raphael alone, of all the
Umbrian school, to which only the Apollo and Marsyas"
can be ascribed, is entitled to the praises they have lavished
upon it. The first is one of our most liberal collectors, in
every branch of art. The two last are well-known cultiva-
tors of Raphael, and the possessors of Raphael drawings
and fine Marc-Antonio prints. I will now quote two gen-
tlemen of a different category, who, if not the possessors of
masterpieces, at least avoid the cheap and tenebrous "gems"
which mark the apogeum of Mr. Stirling's aspirations.
These gentlemen are Mr. Alfred Tennyson and Mr. James
Spedding. To name the first is enough. Both are fami-
liar with the " Apollo and Marsyas. Men of culti-
vated minds, and having access to the finest creations of
art, their impressions must be valuable; but, as painting
has not been their leading occupation, they have too much
good sense to dogmatise upon a name. I regret that lam un-
able to recall the phrases of the former, but I have seen him
wrapt in admiration at the beauty of my picture. Mr. Sped.

[PRICE 4D. STAMPED SD•

ding's sentiments are on record. In a letter to the _Examiner
I of the 23d of March, 1350, he says—" A very beautiful pic-
ture, supposed by the possessor to be an Andrea Mantegna,
was put up for public auction, .in London, a few
weeks ago. Mr. Morris Moore, as soon as he saw it, knew
what it was, in fact, a remarkably fine Raphael. Fortu-
nately for him, nobody else darst think so. I say knew,
because—judging not by my own impressions, which are
worth nothing, but by the opinions of personswhom I kn,ow
to be competent—l have no do ebt myself that the picture
will, era long, be generally acknowledged and established
not only as an unquestionable Raphael, but as an unusually
fine specimen, ii enusually good preservation, and not the
less remarkable for the beauty of the subject and the
treatment than for thie-painting or drawing." Mr. Sped-
ding's testimony, then, is valuable not only on account of
his own impressions, but because he backs it by the opi-
nions of persons whom ha knows to be competent. The
editor of the Examiner comments on his letter thus—
" We recommend it to the directors of the National Gal-
lery. The picture to which reference is made ought un-
questionably to have been purchased for that collection.
We care not whether or not it be finally admitted as a
Raffaelle. We have seen it ; and can confidently say that
its intrinsic claims and consummate merit as a specimen of
the period to which it belongs, entitle it to a place among
the greet masters and guides to our knowledge and hppre-
ciation of early art." Again, I might cite one member
of the Legislature who said, that "if he possessed fifty
votes, ho would give them all to place the Apollo and
Marsyas in the National Gallery;" another, that I " de-
served a vote of thanks for having proved to the world
that Englishmen can appreciate such works ;" to which ho
aided with emphasis ; it would have been a disgrace to
the nation had a foreigner been the purchaser of that
picture.'
But Mr. Stirling requires "constituted" authority.
Here, then, are five more Trustees to catalogue among his
" foolish friends." Lord Lansdowne and Mr. Rogers
greatly extolled the " Apollo and Marysas." Mr. Thomas
Baring has on various occasions expressed his admiration
' ortteestelehateerarldathateit ix -"adwaya-ae-treat to see it
,again." Sir James Graham, after extolling its beauty
generally, pronounced the " Apollo" the " most God-
like figure he had seen ; " while Mr. Gladstone thought
the picture "such a work as one could wish Ra-
phaelha I painted," and regretted that it did not rest with
him "to Teed it the authority it deserved." Subsequently,
Mr. Gladstone became Chancellor of the Exchequer, and
ex-officio a Trustee. But when presumptively—l say pre-
, sumptively, for on no terms, I repeat, would I have treated
with the actual managers of the National Gallery—it did
rest with him to lend to the" Apollo and Marsya.s" the
authority it deserved, he proved his consistency and his
financial tact by expending 3,0001. upon his unknown
Germans, the Von Werdens, Von Liesborns, and " Tom
Rings," and that ascetic Lambert, who, according to the
Eastlake-Wornum catalogue, was so devout a worshipper
of the mystical " Three," that three wives and three
families were the reward of his " sanctimonious rhetoric,"
and who, to believe the same authority, had a knack of
" executing his pictures"—and why not his families ?
"in a manner somewhat peculiar to himself." Ware we
a Pagan nation, and the strange edifice in Trafalgar-
square the temple of our God, although we could
nut expect much grace for the architecture, yet those
votive daubs, to say nothing of their suggestiveness
of the sacred geese, might attest our island piety,
or the chaste and recondite yearnings of the Chief Mysti-
fier, but in this age of income-tax and Tractarian light it
bears hard upon an orthodox and not indocile people to be
mulcted for the symbols of an exploded creed. One more
",constituted authority" and I have done with the " foolish
friends" of my " doubted or doubtful Raffaelle." In 1851,
Mr. Stirling's client, Herr Miiadler himself, more than
once saw the " Apollo and Marsyas," and, after some
persuasion from me, became one of the most vehement of
its panegyrists, and a true believer in it as a Raphael.
And this brings me to a curious instance of German Art-
criticism. Dr. Waagen, as he is called, was then in London.
Herr Miindler expressed the greatest desire that the Doctor
should see my picture, assuring me, at the same time, that
from his report he would come prepared to agree with us.
But the German Doctor, according to Herr Miindler,
wished to see the picture and to give no opinion upon it.
If he disagreed with me I might attack him ; if the re-
verse, ha might be placed in an unpleasant position with
his friends, my opponents. and their patrons. I could not
consent to such terms. His very silence would be used as
a weapon against me. I was at a loss to conceive why a
learned German Doctor should trouble himself about any
attack from an ignorant Englishman. I said that Dr.
Waagen should see the "Apollo and Marsyas" as often as
he liked, bat on condition that after a reasonable time ho
should pronounce a decided opinion upon it. All I would
promise was, that if the Doctor agreed with me, whatever
course I might adopt in the other case, I would never
quote his authority.
Since the " Apollo and Marsyas" became mine, Sir C.
Eastlake has laid out 14,0301. in pictures, including his
" Adoration of the Magi." Let no one prematurely ask
how many pictures he has secured which it would be a
treat to see again ;" how many, such as " one could wish
Raphael had painted ;" how many " God-like figures."
As Mr. Vernon says, " Let him have a fair trial, and he
will prove himself more worthy of public confidence than
the recent unfortunate purchase of the Adoration of the
Magi,' which has justly caused so much sensation, would
make him appear to be." " Pellegrina Morosini, a young
woman of considerable embonpoint"—whom Sir C. East-
lake, according to page 56 of his last report. has just se-
cured fur the Trustees, has yet to make her appearance

" AN UNSCRUPULOUS FOE."

I have said that the " Apollo and Marsyas" was sold at
Messrs. Christie and Manson's on the 2d of March, 1850.
It had been pointed out to Sir C. Eastlake while on view.
Three acquaintances of mine wore in the auction-room at
the seine time as he was. One of them exchanged some
remarks with him about the picture, but he treated it as
unworthy of particular notice. We shall see how his per-
ceptions were quickened. At this time Sir C. Eastlake
held no official appointment at the National Gallery. He
hed resigned the Keepership since two years and a-half,
but he maintained a secret influence there under the pre-
text of revising the official catalogue. Thus, he was still
the final authority for the nomenclature of the pictures.
The Minutes of the Trustees of 1817-52, pp.2B-9, show that
he interfered in other ways also with the National Gallery.
Moreover, he was, and is still, besides his I,oooe a year as Di-
rector of the National Gallery—in the receipt of 7001. ayear
as Secretary to the " Royal Commission for the Promotion
of Art." Had he comprehended the value of the "Apollo and
Marsyas," it would have been his duty, as a highly-salaried
officer " for the promotion of art," to apprise the Govern-
ment of the possibility of obtaining it for the nation. But
the unfitness of Lord Palmereton's " undoubtedly tit
friend" comes to the rescue. Sir C. Eastlake stands ac-
quitted of inattention to his duty for reasons that must
satisfy even the most captious objector. First, it was his
interest to obtain for the nation so consummate a work ;
secondly, as he speculates in pictures as well as paints
them, he would, at the worst, have perceived the thrift of
a tempting eo secure it for himself.
It has been stated that evidence upon evidence has accu-
mulated to confirm my judgment respecting the " Apollo
and Marsyas." For instance, Raphael's monogram, R.V.
--141.P.H AEL YR BINAS —has been discovered in certain
god en dots on the border of the quiver at the feet of the
Apollo ; the dots standing for the high lights of a relieved
ornament. This signature is peculiarly interesting from
its serving the double purpose of representing at once the
name of the master and a feature of the design. I quote
it for no more than its worth, and, though a, feature of the
design, rate it as evidence extrinsic, in contradistinction to
the evidence of art. But the extrinsic evidence which
eclipses all other is Raphael's or/gine/drawing for the picture.
That drawing is in the Accadeinia I. R. delle Belli Arti at.
Venice, where is preserved one of the most important collec-
tions of Raphael drawings extant. Until a recent date the
" Apollo and Marsyas" drawing hung with the rest of the
Collection in a room set apart for ancient drawings. Friends
of mine, now in London, saw it there within the last five
years. Bat "an unscrupulous foe" also had heard of that
drabs ing. In the autumn of 1852 Sir C. Eastlake appears
in Venice, and as a liberally-paid functionary for the Pro-
motion of Art in England manifests a singular interest in
it. The drawing disappears, and is smuggled into The
private room of Signor Salvatico, the Director. For some
time I remained ignorant of this startling coincidence.
. Julgine it important to bring the picture and the drawing
side by side, as it were, and so put the seal to one of the
most striking incidents in the history of art, I asked
an acquaintance in March, 1851, to request an Frig-
lish friend resident at Venice to obtain a photograph of
the drawing. This request was met by a rude refusal.
In May, 1854, another Englishman, resident at Venice,
made a second application on my behalf. Again a refusal,
but this time Mei!, and coupled with the information that
two demands for a photograph had already been made ;
the one on my account, above-mentioned, though for whom
was unknown to the Director; the other by Sir C. Eastlake.
The Director refused the photograph on the ground that
he " stood pledged to Sir C. Eastlake" not to let any per-
son have a photograph of that drawing until Sir C. East-
lake himself had had one. Strange ! that he who had
cared so little for the picture should so bestir himself about
the drawing. After some urging the photograph was pro-
mised, but it never came. The pledge to Sir C. Eastlake
had to be kept. In the autumn of 1851, another acquaintance
about to proceed to Venice with a friend who holds an im-
portant office at the British Museum, undertook to pro-
cure the coveted photograph. Lest he might be discour-
aged from the undertaking, I abstained from mentioning
the result of former attempts. These gentlemen were four
days in Venice, but although they repeatedly applied,
and although the official title of the one was put forward
for that express object, they were unable to obtain a sight
either of the drawing or of the Director. They learnt, how-
ever, from an officer of the Accademis delle Belle Arti,
that a photograph of the " Apollo and Marsyas" drawing
had been taken, but. that it was uselessp for them t e apply
for one, as the " Presidente dell Accademia Reale delle
Belle Arti di Londra," that is, Sir C. Eastlake, was the only
person throagli whom a photograph.
could be
obtained.
About this period Sir C. Eastlake again appears in Venice.
The National Gallery job eves about to pass its first stage.
Those clandestine arrangereeets, which subsequently Lord
Palmerston twice repudiated in Parliament, were on the
eve of consummation. A corroboration of my judgment
on so great a question as the giving to the world a Raphael,
might, just then, prove inconvenient. During 1851 I made
a fourth attempt. In that year Professor Boehm, the Direc-
tor of the Academy of Medallists of Vienna, and one of the
most eminent connoisseurs of ancient paintings and draw-
ings in Europe, was sent to Milan by the Austrian Go-
vernment, as Commissioner to examine Leonardo da
Vinci's "Cenacolo," and to report upon its condition.
Having heard of my picture, he availed himself of
his journey to Lombardy to visit Venice and in-
spect the drawing. As I was acquainted with his
sons,l thought this an auspicious moment for
obtaining what I desired. A letter was accordingly de-
spatched to
kindlyurge my wishes. But Professor Boehm had
anticipated them by requesting Signor Salvatico to
let him have a photograph of the drawing. To an Aus-
trian functionary of Professor Boehm's standing a ready
compliance was, of course, expressed. The result of this
demand, as well as the character of the drawing, is de-
scribed be Professor Boehm himself. Towards the end of
July, 1855. I received the following communication in
Italian. The original was published in the Morning
Advertiser on the Ist of September, and in Bell's Weekly
Messenger on the Bth.

" Vienna, Li 22, Luglio, 1855.
" Pregiatissimo Signore—With regard to your question
whether the drawing in the collection of the Accademia delle
Bello Arti, at Venice, of which you possess a painting—the

* Debate on the Estimates for the National Gallery
during 1856-7, April 7th.
The statement respecting Lord Elcho and Mr. Hurl.
stone was published on the 20th of October, by Mr. Barnes,
a barrister of Lincoln's-inn. A copy of it was forwarded
to each. It has never been denied.

.HEALTII OF LONDON DURING THE
WEEK.

(From the. Report of the Regiatrar-General.)

Since the middle of April, when, in an improved state
of the temperature, the deaths in London were reduced
to little more than 1,040 in a week, the mortality has
shown some tendency to increase. Last week the deaths
rose to 1,154, the effect, probably, of atmospheric change;
the mean weekly temperature, which had risen to 48 5
deg., having afterwards fallen to 41'3 deg. In the ten
weeks corresponding to last week of the years 1846-55
the average number of deaths was 1,000, which, if raised
proportionally to increase of population, becomes 1,110.
Hence it appears that the rate of mortality last week
was above the average.
This return exhibits an increase in the deaths on those
of previous weeks at all periods of life except the third,
namely, that which extends from 40 to 60 years of age.
Those which occurred to persons under 20 years amount
to 557, being not much less than half of the total num-
ber returned. Thirty-nine persons bad arrived at 80
years or more, and of these 8 were nonagenarians. A
man, one of the Dulwich collegians, was 93 years old ;
a widow in the workhouse of St. George-in-the-East was
95 years ; the widow of a labourer at Putney was 97
years ; the widow of a farmer, who died in Kennedy.
court, St. Gileß' was 98 years ; and a spinster at East
Dulwich-road had attained the great age of 99 years. It
is stated respecting the person last-mentioned that she
retained her sight and hearing till within two months of
her death, and that she has two sisters now living in
Ireland whose respective ages are 93 and 96 years.
The deaths caused by typhus and common fever %ere
48, a number which is less than that in any of the three
previous weeks. On the other hand, hooping-cough, from
which there were 43 (besides 14 from croup), and scar-
latina, from which there were 35, discover an increase.
Five infants and an adult died from syphilitic disease.
Five women died of puerperal fever, besides 7 who sun k
under other illness accompanying childbirth. Phtbisis
was fatal to 173 persons. The deaths of 7 men in the
Royal Artillery, which occurred in the Royal Ordnance
Hospital between the 19th of April and 7th of May,
were caused by this disease—consumption.
Last week the births of 886 :boys and 815 girls, in all
1,701 children, were registered in London. In the ten
corresponding weeks of the years 1846 55 the average
number was 1,521.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29195 in. ; the
mean, on Friday, was 30.015 in. The highest reading
occurred on that day, and was 30.04 in. The mean
temperature was higher than in the preceding week ; it
was 44.3 deg., which is 7.7 deg. below the average of
the same week in 38 years (as determined by Mr.
Glaisher.) The mean daily temperature rose slightly
abova the average on Saturday, but on all the previous
days it was much below the average, the extent of de-
pression having varied from 7 deg. to 11 deg. On Satan.
day the thermometer in the shade rose to 63'3 deg., the
highest reading iu the week ; on the same day, in the
sun, it rose to 90.1 deg. The lowest reading in the
shade in the week was 29'8 deg. on Monday, and the
entira range was consequently 33.5 de.,. The mean dew-
point temperature was 36.9 deg., and the difference be-
tween this and the mean temperature of the air was 7.4
deg. The mean temperatuce of the water of the Thames
was 49 deg. The wind was in the north-east and east
till Wednesday afternoon ; thereafter it blew constantly
from the north. The amount of horizontal movement
of the air on Wednesday was 300 miles ; and the Ares•
sure on the square foot, as measured by Osler'e anorl2o.
meter was 101 b. Rain to the amount of 0.32 in. fell
on the same day.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED
•• IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MAY 10.
Zymotic Diseases .......................................... 236
50
.. 234
TuD i sbeearsceusl
aorf
Diseases Uncertain Seat
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses
Diseases of the Heart and 8100d-vessels 52
Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of
Respiration
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion ..........
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c.
Childbirth, Diseases of tke Uterus, &c.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
Malformations .. 6
Premature Birth and Debility 37
Atrophy 4O
Old Age
Sudden 7
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 22
Causes not specified

DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES
Population Deaths in eorre- Dos
~tb!
i
Enumerated. sponding week i `"`
1851. of 1855. Week.
West Districts
North Districts 490,396
Central Districts 393,256
East Districts 485,522
South Districts

Totals
Males
Females

5851,154
569

1,123