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

THE SUN,

THE 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. H. 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 glyphography. 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 com-
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. Tne 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 Shalcspere's commentators.

FRASER'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. MoGlashan of Dublin. It is a great
improvement o❑ 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.
SlR,—The mercantile public are heavily indebted to
you for condescending to notice the unwholesome con-
iiition 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
,he wrongs of a gingerbread dealer can possibly sup-
pose. The evil effccts are obvious to a moment's reflec-
ion, but, in the desire to be fair, we will state, as a set-
one good result. A little army of stLckjobbers with
their wives and families are almost entirely supported by
trotting the public up and down by the Bose. If ten
people set running in a crowded street with any symp-
tom of alarm, ten hundred will follow in breathless con-
.ternatiun, till one strong-minded man discovers that it
is only a cow with a crumpled horn increasing his walk
to a brisk trot; and precisely analogous is that baneful
phenomenon, a railway panic.
Now, in any case of causeless terror a timely word
will avert great calamity. If a church congregation
and its
smell fire, and the clerk shouts in explanation that the
great coat has been too near the stove, a panic
its
assurance
are happily obviated. In like manner, a
stag,
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prevent extremes or caution when railway speculation
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of thedaily
public Weal, consider such interference
neither derogatory nor impolitic, th • eir powerful influ-
ence would be exercised in a manner widely beneficial
to the commercia
humblel Community, f
which unimportant
body a very member is your grateful corre-
spondent,
A. B.

y, near Bishopstoke. It
' EXTRAORDINARY RAILWAY ACCIDNT.—AII acci-
' dent of an extraorinary character happened on Monday
that a man named William Priswell had charge of a
napireat,rson the South-Westrn Itailwa
luggage train, and, together with the fireman and a guard,
proceeded along the line; but after some time both the en-
gine-driver and the fireman fell asleep, and the train was
left to proceed on its journey without anyone to take care of
it beyond the guard, who not 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 Bishopatoke, how-
ever, Priswell, the engine-driver, fell off the locomotive,
and received very serious injuries; it is stated that both
his legs were broken. The guard, 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 he 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
matter 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
harmoniously given, as well as "The Flowers of the Forest"
and "The Lass o' Gowrie," which were rendered with much
feeling Rnd kould muosialludgmegit,

heat painter, but one whose genius is not yet gene-
rally recognised, Paul Falconer Poole, will be found
to have contributed to the collection two works
which in time (perhaps when he has unhappily been
Withdrawn from us, like Etty, by death) will be
among the glories of our national art—we mean his
impressive representation of " Jela and the Messen-
gers" (No. 39), and his great picture of " Solomon
Eagle in the Plague of London" (No. 5), one of the
noblest creations that ever marked the capacity of
an English artist. Leslie's " Scene from the Vicar
of Wakefield" (No. 20), will likewise, as a display of
excellence in an entirely different department of art,
secure to itself the scrutiny of those who can really
appreciate what is natural and humorous. Indifferent
as may be the general appearance cf the colouring, a
faint pink pervading the picture and predominating
rather unpleasantly over all other hues, the work, as
au illustration of Goldsmith, is happy to a miracle,
from the fly-trap on the ceiling, and the orange-hold-
ing portraits on the wainscot, to ,the Hon. Miss
Skeggs and the most decidedly dishonourable Lady
Blarney. Two specimens of Turner will win the
admiration of every discerning eye, one (No. 7) re-
presenting " The Whaler," and another (No. 16) a
masterly display of his rare and unequalled powers,
depicting " The Burning of the Houses of Parlia-
ment." In one part of the gallery we noticed, more-
over, Creswick's lovely little jewel of a picture (No.
37), "The Terrace, Haddon-hall, Derbyshire ;"
elsewhere Herbert's (No. 14) " Christ and the
Woman of Samaria," and several admirable speci-
mens of William Muller. Altogether, as we have
before intimated, the collection displayed on the walls
of Mr. Wass's Gallery-, is such as cannot fail to win
the admiration of all who visit it, provided only they
do so with a judicious estimate of British art, and of
the genius of those painters who are among the num
ber of our contemporaries.

THE PRINCE OF WALES'S BAZAAR.
A curious collection of paintings, by masters of the
French and Flemish schools, not generally known in
this country, has recently been added to the other at-
tractions of this establishment. Having ourselves in-
spected the works of art here gathered together, we
can speak with some degree of emphasis of their aver-
age excellence. Several of the pictures, besides being
singular from the circumstance of their antiquity, are
singular also for the genius revealed in their concep-
tion. 'We may allude, as examples of this, to a noble
head of St. Francis of Assisi, a head remarkable for
its expression of rapt and ecstatic aspiration. A
" Crucifixion" and " Last Supper" are contained in
the gallery, deserving of especial notice for the bril-
liancy of their colouring, notwithstanding the lapse of
time which has succeeded their original production.
"Various portraits of the age immediately anterior to
that of Louis Quatorze will be found not altogether
undeserving of the notice of visitors ; their curiosity
being repaid equally in other departments, as in that
of the representation of fruit and flowers. The
Koh-i-noor, however, among all the jewels of art,
has not yet been particularized. It will be enough to
say, that the picture gallery of the Prince of Wales's
Bazaar, contains a magnificent specimen of Paulo
Veronese to induce all the lovers of genius to follow
our example, by themselves visiting this singular and
interesting exhibition.