The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-11 00:00:00

thitt they are a sectional and dis-union party._ _The se-
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cond denies the "authority of Congress or a territorial
Legislature to give legal assistance to slavery in any ter-
ritory of the United States." The word " territory," in
this connection, signifies a political organisation (made
under act of Congress) in a new country in which there
is not sufficient population to form a State. The third
resolution affirms the power of Congress to proiibit
slavery and polygamy within the territories. It is un-
necessary to say that this is aimed as well against Brig-
ham Young as against the extension of slavery. The
fourth and fifth relate to. Kansas and takes anti-slavery
grounds. The sixth we give at length :

" That the highwayman's pea that might makes
right,' embodied in the Ostend circular, was in every re-
spect unworthy of American diplomacy, and would bring
shame and dishonour upon any Government of people
that gave it their sanction.'"
The New York, Herald again writes as fol-
lows:

"The Republican platform is pretty well. It amounts
to little. It may be condensed into three sentences.
1. They want Congress to rule the territories and to ex-
clude slavery therefrom, 2. They want Kansas to be
free. 3. They want no war. On the other hand, the
Cincinnati platform takes a different ground. The Demo-
crats want-1. Congress not to meddle with the terri-
tories. 2. Kansas to be slave. 3. War. On these two
platforms the first is unquestionably the best
Every, one can judge of the relative merits of the third
proposition in the two platforms. If the interests of
this country can be best advanced by a war with France,
England, and Spain combined, brought on by a reckless
attempt of our Government to seize Cuba, then the Cin-
cinnati platform is the preferable one ; but if we shall be
the greater gainers by peace, industry, commerce, good-
will, and public enterprise, then the Fremont ticket is
the safer of the two."

With such statements before us, it is impossible
that all who wish well to the Republic should not
wish her to be represented amongst the nations
by Colonel FREMONT, rather than by Mr.
BUCHANAN. If party zeal in America will elect
a pro-slavery man, who is necessitated by his
slavery connexions to adopt " the highwayman's
plea" at a diplomatic conference, to be her Presi-
dent, nothing can secure to her the same respect
as would be spontaneously given for an election
more honourable to h'3r domestic and foreign re-
lations.

Another and yet another ! Scarcely have we
got over the first horror of the 1,977/. PAULO
CAGLIARI, when we are agonised by a 1,050/.
GIOVANNI BELLINI just as abominable, just as
worthless, and just as ridiculous as a grand,
vaunted, costly addition to the art treasures
stored up in our unfortunate National Gal-
lery. One after another these expensive
daubs aro being bundled into that same
luckless collection tending rapidly and
inevitably to transform it, at length, into the
laughing-" stock" of the art critics of Chris-
tendom. All this, moreover, positively, and
distinctly because of the notorious and
acknowledged incapacity of Sir CHARLES
LOCK EASTLAKE as the Director of the
Gallery, thus simultaneously disfigured and dete-
riorated. Since this luckless Gallery has
been under his Direction, what execrable
rubbish has been admitted, to be sure,
into an assemblage of pictures until then
for the most part fastidiously and cautiously se-
lected ! A fraudulent TITIAN, a vamped-up
NIANTEGNA, a spurious HOLBEIN, a highly-stippled
BOTTICELLI, the big, flaring VERONESE, cobbled
and patched into something like uniform ugliness
by the veneering brush of one Tagliapietra, and
'now, " last, but not least" in atrocity,
this astoundingly hideous GIOVANNI BEL-
LINI : as the ever-ruthless "M. M." of
27, Soho-square, saith of it, in so many
words, " a besmeared, dull-purple, rotten-look-
ing daub !" As it is, to the very letter, and that
letter aT. Why, the whole spectacle recently
witnessed in the neighbourhood of Trafal-
gar-square has been, for all the world,
like a travestie of a famous scene in
Macbeth—but very slightly altered. The dra-
matis persolve thus distributed=lst Witch, Sir
CHARLES EASTLAKE ; 2d Witch, Mr. P.Axxxx
WuuNtiM ; 3d Witch, HERR OTTO MITNDLER ;
JOHN BULL enacting the part of the deluded
Thane. How does it run ?-
1, WiTon—Shaw ! 2. WITCH—Shew ! 3. Wizen
--Shew !

ALL.—Shen, his eyes, and grieve his heart;
Came like shadows—
[Would to heaven they may add in time]
—So depart !

[" A show " of several reputed Masters—as
HOLBEIN, TITIAN, MANTEGNA, VERONESE,
BELLINI, &C. H.R.H. standing by, with, in
oil° hand, a prophetic catalogue of more
treasures to follow, and in the other a
ground plan of the Kensington Gore Folly.]
MACEETIL—ThOU Art too like the spirit of Van-
daub !

Tily colours wound my sense of taste. Thy

faults—

Thou other gold-bound frame are like the first :
A third is like the former : Filthy daubs !
Why do you show me this ? A fourth ?--start
eyes !
What ! will " the line" stretch out to the crack
of doom ?

Another yet ?—a seventh ?--I.'ll see no more :
And yet the eighth appears. . . .

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HorVible sight !---&c., &c.

Extravagant all this may seem in the bare
similitude, yet is it not in the least fraction
of a degree exaggerated ! Let any one
who lists so to do, put the literal resem-
blance to the test by strolling for half•an-
hour round those unhappy apartments on the
north side of Trafalgar...square, sacred to the gems
and daubs-uf our National Gallery ! Examining
❑ow theCaaraaar, price 1,9771. sterling; and now
the BELLINI, pricel,osol, sterling, and afterwards
pronouncing, whether or no, the above is in any
way exaggerated. What, though the general effect
may appear to be in a very ludicrous degree extra-
vagant. Really, after all the murders that have
been committee in cold Wood (and with very
high fees paid over to the hireling assassins)
—really, we say, after all the various mur-
ders that have been deliberately committed in
cold blood upon such great masters as HOLBEIN
and VERONESE, and GIOVANNI BELLINI And AN-
DREA M.A.NTEGNA, and the like, we don't at all
wonder at the solicitude evinced by some
people to fly from the scene of these atro-
cities, and to rid the Gallery, if possible,
of such really painful associations. It shot ad be
remembered by those individuals, however,, that
it is not the building that must infallibly be
haunted under the circumstances so much as the
actual collection itself, so long as that collection
comprises within it such raw-head-and-bloody-
bones of the ancient masters as have been care-
fully selected by Sir CHARLES EASTLAK E and his
assistants, at very considerable expe ,use, from
among the ghoul-like lumber of the picti are-dealing
vampires of the Continent.

ROYAL PATRONAGE OF ART.—Her Majtesty having
commanded the attendance of .Mr. John 11 latkine, of
Parliament-street, at Buckingharc-p 'dace, wit h copies of
his photograph of General Williams, Colonel t Teesdale,
and the late Major Thompson has cot nmissiol led him to
supply an impression of each of these, with of her of his
productions for the Royal collection. The Q uuen has
also conveyed to Mr. Watkins her gracious
permission
that a fine mezzotint engraving now i 5 progress from
418 admirable photograph of General NI
rtlliams shall be
dedicated to her.
Viscount Palmerston has taken, for : term the late
Sir Richard Sutton's mansion in 'Pic:ca dilly, for many
veers in the occupation of his late Royal
Duke of Cambridge.
DEATH OF THE RON. AND REV. JA S. S, OMEBS COCKS.
—We regret to have to record the de, leas eof this much
respected clergyman, which took pl ace on Saturday
tight last, at Math° Lodge,E[ighness the
u in the (771 h year of his
age.