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

THE SU 14"1,.. LONDON, FRIDAY EV3rNINgi jumr 11. 1E458.

"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 amengst 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 her domestic and foreign re-
lations.

Another and yet another ! ScArcely have we
got over the first horror of the 1,9771. PAULO
CAGLIAB,I, when we are agonised by a 1,0501.
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 are 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-
ten o _A►ll this, moreover, positively, and
distinctly because of the notorious and
acknowledged incapacity of Sir CHARLES
LOOK 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
3/lANTEGNA, 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 r' 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' personce thus distributed—lst Witch, Sir
41. R EA3T LAItZ 2a Witch, Mr. ItALrit
WOILNUM ; 3d Witch, HERR OTTO MUNDLER ;
JOHN BULL enacting the part of the deluded
Thane. Row does it run ?-
1. WITCH—Sher ! 2. WITCH—Shew ! 3. WITCH
!

ALL.—Skew his eyes, and grieve his heart;
Come like shadows—
[Would to Heaven they may add in time]

—So depart !

["A show " of several reputed Masters—as
HOLBEIN, TITIAN, MANTEONA, VERONESE,
BELL/NI, &c. 11.R.H. standing by, with, in
oue hand, a prophetic catalogue of more
treasures to follow, and in the other a
ground plan of the Kensington Gore Folly.]
MACBETIL—Thou Art! too like the spirit of Van-
daub !

Thy 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 CC the line" stretch out to the crack
of doom ?

Another yet ?—a seventh ?--I'll see no more :
And yet the eighth appears. . . .
Horrible sight !--dre., Ste.

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 of our National Gallery ! Examining
now the CAGLIIRI, price 1,9771. sterling; and now
the BELLINI, price 1, 05 OZ. 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 committed in cold blood (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 HOLSEIN

and VERONESE, and GIOVANNI BELLINI and AN-
DREA MANTEL A, and the like, we don't at all

wonder at the solioitude evinced by some

people to fly from the scene of these atrc-

cities, and to rid the Gallery, if possible,
of such really painful associations. It should be

remembered by those iindividuals, however, that

it is not the building that must infallibly be

haunted under the circumstances so much as the

actual collection itself, ,5;o long as that collection

amprises within it surch raw-head-and-bloody-

bones of the ancient masters as have been care-
fully selected by Sir CIKARLES EASTLAKE and his

assistants, at very considerable expense, from
among the ghoul-like, lumber of the picture-dealing
vampires of the CorAinent.

ROYAL PATRONA OD OR ART.—Her Majesty having
commanded the aL.ter.dance of Mr. John Watkins, of
Parliament-street, at 713uckingharn-palace, with copies of
is photOgraph of G aneral Williams, Colonel Teesdale,
and the late Major 7 hompsou has commissioned him to
'LI.PPIY an impressie' J of each of these, with other of his
iroduotions for the Royal collection. The Queen has
dso conveyed to Ir.. Watkins her gracious permission
that a fine mezzo, int engraving now in progress from
his admirable .tograph of General Williams shall be
ledicated to her,
Viscount Pal merston has taken, for a term, the late
sir Richard Sir tton's mansion in. Piccadilly, many
ears in the oc 7. upation 9f his late Royal Highness the
Duke of Canabi i dge.
DUTY Or 74 15 HON. AND REV. JAS. SoMERS COCKS.
—We regret t o hare to record. the decease of this much
respected cloy g yman, which took place on Saturday
night last, at 1 lathou Loge, in the 67th
age. d year of his

hat they are a sectional and dis-union party. The se-
..!ond denies the "authority of Congress or a'terrttorial
Legislature to give legal assistance to slavery in-any ter:
ritory of the United States." The word " territory," in
~his connection, signifies a political organisation (made
under act of Congress) in a new country in which there
's not sufficient population to form a State. The third
•esolution affirms the power of Congress to prohibit
lavery and polygamy within the territories. It is un-
aectrisary to say that this is aimed as well against Brig-
ham Young as against the extension of slavery. The
ourth and fifth relate to Kansas, and takes anti-slavery
grounds. The sixth we give at length :
" That the highwayman's plea 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 :

LATEST NE WS%

ST. PETERSBURG, Jvis 9.

_ An Imperial ukase extends the amnesty ac-
corded to the refugees of the western governments
of Russia to individuals who took part in the
events of 1830 and 1831. No judicial proceed-
ings oan be instituted against them. They will
have merely to take an oath of fidelity to the
sovereign, and their rights will be restored to
them. They will be considered oapable of exer-
cising government employments after three years'
good conduct.

MADRID, JULY 9.

The return of M. Escosura, Minister of the
Interior, who is now at Valladolid, is postponed
to the end of the week. Several workmen have

been arrested here.
The cholera is not spreading beyond Seville.

FRANCE.

PARIS, THURSDAY.
The Emperor made an excursion on Tuesday to
Luxeuil (says a letter from Plombieres).
The Empress honoured.the Theatre Francais with
her presence last evening. The pieces performed
were " Une Chaine" and "La Diplomatic du
Marine."
It appears decided that there will not be a double
fete, as was at first contemplated, for the return of
the army of of the East and for the St. Napoleon.
These two solemnities will be celebrated at the
same time, on Aug. 15 ; but the fete will be of a
particularly military character, and especially dedi-
cated to the victorious troops who are returning
home, and to their general-in-chief.
The Dachess of Orleans has remitted from her-
self and the princes' her sons the sum of 15,000 f.
for the sufferers by the inundations.
The first section of the railway from Paris to
Alulhausen, lying between Paris and Nogent sur-
Marne, has just been opened to the public.
BOURSE, July 10.—Two o'clock.—Markot in-
clined to improve, but little businessdoing. Threes
are 71f. 75c. Mobilier have risen to 1,585 f. ; the
Railway Share Market more buoyant.

The -following was the situation of the Bank on
Thursday, July 10 :

CR. Fr. c.
Cash and ingots
Cash at the branch banks

Bills due yesterday to be paid to-day 401,376 66
Bills becoming due in. Paris
Bills in the branch banks
Advances on coin and ingots
Do. in the branch banks
Do. on public securities of France 103,982,236 10
Do. in the branch banks
Do. on railway shares and bonds 45,536,500
Do. in the branch banks
Do, to the State by treaty of
June 30, 1848 55,000,000
Advances on Treasury bills
Rentes of the reserve fund 12,980,750 14
Rentes of disposable funds 52,190;7924 93
Hotel and furniture of the Bank 4,000,00
Real property of branch banks 4,706,621
Expenses of administration 116,944 57
Premiums on the purchase of ruatihres 332,679 78
Sundries 592,095 43

1,058,946,337 2

•-•a. NO,
. the slight' external pressure 'which is
".n 431 F felt Is removed nothing will be changed.
A. person who is in a position to form a correct
opinion on the subject tells me, that little more is
to be expected from the Papal Government than
that it will exert itself to protect the lives and pro-
perty of its subjects.
Prince Adalbert of Bavaria will leave for Madrid
on or about the 20th of this month, as his marriage
is to take place at the beginning of August.
The Frankfort Post Zeitung learns ',rom Vienna
that Prince Gortschakoff fully agreed with Count
Bull, ;that tht,Datiubian Principalities "ought not
to be united ;" but you may be assured that such
was ;not the case.

A well-known English firm is likely to undertake
to construct the Vienna-Linz-Salsburg Railroad.
A treAy of commerce has been concluded for
15 years between Tuscany and Greece.

ITALY. '
On the arrival of Lord Normanby at Parma, be
immediately repaired to the Royal Villa of Sala, to
pay his respects to the Regent. He is accompanied
by Lady Normanby, and a communication from
Florence states that they left that town in great
h .ste and very unexpectedly. It is to be hoped
that this tardy visit of his lordship, after the capi-
tal has been three months and a-half in a state of
siege, and which seems'even now to have been only
undertaken by express order from home, may not
be too late to be useful.

A letter from Parma of the 2d, in the Risor-
gimeuto of Turin, says • "We are told that
Marshal Radetzky has officially informed the
Duchess Regent that, from strategical motives, he
intendslO increase our garrison to 3,000 men, to
be quartered partly in the city and partly in the
environs. Placentia has received an increwe of
500 chasseurs of the Imperial regiment ; the cita-
del having been demolished, the Austrians have
constructed three forts around, armed with guns ;
they are called SG. Lazarus, Pudista, and St. An-
thony. The Marshal wants to increase the Aus-
trian army in Italy to 120,000 men ; the Po is to
be furnished with military bridges at several points,
and considerable bodies of troops are to be stationed
along that river and the coasts of the Romagna."

LITERATURE.

Reelations of Prison LVe. By George Laval

Chesterton. Hurst and B!ackett.
A deeply interesting record of prison experience,
by_a_ well-known prison reformer, to wit, the ex-
Governor of Cold Bath Fields Prison. Numerous
characters are introduced, the incidents of whoSe
1 various careers are of a striking, some of -them of
I an appalling, nature, and the anxieties.peculiar to
the then position of the writer, are shown to be
such as to have called for no little support and
sympathy. While of a character to attract the
unreflecting, and such as look' merely for excite-
ment, these volumes possess claims on the atten-
tion of prison reformers. The writer undertakes
an inquiry into prison discipline and secondary
punishments, his object being to unmask the falla-
cies of one over-lauded system (the separate), and
to caution the public from any exaggerated expec-
tation from any other. Altogether the work is
one deserving of general perusal, and well calcu-
lated by its exposition of bygone evils, and the
suggestions it contains for the future, to do
good service. Differences of opinion will always
exist on some matters, and, not least, such as seri-
ously involve the welfare of society ; but it would
be impossible for a thoughtful individual to read
this work without more or less profit. As a narra-
tive of individual achievement in the teeth of
powerful obstacles it possesses considerable value.

Letters on Military Education By Jacob Omnium.
Bradbury and Evans.
These letters on the subject of Army Reform
made their first appearance in the Columns of the
Times, and excited as they successively appeared
a good deal of attention, and not a little contro-
versy. In their present form the public will be
better enabled to do justice to the views of the
author than they possibly could through the
medium of a daily journal, however popular and
extensively read, and we must say the letters are
deserving of the most thoughtful perusal and con-
sideration. One point is put with much force—
the danger under the existing system of favouritism
and incompetency of nominating a successor to
Lord Hardinge—a strong presumption existing
that such successor would either be a Prince of
the Blood, or a Peninsular Field-Marshal, in which
case, if incompetent, the nation would have to
endure (possibly) many alone year of military mis-
government before a Prime Minister could be found
resolute enough to disgrace by dismissal either of
them. Another proof of the necessity of Parlia-
mentary Reform, which, in our humble opinion,
must precede every other of a really thorough and
effective nature ! When will our public writers
come to see this ?

Healthy Respiration. By Stephen H. Ward,
M.D., London. John Van Voorst, Paternoster-
row.

A series of lectures delivered last winter i❑ Lon-
don on a subject of the last importance to the wel-
fare of the community, since, on a proper appre-
hension of it, the progress of sanitary improvement
largely depends. Mr. Ward possesses those im-
portant qualifications of a good lecturer, a lucid
style, brevity, and force, and knowing whereof be
speaks is enabled to fix the attention and fasten
his remarks on• the memory of his hearers or
readers. Altogether the work is one which com-
mands our approval, and if everything met with its
desert would be sure to command also an extensive
sale. •It is very portable, we may add, as well as
calculated to be useful.

The Sabbath, Question. By Henry Fulton. Dublin

M‘Glashan and Co.

An interesting brochure, in which the Sabbath
question,is considered scripturally, without refer-
ence to its social, political, or sanitary character.
The writer seeks only for the teaching of Scripture,
and the result of his research is a noticeable ex-
poaure of_ the fallacies which Sabbatarian divines
have pretended to draw from it. Whether the
writer be a member of the Society of Friends or
not we do not know ; but his views, we fancy,
pretty closely resemble those entertained by that
body of religionists. The work has reached a second
edition, and is deerving of circulation.