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diately contiguous shall be increased. Whether
duplicate books and specimens shall be eliminated
from the aggregate of the different departments,
with a view to the formation of a separate Museum
elsewhere—say in the east of the metropolis.
Whether the institution shall after extension and
reorganisation be maintained as it is, namely,
one and entire—or whether, on the contrary,

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The following telegrams were received at Mr.

Reuter's office :

PARIS, APRIL 25.

The Paris papers publish the following telegram,
dated Chambery, yesterday evening, containing
further information, according to which the num-
ber of votes recorded is as follows :
For the annexation about .... 45,340
Against ... , . ........ 210
Abstained from voting .... 750

its various sections shall be divided for removal.
Whether, in point of fact, the British Museum
shall lose its right to that title by being subjected
to an arbitrary disintegration.
_ .

There is unquestionably, as was intimated last
evening in the House of Commons, a decided ten-
dency to the filtration of our various public collec-
tions down to that hideous, temporary, mongrel
edifice, or agglomeration of edifices down at South
Kensington. It is--what shall we call it ?
ALBERT'S Folly ! It has an immense prestige in
high quarters—one that threatened at the outset
that each of our public museums and galleries (no
matter where situated) must have its " slope"
thither as inexorably as Russia has hers to the East
according to the phrase of M. DE LAMARTINE. Inso-
much thatwe looked with unutterable qualms of terror
towards it as to an insatiable maw ever crying aloud
for more ! like ,the brazen head of Friar BACON'S
contrivance in the popular legend. It promised ix
fact, at one time to swallow up in a single gulp the
whole treasures of our National Gallery—leaving
the unsightly edifice, so called, entirely to the tena-
cious squatters hitherto in one half of it, i.e. to the
members -of the Royal Academy. Happily that
design, at any rate, was frustrated—though not
without an effort. The finest site in Europe was
still retained as the site (nominally at least) of the
National Gallery. We say with deliberate inten-
tion " nominally"—because in spite of the ulterior
decision of the House of Commons, the decision
that Trafalgar-square should yet retain tae National
Gallery and that the National Gallery should.not be
bodily removed to South Kensington, thither to
South Kensington have been removed the TURNER
collection, the VERNON collection, the SHEEP-
SHANKS collection, together with other works of
native artists, hitherto appertaining to the larger
and more miscellaneous national collection ! There
—in the South Kensington Museum—are en-
shrined old familiar favourites, specimens of Sir
JOSHUA and of HoGARTIT—the " Banished Noble-
man," for example, and the series of " Marriage a
la Mode. Precisely, in fact, those very portions of
the national treasures of art, which justified
in a peculiar manner the distinctive title of
the aggregate collection, the title of the
National Gallery National in the strictest
sense of the word now no longer, if all the
works of our native artists without excel).
tion are to be forcibly abstracted from the edifice
to the north of Trafalgar-square, and carried off to
the PRINCE CONSORT'S Folly yonder down at
South Kensington !
What is being accomplished, or has already been
accomplished, in regard to the National Gallery by
the promoters of that grotesque jumble of iron and
wooden outhouses down in the neighbourhood of
Brompton, there is now some danger may be at-
tempted to the same end by the same courtly
agents in respect to the British Museum, with a
view at once to its detriment and disintegration.
At this rate—unless we look about us betimes
and guard against these preposterous proceedings—
the British Museum will no longer be the Britiih
Museum, any more than the National Gallery will
be any longer the National Gallery ! The latter
will be restricted to a collection of specimens of the
various Foreign Schools of Painting. The former
will become possibly no Museum at %xll—but solely
and exclusively a Great Library. Before any such
comprehensive changes be decided upon, it is cer-
tainly advisable that the whole question should be
submitted to the scrutiny of a select committee of
inquiry. For a variety of reasons, therefore, we are
rejoiced that Mr. GREGORY'S motion was agreed to
yesterday by the House of Commons, and that the
future of the British Museum shall be confided, in
the first instance, to the care of that select com-
mittee. We are sanguine that through its inter-
position much evil may be guarded against and
that many advantages may be also thereby realised.
There is, at any rate, an obvious necessity that
something should at length be done, first of all,
with a view to the extension of the British
Museum, and, secondly, with a view to its better
arrangement.

At Tarentaise and Chablais the same unanimity
prevails. The numbers are not yet known.

CHUMBERY, APRIL 24.

The result of the voting in all parts of Savoy
exceeds all expectations. The majority for the
annexation is immense. M. Laity will return to
Paris at the end of the week.
The Patrie announces that Baron Gros will leave
Paris to-morrow for China.

GENEVA, APRIL 24.

The reply of Austria, dated the 18th instant, to
the note of the Federal Council of the sth instant,
refers the Council to the Austrian Government's
note of the Bth inst., and adds that, should the pre-

lithinary points of the Conference be determined
upon, Austria on her side will fully recognise the
right of Switzerland to take part in its delibera-
tions as a claiming party, and as being principally
interested in the question.

VIENNA, APRIL 25.

The great Powers having nearly agreed upon the
assembling of a Conference, there only remains to
fix its programme. The Court of the Tuileries has
framed one, which is now submitted for the ac-
ceptance of the other interested parties.

France thinks the object of the Conference should
be limited to a simple examination of Art. 92 of
the final. Act of Vienna, which contains the stipu-
lations relative to the neutralised districts of
Chablais and Faucigny. To render the task of the
Conference still easier, France adds that for her
part she is quite ready to assume the same obliga-
tions which Art. 92 imposed on Piedmont in favour
of the neutrality of Switzerland. Should the con-
tracting Powers of the final Act of Vienna be of
opinion that those obligations require modification,
as, in consequence of the incorporation of Savoy
with the French empire, the strategic conditions of
Switzerland undergo a change, France will accept
every new combination which would not in any
way involve either an alteration of the right ac-
quired by the treaty of the 24th March, or any dis-
memberment whatever of Savoy.

VIENNA, APRIL 24

Austria and Russia having proposed Paris as the
place for the assembling of the European Confer-
ance for the regulation of the question relative to
the neutralised districts of Chablais and Faucigny,
and Prussia having agreed to this proposal, it
appears certain that the Conference will assemble
at Paris. As regards the Powers who will be re-
presented, France raises no objection to the admis-
sion of Switzerland with the eight Powers who
signed the final Act of Vienna, on condition that
Piedmont should be admitted upon an equal
footing. The Conference would, therefore, be com-
posed of the ten following Powers :—Austria,
Spain, France, Great Britain, Portugal, Prussia,
Russia, Sardinia, Sweden, and Switzerland, who
will be represented by their Ambassadors and ordi-
nary Ministers Plenipotentiary accredited to the
Court of the Tuileries.

TURIN, APRIL 24.

Count Cavour returned yesterday.
The King of Sardinia, following the friendly
advice of France, has for the moment abandoned
the idea of taking the title of King of Italy.
The Court of the Tuileries represented that such
a change of title would only complicate the existing
difficulties, without , 'without giving any prac-
itnintaelrnaadtvinaontaalge

ROME, APRIL 23,

. The Marquis de M6rode has issued an order of
the day, in which he announces his appointment as
Minister of War, and says :--
" I have received the mission of attending to the
interests and necessities of the army at the moment
when
Christian
h
is aware of the perils which
patrimony of the Church. I will fulfil
my mission with a lively solicitude for the soldiers
surround
t e ltal Y
whose past fidelity is a sure guarantee of their
future conduct."

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived
at Buckingham Palace yesterday, from Frogmoro House,
on a visit to her Majesty.

The Earl of Radnor is expected at his house in
Grosvenor-street next week, from Berkshire. This venera-
ble peer, although in his 81st year, is in the enjoyment of
sound health, and still takes an active part in the local
business of his county.
The Earl and Countess of Erne have arrived at
their mansion in Eaton-square for the season.

ROME (via MARSEILLES), APRIL 21.
General Lamoriciere bas gone to Ancona, where
he will reside for some time.

NAPLES (via MARSEILLES), APRIL 21.

Viscount and Viscountess Combermere will come
to town early next week for the season, from Combermere
Abbey.
Lord and Lady Vivian have arrived in town
from Cornwall. His lordship has taken a house in Chesham-
place for the season.
DOVER, Tuesday.—His Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales landed here this afternoon from her Ma-
jesty's steamer Vivid, Captain Allen. His royal highness,
who was accompanied by General Bruce and Captain Grey,
was received on landing by General Craufurd, Col. Cup-
page, and Major Barnard, and a guard of honour of the
32d Regiment, under the command of Capt. Harman His
Royal Highness dined at Birmingham's Royal Lord Warden
Hotel, and left by express train in the evening for Windsor
Castle. His Excellency Lord Cowley arrived at the Royal
Ship Hotel last night, and this morning sailed in the John
Penn for Boulogne. The Admirely Pier is now so far ad-
vanced as to afford a most convenient mode of embarking
or landing at any period of the tide, while as a marine walk
it is unequalled, extending more than 1,000 feet into deep
water, and offering most delightful marine views from the
Foreland to Dungeness. _ _

The reported insurrection at Trapani, and in the
towns of Littoral districts, has been denied. The
pursuit of the insurgent bands still continues in the

nterior.

MADRID, APRIL 23.
Nothing. has been decided in reference to Count

Montemolin.

The Correspontlencia A utografit says that Marshal
O'Donnell having ordered the embarkation of a
portion of the army in Africa proves that peace is
firmly established.

CANTON, MARCH 14.

The rebel disturbances are increasing throughout
China. The state of affairs in Japan has become
worse. The foreign community are living in great
apprehension, two Dutch captains having been
murdered in the street of Jokuhama without giving
any offence to the Japanese.

We have authority for stating that the announce-
ment made by some of our contemporaries, that the Prince
of Wales will sail for Canada in the course of the next week,
is incorrect. his Royal Highness will complete his term
at Oxford, and, as at present arranged, the Prince will not
make his Transatlantic trip before the first week in July.

SHANGHAI, MARCH 8.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, it is
now authoritatively stated, will return to Frewen Hall, Ox-
ford, to-morrow (Thursday) ; and, according to present ar-
rangements, will remain at the University until after the
commemoration, when his Royal Highness will leave, and
Frewen Hall will then become the residence of the Prince
Consort during the meeting of the British Association for
the Encouragement of Science, of which his Royal High-
ness is the retiring president.

It is rumoured that the four vessels which pro-
ceeded to Pechelee River carried an ultimatum to
the Chinese Government.

CALCUTTA, MARCH 23.
Disturbances are reported to have broken out in
Cabal.

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form very pleasing pictures.
MARRIAGE OF A LUCKNOW HERO.--Wednesday,
the 18th inst., witnessed the marriage of James H. Meßtie
C.E., late of the Lucknow Garrison, with the eldest daugh-
ter- of Dr. Culverwell, of Great Marlborough-street. After
a dejeuner, given by the bride's father, at his residence, to
a numerous party, the happy couple left for Folkestone
en route for Paris. Several of the bridegroom's brother
officers were present at the ceremony, amongst whom we
observed Colonel Knatchbull, Major Anderson, and Mr.
Kavanagh, the gentleman who, it will be remembered,
gallantly passed through the enemy's camp in disguise,
and led Sir Colin Campbell and his Mops safely into the
city. Mr. Mcßae himself was severely wounded cluing
1 the defence, but is now happily recovered.

HOMEWARDICALCUTTA AND CHINA

MAILS.

MALTA, APRIL 21.

The Candia arrived at Suez on the 17th inst.
with 177 passengers and 1,806 packages of cargo.
The Pera, for Southampton, in sight (March 21st).
The Panther, for Marseilles, is hourly expected
at Malta.

The Alhambra arrived at Malta from Corfu on
the 20th.

OUTWARD BOMBAY AND AUSTRALIAN

MAILS.
The Masilia, which left Southampton on the
12th, reached Malta at 11 a.m. on the 21st inst.

FRANCE.

BOURSF, April 24.—The market was steady at
the opening, but soon after declined on account of
the total absence of business. Threes, after having
been done at 70f. 30c. and 70f. 35c., receded to 70f.
122 c. ; Mobilier heavy, from 765 f. to 760 f. ; Aus-
trian, 532 f. 50c. to 527 f. 50c. ; Lombard, 543 f. 75c.
to 541 f. 25c.; Lyons, 943 f. 75c. to 9451. ; Eastern,

TIM SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY; EVENING', APRIL 25, 1860.

Lern, 977 f. 50c. to 980 f,
quotations :

41 per Cents..... 96 Credit Foncier.... 795
Do. end month .. I Belgian 41 ..
3 per Cents. 7O 20 Piedmontese (5) .. 83 50
Do. end month.... 70 05 Roman Bl
Bank Shares 2830 Austrian
Credit Mebilier .. 752 50 Spanish Threes
Do. Account ..... 740 Home Debt 45