The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-02 00:00:00

which belong to the intellectual departments, icho
dwell in the lower regions of that department,
whose remuneration is, in many instances, scanty
and even miserable. There is no labour, in fact,
in this country so ill paid as that which may be
called the labour of educated men in the lower
classes of educated men. Art, like everything else,
must have among its professors a multitude of
shades and degrees of merit and power. It is really
astonishing, when we come to consider the power
of the human mind as developed in the productions
of art, what combination, what concentration of
character it requires to produce that something
which is represented upon, perhaps, a yard of
canvass, which we call a picture. (Cheers.)
Slight as they are in fabric, those works are
yet reckoned among • the greatest productions
of which mankind has been the author. (Cheers.)
It is no wonder that in a pursuit which occupies
so immeasurable a space between the highest and
the lowest grades, we should find persons who
grace the courts and the palaces of the land, and
who enjoy all that this world can supply, and others
who have to encounter the hardest and most painful
struggles, and the labours of whose hands with the
chisel- or pencil produce them far less than if as
mechanics they were engaged in some workshop
or foundry. (Cheers.) This state of things is
due to the working of those laws which we call
political economy, and the operation of which
work out great and beneficial results in the end,
but which also produce by their action distress
and disappointment to many persons. There is
this point in connection with the occupation of the
artist, that his work must always be to him a
labour of love, and the feeling with which
for the first time he takes a brush in his hand must
be very different from that with which the young
man articled to an attorney must commence his la-
bours. (Cheers.) In my experience of life nothing
has struck me more than the high degree of spe-
ciality, and the peculiar and marked character,
which attaches to artists. They seem to stand re-
moved to a greater distance from other classes, not
in sympathy, but in ability to accomplish what they
wish. So fares regards their habits of perception and
the exercise of the powers necessary for their art,they
seem to have a most absorbing power, such as in
many instances may disqualify for the homelier opera-
tions of the business of life; and though no man can be
dispensed from the duties of the daily performance
of life, yet this incapacity does attach in some de-
gree, to the pursuits of his art, and where an unfor-
tunate incapacity for the performance of these
duties is found, it is far less culpable, and should be
visited with far less severity, than iu the case of
ordinary men. (Cheers.) Anothers peculiarity in
the case of artists is, that the ills and crosses of
life act upon them with greater severity than upon
other men, just as the man of more sensitive nerves
and more fully developed feelings is more sen-
sitive to pain than the mere boor. On these and
various other grounds to which reference was
made, the right honourable gentleman commended
the institution to the support of the friends and
lovers of art. A common interest should, he
said, unite us all; each class was, a debtor to the
other, and each should seize every suitable occasion
for acknowledgingthose bonds of mutual obligation
by which we are united as. children of one common
father, heirs of one common hope, and as working
together for one great and common end. (Loud
cheers.)
A sum of about £750 was announced as collected
in the course of the evening.

The Bishop of London and Mrs. Tait are staying
at Starkey's Royal Victoria Hotel, St. Leonaris-on-Sea.
We are glad to learn that the health of the right rev, pre-
late has improved sinoe his arrival at this salubrious place*
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston entertained
a select circle at dinner on Saturday evening at Cambridge-
house, Piccadilly.

SALMON FISHING.—The Perth Courier says this
week's fishing has been below an average for the season.
The river has been high and very unfavourable for angling.
Price of salmon in town 2s. 4d. per lb.
LONDONDERRY ELECTION.—After a sharp siege,
the seat vacated by the death of Sir R. Ferguson has been
won by Mr. M'Cormick, the eminent railway contractor.
He professes to be a moderate Conservative. The other
candidates were Mr. Skipton, moderate Whig. and Mr.
Greer, ultra Liberal, a Radical from the start. The Whig
nowhere on the poll, and thenceforward it was a gallant
.
race between Al essrs. M'Cormick and Greer, the former
winning by a majority of 19. The following were the gross
numbers at the close :—M'Cormick, 326 ; Greer, 307 ;
Skipton, 82.
A TALE OF MYSTERY.—The following para-
graph appears in one 'of the last Cork papers :—" In the
offing or approach to the man-of-war roads at Queenstown
may be seen lying a rakish-looking clipper barque, which
will be at once recognised as of Yankee build, of some 700
tons burden ; and for the last four months has this gallant
ship ridden out the storms and gales that. beset her at the
same anchorage. With her full complement of hands, and
seaworthy, there she still mysteriously swings, awaiting the
word away.' But whither shall she speed ? many inquire.
Some conjecture, but all are at fault. Mysterious• looking
characters have been seen to visit her—some say of foreign
mould ; some aver natives. But beyond the fact that this
craft is called the Charles B. Truitt, of Philadelphia, and
has on board a cargo consisting of 23,000 finely finished
rifles, nought is known."
DESPERATE SUICIDE BY A FEMALE.—On Satur
day afternoon Mr. Wakley held an inquest at the Elephant
and Castle, Camden Town on Martha Ann Crump, aged
36, a married woman, residing in Grenville-street, Somers
Town. She resided with her mother, having been sepa-
rated from her husband four or five years. Since that period
she had been very intemperate. On Wednesday morning,
on her mother going into her bedroom, she found her
daughter dead, weltering in blood, with a carving knife in
one hand, and a whetstone, on which she had sharpened it,
in the other. She had, in cutting her throat,_, also cut oil
part of her chin. Verdict—" Unsound mind. '
The Weekly Register reports that throughout
England the collection' for the Pope is proceeding with
vigour. Bishop Grant, of Southwark,
has already for-
warded two sums of .E5OO each. Liverpool is expected to
forward £7,000, of which sum £5OO has been contributed
by Mr. Challoner.