The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-07 00:00:00

ings of the Times, and the shrill squeakings of its
puny followers, will not induce those deserving
of the name of Liberals, to enter on a factious
course, or to sacrifice the interests of the country
in order to reinstate Lord PALMERSTON in Down-
ing-street.

LATEST NEWS.

MARSEILLES, MAY 5.

The Pressc d' Orient says that the Porte persists
in its resolution not to allow the treaties to be sub-
mitted to the Greek tribunals, but that it does not
threaten Greece with any rupture, even a coma er-

Never was a Peerage more fairly earned than
hat which is about to be conferred on Sir COLIN

cial oue.

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CAMPBELL for_ his pre-eminent services in India.
The addition of such a member will confer even
more honour on the House of Lords than on the
victorious General. It is owing to his indefati-
gable energy and unflinching bravery, combined
with the utmost prudence, that the Indian
Empire has been saved, and the British supre-
macy completely re-established. He followed in
the track of able men. HAVELOCK and 017 TRAM,

Letters from Persia, of April 3, state that 30,000
Pt rsians bad beaten the Turcomans, and were
laying siege to their capital. The English envoys
were expected.

VIENNA, MAY 5.

The Turkish frigate Feizi-Bahri, with Fuad
Pacha on board, arrived at Trieste yesterday. He
is expected at Vienna to-day, on his way to Paris,
to take part in the Conferences.

WILSON and GREATHED, NICHOLSON and NEILL,
and many others, were efficient pioneers who
paved the way for his brilliant triumphs. But
had there been any mistake or failure on his part,
the fruits of their indefatigable labours and in-
domitable courage might have slipped from our
hands. But he was fully equal to the emergency.
He did not leave the smallest opening for censure
to the most captious critic. One of his highest
claims to distinction was the wise economy of his
soldiers' lives, while he omitted nothing which
ought to be done, and did nothing that ought not.
Wbe done. He regarded his soldiers even more
than himself, and was less chary of his own
existence than of that of the humblest soldier
under his command. Such a man was natu-
turany raoliseu oy nis followers. They
would go anywhere with the man in whom
they had implicit confidence. There was
nothing too desperate to be undertaken, for they
could not fail under his auspices—the word "im-
possible" being erased from their vocabulary. His
very name was worth "ten thousand men, armed
all in proof,"—for while it inspired our men, it
struck terror into the rebels.
It is right that such a man should receive a
suitable reward ; and a peerage, with a handsome
pension, which will doubtless be added, is a step
in the right direction—an instalment of the debt,
which will eventually be fully liquidated. But
there is another honour that ought to be conceded.
Why should not our best general be elevated to
the highest military rank ? Why should not Sir
COLIN CAMPBELL be made a Field-Marshal, with
alt the pay and allowances belonging to the posi-
tion ? Since the time of the Iron Duke there is no
man who has better merited the distinction. Lord
DERBY is entitled to just credit for his prompt
recognition of these inestimable services. He has
not procrastinated until death has intervened, and
deprived the tribute of respect and admiration of
its value. We earnestly hope that the Hero of
Lucknow will be spared to enjoy the honours and
rewards that will be showered on his head ; and
we are convinced that every man throughout the
length and breadth of the land, while admitting
that "he won them well," will j9in in the fervent
aspiration that "he may wear them long."

FRANCE.
PARIS, THURSDAY.
The Moniteur, in its official columns, publishes
a long list of new appointments in virtue of the
recent measure of Gen. Espinasse, Minister of the
Interior. These new appointments include seven
secretaries-general of prefecture, 19 vice-prefects,
and 32 members of the Council of Prefecture.
The Emperor yesterday presided over a Council
f Ministers at the Tuileries. Priace Jerome was
present at it.
" The idea is still said to prevail," says the Tou-
lonnais, " of placing Prince Napoleon at the head
of the French Mediterranean colony, only with-
out the title of viceroy, as was at first stated.
He will be named Governor-General, Lieute-
nant of the Emperor. His Majesty has ap-
pointed a commission, composed, it is said,
of two Councillors of State, of General de Salley
and of M. Chaix-d'Est-Ange, Procureur-General
a.b aie p.....;barged to draw up,
a decree on the subject. The, object or rrince
Napoleon, in proceeding to Algiers in quality of
lieutenant of the Emperor will be to impart in-
creased activity to agriculture, to give an impetus
to railway works, and to direct toward Algeria the
tide of emigration which has been fur some years
running towards America, Rio Janeiro, and
Texas. '
The following is the text of the bill on the illegal
s.seumption of titles, as adopted by the committee
of the Legislative Body and the Council of State:—
"Art. 250 of the Penal Code is modified as follows :
Any person who shad publicly wear a costume uni-
form, or decoration to which he has no right, shall be
punished by imprisonment of from six months to two
years. Any one who without right, and with the view
cf attributing to himself an honorary distinction, shall
publicly assume a title, or shall change, alter, er modify
the name assigned to him in the public registers, shall be
fined from 500 fr. to 10,000 fr. The tribunal shall order
mention of the judgment to be made in the margin of
the deeds or registers in which the title shall have been
unduly taken or the name have been altered. In all
the cases provided for by the present article, the tribu-
nal can order, at the expense of the condemned, the in-
sertion of either the whole or part of the judgment in
Ruch journals as it may designate.' "
Three printers were yesterday tried before the
Tribunal of Correctional Police for contraventions
against the law. M. Craig was condemned by
default to 1,000 f., for having omitted to deposit a
copy of a number of the journal Eclairage au Gaz ;
M. Aubusson, to 2,0001. fine ft r nut having depo-
sited numbers of the .Moniteur des Voyages and
Plustracion Hispana et Americana ; and M.
Langlet to 2,0001., for omitting ihe deposit before
princtng off a bolero entitled Zarah.
The official account of the masses celebrated at
the Tuileries, the Invalides, &c., in commemora-
tion of the death of Napoleon 1., appears in the
Moniteur.

BOURSE, May 6.—The following were the
closing quotations :-
4} per Cents 93 25 Credit Foncier
Do. end month 93 30 Belgian 41 -
3 per Out. ..... ... 61 55 Piedmontese (5)
Do. end month 69 85 Roman 9l
Bank Shires . ...... 3425 Austrian
Credit Mobilier ... 782 50 Spanish Threes
Do. Account 785 —; Home Debt .. '—
RAILWAYS.•
Orleans
Northern
New Ditto 770
Lyon and Mediteran. 782.
New Ditto ,
Geneva

The " property qualification" is doomed. The
Government has gracefully assented to the intro-
duction of Mr. LOCKE KING'S bill, and cordially
concurred in its aject. " The mockery and de-
lusion" will thus be abolished, even during the
present session. The specious pretext of waiting
for a general measure was not insisted on. It
was notorious that any person could get a ready
" cut and dry" qualification at a certain price,
1001. for a knight of the slake, and 501. for a
citizen or burgess. Any man could easily pro-
cure this colourable independence, not one shilling

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Strasburg
Grand Central
Ssrainian
Austrian

SPAIN.

The Madrid journals of the 2d have reached us
in due course. The &nate had at last adopted by
57 votes to 24
_the bill relative to the erection of
proceeded to discuss the bill relative to the levy of
25,000 men. In the Congress, the Minister of Fi-
nance in answer to a que•tton said the Government
would have no objection to crantnuoicAte to the
Chamber .he paper s relative tothe convention with
the Holy See for the restitution of the property
of the clergy. It was said that Queen Christina
had resolved to make a valuable present to M. Cur-
tins, as a recompense for his services in defending
her.

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his creditors in the event of his bankruptcy
or insolvency. It was only conscientious
men who would have been really useful members,
and who were too high-minded to perjure them-
selves, that were excluded. The regulation had
palpably failed in effecting the object for which it
was created, and, according to the time-honoured
apothegm, "cessante ratione, cessat lex," the rule
itself should be abolished.

AMERICA.

Besides, there should not be different laws for
different parts of the United Kingdom. In Scot-
land no property qualification is required, yet
the members for Scottish constituencies are fully
as respectable as any others ; and we believe that
there is not a single one of the number who
could not produce a bona fide qualifi
cation.

ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF WASHINGTON,

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LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY.
The City of Washington, screw steam-ship, Cap
tain P. C. Pe,rie, now carrying the American mails,
arrived in the Mersey this evening, with New
York dates to the 24th ult., bringing 221 pa.sen-
gers, but no specie
The Royal Mtil steamship Canada was at Hali-
fax on the 231, and the 6.+x»iia, 'row. hamburg
and Southampton, arriv: d on the 2Oih.
Ajo nt res ion had been introduced into
Congress, authorising the President to take mi a-
sures to obtain frJm Paraguay reparation for the
forcible seizure of the steamer" Water Wi.eh. This
s'ep is c ursicler ed an authorisation to declare war
against Parguay.
The Kansas Conference Committee have for-
warded their rep ,rt. It makes the admission of
Kansas in•o the union under the Lecompron Cot:-
stitution dew nd on the acceptance of a land ordi-
nance to be submitted to a popular vote. In the
event of the rej-ctinn of the proposition, provision
is male for the foundation of a new constitution.
The instructions to the Aniercau Minister in
China have b-en published. They show that the
extension of tlaeir commerce and the pro,eAton of
their citizens are the objects aiined at. Mr. Reed
is auttionsed to co-operate with England as far as
necessary.
Latest advices from Mexico state that affairs were
much the same as previously reported. The revo-
lution in Ven,zuela had been completely successful.
The people were debating what to do with M nagas,
who is accused of robbing- the Treasury of 17,000,000
dollar a.

The members for the 'Universities
are similarly situated, and surely no one would
say that the representatives of Oxford, Cambridge,
or Trinity College, Dublin, are not fit and proper
persons to occupy seats in the House of Commons.
The (Hest sons of Peers, and even of persons
having 20,0001. Government Stock, were eligible,
while a barrister or physician, merchant or
banker, although fairly earning and paying In-
come-tax on ten or twelve thousand per annum
would be excluded.

This palpable absurdity will now be abolished,
and it is worthy of n. tice that it is by the
Government of IDrd DERBY that the first point
of Parliamentary Reform since the modern Magna
Charts has been granted.
After all, the privilege really belongs to the
constituency, and not to the individual whom
they may select as a suitable exponent of their
wishes and opinions in the popular branch of the
Legislature. If any man can, without resorting
to corrupt or undue practices, obtain a mijori ty
of votes, he should be entitled to take his seat ;
and even if two or three Ultra-Radicals (as they
are called) or Chartists should find places, it
would be far better that they should do so than
that they should be enabled to propagate revolu-
tionary doctrines out of doors. In the House
they would speedily find their level. Their sting
would be extracted, while outside they might be
really dangerous,

Money at New York most plentiful. Stocks
were doll, but not lower.
Exchange same as last reports d.
The Cotton market had advanced three-quarters
to seven-eighths of a cent., vnd at New ()Heine, on
receipt of the Arigo's news, one-half cent. The
Canada's arrival bad checked sales awaiting her ad-
vices. The breadstuffs m trket was affected in the
ma we manner. Tne provision market was buoyant.
Freights unchanged.

ROY AL YACHT SQUADION INTELLI-

GENOE.

There is but little danger that the aristocratic
members would find many fustian coats, or fianm.l
jickets, " coming between the wind and their
nobility." Men must have more valuable quali-
fications than the nominal possession of 3001. a-
year to obtain a majority of the suffrages of an
independent constituency, and if they can fairly
obtain the " most sweet voices" of the voters,
they should not be excluded for any other cause.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT, MAY 6.
The annual general meeting of the members of
the Squadron will be held at the Th:►tched-house
Tavern, on S tturday, when there are 12 noblemen
and gentlerren to be elected members, and the
different sailing matches to he settled for the com-
ing season.
There are a number of yachts fitting out, but
we have only four in the Roads at preseur, viz. :
The E.lrl of Yarborough's schooner yacht Zoe ; R.
Stephenson's, Esq., schooner yacht Titania ; --
Wyse's, Esq., !Urania ; F. D. P. Astley, Esq.,
Camilla. _ _

MR. HOWARD GLOVER'S ANNUAL CONCERT.

The following yachts are fitting out and about
Mr. Howard Glover will give hie annual mornin
Columbine,b Capt.
the station ;—The Gipsy Quetn, Sir H. Bold
Hoghton, Bart. ; Rattlesnake, R. Duff, Esq, ;
concert for the people, at Drury Lane, on Wednesdayg
next, May 12, and the goodly array of names entered on
B 'ring ; Wiqz'ar;d, R. H. Smi.h Barry ; Eugenie,
rd Frankland, Esq. ; Lavreck L )rd Colville ;
his list of artistes leads us to believe that the performance Aurora,Gaee, Les Marcehant Thomas, gq. ; Gloriana,
will be of that superior and popular class which tends J.
Sir John R
_ ,yi,y,sifvßrl,cpt.eLpiiie,itidt., -CEoglgo.n;el
NCyhi.narplie):
to charm the senses and elevate the taste, without taxing
members liarveeamvisitGec;
one superfluous funds too extravagantly. Mr. Glover E Btheen
st tqulci
ak..,
Eq.
Yarborough,
has already secured the services r f Miss Dolby, Madame ri(11.,: ; Mun:,thFi.s Rw„Mkca:_gerruhise,
E. N. Harvey, Es
Rudersderff, Madame Weiss, Miss Louisa Pyne, Sims dro„11"HfO)11"itig
k)l;.,hinlEihautlielton, R.
Reeves, Mr. Weiss, Herr Reichardt, and numerous other
Eons, nby, Lord Dal-
co.,q , Bart.,
powerful auxiliaries—the instrumentalists comprisiog keith, Lord Colville.' FaPPt..
Cep'.
Radcliffe, Esq ,
Miss Arabella Goodard, M Swinton, Signcr Mandeg- G. Bentiuck, Esq., AL p ,
E‘q., and C. Alexander,
ger, and the able Cmduutor M. B3ne&ct. Aeon; the Fraulslan I, E,q., Sir Tht;masd
most interesting events t f the morning will be th- first , -- Wyse,
MARRIED.-011 the stii inst., at S. Mary's
appearance in public of the Muses Rowcroft, daughtt.rs
Church, Weet Cowes, by the Rev. J. B. Atk mol
of the late Mr. Charles Rowcroft, who was we'! known '
E. D vim, Esq., of Swansea, to Eliza Jane Caroline'
as a talented and indti.tr. •
iota worker in the paths. a eldest dauguier of P. F. Blued, Esq., of Grant!
light literature. While
by
these thereverseof fortuneex erienced
P ham House, Cowes, and late of Badeumbe Court,
young ladies may excite our sympathy, we
have just reason for believing Devon here.
1 that their sterling qualifi- THE SEASON.—The young wheats, oats, and
cations. an vocalists •
dially wieh, tlieeae,:i.i. calaim our support, and we cor- barley lo,)k well ; the grass pr MiSO3 a good crop ;
career they have entered onia the ardueus profeesional the fruit trees arc loaded with. blossom; and there
i is.every prospect of heavy crops of all sorts,

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY E V ENING, MAY 7, 1858.

ROYAL ACADEMY.

(SECOND NOTICE.)
As the absence cf Messrs. Millais and Goodall
from among the ranks of the Associates, and of Sir
Charles Ea4tlake, together with Messrs. Dyce,
Herbert, and Maclise from among tho,,e of the
the Royal Academicia s, cannot but be most deeply
regretted in the midst of the otherwise almost. un-
alloyed pleasure derived from the present remark-
able and superb Exhibition, it is but just to add
at once that for the regrets excited by their collec-
tve omission from the Catalogue of Exhibitors, we
are wondrously consoled, we had almost said amt ly
compensated, by the extraordinary development of
the genius, or rather, it should be mere accurately
expresse,l, perhaps the as onishing advance made
in its revelation, in the instance of one or two other
Associates, and in that of several others, of the

Myra Academicians.
Beyond all question, to our thinking, the Picture
of the Exhibition is Mr. Frith's great painting of
" The Derby Day." It is undeniably his master-
piece. It is as undeniably a grand national work
of art—reflecting the "living manners as they
rise," reflecting them as in a glass, the very mirror
of genius held up to Nature, avivid representation
of " Ye Manners and ye Customes of ye Englishe"
in this nineteenth century. It is worthy of a coun-
tryman of Hogarth, worthy of an artist who wit-
nessed the closing scenes of the life of Wilkie,
worthy of an observer who enjoys with the rest of
us the delight of being a contemporary of Charles
Dickens and Makepeaca rhackeray. Here, on
this comprehensive ctsnvass of William Powell
Frith, R.A., future times will find pourtrayed
vividly, exquisitely, the English as they actually
are now-a-days. The persons introduced upon the
scene are of all chases and ranks iu the soci 1 scale
—fiom the nobles and the peeresses in their embla-
zoned carriages, to the squalid gamins de Londres
on an "out" upon the great day of the Isthmian
or Olympic Games of the Briton—from tt:e Lord
Verisophts and Ethel Newcomes of High Life, to
the Rough and the Sharper, the low nlackguard
and the itinera.nt. menntehank. In the background
is tb 0 Grand Stand, with itt inclined plane
of well-packed sightseers. Scattered about
on the right are the barouches, and the
landaus, and the stanhopes, the britzsc has, and
chariots, and phaetons of the ell-to-do, not for-
getting glimpses of—

their pastime—bewildered as they glance round MEETING OF M.P.'S TO FORM A LIBERAL
at the interruption—startled probably by a scream I PARTY.
and a fall when the young nio her casts herself at
her wronged husband's fe-t, on seeing in his
tremulous grasp the evidence of the sud en reve-
lation. There is a note to the number of this
triple picture in the catalogue. It is this, appa-
rently an entry in a diary ;--L." August the 4th—
Have just hsard that B-- has been dead mote
than a fortnight, so his poor children have now
lost both paren,s. I hear she was seen on Friday
last near the Strand, evidently without a plate
to lay her head. What a fall le'rs has been."
The companion picture on either hand of the
" Past," represents the " Present." There the
wretched mother, an outcast, squalid, degraded,
abandoned, is dying under one of the gas lit
arches of the Adeiptti ! There the orphan chil-
dren in their sleeping-chamber, one seats d, one
kneeling in her night dress by the window, mus-
iug, we, ping, prayerful ! An alternate glance
through the window, through the archway, shows
that the moment chosen is identical ! You see
this by the night sky—the acme strip of cloud
hangs silvered under the moon—the same moon-
light showers down on either scene, the chil-
dren's grief and the mother's degrada,ion. It is
a poet's thought, and a true painter's realisation
of it. Mr. Egg holds us defore his canvass
spellbound. As the wedding guest listens to the
Ancient Mariners, so we needs must look—
mastered by the pathos of the artist's refined and
sorrowful imagination. There is a genuine patk's,
also, in an earlier picture in the same apart-
ment, No. 310, by P. F. Poole, another emi-
nent Associate. It repre,ents the last scene in
" King Liar," a scene in which the old King
hangs in an agony of woe over the all but
lif- less form of Cordelia. Again, in this
latest work from his easy!, Mr. Poole shows him-
self to be a perfect master in his way as a colourist.
Another notable Ass.:ciate, Francis Denby, coir
ri-
butes three characteristic pic urea to the Exhibi-
tion—No. 239, "A Smug I,,r's Caare" (not one in
the smuggler's own acceptation of the phrase) ;
No. 290, "The Death of Abel," the whole land-
scape glimmering under a ghastly obseuration ; and
No. 5'21, "fTlysises at ihe Court of Alcinous," with
the sun shining through the foliage like a gigantic
phosphoric star. Conspicuous though he is always
nowadays among the Academicians, E. M. Wa; d,
R.A., does not by any means satisfy us this season
—a tractive though two of his large paintings an
in their subject, and bold, even daring, though the
treatment of each undeniably is. In both Nos
35 and 254, the face of the French Emperor ap-
pears to be of the c,lour of mahogany, and in the
latter picture H. R. H. the Prince of Wales is
assuredly anything but flattered. The Empress
Eugenie is the principal figure, and the one most
successfully painted in the Installation scene at
Windsor ; while at the tomb of Napoleon the Great
the most marshal figure is oddly enough his Royal
H geness the Prince Coosert, who, radiantly clad
in scarlet end gold regimentals, is grasping his
sword hilt as th ugh he were going to ch urge an
army ! Mr. Ward's other painting, No. 488, pour
trays the "Concealment of the Fugitives by Ali e
Lisle after the Battle of Sedgeinour, in the reign
of James [I." T. Faed is droll this time, instead ot,
as formerly, pathetic. His version of "A listener
never hears gude o' himsel' "—No. 272, is capital
throughout. It is delightfully humourous—to the
cat wi h her tail "magnified" hythe rave-dropper's
cur snarling at the upraised back and the—phitz-
spitz ! Mr. Faed has three oth -r pictures in the
Gallery this year, but the one already noticed is
beyond ,ioubt. his principal contribu ion. There
are two c.meparatively small bu very admirabh
works from the hand of All ed Elmore, R.A. ; one
in many ways remarkable, No. 120, the artist's
diploma work (illustrative of an incident in The
Two Gentlemen, of Verona) deposited in the Aca-
demy on his election as Academician—the other,
No. 8, the realisation of a far-famed inci-
dent in the life of Dante Alighieri. Among
the rising contributors, W. 0. T. Dobson is gain-
ing ground again after his undoubted failure
of last season. Small and in a manner unpretend-
ing though his three pictures are in their character,
they are nevertheless very charming indeed in their
treatment. No. 59, " Fairy Tales"—a sweet lit, le
puss of a fair haired elfin girl, sitting with her doll,
engaged in the enjoyment of one of the dear oh!
wonderful stories of childhood. No. 415, " The
Holy Innocents ;" and No 446, " Hagar and Ish-
mael." Another young artist, full of very rare
promise, to wit, R. Carrick, advances yet further,
though by but a single stride, towards a very
different reputation. N. 300, " Weary Life,"
is ttie le of his one remarkable contriburion. The
wonderful litter of straw in the foreground proves
it to be what is called in treatment pre-Raphaelite
—but the picture has a charm `that pre- Itsphselite
pictures seldom, if ever, have yet had—it is in n(
way repulsive, it is in every way beautiful. Tt,e
colouring is resplendent, but at the same time ex
mountebank, h
little urchin acrobat, have fallen asleep together iu
a field by the wayside. A country lass, leaniuy
upon a pitchfork, has paused to look at them.
That is tie whole story. Yet in the telling of it
the young artist has, by a nice ob ervation of na
tine, and by a delicate perception of what is beau-
tiful as well as truthful in its portraiture, produced
a painting that commands admiration. A vetera,
in art, crJwned ve,th accumulated le mours, Thom.s
Webster, R. A , has shown himself this last season
more than usually industrious. His three pictures
are worthy of him, and are really astonishing in
their life-like naturalise=s. No. 334, "Grace Be-
fore Meat," is the tttle of one. No. 60, " Sum-
mer," that of another ; and the third is No.
Ll 9, "A Sunday Evening." the most ambitious
and the meet el tb trated. The mere brick floor of
that cottage interior is something marvellous to
look at ; but the characters, old and young, scat-
tered ab ut the house-room, are each and all of
them studies—chief among these life-like face.
being that of the mother who is hushing the filth
girl into eile cc with an upraised finger, and an ex-
pression half grave, half -omused. Enough, how-
ever, as to our second survey of these glowing walls
of the Academy. We pass out again from the
porzliway with our tastes chastened—
" I nuns, argentum et marmor vetus, asraque et artes
Suspice; cum gemmis Tyrios mirare adores."

A meetit•g of independeur. Liberal members of Parlia-
mwnt gas held on Wedesday iu ore of the committee

rooms of the House of Cotn-mone. It bad been sum-

mooed by circular, emanating, as we understand, frt
certain repre.ew eaves who are dissatitfied with the past
And prEsent condition of the Liberal party in the house.
About 120 members were in attendance, and Hr. Head-

lam, the representative of Newcastle-on-Tyne, was in

" whisky, buggy, gig, or go-cart,
Outride or tandem,"
indulged in by the less ambitious participators in
the great national holiday. Above the heads of
the motley concourse are caught peeps here and
there of the satinjacketied jockeys guiding their
high-mettled racers off the course—tiow that the
race of the day (of the whole year) is over. An
antic tumbler in his spangled doublet, on one knee,
with his arms outstretched, bawls to his little
tinselled acrobat of a sou to run to him along the
outspread strip of carpet on the ground and begin
the performances. The boy acrobat is, perhaps,
the prettiest figure in all this marvelous picture—
although elsewhere among its crowd of characters
may be seen grouped about, in most admired dis-
order, some ot the loveliest ofthe blooming maidens
of Mayfair. :The little mountebank is the merest
chili—the child, too, of the great, coarse, open-
mouthed tumbler, who waits there, roerine to him
to " come on !" His eye has been caught at the
moment of hisintended run for the coming summer-
sault by the good things emptied out upon the
damask table cloth, half opened, hard by him on
the turf—the cold grouse, the perigord-pie, the
scarlet lobster, the lit- er of lunch-rolls, the very
bundle of knives handed out of the magic hamper
by the dapper groom, who is getting ready the least
for the carriage occupants. °stoning a sight of
these good things, the poor child stands there f, r
the moment spell-bound—with a look askance,
though we know for certain that in another minute
he will he heels-over-head, balance 1 in mid air
on the upraised hands of the brawny paternal
acrobat. Further back the little sister
mountebank, on stilts, is being indulged with a
draught of her "First Champagne" by a hatless
exquisite, whose towzled hair shows that he him-
self has quaffed over much of the singing nectar of
Moe-. or Cl cqnot. Immediately to the left is
the gaudy boo, h of the "Reform Club," before the
porch of which has been set up for an instant by
particular desire the peripatetic table of a gang of
Thimble Riggers—unobserved by a neighbouring
Peeler, whose attention is absorb d in mopping
his blowsed face with a cotton handkerchief. The
magicians of the pea are veritable types of their
class—of the turf, turfy, their cenve•sation (as
you can somehow tell from their very boots and
neckcloths) lying evidently in the slangular direc-
tion. A comely, ruddy-faced, blonde-whiskered,
yoUng countryman, whose lass tries in vain to lure
him away from temptation,. has hooked up the
Vr-e-elAes ice era', Ira liai'v itil"ai glance l.ofcirnTerieLgoo over
his shoulder, is evidently muttering, "I'm longed
if Oi couldn't foind thu pea younder !" And yet
there, close beside him, face to face with us as we
look at the group—there, with his hat pushed
gabyly back on his forehead, his slatternly waist-
coat unbuttoned, both his hands thrust into his
pockets, but obviously with a different purpo.e—
his face in every line of it utterly blank and stopi-
fied—stands a ponelittle "gent," green and callow
in his very whiskers, who has risked everything, and
been thoroughly "cleaned out." Yonder is the bare-
footed, red-coated card-touter, with his big hand up
to the side of his jowl, bellowing thd " C'rect card
of the Races," so that one feels half-3eafened to
look at him. Further along there are two of those
extremely popular gentlemen, the Refuge es—
hoo led, braided, bearded—specimens of the genus
facetiously described by Mr. Albert Smith under
the generic designation of " Mussoo !" There they
are, in the throng but not of it—looking about
them less gratified in any way than utterly hewil-
dered and uncereprele neling. Leaning with li a back
against, a carriage door is a slightly exhausted ex-
quisite—lazily puffing his cigar fumes from under
the covert of that dandy moustache, as he glances
down, with a sort of ineffably careless wonder, on
the gipsy girl aceisting him—doubtless with an
eye to the first elementary trick of ciiiromancv.
A love scene is there by the door of another c,:r-
riage—a love scene it might be between Clive and
Ethel, between David and Dora, at their best and
youngest, with the first down on the lip, and the
.
earliest empties, in the crinoline. Close beside
them are some lustrous exemplars of the genus,
Seell—to a costernionger's eye supernally equipped
and divinely handsotne. Such a picture as it is
altogether ! A painting so full of life, of character,
of fun, frolic, and animation, so true, so real, so
actual, so all but living and breathing--that all we
have here eaid about it can be only described as afford-
ing the merest glimpses of the motley and marvel-
lous whole. There s one Hogarth of the pencil
among us who will assuredly revel in the cent em-
pletiou of it, who will thoroughly enjoy and appre-
ciate it : meaning no other, of course, than John
Leech, of the London Charivari. Here, indeed, is
a picture enough of itself not only to make a repu-
tation, but to make a great reputation. It is,
beyond all the other pictures in this splendid exhi,
hition, the principal attraction, the source of uni-
versal amusement, and the object of Universal
admiration. Mr. Frith has contributed but
this one painting to the collection, but it is
one which is in itself a veritable microcosm. It
is numbered in the catalogue No. 218, but
as a success its real number is undoubtedly
No. I.A. As undoubtedly as that the B. ought to
be applied to a triple painting of marvell ,us power
and exquisite feeling from the easel of a distin-
guished Associate of the Academy—who will assu-
redly not have to wait long upon the next vacancy
for his enrolment as an Academician. The picture
we refer to will have been recognised upon the in-
stant by those who have already visited the gal-
lery as—No. 372—as far as any title is concerned,
a blank in the catalogue. It is the production of
Augustus Leopold Egg, A.R A., who has another
work, also of great merit, in the collection, No.
19, " Se-rne from Thackeray's History of Henry
Esmon d,E-q.":—to wit, an illustration of a merne-
rable incident in that charming fictitious autobio-
graphy—" Kneel down," says Mrs. Beatrix, "we
dub you knight with this," and she waved the
' sword over his head. A picture mellow and radiant
in colouring, tender and natural in sentiment,
graceful and unaffected in composition. But No.
372 is Mr. Egg's greatest triumph in art—as yet
his masterpiece. Hew can it be described 7—this
painting which is a tragedy in one glance ; a mourn-
ful riarrative of sin and domestic sorrow told iu a
minute, the minute consumed in looking from one
to the other (I the three pictures inekitie the sad
total of this terrible London Trilogy. The centre
painting is a glimpse of the "Past." We rye look-
ing into an elegant drawing room, among the pic-
tures on whose walls we recognise Stanfielii's nobie
painting of the "Abandone i"—word of eignific abt
and evil omen ! The le them travelling-bag, um-
brella, atse., littered in one corner of the foreground
tell us that the Master of the House has but just
returned home. He is seated at the round table—
' pale, haggard, dejected—en open letter grasped in
1 the hand that rests upon his knee : his lady wife
stretched upon the carpet at his feet, her f ice burie l
in her clasped hands, her hair dsshevelled in
,
an age ny of sudden shame, the-ugh, ae the s quel
tell, not of contrition. There is a touching little
episodical group in the barkground. Tire children
of this ill-fated pair —two sweet little girls—are
playing with some cards upon the cushion of one
of the chairs. They have placed a volume (it is
' a volume of Belzac, by the way !) upon tire sear,
and on that weird foundation they are building
up a house of cards. They are startled from

MARKET NEWS.—(Pins Day.)

CORN EXC tiA. NOE.

the chair.

The CHAIRMAN proceeded to explain the origin of the
Meeting. It was convened, he said, in courrquence of the
Ascontent which generally prevails in the Liberal ranks,
a discontent that was inseparable from the condition
in which the Liberal party found itself. It was
n t to be supposed the meeting was called to support
Any pal ticalar statesman. Those who bad summoned it
Were not anxious to serve personal purposes of Lord
Pa'meraton or Lord Jobn Russell, or indeed of any
othi-r claimant to the position of Liberal leader in the
House of Commons. Nor was it called in order to

alvccate any special measures. Nor was it intended
they should bind themselves to any formula. Toe real
object of the meeting was to express the genera
feeling which be believed to prevail, that of late the
Liberal party had not been fairly treated—that, in
fact, it had rather been betrayed—that no zeal on
behalf of the measures to la hich they attached im-
,ortanco bad been shown by the Governments that
bad recently been supported by the Liberal party.
Se with respect to administration. No disposition
had been shown to urge on measures of reform in this
department of the State, and army amendments for
reform w. re especially resisted by the War and the
Foreign offices. But we bad now arrived at a critical
period ; and although he did not wish to disturb the
present Government, yet it was probable that, beftre
long, a change of Ministry would take place, and be
thought they should be prepared to take advantage of
any circumstances that might occur. He insisted that
the whole Liberal party had not been justly dealt with-
in past times, for nearly the same names, neatly the
same men, were found in every Whig Government ; and
k.e long experience of these officials in Parliament gave
them great power to baffle all attempts at Reform. He
gas convinced he spoke the sentiments of the meeting
when be said tbat office ought not to be in possession of
a clique or a few families, and that a wider basis for con-.
dotting the affairs of the empire was absolutely necessary.
Mr. BASS (Derby) moved a resolution to the effect—
'Tnat this meeting cannot express satisfaction with the
Governments that have heretofore relied upon the
Liberal party, and that no future Government will be
Nor:by of support which does not manifest earnest zeal
cud sincerity in promoting measures of improvement
and Reform."
Mr. BAXTER (Montrose) seconded the motion. He,
vith the bon. chairman, complained that our Govern-
ments were too exclusive, and were little better than a
artvate clique or a family party. He thought it would
to the Whigs good to be out of office, and he would not
vi vise any step far the overthrow of the present Govern-.
(neut.
The resolution was unanimously adopted by the
'fleeting.
Mr. CLAY (Hull) moved a second resolution :—" That
coy Government wishing to have the confidence of the
Liberal party should be established on a wider basis."
He remarked that the new Government was weak, but
ie did not see how at the present time, any,,ne could
l.,rm a stronger. Lord Palmerston had forfeited the
confidence of a large portion of the Liberal party, so
',itch so, that that confidence could not be restored.
Toe house was now really tired of the old Whig blood,
cud he thought the country had been tired of it long ago.
Mr. FORSTER (Walsall) seconded the resolution just
uoved, and repeated that the object of the meeting was
.tot to settle wko sh.,uld be leader, but to give strength
co those who might truly call themselves the Liberal
'ay. y.
The second resolution was also unanimously adopted.
Mr. AYRTON proposed that the Liberal party should
upon the adoption of Jewish Emancipation, the
.al of Church rates, and the passing of a new Reform
Bill.
air. LOCKE opposed this proposition, and contended
bat the ballot was of very great importance. Reform
without the ballot would be but a blind.
Mr. EwART urged unanimity, and felt that the reso-
lutions that had been passed were enough.
Mr. W. J. Fox said the new proposal expressed too
much or two little.
Sir A. ELTON (Bath) concurred with Mr. Fox, and
-p-ike about putting in claims for a purer distribution of
patronage.
The proposal of Mr. Ayrton was withdrawn.
Mr ASPINALL TURNER (Manchester) was in favour of
j not operations. It was necessary that the Liberal party
should be informed of what was really going on, and for
this purpose he would have a regular whip appointed.
lie, therefore, proposed that two gentlemen should b.
..ked to send circulars to the Liberal members, appris-
leg them of what was in the wind, and he named Mr.
Forster as one, and he had no doubt Mr. Forster would
us able to find a colleague, who would assist him in his
iabours.
This proposition was adopted.
Mr. J. LOCKE (Honiton) moved the thank. of the
neeting to the Chairman, which was carried with ap•
I plause, and the meeting then separated.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This_Day.)

Fresh up to-clay, coastwise and by land carriage, the ar
rivals of English wheat were very moderate, consequently
the show of samples was limited. Good and useful quali-
ties sold at Monday's currency, but the demand for them
was by no meaus active. Low and damp parcels moved
oft slowly, at about previous currencies.
. . .

For foreign wheat, the supply of which was tolerably
good, we had a slow sale, but no quotable change tack
place in value.
Floating oasgoes of grain realised full currencies.
The supply of barley was less extensive ; nevertheless,
most kinds moved off slowly, on former terms.
Fine malt sold steadily—other kinds slowly, at late
rates.

LONDON, May 7. —Wind this day at noon, E. ;
moderate breeze, and fine.
PORTSMOUTH, May 6.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Her Ma-
jesty's steamer Rhadamanthus, from Woolwich, with a
4unly,at.
BRISTOL CHANNEL, May 6.—Wind E —Arrived—Fen-
..ie, from Havana. Sailed—Edward Cobston, for Africa ;
Lionesse, Newfoundland.
QUEENSTOWN, May s.—Wind N.—Sailed—Ellerslie,
for Barbadoee.
PLYMOUTH, May 6.—Wind S.—Arrived—Wild Flower,
from Gioja. Sailed—Phoebe (es), for the Cape of Gocd
Hope.
SUNDERLAND, May 6.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Shanghais
for Quebec.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL, Friday Morning.
Wind N.N.
Arrived, May .—Mignon, from St. Michael's.
A. rived, May 7.—Falcon, from Alexandria ; Creecenris,
i,tol. _ _

Oats, owing to the increased supplies, were dull, bu
not cheaper.
Beany, peas, and flour sold at Monday's currency.
ARRIVALS TRIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt.
English 1,610 40 3,960
Irish. —
Foreign 11,400 5,560 --

Oats. Flour.
280 1860
8,440 --
28,020 2040 sk..
brle

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.

Sailed, May 6.—Don Limaoa Primero, for Lisbon ; Lim*,
t. Michael's ; Auguste Laura, Bordeaux; Alpha, Sti•
Pet• rsburg ; Victo►ine, Ostend.
Sailed May 7.—Black Priace, for Ceylon.

The supplies of meat on sale here to-day were seasonably
extensive. On the whole, a fair average biriiness wa
transacted, as follows :
Per Sibs by the carcase.
e. d. s. d.
deer, interior 2 10 3 0
Do., middling 3 2 3 4
Do. prime large 3 6 3 8
Do., do. small 3lO 4 0
Pork, large 3 2 3 8
Lamb, bs

s. (t. s.
Mutton, Inferior 3 0 3 2
Do., middling 3 4 3 8
( Do., prime 3 10 4 2
1 Veal. 4 2 4 10
I Pork. small 3 10 4 4
id to 6s id.

(BY SUBMARINE AN BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Friday Morning.
Wind N.E. ; tide, hours' ebb • fresh and cloudy.
Arrived, May 6,—Hesperus, from Aaolborg ; Lagnagilf
Dantzic ; Falcon, Stettin ; Halcyon, Frederickstadt
Prince Albert, Nieu Dieppe ; Dorothea, Resborg ; Mellt
Konigsberg.
Arrived, MaY 7.—Lindberg, from Odense ; Active,
Aaolborg ; Nimrod, Wybog ; Sutton, Antwerp ; Louise,
arid Peter Ji ls, Konigsberg ; Ann and Rosetta, Bruges;
Mystery, Antwerp ; Clio, Christiana ' • Maria, Stralsuiad ;
Cathanka, Christiana ; Oxenbnrg, Li bau ; Symmetry,
Sat ksborg ; Edi Catherine, Aalborg ; Glory, Aarhuuo
Henrich Theodore, Rostock ; Dolphin, Dantsic • Marie,
Stettin ; Aurora, Frederickstadt ; Danebnrg, Randers;
Haabet, Skettker ; C ,tharina Josephine, Helsingborgj
Herman Wilhelm, Aalborg; Charles Tennant, GbeD"
Auguste, Stockholm ; Laura, Griefswalde ; Line, Gothen-
burg ; City of Hamburg, steamer, Rotterdam.
Sailed, May 6.—Beatrice, steamer, for Dort.
Sailed, May 7 —Norwood,' for Bombay ; Mowe, steamer,
Bremen ; Landwurton, Rio Janeiro.
DEAL, Friday Morning.

BOROUGH HOP:

We continue to have a steady, but by no means active,
demand for good and useful hops, at fall quotations.
There is no disposition to accept lower rates for other
kinds, but the inquiry for them is heavy.
New Mid and East Kent Pockets, 70s to 112 s ; Weald of
Kent do., 51s to 665;• New Sussex do., 50s to 60s ; Year-
lings, 21s to 50s.

Wind N.E., moderate.
Passed in tow—Connecticut, from Callao, for London.
Passed—Sylpb, screw steamer, for Bordeaux; F411013t
Jamaica ; K usington, Calcntta ; William Simpson, BAta.:
via—all from London ; Nile, brig, from the North, ,
the Westward.

ARRIVAL OF HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF PORra.
GAL.—Her Royal Highness Stephanie of Hohenzollern,
the Queen of Portugal, arrived at Dover yesterday from
Ostend, in his Majesty the King of Portugals nest
steam corvette, Bartolomeo Dm, on a visit to Bucking'
barn Palace. At the Bricklayers' Arms station the
Prince Consort received and conducted her Royal High-
ness to Buckingham Palace. The directors of the South;
Eastern Railway made preparations for the reception 01
her Majesty that reflected the greatest credit upon their
judgment.
itsPRESENTATION OF GMIENWICaL—Last night an
pen air meeting, which was attended by upwards Of
1,000 of the supporters of Mr. Townsend, M.P., wag
held in the pleasure-grounds attached to the Lord Nel*
son Tavern, Trafalgar-road, Greenwich, the object beings
as stated in the handbills, to enrol members for the
Townsend League. Mr. W. Wallis, of Regent's-park'
a gentleman recently returned from Australia, occupied
the chair, and announced his intention to stand by Mr'
Townsend with his purse if he found that the coneti•
tency would co-operate in the Came manner. Mr. hi It°
donnell, Mr. Mead, and ether eectors addressed the
meeting, and a loud cry was raised for Mr, Townsend'
A. deputation from the meeting then proceeded to te
residence of Mr. Townsend, who shortly atterwarss
arrived, and was received in a most enthusiastic manner'
He addressed the meeting at some length, and the Prcr
ceedings terminated at a late hour.
HATMARKET THEATRE.—" Twelfth Wight," was Pr,
duced at this theatre last night, with Mrs. Clew!.
Y ung in the character of Viola, a part which
wayed with grace and spirit. The audience was fashl°%l
able and numerous, area the performances passed e"
with te gr:,att st clat.
0f the
NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. —A meeting
Itiyat National Lite•Buat Inst.tution was held yesterdflP
a,. the building of the society, in John-street, AtleiPl2l;
Tooreas Chapman, EA., in the chair. There were Pico
sent Admirals Sir T. Herbert atd M‘Herdy, CaPtgvr
Peake and Perrot, and Capt. Washington, hydrogrsP
of ttie Admiralty, G. L 3 all, Esq., M.P., and other fefor
tlemnen. Medals and pecuniary rewards were voted
It
various services rendered to shipwrecked Perge,Dge'oati
was reported that during the past month new ll' god
had been sent to Winterton, Norfolk, Dover, 100
Hastings. 7001. were ordered to be paid for sal' of
life-boats and their appurtenances, and the peas
Norwich was elected a member of the committee•
withb tioll
INDIA AND CHINA NEWS.—The Colombo,
Calcutta mails of the 24th of March and the, Ca ea
mails of the 15th of March, is expected in Engectigned to
Sa,urday On the same thy the Benares is exp,uo
arrive home with the Bombay mail of the 91li ult.
Colombo has the long lost Ara'e wails on board, andbt
Benares is believed to have the A ustralian mail brotita
by the Etneu. If so, they will be landed in Erig 00
one rted. The next Indian telegram will be due
Sunday next, •