The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-30 00:00:00

16,140 0 2

Total
Corresponding week of last year, 6,1231. 19s. *d.
GLASGOW AND SMITH Was' num.—Week egding Aug. 21
Gross receipts £7,162 1 3
Corresponding week of last year
Zrariscamt AND Gu.soow.—Wcek ending Aug. 11 :-
Total receipts £6,597 15 8
Corresponding week of last year 6,4961. les. Std.
Sccrrusit Cinrrai.L.—Reek ending Lug. n :
Total traffic
Corresponding week of last year, 1,1181. iss. 4d.
Scorrisu Nosru EASTZSN—Week ending Aug. 14 :-
Total receipts £1,075 0
Corresponding week of last year, 4,0351. as. Od.
CALNDONIAN (1981 miles opea).—lreek ending Aug. 22
Passengers and parcels
Goods, &C.

Total £14,506 4 7}
Corresponding week of last year (2'41 miles open), 15,6911. 169. lld
GREAT NORTH Or SCOTLAND.—Week eadin Aug 14 :
Total traffic
Corresponding week of last year £1,536 611
BILTAsT AND BALLYMENA (65 miles open).—Week endiag
Aug. 21:—

Passengers
Goods

- £960 12 3
~. 487 9 3

Total 21,448 1 6
Corresponding week of lost year 21,394 13 5
BELYAST AND CoVNTT DOWN (17 miles open).—Week ending
Aug. 32:

Passeugers, &C.
Goods

£298 8 8
38 12 4

Total £337 I 0
Correspoading week of last year, 355/. lls. 2d.
LONDONDERRY AND ENNIS ILL N (60 miles open).—Week ending

PlaSertgCrit,
Goods, Sce.

~. £BO7 9 •
,- 237 14 1

Total £1.405 3 7
Corresponding week of last year £7o2 5
WATERFORD AND KILKENNY (01miles open).—Week ending
Aug. ?A:—
Passengers and parcels 2219 17 1
Goods, &c.

Total £37319 6
Corresponding, week of last year, £617 15 6
GREAT SOUTHERN AND ESTERN (IRELAND) (203; miles ores;
Week ending Aug. 21:—
Passengers and parcels £5,388 1 0
Goods, &c.

Teta] 7,030 G 10
Cerreaponding week of last year £G,G•2O 1G 3

I.Bl' E R.—Week ending Aug. 22 :
Passengers and parcels
Goods, &e 587 2

Total '1,560 11 6
Corresponding week of last year X1,377 7 8
SAMMIE AND MEUSE—Week ending Aug. 20:—
Gross traffic £1,115 10 11
Corresponding week of last year £1,038 15 4
GREAT LUXYMBOURG (78 miles open)—Week ending Aug. 22
Passengers and parcels £1.58 10 1
Goods, &c.

Total s 4
Corresponding week of last year (35 miles 0p0n)...£1,00t 18 3

TILE FLUE ARTS COMMISSION,

The eleventh report of" the commissioners appointed for
the purpose of inquiring whether advantage might not be
taken of the rebuilding of the Palace at Westminster—
wherein the Parliament is wont to assemble—for the purpose
of promoting and encouraging the fine arts in your Majesty's
United Kingdom, and in what manner an object of so much
importance might be most effectually promoted," has just
been issued. The following are the novel points :—" A
grant of public money, amounting to £1,500, was appro-
priated to the painting of 28 whole length portraits
of personages connected with the Tudor faintly, to be
in the apartment called the Prince's chamber, as portraits,
in the appendix to our seventh report. Of such
Burchett,pos,
executed by, or under the direction of, Mr. Richard
fifteen have now been completed. In our ninth reportroom we
bad proposed that twelve compartments in the same
should be filled with metal casts from models of has reliefs,
to be provided by a competent scalptor. Ten of s
uch
uch
models, cast in metal by Messrs. Elkington, Mason,
Company, of Birmingham, have been fixed in their places
Tin the Prince's chamber. Referring to the same
'2eality, we stated in our last report that John Gibson,
R. A., had been commissioned by us to execute a statue of
your Majesty,
with figures of Justice and Clemency at the
sides, and with has reliefs on the principal pedestal, to be
assi
placed in the recess on the north side of the apartment. Such
statues and ecc,onpantments have been completed and placed
accordingly. k
w or
shave
The
deservedcl e
tasteand
and
received caref careful
completiona ro b ao-f
those
general pp
tion. With reference to the principal corridors connecting
the Central Hall with the two Ilouses of Parliament, we
have recommended that the method of fresco should be
employed instead of oil painting. In the Peers' corridor
two subjects have been accordingly executed in fresco by
Mr. Cope, and in the Commons' corridor two subjects have
been executed in the same method by Mr. Ward. It lis
proposed that the remaining compartments shall be also
painted in fresco by the same artists. We propose to
commission Daniel Maclise, R.A., to paint in fresco one of
thej, subjects in the Royal Gallery, at the price of £l,OOO.
At the date of our last report, four frescoes, relating
to the legend of Kin Atl had been -
Wm. Dyce, rt.,,, g r tur, completedby
of ., in your Majesty's robing-room. A car-
toon large dimensions,
since been prepared erne' and highly approved by us, has
regard to the Peers' other fresco of the series. With
to be executed in robing-room, the subjects far which,
appendix to our fresco, and which are explained in the
seventh report,
John Rogers Herbert, R.A. have been committed to
that the artist has completed
to we
are enabled to state
large cartoon for the subject of , isousres entirel) satisfaction a
Tables of the Law to the Israelites;' and we truaringing down thet
that, the
fresco from the same will proceed without 7 nterraption."

v
%Vars.—The will of the Hon. Sir Charles Abney
Hastings, Bart., of W °
illesley Hall, Ashby de la Z unch'
and Cavendish-square, was proved in London on the 17th
of August. The personalty sworn under £120,000.
B
ueath, the book=, pictures, &c., at Willesley Hall, is be as
heirlooms, and go with the landed property.
Ca To
. Mr'.
William W. Abney, ..:4000. The house in dish-
square, with the furniture, he has bequeathed to Lady Edith
Clifton, together with the bulk of the property, appointing
her residuary legatee. There are a few pecuniary legacies
to his executors and friends, and to those of his establish-
ment ; £lOO to the Derby General Infirmary, £lOO to the
Leicester General Infirmary, VO to the poor of Packing-
ton, and small legacies to other parieheE.