The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-20 00:00:00

prosecuted by the descendants of Michael Angelo
and Macchiavelli for defamation. Columbus's lineal
descendant still exists in Spain, and might be urged
by the angry shade of his ancestor to repulse the
imputation of Protestantism, not yet invented in
his time. Petrarca and Raffael, the celebrated
preacher Tauler, Cervantes, and probably Shak-
spere would all enter their protests against figuring
in such a picture. Nor can we imagine what
Harvey's discovery has to do here. There is im-
mense science in the balancing of the different
groups, giving variety to the picture without de-
stroying the harmony of its outlines. It is pro-
bably the conception that is in fault, if we find
here neither the marvellous mastery of the ideal,
and the animation of the battle of the Huns, which
is one of the finest creations of historical painting.
It exists only in grisaille on the wall of a banquet-
ing room in the north of Germany. The coloured
picture originally contemplated has never been
painted. This circumstance is not unfavourable,
for colour might not adi to, but mar the effect.
In the epoch of the Reformt.tion, the composition
of each group is pyramidal. In the battle of the
Huns it is the arch. The dead and dying strew the
ground forming the chord of the arch; the spectre
host, which half waking warriors rise from the heaps
of dead on each side to join, forms the arch. Be-
tween them the long lines of the walls of Rome and
the monuments rising above fill up the distance.
In proportion as we are admirers of this and several
others of Kaulbach's pictures are we disappointed
with this cartoon.

Paris Exhibition.

PAINTING.—There is something significative in
the fact that in this huge bazaar of all things sale-
able, the gallery which is always the most crowded
is that of the fine arts. It is sometimes almost im-
passable when every other part of the building is
empty. Is it an involuntary protest
is it against the
materialist tendencies of the age, or due to the
artistic temperament of the French people? The
jewel department is always as well filled as the
picture galleries, filled with admirers of its brilliant
and very positively valuable contents. As the
attraction to this department is not purely esthetic,
our only alternative is to believe that the crowds
the picture gallery collects assemble less from any
intelligent feeling of art than drawn together
by the curiosity which gathers an admiring crowd
round every prietseller's window on the Boulevards.
For our own part we believe that this gigantic ex-
hibition of all that contributes to the well-being, or
social advancement, or economical progress of the
present times, is for the Parisians and for very
many of their visitors a mere show, ou a larger scale
than the old Foire St. Germain, but having no other
significance. The people come to be amused, not to
learn ; and as interminable lines of linens, or
chintzes, or broad cloths have no interest for them
steam engines and spinning machines do not go to
their hearts or appeal to their heads ; they naturally
turn for the amusement they come to seek to the
pictures, which, whether they be good or bad, are
at least suggestive of something they think they

AGRICUL7URIL PROSPECTS.

enjoy.
To the student of art the present gathering
within a small space of the works of so many coun-
tries affords a rare occasion of forming some judg-
ment, although necessarily an imperfect one, of the
relative value of each. Before attempting to make
even a cursory review of some of the works there
presented to our inspection, it is important to come
to an understanding with our readers as to the
meaning of the word " Art." Art is not the simple
imitation of nature (it would be a mere photo-
graphy), but it must not exclude its reproduction.
Art does not consist in a certain, or indeed any com-
bination of colours ; if it did, to what limbo must
we consign nearly all modern painters ? Nor is it
th e grouping of figures, however correctly the
muscles of each may be designed, for if it were
" David" might be put on a line (some hundred
miles between them) with Raphael. Art, whether
in its highest or lowest walks, alike means Creation.
There are artists of sentiment—Giotto, the saintly
Angelico, the Perugino, and Raffael, in his
good
time, with a host of others in the interval.
Then comes another school, still full of feeling,
although that feeling grows more earthly, while its
mastery of the mere accessories, colour as in the
Venetian school, breadth of drawing as in the
Bolognese, becomes more striking. And so we may
go on, finding artists, that is, creators, in every
branch of painting, however much the inspiration
which guided them may differ. We believe that
high art is necessarily dedicated to the idealised re-
presentation of the passions, by which we mean
the feelings ; but this by no means excludes
other subjects. Hogarth and Teniers are humoristic
artists, whether they idealise the vulgar pleasantries
of a village Kermesse, or the panic terror of the
ill-doer. The great landscape painters were not
less idealists and creators. Their task was to transfer
to canvas some aspect of nature refined by its pas-
sage through their visual nerves, not to count the
knotty excrescences on some lightning-blasted
trunk in the foreground, but to convey an impres-
sion not of dead, embalmed nature, such as the
camera obscura would give us, but of nature ani-
mated by each gust of wind or gleam of sunshine.
Nothing better illustrates what we require from
a landscape painter than a portrait. A portrait
is simply a reproduction on canvas of the features
of the model. At this rate it may be said that any
one can at least draw the outlines of a portrait, but
such a definition will suit ninety-nine in a hundred
of the portraits produced at a few shillings a head
at any fair. The crooked nose or squinting eye are
there, and kind friends exclaim, " What a capital
likeness !" The patient does not feel flattered, but
be dare not wince. This is as like portraiture as an
e xact production of the first row of wheat in a
field world be a landscape. Something is felt to be
wanting, and that something is the substitute for
what no man gives.—life. Real artists have this
Promethean faculty, but they arc and always have
been few.
We do not pretend to lay down canons of taste,
but we have said enough to explain the principles
which will guide us in the excursion we propose
into the sections of foreign art. We may on a future
occasion venture some remarks on the modern
French school, and the specimens we have here of
the English, which we think and hope hardly do it
justice.
Three very important collections, too numerous
for the narrow space assigned to them within
the walls of the iron building, are placed in
separate constructions in the park. These are
Holland, Belgium, and Bavaria. Switzerland
also has a separate gallery. We acknowledge that
we looked to Bavaria and the cognate groups of
artists of other German countries with curiosity to
see the results of their valiant struggle against the
conventionalisms of the first quarter of the cen-
tury. It was due in great part to the ardent
encouragement of King Louis of Bavaria that a
fresh inspiration seemed to have been breathed
over Germany. First is Schadow, at the
head of the school of Dusseldorf, the correct,
conscientious, but highly idealistic, worker-out
of biblical scenes, which breathe a freshness of feel-
ing as if painted by an artist learned in all the
studies of modern practice, but living in the atmos-
phere of a malireval convent. His Wise and Foolish
Virgins may be cited as a characteristic specimen of
his style. Bendemann, younger, more graceful,
leaning rather to a mythological treatment of his
subjects, was a worthy second to the master. This
school still exists, but in accordance with the taste
of the age it has changed its direction, and now
turns its attention to representing scenes of every-
day life. There is a peculiarity in this school which
speaks well for the genial temper of its founders
they have all learned to obey a common impulse
and all have trod in the steps of their masters. It is
possible to make conscientious painters, good
draughtsman, but not to give artistic genius, and
this seems to be wanting in the present generation.
While Schadow was painting at Dusseldorf, Over-
beck and Cornelius at Rome were working out, each
independently of the other, new developments of
art. Overbeck with the mystical piety of Fra-
Angelico, an art of arrangement, which in some re-
spects recalls_ Pietro Perugino, and a correction of
outline not surpassed by Raphael, is unquestionably
the most original painter of the present time. He
is somewhat deficient in the charm of colour,
although there are pictures of his which do not
merit this reproach ; but his drawings, his new
testament for instance, place him at once in the
highest rank, in a line with, but independent of, the
acknowledged princes of the art. The studies which
made a Raphael, a Francia, a Leonardo de Vinci, a
Michael Angelo, are those which have made him.
Had he been the contemporary of these painters, in
each of whom a phase of art culminated, he would
at the present day have the same place in popular
estimation. Cornelius was perhaps less self-made ;
we trace in his works reminiscences of Michael
Angelo which show that he was content to
accept, to some extent at least, the deductions of
another thinker. For art is thought, without which
there can be no creation. We shall have to speak
of him at !ength when we come to Prussia.
The distinct tendency of all German art is the
careful elaboration of outlines, but in this they bear
not the remotest resentblance to the treatment
adopted by that French school of which Ingres was
a brilliant example.
Some of the Bavarian pictures are on so large
a scale that we regret the impossibility of getting
to a sufficient distance to see them. Of course the
great object of attraction is Kaulbach's cartoon of
the Epoch of the Reformation. This is a subject
treated like Raffael's "School of Athens," and Over-
beck's "Triumph of Religion." The artist has taken
strange liberties with history and private character
in the composition of his groups. If French law pre-
vailed throughout Europe he might find himEelf

LITERARY LOYALTY.

A new " comic" journal, the Tomahawk, has
recently appeared. In the numbers of it which
we have examined we find but little comicality, if
that term imply what is provocative of honest,
healthful laughter. We find, indeed, some things
that might make the unthinking laugh, but much
more that strikes us as calculated to make the
judicious grieve. If, however, the columns of the
new rival to Punch are illumined with few flashes
of genuine merriment, there runs through them
instead a vein of malicious inuendo against exalted
personages whom society idolizes, or, at least,
did so not long ago, and against whom calumny
itself has never formulated any accusation. True
to its strangely-chosen title, the Tomahawk's satire
is unlike the " polished razor keen," which
" wounds with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen."
It is more like the clumsy strokes of the Indian
war hatchet, when the fury of some painted savage
falls indiscriminately on the unresisting and on the
combatant, on friend and on foe alike. In a word,
its pretensions to popularity consist but in a single
feature. The Tomahawk is the vehicle for cer-
tain rumours that have of late begun to float
through the town. They are of a tenor that is dis-
paraging—to use a mild term—to the private life
of that exalted lady who hitherto has been held up
as a model of private worth and unsullied purity,
and domestic virtue. And, if the character of
the Queen of England has not been spared, so
neither has that of her eldest sou, the HEIR
APPARENT to her throne. Nor (we say it with
shame) are there wanting insinuations, no less base,
against others in high station, whether those
whom advanced age and great public services, or
those whom youth and innocence might have
shielded from the shafts of the calumniator. But
they, whose trade is scurrility, spare nobody except
him from whom they apprehend personal danger ;
and now-a-days it seems the number has diminished
of those by whom an insult to their Sovereign is
looked upon as a thing to be personally resented.
Last week the paper in question gave the full
length representation of a Highland "
whose repulsive physiognomy is turned with
supercilious scorn on the British lion, crouching
in the suppliant attitude of a beaten spaniel at his
feet. The legend of the cartoon is " A Brown
Study." Now, to the vast majority of onlookers,
perhaps, this queer device and inscription would
not convey any idea, for it would be simply unin-
telligible. Nevertheless, it would arouse curiosity.
But to those to whom it would convey a meaning,
that meaning could be no other than the embodi-
ment of a very foul imputation launched against
the first lady of these realms by a vile and obscure
Continental print, and no sooner launched than
overwhelmed with universal reprobation and
disgust. We have little doubt that the conductors
of the Tomahawk would indignantly disclaim any
deliberate intention of assailing their Queen with
the hideous calumny of the Swiss editor ; and yet
their offence really amounts to this, though the at-
, tack is so artfully veiled as to elude probably any
of the statutes of scandal= magnatum. It is,
however, a melancholy symptom as regards the
health of society. Why, if there were manhood
or chivalry in the nation, a thousand swords would
have leaped from their scabbards, or, at all
events, a thousand cudgels wielded by British
muscle would have been ready to avenge the das-
tardly insult to our widowed Queen. Such is
loyalty in this age of material progress that no
indignation has, so far as we knows been even
vented in words against the editor of the Toma-
hawk. On the contrary, the picture and the
newspaper are publicly displayed and vended, and
the concocters evidently expect money and popu-
larity to reward their endeavours to amuse and
instruct the public. If we were seeking arguments
against the freedom of the press, or proofs of the
decadence of English spirit, here is a telling one
ready to our hand. Of one thing we arc certain,
and it is that, as Catholics, at least, we owe it to
ourselves and to our principles to show no ac-
quiescence in, or community of feeling with, these
symptoms of social rottenness. After centuries
of persecution, and distrust, and suspicion, our
loyalty is at length beginning to be admitted by
candid persons. We arc not even thought the
worse of that we were not carried away by the
exuberant torrent of somewhat slavish adulation
which it was the fashion, a while ago, to offer to
British Royalty. Of the greater importance does
it become that we should give no countenance to
the reaction that is pretty sure to succeed to this,
as to all other forms of popular extravagance. It
is on this account that we feel called upon to say
how much we were pained to observe that one of
our Catholic contemporaries, the London Weekly
Register, should be of the whole London press the
awndelcsopmeceiaallnyd to puff generally the Tome
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for the co-operation of the free lances of " light
literature," if the Catholic press is to find itself
ever and anon committed to an approbation of any
vileness to. which the competitive demand and
supply in the merchandise of literary sensationalism
is driving more and more the purveyors to the
depraved appetites of the godless many.—West-
minster Gazette.

(From the Mark-lane Express.)
The week opened with a very fine day, sunny
and breezy. Monday also proved fine ; wind S.W. ;
thermometer in the morning 68 degrees ; in the
afternoon, 76 ; barometer 30 inches. Tuesday was
a very hot and scorching day, with the wind round
to the east, and harvest work progressing vigor-
ously in all the early distiicts. Our advices on
that day were—from Suffolk :—" Wheat-cutting
will be general in a few days. Hot and sunny wea-
ther." Again (fromthe same county) :—" The qua-
lity of the new wheat is disappointing, and com-
plaints of the yield are general. About 400 qrs.
appeared, all the samples being, with one exception,
of the early sorts of white, but the colour, in most
instances, wanting whiteness, and many samples
present a shrivelled appearance. The crop, thus far,
does not promise well, and we hear to-day several
complaints of mildew and shrivelling of the later
wheats now in the fields. Weather scorching and
wind east, but the barometer is very gradually fall-
ing." From the West Riding of Yorkihire :—" The
weather since my last has been hot and forcing, and,
with a few weeks such like we should see a rapid
change and the country under a far better state as
regards the food-prospect for next winter and spring.
The root crops to-day droop, from the effects of the
midday heat, which is such as we seldom have for
more than three days without a break by thunder-
storms, So." From the East Riding :—" The wea-
ther is now hot and forcing, which, if it continue,
will bring harvest forward rather sooner than at one
time calculated upon ; still it will be late, and, con-
sequently, more precarious." Wednesday was the
hottest day experienced for a long time past, the
thermometer in the shade registering 85 deg., baro-
meter 29.90, and the wind inclined to change. From
the east coast of Scotland it was stated :—" The
weather has been everything that could he desired
since in our last." From the west coast it was re-
marked :—" We have had forcing weather since the
beginning of the week, which keeps the trade in
suspense." The tropical heat of the previous day
brought on a heavy thunderstorm early on Thurs-
day morning, and the day proved a very wet one,
stopping harvest work wherever it reached, and it
bad a tolerably extensive travel before it ceased.
From Warwickshire it was stated :—" We have
had six successive days of scorching-hot sun, such
as was much to be desired for ripening the corn.
To-day it has been showery. With the most
favourable weather it will be a week or ten days
before harvest is general in this district. The
potato disease has again appeared in many places,
which causes them to be forced upon the market at
lower prices." From Suffolk, near the coast :
" We have had a week of glorious weather, but the
temperature of the last day or two has been almost
too sharp for our barleys; a change to rain is near
at hand, for the glass has been steadily falling since
yesterday morning. Our reports of the new wheat
crop cutting up are not gay, and we hear of mildew
to some extent. Shall know more accurately next
week." From the interior of Suffolk it was ob-
served :—" Although late, we have now the most
brilliant weather, with intense heat, and under its
influence our crops come rapidly forward. Harvest
has commenced generally, and is being vigorously
proceeded with. From reports generally the yield
of wheat does not promise to be large. Barley ripens
quickly, and in most districts is ready for cutting."
Friday morning was showery, but the afternoon
was fine. From the West Riding of Yorkshire our
advices stated :—" We had a change yesterday from
I bright, hot weather to rain, which came freely. To-
1, day is fine thus far." From the East Riding it was
I observed :—" The weather during the week has been
extremely hot ; in consequence the crops are rapidly
ripening, and cutting bids fair to be general next
week in this part of the country." From Lincoln-
shire it was remarked :—" The corn is ripening fast,
after two or three of the hottest days (Tuesday and
Wednesday) ever known, thermometer in the shade
marking 87 degrees, and harvest is now general.
Should the weather hold favourable, the quality of
both wheat and barley promises to be good, barring
a few cases of mildew in wheat, which always, more
or less, obtain hold every year. The rain of Wed-
nesday and Thursday, though impeding progress,
has done immense good to the barley, which was
likely to be white and flinty, and I am sending you
a few grains as a sample of what I am now cut-
ting."
(This is the finest sample the writer has
yet seen in Mark-lane, kindly and mellow, and
far superior to the Kentish sold during the past
two weeks). From Devonshire, neighbourhood of
Exeter, our correspondent stated :—" We have
had a brilliant week of harvest weather, and are
in all the height of harvest. Many samples of new
wheat at market to-day, partly of fine quality, but
much of it very thin and poor, having been affected
witk rust. Barley seems to have improved within
the last two or three weeks, and promises a better
crop than at first. Oats and beans arc also good."
Saturday proved a fine day, with a strong breeze
from the west to the S.S.W., and harvest work
would again proceed vigorously. From the thrash-
ing of wheat in the fields previous to Thursday it
has been ascertained that there is a great deficiency
in the yield, and the present comparatively high
prices will scarcely compensate for the short quan-
tity turning out, and if the great vicissitudes of
weather in the spring and up to June are taken
into account, with the severe frosts occasionally ex-
perienced, we can account for a bad yield, and a
better return could not fairly be looked for. The
weather during the coming two weeks will be vitally
important, and on it a great deal will depend for
the final result of harvest in England, whilst in
Scotland another month of fine weather is wanted
to be safe as to the supply of food for the coming
1 cereal year.

Miscellaneous Foreign News.

The Standard's AtnericAn correspondents furnish
good specimens of the attempts made in Europe to
decry everything American, more especially United
States' inve3tments. " Within the past five days,"
says one writing from New York, July 20, " three

National Banks have failed—the Unadilla National

Bank, situated at Unadilla, New York; the New

ton National Bank, of Newton, Massachusetts ;
and the Weedsport National Bank, of Weedsport,

New York.

The liabilities of the first named

institution amount to $750,000, at least, its
capital was $lOO,OOO ; the liabilities of the second
amount to $210,000 ; and those of the third
to $200,000 ; the capital of each of the two last
named was $150,000. Aside from these, the Peg-
nonnock National Bank, of Hartford, Connecticut,

has just lost $50,000 by the peculations of an offs

The cause of all these disasters was reckless

speculation, and the equally reckless extravagance
in living induced thereby, on the part of the bank
officers. In every instance numerous poor deposi-
tors have been ruined. . . • • •
_ _ _

The result is that hundreds of poor people have been
hopelessly ruined. Struggling farmers, widows, and
orphans, who have looked on the bank for an income,
small shopkeepers, dealers in produce—these have
lost their all. Men and women once in comfortable
circumstances have become paupers. One man
committed suicide ; two persons have become insane.
Black despair crouches at almost every hearthstone
in the smiling valley of the Susquehanna." Now,
without attempting to lessen the evils which have
produced such ruin, let any one add up the total
sum of liabilities—take the whole as absolutely lost
—contrast this with the loss of a single institution in
the city of London, and the tone of gross exaggera-
tion will be apparent. A quarter of a million ster-
ling is the whole loss which has led to these gloomy
remarks, an insignificant item in the accounts of
Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; in the Joint Stock Dis-
count, in the Imperial Mercantile, or in fifty later
English failures, and a sum that might absolutely be
overlooked in its insignificance in the bungling
accounts of any great English railway.
The same correspondent gives an interesting
account of the influence exercised by A. Oakey
Ball, New York district attorney, which derives
additional interest from the discussion on the
bench of that city, raised by the allegations of the
North American Review. It appears that gentleman
has filled the post for several successive
.years, and
he has now issued a proclamation, stating that he
must be re-elected, and hemust be, for he controls the
criminals. Mr. Bill Sykes is captured cracking the
dry-goods house of A. T. Stewart ; newspaper para-
graphs appear, " Capture of the notorious Burglar
Sykes—Determined resistance—Gallantry of the
Police!" The honest rejoice that the villain Sykes
is at last in limbo. The trial is announced. But
Mr. Sykes and his friends have political influence.
They wait on the party leaders of the " unfortunate
gentleman's" ward and district, who wait on the
district attorney, assuring him that party strength

AQUATIC SPORTS ON THE HUD ON.--Some ad-
venturous epirits have been indulging in queer aquatic
sports on the Hudson, near Troy. Three men raced across
the river in washtubs for a stake only large enough to

make the same int, resting, and two of them were upset.
Another race was between blindfolded boatmen, i❑ skiffs,
from the shore to an island in the river. One of the con-
testants ran into the shore a mile below on the same side
from wbich he bad started.—Ncte lork Herald.

The American Watch Company at Watertown
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working hours of the day.
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zines. He mentioned, not in a complaining way,
that he had received but three hundred pounds, in
all, for " Our American Cousin," well knowing
that it has produced to the managers of the theatres
in the United States as many thousands of dollars.
Although his plays are generally successful, and he
is accounted at the head of living English drama-
tists, yet he has not escaped some failures, and his
last, " Antipodes," now being performed at the
Holborn Theatre, is savagely cut up by the critics,
and will probably have a short run. The best play
and the best playing in London is in " Caste," at
the Prince of Wales Theatre. Unlike Mr. Meade,
Mr. Taylor meditates an early visit to the United
States, where he is well assured a warm welcome
awaits him.
Mr. Bancroft will be received in private audience
immediately after the King's return to Berlin, to present
to his Majesty his credentials as United States' Minister at
this Court.
Colonel Luke Lyman, of Northampton, Massa-
chusetts, formerly of the 27th Regiment, has been pro-
moted Brigadier-General, which appointment was con-
firmed by the Senate on July 20.
The wife of Admiral Farragut was received at
the railway station of Stettin, last Saturday, by the Com-
mandant, Lieut.-General Boehm, who accompanied her on
boar]. the United States steamer Frolic, which is about to
leave for Cronstadt.
The officers of the Stettin garrison have given a
banquet to the officers of the Frolic in return for the hos-
pitality accorded to those on board that vessel.
At the Sailors' Home, Liverpool, on Thursday, a
gold chronometer watch was presented, on behalf of the
American Government, to Captain Rowland, of the coaster
Margaret Jane, of Barrow, as an acknowledgment of his
services in rescuing six persons from the American ship
Toscano, when she was foundering at the mouth of the Irish
Channel in March last.
Senator Morrill, of Vermont ; Senator Doolittle,
of Wisconsin ; lion. E. B. Washburne, M.C., of Illinois ;
Hon. James G. Blaine, M.C., of Maine ; Ex-Governor
Curtin, of Pennsylvania ; Hon. F. W. Morse, U.S. Consul
at London ; Hon. J. A. Kasson, U.S. Postal Commissioner ;
A. M. Beckwith, General Commissioner from the U.S. to
the Paris Exposition ; James W. Simonton, of the Associ-
ated Press; Alexander P. Stewart, the New York mil-
lionaire ; and Dr. Johnston, the well-known " Malakoff"
of the New York Times—were among the guests at a recent
dinner given by Mr. Gibbs, of the U.S. Treasury Depart-
ment, at his residence in Paris.
Wilkes's Spirit of the Times observes that the
choice of the next President has been narrowed down to
a few leading Republicans, of whom Grant, Stanton, and
Chase have thus far been the most prominent.
Marcus Ottenburg is to remain Minister at
Mexico, having received a special order from Mr. Seward
to that effect.
Canover, the perjurer, has been sent to Albany
to work out his ten years' sentence.
Charles Anthon, the distinguished classical
scholar and author died at Now York on Wednesday, the
30th July.
General Sir John Michel, K.C.8., commanding
Her Majesty's troops in Canada, has resigned.
General C. C. Washburne, member of Congress
from Wisconsin, arrived by the Cuba. He will visit
France and Germany.
Mr. D. A. Wells, Revenue Commissioner, having
completed his English and Continental researches, is now
at Paris.
Mosen, the American artist from Rome, is at
Homburgh-les-Bains, for the benefit of his health.
Daniel Gould, American Consul at Leith, died
the latter part of July last. His son, W. M. Gould, is
acting as pro tem Consul.
General Hugh Ewing, American Minister at the
Hague, is spending a few weeks at the village of Ringen
on the Rhine.
His Excellency General John A. Dixon, Minis-
ter at Paris, is with his family at Homburgh-les-Bains.
The General returns this week to Paris, but his family will
remain some weeks at Homburgh.
Miss Charlotte Cushman, the noted actress, has
been living eight years in Rome, except for a short period
when she visited the United States in aid of the Sanitary
Fund. Her nephew, E. Cushman, is the American Consul
at Rome, and Miss Stebbins, the sculptress, is living
with her.
General Rufus King, late United States Minister
at Rome, is expected to visit his old home in Milwauki©
in September next.
Mr. L. Motley, late Minister at Vienna, has
delivered his letter of recal to the Emperor. His family
will spend the summer in Switzerland, while ho will go to
London to superintend the publication of the two con-
cluding volumes of the " History of the Netherlands."
The health of his daughter is such as to probably require
a winter residence in Italy. Mr. Motley is not very rich
in worldly goods, and would have liked t 3 remain at
Vienna a year or two longer, so as to have written whore
he had such great facilities his "History of the Thirty
Years' War." The infamous M'Cracken, the great anony-
mous, was too much for him. Messrs. Motley, J. R.
Bartlett, T. B. Laurence, and Dr. James Sargent have
Ibeen appointed, by the American Antiquarian Society to
attend a Congress of Antiquarians, which meets in Antwerp
in August.
Professor Whitney has ascended Mount Hood,
California, and finds it to be 12,400 feet.
Longfellow luxuriates in the sea breeze at Nahaut.
Stoddard's summer home is near Nowburyport.
The Springfield Republican says that Miss Hough-
ton of North Adams, who was lately mixed up in the Rev.
S. M. Merrill scandal, has written to the gentleman, since
his pretended drowning at Plattsburg, telling him that it is
now his duty to leave his family and share his fortunes
with her, even if they have to go to the ends of the earth.

will be lost if Sykes is convicted. Mr. Hall admits
Sykes to bail, postponing the trial from term to
term till the affair is forgotten, and Sykes continues
his triumphant career. Minor affairs are similarly
treated till hundreds of indictments are collected in
the district attorney's office, and he rules the roast.
When the period for election comes round he issues
his mandates much as Jonathan Wild did, and is
nominated by his myrmidons at the conventions,
and they control the elections. But the assertions
of the correspondent do not stop here, for he says,
" The majority of our judges are made of dense and
hopeless ignorance, elevated to the bench from the
bar-room by the votes of brother roughs. They find
in Mr. Hall a guide, counsellor, a friend, who tells
them what to do when they have cases to decide.
There are not three judges, justices, or magistrates
in this city that dare disobey Mr. Hall's commands.
As a consequence our district attorney's power in
elections—controlled, as ours are, by the worst
classes of the community—is simply enormous.
There is no office in the gift of the people of this
city that he cannot, an' he wills it, obtain. Why ?
To use the language of a New York weekly news-
paper, If the leading men of the nominating
bodies of our city were to refuse to select Oakey
Hall as the man of their choice, half of them would
be in prison within a week ; there would be a dearth
of members of county conventions; a quorum would
have to be hunted up behind iron bars.' The facts
that I have related are known to every citizen of
New York. Perhaps the English advocates of un-
restricted suffrage may find something in them
worth thinking about." The correspondent has
forgotten to add that what is true of the corruption
he asserts is mainly due to the Democratic party—
the Conservatives of New York.
The death is reported on the 31st ult. of Miss
a popular writer of the
Cuantihteadr i nsetal\tleasr.i a Smeidsgs wsi cekd,gwick was born in 1789,
being at the time of her death in her 78th year.
Her first book, entitled " A New England Tale,"
which appeared in 1822, gained her reputation
and success. In 1824 she published a second
tale, " Redwood," which was republished in Eng-
land and within a brief period translated
into French, Italian, and Swedish. In 1827 was
published " Hope Leslie ; or, Early Times in
America." In 1830 she issued " Clarence ; in
1832, " Le Bossu ;" and in 1835, " The Linwoods,"
and a collection of shorter tales. In the next three
years she issued a series of books whose popularity
was and continues great—the " Poor Rich Man
and Rich Poor Man," " Live and Let Live,"
" Means and Ends, Home," and " Love Token for
Children." In 1841 she published, on her return
from Europe, a charming volume of travel, '° Letters
from Abroad to Kindred at Home ;" in 1845 ap-
peared "Milton Harvey, and other Tales." In
1857 appeared from her pen a novel of American
society, " Married or Single ?" In 1858 she issued
a life of Joseph Curtis. She was the author, be-
sides, of a great number of essays and stories in

magazines.
The following items are from the Round 7 aide of
August 3 :
Mr. T. Buchanan Read, on the conclusion of a
tour in Maine, where he now is, will sail for
Europe.
Mr. Charles 11. Brainard is preparing, for use
next winter, a lecture on the life and genius of
John G. Whittier.
The Rev. Edward C. Towne, who is recommended
as a lecturer by Messrs. Wendell Phillips and Ralph
Waldo Emerson, announces a lecture on " John
Brown : a Lesson of American Manhood."
President Hopkins, of Williams College, will next
winter deliver a course of twelve lectures before the
Lowell Institute, Boston.
Mr. George Vandenhoff, who has already ac-
cepted engagements to deliver a course of lectures
next fall at different points in Massachusetts and
Connecticut, has, in addition to his usual readings,
two new lectures--" Moliere, " and " Our Mother
Tongue and How we use it."
Mr. William L. Alden, hitherto editor of Harper's
Weekly, has relinquished that position to Mr. W. F.
G. Shanks, formerly a correspondent of the Herald,
in order to devote his time to a book which he is
preparing for the press.
Professor Hubert A. Newton, of Yale College,
has added to Eaton's " Common School Arith-
metic" a brief treatise on the metric system of
weights and measures, on which the candidates for
admission to the academic and scientific depart-
ments of Yale' are henceforth to pass examination.
The Rev. Cyrus Byington, for many years a
Presbyterian missionary to the Chickasaws and
Choctaws, has, with the assistance of the Rev. C.
C. Copeland, completed the translation of the Pen-
tateuch into Choctaw—the New Testament and
parts of the Old having already been printed in that
language by the American Bible Society. Mr.
Byington
to New York to put the
Mr. S. J. Ahern—for some seven years the togttoo n
pr is
essa. bout coming
pub-
lisher of the Albion, and also for some time con-
nected with the business department of the Times
—has purchased one-half of the Evening Gazette,
whirl will henceforth be published by Sweetser and
Ahern.
The Rev. C. T. Brooks will publish, in the
autumn, a translation of the Layman's Breviary.
M. Louis Blanc is said to have collected the pri-
vate papers of the Emperor Maximilian, with a
view toward a work upon the unfortunate prince.
Mrs. Ann S. Stephens is said to be indefatigable
iu her attendance upon the Surratt trial, with the
design of drawing from it the materials for a novel,
in emulation perhaps of Mr. Cyrus Redding, whose
novel, " A Wife and Not a Wife," is founded on
the notorious Yelverton case.
Mr. E. G. Squier, now in Paris, is engaged upon
an elaborate work on Peru.
Southern Episcopalians those, that is, of the
dioceses of North and South Carolina, Georgia,
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Texas,
Arkansas, and Tennessee—are bestirring themselves
to build a university, which, we understand, is to
be located in the last-named State. The movement,
we presume, is a High Church one, as otherwise
Cenyon ought to be able to supply all that is needed.
The example of Trinity, with its signal failure, is
enough to forbid sanguine expectations from the
new institution ; but circumstances alter cases, and
enthusiasm may be abundant now which was want-
ing before.
Newspapers for our negro population, such at
leltst as are edited and published by them, are
eight in number, published in San Francisco, New
Orleans, Baltimore, New York, Philadelphia,
Brooklyn, and Cincinnati. One of these, that one
published at New
Orleans, is a daily, with an issue
of 10,000, the others being weekly, and with an
average circulation of perhaps 3,000, wbich, all
things considered, is by no means a discouraging
condition of things when we remember how much
more numerous their readers are likely to become
within a few years.
A London correspondent of Frank Leslie writes :1
—" Tom Taylor, celebrated in the United States as
a dramatic author, is equally famous in England as
art critic, historian, and litterateur, holding at the
es
same time a high post under the Government. His
beautiful residence, Lavender Sweep, at Clapham
Junction, some four mil
from the centre of Lon-
don, is the very ideal of an artist's home. A large
and commodious house, literally crowded with books
and gems of art, divides the attention and delight
of guests with the landscape. garden and flowers.
Mr. Taylor is some forty-two years old, of
medium height and handsome form. Like Charles
Reade, his hair and beard are turning grey, but
it is the only sign of age about him. llis dark eyes
flash when talking, always animated and rapid, in-
deed I have no hesitation in crowning him the best
conversationalist I ever met with ; and as chairman
at the annual dinner of the Dramatic
he Autillustrated
hors' So-
ciety at Greenwich, last Sunday,
equal talents for public' or private. His accom-
plished wife contributed much to the fete a la cam-
pagne, last Sunday, at their charming place, by her
rare musical powers, as well as iu those graceful
attentions which are so pleasing to guests. Mr.
Taylor was a barrister in fair practice before ac-
cepting office, and his experience at the bar is of vast
advantage to the Government in the Home Depart-
ment. His busy nature finds time forplaywriting,his•
tory
art criticism, and contributions to the wags.

JEAN IIILAII?E BELLOC.
(DIRECTEUR DE L'ECOLE IMPERIALE DE DESSIN.)

The provincial museums of France are, as is
generally known, much better worth seeing than
similar institutions in our own country, as the
French Government frequently enriches them with
fine specimens of the work of native artists who
have risen to fame in the great arena of Europe.
At Avignon, for instance, are many beautiful
examples of the genius of the three Vernets, and
the collection at Nantes is in the highest degree
interesting and well arranged. This latter gallery
has quite lately received from the Ministre de la
Maison de l'Empereur et des Beaux Arts, a remark-
able picture from the hand of a recently deceased
artist, born at Nantes in the year 1786, and whose
long Parisian career of public usefulness will have
ensured his name being well known to those who

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zealous kindness of an excellent and revered mem- ' policy. If some time-honoured names in the City
ber of the Family of Allam—Madame Adelaide— have been somewhat tarnished, let the melancholy
that M. Belloc received the appointment to the truth be openly avowed. At all events, if such be
directorship of the Government School of Design the opinion of the highest tribunal in the realm, it
is grievously unjust to those eminent men who, re-
in Paris, to which he henceforth devoted the best luctantly as they themselves admit, have pronounced
of his powers ; for that which he undertook he a verdict of condemnation, to conceal their opinions,
loyally performed to_the last, without regard to or to attempt to diminish their effect by misunder-
the sacrifice of his own career. The school, in his standing them. No man can doubt that the tone
hands, produced a marked effect upon the applica- of public morality must be seriously affected by the
tion of Art to Industry. In 1832, he created the opinions thus solemnly expressed, and the best ser-
Class of Ornamental Sculpture, from which went vice which can be rendered by the press is neither to
" extenuate" nor to suppress them, but to give them
forth all those young brethren of the chisel who the widest publicity.
have embellished Paris by the decorations of the
TIIE "WESTMINSTER GAZETTE" ON ROME, MAXIMI
Hotel de Ville, the Nouveau Louvre, and other LIAN AND REVOLUTIONARY LIBERALISM.—By the
public works. He introduced the study of living murder of Maximilian Revolutionary Liberalism
plants among his pupils, causing theth to draw and has got a bad name in Europe. Such a crime will
model after nature. Ile made them work from
lessen its influence over its disciples and dupes ;
the life in modes that now enter into the plan of
theories and principles, the
for men who praised
effects of which they never clearly realized, shrink
every good school of design, but which then were
classed among the novelties of popular instruction. back in horror at results such as Mexico now wit-
nesses. How to do away with such an evil effect
Although much absorbed in the work involved is the aim of the leaders of Liberalism. The plan
in his new post, M. Belloc yet found time for oc- they have hit upon is characteristic ;itis to make
casional exhibition. In 1837, 1843, 1845, 1848 his out that the Church is, in reality, guilty of the
name a blood of Maximilian. It will be a real triumph if
eared attached to several remarkable
they can manage, by hook or by crook, to shift the
portraits, among whom may be cited those of
odium from their own shoulders to those of the
Boissy d'Anglas, Emile Souvestre, Michelet, and clergy. It is curious to note how the public is
Maclame:Herbelin. being prepared for such an attempt. Paris, of
M. Belloc was named Chevalier of the Legion course, is the head-quarters of this conspiracy.
The first sign of activity was the appearance of an
of Honour in 1846, Officier in 1864. He died on
the 9th of December 1866, aged eighty years, butanon
pamphlet " On the Relations between
some months before his death the contents of his the Court of Rome and the Mexican Empire,"
a
from which, even before its publication, extracts
atelier were sold ;he at the time being a complete appeared in the Inde'pendenee Beige. It begins
and hopeless invalid, and his pictures and sketches by imputing "to the Holy Father a share in the
were bought up by lovers of art, many of whom responsibility in the melancholy catastrophe of the
then learnt, as a revelation, the genius of a man Mexican Empire," and ends by insinuating that
it was the' Court of Rome that killed Maximilian."
who for five-and-thirty years had chiefly spent
his life and his powers in helping others to make Out of such audacious statements and unfounded
their fame. insinuations the Liberal press in France and Bel-
gium are making political capital, with the view
The picture, quite recently presented by Govern- of diverting from their party in Mexico the uni-_.
men-tito the town of Nantes, is the " Conversion of versal reprobation -which the assassination of
Maximilian has excited. The writer of this anony-
the Magdalen." It is the only completed portion mous pamphlet has had access to privileged sources
of a series for which M. Belloc had executed of inf •
,
sketches. The painter has greatly dared in his of ocu-
ormation. -He has had possession d
ments referring to religious matters in Mexico
rendering of the subject. The sinning woman, —to a confidential letter of the Empress Charlotte
touched by the prayer of Martha, lies:unclothed and —and to a private and detailed account by the
grovelling at her sister's feet, smitten by repent- Emperor Maximilian of the military position of
Mexico in 1865. But it is well known that there
ance, agonised by shame. With one hand Martha
are,
seeks to raise Magdalen from her posture of abject various
in the same quarter whence these emanated,
other important documents which throw
grief and humiliation, with the other she takes up considerable light on the Mexican expedition, on
a veil wherewith to cover the bare and shrinking the obstfylles it had to encounter, and on the state
form. The sublime figure of Christ looms in the of the country. But why are not these also pro-
background, intensifying the expression of the pie-
doted ? What is the motive of this conceal-
ment, which amounts to no less than a deliberate
tore—repentance and pardon.
mutilation of the truth?
The other unfinished compositions make, as it " Why," asks the Univers
—in an article on this subject, which we shall give
were, a trilogy of womanhood of the whole. The in our next week's "Foreign Opinion"—" out of
first represents Eve as she came from the hands of these numerous documents was so arbitrary and
the Divine Creator; Eve pure and beautiful in her incomplete a choice made ?" Did the writer not
native innocence, know anything of those confidential documents
exchanged from 1865 to 1867, between Maximilian
In whose sight all things joy ; and Marshal Bazaine—between the Mexican and
but Eve, already listening to the Tempter [who, the French Governments ?" It is evident even
with voice and eyes and insidious gesture, per- from these documents, incomplete and inexact_RS
s
suades her to eat the fatal fruit. The third gives they are, that no blame attaches to Rome in th.i.,
unfortunate Mexican matter. The Holy Father did
the Virgin Mother, Mater Salvatoris; Causa everything in hisower to keep Maximilian in the
Nostrat Latitia,, Rosa Mystics, bearing the youth-could • ld to demands which
right path, but not yield .
ful Saviour in her arms ; and symbolises woman- amounted almost to threats. Even the Journal do
hood, raised by purity, love, and reverence to a Debats, commenting on this attempt to throw the.
height far greater than that from which Eve fell. blame of the Mexican failure on the Church, saYris
" L'amour, dans sa plus belle acception est entre —" We always considered the Church to have bee .
inthe right • it could not but regard the conduct
cet bras, sort d'elle, et bent le monde. C'est Dieu of the Emperor' whom it created as a treason, for
lui memo inearne dans ses flancs. En elle se resume it is quite clear that the Church did not send hire'
toute souffrance, tout devoir, tout amour. L'esprit to Mexico to continue and to complete the seen-
a remporte la victoire, le matiere est vaincue, et larii ation-
remarks that " Jo
cannot be ignorant that the Mexican Empire was
rendue it la mission premiere. Elle fut la perte
the work of the French Government, and that
du monde, elle en est le salut."—Blestininster Maximilian, in spite of the Pope's most earnest
Gazette. admonitions, chose to follow other counsels." It is
._
but too true that he did not scruple to raise 112,5
hand against the religious orders, to interfere his
ecclesiastical discipline, and to attack the fund"
t mental rights of the Church. How, then, is tn.o
mil _
Church to blame for the failure of Maxiian it
establish a sound Government in Mexico ?
difficulties which he had to contend against weru,
enormous, if not insurmountable, but he did 11°„'
lessen them by hearkening to the voice of e'v_l;
counsellors, by endeavouring at the expense _
principle and of justice to conciliate the Liberr
by attacking the Church, thus throwing away I
only chance of saving and regenerating a countiy
.
so long a prey to the worst species of Liberalisv
It is not, as this writer of the anonymous pamphib
pretends, the Catholic Church in Mexico—not the
' Court of Rome,' which are responsible for ot'
1,
failure of the Mexican expedition, and for the clea
of Maximilian. Napoleon and Mexican Liberalisill_
and its upholders in Europe must share betwel
them the blame and the guilt. This speel°,_,l
attempt to shift the blame on other shoulders—tlr,
conspiracy to involve the Church in a share of tl':..
guilt of the blood which has been shed by rot,
derous hands, is one evidence the more of the ree"_,
less and unscrupulous character of RevolutionarJ
'beralism.