The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-05 00:00:00

THE LONDON FEVER HOSPITAL has
URGENT NEED of FUNDS.—Donations and Sub-
scriptions will be thankfully received by Messrs. D"msdale
and Co., 50, Cornhill • llfekirs. Druronvin.l and Co., Charing-
cross; Mes.rs. Coutts and Co., Strand; Messrs. lionre,
Fleet-street; and by the undersigned, at the Hospital,
Liverpool-raail, N.. CHARLES FINN, Sec.

OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
IX in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
way Terminus, King's-cross.
Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN.

Vice-Patron—llia Royal Highness the Prineeof WA LE B,KG.
President-111g Graoe the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G.

This Hospital, founded in the year 1823, the first to estab-
lish the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without
the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders. is wholly de-
pendent for support on voluntary contributions and &cies.
It affords relief to a large number of in-pa n lc, and, in
addition to this, the average number of ►tteuthane of the
destitute sick has for a considerable period averaged between
3,000 and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee ear estly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the
benecolent, as the pr lilacs of this Hospital are capable of
containing several litadred more beds had the Committee
the requisite tunas to maintain them.
Contributions are received by their bankers. Messrs. Brown,
Janson, and Co., Abchuroh-lane ; also by Niessra. Coutta and
Co.; Drtuninond and Co.; Glyn and Co.; Uerrles and Co.;
Ransom and Co.; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne,
and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Williams, Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet
814 d CO., Beniera-street : and at the timpani. from 10 till 8.
ST/WORD BMZ. begretArY,

HELP for the DESTITUTE SW K.—
Ai ET RO POLITAN FREE II OS VI L, Devon-
shire-square, City. Instituted for the immediate gratinfous
Relief of the SieTt Poor of every Nation and Creed, without
letters of recommcnd►tion. FUS DS are urgently needed to
maintain efficiency.
BANKERS—Messrs. Barnett, bares and Co . 62.Lombard-
street. .INo. GURNEY FRY, Chairman.
G HO. Oil() X TON, Secretary.

A. GOODS TRAIN SEIZED FOR SMUGGLING.—
The Eastern Prussian State Railway has experienced a
proof of the severity of the Russian Custom House regula-
tions. Through some inadvertence of the railway officials
at Thorn, who neglected to furnish a goods through train
to Poland with the needful certificates of origin and other
papers required by the regulations of Russian red-tapism,
the whole train on its arrival at Alexandro, the frontier
station, was seized on the alleged ground of attempting to
smuggle the goods and defraud the Russian Custom-house
The directors bad to pay a flue of $2,500 before the goods
were liberated and allowed to be conveyed to their desti-
nation. It is understood that there is but a faint chance of
relief or recovery of the fine, as the money was immediately
distributed among the officials of the frontier Custom-
house, who, after all, did nothingmoro than they were en-
titled and oven required to do in yiANe 91 Unix iiistractiens.

The Rev. Dr. GARRETT, of Manchester, moved
the first resolution :—" That this meeting believes
that the sale of intoxicating liquors on Sunday is
highly prejudicial to the welfare of the people, and
that it ought therefore to be discontinued." He
said it was not the object of the promoters of this
movement to offend any one, or to hurt any
one's feelings—all that they wanted to do was to
promote a great national work in a harmonious
spirit. The great question was whether public-
houses should or should not be entirely closed on
Sundays. (Cheers, and loud 'narks of dissent.)
If the people petitioned the House of Commons in
an earnest and respectful manner entirely` to close
public-houses on Sunday it would be done; but if
the House of Commons thought those places ought
to be open during part of Sundays, that of course
must be the arrangement.
Alderman HALE seconded the motion. He said he
occasionally took a glass of wine, but he never
drank wine on a Sunday. (Laughter.) -
Mr. H. J. Warn UT, a licensed victualler; rose to
move the following amendment :—« That, in the
opinion of this meeting, it is inexpedient at present
to make any alteration in the law respecting the sale
of beer, wine, or spirits." He was met with a deaf-
ening shout of disapproval, and a disturbance arose
which was with difficulty quelled. He denied that
the working people of England were in such a de-
graded and immoral state that they could not be
trusted to look after themselves, their families, and
their property unless public-houses were locked up
one whole day out of the seven. (Uproar.)
Mr. F. SALE, a very jovial-looking person, s -
condect' the_ Motion, and denounced Puritanism,
which would deprive working men of their beer.
Archbishop MANNING, who-on rising to speakwas
loudly cheered, said he supported'the resolution with
all his heart. Referring to an observation of the pre-
vious speaker, he said he was not a Puritan who un-
dermined the commonwealth of England. (A laugh.)
His reason for appearing there was because he knew
from the report of the committee of the House of
Commons in 1854 that drunkenness exceeded all
official statistics in England, and that the great mass
of that drunkenness was committed on the Saturday
night and on Sunday. Those mere not opinions
which rested on his judgment alone, but were the so-
lemn utterances of a Parliamentary Committeeafter
two years of deliberate hearing and weighing of evi-
dence. On the Saturday night the poor man had all
his week's wages, and on the Sunday be had all
his time unoccupied. The temptation to drunken-
ness was multiplied by unwise legislation. For 30
years past the wisdom of the Legislature had gone
astray in that respect. That it should introduce
the principle of free trade in cotton to clothe the
poor, or free trade in bread to feed them, he could
well understand ; but free trade in drink was con-
trary to the principles of sound legislation, to true
political economy, and to the internal principles of
morality. (Cheers.) It was now about 11 years
since a systematic, powerful, and wise organisation
pressed forward this great subject on the public
conscience of England. He was absent at the time
that agitation began, but if he had been in England
he would have spoken then as ho did now. He had
carefully read the reportof the Parliamentary Com-
mittee of 1853-54, and the report of the Royal
Commission of 1859-60 on the law in Scotland,
and his reasons for desiring to see all houses for
the sale of drink closed on Sundays was be-
cause Sunday was the time when the poor
man had an abundance of money and a superabun-
dance of leisure, and because the Legislature had
on that day multiplied the temptations to spend
both in the public-house to such a degree that they
were well] nigh irresistible. Secondly, because the
sin of drunkenness dishonoured and tainted the
Lord's-day. In 1863, at a congress of Catholics at
Manes, he took part in a meeting which passed a
resolution to the effect that it was the duty of every
man and of his children and servants and all about
him to preserve and promote the observance of
Sunday, which was sacred in memory to our Lord's
resurrection, and to refrain from all work, and from
all buying, selling, and trafficking whatsoever on
that day. It would be no infringement, how-
ever,7where food was perishable, that a sale should
take place under such proved necessity as would jus-
tify the act. They were told that tile closing of
public-houses on Sunday was impracticable. He
answered that of the United States of America ten
of them had already done it ; that in our colonies
it had been partially done ; that in Scotland it
had been done ; and that in two of the dioceses
of Ireland it had not only been done, but done
without legislative enactment, and by moral power
and episcopal authority. The report of the Royal
Commissioners established the fact, ou the evidence
of magistrates, police, and other persons in authority
in Scotland, that from the introduction of Mr. Forbes
Mackenzie's Act there the streets on Sundays had
been tranquil and clear, and that working men of
every class, and even publicans, had prayed that the
law might be made more stringent. Mr. M'Laren,
the late Provost of Edinburgh, had proved by sta-
tistics that since the introduction of that Act the
consumption of spirits in Scotland had diminished by
one-seventh. The same had been effected in Ireland.
He had letters from Catholic dignitaries at Cashel
and Thurles to the effect that hardly any better or
more practical illustration could be found of the
moral, social, and domestic benefits to be anticipated
from the closing of public-houses on Sunday than the
working of the temperance law in those dioceses. The
meeting would bear in mind there was no legislative
enatment there ; but a pledge not to get drunk at
any time, nor to frequent public-houses on Sundays,
and the exactitude of the people in observing it was
described as something wonderful. The tendency
of the law all through had been to make temperance
a public virtue, and to make men temperate on
every day in the week. In the diocese of Thurles
the days of holding fairs and markets had been
altered from Mondays to Tuesdays, and drunken-
ness
said t verylrat n eiiinconsequence had disappeared. It
was what was aimed at in this movement
was a limitation of the freedom of the people. He,
on the contrary, said it was a limitation only of
license. (Cheers.) Liberty was only related to
right. It had no relation to wrong. A great
public authority said the other day that it was a
constitutional right of every Englishman to get
drunk if he would. (A laugh.) Then, as an Eng-
lishman, he (Dr. Manning) claimed the constitu-
tional right to abate him as a nuisance, to
try every tribunal to obtain a sentence with that
view, and if that did not reach him, he would ap-
peal to the Legislature to have him abated as a nuis-
ance. They • were met there that day to abate a
great public calamity—a nuisance which was under-
mining and sapping the common weal. Had it not
been an object of legislation to limit the sale of
poisons and to suppress betting and gaming-houses ?
He was taunted with the remark that they were there
to traduce the working man, and that they had spoken
of the people of England as a drunken people. No
one bad donethat ; on the contrary, they were speak-
ing as friends of working men. For more than 30

One cf the studios of Rome still open to the pub-
lic, and still called by the great artist's name who is
no more—that of Gibson—may now excite a peculiar
and mournful interest. Many of its contents, both
casts and marbles, are packed in boxes ready to be
sent to England, but many others, and among them
the finest of those produced within recent years, are
still on view. With renewed pleasuie must we now
consider the sculptor's last work, the "Theseus slay-
ing the Robber Chief," to which he was about to
apply himself at the very moment the mortal stroke
first rendered him helpless, and which those re-
sponsible have judiciously caused to be cast from
the unfinished model without any attempt to com-
plete in the clay what has been left as we now see it
an imperfect but noble work, wanting much of
anatomical detail, especially as observed at the back
of both figures, but still so far elaborated as to be
present in impressive truthfulness the entire concep-
tion and feeling. Nothing could be finer than the
indignant but calm energy with which Theseus
stands over the prostrate robber, about to slay him
with the sword held aloft, and in an action that
throws out the finest attributes of the heroic beauti-
ful in form. This group had been sketched in the
clay about 30 years ago, and in that state seen by
ThorsVatdsen, who expressed approval ; and the
idea of completing it had frequently occurred to the
artist, who at last applied himself to the long-post-
poned work with sonic feeling of presentiment) to
infer from what his assistants tell us) that it might
be his last, or that he might not live to finish it.
At Benzonio's studio the principal work lately
produced and just completed in marble is the group,
above life-size, of the " Flight from Pompeii ;" or
Diomed assisting the mother with her infant at the
dread catastrophe, as described in the well-known ro-
mance ; and whatever we may think of the inappro-
priateness of such a subject for sculpture, we must
admire this wonderful example of difficulties over-
come in a scene of the utmost agitation and terror,
hurried movement and confusion, presented with
pathos that at once touches the heart, whilst con-
forming to the ideal standard of the sculptor's
sphere ; the noblest quality being the predominance
of the moral feeling, in the generous humanity of
Diomed, and the motherly tenderness of the female,
over the selfishness of fear as over the physical hor-
rors of the situation. In the accessories, ornaments,
vessels, &c., strewn on the ground, are exact copies
from Pompeiian antiques; and this striking group is
to he placed by its purchaser, a Mr. Stephens, of
New York, in the centre of a hall fitted up and de-
corated so as exactly to reproduce one of the aristo-
cratic interiors in the lava-buried city. We hear
that Tenerani, now a septuagenarian, has commis-
sions on his hands sufficient for ten years' labour,
but has dismissed several of his workmen, yielding
to the irritation in his mind (such at least is the re-
port) at the generally unfavourable criticism passed
on his monument to Pius VIII., when that colossal
work was first exposed at St. Peter's, about a year
ago. In that criticism on the Papal monument rare
merits have been overlooked, even granting, as we
may, that the figures be less impressive when
grouped together than as seen in the studio. No
new work of importance has been undertaken within
the last year by Tenerani. Mr. Rogers, one of the
most successful and constantly engaged of the
American sculptors in Rome, has received a com-
mission for one of the many monuments to be raised
in the cities of the United States to President
Lincoln.

Much decorative and restoring work has been in
progress in Home's churches, and much is still con-
tinuing, begun in the last or in previous years. Our
generalimpression is of splendour, lavish use of rich
material, marbles, gilding, bronzes, &c., sometimes
in suitable accord between the new adornment and
the architectural character viewed as a whole, but
not of any exalted merit of feeling in sacred art,
still less of any intelligent appreciation for the
Christian antiquities thus too often marred or taste-
lessly altered in the intent to embellish. The re-
storations and paintings, by Coghetti and others
of his school, at St. Maria in Trastevere (in its
oldest parts of a church of the 12th century) are still
progressing, and,we are told, are to involve the out-
lay of 200,000 scudi, half given by Government,
half by the capitular clergy. Along the high attics
have been executed large fresco figures of 16 male
and female martyrs, divided by pilasters with gilt
capitals ; and above the chief portals have been
opened three round-arched windows, with glass
paintings, large size, of Cornelius, Calixtus, and
Julius 1., sainted pontiffs who contributed to the
building or restoring of this church. The fine me-
diaeval pavement of inlaid marbles has been taken
up, but will, we arc told, be replaced in similar
style and with the same materials. S. Maria in
Aquiro, better known as the Church of the Orphan
Asylum, a modern edifice of indifferent architecture,
has been renewed interiorly with much magnificence
—colossal fresco paintings, coloured marble incrus-
tations, stucco reliefs, and gilding. Along the flat
spaces of the heavy piers between nave and aisles,
large figures of Greek and Latin fathers, executed
with a certain breadth and boldness, in which we
recognise the student of Michel Angelo ; on the
waggon-vault roof the four Evangelists with their
emblems, angels; and along a frieze below scenes
from the life of the Virgin Mary ; in two ample
lunettes at the end walls the Visitation and the As-
sumption of Mary, with a group of saints and Pope
Paul 111., patron of the orphanage ; in the cupola,
Moses, Jeremiah, David, and Isaiah, associated with
four sibyls; and on the pendentives below, Joachim,
Joseph, Zechariah, and St. John baptist, here ad-

mitted as personages connected with the 'Virgin in
life,—•tll by Cesare Mariana, a professor of the St.
. Luke Academy, now in high repute among Roman
artists, and certainly entitled to a hi,;ll place in this
local Fehool. The restorations of the same church,
modern Italian in style, are by the architect Gus-
tavo Morichini. More noticeable for historic i
portance is the lately-completed renovation of S.
Niccolo in Carcere, a church that had hen shut
on account of these repairs for n-arly 20 years,
and which stands above the ruins of three temples,
partly preserved within its structure,. to Hope,
Piety, and Juno Sospita, a subterranean beneath
being the supposed site of the story of the
"Roman Daughter," not, however, according to
archaeological authorities. Entering this church,
which is of the basilica type, we are struck by the
splendour of the renewed interior, as contrasted
with the insignificant front. Along its attics we see
the frescoes, in 10 scenes, illustrating the life of St.
Nicholas of Myra (patron saint of Bari), by Guidi ;
and in the apse two larger scenes, one from the
same biography, the other representing a vision of
the Saviour and the Virgin in glory, by Pasqualoni
—two artists not very well known (we be-
lieve), nor hitherto, we believe, . engaged to
adorn any other public buildings ; the works
here being, if not of the worst, certainly not
among the best, lately admitted into Romish
churches. Over the high altar we notice a superb
canopy of bronze and gilt woodwork resting on four
columns of Oriental alabaster. Another ancient
and historic church, renovated by recent labours, is
St. Bartolomeo, on the Tiber Island, founded by
the Emperor Otho 111., A.D. 1000, on the site of
the Temple of iEsculapius, frequently restored, bat
still of the same basilica type,and, now rich in newly-
placed marbles and gilding, also adorned by frescoes
by Fra Bonaventura, one of the Franciscans of the
adjoining convent, who has painted along its attic
and coffered ceiling scenes in the life of Mary and
heads of Apostles. At S. Agostino (a church long
in part closed to allow of extensive repairs),
Gugliardi is still engaged on a series, begun several
years ago, of frescoes along walls and vaults, illus-
trating the lives of S. Augustine and other saints
of his order, besides numerous figures of apostles,
patriarchs, martyrs; and at the grand old basilica
of S. Lorenzo (the late restoration of which we pro-
test against), an artist of new-born renown, Fracas-
sini, is now employed in fresco-painting. The works
of S. Paul's are still carried on with activity, all the
windows along the minor aisles being now painted
with large figures (too large, it strikes us, for their
location), and the mosaics on the facade advancing
to completion, though in no part yet visible. At two
of the less prominent churches, S. Maria in Monti-
celli and S. Lucia, the above-named Signor Mariani
has either nearly or entirely finished other paintings
spoken highly of in the Roman journals.
At the last meeting of the British Archaeologic
Society, at the English Consulate, was read by Mr.
Shakspere Wood, secretary, a translated paper by
Visconti, on antique Roman construction and modes
of building, explained with much learning and ful-
ness of detail, by the Italian writer. But most of
all did this lecture derive interest and importance
from the many illustrations in coloured drawings by
Mr. Charles Cooper Wood, brother to the above-
named secretary of the society ; these drawings, of
spirited execution and admirable effect, representing
their subjects, chosen among Rome's classic ruin
piles, were on the same scale as the originals, and
with exact transcript of the details peculiar to suc-
cessive periods. For such treatment of the theme
of the day's studies as was thus provided addressed
to eye and mind thanks were due, and with like
emphasis, to the learned writer of the paper, and to
the artist of the illustrations. Since that occasion
the society has twice assembled in the open air, to
visit, under Mr. J. 11. Parker's guidance, the most
interest;ng remains of aqueducts, both within the
city walls and on the Campagna, at certain dis-
tances. At the last meeting of the society's com-
mittee it was reported that the members, up to that
day, were 66 in number, associates 172. The archaeo-
logic library is developing, thanks to many dona-
tions, and the catalogue has just been printed.

The diggings in Trastevere have further brought
to light the remains of what is inferred to be a
station of the Vigiles, where several graffiti have
been found, besides other antique objects of some
value. Much interest is excited by the announce-
ment of a discovery, through works directed by
Visconti, of a buried city near Albano, assumed to
be more ancient than Rome ; a paper referring to
the ruins on the site of which was lately read by
that gentleman to the Roman Archaeologic Aca-
demy.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TIMES.—The veil which conceals the proceedings
of Cabinets from ordinary men was lifted last night,
and to those who have the gift of insight the reve-
lation was complete. It cannot be said that it was
altogether agreeable. As far as the past was con-
cerned, the revelation was, indeed, most unsatisfac-
tory, and it is only when we turn to the future that
we aro encouraged to believe that the dangers of de-
lay are past. It is now just a month since Parlia-
ment met, and in that tune it has done nothing.
There has been a show of advancing, but the advance
has been feeble and hesitating, the retreat rapid.
Mr. Gladstone compared the progress of legislation
yesterday evening to a Greek dance, where the
dancer advances three paces and then retires two ;
but his illustration, as he confessed, was inadequate
as a description of our late experience. If we are
one step nearer the goal on this sth of March than
we were on the.sth of February, it is simply because
it has been discovered after severe trials that it is
impossible to get on at all with a Cabinet whose
members are bent on going different ways. We
would.not undervalue this result, but we cannot help
thinking that it ought to have been known before-
hand. Up to Saturday evening there was no ruling
opinion in the Ministry, which is but another way
of saying that for practical purposes there was no
opinion at all. Every one was content to go on with
his colleagues as long as it was possible, though there
never could have been any doubt, in the minds of
those who faced the question, that directly the time
of action came a secession was inevitable. The seces-
sion has come to pass, and we may infer that the tiinc
of action has arrived. Henceforth, let us hope, we shall
have no more divided counsels and dark sayings,
im-
plying nothing but the necessity of concealing
divi-
sion opinion.
expect that the bill we are now promised
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the consent of her Majestyhad been OJ
disregarded in the House of Lords,
where Lord Derby.
and Lord Carnarvon vied with each other in frank-
ness. The material points in the past conduct of
the Ministry were touched upon by Lord Granville
and Lord Grey. Without affecting to determine the
arithmetical problem whether eight months have or
have not elapsed since the present Government came
into power, we may assume, as too certain to be
contradicted, that the Ministry put off the conside-
ration of every question as long as possible, and met
Parliament after the recess without having come to
any determination on the policy they would pursue.
It is not correct to say they took Parliament into
counsel, for that implies that they had some coun-
sel of their own ; they came into Parliament asking
counsel for themselves. A course like this merited
Lord Grey's severest censures. The crisis was, no
doubt, peculiar; the Ministry had a work cast upon
them which had proved fatal to many Ministries,
and they might reasonably demand an unusual in-
dulgence and active co-operation. They were not
the less, however, bound to hays a galley of their
own, definite aims, and clearly shaped schemes of
action ; and we now know that they failed in what
the nation had a right to demand of them through
the culpable, if amiable, weakness of maintaining
the appearance of an united Cabinet after all real
unity of opinion had plainly become impossible.
Reform has now another perhaps we should
say, has now its first chance from the present Go-
vernment. The Administration has, in.the phrase.