The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-11 00:00:00

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THE CHOLERA IN LIVERPOOL.—The crew of the
Helvetia have memorialised the Mayor for leave to
come on shore, and have declared tha; they will not re-
main longer on board. They asked also that the Jessie
Munn should be removed from alongside. The Mayor is
doing what he can to obtain warehouses and other places
in which to find acoommodation for the emigrants. Dr.
Trench had also expressed his intention to allow the pas-
sengers to land. The workhouse committee yesterday
considered what accommodation they could find in the
workhouse ; and it appeared that in six wards of the Fever
Hospital accommodation could be found for 150 patients,
and in the old cholera sheds (built in 1859) for some 200
more ; which it was deemed would be amply sufficient for
any but a very extraordinary emergency. Yesterday it
was stated that cholera had appeared among the British
subjects on board the War Cloud. There is nothing fur-
ther from the Jessie Munn or from the depot at Birken-
head.

HAZARDOus BANKING.--The statistics of Barned's
Banking Company (Limited) are so startling that
they have actually " shocked" the Master of the Rolls, an
official who may be supposed to be pretty familiar with
folly and fraud in their wildest phases. It appears that
about a year ago certain parties trading as bankers at Liver-
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fraud by which such an enormous financial disaster has
been so speedily brought about may stand on record, a
warning to future fools who are over-anxious to part with
their money for the benefit of "promoters " of limited-
liability companies.---Pall-ma// Gazette.
The NATIONAL GALLERY.—According to the
returns just laid upon the table of the House of
Commons, the following acquisitions have been made by
the National Gallery since 1860. First of all, there are 22
pictures presented by the Queen from the Oettingen-
Wallenstein Collection, which we noticed at the time ;
then ihere are 13 bequeathed, one of which is marked not
exhibited ; and seven from various donors. The important
pictures are those which have been added by purchase, at
a eost of £47,907 7s. 2d., and are 50 in number. The
"Raphael," Madona, infant Christ, and St. John, known
as the " Aldobrandiui Madonna," was purchased of Lord
Garvagh for £9,000. The "Fra Angelico," Christ sur-
rounded by Angels, Patriarchs, &c. (X 3,500). A Ma-
donna and Child enthroned and surrounded by Saints,
by Carlo Crivelli (£,182 lls. 5d.); and three others by the
same artist. " The Trinity," by Pesellino (X 2,100), if
indeed, it is rightly assigned, for Vasari supposes it to
have been the work of his grandfather, who was one of
the Giotteschi ; and a " Fra Filippo Lippi," which is
attributed by some Baldoviuetti. Of the Quattrocentisti
we have two pictures of Girolamo dai Libri (Jerome
Veronese) and Francesco Morone, purchased for £l,BlO
at Verona. A picture, ascribed to Previtali, a monk
adoring the infant Christ. "Of the school of Raphael,
the Madonna and Child enthroned, by Benvenuto
Garofalo," says the Post, "is a work of no high
merit, and scarcely worth the sum paid for it, £763. Of
the imitators of Corregio an altar-piece by Lanini has been
added. He is an artist whose drawing is not much com-
mended by the critics, and his best works were frescoes. It
might have been necessary to purchase this, as we find the
sum of £2,775 was given for the `Lanini' and a 'Hobbema'
to Mr. G. 11. Phillips. Among great names in the list are
Rembrandt (1), Vandyck (1), Hobbema (1), Andrea del
Sarto (1), Ruysdael (1), Velasquez (1), and one ' ascribed'
to Velasquez. The undoubted Velasquez,' a head of
Philip IV. of Spain, cost, with the 'Ruysdael,' a land-
scape with ruins, £1,200. Of English artists there,
are a portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds of Captain
Orme, two portraits by Gainsborough—viz., Mrs. Siddons,
and Dr. Ralph Schomberg (Xl,OOO each). ' The Cattle
Picture,' by James Ward, and View of Mousehold
Heath,' by John Crome, both admirable, and, probably, as
Mr. \Vornum thinks, their masterpieces. Copley's Death
of Major Pierson;' another' Gainborough,' a Study of a
Head ; an Experiment with the Air Pump,' by Wright,
of Derby ; and a Portrait of Sir David Brewster,' by Sir
John Watson Gordon. These nine pictures represent
British art, foreign art being shown by seventy-six pic-
tures. We say nothing of the seven English specimens
among the thirteen bequeathed pictures ; it will be kindest
to mention them as possessed of very various degrees of
merit."— 7'he Reatkr.