The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-15 00:00:00

RAILWAYS.

Ch. Account.
Orleans .. ~ 1217 60 .. 1217 60
Northern
New ditto. 787 50 .. 787 50
Lyons and Mediterranean B3l 25 .. 832 50
Geneva 495 .. 495
Southern
Western 5lO .. 510 t
Eastern
Sardinian 372 50 .. 365
Austrian
Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 121 c. ; money,
25f 71c. ; three months, paper, 25f..; money, 24f. 971 c.

The Madrid journals the 10th contain no politi-
cal news of importance. Before the Senate the
pleading on behalf of M. Esteban Col'antes, im-
peached for embezzlement, was brought to a close;
and M. Caledroa Collantes (though of the same
name no connexion of the accused) supported the
impeachment in an eloquent speech, in the name of
the Chamber of Deputies. The further proceedings
in the case were again adjourned.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE VANDERBILT.

SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY.
The Vanderbilt has arrived here from New York
for Havre. She has 1,528,564 doll. and 365 passen-
gers, amongst them being Mdlle. Piceolomini
andsuite.• The news is of little interest.

The statement that Mr. Mason, the American
Minister at Paris, has tendered his resignation is
uncertain, neither does Mr. Faulkner desire any
foreign appointment.
Ay the overland mail we have advices from San
Francisco to the 9th ult., four days later than those
received by way of the Isthmus, but there is no
general news of interest. Business showed some
symptoms of reviving.
-• The contract entered into by the Post-office De-
partment with Mr. Johnson, for conveying the mails
from New York and New Orleans to California,
via Nicaragua, has been perfected and despatched
to Washington.
The law officer of the general government, by
direction of the President, has just rendered an
important opinion upon the recent conflict of autho-
rity which has arisen between the Federal Exec-
utive and the judicial and military officers stationed
in Utah territory. It appears that the course of
Governor Cumming is sustained.

THE MAIL SERVICE.—SOUTRAMPTON, Tuesday.
—The North German Lloyd's steam-ship Bremen left this
day for New York with the English and German mails, a
fail cargo, and a large number of passengers. The Penin-
sular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Alhambra which
has undergone alteration, went for
ti trial trip this day,
which was perfectly satisfactory. The Royal Mail Com-
pany's steam-ships Tamar and Solent will shortly leave for
the intercolonial service. These ships, which are of great
speed, will probably supply a deficiency which has long
been complained of by the West India colonists, viz., a
more punctual delivery of the mails.
PENINSULAR AND NORTII AFRICAN MAILS.—
By the arrival of the Peninsular and North African Steam
Navigation Company's steames Amazon, arrived in the
river on the, 13th inst., we have advices from Lanzarote to
May 19th, Grand Canary 20th, Teneriffe 21st, Mogadore
28th, Cadiz June 4, and Lisbon June 7. The Amazon
brings a mail, 33 passengers, 5 packages of specie, and a
miscellaneous cargo, consisting of 22 baskets plantains, 500
casks wine, 1 bag granilla, 13 casks beeswax, 76 bags cochi-
neal, 77 boxes potatoes, 192 bales orchella weed, 73 casks
gum sandrac, 67 boxes and 19 baskets oranges, 54
skins, elephants
tusks and 1 case ditto, 185 bales sheep and goati
packages gum copal, 124 serons and
m 39 c.anskllsa, 19 pi
almonde 66
se, e 4
cases wine, 37 bales tobacco, 200 balese
beech tree, 1 case silk, 8 eases saffron,and
mostlyfin
Dolourse.Onsteamer
June 5, at 9 a.m., off Cape St. Vincent,
reat
Western,
voyage
outward
bound. • g e
exchanged 20 packages
sundries. Weather during the yo

The late Prince de Metternich was proprietor of
the chateau and vineyftrds of JohanniebeT, This fine
estate was given to him in 1816 by the Braperor Francis 11,,,
on condition that he should every year send a tenth part Of
the produce of the wines to the Imperial cellars
•

THE ROYAL ACADEMY.

(SECOND NOTICE.)

Returning to a. consideration of the collection of
paintings displayed in 1859 upon the walls of the
Royal Academy, we find our original impression as
to its merits confirmed. The exhibition for the
present season is unquestionably one, generally
speaking, above the average, though it contains no
Single work of really surpassing excellence.
Millais carries off the palm unquestionably, both
for brilliancy and for eccentricity. No paintings
in the gallery are more attractive, and none elicit
more earnest expressions at once of derision and of
admiration. Superior altogether is the delineation
of the apple blossom by J. C. Horsley in that charm-
ing village love - scene called in the catalogue
" Blossom Time," and numbered (414)—yet the un-
disputed chief of the Pre-Raphaelites, J. E. Millais,
defies competition in the portraiture of the deli-.
cately voluptuous in that exquisite prostrate form
and face of the young girl in the apricot-coloured
bares e, Who looks up into our eyes askance from
the right-hand corner of " Spring (298), drawing
the long green blade of grass the while through her
" crimson-threaded lips"—lips from whicliwe doubt
not, in her merrier moods of animation, as surely
as from those of Tennyson's May Lilian—

" Silver •treble laughter trilleth I"
Lovelier than ever seems to us again, upon exami-
nation, the purpling sky of sunset, with the
twinkling foliage, the dank, rank turf, the unctu-
ous and blackened mould, and the dry, crisp leaves
of immortelles, in the " Vale of Rest" (15), from
the same brush of eccentric fascination. Almost
as welcome to the eyes of the lover of nature as the
cropped bluebells and cowslips in the former of
these two ambitious works of art by Millais, is H.
Moote's " Woodland Bank" (27), fragrant almost
to the glance, vith the freshness of ungathered
violet and wild hyacinth. Witherington s " Plea-
sant Way by the River" (25) tempts one to lounge
through the half-opened gate and away for a holi-
day saunter down the verdant perspective. A noble
coasb scene is that by Lee (70) of the rocky
shore in Cornwall, " Near the Land's End"—
showing in the distant surge the dismasted
ship rescued by a steamer. Maclise, 1n
(105) depicts " The Poet to his Wife"—a delicious
thought, culled from Moore's Irish MelodiesJ— ,- •
" Oh, could we do with this world of ours
As thou dost, with thy garden bowers—
Reject the leaves and keep the flowers—
What a heaven on earth we'd make it."
Among the blossoms here tended so lovingly by-
the poet's wife, note well those marvellous petals of
the passion-flower trailed round the porch-way by
which she is standing—herself the fairest flower
among them all, blooming and beautiful. There is •
much evidence of observation both of rustic-
manners and of childish ways in Hardy's " Foreign
Guest" (124), where the organ-grinder stands at the
cottage door, looking into the room into which his
chained monkey in the scarlet jacket has adven-,
tured in quest of a morsel from the hands of the:
labourer's children. Exquisitely soft and beau-
tiful is the portraiture by H. Le Jeune
in (139), of that other larger group et;
children from a higher class out in the meadows
gathering " Field Flowers." Mulready's one con--
tributiou to the Collection (167), while it is mode-,
rately illustrative of Pope's familiar. couplet—
"'Tis education forms the common mind;
Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined,"
is hardly at the same time worthy of our great
artist's reputation. Among the most successful, its
well as among the most ambitious, illustrations of
our national poetry this year, isCope's lovely re-
presentation of " Cordelia" (193), at the moment
when she is receiving intelligence of Lear's ill-
treatment by Regan and Goneril. How marvel-
vellously here has the hand of the artist shown

lt Now and then an ample tear trill' d down
Her delicate cheek."
It is the very realisation upon ndigic canvas
of the scene, as so rarely and eloquently describe&
by the messenger to Kent. Who, when Kent ex-t
claims, " 0, then it moved her P"—adds—

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" Not to a rage : patience and sorrow strove
Who should expose her goodliest. You have seen
Sunshine and rain at once ; her smiles and tears
Were like a better day : Those happy smiles
That played on her ripe lips, seemed not to know
What guests were in her eyes; which parted thence,
As pearls from diamonds dropped :"
continuing, thus—

" There she shook
The holy water from her heavenly eyes,
And clamour moistened." •
The whole picture is truly and eminently Shak-
sperian. As truly as Redgrave's (218) " The
Emigrant's Last Sight of Home" is at once of the
national character and the national landscape. GI,
Smith shows himself to be a worthy disciple in
the school of Webster, in (219) where "The Ne'w
boy" is being dazed into familiarity with school
ways by his amused and bantering companions.
Capital, comical, true in every touch to French life
and French character is Solomon's " Ici on Rase,'
a shop-interior in Brittany! Who can resist laugh:
ing outright at the first glance at that well-lathered
visage of the wooden shoed peasant, under the
hands of the female operator, laughing as she does,
while twiddling the razor under his nose tohis owiti
evident apprehension. The gossip half in sunlight
at the door—whose jests, by.the way, are the source
of this untimely laughter—is the very beau idealqf
one of those piquant little Frenchwomen, the delight
of the Reverend Mr. Sterne, the sentimentalist.
Another charmingly humorous picture by Solo-
mon is that one in the middle room
numbered (293), and entitled (an old metaphorical
title enough) "The Fox and the Grapes." Oh, the
ineffable affectation of indifference by the discarded
suitor, while his more fortunate rival saunters off
laughingly between the silken damsels, so delicately
flounced and furbelowed, and each so radiantly
beautiful ! Two of the most delicious pictures in
the Gallery are hanging upon the opposite wal. of
that same middle room—(No. 369) Hook's " LufC
boy," 'the fisherman with his two sons, one, a child,
the other a stripling—the former a curly-pated
urchin at the tiller, heaving in the well-laden
boat far out on tie blue-green billows—and
(No. 368) " The Evening Hymn," by Rankley
—an exquisite picture in spite of the grotesque
introduction of the flock of geese, gab-
bling and hissing, with elongated necks, while
together
those four village school girls, hand-in-hand, dance
clast(ohtsondnesedorc:ut.
:iubpehit-rtlete:Aorsdees
iovern
s wt
eheet
svillageve
r green,
y tone
schanting
" And now another day is gone,
I'll sing my Maker's praise.
Those four village children so singing, so dancing
down towards us, under the dappled rose-coloured
clouds of evening, are a very vision of the True and
the Beautiful. Another of Hook's sea scenes will
be scanned with hardly less pleasure than the one
glorious sea view of a grand
a mentioned,
spraw sprawling, ,(439b)1 blue-black, bAI a Cornish Gift"
simple kind is Lee's (511)
already
away !" would tell admirably,
mreafireveetlesdofhacelkoufdr-olmandt,hebuatrtsisucvhs snakynysiald.
`The Bay of
Biscay"—nothing but the rolling waves and the
such water, sky and water seen on the 11th of March,
(516) "The Start
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atharrev,,alT4
Hensley's
itself a wide popularity,
be asserted,
tune sfus full 11" ;gar.
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ed
yet more confidently,,_ a'
There is hanging far more elaborate
gißugivihdeignhd Duapiant the Bank"— Bwaenelte.
uyt:
•
above
the line, and close to the north-west
doorway—a very admirably depicted grenP,..°'
cattle and horses, in the midst of a charming Eng.h
landscape.'
This is No. (660)—is entitled summeri
time in the south of Essex—and is from the skilled
hand of H. B. Willis, already assuming high ram
among our animal painters, even in an age that u:
produced for France a Rosa Bonheur, and in -"Ts
land an Edwin Landseer. Near this noble catte
piece by Willis, is Linnell's masterly " H!l2,„esers
field (661), and near this again Frank °"-„-iy
charming love scene, called rather nag
uir
" A Little too Late," the seafaring nn-
chapfallen and sorrow-stricken standing s
h..
doubtingly) beside the bonnie lassie at her /stag
tub—the latter with her plump and comely a the
plunged deep among the suds. Never has-
most truthful And the most gifted among then 3
Raphaelites, surpassed, or even, we had t.:
equalled in the vivid exactitude of the vraisfur"st
blance, that greasy lump of yellow soap, but et
taken out of the washtub and laid upon thew
flob of flannel by the side of the washer—the soap
half hidden by lather, the flannel all soddened with
suds—suds and lather generating, here and there
soap bubbles just on the eve of bursting ! 19,"To";
enough, there is another pieture also called ` .a.,
Late (900), in the room of Drawings and Min
tares—a fantastic picture, in which . L.Virldlus
illustrates most mysteriously a somewhat mysterio
passage in Tennyson. Scattered through the eq
lection there are so many works of value and meet'
however, that even upon revisiting the Gallery,
hours glide away almost unperceived.

SINKING OF A BELGIAN SCHOONER.-011 14,°12:
ky, at 5 p.m., the Belgian schooner Maria, zinc la°°l
from Reguijada for Antwerp sprung a leak and sau've—ci
mid-channel 12 miles S.E. of Dover. The crew were pick
up by the South Eastern Company's steam packet LI°'"";
of the Belgians, Captain Goodburn, on her passage
Calais. They were immediately received at the Sail;
Home, where every comfort was liberally provided the
them. A few minutes after the crew weze picked uP the
vessel suddenly went down head foremost. This is, ve
seventy-first wrecked crow of different nations which
found a refuge at the Dover Sailors' Home.