The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-08 00:00:00

Mouth of the Hudson. By George 1,. Brown.

A very beautiful picture from the hand of a
young artist of considerable promise, Mr. George
L. Brown, is now on view at No. 120, Pall Mall,
better known as the French Gallery. It is in
the same apartment with the royal pictures
already noticed by us the four remarkable
court pictures, painted, two of them, by Phillips and
two by Winterhalter. Mr. Brown's painting, the
property, we believe, of H.R.H. the Pince of Wales,
a picture, if we recollect rightly, presented to his
Royal Highness before his departure homewards
from the United States depicts an exquisite
sweep of sky and water, of land and
cloudland. " The Mouth of the Hudson " it is
—and as such, as a reminiscence of the wonderful
scenery in the vicinity of New York, that great
transatlantic combination of Lotadon and Liverpool,
it will be viewed with intense interest by all who
have visited the locality and who are thereby qua-
lified to recognise
.the faithfulness of the resem-
blance.

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNIC/L-0 n Wednes-
day Mr. Black, M.P., gave a sumptuous entertainment at
the Trafalgar, Greenwich, to the contributors to the last
edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica and several of his
personal friends. Among the former we observed Sir John
Herschel, Mr. M. Mines, M.P., Mr. M'Culloch, Major-
General Portlock, Mr. Caird, M.P., Mr. Robert Chambers,
Mr. Bazley, M.P., Mr. Hepworth Dixon, Professor Masson,
Drs. Letheby and Lankaster, &c. Among Mr. Black's
private friends were the Lord-Advocate, Sir John Ogilvie,
M.P., Sir William Dunbar, M.P., Messrs. Edward Ellice,
M.P., T. A. Mitchell, M.P., W. S. Lindsay, M.P., Walter
Buchanan,M.P.,W. E. Baxter, M.P., William Mellor,M.P
Mr. Peter Dickson, Mr. Thomas Young, Professor Pillan;,
Mr. Thomas Vardon, &c. After dinner Mr. Black .pro-
posed " The Health of the Contributors," and ex-
pressed his deep sense of the great obligations under
which he was laid by the invaluable assistance he
had received from them in carrying to a successful
completion his great work. After alluding to the advan-
tages conferred on the world by the labours of men of
literature and science, he concluded by returning his
warmest thanks to the contributors to the Encylopedia for
the kind and efficient support he had received from them.
Mr. Monckton Milnes, after alluding to various Encyclo-
paedias which have appeared from time to time and to the
number of Scotchmen whom he saw around him, and who,
he hoped, did not mean to subdue the Southern States, con-
cluded a speech full of humour by giving " The Health
of Mr. Black," on whose ability and sterling independence
he pronounced a high eulogium. The Lord-advocate, after
eomplimentini Mr. M'Culloch for his contributions to poli-
tical science, not in the Encyclopedia Britannica only, but
in other publications, concluded by proposing his health.
Mr. M'Culloch replied in an • effective speech, and con-
cluded by proposing the health of Mr. Black, junior, the
efficient manager of his lather's establishment during the
absence of the latter in London. 2,1 r. Black read a letter
from Lcrd Brougham, in which he stated his great regret
at being hindered by ill-health and the prohibition of hit;
medical attendant from meeting so many of his distin-
guished contemporaries and friends. Mr. Black then gave
the toast of "Better Health to J..ord Brougham." After a
very feeling and eloquent response from Sir John Herschel
to his health, proposed by the chairman, the company
separated, highly gratified by their entertainment.