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

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY T-EVENING, JUNE 8, 'lB6l.

legislation would be useless if the present destruc-
tive practice of exporting salmon to France dur-
ing the fence months continued to be permitted.
Among the principal causes," Lord SALTOUN argues,
" among the principal causes of the decay of our
salmon fisheries was the killing of the fish during
the fence months, when they were heavy in spawn,
and many of our rivers were almost destroyed, and
others much damaged by this exportation." And
the noble lord, having so far prepared the way for
the information that immediately followed there-
upon, assured the Foreign Secretary that " The
Association he had the honour to represent had
taken upon themselves to obtain information con-
cerning the exportation to France, and they found
that during the fence months, which might em-
brace a mean period of, say, 20 weeks, not less
than 50 tons, and probably far mare, of foul fish
were exported to Paris, and in every kind of
package which would disguise the nature of the
contents." The particulars that follow are cer-
tainly sufficiently disgusting. They are at any
rate enough to take the relish from any fish, how-
ever disguised, placed at these seasons before the
gourmands at the Maison Doree, or the Trois Frere
deProvince. " Parsons," remarked Lord SALTOUN,
with frightful particularity, " persons who had
seen the contents of these boxes and baskets,
described them as a loathsome mass of putrifying
garbage, with the spawn running out all over the
fish, oozing through the packages, and utterly unfit
for human food ; and how the French cooks
managed to make them eatable he could not
imagine. They found," moreover, said the noble
lord, " also, that on many of the rivers in Devon
shire the fry were taken by bushels, and sold to be
converted into sardines." In fact, anything
that can in any way be learnt in regard
to these malpractices, does most undeniably
go far, indeed, to show that the evil complained
of by the Association, of which Lord SALTOUN is
the President, requires prompt and energetic inter.
position on the put of the authorities, with a view
to the effectual prevention of its recurrence hence-
forth. The noble President of the Association,
speaking on his own behalf and on behalf of his
fellow associates, reminded Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in
his capacity as Foreign Secretary, on Wednesday,
that " the French Government was very much en-
gaged and interested at the present time in improv-
ing their salmon fisheries, but that it would be diffi-
cult for them to protect their own rivers while they
admitted English salmon, because they could not, of
course, tell the difference between French and English
salmon ; and therefore," he added, " as the French
I were as much interested in the matter as ourselves,

the Associatio❑ had asked for this interview with
his lordship to lay this statement before him, and

to beg that he would represent the matters to the
French Government, and ask its consideration of
the case." Hardly a word more was requisite after
this, in enforcement of the urgent request made to
the Secretary of State, on Wednesday, by the
deputation then waiting upon him. Yet even
that word was added, and added it should more-
over be said, most effectively by the Earl of
NIALMESBURY. The ex-Foreign Secretary observ-

ing " that, when he was in office, a request was
made, emanating from French salesmen and others,
that English grouse might be admitted into
France before the French season, which did not
generally commence until the Ist of September,
and the English Government willingly acceded to
such an arrangement, and therefore he thought it
fair to suppose that, in return, the Frensh Govern-
ment -might be able to lend us any little assist-
ance required in this instance." Surely, that
would be only reasonable. We put it to Mr.
COBDEN—we put it to his Imperial MAJESTY on

the other side of the Channel—a compliance
with the request made in this instance would be
only reasonable now that, in the midst of this
age of Free-trade, the Apostle of the Free-trade
Doctrines and the Imperial Pupil in the Free trade
Doctrines have together revived—however oddlS,
it matters nothing to our present purpose—have
together revived the " golden mean " of Reci-
procity.

Galway has sent us American news at last. The
Parana, which we have heard so much of, has
arrived there, having left Boston on the 28th, and
St. John's on the Ist of June. The latest tele-
graphic news therefore, we may consider to be but
seven days old.
The position is little altered. The Manassas
alluded to is a railway through a gap in the Alle-
ghanies of that name, by which Western Virginia
is connected with Alexandria and Washington,
and by which the Secessionists might be taken in
flank at Harper's Ferry, while the Federalists also
advanced to that place in front, across the Potomac.
It is not clear which party threw up the entrench-
ments at Alexandria; the place was in posession
of the Federalists, being within sight of Wash-
ington on the Virginian side of the Potomac.
Harper's Ferry, as we anticipated, seems likely to
be warmly contested. The Minnesota is about to
take the place of the Niagara in the blockade of
Charleston ; no mention is made of the arrival of
the former vessel at any other port. General
BUTLER, is operating actively at the entrance of
Chesapeake Bay, from Fort Monroe.

Marshal de M'Mahon took possession of his com-
mand of the camp of Chalons on the Ist inst. The Em-
peror is expected to visit the camp in the beginning of July.

By the arrival of the Magdalena from Buenos
Ayres we learn that the surveys for the projected Grand
Southern Railway by the agents of Messrs. Peto, Brassey,
and Betts were progressing favourably. The city terminus
will be in the Plaza de Constitution.

The accounts received at Buenos Ayres of the
earthquake at Mendoza are most fearful. It was stated
that at least 13,000 people were sacrificed, and not a wall
was left standing. As the situation of the city exposed it
to a repetition of the catastrophe there was but little chance
of its being rebuilt.
INNER TEMPLE.—The undermentioned gentle-
men were yesterday called to the bar by the Hon. Society of
the Inner
awarded in
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Michaelmas
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Green, B.A. (certificate of honour), Emmanuel Maguire
Underdown (certificate of honour), Montagu Woodmass,
8.A.., St. Aubyn Barrett Lennard, M.A., Reginald Carew
Glanville, 8.A., Andrew Thomson, 8.A., LL.B., John
Simson, Thomas Child Hayllar, S.C.L., Markham John
LsviaozcwG.ie,tßyAL.:ofs.w,GrDiarNnaanyeNei,el Dirt, George Thomas Edwards, 8.A.,
Arthur Yardley, and Stuart Rendel, M.A.
Gray's Inn,
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gentlemen were called to the degree of Barrister at Law,
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William Palmer, of the
BridgesUnieveersitv of Glasgow, M.A. ;
Henry Clarke, formerly of Queen's College, and
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LL.D.

reOTiLs D,A
can
statute
requiring that,
bßeAfoNreKa OF .SCOTLAND
compromise be made of the
nature proposed between the directors and the shareholders
of the Western Bank of Scotland, a resolution
that compromise must be adopted at two consecutive
c t*lv approving
meet-
ings of the bank, and the first of these meetineesehavin
g
been already held,'the second came off in the Merchants'
Hall, Glasgow, on Tuesday, Bailie Blackadder, Edinburgh,
presiding. On the motion of the chairman, seconded by
Mr. Thomas Cochrane, the resolution of the previous meet-
ing was agreed to, and the liquidators were urged to take
the most active measures to secure that the deed of agree.
inent be signed by all the shareholders.
THE BIRMINGHAM CANAL.--WOLVERIIA 'UPTON
Juno 6.—The water in this canal broke through a largo
fissure into one of the extensive coal mines which this canal
intersects at Westbromwich yesterday. The water was all
drawn off out of the canal last night, an a considerable
length entirely emptied. The Staffordshire Ironworks at
Westbromwich, and the Eagle Ironworks at tk same place,
were both stopped at-twelve o'clock last la ight in conse-
quence of the supply of water for the engines being cut off
from the above cause. This unfortunate affair will throw
a large number of men out of employment for a short time,

LATE E T NEW kt'S.

COUNT CAVOUR'S FUNERAL.
TURIN, FRIDAY NIGHT, JUNE 7.
The obsequies of Count Cavour have been per-
formed with almost Royal pomp. All the bodies of
the State, the authorities, and various deputations
joined the procession, which was followed by the
whole population.
During the funeral ceremony frequent discharges
of cannon took place.
All the houses were draped in black.
SATURDAY, TUNE 8.
The Nationalites of to-day states that Garibaldi
is rather seriously ill at Caprera.

AMERICA.

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GALWAY, SATURDAY.

The Atlantic Royal Mail steamship Parana
arrived here this morning. She left Boston on the
28th of May and St. John's on the Ist of June, and
brings 160 passengers.

NEW YORK, MA/ 27.
It is reported that the Secessionists are throwing
up intrenchments at Manassas (P).
They have effected a junction at Alexandria, and
expect reinforcements from Richmond.
The report of fighting at Alexandria has not been
confirmed.

An immediate attack on Norfolk is expected.
The Federal forces in Virginia will be reinforced by
5,000 men.

Strong intrenchments have been thrown up com•
manding Alexandria.
Western Virginia has declared itself against seces•

The capture of Hampton by General Butler has
been confirmed. No attack was made on Sewall's
Point, and General Butler has returned to Fort
Monroe.

10,000 Southern troops are at Harper's Ferry.
It is expected that a movement of the Federal
forces will take place to cut them off from Rich-
mond.
The war steamer Minnesota was to leave Fort
Monroe for the blockade of Charleston, and will be
followed by others.

Twenty-three prizes have been taken to For
Monroe.

The Malatengo gold diggings at Vera Cruz have
proved very rich.
The Federal Loan of 9,000,000 dols. has been
subscribed for at 85 (?).
The Prince Albert has arrived out.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Exchange firm-104 to 106. Stocks steady
New York Gintral, 711; Erie, 22 ; Illinois, 671
Cotton unchanged. Sales to day, 800 bales ; Mid•
dling Upland, 131 e. Freights firmer.

NEW ORLEANS, MAY 25.
No sales of cotton have taken place.
ST. JOHN'S, JUNE 1.

The telegraph wires have been cut. No later
news has consequently been received from New
York. The North Briton passed Cape Race on the
30th of May.

SPECIE FOR AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY MORNING.

The Royal Mail steamship Africa sailed to-day
for New York. She took £65,115 sterling in specie.

~:.,

THE BRITISH INSTITUTION.

PRIVATE VIEW.-THIS DAY.

Another of those charmingly interesting collec-
tions
annually brought together in the three rooms
constituting the " Gallery" of the British Institu-
tion, we have visited this forenoon. The Private
View taking place to-day, in anticipation of Mon-
day, when the exhibition will, as usual, be thrown
open to public examination. Altogether there are
this year 214 paintings on the walls of this noble suite
of apartments. Specimens they are of many great
masters of the Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch,
French, and English Schools of Painting. They
are gathered together as hitherto from divers scat-
tered quarters—a fresh " pick" from the royal and
from numerous private collections. Her Majesty
the Queen and various noblemen and gentlemen
being among the number of the munificent patrons,
in this way, of the British Institution.
Although the collection for the current season is
to our thinking rather below the ordinary standard
of excellence, there are in it, as a matter of course,
several works of particular interest, landing an
especial attraction to the collection for 1861 at the
British Institution. The portraits this year, for
example, are (several of them at least) of extraor-
dinary merit. There are, for example, two
MORON'S in the North Room—(No. 29) " Portrait
of a Gentleman," and (No. 55) " Bartholomus Bon-
gus"—a bishop this latter, we presume, from the
heraldric device in the corner—quite admirable
in their way. Life itself not simply the
man being represented but the man's very idio-
syncrasy. In the same room there is (No. 49)
" Portrait of a Gentlemen,"—(strange it is the
identity of these pictures should be lost)--a bril-
liant Vandyke ; and near the doorway, (No. 36)
a splendid Velasquez—hung rather too high for
our liking—a handsome portly figure of a man,
entitled in the catalogue " A Spanish Noble-
man." The place of honour (No. 1) is occu-
pied by Baroccio's " Noli me Tangere." But
near it, low down, is hung a beautiful little
quaint specimen of Fra Angelico (No. 5) " The
Death of St. Francis." A hideous grotesque Her-
rera el Viego, is displayed above the line in (No.
25y—showing us the same holy monk, St. Francis
being introduced to the mother of St. Bonaventura.
Near the doorway, on the opposite side to the
Velasquez already particularised, is (a repetition of)
a figure of " St. Michael" (No. 39) by Pietro Peru-
gino—a figure that will he instantly recognised by
those familiar with the same master's larger pic-
ture in our National Gallery Collection.
We have scarcely crossed the threshold leading
us back into the middle room—the room" welled"
by the staircase—when we notice there upon either
hand—a Canaletto. One of these Canalettos (No.
64) is a truly exquisite specimen—" The Rialto
and the Grand Canal." Looking at it, one feels
disposed to hail a gondola and to be—" off, off and
away," like the Stranger in the old love-song.
There are also particularly noticeable in the Gallery
two delightful exemplars of P. le Hooge. One of
these (No. 77) a charming little " Garden Scene
with figures"—the principal figure in the act of
just going to bowl down some spindling skittles or
ninepins. The other P. la Hooge (No. 108), a
pretty peep in a doorway of sante queer little old-
fashioned " Children at Play." There is an excel-
lent Rembrandt too in (No. 123), "Portrait of an
old Lady." Though it might almost as lief have been
called "Portrait of an old Gentleman" —if not even
"Portrait of the old Gentleman," it is so grim and
and ghostly. In Van Huysum'a (N). 135) " Flower
Piece" there are some delicious creamy little eggs
in a mossy nest that it would do Mr. W. Hunt's
heart good to look at. The numerous portraits
from the hand of Sir Joshua Reynolds, form the
distinguishing peculiarity and attraction of this
year's collection of bygone masters in the British
Institution. They are principally to be found in the
South Room—where, however, we must at once
direct particular attention to (No. 159) a portrait
by Riley. It is the most deeply interesting picture
to us of all at this moment, being a representation
of the heroine of that exquisite historic love story
told so admirably by Lord Macaulay in the
posthumous volume of his great history (vol. v.,
pp. 28-32) but just published. The heroine of that
story may there be seen upon the canvass of Riley
—" Lady Clancarty, daughter of Robert Earl of
Sunderland." A passing word now abcut the Sir
Joshuas. Among these, there are (No. 160) "The
School boy," (No. 174) "William Beckford," the
author of Vathek, as he was in his youth,
(No. 148) " Garrick," with his thumbs
together (everyone knows the picture) : there are
besides two (Nos. 192 and 203) of Georgiana the
beautiful Duchess of Devonshire (who won a vote
for Charles Fox by letting a butcher kiss her)—
(No. 190) a cabinet portrait of the great " Doctor
Samuel Johnson" in his cauliflower wig—and (No.
177), a portrait by Sir Joshua, also of Frank
Barber (the " Mr. Francis Barber " of
Boswell), the black servant man, first of all
of Dr. Johnson and afterwards of Sir Joshua
Reynolds. The visitor to the gallery ought to
direct one glance up to (No. 201) Romney's vivid
portraiture of himself and his father—and upon the
opposite side of the room, another glance up to
(No. 173) Opie's noble head of " Mary Wollstone-
craft." Other works of great interest, and several
also of peculiar merit deserve attention, but these
we cannot pause now to enumerate.