The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON) MONDAY EVENING, MAX ii, 1867.

loaves weekly if he did not vete for Mr. MAIN-
WARING. The rule was discharged, because the
defendant, in a somewhat roundabout way, denied
the charge. Probably, no one, however, doubted
that it was substantially a true one, and that
TREHRARN, though not driven to violate his judg-
ment, did suffer the loss of the Rev. E. BARN-
WELL'S custom, and may yet suffer more, for vot-

ing honestly.
The act referred to is expressed in the most
stringent terms, and all the judges agreed that to

,hreaten to take away custom is a misde►neanour

punishable under the act, Lord CAMPBELL stat-
ing that after the election a person could
employ any tradesman he pleased, but
could not during the election threaten di-
rectly or indirectly to deprive him of custom in
order to influence his vote. Mr. Justice ERLE
also observed that " the object of the statute was
that the voter should be allowed to exercise his
calm judgment, without being disturbed by selfish
motives, and to protect him from threats affecting
his private interests." If this be its object, and we
grant that it is the avowed object of the
act, we may well ask what better description can
be given of the reason for which the Ballot has
been adopted wherever it is in use ; and whether
the act, really needed, is any other than a very
simple one, providing that no elector shall hence-
forth be required to put his vote on record for the
use cf his threateners.
Who will deny, for instance, that under the
Victoria Election Act, which we have recently
published, threatening and bribery must be
reduced to minimum, indeed annihilated. It
is all very well for an act of Parliament to
threaten Mr. BARNWELL with a penalty if ho
threatens Mr. TREHEARN with one, but former
acts have given Mr. BARNWELL the means of
carrying out his threats—let the Legislature re-
peal those acts, and substitute one which should
withdraw Mr. TREH.EARN'S vote from the cognis-
ance of every mortal, leaving him really "to ex-
ercise his calm judgment," and Mr. TREHEARN
will need to fear no threats, nor Mr. BARNWELL
to fear prosecutions for thew: The law has
created the nuisance of bribery and intimidation
by requiring open voting, and makes law after
law to prevent people being injured by it ; in the
name of common sense let it remove the open
voting and the nuisance will vanish with the law.
Put the voters beyond the threatener's reach
rather than tempt him to threaten and punish them
when he has done it. The elector owes his vote
to no one, why then keep an account against him
as if he were debtor to his clergyman, or to his
landlord, or to any one else ? Give the man his
vote in fee simple—give him the BALLOT.

The speech of Lord NAPIER, at the annual din-
ner of the St. George's Society of New York, a
report whereof appeared in our impression of
Saturday, is worthy of attentive perusal, at both
sides of the Atlantic. It is not merely because it
was couched in polished phraseology, or contained
well-rounded periods. It is not because it was
far beyond the ordinary class of post prandial
oratory ! Had it not possessed a far higher claim,
it should have remained unnoticed in our leading
columns. Bat there was a thorough and cordial
kindliness of feeling perceptible in every sentence,
that proved, beyond the possibility of doubt, that
the speaker was satisfied alike with himself and
with those whom he was brought iota contact.
He inculcated the grand principle of mutual for-
bearance and indulgence—that the Representa-
tives of the two great nations of the Anglo-Saxon
race should not strive to obtain petty advan-
tages over each other, but rather strive to co-
operate in the great cause of universal bene-
volence and philanthropy.
It is not by formal written engagements, by be-
ing mutually bound over in heavy recognisances to
keep the peace towards each other, that the inte-
rests of either nation can be advanced. One
spark of good feeling and fair straightfor.vard in-
tegrity, is worth a hundred stipulationq, albeit of
the most stringent character. We do not want
" entangling alliances," save, as the Noble Lord
justly remarked that of " the submarine cable"
between the two nations, that will convey instan-
taneous intelligence from one to the other. In
all other respects the communications should be of
the most candid and open character, perfectly ex-
empted from diplomatic slang or hair splitting,
and quibbling interpretation of existing treaties.
All existing jealousies, on either side, should so
far as practicable be suppressed. We are of the
same blood, speaking the same language, and pro-
fessing the same religion. Let us then he brothers
in reality, as well as in name. United, we may
defy the world, or, to use the parlance of our cou-
sins, " whop the universe." As Lerd NAPIER de-
clared, " the peaceful and legitimate expansion of
the United States forms a matter of satis-
faction and pride for every reasonable English-
man ;" it forms `• the best resort and
relief for our superabundant population ; the bast
market for our increasing industry. It is the
triumph of our labour and our arts, of our lan-
guage, our religion, and our blood." But it
must be a "peaceful and legitimate" expansion.
• We cannot tolerate in our friends what we would
ourselves be ashamed td do. We desire the
honour of tae Anglo-Saxon name, and cannot
sanction anything that tends to its depreciation.
We wish to teach a great moral lesson to despots,
and must feel intens3 pain when they can point
to anything injurious to free institutions. But
we only wish to advise, not to legislate—to in-
fluence by persuasion rather than by force—and
we shall willingly receive similar instructions
from the New World. There are opportunities
for mutual improvement that should not be dis-

regarded.
Lard NAPIER enters on the important duties
(we participate in the hope that they may not be
very arduous) which have been entrusted to
his hands, in an excellent spirit. We ear-
nestly hope that nothing may arise to change
or embitter these healthy feelings. "By
an easy exercise of frankness, of mutual for-
bearance and indulgence, no question can arise
which will not admit of an easy and an amicable
settlement." We hope and believe that this may
be the feeling on both sides. Distrust begets dis-
trust. An overreaching disposition on one
side is sure to occasion a similar one
on the other. Our diplomatic intercourse
should be like that of private gentlemen, where
one would be ashamed to ask anything, that the
other would not be bound to grant. Reciprocity
and co-operation will ensure the welfare and hap-
piness of both nations ; and the originators of
any demand likely to disturb that auspicious state
of affairs, will have much to answer for. The
good sense of the People should put an immediate
stop to diplomatic quarrels, whenever there is the
slightest appearance of a cloud in the political
horizon.

THE ROYAL ACADEMY.

[THIRD NOTICE.].
It is a source of sincere regret to us -o:at a young

artist of such unquestionable genius as Mr. Eve; ett
Millais should not merely be retrognviing so ob
viously in his Art, but should actually, by the man-
ner of his retrogression, be rendering himself (we
;must put it in plain terms) absolutely ridiculous !

The instant impulse produced upon us, ou turning
our glance either to No. 283 or to No. 408, is to
laugh outright ! The former picture being the
hideouscst as well as the grotesqueat within the
reach of one's imagination. The later bearing a

wonderful re:;emblance to a tragedy turned into a

tomfoolery. Take the first, No. 283: " A Dre,m

of the Past : Sir Isumbras at the Ford." There

straddles, bolt uptight, on a roman-nosed cart
horse, a grim old hobgoblin, having a very thin,
grey, ragged beard (as if he had left off shaving for
about a fortnight), and his limbs (a very forked-
radish of a man !) cased in yellow plate armour !
And this is " Sir Isumbras at the Ford !" The

knight being altogether about as much like a
knight as the "Man in Armour" in Lord Mayor's

Show ! His eyes exceedingly resembling bailed

gooseberries—and his destrier being in shape and

action uncommonly like Master Jacky's notion of
a horse, as seen among the smudged sums on his slate,
or in the midst of the blotted pothooks of his copy-
boos. Or—turning to the other exemplar of Pre-

Raphaelitism, No. 408, " The Escape of a Heretic,
1559 "—what other feeling, but ouc of absolute

April.

comicality can possibly be produced by the merest
look askance at that mock-monk's mouth in the
centre of the picture I—a mouth, the lips of which
are sticking out into an exaggeration of a pout,
such as any wag of the schoolroom might produce if
be were "putting on" a sham fit of the sultans
Both of those extraordinary paintings, we main-
tain, really appear as though the artist, in common
par:ance, were trying to " play the fool" with the
public generally, but particularly with his admirers.
For, apart from the absurdity glaring upon us
from each canvass in turn—each, iu turn, has about
it, qualities, merits, betutie', that separately, and
collectively command our admiration ! The little
boy's face (dreamy and childlike) in the " Sir
isumbras," and the mart'ellous flesh tints in the
"Escape of a Heretic"—are wonders to be hung over
in delight and astonishment. You see at once that
this great Artist has genius—but a genius that
delects perversely in a ludicrous and degrading
masquerade.
Another and a very different "Associate"—
Frost—appears to be fast settling down into a
mannerism that ultimately, we fear, may degene-
rate into the merest mediocrity. No. 14, " Nar-
cissus" is certainly worthy of him—it is exquisite
in its classic gracefulness. But No. 161, a
" Sea Nymph ; and No. 327, " O'Donoghue's
Mistress," and No. 328, " Coaxing "—have been
seen, again and again, before now, by repetition
upon repetition. We know them by heart. They
are exceedingly pretty—but wo are quite tired
of them, if only by reason of their sameness and
monotony. Pickersgill's " Duke Orsino and Viola"
(No. 87) is a charming, and, all things considered,
a satisfactory specimen of another of our pictorial
mythologists—who has this time, however, turned
from the classic Fairyland of Paganism to the Poetic
Fairyland of Shakepere ! Poole's " Field Conven-
ticle" (No. 391) is altogether a subject too old,
hackneyed, and thorougoly used-up to interest any
one—even when rendered anew by the brush that
revealed to us Job under the weight of his House-
hold Calamities, and ,Solomon, Eagle prophesying,
in the midst of the Terrors of the Great Plague of
London, with the burning chauldron of coals upon
his head ! Saut delights our eyes, in No. 568, with
a glimpse of " Infancy," as he sees it ! Frank
Stone has a delightful French scene of a
market-cart going by, heavily laden with
Jean, Crapaud, Madame Jeannot, et sa Famille
—full of life, and fun, and nature—entitled "Bon
jour, Messieurs !" Goodall, in No. 364, has
quite a companion picture (in its way) to this—a
painting representing " A Wedding Dance in Brit-
tany." Out of With erington's four charming conti
butions, we are fain to select, as our especial
favourite, No. 370, "Spring"—Spring as seen in
the growth, the budding, the flowering of some
sweet virginal primroses Liunell's No. 467,
" Where the nibbling flocks do stray." is an idyll
upon canvass—a delicious landscape. Feed
has surpassed himself this season in No.
264, " The First Breat in the Family, "
incomparably, as yet, his masterpiece.
It is a picture, we are quite certain, that would
entirely delight the authoress of "John Rintoul,"
and " Zaidee," and " Katie Stewart," and "The
Athelings"—a painting afier the heart of Margaret
Oliphant. As to the young artist wile won the ad-
miration of us all last year by his noble work, illus-
trating the Death of " Chatterton"—Wallis—he
this season fully realizes, we had almost said mora
than realizes, our expectations. No. 458. " A
Sculptor's Workshop, Stratford-on-Avon, 1617"—
and No. 501, " Montaigne in the library of his
chateau in Gascony''—are both works of indubitable
genius. The former especially. It is the thought
of a Poet-Artist—a thought worthily, nobly, ex-
quisitely realized Mr. Wallis has only to
advance upon the same road upon which
he has already adventured so successfully—and
Fame and Foieune are his. May he prosper—and
with life he is certain of winning his spurs as an
academician. For the name of another young
artist who took our praises by storm last season, we
look in vain, unhappily, now, in all this long cata-
logue—we wean Mr. Burton, who for 1856 painted
so wondrously the death of the gambling duellist
in the presence of his lady-love and her Puritan
instructor. He has contrioutecl nothing to the pre-
sant year's exhibition. Not FO W. C. T. Dobson,
who, besides another (smaller) picture, 63, "Reading
the Psalms," has a lovely scriptural painting in the
gallery, in 556, "The Cuild Jesus going down with
his Parents to Nazareth." A very beautiful work
of tut, which we long to see worthily en-
graved. J. M. Carrick's two coati ibutions
are—as any one might safely have Tredicated
they would be, who at all remembers his
" two" in the 1856 Exhibition—successes. One of
'them especially—the landscape, No. 542, "Rydal,
Westmoreland."
,The precise meaning of the
second, No. 996, " Waiting for the Stage Coach-
17th Century," we must acknowledge we don't
rightly comprehend. This is poked away in the
North Room—a room generally rather chilly and
deserted. In the South Room, we recognise, with
a now accustomed satisfaction, many new specimens
of T. Carrick's admirable skill as a painter of minia-
tures half-a-dozen, in fact, altogether, among
which half-dozen we may particularise Nos. 725,
and 702 as pine icularly excellent. In the same
apartment, among the miscellaneous drawings, we
must especially notice No. 914, by F. Piercy—a
charming sketch of "A Garden-gate, near that of
Osborne." In one of the larger rooms, O'Neill
evidences afresh his vivid appreciation of
the humouruus in No. 541, representing
" The Last Day of a Sale," in which
we have drolly delineated, for our amuse-
ment, all the hubbub, crush, and confusion,
familiar to every practised auctioneer. G. Land-
seer's graceful portraiture, in No. 641, of "Miss
Matthews and Favourites," does credit to the
young artist's sense of the True and Beautiful—
whether viewed in regard to the young lady her-
self, the pony, the dog, the butterfly, or the land-
scape. Gen-rally specking, however, this season,
the Portraits without revealing amongst them
any Great Succesa—are more than usually meri-
torious.

SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—About four o'clock on Friday
afternoon an accident occurred on the London and
North-Western Railway, at the coal-yards crossing, near
the passenger station, Fishergate, Preston, by which a
woman named Jane Waddington was instantaneously
deprived of life. The unfortunate woman was returning
home, having two bundles of rod iron Ale had been pur-
chasing for her husbald, who is a blacksmith, in one
arm, and an infant in the other, She was accompanied
by a woman, and when on the point of crossing the line
to go into Dock-street a coal train came up from a siding
and proceeded towards the tunnel. The woman waited
until the last waggon bad passed, and were crossing the
line, v;ken a luggage-trair, which had been hidden from
their view by the coal-train, emerged from the tunnel in
an opposite direction. One of the women succeeded in
clearing the train, but, the other (the deceased) was
caught by the buffer and thrown upon the line, the train
passing over her body, hands, and legs, cutting off one
of her breasts, and tearing away a portion of flesh from
various parts of the body. Her infant was thrown for-
ward out of her arms, and was found lying near to her
side in the 6 feet space. Beyond being a good deal
shaken the child was not injured. The deceased was
about 35 years old, and has left a family of three children.
It is to be hoped for the future safety of the public that
the railway authorities will be compelled to erect a
bridge at this spot, several accidents of a fatal nature
having previously happened by persons having to cross
the metals. A. more dangerous place for a crossing can-
not be conceived, for in addition to the large number of
regular trains passing over the line at this point coal-
trains are often standing or shunting. It is stated
that the corporation have given their sanction to the
stoppage of the crossing. No blame is attributed to the
engine-driver, as it was impossible for him to have
stopped the train and prevented the accident, and he had
given the usual signal of danger—the whistle. At an
inquest held on the following day (Saturday) a verdict
of "Accidentally Killed" was given, and the jury re-
commended that some steps be taken at the place
where the accident occurred for the future safety of
the public.

LATEST NEWS.

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

We have re3eved the following telegraphic
despatch from Marseilles:—
MARSEILLES, SUNDAY, MAY 10.
We have advices from Alexandria to the 2d of
May.

The Bombay mail arrived at Suez on the 30th of

There are no tidings of the Calcutta mail.

The capture of Mohammerah on the 26th March
by General Outram with a force of 4,500 men,
which left Bushire on the 19th, is confirmed.
The entrance of the Karoon had been skilfully
fortified by the enemy, but. the forts were silenced
by the steamers in two hours.
Prince Khanlas Mirza, at the head of 13,000
men, fled, with a loss of 200, leaving ammunition,
stores, camp equipages, and 17 guns.
1 General Stalker and Commodore Etheridge have
both committed suicide in a moment of temporary

insanity.
The Bombay money-market was improving.
The import-market was fair.
Freights were falling.

MALTA, MAY 7.
Lord Elgin passed Malta on the 2d of May.
Lord Lyons' squadron continues in Valetta

harbour.

VIENNA, SUNDAY, MAY 10.

An amnesty has been granted to all those persons
who, having been condemned to imprisonment for
political offences, are now in Austrian prisons.

All trials for political offences are quashed, ex.
cepting those which are pending against the re
fugees.

THE NEUCHATEL QUESTION.
PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING,

A despatch from Berlin, dated yesterday, has
been received, which states that Prince Napoleon
has delivered to the King of Prussia an autogrph
letter from the Emperor Napoleon upon the sub-
ject of the Neuchatel dispute.