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THE ART JOURNAL.

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LODGE'S PORT.; Vogv TT;
/"./ The same commenda`tions 7vhich wehave bestowed -
cn the former volumes of Mr. Bohn*-very bean f ;
and very cheap edition of " Lodge'sA'ortraitr,"l-tre
applicable to the new volumes now bete us. Am 014., 2
72., the celebrated individuals whose personsal:pagyPiPtk, e_lll>,
are, here exhibited to us by the masterly',aand:7-01-
Vandyke, a Godfrey Kneller, a Peter Lely,andAathe
contewporary.artists, and whose characters and his-
tories are briefly but admirably set forth, in the very
interesting biographies of " Lodge," are Selden,
Oliver Cromwell, Monk, Queen Henrietta Maria, the
heroic Countess of Derby, Hyde,; Earl of Clarendon,
Sir Kenelm Digby, and others, in Volume V., Which
contains no less than thirty memoirs and portraits
A similar number is also contained in Volume VI.,
among which the most interesting are those of
Charles IL and his Queen, Prince Rupert, Alger-
non Sidney, Lord Russell, Locke, and Tillotson
The characters of these personages are forcibly, and
for the most part (making due allowance for the
writer's loyal predilections) fairly described with a
few vigorous touches. Of John Selden it is remarked—
" Mr. Selden was certainly the most learned, and per-
haps, the most honest Englishman of his time. He
was actually a patriot, fur his continued efforts to
serve his country, however frequently he might have
mistaken the means, seem never for a moment to have
incurred even a suspicion of selfishness." Of Oliver
Cromwell we are told--" We shall seek in vain for
any other estimable qualities in Cromwell's character
than judgment, courage, and decision." Mr. Lodge's
portrait of the Lord Protector is somewhat unflatter-
ing, a fact readily accounted for, when we read the
opening passage of the biography of Monk
penned by the same band. Opinions, indeed,
differ as to whether the most famous act
of Monk's life has entitled him to the
gratitude of posterity, but as to the justice of these
remarks upon the sentiment of gratitude itself there
cannot be two opinions. "As we are told," says Mr.
Lodge, " that we may cover a multitude of our own
sins by our charity, so, in another sense, may it be
said that we frequently cover those of others by our
gratitude. It is difficult even to discern the faults of
one from whom we have received great favours ;
painful to dwell on the contemplation of them ; and
scarcely possible to proclaim them, &c." The story
of "Charlotte de la Tremorille," the heroic Countess
of Derby, is necessarily dull of interest. May
other attractive themes and memorable anecdotes,
too numerous to particularise, abound in these pages.
In the memoir of the Duchess of Richmond, no less
celebrated for her virtue than her beauty, we are re-
minded of a circumstance perhaps not familiar to
all who are accustomed to the sight of
penny-pieces. The King was an ardent, perhaps the
more ardent, because an entirely unsuccessful suitor
to the fair Stewart before her marriage with the
Duke of Richmond, as the following anecdote testi-
fies :

THE EFFIGY ON PENNY-PIECES.
"Charles's passion fur her increased daily, and betrayed
him into several :singular but inoffensive extravagances.
Among these a gold medal appeared, doubtless by his order,
representing on the front his own bust, and on the reverse
a portrait of the idolised fair one in the character of
Minerva, said to have been so exquisite a likeness that it
was instantly known, as Evelyn, who lived in her time,
informs us in his Nusimata,' by all who had ever
seen her. We are told that Philip Rotier, who,
with his father and brothers, was joint engraver
to the Royal Mint, and who executed the
dye, fell distractedly in love with her in the interviews
to which be was necessarily admitted to study hir fea-
tures, and soothed his hopeless passion by copying again
and again, in various sizes and metals, this happy effort
of his art. The King was not less desirous than the
engraver to disseminate to the utmost the beloved por-
trait, and it was presently transferred to the copper coin
of the realm, on which it appears to this day, unaltered
in its general appearance, as the emblematic figure, and
bearing the inscription of Britannia."

In alluding to this circumstance, and to the virtue of
the Duchess (the golden medal reminding him of the
fable of " Danaii") Waller wrote some complimentary
verses, in which he observes—
" Britannia there, the fort, in vain
Bad battered been with golden rain:
Tbund*r itself had failed to pass—
Virtue's a stronger guard than brass."

LEILA. Partll . By Sir Edward Bultuer Lytton.
The-present cheap and elegant republication of one
of the least known, and yet one of the most
imaginative of tLig•refnurkable fictions penned by our
poet novelist,pr,Aressea from month to month favour-
ably. tier 'instalment is embellished with two of
the exquisite engravings originally decorating the
romance of the " Siege of Granada "—engravings
produced under the superintendence of Mr. Charles
Heath from original drawings bx some of our most
distinguished artists, such men, for example, as
Maclise and Stephanoff. " Ayza la Horra reproach-
ing Boabdil," a sketch copied from a picture by the
former gifted painter, affords in the present number
an admirable specimen of the style of embellishment.
The narrative itself has advanced as far as the corn-

encement of the Third Book, depicting among other
i❑cidents the temptation of the Jewess—consequently
the work is just about half completed.

Etty's lovely picture of " Youth and Pleasure "
one of the principal gems in the Veanon collection—
has here afforded to Mr. C. W. Sharpe an opportunity
of displaying the skill of his graver, an opportunity
of which he has availed himself with inimitable suc-
cess. The impression before us is rich in beauty,
and looking at it we scarcely miss the variegated
colouring of the original. Another painting, the
" Cottage Children, ' of Gainsborough, also in the
same precious repository of modern art, has been
skilfully engraved by Mr. G. B. Shaw, for the April
number of the Art Journal. Mrs. S. C. Hall makes
a pilgrimage this month to spots sanctified by the
footsteps of Milton, and those classic localities are
ingeniously sketched out by the practised pencil of
Mr. Fairholt. The distinguished modern artists,
whose portraits adorn the pages of this excellent
periodical, are Westall and Pickersgill. In addition
to a variety of other contributions, both literary and
pictorial, we must also especially particularise seve-
ral very beautiful illustrations of popular poetry, and
an admirable engraving of the Nelson column, Tra-
falgar-square, as it will look when in a state of
completion.

REPEAL OF THE RAILWAY PASSENGER TAX.--,
Petitions are now being presented by railway companies to
Parliament for a repeal of the Act sth and 6th Victoria,
whereby a duty of 5 per cent. was imposed on all sums re•
ceivod or charged for the conveyance of passengers travelling
on railways. They set forth that since the passing of this
Act railway property has undergone great alterations; that
railway revenues have been reduced by competition and by
heavy assessments of another character; and that the re-
mi6sion of the daty would relieve the particular interest
from a burden that does not attach to steam-vessels, or any
other description of property.

SINGULAR DISCOVERY OF EQUINB REMAINS.—An
exhumation, which most probably will rather excite the spe-
culation of the sporting than the scientific public, took place
on Monday morning at Lewisham. Some workmen em-
ployed in the repair of an extensive mansion in the village
had occasion to take up the flooring of the dining parlour,
when, within a foot of the joists, the skulls of no less than
seventeen horses were found, and in every instance the lower
jawbone was absent. Of course
in the
affair has caused no
more ohrsoersse_ of
iltriesihs:
little conjecture and speculation the vicinity ; and some
venture to hint that there have been
represented age, that have gone the way of
tal hi
than the unlamented Leander, or the living Running' Rein.
WRECK. OF TUB ROYAL ADELAlDE.—lnformation
bodyhavi n
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been found
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the c3oiraopnit, thestahnadts, iin
the parish of Foulness Island, dressed only in her shift, a
petticoat and bed-gown, the body being quite fresh, and
with a wound on her right temple, which was then bleeding,
that gentleman :summoned a jury for Friday last, and re- •
quested the attendance of a medical man, when it appeared
that she was found as stated on Wednesday last, by a man
named Belton, and carried to an out-house attached to the
king's ti ead public-house, in Foulness ; that on searching her
he found in the pocket of her gown several letters, two of
which were dated respectively the 7th and 10th of March,
1850, from Warley Barracks, commencing, " My dear wife,"
and signed " John Harrington ;" also a pair of child's socks,
and a string of beads. Mr. Miller, the surgeon, stated that he
had made an external examination of the body of the de-
ceased, and found a wound upon her right temple, which WAS
then still bleeding, and a bruise upon her right leg; both
had been received during lite, and were of a trivial character;
that he believed from her appearance she was an Irish wo-
man, and about 35 years of age ; her breasts were full of
milk. He was inclined to think, from the manner in which
she was dressed, that she had been lost from some vessel, and
washed overboard whilst in the act of dressing. Verdict,
" Found dead." Since the inquest, information has been re-
ceived of other bodies having been washed up, namely, that
of a man with a cork jacket, at Harwich; a woman at Great
Holland, a child at Little Holland, and a child at ninon ;
but as there can be no reasonable doubt, under the circurn-
litogyuaelsit Adelaide,
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stances, that they are bodies of parties drowned at sea, and
probably belonging to the
Codd has declined holding
Herald.

QUEEN'S COLLEGE, BIEMINGRAM.---The 100a1
officers and finance committee of the British Association for
Science,return to held last year at Birmingham,
to the subscribers to the local
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g Advancementdeterdetermined
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fund the whole of the funds in hand, which will amount tor
one-half of the subscriptions, the Earl of Dartmouth, the
Earl of Harrowby, Viscount Lifford, the Hon. the Dean of
Lichfield, Mr. James Taylor, Mr. J. E. Piercy, and other in-
fluential subscribers, have consented to transfer their moiety
to complete the new buildings, museum, library, model-
room, engineering workshops, &c., of Queen's College,
towards the erection of which and the purchase of the free-
hold site the Rev. Dr. Warneford has contributed the muni-
ficent sum of 3,0001.

SUCCESSFUL CURE FOR RATS.—In an upland
parish, not an hundred miles from Brechin, the inmates
of a house were much annoyed with the ravages of those de-
structive vermin—eating their hams and everything that
came in their way. A kind neighbour advised the purchase
of coal tar, which was accordingly got, and their retreats
were overlaid with the material, and in a very short time
they had left. The story is rich in its sequel. The glide-
wife, to make sure that her hams should) not suffer further,
besmeared them with the tar also, which has had the effect
of scaring bipeds from them, as well as the rats, for tivey are
now fairly inedible.—,Brechin Advertiser.