The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-01 00:00:00

SPRING CIRCUITS OF THE JUDGES.

The following is a complete list of the forthcoming
Spring Circuits :--_

.
HOME (the Lord Chief Justice of England and Mr.
Justice Byles).—Hertford, February 27; Chelmsford,
March 2 ; Maidstone, March 9 ; Lewes, March 16 ; Kings_
ton, March 23.
WESTERN (Lord Chief Justice Bovill and Mr. Justice
Blackburn). —Winchester, February 26 ; Dorchester,
March 4 ; Exeter, March 7; Bodinin, March 13 ; Taun-
ton, March 13 ; Devizes, March 24 ; Bristol, March 27.
OXFORD (Lord Chief Baron Kelly and Mr. Jus!.ice
Keating).—Reading, February 23 ; Oxford, February 29 ;
Worcester, March 4 ; Stafford, March 10 ; Shrewsbury,
March 19 ; Hereford, March 24 ; Monmouth, March 26 ;
Gloucester, March 31.
No:troLN (Mr. Baron Martin and Mr. Baran Bram-
well). —Leiceeer, March 2 ; Northampton, March 5 ;
Oakham, March 5 ; Aylesbury, March 9 ; Bedford, March
12 ; Huntingdon, March 17 ; Cambridge, March 19 ; Bury,
March 23 ; Norwich, March 23.
MIDLAND (Mr. Justice Shee and Mr. Justice Mon-
o.gue Smith).—Warwick, February 26 : Derby, March 3 ;
Nottingham, March 7 ; Lincoln, March 13 ; York, March
17 ; Leeds, March 21.

. NORTHERN (Mr. Justice Mellor and Mr. Justice Lush).
—Appleby, February 17 ; Carlisle, February 18 ; New-
castle, February 22 ; Durham, February 27 ; Lancaster,
March 4 ; Manchester, March 7 ; Liverpool, March 21.
NORTH WALES (Mr. Baron ChanneU).—Welshpool,
March 9 ; Bala, March 12 ; Ruthin, Marcia 14 ; Carnar-
von, March 18 ; Beaumaris, March 21; Mold, March 25
Chester, March 28.

SOUTH WALES (Mr. Baron Pigott). —Haverfordwcst,
February 24 ; Cardigan, February 27 ; Carmarthen,
February 29 ; Swansea, March 5 ; Brecon, March 19 ;
Presteign, March 25 ; Chester, March 28. -
Mr. Justice Wiles remains• in town.

THE BRITISH ASSOCLITION. —The next meeting
of the British Association for the Advancement of Science
will commence at Norwich on Wednesday, August O.
The inaugural address will be delivered by the president
of the year, Dr. Hooker, of Kew. The Duke of Buc-
clench, who was president last year at Dundee, will open
the proceedings, and deliver up the chair to Dr. Hooker.
The local committee are pressing forward their arrange-
ments, and the various sub-committees (eight in all) have
each held meetings.

MUSICAL EDUCATION.—The committee of the
Society of Arts on musical education has been appointed,
consisting of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales,
K.G., who is the chairman, Lord Henry Gordon Lennox,
M.P., Lord Gerald Fitzgerald, Sir John P. Boileau,
Bart., Sir John Harington, Bart., Sir Francis Sandford,
R. K. Bowley, Edgar A. Bowling, C. 8., Harry Chester,
Henry Cole, C. 8., Captain Donnelly, RE., Herbert
Fisher, 'William Hawes, chairman of the council, R. F.
Putt'cic, Samuel Redgrave, and Colonel Scott, R.E. ;
with power to arrange for a deputation to polder with her
Majesty's Government.

BEQUESTS TO CTIA.RITABLE INSTITUTIONS. —A
;orrespondent informs us that an old gentleman named
Musgrove, of Bramley, near Leeds, has left a large sum of
money to a gentleman, on condition that he adds the name
of Musgrove to his own, and that he pays to the trustee of
the Leeds Infirmary £lO,OOO ; to the Eye and Ear Inf.ir-
mary, £lO,OOO ; to the Leeds Fever Hospital, £lO,OOO ;
and to the Bradford Infirmary, £lO,OOO. With the latter
institution the testator endeavoured to drive a hard bar-
gain. Being above 80 years of age, and having no use for
£lO,OOO, he offered to give it to the Braiford Infirmary
provided the trustees of the institution would pay him 10
per cent. for it during his life. The trustees very wisely
refused, and perhaps were thought better of by the mil•
;ionaire for so doing, for he left the Bradford, as the other
hospitals mentioned, to be benefited by his legatm

THE DUDLEY GALLERY,

LFIRST NOTICE.]

mattvoild happen if the authors of all the articleb
" declined with thanks " were to starea periodical of their
Wiat kind of magazine would it be? We suspect
that' it would bear comparison with the oldest and the
most exclusive. Editors are a servile race for the most
part. They will not take the trouble to discover youthful
genius, to bring out mute, inglorious Milton% Publishers,
too; think more of the name at the end of the article than
of the article itself, just because the public think more.
ProVided the first can announce the Right Hon. this and
the Very Rev. that as contributors, they care very little
about the contributions ; for the second would rather read
twaddle from a swell than wisdom as profound as Plato'
from a nobody. The young author must push hieway for
himself until the time when he no longer needs assistance,
and then he will find plenty to " encumber him with
officious help." It is very much the same with artists as
with authors. Go into any one of our old-established
exhibitions, and you will find a few well-known names
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engrossing the " line " with their commonplaces, while
the Raffaelle or the Rembrandt or the Rubens of the
future is, if not banished altogether, placed close to the
ceiling or down on the floor. What can they Flo but
protest ?

They can exhibit. Five-and-forty years ago the young
artists of that day challenged the verdict of hanging com •
mittees thus. The Royal Academy and the British
Institution were close corporations, and so the Society of
British Artists established themselves in the Snffolk-
street Gallery, and numbered Clarkson Stanfield
and David Roberts among their earliest members.
The Dudley Gallery is no less a challenge to
the water-colour societies. In a zoom far more capacious
than either of the two galleries in Pall Mall some 350
artists exhibit nearly 700 pictures. Of course in such a
number there are varying degrees of merit, but we never
saii, so large an exhibition with so little rubbish in it. We
must add that the artists are by no means all of the class
unrecognised genius. There are, for instance, three Royal
Academicians—Cooke, Ward, and Redgrave. Holman
Hunt, Marcus Stone, Yeames, and Poynter are among
the exhibitors, and the catalogue contains such names as
the two Severns, W. H. Paton, Thomas Macquoid, H.
S. Marks, and the Solomons. Cognoscenti will recog-
nise many another name with which the public is less
acquainted.

The first picture that attracts our notice Is (12) Mr.
Walter Paton's " Dunnottar Castle." This is a rainy dayat
sea, and is more to our liking than the piece which stands
next to it (13), Dutch Boats hugging the shore, even
though this is the work of Mr. Cooke, R.A. Mr. Lennard
Lewis has found in Tours (18) a scene that Prout would
have transferred to canvas. A market is being held in the
wide open place under the shadow of a fine old church tower,
with its stone of greenish grey. Very charming is the love-
lorn maiden (19) by Juliana Russell. She stands with her
golden hair negligently flowing over her blue serge dress,
and with hands laid wearily over the wounded breast, a
sight to soften stern hearts. Mr. Walter Field takes us
'o a hay-field (42) of the modern time, where the hay-
maker is a machine, but where, for all that, there is room
for the artist, who has rendered with faithful skill the green
swathes in regular row. In 48 we have what seems to be
an Egyptian scene, so clear is the atmosphere, so dry and
brick-fed the soil. But it is Sicily, and the artist is not
Vacher, but Talmage White, who shows us Calatafimi, the
locale of Garibaldi's first victory, eight years ago. Mr. Arthur
Severn's Bay of Penzance, is an old acquaintance, though,
we believe, it has not been shewn in public until now. It
is a work of genius in the highest sense. There is naught
out sea and sky and sun. No ship, nor bird, nor any sign
of life is there. The long line of surf comes tumbling on
to the sands, and the sun, lurid though haze, lights up the
centre horizon with an almost unearthly glow. This is a
very po .ful picture. We prefer it greatly to the other
works by the same artist—" Near Torquay" (141), with its
red and blue rocks, vivid and staring in colour beyond any-
thing that we remember to have seen there or elsewhere ;
or "Falmouth Harbour" (234), which, however, is a
clever picture ; or " Evening after a Storm " (267),
though we see the artist values this last almost as
highly as the three others put together. Mr. John
Steeple's " Glen Coe " (53) is a striking picture. The scene
is in accordance with its tragic memory. Dark clouds sweep
over the sky, weeping mists gather over the hills. The
bridge that spans the gorge is just the place for some mur-
derous deed. "Night in the Pool" (67), and " Wapping"
(296), are satires in chalk. The Thames, "large, gentle,
deep, majestic king of floods," is anything but royal. It
is a servant of servants, and has to bear puffing tug and
lirty collier, and is as matter of fact as the verses are
grandiose. Mr. Simeon Solomon has three pictures, all
of them exceedingly clever, and remarkable as studies of
colour. " Bacchus " (70) is not the tipsy, bloated sot as
we know him, but a handsome youth, clad in a leopard
skin that falls gracefully around him, and holds a long
gold-headed staff in his right hand, and a cluster of purple
grapes in his left. Behind him are the blue sea and
the bluer sky of Southern Italy. "A Patriarch of the
Eastern Church pronouncing the Benediction of Peace"
(103), is an even bolder piece of colouring. The olive
skin and jet black hair of the Patriarch are set off by the
golden headdress and the gorgeous robes which he
wears. In his hand he holds a staff with twisted serpents,
somewhat like the Caduceus of Hermes. In " Heliogaba-
lus " (252) we have a noble-looking man, bearing the em-
blems of divinity and of royalty, and far other in appear-
ance than the monster whom his name conjures up.
These three works are not for sale. They would scarcely
leave the artist's studio unsold. Mr. Charles Potter has
been very successful in his rendering of "The Fitful
Head" (74). The ghostly cliff seems bending down before
the storm as a man will bend before a sudden gust of wind.
The mist and sea-rack are driven before the blast, and the
great waves come rolling in, and we can almost believe,
it is Norna herself who has awakened the elements and
stirred them to this mad strife. "Sweet is calm after
storm," and it is a relief to turn to Mr. George Mawley's
two pastoral scenes (75 and 92) with their soft summer sky
and blue distance, and quiet peaceful life. None of the
exhibitors has succeeded better than Mr. Mawley in de-
picting Nature at rest. Surely "Ariadne in Naxos"
(88), by Mr. Spencer Stanhope, is one of the most excruciat-
:ng pictures ever painted, always • excepting those by Mr.
Burne Jones. Everything is contorted in agony—woods,
clouds, and Ariadne's hair. The hair is as solid as the,
trunks of the twisted trees. If the sun shines in Naxos it
casts no shadow, or, at all events, Ariadne has succeeded
in doing that which Goethe declared impossible
jumping out of her shadow. The committee have placed
Mr. Stanhope almost on the line, as a caution, let us hope.
" Exorcising" (87), by Mr. Yeames, A.R.A., is the
antithesis to Mr. Solomon's. The second artist revels
in rich colours, the first has almost done without colour.
A group of monks, some ten in number, are 'all clothed
alike, in the white frock and cowl of the Dominicans, and
most of them are kneeling down, but the positions are so
skilfully varied that there is no monotony in the piece. In
front of them kneels, bare-backed, a possessed brother, who
is receiving the blows which another brother is administer-
ing with no gentle hand. The whole group is in the
presence of the mitred abbot, who sits and directs the
exorcism, and whose robes are the one bit of brightness in;
-Mg remarkable piece.

Both England and France have garrisons in the
Tapanese port of Yokohama, within twenty miles of Jeddo,
the capital. Each garrison has the flag of its nation float-
ing above its quarters.

IMPORTANT POINT.—IS the clergyman the holder
of the church in which he officiates? This was the ques
tion raised in a case at the Clerkenwell Police-court. The
Rev. A. Thomas, incumbent of St. Paul's, Camden-square,
was summoned before the magistrate for the non-payment
to the paving board of St. Pancras of £693, the cost of
forming a carriage-way and paving the footway by his
church. The claim was resisted on the ground that the
incumbent was not the owner of the edifice, and therefore
not liable. Mr. Barker gave judgment in favour of the
rev. gentleman, and dismissed the case.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—An accident of an extra-
ordinary kind, and resulting in the death of two boys,
occurred on Friday at the Brighton parish school, War-
ren Farm, near Brighton. It appears that the water
used at the schools and at the new workhouse on Rose-
bill is drawn from an artesian well, one of the deepest in
She world, the shaft of which is within the school build-
ings. A steam-engine is used to pump the water into a
reservoir, and there is suspended over the shaft of the
well a " monkey," worked by a winch, this " monkey "
being used to let persons down the well whenever any
adjustment or repair of the pumping apparatus is found
necessary. The engineer is allowed the occasional assist.
ance of two boys, and on Friday morning these two, taking
with them two others, went into the engine-room. They
must have previously ascertained that it had not been
locked over night, as is customary. The four boys un-
covered the shaft of the well (which is usually guarded by
a fence and an iron grating), and having rigged the
"monkey," proceeded to let each other down the well in
couples, two working the winch and two sitting on the
" monkey." This was gone through more than once, when
huddenly, either from a jerk on the rope or some strain on
the winch, the two poor boys in the well were thrown off
their seat and were hurled into the depth below, falling
500 feet and crashing through an intermediate staging or
platform before they reached the water. The two boys on
the surface immediately gave an alarm, and the supeiin.
tendent (Mr. Hales) descended the well in search. One
body was recovered alinost immediately, the other not for
some time afterwards. Both lads were quite dead, and the
top of the head of each had been crushed away in the fall.
A labourer had previously been killed by falling down the
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HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Jan. 31.

The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, ac-
companied by Princess Christian, and attended
by the Dowager Duchess of Athole.

Her Majesty walked in the grounds this morn-
ing, accompanied by Princess Christian.
His Royal Highness Prince Leopold is better to-
day, but is still very weak.

Viscount Jocelyn and Colonel the Hon. Strange
Jocelyn have arrived in town from visiting tho Earl of
Rodon at Tollymore Park, Ireland.

The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of
Commons and Lady Charlotte Denison will entertain a
succession of friends at Ossington Park till the meeting of
Pai liament.