The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-10 00:00:00

THE ART JOURNAL.

Etty's lovely picture of " Youth and Pleasure "
one of the principal gems in the Vernon 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 Gainsborougb, 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 artiste,
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 cf
completion.

REPEAL OF TUE RAILWAY PASSENGER
Petitions aro now being presented by railway companies to
Parliament for a repeal of the Act 6th and 6th Victoria,
whereby a duty of 5 per cent. was imposed on all sums re.
ceived or charged fur the conveyance of passengers travelling
on railways. Tney set forth that since the passing of the
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-
mission of the ditty would relieve the particular intercet
from a burden that does not attach to steam-vessels, or any
other description of property.

SINGULAR DISCOVERY OF EQUINE 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 toot of the joists, the skulls of no less than
seventeen horses were found, and in every instance the lower
jawbone was absent. Of course this affair has caused no
little conjecture and speculation in the vicinity ; and some
venture to Lint that there have been more horses of mis-
represented age, that have gone the way of all horse-flesh,
than the unlamented Leander, or the living Running Rein.
WRECK OF TUE ROYAL ADELAlDE.—lnformation
having been communicated to Mr. Ccdd, coroner, that the
body of a woman had been found on the Maplin Sands, in
the parish of Foulness Island, dressed only in her shift, a
petticoat and bed-gown, the body being quite fresh, anti
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 , cad 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 I__ oth
_of March,
1850, from Warley Barracks, commencing,, lk.ear wife,"
and signed " John Harriugton ;"
also is pair. of child's socks,
wle-hgi;chbNovtahs
had made an external examination of the body of the de-
and a string of beads. Mr. Miller, the suigoon, stated that lie
buepr on right
te her e m
right p temple, which
and were of is trivial character;
ceased, and found a woundburupiosne
then still bleeding, and a
that he believed from her appearance she was an Irish wo-
man, been receivect,during life,
man, and about 3.5 years of age; her breasts were full of
milk. He was inc lined 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,
e 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 Flinton ;
but as there can be no reasonable doubt, under the circum-
stances, that they are bodies of parties drowned at sea, and
probably belonging to the Royal Adelaide, we understand Mr.
Codd has declined holding inquests upon the bodies.—Essex
Berard.

QUEER'S COLLEGE, BIRMINGHAM.—The local
officers and linatee committee of the British Association for
the Advancement of Science, held last year at Birmingham,
having determined to return to the loubscribers to the local
fund the whole of the funds in hand, which will amount to
one-half of the subscriptions, the Earl of Dartmouth, the
Earl of Ilarrowby, Viscount Lifford, the Hon. the Dean of
Lichfield, Mr. James Taylor, Dlr. 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 ui land
prish, not an hundred miles from lirechin, 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 it 3 sequel. The gude-
wife, to make sure that her hams should] not suffer further,
besmeared them with the tar also, which has had the etlect
of scaring bipeds from them, as well as the rats, for they are
now fairly inedible.— Breehin Advertiser.

[The following appeared in our Third Edition of
last night :--]
SWITZERLAND.
Letters from Berne, of the sth, state that the As-
sembly met at 9 o'clock on that morning. Out of 111
deputies there were 56 present. The President, Dr.
Esther, pronounced the opening speech. The Presi-
dent, while encouraging the sympathies of the
Swiss for the people who were aspiring to freedom,
at the same time dwelt forcibly on the advantages of
neutrality, and strongly combated political propa-
gandism. He passed great eulogies on some of the
cantons, and particulary praised the re-constitution
of the cantons of Tburgovie, but censured the state
of affairs in that of Zug. He also alluded to the
canton of Berne. The President referred to the
programmes of the two parties. He praised the one
which emanated from the Committee-Government,
and censured that of the Opposition, observing that its
profession of faith was not in accordance with its an-
tecedents. After some other preliminary business, the
Assembly proceeded to the nomination of a Commis-
sion for the examination of the report of the Federal
Council on the Administration.