The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-20 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

In Sharpc's Magazine for June we find abundant
matter of interesting entertainment. From the con-
tinuation of " Deborah's Diary," we quote the follow-
ing very practically truthful remarks :—" We should
be very cautious how we cut off another person's
pleasures. 'Tis an easy thing to say to them, You
are wrong, or foolish,' and so check them in their
pursuit ; but what have we to give them that will
compensate for it ? How many harmless refresh-
ments and refuges from sick and tired thought may
thus be destroyed ! We may deprive the spider of
his web, and the robin of his nest, but can never re-
pair the damage to them. Let us live and let live ;
leave me to hunt my butterfly, and Anne to catch
her bat."—An interesting article on " Christianity's
First Martyr," and another on the " Lon-
don Prisons," are contained in .Macphail's
Edinburgh Journal.—Among a variety of valuable
contributions, Chambers' has some delightful ,gossip-
ping sketches of " Social Life in France."—An inter-
esting page in the Farmers' Journal exhibits the
ground plan of some extensive farm buildings at
Trusthorpe, Lincolnshire. The Colonial Maga-
zine contains an article worthy of perusal, on
the " dark side of Indian service," namely, as re-
ferred to in the furlough memorial.—The Patent
Journal and the London Repertory of Patent Inven-
tions abound in matter of scientific interest.—The
Rambler and the Catholic Register, independent of the
interest which it is to be presumed they possess for
the members of that church to which they are more
especially addressed, contain many articles of general
interest.—The Public Good, the British Contro-
versalist, and some other claimants for public
favour now swell the already crowded ranks of the
monthly periodical literature. Among them all we
must not omit to mention the most graceful, namely,
Le Follet, which is as charming as ever.

FINE ARTS.
PORTRAIT OF AIR. MACREADE

A wonderfully characteristic likeness of this dis-
tinguished artist—whose name must long continue
illustrious as that of one of our most classic trage-
dians—has just been issued from the establish-
ment of Mr. J. S. Welch, 24, St. James's-
street. Both the lithographic draughtsman,
N. Ploszczynski, and the lithographic printers,
M. and N. Hanhart, have tasked their skill
to the uttermost in portraying the features of the
great actor as they have been delineated by the
master-hand of Mr. J. Deffett Francis. The trage-
dian is represented in one of his most celebrated im-
personations, the Werner of Lord Byron's drama.
His exclamation—" Who says that? "—is expressed by
the artist in every latent nerve and muscle of that flexile
and eloquent countenance. The whole visage seems
to be actually working and palpitating with,,sup-
pressed emotions. The grasp of the hand, the waving
of the hair, the flash of the eye, the fierce protrusion
of the under-lip, are all accessories to the utterance of
the innate emotion ; and the brush of the painter has
with surprising felicity realised in a portraiture that
living and breathing reality whose genius has so often
inspired enthusiasm among his innumerable auditors.
The plate, we observe, is appropriately inscribed to
Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, perhaps of all men living
about the best qualified to appreciate the ability, and
in appreciating the ability to estimate the likeness of
his friend, William Charles Macready.

PORCHESTER CASTLE.—A grand national gala, in
honour of the inauguration of the colossal statues of Nelson
and Wellington, took place in this picturesque locality on
the 18th inst., under the experienced and liberal superin-
tendence of Mr. Ellis, the late lessee of Cremome Gardens.
Instrumental and vocal music ; a balloon ascent by that
"Columbus of the skies," Lieutenant Gale; dancing on the
circular platform, a he Cremorne, and in the Salle dc Devise;
the wonderful agilities of that talented young artiste the
India-rubber" Wright, whose pantomimic excellence was
so highly and deservedly appreciated at the Princess's
Theatre last season; a vaudeville; a ballet by the Stilt
family, together with brilliant illuminations, constituted the
attractions of the evening; the whole being wound up with
a splendid display of fireworks by Mortram, in which every feu
artifice known in pyrotechny was magnitcently developed.
No pains were spared in the management of the fete, which
passed off to the complete satisfaction of a vast conoourae of
visitors, and in a manner fully worthy of any of the metro-
politan public gardens.
This evening his Excellency the Nepaulese Am-
bassador and suite intend honouring Cremorne with a visit,
and no doubt that popular place of amusement will present
an unusually gay and brilliant appearance. In addition to
the ordinary interesting exhibitions at those gardens, we
believe Lieutenant Gale, the eminent aeronaut, makes an
ascent in his balloon, and will perform his daring feat of de-
scending by means of a single rope from the upper to the
lower car.

GRAND ENTRRTAINIIENT 70 THE DIGNITARIES OF
THE CHURCH, ♦! THE MANSION HOUSE.—Yesterday the
Lord Mayor gave a splendid entertainment to the prelates
and a number of the ether dignitaries of the Church, upon
the occasion of the anniversary of the meeting of the arch-
bishops, the bishops, and clergy, for the propagation of the
Gospel in foreign parts. The banquet was laid out in the
Egyptian Mall.