The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-08 00:00:00

RAILWAY RETURNS.

We extract from the Railway Magazine the sums
received on the principal Railways of Great Britain
for the week ending on the day of the month prefixed
to each. The return includes the money received for
passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and mer-
chandize

Week
Name of Railway. Miles Total.
ended Opened. Z. a. d.
Jan. 1 Birmingham & Derby Junct. 384 1,195 511
Dec.3l Birmingham and Gloucester 55 1,485 6 3
25 Brandling Junction 25 606 1 7
Jan. 1 Chester and Birkenhead ..
2 Dundee and Arbroath
2 Eastern -Counties
1 Glasgow and Ayr . ..... ••••••• 40 1,118 4 11
1 Glasgow, Paisley, .&
Greeno,k 22i 789 1 ö
. Grand J unet., Chester &Crewe 1034 No returns
1 Groat North of England
2 Great Western
1 Hull and Selby
1 Lancaster & Preston Junction 20a 449 2 9,
Dec.3l Liverpool and Manchester 3l 4,129 19 0
Jan. 1 London and Birmingham ll4 11,716 19 7
6 London and Blackwall .....
1 London and Brighton
1 Ditto Shoreham Branch .... 54 116 '2 7
4 London and Croydon
6 London and Greenwich 34 799 1 5
1 London and South Western
Dec.3o Manchester, Bolton, and Bury 10 592 13 9
Jan. 3 Manchester & Birmingham
1 Manchester and Leeds
1 Midland Counties 57 2,111 14 4f
1 Newcastle and Carlisle 6of 1,356 18 10
2 Northern and Eastern ... .. .
1 North Midland
.. North Union
1 Preston and Wyre
3 Sheffield and Manchester....„ 7 442 1 3
2 Ulster
2 York and North Midland 23 1,339 14 9

HASTINGS UNION.—At the last sitting of
Hastings Magistrates a man named James Cloake, late
relieving officer of the No. 2 District of the Hastings
Union, was charged with defrauding the Guardians of
several sums of money, by withholding it from the pau-
pers and charging it in his account as paid. There were
four charges against the defendant, rendering him liable
to penalty of 201. for each offence. It appeared-from the
evidence that the defendant had carried on an extensive
system of depredation on the unfortunate paupers to
whom he was directed to affbrd relief. The Guardians
had selected four cases for prosecution out of a great num-
ber which had been discovered, and evidence was taken
which left no doubt as to the prisoner's guilt. He had
nothing to say in answer to the charges, and the Magis-
trates, after censuring him severely for his conduct, con-
victed him in the full penalty of 201. on each charge, or
three months' hard labour. The defendant, who said he
had no means of paying the fine, was then committed to
Lewes House of Correction for twelve months. _ _

Major Shaw has quitted the police force of this
borough, having been appointed to a situation in the
police of the City of London, under Mr. Daniel Whittle
Harvey.—Birmingham Advertiser.

EVENING SUN

FINE ARTS.
POLISH GEMS.

Our attention has been drawn to a valuable
collection of Medallions, amounting to upwards
of twelve hundred, all of them more or less an-
tique, which were for many years in the posses-
sion of the Kings of Poland, who kept gradually
adding to their number during successive reigns
—especially the Prince Poniatowski, a sovereign
passionately- fond of the Fine Arts, who made
such additions to the collection, that at length
he could boast of possessing the most splendid
and extensive cabinet- of Gems in Europe. On
his death, this cabinet luckily escaping the grasP
of Russia, found its way to England, and was
purchased at a great cost, by a gentleman named
Tyrrell, who has now for some time been engaged
in the arduous task of giving proof impressions of
them, which preserve with the utmost fidelity
all the delineations and expression of the origi-
nals. A box containing five drawers filled with
these impresssions is now lying on our table'
we have carefully compared them with the Gen's
from which they are taken, and have been asto-
nished and delighted with their uncommon act'"
racy, even in matters of the minutest detail. i
Nothing but the most unwearied diligence, coin'
blued with the most exquisite delicacy of touch/
could have enabled the artist to convey so Pe"
fect a transcript of the original Medallions. The
subjects embrace many of the most itnportalit
and curious particulars of the Grecian and 'R°'
man mythology—the achievements and adven-
tures of the celebrated personages recorded In
fabulous and heroic history--and some of the best
episodes in the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the
2Eneid. Thus recommended, we can conceive no •
works of art better calculated to make•their im-
mediate way with the public ; to inculcate prin-
ciples of purer or more refined. taste; or to jai'
part more various entertainment and instritetl9Ja
to a larger class of the community. To the
ter and sculptor they will afford suggestions
the highest value; the explorer of the myth°'
logical traditions of ancient Greece and Rome
will find that they help to throw light upon more
than one doubtfal point; and the poet will be
delighted with the inimitable forms of grace and
beauty which _they spread out in lavish profusion
before his eyes. %deed they may be said t°
offer such a rare intellectual banquet as none can
turn aside from with indifference, but those who
are dead to all the finer instincts of our nature.
Restricted, as the Medallions necessarily are, in
point of dimension, it is singular with what 1101",
form correctness the proportions of the human
figure are maintained throughout them. Tile
most fastidious anatomist can find nothing to nu'
ject to in their treatment of the male and fettol„e
form. Symmetrical arrangement is never for t/;.
instant lost sight of. The truth of nature is never
once sacrificed to effect. All is in perfect kee,...lr-Y.'
ing ; and as for the grouping in some of the rn0.41";
crowded Medallions, never have we seen Sill
thing to equal its chaste, classic beauty. itat',(l!
then the forms of female loveliness that are Pre'
sented to our gaze! The bounding,wood nyilPll9'
who seem to move with so light and airy a stem'
as scarcely to crush the flowers whereon they
tread! The incomparable Venus Anadyornege
rising in all the glowing freshness of youth ao'
health, and bearing evidences of the divinity ma
tiie serene and lofty expression of her matellie'_s,
countenance ! Well may Canova have studied
these Medallions, in order to gather hints Kr
his delineations of the female form •
„I,:et
has turned them to excellent account, 7e
his imitations are in no one insta°'-a
equal to the original designs. We procee
to notice a few of the more remarkable Ge°l6.„;
No. 31, " Ganymede presenting a Cup of Neer
to the Eagle of Jupiter" merits special praisel°,.
the exquisite manner in which the royal bird 0'
Jove is finished off. The plumage, in particular;
has all the light, feathery look of nature, without
one particle of hardness or stiffness. No. 44,
"Jupiter
asaisßausl lf,nelrionsfsienxgptrheessSinena with Europ
back,"on his :
will admit of. The animal seems proud l
fair burden, and scours across the wave at a Pr°-
digious late, while Europa is, apparently, quite
resigned to his guidance. Her figure teems with
youthful grace and flexibility of limb, and her
face has a true feminine delicacy of outline. P 10;
51, "Jupiter, in order to obtain the &yours °'
• /Egina, changes himself into a flame of fire"--i°
this Gem the chief beauty consists in the figure °f
iEgina, who is running away from the embraces
of the combustible Deity, developing, in her
movements, the full, harmonious proportil
of her rounded and agile form. Her ha
averted face turned back in alarm on the Pilft:
suing God, is pourtrayed with consummate taietito
No. 70, " Juno confiding the infant Mar'
Priapus to educate," is a perfect study, so far 3,1
the grouping of the characters is concerned, an
might be consulted with advantage by some of °tio
more ambitious modern artists,who think that Inc
showy, meretricious colouring, unaccomparli
with other requisites, will suffice to constitute the
painter. No. 75, " The Cyclops presenting th,e
trident to Neptune," is one of the boldest a'',
most vigorously-executed of the Gems. The 3:
titude of the giant, who is leaning forward 0°
ledge of rocks, is replete with spirit, and' eve
grandeur; and there is much force and graee,
who
the figures of the plunging winged horses, w 1
are drawing the car of the Ocean-Deity. i,
94, " Head of Pluto," has just the stern, ineOti
r
able, gloomy expression, which the ancient ",,re,
assigned to the countenance of this God. 'a,
" Pluto carrying off Proserpine in a cod
driga," contains a remarkably spirited grouP.e ,
horses, the variety of whose attitudes will strihe
every one who has the slightest relish for the
niceties of design. The subject is coneeivealp,
the most poetic spirit, and the vigOur and atiii_N-11(0,
Lion of life breathe throughout the sketch. 'I.
11, " Atys changed to a Pine Tree"—this I‘-"e
s;
dallion represents the act of transformatiodas.l%t
commenced ; and the face of the victim, jog
peering above the lower branches of the treeii,:g
wears an appropriate look of horror and bevio.
derment. Near him, with her head resting a
a small detached fragment of a rock, is seenna
slumbering female, whose relaxed muscles,
right arm drooping heavily along her side, 5",,
how profound is her state of repose. Sestie ir.
" A Titan destroyed by Jupiter with a Tim' die
bolt"—the boldness and vigour of execution
The
played in this design is truly astonishing' rre_ .
vanquished giant is writhing beneath the 1
sistible power of the bolt which has hurled
him;'
to earth, and in his rage and madness is ended"
vouring to launch a huge rock at the Deity wllO,-;
has thus coerced him. The convulsed workinX
of his massive limbs, whose muscles are twisted
and knotted, like so many snakes, convey a pro-
digious idea of physical capability, No. 1691
" Tityus in Torture"—the expression of extreme
agony is forcibly depicted in this Gem, Whiett
represents the giant chained to a precipice,
head flung back, and two ravenous vultUr';
pecking at his heart, which—according to the
old legend—grew again as fast as it was devoured'',;
The countenance of Tityus looks quite
and distorted from the intensity of his sufferinfx:
No. 66, " A Head of Jupiter"—there is 40 alt
of august dignity and repose in this
• d' tii°
countenance, which will instantly retain • ,
f
reader of an emphatic passage in one 0
finest hymns of Callimachus.--,-Such is -a brief,
swollettJ.
hurried notice of some of the Gems that /it"
Serieshe
most i strucks one
e tuh
it!o,
satini ssu thisre toni gantet attract eaetttieonnt*i ,
only from the magic power of association
who is.there that has not, at one period or vibes
of his life, been charmed with the gloil
oU
dsanadnd h
poetic
who 1: iy
t willo gni coatl delights
old Greleecgeen?
find these, perhaps half-forgotten idealisms/ re
vived in all their freshness and beauty in I°,
mind, by their embodiment in this most aurae
tive of all forms ? When the professional air
ties of the day are at an end, and the overtaslced
mind feels the necessity of some fitting rela/I_,.
tion, which while it furnishes the means °
amusement, is at the same time suggestive oft
instructive hints, we can conceive 1
pleasure—and in this, people of all ,
professions may -take part with- equal zest-4"
on
to pore over such a cabinet of ciepo thelo greater
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