The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-05-01

their belief the children of the present generation
OF Americans should learn to dislike and despise |
that the principle Of authority and the veneration
for law should be destroyed, and no curb should |
remain strong enough to rein in the headloug
course of democratic passion"
The Times concludes by moralizing on the mex
pedency of reducing the franchise in England to
such level as will place the governing power in
the hands of the poor and ignorant.
FINE-ART GOSSIP.
At sale of pictures, last month, in London, the
following are some of the prices realized. They
serve to show the estimation in which the works of
the artists named, are held:
The produce of the two days reached the very
large sum of f2l, ,248. Two Turner's, Venice and
'ostend, were bought by Mr.. Gambart,-the we
nice for f2,52O; the '0stend' for fI 1872. This
does not look as if Turner had fallen in the market
Among the oil pictures also The Pipe Bearer
by Lewis l2O guineas,-The Sick Child, by Frere,
Meditation, female figure, by Frank Stone, rs
f9S1sa a. ~ carried si J RJgEFdimhea two e6 fG8SfS by
the San Nicholas, in the Battle of st. Vincent, by
Sir ". Allan X. A., 200 gHneas, AWAY
by Hook, r. A, 432 guineas,-The Prison Win
dow, by Phillip, r. A, exhibited at the Royal
Academy in 1857, go guneas, Going to Sea, by
Hook, Il. A., 40 guineas,-The Morning Meal, by
Rosa Bonheur, 200 guneas, s,-Greenwood Shade
by Etty, h. A., $50 guineas. Among the water
colour drawings were The Frank Encampment, bv
Turner, $50 guineas,-Sir Roger de Coverley and
Addison and the Saracen's Head; the study for the
picture by Firth, r. A, $50 guineas,-View in the
Neighbourhood of Reigate, by Lirrell, go guineas
An Irish Fish Girl on the Sea Shore, by Z. Faed
IT'S guineas-The Fond Mother, by Leslie, r. A.,
500 guineas,-The Jewelled Hand, by SAINT 1872
guineas, ,-Catechisng the Independents, by Phil
lip, X. A., $40 guineas,-The Pet Fawn, the con-
joint work of Firth and Ansdell, 464 guineas--
Coming Summer, by Creswick and Firth, 42O gui-
neas,-Autumnal Sunset at Sea, by Turner, $50
guineas, s,-Evening, by Creswick and T. s. Cooper
44O guineas,-On the Medway, by Muller Isl gui-
neas,-a Landscape, with Cows, by Cooper, $50 gui-
neas,-a Landscape, by Linnell, SEN, $40 guineas
Portrait of Mrs. Robinson, by Reynolds, $50 gui-
eas,-Rome, from the Villa Madama, by r. Will
| son. 80 guneas, as,-London, from BatterSea Fields
by the same, 300 eas,.Portrait of Mrs. Quar-
/ rington, as st. Agnes, by Reynolds, $50 guneas,-
| Rural Amusements, by Sir I. Lawrence, 200 gui-
neas,-Ye Ladye Margaret's Page, full-length
| figure, by ID. Macse, Il. A., 100 guineas,-The
Angel delivering St. Peter from Prison. by Hilton,
| Il. A., 300 guineas,-Scenery near Crediton by
| +. r. Lee, r. A, 143 guineas On the Stour, a
landscape, by Cooper, A. K. A., 146 guineas,- "A
| Clearing-of Shower, Hampstead Heath, by
Linnef, sen., 325 guineas,-The Temple of Theseus,
at Athens, by Muller, 200 guineas.
The sale of works of art and uirtu contained in
| the Vienna Museum, which was of remarkable in
terest-indeed, unequalled since that of the BernaI
| colection-commenced at Messrs. Christi's on the
| 10Th, and ended on the 23d of March. The princi
pal lots and prices they fetched, were: magpifi-
cent silvergilt pine cup and cover 80 inches high
richly engraved and chased with pines and foliage,
in relief, surmounted with figure of Hope, me-
dallion inside, date 1859, fl33 0s the celebrat ted
| Poson-cup presented by Amurath the Third to the
Emperor Rudolph the Second, composed of grey
ish metal, supposed to contain an anidote against
poison, beautifully inlaid with gold, set with rubes,
emeralds and turquoses, EST l5s.; Cein Altar
piece and Shrine of ebony, enriched with elaborate
chasings of silver, Gll3; magnificent Benitier-
| the bowl superb onyx, the back slab of fine old
| Florentine mosaic, chased with flowers and fruits
SOB; beautiful Toilette Service in engraved rock
crystal, consisting of three bottles and covers a
d0n6onntere, and cup, mounted with enamelled
gold, f69; bust of st. Ursula in silver gilt for a
| reliquary, with coronet and collar of enamel sci
| with colored stones, f90 Cup of rock crystal
with spout formed as bird, with the wings carved
in relief tail and legs of silver glIt-round the neck
silver gilt collar set with opas and almondines-
siver-gilt stand chased with flowers E17S los.
a beautiful Tankard in ivory, carved with frieze
of Bacchanalian boys, representing the Triumph OF
Silenus, by FlamingO lined and mounted in silver
| gilt, chased with fruit and foliage fl0l n
beautiful Casket, formed of very fine slabs of
! lapis-lazui, lined and mounted with metal gilt,
| chased with foliage, &c, f7S; a very beautiful
Cellini jewel, of gold and enamel, set with dia-
monds, with rising top inclosing four subjects from
the Life of Adam, the under enameled blue
and black, fl02 l0s set of 20 Medallion portraits
carved in wood by Albert Durer, fl13 Ss Among
the illuminated MSS. was Bible, extremely curl
Gus and rare, of twelfth century work, with 15C
drawings, the greatest part in four compartments
in page; the descriptions to the earlier portions
in very old French, 81 guneas. copy OF the
well-knOwn alchemical work, styled the "SplendoI
SoIus," inferior to that in the British Museum, six
teenth century, % paintings velum, 81 guineas
The whole collection was extremely rich in cary
ings in ivory and b0xwood silvergilt cups, chaIce
and tazzas, Limoges and other enamelS, jewelry
rings (medeva and antique), watches clocks anC
plate, Majolica, Palissy and Hispano- Mauro ware
locks keys and caskets, Ores de-Flandres, Cologne
old Dresden and w Wedgewood ware: German anC
+la min atn all apt
also few pictures. Although of mixed interes
and value, as whole the collection was splendid
considering which the total sum obtained by the
ten days sale small, being no more than
f7,69l 12s.
HYpNoTrsM-The French scientific journals are
full of accounts of the application of the new dis
coverv, Hypnotism. In Cosmos we hnd a detailed
account of an amputadon performed while the pa
tient was under its influence in the HOtel-Dieu o
Potiers, on a man aged "a, whose left knee was in
creased by white swelling to nearly double the siz
of the right knee, and was painful that the leas
, movement produced the most intense suffering.-
The hypnOtism was produced bv placing spatul
about eight inches in front of the root OF the nose
Looking at this he soon became insensible in spit
of the severe pain which he was in from being ia
: ken to the operating room. Insensibility was pro
duced in ten minutes, and the amputation occupie
minute and half. The patient made no sign @
pain. and when questioned by the doctor said b
, thought he was in paradise. His features wer
perfectly tranquil; his eyes only seemed to be wan
dering in search of the brilliant object which ha
been before them. very singular experiment i
hypnotism has been many times repeated in France
1t consists in marking chalkline along a hooI
and placing hen whose beak also has been whittier
ed with chalk in the axis of the line and nearl
touching it. She soon sinks into the most complet
hypnotic sleep, accompanied by nsensbility and ca
aepsy. BY blowing gently on her eyes, she
+ awakened and Immediately shakes herself, har
her wings, and runs away with much squawking.
The Hon. Edward Everetts Life of Washing
ton" will shortly be published 1t is the narrativ
4 furnished by him to the new edition of the Ehcy
clopedia Britannica, in return for which the put
: fishers present him with a copy of that gres
: national work, now just reaching completion