Weekly News. — 1891-10-22 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

THE AUSTRIAN DIUSEUMS.  The Emperor of Austria opened on Saturday% new Imperial Museum of Art, in the Ring Strum opposite the old palace of the Hofburg. The ces. muny was attended by all the Ministas, hy the Burgomaster of Vienna, and a um. her of invited guests. The Museum is, in in external aspect, an exact counterpart of tbs Natural History Museum opened last year, from which it is divided by a spacious square, is the centre of which stands the Maria Theresa Mom ment. The edifice has been in the hands of Barn Hasenauer, the:architect, for no less than Nye" though, like the corresponding Museum, it Is been externally finished for the last 10 yens. The interval has been employed on the do corations of the interior, of whose lavish rid. ness and beauty probably very few people have any idea, unless they have visited the building which was opened last year. Every amide and painter of note who has lived in Vienna for% last 10 years has, says the Standard corresponded in the city, been employed, more or less, in assisting in the embellishment of this Museum of U. The late celebrated Austrian artist, Herr Makart,il well represented in the works of art which Mont the walls and ceilings of the Museum. The Hungarian painter Herr Munkacsy has a paintirg on the ceiling of the great entrance hall, representing the apotheosis of Art, which forms one of the principal attractions of the building. This Odin was painted on one piece of canvas, woven especially tor the purpose, and so large that the painter had to have a special house built to enable hints work on it. The entrance hall sliews another ale. brated work of art, to wit, Caneva's marble groupol Theseus and the Centaur, which for many yews stood in a special Greek temple in the Volks Gem here. This group stands on the first landing of td grand staircase. The dimensions of the entruce hall, in which the chief ceremony took place, may be gathered from the fact that this immense group by Canova appears dwarfed to only s medium size. The ground floor to the right and left of the entrance hall leads to the collar Cons of Roman, Greek, Mediteval, and Bemis canes antiquities, to the Egyptian Museum, to the collection of Greek vases, antique bronzes, cut stones and coins, aid to the very important collee tion of objects of old art industry, altogether oc. cupying, 39 large rooms. In the basement are the celebrated Princes' tombs, with unique reliefs found in Lycia, in Asia Minor. The principal part of* museum is, however, the first floor, with 14 rely large and 19 smaller rooms. They are on either side of the splendid circular hall that is surmounted by a lofty cupola. The first floor contains the IBM penal Picture Gallery, with 1,735 old masten and about 300 new masters. With the exception of about 150 old masters, including paintings by Titian, Veronese, Velasquez, Rubens, Diirer, ml others, for which no room could hitherto In found, and which had till now been hidden awsy. all the works in this collection are well known,and, indeed, famous throughout the world as the former gallery of the Vienna Belvedere. It is hardly possible to describe how greatly the numerous celebrated pictures of this gallery—for instance, the Rubens lection—have gained in colour and effect by their new surroundings. The splendid ro flight is common to all the central halls, while the smaller rooms on each side have side lights. These collet, tions will be thrown open in a few days. The second floor has 12 rooms, containing a very fine ed., lection of water colours from the various Imperial Palaces. Very few people in Vienna had any knowledge of the existence of these works. The Museum will altogether unite what has hitherto been scattered all over the city, including the Bel. vedere Gallery, the Ambraser collection, the lia• parial Armoury. and the larger part of the eel& brated Wiener Schatzkammer in the old Hofburg In addition to these, whatever was found is tba Imperial palaces and castles throughout Amnia wmthy of a place has been included with these better-known collections. All the contents d Olt Art Museum, as tell as the Natural Berth Museum, together with the buildings themselvel. are the private property of the Emperor, who, by help of uaunificent grants from the Civil List, s every year adding to the already very rich ale& time of the Inwerbsl how,e.  - ----Edgar Upjohn, 40 years of age, a commercial traveller, residing at No. 6, Darenth-road, Stoke Newington, committed suicide on Friday evening, by shooting himself through the head witb are* volver.—Mrs. Upjohn was out visiting, and oa her returg.the servant told her she had heard the rePrel of firanns upstairs, but was afraid to go and mar' tam the cause. Mrs. Upjohn and the servant, les' ever, went up to the study, and there found_gri Upjohn lying on the floor with a five-chamber!' revolver by his side. One chamber had been dl,l* charged, and that into the mouth of the decease,. No reason is given for the act. A most un'ortunate accident has occurred at station on the line between Hamburg and Alteee' It appears that Major Chiwer, an officer of the general staff, at present acting as a railway Oil. missary in Altena, was on Wednesday afternocconj over by a train at this point. One of his &WM. torn off, and he received serious injuries to wrs head. His condition is hopeless. The death is recorded of the Rev. A. Walbsoati Chaplain of the German Chapel Royal 1Dr1.,..°1 the German Lutheran Church, at Halston, in to° 84th year of his age. The deceased was one of the_i founders of the German Hospital in Halstoa, acted as hon. secretary and chaplain to that institie lion ever since its opening in 1E45. He was known amongst the German community in Lobor„, and took an intense interest in the institutions which he was so long connected.  glderly aunt: "My dear, I have just put you down in my will for £I,000," Her niece: "Lb' auntie, what can I say to thank you? How are feeling to-day?" District visitor (blandly): "Well, dame, haf do you find things now ? ' Crusty old cottag_,..er' "How do I find things ? Why, by looking 'em, to be sure." An Irishman, en his arrival in New York, was asked by a Yankee what brought him 1,1 America. "Arra, begorra," says Pat, "it wax' for want, as 1 had 'plenty of that at home.'