The New York Herald Newspaper, September 18, 1853, Page 6

ee eee ee “THE WORLD OF ART. Gallery of Paint'ngs at the Crystal Palace. Whe Herald Commissioner among the Pictures. Chaos is gradually yielding to order in the Crystal Palace. The gallery of paintings is now open to Visiters. 1) stretches across the main nave at its eastern extremity, and receives light from above by day, and from a serried row of small gasburners, at a ema!l elevation, by night. Its size isso consider able that we could not help thinking, as our eye yan down its leagth, that had each country contri- buted its masterpieces, there would be little left else- where for the student of art to admire. Near seven Dunéred paintings hang from its walls; and so jadi- lowsly have these been placed, that nearly all of them ean be seen to advantage. Throngs of visiters, fgmeng whom pretty faces and bright toilettes were watber the rule than the exception, filled the gallery @m the occasion of our visit. Many did the Exhibi tion the homage of fall dress. The catalogues are not yet printed; acd though this deficiency is, in a cer- tain sense, an advantage, inasmuch as the paintings can only be judged on their own merits, still it was pet difficult to perceive that the bulk of those present ‘were rather inconvenienced by the want of this use- | fal auxiliary. We heard Colin’s ‘ Columbas” criti- | eised asa Gableo, a Protestant, a Dwarf tried for | magic. Several ingenious theories were advanced in our hearing to exylain Antignan’s “ Inundation,”’ most of which were based on the supposition that fhe rocf of the house to which the peasants are flying for sa’ety, was a bill covered with moss and brash wood. One young lady, with des yeux mourants, ‘was lost in rapture before a painting which to br presented a lover about to abandon his broken- hearted mistress; it would have been the height @f crvelty to inform her that it was designed to de- pict Christ with the adultress. These little quipro- qnes, however, added a charm to the exhibition. One may mistake the Dake of Wellington for “ the | portrait of a gevtleman,” and Crusader” in Gavazzi, without forte to respectability, or even a moderate degree of con- | noisseurship. To us, the exhib'tion presents itselfia a tyo-fold Aght—abstractly, and relatively. In the latter, re garded asa constituent portion of a world’s fair, and assuming, or at least supposed to represent the | word's art, there can be no differeace of opinion on Ms merits. We could have wished to deal gently with individuals whose exertions on behalf of the ex- Bidition have really been meritorivus; but the question, “ How is the world’s painting represented a the Crystal Palace?”—bluntly put to us as critics, we cannot possibly elude it by cautious circumlocu- fienws and are compelled to reply in the plainest Boglish at our command. We must say, then, that, Wewed in this character, the exhibitioa of paiatiags — feas nearly a total failure as can be well imaziaed. The world’s painting is not represented at all. @ear notion of the state of art in the various coun- fwies which have contributed manufactures, ma- chinery, minerals, &c., to the exhivitioa, can be ob- tained from the gallery of paintings. In this respect ‘the Crystal Palace teaches nothing; and it redects Bittle credit on the judgment of the managers that, Raving before them proof abundant that for various geasors art could not be fairly represented ia the exhibition, they resolved to lay bare their failure by eonsecrating a special division of the Palace to paintings. In the first place, American art is, with one or, | two exceptions, not to be found at all, and for a very good reason, which we shall violate no confi lence in mating at this covjuncture. When the Exit was yet in embryo, invitations were sen seldorf and other foreign painters, re to covtribute. No such invitation was ad American arists. Our countrymen very n elt themsc!ves aggrieved at the omission, aud ¢ agreed to send nothing to the Palace. Hence visiter wil] look in vain for anything by the me. who have a right to consider themselves as the revreseu- tatives of American art. We said there were exc’p- tions to the rule. Leutze’s small reproduction of his large picture of “Washington Crossing the Dela ware,” is there; and, though perfe:tly accurate as a y espy, only teaches us to regret the more that tae | om: | pare. The stnpendous masses of ice which strike | original is abeent. For effect, the two cannot horror into the,beholder of the large picture, are in signifi ‘ant in the small version. Nor does the dyure of Washington stand ont in such noble relief in the Jatter as in the former. We leave it to artists too sign 3 reasen for the fact. Mr. Peale’s ‘* Was tox” is also in the ery, which is probably due to the fact that its author his long since withdrawn trom the artistic world, and caa hardly be expected to be aware of the policy adopted by his brother painters Of his Washington it were superilaons te speak at any length. We do not the foreshortening of the horse’s neck aad body ; but the head of the “ Father of his Country” is, as everybody knows, beyond criticism. If Mounts well known “ Interior,” with che negro listeaiag i the foreground, be an original, we pres coatributed by the proprietor,and not by the auth Mr. Woodville, taough an Americao, and prop classed among American artists, lives at Dasseldorf; which e. ins oresence of 4 lively painting >f a “Bailor’s Wedding” from bia brush. A few portraits, possessing considerable merit for the resemolance, were probably contributed by their owners. If tae gallery contain any other American wor'rs of note, we did not perveive then; and feel quite jastitted in Qeserting ‘hat American art is not represented. What may have been the motive which actuated the Fnglich artists, we are of course unable to say; | but certain it is tha’ England is even worse of than America. We could find nothing, even of mediocre merit,among their contributions. All the great names are absent; the great landscapes are not to be seen; fhe pre Rayhaelites are nowhere; the Landsecr school is missing; for aught the exhivition teaches, art might be dead and buried in Enylan Mast we con-iter the wretched portrait of known as the “ Ch ” Shak substitute for the mod Passing to France, we find a painting which repre- sents the angel of death carrying off a young ¢ while a man keeels in grief at her bedade: a he corner, we see in very legible characte Vernet,” 1851. Horace Vernet, as is weil known, hie daughter, the wife of Paul Delarocl: winwe he event aggravated a malady Re was afflicted, and Jed to long inte! ty. was designed to rep ere ean only sey that, if it be authestic ts kind among Vernet’s works, V experienced What merit it possesses is no a server. Though worth a pas Beither sustain putation. Mr. Colin anc connoisseur to re ng g an established, nor have a sort never exhibits anything rho, we In one picti Payfelly cut d more ridiculous the that «1 him. Wea eapecial’y sncb men when we d artist havin: vation, 0 as the painti an arranger ike Mr. Cc priests, eoldicrs—in'a row, e r y neat drills between them. A s¢ ) edi { Iumbus, by the same, this time out f tants all high, and in the fall glory of his ava7al at Santa Oroz, avoids thé faults « w bu e n to parti e ing 4 scene of tek 5 Ing No | like | it was | hundred individuals, in exceed! Night attire, are duced bslf as many charitable aswe find on writhing end twisting round each . ‘The paint ; canvass it wes a county. A desperate con- ing would have been clearer and more effective had an of Austria and a there bern fewer personages. [t spirit. ef foreign from Munich ie a It some years since M. Biard disgusted the peo- Performance, but the perspective is we oe ~ Rouea by echibiting a plotare ta sadly ef le Ll seen = (Munich w beantiful women are depict better thing: Schneider than ‘Execu- a atate of nudity, fn the centre of a cof canni- | tion of Marino Feliero.” ‘The countenance of the grou bals. who are dancing avd preparing for their infer. nal repast. The bare idea is one that a person of Tiara, eter ha srg serves, ad wrought Ou ng nerves, jiard, however, has fe a ae his loathsome conception with pat tributed a and xl. This is tis contribution to our World's | Most spe Fair, where, as was to be expected, it excites a good | which the deal of attention. out. There is M. Antignon bas let us have his “ Tnundation.” We are thankful to him for it. It is a good picture, drawn cleverly, and paisted with vigor. At first it bas a queer effect, cer‘ainly, to see the old man | dragged out of what looks like a or mud hole, while the young woman and her friends are scram- bling up the hill in a state of astonishing excitement; but»s soon as you know thst the mud hole isa gar- ret window, the hill the roof a house, and the scene one of those frightful inundations which, in some | pan of France occasiona'ly overwhelm whole ham- lets, the whole thing is clear as neon day. It fillsan is in the coarse loo! tress,” and bearing the signature of M. Sigaol. | Eycken, by Whetber veither,or only one of the two is an original we cannot undertake to say. Tue beat of the two —the one in which the face of the female is veiled— is a copy of the celebrated picture at the Luxem- bourg gullery, and is certainly a magnificent concep- tion. he attitude and expression of Christ, as he | exclaims “Let him among you who is without sin, cast the first stone at ber! "* are truly admirable. A reproduction of Delacroix’s “Charlotte Corday” gives a very fair notion of bis peculiar style, and as a | mere mechanical work is worthy of some commenda- tion. We ought also to mention a couple of pieces which are stated to be by Ary Scheffer. They are, if we recollect right, a * Virgin and Child” aud a “Christ before the Doctors.” Both are chastely of the old order. dence, and some very wiecks and estrays are regarded as a legitimate source of profit. An old hag, but half dressed, ad- vauces into the surf and clutches the necklace of a young girl whose lifeless form has drifted toward er. Bebiod her, her son reaches her a knife to cut | the necklace. The woman extends her hand to- wards nim, but at the same tine casts a greed! | look at another corpse which the next wave will brieg to her feet. A finer conception we have sel- son perched on | dom admired. women tel 'o our taste, however, the finest of the French paintil asmall landscape, with sheep, thrast | a vare corner of the gallery, and which half visiters will never see. it is by the celebrated Rosa Bonheur—a lady who, by the force of her geni- us and her noble devotion to art, has risen to the first @ among French landscape and cattle painters. ‘Te pamting under review is worthy of her reputation. Nothing could be truer than the color; nothiag soft- eror more charming than the effects of light. It is plain that the artis! has copied no other master than batnre. With the exception of these two last works, we may safely say that France has contributed nothing to the gallery that is worthy of her rank in art. And though we render full justice to these solitary speci- mens of genius, we are bound to state that neither Mde. Bouheur nor M. Laminais can presume to rep- resent French art. It is needless to fatigue the reader with a long string of names of French pain- ters who ought to have 9een here and who are not; he has only to csli to mind avy of the great names he bas used to associate with paintiag in France, to assure himself of the defizieney. Here, then, we have a gallery of the world’s paint- ings—seven bundred pieces, or thereabouts—among which neither American nor English nor French art is adequately represented. This Palace, in which it stands, is # world’s fair. It takes rank far adove ary ordinary show, on the strength of its universal charac- ter. It was designed to afford an arena for an intel- lectual tournament between all nations, out or which should spring kuowledge and improrement for each. Had it merely been a collection of pretty curiosities, or ie treasures, or ingenious machi- nery, or rare products of the earth, eollected together | for the mere purpose of exhibition, it would have had no greater claim on the government or the press or the | padlic than Parnum’s orany other museum. On the strength of the general conviction that the New Yor’ World’ was to be something more than that vieiters would be shown, a+ @ glance, the ees mide by the nations of the earth in the nis fielon opened to the human intellect—that ive merit of each would de fairly exhi- | bited—and that we, in whose land the Fair take: place, would have an opportunity of perceiving and | learnivs: ty emmiste foreign SKIN mid stout — the D Palace Company have received a3 much agement as the © ystitntion allowed, as as the bee could bestow, and mach »oage fromthe public than was ever grant ur undertaking. How far the exhioition res, niachinery, raw materials, &c., has jpations, it isnot at present our Rut. we need only repeat the thet in the department of painting an nor the French nor the Baglish ly represented, to show how miserably s disappointed the public, and | failed to perform its well understood compact in this | branch. It is useless to enlarge on the point. Let us— having plated our emphatic opinion upon record— view the gallery, abstractly, as though it had no connection with the World's Fair, and owed nithing to the public. The Diisseldorf men are in a large mojority. As a general rule, their paintings are the best in the gallery. They are not all tnere, however. Wem as Lessing, Schadow, Sohn, the greater Hildebrand, Mucke, and several | others But Dusseldorf makes, notwithstanding, a very credituble picture Hasenclever has five pic- tures. Que is a bamboche in a cellar, without striking m cene of the revolutionary times in Ger- ia, we “ Miracle,” lated to deli sit who could official much pra | more pati ed toa s of mannf | justified th purpose to Ings of wr as old acquaintances. “ studio.” kindpers in aceom for steam engines. and shoes. man, ne of the sovereign people strik- ing Gor the council of his principality | York by present petition for the rights of man, is Wm. P. Greenle | irited. The amazement of the chief | provement in the | worthy, at the bare mention of very tunnjly depicted. A couple of scenes from the well known German burlesque poem—the Jobsiade | —attract a good deal of attention. In one Jobs is in his schoclroom, at the head of a pack of open- | mouthed urchins; in the other the hero figures as a nigiit watchman. The latter is remarkable as a work of art. Jobs’ figure is well cut out against the dark sky—the effects of light from the moon | in the distance, and his lantern ia the foreground, i sted, and the comical expression of Jobs is well given. To these, and in 3 works, the portrait of Hasenclever esasasortofkey. You ter a look at that jovial 0; from the air with which h2 floarishes that immense flagon one can readily conceive him | painting the “ wine-tasters ” Hiibuer is not so well represented. Though the inily Prayer” and the are clever and li winving poetry of d popular rights, is George Potts, of in England, Nov. 8. 185: menc in fences. fact bims engines. figured fubrice. in banging mill saws, by thi A Signor Fiorizzi has which a number of pin! eiriieee 7 pane oa jefencing ra will admire the sharpness with features of the old hero are cut his face that which tells of the con- quent he is destined to achieve, ightly exaggerated, presents a fine contrast, inquisitor points his finger to the book with evel core of unreasoning slavish obedience; the osopher points triumphantly to his diagram, an his face beams with godlike intelligence. It isa ques tion, perhaps, whetber, if t tempt was not the predominant exp leo’s face, wien he biked alle 9 lery @ piece rid Feuant peering over the shoulder of a boy, who is drawing a figure; and we are told that pervet ‘ian, has con- bis thesis A Galileo, though ression n honorable place at one end of the gallery, and de- | these two ages are respectively Cimabue and “TE ptas sntiee « corm a poms | CORTE Hees meas The gallery contains a couple of tings— | lieve ap} g of the kind. Perba e both ae “ Christ Meith e _Adul- | rica) painting in the collection is the murder of Van legenberger. Nothing can be more ef- fective than the contrast between the frantic death- struggle of the burgher and the calm nonchalance with which the Spanish officer sheathes his sword, leaving the work of butchery to be performed by his men. It is a work of immepse power. Mr. Winterhalter has mace a picture, which at a single glance we recognized as a “ Holy Family” The costume puzzled us a little in truth. Joseph wore a military uniform of the resent day; the ‘King of the fering his gifts .o the divise infant, bore a remark- able resemblance to the Duke of Wellington ; and the Virgin herself looked uncommonly like the effigy one sees on British sixpences. A judicious inquiry from our enlightened attendant, elicited the fact that the picture was not a Hol! posed, but the royal family of England. Michael Angelo used to paint his enemies as devils ; Mr. Winterhalter groups his patrons like the Virgin seints. We prefer the former. - Of domestic scenes and interiors there are abun- good.ones among the number. Wilms has contributed a spirited piece. representing an artist’s studio during the revolutionary times— the famous cap lying among artistic debris, the pistol rewmed with a paint brush, &c. the twenty or thirty neat Dutch pieces of this charac- ter, most of which are as exquisitely finished as one expects from that school. peaeee, however, which we cannot in silence, is an architectura! is a masterly performance in we must protest against the place which the direc- tors have assigned to it. Why not place it where it can be seen by people under ten feet high ? Italy is represented, in the first place, by Carlo Dolci, by whom we find an excellent “ Madonna and Child.” It is really one of the best Carlo Dolcis we ever met, and well deserves the peculiar respect with which it is treated at the exbibition. A miser. able copy of Correggio’s well known ‘ Madeleine,” lieve, the only other re'ic of the old Italian schools. In the copy, ‘ Madeline” has a smirk on her face; the painte, probably fancied she was read- ing a funny book, Modern Italy—with the exception of a couple of spirited Jandsca es by Cumino—had little worth sending. What she bad she sent, how- ever, and there it is—to wit : a ‘ Torquato Tasso,” killed according tothe most approved and severe rules of art. Nothing csuld be more beautifully sym- metrical than the grief of the bystanders, or more et- fective than the hexagonal group of mourners who surround the octuhedral moribund. as he assumes a | position decidedly parallel to the frame. San Francesco d’ Assires, also calcu- the heart of a teacher of perspective. eluge,” in | fece by Ki oe | piece by Kirchner. It that peculiar style, and rated a to recant. There h, representing a ” who was of- ‘amily, aa we sup- A Dominie p> e library stairs, with five volumes under his arms and ia his hands is amusingly done. 8o is a French piece, representing a couple of don- keys jogging along a flat country on a summer's morn. ing. Wierse bas sent a fair “Interior,” with two ig their secrets by candlelight. But we have had too many of these cardlelight scenes. should never finish if we attempted to individualize Item: a | The the truth was known, con- Galli. and We Our Canadian Csrrespondence. Toronto, August 2%, 1853. ‘Typ by the New York and Erie Rail lroad— Reduc. thon of Employes—Decline of Dunkirk— The Buffalo and States Line—The new Monument to General Brock at Queenstown—Prosperity of Toronto—Wonderful Increase of Population— New Buildings—Rapid Transportation of the Mails—The Ontario, Simcoe and Huron Rail road—Dinner to Mr. Stephenson, the English Engsneer—His Opmnion of the United States Rail- ways. The trip along the New York and Erie Railroad has been go often miuutely described by the delighted traveller, that it must be as well known to the gene- ral reader as to him who has enjoyed the charming and varied scenery many times; and how pleasant to contemplate now some enchanting valley in all ite cultivated beanty, and anon the savage and untamed grandeur of the rugged mountain—the undulating hillsand fair meadows—the deep ravines, and the densely wouded forest! The admirers of natare in all her separate charms of scenic beauty, will find on this route the most perfect enjoyment. The road, too, is admirably managed, and the conductors are all of a better claas of men than are generally seen in that capacity. The New York and Erie Railroad Company can say, what I believe few others in the States can boast of, that there was no accident on their line for 12 months past. 1 understand that a vast re- duction in the expenses of working this line has been made within the last two months. It appears that Mr. Thos. L. Smith, formerly of the New. Jersey Railroad, has been recently appointed superintendent of that division of the Erie road from Hornellsville to Dunkirk, and that the result of his supervision, since the Ist of July, has been the reduction of over five hundred employees—mechanics, artists and Ja- borers—whose wages averaged from $8 to $18 a week each; and consequently there has been a great reduction in the expenses of the company, there being now but about one hundred and fifty men to do the work formerly done by over six hundred and fifty. This seems to have had no bad effects on the work- ing of the line; and if a proportionate reduction of abor were mace on the other divisions of the road, the Erie shares would be looking np. ‘The healthy and beautifully sitaated town of Dun- kirk, which was 50 piroapernos some twelve monthe ago, seems “hastening to decay;” this is attributed to the traffic for Buffalo verging off almost entirel: at Horncllisville by the New York city railroad; it appears, also, that the boats formerly running be- tween Dunkirk to Toledo and other ports, have been taken away and placed at Buffalo, where they run in connection with the Southern Michigan line. The States line of railroad from Erie, through Dun- kirk to Buffalo and Cleveland, is very commodious and well conducted, and passes through a very interesting part of the country. The new Brock monument at Queenstown, which, from the model I described to you on a former occa- sion, has been commenced, and it promises to be a perfect specimen of artistic genius. It is the design of Mr. William Thomas, architect, of Toronto. The city of Toronto is wonderfully improved, and is daily progressing in prosperity and wealth. New streets and beautiful stone buildings have sprung up, as it by magic, ard the increase of population from emigration, within the last twelve months, has been so immense—namely, from 31,000 to 40,000 inhabi- tant:—that some persons say there must have been a mistake in the former census, and that the latter ‘ives the more correct estimate of the number of in- fabitants of the city. St. James Cathedral, one of the new buildings, which, when externally finished, will be an ornament to Toronto, has been opened for divine service. It is completed inside, and is a chaste and simple structare. The steeple has not been erected yet. The new stone fronted post office is another instance of the increasing importance of this c'ty; and by the enterprise of its men of busi- nese, the Evropean mails are transmitted from New York ard Boston to Toronto, and hence to those cities, by a mail agent, Mr. McNamee, oving to pecple are crawling over each other—quite upneceesarily we must say—and | running over the canvass a jodicious angles. A man | int a deluge in the present day would | be avery able artist indeed. Signor Fiorizzi seems | to paint by the square foot; and as be has made quite | a large picture we have no right w grumble. time ¢ evoted to such daubs is trash. We have no wish to fill our pie with critiques of the failures which abourd in our readers can find themselves. Indeed. as twelve: | thirteenths of the paintings do not rise above a very humble mediocrity, and at least three or four: thirteenths would be out of place anywhere but ina barroom, they can hardly go wrong. many squares of canvass that were pot worth the frame they occupied. In ove corner’ several paiat- io most excerabls order -ccurcd ty 5 6 US But | e gallery. Those We noticed On inquiry we found they 3. | whi ally feels on contemplat | Ne it of an old lady in afi and shoes. reminds on the old Mad: a equal to his reputation, i provement in Jard lamps, bed to him. ascri A poetical landsca Wm. Crompton, of dit to its auther, . one of his eality and meaning. | power looms. eet La April 9, 1851. Geo. F. improvement in Feb. 8, 156 ith great power ant though balf a Pari- " | their names as Wil dence given—and re noon, taking bat th ite of fa y dec REISS Patented No’ owers and Hartf: Dy DITIONAL IMPROVEMENT. g Sept. 30, 1 Pierre Demeure and Augnate Maw York, N. Y.—For inprovement in bed bottoms, of Washington, N. ape of scythe, fadok H. Mann, of Cincinnati, Obio—For im- provement in eafety valves for steam boilers. Cincinnati, Ohio.—For improved | revolving mandrel for ining cylinders with metal. Andrew Robeson, Jr., of Newport. R. —For im- ovement in the mode of bucking cloth. Patented Americen Genius List of patents issued from the United States Pa. tent office, for the week ending September 13, 1853, all bearing that date :— Matthias W. Baldwin, of Philadelphia, Pa—For improvement in the gear of variable cut off valves belonged toa noted barber, and we had last cata- logued their absurdities while getting shaved in his How in the world did "his happen? It only remains for us to thank Mr. Maton for his paying us on our visit, and to congratulate the directors on their good fortune in posseseing 20 obliging and erudite an auxiliary. John Chilcott and Robert Snell, of Brooklyn, N. Y —For improvement in india rubber soles for boots John Chileott and Kobert Snell, of Brooklyn, N. Y.—For improvement in cutting boots and shoes. Patented in Belgium, Sept. 16, 1852; in France, Sept 17, 1852; in England, , of New H.—For Hervey S. Ross, of Cincianati, Ohio-—For improve- Samue) B. Summer, of Grantville, Mass.—For im- provement in bootjacks. Josiah M. Smith, of New York, N. Y.—For im- proved cutter head for moulding machines. Richard H. Townsend, of New York, N. ¥Y—For improvements in working the valves of steam Frederick W. Norton, of Lasswade, Great Britain.— For improvements in the manafacture of plaia and James Ravkin, of Detroit, Mich.--For improvement John Chilcott and Robert Snell, of Brooklyn, N. } Y.—For improvement in screw fastenings for boots Leonard A. Stockwell, of Batavia, N. Y—For im- r i, Conn., assignor to Merrill A. Furbash and George Crampton, of cester, Mass.—For im Wor- nt in figure or fancy 25, 1837, extended own, V2-—For MELANCHOLY Scvictiwr By a Y Syracuse—On Monday evening a gentleman and dy took lodgings at the Globe EH tel @ Lavy shers. Patented | 1 registering _H. Reeves and Indy; no resi- und with oweve g mor a, wh yand Aol Totel dollars, and re lady ho had or un b mn r, in 2 wag h nen the Indy sent be for * Tnes hi " tat she did not or did she een nothin the clerk seemed to k ing to pay a es offer she took ome, Ww that moat pat nation and the 104, took lodg- | ained there until the next fore- lodgings ta g their bill, room where rd of them aa er bag- t until said d supposed passed for her hus of whore dexterity and quickness the Arabia's last mails were received in Toronto within eleven days afierthey left Liverpool. The jail, in which there are, at pre- sent, nearly four hundred prisoners—yet only one for a capital offence—is admirably maraged by Mr. G. L. Allen, the new Go ernor, who hss introduced the system of product ve labor amongst the prisoners, which is so generally asoried in the United States. The Ontario, Simcce, and Huron line of railroad, which rons from Toronto to Lake Simcoe, and is ultimately intended to connect those two great sheets of water, Ontario and Huron, has added, and still must add, grea\ly to the commercial prosperity of this city, avd to the agricultural interests of the bs boring country. 7 the civil engineers of this province gave a magni- ficent dinner on Friday night to Mr. Robert Stephen- soe, M D., the warld renowned Rnaliah anymacr. The entertainment was given in the large room of the Government House, which was aporopriately decorated, and profuse y supplied with the good things of life. Several toasts were given and speeches made. Mr. Stephenson, in the course of his ce- sponse, thus advied the people of Casada to avoil e pernicions system of competition on railway lines which exist in the United States. Coming from so eminent a man it may not be inaptly quoted here: — Canada might derive a prosperity taac was herdly dreamed of, rtm a gocd system of railways, while 9 ¢ yn trary state of things might produce disastrous conse- qnences What he deri: to do sas to warn the coan- try against competing lines. Ge had lea ned a lesson in Frplané about cor peting liner—be having beea connect ed with the first-that guided bia in his ovisions Ge could axtore the country that the best pos ibla thing for the public at large would be to get a harmonious systam of railwsys, and they should suyport the government ia waip‘sining tbat principle. He would stroagly urge upon the attention of the people o’ Canada the mistake made by the United States, where they had cacried con- petition he might truly ray toon aeurd extent, They saw tn some paces in New York and Maswachnsetts, thres or fovr lines gomg bed wd same place The couatry bad scattered over tt numerous incomplete lives of railway. and the conrequence was that they could not afford rae public eitber a means of economieal travelling or coava nience, or even safety It was ‘ar batter to have a double track than two ringle-lines ot railway. as the form r conld be worked with two-thirds of the expause This making of doudie tracks aroe from ecery wan sayiag * I must bavea railway on my own Isod’ He asrured them that that was pernicious and that with a double line there wan greater rafety, greater speed aud gceater economy. In New and Marsacharetts the people were beginning to seetoeir mistake, and to cowe wdou- ble lines He knew th: in Canada it would at present le lines; bat whet he warned he neceseary to make si them spsinst was not to make sirg’e competing lives. There is ane ee in the scenery of this country, arismg probably from the glowing bright ness of the atmosphere, aided by a wide expanse of water’ surrounded by woodland views The weather here is delightfully refreshing and healthy, though it must be considered cold to oue so recently from the scorching atmosphere of New York and its vicinity. Toronto, Sept. 2, 1853. Canadian Ra'lroads—A Trip to Lake Simcoe— Its Scenery and Indian Inhatntants—Melan- choly Death of Robert P. Leland, of New York— Public Buldings—Niagara Steam Trafic—The Sanatary Laws of Toronto—The Hurvest, §&c. The construction of railroads in Cavada will in- fore into the people that spirit of commercial enter. | prise and quickoess of business habits fur which their neighbors across the line are so proverbial. Already is an improvement perveptible in this town since the construction of the Ontario, Simcoe and Huron line; although as yet it has been ouly opened as far as Bradford, there coonecting witha lake boat. This railroad, under the general superiatend- e of Mr. A. Brunel, and conducted and en- ecred by experienced Yankees, and some few Engliebinen, manifests a system worthy of an older line. The accommodations are very comfortable, and the cars—some of which, as well as some of the engines, were built in New Jersey—are constracted on the same commodious plan of the New York and Erie line. The railroad from Toronto to Guelpb, and the great trunk line from Halifax thronzh Que- bec, Montreal and Toronto, and counacting ia this city with the Guelph and Lake Huron lines, aré in course of construction, and wi ronto and many othe: siderable importance. A trip ‘rom this to I Simcoe is worthy of ape- cial notice. The 0.8. and H. railroad, as far as Bradford, does not furnish many w of beaaty, il doubtless make To ‘anada West of con cities in y was cut right through a@ forest, and beyond ) materials, the road mast have cost little e expense of hewing down the wood, vel road, with but few windiogs, and a few At Bradford the company provides ith a steamboat for Lake Simcoe; in some parts about fourteen feet deep, bat it much im) pavigation is at prosen very image ded il very fine shooting, the s Dever will be thought of, Wild here in great quantities. At bay, and the entrance to ‘sland, inhabited exclu- contains about 400 acres, (oaly fc 8 of two hondred and fifty inhabitants, who live by ing, fis) and basket making, for which they ready sale in Toronto and other cities of this pro- vince. Bird Island, a smal) patch of Jand and wood opposite Snake Island, is also whabited by Indians, and often may theee ancient and rude sons of the forest be seen in their canoes fishing on the lake, which isin some Piet twenty miles wide, twenty futboms deep, about thirty miles in length. is said to be about one hundred and seventy feet above Lake Huron, into which it es itself through Lake Gougichin, the Severn and Geor- ian Bay. The s:enery of Lake Simcoe is very pic- resque, and in come places forcibly reminds me of part of the 8t. Lawrence and the thousand islands, from the many islands that stud its waters and many of which are of considerable extent. The banks ofthe lake are clothed with wood down tothe water's edge, and consequently there is no beach. On ing into the narrows there is afmall village—Ather- ly—on the rigbt about which there is some fertile Jand, yet but a trifling population, The narrows swing-bridge was built at a cost of eight thousand dollars, to accommodate the people of Atherly to 28 over to Orillia. ‘The scenery here is very beau- Eh the broad lake interspersed with many se, and giving to view the village of Rama, inhabit by Chippewa Indians, who in 1833 removed here from the narrows, and pela coe thousand six hundred acres of land from the government tor ¢ight hundred pounds. They are ind strious and rosperous, and nearly all Wesleyan Methodists. The jake is completely frozen over in the winter sea- son, but is passable wish safety for sleighs, which muet form a great contrast witn its present graveful appearance. The scenery, on approaching Orillia, is also magnificent in the extreme, presentiug tue same picturesque view of thickly wooded islauds. Onillia was formerly an Indian village, but having been purchared by the government, it is now, as Me- tamora would say, inhabited by the “pale faces,” principally emigrants from the old country; from the view it commands of the lake, it is apprupriate- ly styled “the Killarney of Canada.” Frou Orillia the steamer returns along the western side of the lake, to thetown of Barrie, the passage embracing many similar views to the other portions of Simcoe. Barrie 's beautifully situated at the head of Kempen- feldt bay, and about forty miles trom Penetanguish- ine. It is a dis'rict ‘town, and has a juil and coart houre, with several government and district offices. A melancho! surred there it sterday, ly Same anY, 0c. just before I arrived. hilst Mr. Robert P. Leland, stalking to some of the workmen, and leaning on bia gun, with which he had been sporting, the piece ex- ploded,and the contents went through his body, de- priving bim of life ina few hours. He was a man to mourn his premature decease. dole with the widow of poor Leland, and attend his body to the grave. hen it is generally known that these world-re- nowned beauties of Lake Simcoe can now be com- fortably approached by railroad, and viewed from first class steamers, such as the company are build- the American, desirous of enjoying the most roman- tic sceneries of nature, of wood and water, 0’ moun- larvey of Canada,” where all that is grand and ma- jeetic of “nature's handy-work” may be admired. The Normal School, a chaste and substantial piece of architecture, is now in fall operation, and far- Rey. Doctor Ryerson, its superintendent. Mr. T. motber country, has, as head master, introduced mapy improvements, which are working a wonder- ful effect. He qualifies applicauts, male and female, for the situation of teacher, and they then take part in the iustruction of children in tne model sshool, which is also admirably conducted, under the mas- tership of Mr. McCallum. Triaity College 1s now finished, and by the beauty of its style adds con- siderably to the improvements of the city. built nearly opposite the asylum, which on a former occasion I described. ‘The sanatary laws of Toronto are rigidly enforced byes honest and hardworking set of councilmen. e Health and Street Inspectors of New York would learn a wholesome lesson by a visit to their Canadian brethren. The tailors of Toronto struck for higher wager afew cince, and are still stand- ipg out. The weather continues moderately cool, with an occasional hot hour about midday. The harvest has been, generally Speaking, good, with the exception of the oats being short in the stem; the produce of oats, however, will be good, though the straw will be but a poor supply. There is au abun- dant crop of wheat, and a fair average of potatoes. I should bave mentioned in connection with the increasing traffic of Toronto, the fact that the steam- boat ene have placed another steamer, tue Peerless, between this and Niagara; but the good old boat Chief Justice, with Alexander Molloy as its captain, is still the favorite. This gentleman's cour- tesy and well known nautical skill is such, that te has been engaged to take command of a new steamer between Toronto and Niagara, in connection with the great Northern Line of railroad, aud he there- fore resigns his present position in a few weeks, to assume the command of a line on which the traific promises to be very great, and where his eta K. character will be found attractive. A Letter About the Raliway System. Montreat, August 28, 1853. Northern Railways—The Line from New York to Montreal—Constitutional Lying of the Railroad Officials. Hallelujah! Ihave travelled four hundred miles by railway, more or less, without breaking my neck or dislocating a single joint! While so many o‘her poor fellows are smashed to atoms or drowned, I have escaped with the comparatively slight infliction of a couple of days imprisonment at Montreal. Like the Turk who retarned thanks to AJlah when he broke bis leg, as, said he, “it might have been my neck,” Jam gratefal to Provicence that I should have been let off with » mere detention of forty-eight hours. I might have been killed, and, on the whole, “that would have been still more unpleasant. Halle. lujah! But don’t confound Providence with the railroad companies. Gratitude to the former does not imply thankfulness to the latter. Let me put you in pos session of the features of my case. Wishing to go to Quebec from New York, I applied to the Hudson River Railroad Company for information respecting the journey, I was informed that by leaving your etty at six o’clock A. M., I would reach Montreal ny six o'clock P. M. the same day, and thus be in timo seven o’clock P.M. In confirmation of this stave" ment I was referred to certain printed pay i which the journey was la'd down with mattemat precision, and the arrival at Montreal at six ticned as invariable. tion of a doubt from me brought down upon my head astern reprimand from this official at Thirty-irs’ street; and on the faith of the printed and vervai I paid m New York at six A. M. on Saturday. ed Troy ten minutes bebind our time, and lost ten minu’es additional at that place ; this latter if time was due to the want of system in un- ng and delivering the oaggage. from Troy to and from Rutland to Bar'ington, there was Rutia no perceptible deviation n the printed time table; at Burlidgton five or ten rainutes were lost ia talking and fuwsiug; from Burlington to Bssex janction our rate of speed did d twenty to twe miles an hour. We wi five minutes late when w Half way between the latter place and came toadead stop. Inquiry being instituted, we were informed that we were waiting for the dowa train to paxs. late, Rnd we were late; there was no help for it. We waited till it came, and ed at Montreal at & qua ‘clock on Saturday evening, fw! half an y boat bad left. No one but a jaciass wonld expect to find enter. ise in Canada, 1 was not surprised to le-ra that we would be compelled to remain bere till Monday night, The high religious feeling of the people who burn down parliament houses, and require aa army tich soldiers to keep them in order, prevents g anyth ng so sinful as runnin as as never occurred to them t nt of fact, were it not for oar ¢ ol throngh Canada, I dou't ald be percootibly | . gly [found myself on board the steamer rning, mnder the command of Captain Bell, an ld and experienced navigator, vhose courtesy and rkill have rendered him a general favorite, commodations of hia present boat are not, | ry extevsive, but I anderstand th. g 1 iron steamer, ¥ c r, Cannot fail t v explore some of nator th EG mage, ty Vee river Holland t fare throngh to Montreal, and | which are cultivated,) and | beg of you, t- | their office, passengers leavin yiad York atsix A. M. arrive here at PM, @ native of New York, and chief engineer on that | tion of the Ontario and Simcoe railroad which is | ing constructed in the neighborhood of Barrie,was | of considerable ability in his profession; he was | much admired, and leaves a young widow and child | Mr. Brunel, the | superintendent, and other gentiemen connected with | the line, left Toronto this morning for Barrie, to con- to le who voluntarily consent m1 on @ journey ax hundred, } head on * use is steam waste “ed But I reserve further observations on this work which I contemplate “ Relapse of Certain Races into fine , 1 assure you, for ulate beans hand this them to institute i) i bags | sag we oe and ceedings forthwith road iy, for es in detention Their bandbills and of their agent, are the sole cause thereof. Print, ¥ i @ quotation from the bill which em) stating that lew it by way of commen’ my cal sale that passengers leaving NeW York at six o’clock, A. M., a8 rea preerip O7 viz P; . do not arrive twice a weel seven, gener- any reach this about eight or nine, For the confire mation of this statement, | srneal to nhl of Montreal thas aang i e d steamboat officiel, and the pr geverally, Thave every :earon to believe passage yesterday in 13 hours, wes an uni quick one. Instead of twelve hours, as stated rinted by the railway officials in New York, fiftecy, ure is nearer the mark. Philosophers would find aniple # for tion in the subject of railway lies. when the managers and : fficials of the Drie make a statement, the presumption is that it Ithink the same may be inferred of the River road, from the above account. My ex; of travel in the Northern and Western bles me to extend the assertion tq most, if not the railway officials therein. Whence does this Is it inherent in railroad mavagement to a disregard for truth? Hawthorne La flys no one who has been @ custom house officer any ot time, can bea respectable man. Must A in like manner, that ev ry one who has managed ry railway, or sold tickets, must tell lies? I co! t don’t quite see the seyw tur, unleas the habit of deal- ipg with the masees, without any responsibility for one’s assertions, may be re; arded as likely to pro- duce a Jexity of the moral sense. If a grocer or a tai or tellsusa@ lie whereby we are injured, we sue bim and mulct him in damayes ; if, on the contrary, & passenger agent advertise a falsehood, he screens bimselt from the consequences by shifting the re- sponsibility to others. I leave the solution of the pioblem, however, to wiser heads, contenting my- self with the asgertion of the fact. ®o convinced am I of its truth, that I wish you t@ direct my counsel in the case above mentioned,ta demand very high damages ; which I will hand over toa fund forthe estubiishment of schools for the children of railway officials. I think it only fair that the poor little creatures should have a chance of! learning abroad some of those simple , SUR as truth and honesty, which the habits of their fas thers entirely prevent their acquiring under the pay, rental roof. Pray allude to tue matter editoriallys It will attract the attention of the benevolent, and ou may thus be the means of rescuing hundreds of } Hutte innocents trom the paths of sin. A word, in conclusion. to Mr. W. Taylor. You; sir, have rendered yourself nobly conspicuous in the Legislature, by attempting to put an end to railway slaughters. Your act, had it passed, would hava been 8 signal boon to the country. As you will prox bably introduce it again next session, I would say | word to you on the subject. {[ don’t believe in oucle a thing as an inevitable accident on a railway. Everg a land slide may be fore-een and guarded against, A bridge may repaired in time. . Railway acci« gents are always the result of carelessness. it this | ff we: ing, instead of by the miserable conveyances here- tofore on the route, the traveller, and particularly tain, dell, and dale, will wend bis way to the ‘ Mjl- | nishes another monument of the industry of the | J. Robertson, a gentleman who vovitiated in the | It is | to take the Quebec boat, which leaves Mfontroal at | meu | The “connections,” it was | sad, were ‘perfectly reliable.” A slight sngces- ! ; seer t fer the 3icadow river route. It was run ning the road from the Pwo Mile Creek of Ek river o the Twonty Mile Creek of Ganley, and thence aloug t slow river route, that Dr. Patrick says | will save to the State & caillion of doll srs. | | | is of two kinds. Curele-sness in the local superin~ | tendents may allow a cow to stray on the track, @ | log ot wood to be thrown on the rails, or some other obstacle to intervene, whereby the train is thrown off the track and lives ave lost. This sort of care+ Jesenese—or wantof watchtuloess—would have beert | ina measure guarded xxainst by your bill. But,.ie | Dy opinion, by far the greater propeaeen of acci-. dents are caused by curelegsness of a different na ture-—carelesaness as to time. Traina do not staré punctually, do not “ make their time” on the road, arrive at their destination behind time. Hence thosq | frightfol collisions whic cost so many lives annus | ally. Ixeed not tell you that nothing would be eae | sier than to obviate this want of punctuality. Thera | is no earthly reason why a train should not start te a second, as they do in England and France, as the | Adlantic steamers do from New York. Nor can E be convinced, that witn our perfest machirery, the | rate of speed of a railway trsin cannot be le ag regular as that of the mmute hand of a clock. Such is, in fact, the case in France, where the law impo fee a heavy fine per minute in cas¢ of @ train bel delayed. Were tuis the case, colli-ions could never oc- | cur; and what, though a matter of less moment, is still | worth a:t ntion pee would not be unreasonably delayed on their way. | sbould not be imprisoned for+ ty-eizht hours in Montreal, A law obliging ralway trains to start at the time fixed, and imposing a fine when they are delayed on the road, has been re- 4 cently passed in Engiand. Why should we not adopt st? “It would be both more effectual and more | readily accepted by the companies than the proposed | rule obliging eyery line to have a double-track. New Youxer. Ballroads , THE ORANGE AND ALEXANDRIA RAILROAD. The work is going on with every prospect of speedy completion. It is confidently’ ex; t will be fiuisbed to Gordonsville during the present, year. This will bring us into direct communicatie: witb one of the richrst portions of the State, andi tend to make AJexandria what in truth she must be, | one of the largest cities in Virginia. = ff REE a pate ty ere Will be nearly 1,000 men employed on six miles of road, known as the Panbsndle Raltront, in a few bee says the Wellsburg, Va., Herald, of Aug. 19. There are now aevernil handreds. The’ terws of contract enuble the contractors to pay the highest prices, consequectly there is no difficulty im Prosarise de. During the past tew days Chief Engineer ina survey af tchell has been engaged the road from opposite Steubeuville to Wellsburg, and, in company with Mr. Wells, he was in town on! Friday. The survey was completed to this place ow Wednesday evening, and the eogineer speaks favor- ably of the cheapness of the route. The distance from the junction to Wellsburg is about 74 milee, The eile oera bias appears to be at the cross ing of Cross Creek, w! @ heat feet in length will be required. a THE CUMBERLAND GAP RAILROAD. _ The Abingdon Democrat, noticing the proceed: ings of the 1ecent convention on the subject of the! Cumberland Cap Road, at Richmond, Y, makes tome remarks ou the probabilities of the construce tion of that road. Virginia has snbscribed $1,500,000 to the road, upwa condition that Ken. tucky meet her at the Gap. This will be made ob- ligatory a8 soon as “coke ky charters the road, an? the necessary amount of stock for the Toad in that State is taken, eae GREENVILLE RAILROAD, We learn from the Greenville Patriot that thé Greenville Railroad is completed within nine or ter miles of Greenville C. H., and that the president ! the road, Col. Perrin, says that tue passenger anc | freight cars willrun to that point immediate’ ly: It is possible that the entire completion of the railroad: to Greenville mey be delayed for want of iron. MADISON AND LAKE ERIE RAILWAY COMPANY. The Madisin Banner suys, that the ere. named poet ig has been duly organized, the $50,00C Sy required by law to be first subseribed, being | laken. RAILROAD TO THE OWIO IN VIRGINIA. The surveying of the rival routes for the Ohio, called the Moproe route, and the Meadow river route, is begun with energy. Mr. Fisk is the principal en gineer— Capt Dimmock. as before stated, bis assist apiain has charge of the Monroe route and Mr. n of the Meadow river route. The in habi.auis of the two counties, and persons especially * nterested in either, are very active in pointing oa ers the best routes and the easiest pas is & great deal of interest manifested ‘The people of Charleston, Kanawha PORT WAYNE AND MISSISSIPPI RATLROAD. A recent convention of the directors ot several railway companies hes been held, The result of their conference was the consolidation of these com, | nanies, Viz:—The Fort Wayne and Mississippi ‘Ait Fine, and the Fort Wayne and Platte River, under “Fort Wayne, Lacon, Platte Valley * Erasws Gest, of Cincin vati, wash lidated company, &, the title of the ele R. Curtis, of St. Ungineer of the entire ¥ road. and the arrince ots are in progress to let 7 1e to the Missouri river. This the way up the Platte Val- , to Californis and Oregon, the line from Fort ¥ roud is designed to ope ley by the Southern Ps ailroa N G., is about to be made, 3 the engineer to whom the work is cot The ceremony of breaking ground on the Covings ton wid Ohio Railroad took place near Guyandotte, on Monday, the inst. The Le Roy Gazette of the 26th ult. says the railroad on the Conhecton track has been laid te that village. : The cars now run through to Freeport on the Chicago and Galena road. This leaves about 56 mites staging to ¢ f Tran Bier Rinae Rattnoan.—The editor of the Charlottesville Jeffersonian bas penetrated 1,37 1 ene end of the tunvel. e to be employed rs are expected ty reach