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oad 4 THE PAINTER'S PARADISE. O NeW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1871.—TRIPLE SHEET. i subject is rion and fair. The painter won his rep tation by such.eubjecta, having made a specialt: of Surrey harvest fields. OTHER PICTURES—"‘PEACE," BY ARMITAGE, “Tow She Was Delayed’! (18) is one of the pleas- Royal London Academy | anit trish stories Ersvane Nicoll, A. R. A., tells 30 | Exhibition. Annnal Opening and Dinner Attended by the Artists and the Aristocracy. CONCESSION TO THE CRITICS. ROAMING AMONG THE PICTURES, Flowers and Foliage, Flashes of Fancy, Facts and Fiction Fighting for Supremacy on the Canvas. Automn Gold and Winier’s Silver Snow— Scenes Gleaming Bright, Gandily Superb and Q@lcomily Grand. Lovely Ladies of the Past and Pressnt—Heroos and Heroines as They Lived and Died—Quesn Cleo- Patra Coquetting With Mark Antony— Hereules Wrestling With Death—The > Queen of BSeots Walking to the Block—Bluff King Hal Caress- ing Prince Edward—Rouga et Noir—Reading the Hand of Baby Fritz— Old Oak and Old Mortality. Lonpoy, April 26, 1871, My art-loving American readers will have a privi- lege this year, They can tura with me, unseen and invisible, from the rear of Piccadilly, through a long corridor, and enter the jealously guarded doors of the Royal Academy galleries, as yet strictly tabooed tothe public. It is Weanesday, April 27; ‘the doors of the Royal Academy, Burlington House, Picca- aiily, are oniy open to-day for carpenters and critica. Even royalty, in the person of the Prince of Wales, canuot enter tillto-morrow. Then on Friday will come the private view, when all the élite of London—political, fashionable, literary and artistic— wilrthrong these stately galleries, and on Satur- qay—hightst of all high days for the Royal | Academy and nucleas of who can say how much of its power and, more important still, its prestige— the annual dinner, founded, with such far-seeing prescience aud profound appreciation of the British | public, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, the first presiaent, rather more than a century ago; for this 1s the 103d. exhibition. THE ATTENDANCE AT THE ANNUAL DINNER, At (his dinner the cream of the cream of the Lon- don—nay, the Englisn—world, in the shape of the Reads of Its Legislature and learned bodies, its diplo- macy, its great patrons of art and a very select sample Of its literary notabllities,are entertained by the Royal Academy In the stateliest of their ten nobly propor- tioned galleries, to gossip, first, over the pictures, then to dine and speak, and hear as much as they can of the speeches accompanying some of the most richly buttered toasts ever served round, even in this, the special home and stroughold of that emi- nently Eng.ish luxury, PAST AND PRESENT OF TUE ROYAL The Royal Academy, att jive migrations from lis first very humble quariers near the site of the present Uarlton Terrace (1745), to grander apart- ments ta Somerset House (1771), thence to the Na- Gonai Gallery in Trafalgar square (1837), settled nally in its present weil-appotnted quarters in 1869, For the benefit of those who do not know'these | galleries I should say that they occupy a site la the H rear of old Burlington House, not far to the east of St. James street, on the opposite side of the way, They form a large oblong block, entered by the centre of the south side. Facing | me is a vestibule, giving access to a central hail, which again opens into a sculpture gallery, Then tnrce rooms fill the centre of the block from south to north and form a dividing space between sets, east and west of five galleries cach—each two to the north and south occupying the same space as @ larger gallery which forma the centre. The numbering is from one—the smaller gallery on the west of the vestibule—and so on round to ten, ‘he last gallery on the east of the vestibule. A CONCESSION To THE CRITICS. This 1s the first example in the memory of the ; Oldest academician of such a concession as is im- plied in this grant of a private day—a real private day—to the critics. It has been asked for these many years pas. My readers will readily conceive the dificulty of giving anything like a fair notice of even the most general impres- sion made by the pictures amid the distrac- tions of Frijay’s private view; for a critic, jostling crowds of acquaintenees, distracted by the presence of celebrities and peauties, awed by miellectual brows or dazzled by bewitching faces— and still more bewltehing toilets no wonder wo prayed for a day to ourselves. The wonder is that the Academy granted it, “2% pur si muove," said Galtleo. The faith of many of the critics that the Academy was Immovable was as profound as that of his ingutsition that the world was fixed, But we had more than one Galileo, They were right—the Academy does move after all. Only one condition was affixed to the critics’ | cards—no article must appear till after the private view on Friday, No doubt this will be religiously observed. There was no index of names and num- berg to the proof-catalogues distributed yesterday, 60 my best pian will be to take my readers with | me and ask them to halt with me for description, with a comment. We will not now linger over the sculpture in the vestinule, but will pass at once into gallery No. 1, at the westernmost block, THR PICTURES—“CHILL OcroB! Our first pause shall be at “Cnlil Octod We have begun, oddly enough, at the top of the exhi- bition, for artisuc opinion Wilt-Brobabl agree in Classing this as the masterpiece of the year. The | picture has @ peculiar interest as J. E. Millars’ first landscape proper. He has always put finishea and often admirable landscape work into his back- Grounds. But tili pow be has painted no landscape independent of the interest of a human action or passion. Here he leaves this steely-expanse of ratn- swolien backwater of the Tay, this island with its Wood of dark alders and willows, slowly waving against the chili, gray sky to the sough of the @utumn wind; this foreground of purpie-flowered sedges and marsh giasses, through which we see @leams of white water here anu there, aa it runs down to the willows and greener growths that fringe the very margin of the stream, which is carrying down, brimful (from these blue bills that rise on the horizon) bearing on its surface, here and there, evidence of spore higher up, in knobs of fosting sedge, and tangle of rent of willow branches matted with ooze and bent. I sald this was a picture independent of human passion; that it does what all good landscapes should do. It Carries its human interest and feeling in the book of nature it reflects, The chill, sad, sorrow-laden mood of the place and time struck the minor key note in the painter's gamat, and here we have the sad muste, speaking sadness, No better text can ‘be found for tustrating the true secret of landscape Ahat appeals to the imagination, | latellectual of our academicians, whose power in } but singularly inceptiv | tapes sh aaa Ree humorously—a black-eyed, broadly smiling bright- kerchiered Irish lass, who might, indeed, be prettier, ; on her way home from market—held in pleasant hold by her “boy,” who, playing with his ragged biuo necktie, hesitates for words to pop the question that issetting his cheeks aglow and bringing down his eyes in genuive Irish bashfulness, “Peace” (20) by | : \ E; Armitage, A. R, A., showing a battlefela of sto | {vestsand parks. Cating from Saxon times, and often | oy'reaPrasuie life; now aulong the fishers of Norch | 1n the Beance, perhaps, or the Bourbonnais, twenty + years hence. What stops the plonghshare so often? | “Harold's ax, Dented culrasa, or unburst shell, or broken helmet. The red oxen areAeft to rest awhile from the goad. The bdloused peasants guther from their hoeing to look on at this rusty crop of war’s sowing. The little child, who sleeps on the potato sack in the foreground, has been turning the spike of a Prussian ptckel-haudg and a lot of Chassepot bul- lets into toys, ranging the little blue cones in a circle round the gay looking brass spike, And Virgu’s lines come as fresh and ; pat, to these buried war relio3 as they did to those i of the civil war fought out between Augustus and Anthony. Leilicet et tempus veniet, cum finibus is agricota tnourvo terram molitus aratro xesa inveniet scabrd rudque fla; aut granbdus, | Ment—resting by the river" rstri galeos, pulsadti tnaves, of the severity of perhaps the formality of | gssveiatesnip of tne Acadeiny and public favor by French training. Armitage was a pupil of } Delaroche, and was, indeed, one of the three pupils selected by the master to work under his direction on the great wall cycle at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Faubourg of the Henri _ - READING BABY FRITZ’S DAND. Mrs. Ward, wife of the acadomician, and who should herself. be an asociate, if the Royal Acaciemy were true to the teaching of its founders, who included Angelica Kautfman and Mary Moser in their first Ust, has painted the reading of baby Fritz’s hand by a Spiritualist Swedish lieutenant, taken prisoner at Stralsund im 1715, who saw In the fat Httle palm the roll of conquests, vicis- situdes, rewards of craft and courage, extensions of dominion and crowning of glory that made up the history of the Great Frederick. Mrs. Ward hes well conceived the lean, sallow, abstracted mystics in the long-skirted blue coat, leather breeches and heavy boots and buff belts, we have learnt from tho stage to identity as the uniform of Charles XU. of | pis father, has panted (104) in the royal nursery, Sweden; and the pleasant-looking, if rather too fat, Toyal mamma of the fat little royal babe, is true to history, and made interesting, forall her snperfluity offiesh, The most ill-natured thing that can be sald of Mrs. Ward 18 that you cannot distinguish her paintings from her husband's. I do not say so, for Tcan distinguish them. But he taught her to paint, and she naturally shows the influence of her master, Whether women should have a master is a problem Young America must be left to settle for Old Eng- jand. “OLD MORTALITY” —A SPANISH CONCLAVE, Eyre Crowe, @ brother of the latest and best | historian (with Cavalcoselle) of Italian painting, another pupil of Delaroche (whose London sfudio has been shared since the war by his more famous friend an’ fellow pupil, Gérome, nas-painted Sir Walter’s “Old Mortality” in broad blue bonnet, hodden gray coat and ribbed hose, deepening the inscription as the tombstone of one of the Galloway martyrs for the Covenant. The painting is accurate and thorough, If rather hard and dry. The effect of Delarocue’s sound teaching is to be seen im it. If you want to be warned of the dangers of rash ex- perimentalism let Mr. E, Long—one of the increas- ing kind of English painters who have sought subject matter in Spanish life, allured by its pictur- esqueness and led by the brilliant successes won | rending tt must be. | puasise bi. & Christian symbol @ worship originating | | known attached to oak | Dily at least, in @ picture exhibition, Close to wis From war's relics | washing dry 11 the sun. to war’s heres. Tne painting dears evidence | more lamous father, whom the United States may glimmering haze of Thames’ side—moon light, but Rot the desp: of her look—tne painter has tarning down she. yes instead of und, which eo gaze seems to take in all the past and future, to which the peons. points. Walker would have embodied this saddest of all subjects as no other Engitsh painter could, But the better it is rendered the.more neart- Let us pass from tt to the ahel- ter, with the shepherd’s, uader Mr, Anthony's > GRAND OLD. OAK 1» the finest recent picture of the-arciat, ecmeppointed though true genius, whose stars have turned out ad- versely, till I thought he had lost the power which | this picture, I rejoice to £08, reveais,. I¢13 & singu- : lariy fine study and well-dosigned picture of one of | those secular oaks, which still stan reserving the title aeeds of their antiquity tn some | me Or addition, as the “Conqueror’s Oak,” | ak,” the « Oak," or the “Crouch Oak,” in whicit across had been set up, to legiti- faith and rites, All these names I have 8, Some Of which, there ts , reason to think, may have numbered their th sand years. Such an oak Mr. Anthony has here painted, appropriately set against a thandrous sky, & smgie lurid gleam on the Dorizon to relieve GEORGE LESLIR’S FEMININE BEAUTIES. From darkness to brightness is but a step, hap- shattered giant skeleton of Mr. Anthony's oak tree, ledges of. stream, brightly ring green, sits (103), in pure white, only set oi by a necklace of id and some Geiicate goldem embroidery, the lovely Nausicao, daughter of King Alcinous, with her maidens— artiess, lovely, tu fair attire of vlassic cut aud orna- side, after dinner, before their ball-play, while the clothes they have beea George Leslie, son 01 a be proud to claim as @ son, has attained his gill of depicting femluine grace aud beauty—the surest of all roads to popularity in art. He has | hitherto showed an extensive predilection tor Eng | lish beauty, and the costume of the latver nali of | last ceatury— The teacup times ot hoop and hood, And when the patch was wora, He has painted Clarissas and Pamelas, Polly Peachums and Qilvias and Sophias and the other heroines of gay Richardsou, Fieidiug, Goluswith and Smollett, and has known how to make all their quaint fashions pecoming by virtue of the heaitly, houest grace and sweetness of the faces and figures | Under them, ‘This is his firstessay at the classical, and he has been as*successful with peplum and | chiton as with boddice and mantua. What matters jit if bis Greek girls are just as English, a3 ils Phoacian river marge 1s studied trom the wharf at Bolton? His women are as charming as tie costumes | are graceful, d the landscape true to the nature It represents, The key of color is tender, with ail tie lines approximating to their neutral keys—blue3 and greens—yellows and browns and reds used to produce delicate rather than brilliant harmoules. BLUFF KING ITAL. Marcus Stone, the son of the late Frank Stone, A. R. A., afar more higuly cultivated painter than 1638, another of those seenes from Tudor times nd reigns which he bas succeeded in several times already. This year it 18 blui’ King Hal caresawg little Prince Edward and Detaging him a gaudily ainted toy, a model of the great Harry; while tne ttle Elizabeth, in her plain brown frock, ungtfted and uncaressed, turns a wistful eye on her hap pier half-brother and unloving father. Mr. Stone is @ very thorough, careiul aud skilful painter, and neglects no part of his work. But, as may be in- ferred from his choice of subjects, he is not urged on by the stimuius of a sharply individualized soe or irresistible creative faculty, which makes forms of 113 own as necessarily as it furnishes freeiy the life to vivify them, Notice en passant this picture (703) by J. C. Schetky of the rescue of the crew o! a French man-of war in @gaieon tne Spanish coast by Captain Leo Charics Paget in the carly morn, during the great war with France. The painter dates back to the times of Sir Joshua. He is ninety-three years of age, and may often have seen George the Third and Queen Charlotte open the Academy exhibition; but bis hand has not yet lost its cunning. There 1s a clever water- color drawing by nim in this exhibitiou as weil as this meritorious picture. THE DEATH OF BUCKINGHAM. We pause longer before D. W. Wynileld’s im>pres- sive “Death 0} Bockinghaca’ (1a), the fir.t duke, assassinated by Felton, in 1628, The body 1s lymg | all alone, stuf and stark, on the table on which it Was hastily laid when the inn room was emptied j 4 the ri into the yard after the assasain, The chairs upset in the confusion have been left as they fell. A yellow light fills the corridor, All ts stiil but fer @ woman's shrigks, as the ducnesy, in her night gear, rushes out on the view to the broad with Spanish subjects by the late John Phililp— teach us in this large and clever composition of a grave conclave ol Spanish divines and doctors, with Cardinal Pacheto at their head, who in 1627, wishing to satisfy themselves as to the case of a certain pretty Preciosa—a gypsy ocile of the Triania— charged with devilish witchcraft in turning wor- aniplul men's heads by her dancing, had her to dance before thom, and were then and there them- selves bewitched, so that they not only let of the | (99)—a coquetie in a brilitant fifteenth century cos- Sorceress, but fell themselves under her spell. There | is capital conception in the heads of the divines, { Particularly that of the pale, ascetic Carainai, struggling agalust the unhallowed Titaula graco that is tvoting and flashing before him—snother Vivien to a Weaker Merlin. If any disparagin, criticism suggests itself it is that the gypsy girl | shows scarce gufilciently diabolical powers of fascination, She ls rather tame and pagsée for his work. , THE INEVITABLE “QUEEN OF SCOTS.” How often has Mary Queen of Scots been painted ? How often is she destined to supply a subject for the paintert Mr. L. 8. Pott—the clever young pupil of @ clever you master, Marcus Stone—has painted her here (58) going down the principal staircase of Fotheringsy Castle, on her way to the Great bail in which the scaffold was set up, with rigidly composed face, but tearful eyes, an opening in her black velvet farthingale just revea! the red undergarment in whicd, as we learn Froude’s impressive description of the execution, she presented herself on the scaffold. She leans lightly on the arm of the officer of tne guard, whose Jace is Wrought upon by sympathy—as what mau’s ‘Was not that came under her spell? Bewind, all iu black, with arse sad are the earls who | fudged, and, dil in tears, the Maries, who loved ber and attended her to the end, It ia a very clever an’ png Donne picture, naturally showlog the in- fluence of Marcus Stune in its manner and color, but by far the beat work yet exhibited by {ts young and rising painter, With @ passing glance at Heywood Hardy's Woll-conceived, well-drawn and pieasantiy- colored ‘Barnaby Rudge,"’ in his tantastic finery of rags and tatters, with a Knot‘of sympathetic dogs at bis feet and his raven, Grip, perched on the band ho toases high into the air—the compictest work as yet | exnibite Paluvers—and G, A. Story’s group of rosy-cheexed girls gatnerlag -cheeked apples—a very preity Way Of painilog a family of provy sisters from four to sixteen. I. F. WATTS’ PORTRAIT OF A LOVELY LADY. We will pass into Gailery No. 2, Ciose to the door hangs oue of the loveliest poriratts of the age year, Lady Isabella Somers Cocks, the fair | daughter of @ fairer mother—for Lady Eastnor 18 one of the beauties of Lou- don who best deserves her reputation—by | T. F. Watts, R. A., the most thoughtful, tedned ani his art is unhappily Minited and sometimes impaired | by feeble ticalta, bat Who at Is best stands atthe | bead of Engiisa portrait painters for intenuon and | true idealizing power—by which | mean the power of loterpreting his sitter by the best light derivabie from the pamter’s conception of his character and { of the features that express it, We shall cee him at lus best in his admirable heads (in No. 3 gailery) of Millars aud Leighton, bis friends and associates, not only iu highest academic rank, but in all odorts to stimulate the Academy in all its efforts to ratso tue arts by ample and sound teaching. These por- traits acc two of a series Walch Nr. Watts proposed that he and his friends should patut of each other, | tor the purpose of bequeathing them to the Acad- | emy. A liberal and paunter-like idea, worthy ot the | man that conceived it. He could not have begun the work better than by these heads of Millars and | Leighton, &c., periectly expressing the marked coa- trast between the flashing, fery, practical and in- tensely vivacious natare of the former, and the more dreamy, delicate and somewhat epicurean, d cultivated intelligence of tue later.” Mr. Wat@® portraits, such as those he has paimted of Tennyson ana Browning, with the few Millars nas pauited--in particular that of John Fowler, ©, E., the famous engineer of the underground metropolitan rallway—can hold their own With the portraits of any time or coantry. Mr. Watts eatertains the noble design of painting the | most rewarkable of his conte=:poraries, and that he may bequeath these piciures to the National Portrait Gailery, Among. OTHRR PAINTINGS we give brief notice to L. Joblinghami’s life-size picture of two italian girls at the weil. Lhe painter is @ new man, and seems te have been ly under the influence of whose worth we shail @ full example here, orto Valentine Prinsep's ews from the War” (78), a fair lady in dame- Colored tatieta, comforted by the caresses of her child under the sad fidiags of the letter whicn lies ather seet. We shall notice this vigorous young painter to more advantage further on. Mr, Jeames, A. R. A., on2 of the knot of very conscientious and clever Ning painters of anccdotie history—the only form of historic peas. our English ite ae habits admit of as yet, commonly known as “The St. Jotin’s Wood Schoo,” from the quarter of Lon- don where they live in brotherly netzhbcrhood— bas painted the well known anecdote how Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation of the biood, tucor to Charies the rirst’s sons, Charles and James when in cl fe of the fan i: whilie the fight of Edgehill was prog » gut Bo buried in his books m a ditch where he been put with his chargea lor safety that he allowed tne princes to Glamber | eo dyke sede, at the risk of bavidg their heads ANOTHER LANDSCAPE—“AUTUMN G01." ‘Turd around and exactly opposite hangs acter Jange and dexterons picture of Vicat Cu.c's, the | only landscape painter who has vecn elevted, ¢o nomine, ino the Academy for some thirly years. “Autumn Gold’ —ripe cornfields lying at the foot of the hoatuery and wooded chalk hills that stand out ‘nto the fertile piain of the Surrey weald, like a line Of sea clit as they once were; but now it is a sea of Golden grain that tosses against their bastions. But his plotare, clever as it ix, does not speak to us of fhe Joy of autumn, a» Millers’, of its ssaness, Its up the blown od by @ stray ballet. one snevsors is prog Do og for sores. , than ainting. We Dass by ‘tue new picture’ por- Eraits by P. ii. Calderon, A.; of Mr, Meyer, a famous Liverpool collector and virtuoso, aad his wile examining & new acquisiuon, We shall see Mr. Calderon to more advantage in the next room. THE BRIDOE OF SIGHS. Mr. Cauty's picture trom T. Hood's “Bridge of Bighs"’ (0s), gives us the casemont t, quivering from garret to basement, reflected in the dark, fow- ing river, and the figure of the girl. in the greeniy- by one of our most rising young animal | and he never, a8 long as I cai | edge of the niche above the Nubian's head is perched | ancestor, « landing at the top of the short fight of stairs, fol- lowed by ber siater. ‘The picture has a grim imprea- | siveness about 1t, and is simpiy and solidiy painted, a8 befits the subject. itis graver than Mr. Stone’s work in manner a8 in subject, but will not be so | popular. The former isa more attractive example \ of what is now understood by historic art in Eng- | land—an efiective trait or incident of nistory, pointedly told in a careiully finished picture of cab:- net size, Then there is the {ancy picture, alike to this 1m all but that the incident 1s invented and not | historical, as in Mr, Bouglton’s (an American artist, | 1 beLeve) clever design, “Colder than the Suow’ tume, between an old ana a young gallant, out wiih @ heart colder to both than the snow through which they are making tuetr way to mass or meeting, ‘then there 13 the “scehe,” lilustrating popular poem or dramatic situation (like tia ‘Dora,’ of A, H. Burr's, waere Dora brings Mary and the child to the hard old farmer—his face, ite workings shown by the tirelight, is the best thing In the pic- ture; of this ‘*fruant,” of f. 0. Horsley, R. A.—a hobbiedehoy, in sevehteenth century garb, hiding from his tutor under the wing of an elder sister or pretty cousin; or this ‘‘Ruin’—a stage tableau of cleaned out young gambler and his wile and chila and the bailids, by Green, clevely painted, but as un- true to fact aud nature as Btage tableaux usually ; and more pain{ul still to peopie of educated t istlnctions between goodness and god!iness—domestic tableaux, of the painfully clean and virtuous order, like this *Weu- ding Breakfast,” of F. D. Hardy, and_ this *'Chiid- reun’s Dancing Party,” by G. B. O'Neil. ‘There is an irritating imbecill\y tp this kind of work, which clever manipwiaton makes quite tntoler- able. We have Duw reached the Great Gallery (No. 111), in which it ig the object of the bangers, if on f can, to display one good example of } each Acadenicean and associate. T. Webster's “Volunteers at Artillery Practice’—children busy With the firing of a toy Canuon—is an example of a veteran who lias won great glory in bis time as a | Fetter of boys, but who ts old now, gouty, and, in fact, past his voting prime. Besides, he has | been elbowed out of his own fleld by men like Frére and the other painters of the school of Ecuuen, who have taught us how much more icturesquely as well as * pecer g humble cmld- ie may be treated. Webster was al’ pre: served from falling. into vulgarity humor; but bis manner was | sowed any sense of the picworial or picturesque, | “QUEEN CLEOPATRA. " Here hangs Gérome’s “Cleopatra’—a slave un- roliing the carpet which has concealed her—dis- } covers the Serpent of Old Nile introduced into | Ule presence ol Ciesar in council. The wily Queen, | conscious wielder of a more potent power than even Cwesar’s, lets the sidelong seduction flow from her velyetty eyes, and ripe, 1ull lips, as ner rounded limps fall into ‘their most graceful poise, as if | Shrinking froin the gaze they court and rivet. The | icture is uot now exhibited for the the first ime. | it 18 a consummate example of the painter's power | ol clear, Clean, Courageous conception and the | resentation of his subject, however repulsive, palu- | fal or sensual. There is no shrinking abont Gérome. His color 13 often disagreeable, aud his texture and surface of his works indeed rarely | poee painters, But his grasp of his theme is in- | nse 2d his intention tells home Jike the stab of a knife. He % one of the six honorary foreign y Academiceaus, a rank ouly created some two years Ago. GEROME’S ‘‘A VENDRE.” His other picture here (1,150) in the lecture room, “A Vendre,” represenis two slave giris, a Nubian and an Arab, for sale in tne Cairo slave mart. ‘he Nubian is crouched on the ground, the dusky sole 8 of her dark feet visible, a rude necklace of shells | bout her neck and @ scanty white robe revealing | and enhancing the rounded graces of her bronze-like bosom and limos. One scariet pomegranate flower glows among the short, crisp tresses of her close- curied hair. By her side the other girl stands erect, With no garment to cover her olive-brown body, but tne cloud of her long, dark hair, from under waich she looks up siyly and sadly, with an expressivn very different from the stolid insensi- bliity “of her darker companion. Except a prace- let of silver, set with precious stones, round one slender ankle, she wears no oruawents. On thy ; his back to the specs yataghan and opaleacent the monkey, whether an Darwin, expressing sympathy, or & poor relation venturing to claim consanguinity with @ human cousin in Feduced circumstances, 8 | left to the spectator to decide. I remember no bet- ter piece of painting from Gérome’s hand. That } the subject ts patnful va sans dire. tHe hardly ever paints ject that 1¢ not painful. He must be a 8ad man, given to dwell on tue dark side of human nature and human That he is @ man of ua- mistakeahje power is undeniavie, and his tecnnicat short-com! Take the achievement of his high ee among his contemporaries the moro re- mai able. H. & MARK’S “a00KWORM" (149), painted forthe iirary of Crewe Hall, is an excellent piece of careful, thorough work. An an- cient virtuoso 1s seated, in reading-gown, cap and alt among @ litter of old books and learned rupbish—cnemical, mineralogical and zoological—so abstracted in the volume he holds that he has quite forgot the luncheon ot fruit and wine which can hardly fund a place among the motley encumbrances of the table—bright toucanillics are sct up; the skeleton of @ curasgou, shells, books ‘and botties Olled with Gey locsiog veetles, suakes and lize ards; there are ks everywhere, of all sizes and degrees of dilapidation in their binding; a big in ond bones under the ti @ splendid blue and yellow a1 tator, Beside hai of ads, end & shell. Close tw cowera & re bivaive Nubian tl trees and ky, which have no for this stirrer of the dry bones of life. And out of all this chaos of form’ and color the painter has educed @ pieasant parssony to the eye, nd much amusing matter for the mind. “PRAOTIOUS,"” BY TANPABD, Re A., sa testy child aoothed by its mother's caresags, A | from his colly’s paw, | Hf strate, in some of our | 98°, | and their visitors from the sea; y hangs its antipoa | semblance bas served the | ing of the jimbs 1s worthy of that of the heads. This | simple study of Lowland Scotch peasant hfe, with all the painter's effectiveness of color, but nothing of the more pathetic character he often aims ate “THB THORN,” BY J. 0, HOOK, RB. A., 1s & common scene of Surrey country life, some. where about Godalim! rob: Ariver and bridge and hera of sheep, rd lad taking athorn | \ child looking curt- ously on. It allu: like all Hook's pictures here, which aré sure to be among the most popular i works in the exhibition, the power of a manly, | honest, artist-like representation of simple rustic truth and fact, to charm the public which would | care Mitie or nothing for ali this in real life, but | delights in the painter's reflection of it. Hook | ‘was wise enough to ize this trath many years | , alter Bome Years’ practice as @ painter of Cos- | tume pictures, and has ever simce Wrougnt this vein | Devon, then aniong the miners of Cornwall, or in | the Soilly Isles, among their primiitve tobabitants | ‘again in the North, among the Scotch fisher folk, or at Concarneau, among the Breton sardine fishers ana curers; or, last year, among the borders and canals of Holland; this year on the Norwegian with the hasty ara aud fair-haired cia and stout, salmon, red-waisteoated trappers, work smacks of the fields and the sea, and has the breath and pulse of Dature in it, and is untversally popalar. ROUGE BT NOIR. Not tar from his fresh, wholesome bit of Lacitin§ es, “The Rouge and Noir Room at Hombourg,”’ painted, with marvellous patience and detail, heads and dresses, by W. P. Frith, R. A,, the painter of ‘The Derby Day’ and “rhe Railway Sta- tion” and “Ramsgate Sands,” and who has here added another to his wallery gacncemes of the time | and done jastice to one the ghastlest, most crowded booths tn “Vanity Fair.” Lt would take the space of this article to describe thiy picture in detail; but all who have been.at Hombourg will re- coguize the types, from the weary inspecteur du ie and bland croupiers—not so bland, however, but that one ts consuliing his watch to see now near their “spell” is to its end—and the rouged old lady near them, who never misses a night at phe tables and lives at Hombourg to make sure of Mer excite- ment; and the tmperturbavie Bumlan, who loses aud makes no sign; and the coarse Westphalian | banker, whose coarse, bejewelled fingers finger the diiets de banque ws if he loved them; and we bfight- | ly-dressed, = BRAZEN-PACED SISTERS OF THE DEMI-MONDE, looking for pigeous or flaunting the fine feathers they have plucked them of; and red-faced Euglisn pater Jamiias and hi3 comely matron, with their chickens under their sheltering wing, gazing indig- nant or aghast; and the virtuously indignant young Anglican clergyman—the Evelyn of the scene—look- ing sad but unutterable reprobation of the horror before him, put whom I should be sorry to leave ‘an honr in the room unwatched for all that; and the Dandsome, pale woman, 10 gray silk and black vel- vet, who 1s leaving her chatr, cleaned out; ana the handsome brunette, 1m double skirt and tunic, who is so Sracidyay accepting an advance from the languid youag swell, who is too happy to put his purse at her disposal— in short, here 13 in little the whole world of the green table— Votures timor, ira, vol tae painted with unmistakable force and fidelity, al- though in parts a litte tuo chiua-like in the 8, and with the iniitative realism of the dresses carried 80 far as to make any defect im the face painting more apparent ‘The tault of the picture 1s the fault that belongs'to all such subjects—excess of material and unnatural compressing into one scene incidents and emotions that, f they coud be seen in such @ place at all, would be scatiered over many seasons. That there 43 tuo mucn visible expression in these faces, that the Characters betray, instead of concealing, what they are and feel, iy a vice inuerent im such a sub- ject. But Hogarth has survived such objections. His “Election Series" and bis ‘March to Finchley,” and his “striking Actresses” are just as crowded with incicent and episode. Quantity can be par- doned in virtue of quality, Now, Mr, Frith is no Ho garth; but he is about the best imitation we have, and he has, at least, the courage to measure himself | Against realities,"and will leave valuable pictures of the life of our times benlad him, LENORE, (A. Elenore, R. A,,) 13 all Edgar Poe's heroine; but | Burger's “Scott” wandered strangely wide of his ori- ginal when he made the spectre rider splash across @ sea that nowhere flowed in Burger’s German; and Mr. Elenore, who, to judge by the catalogue, founds his picture on Scott’s versioa, has itroduced a Whole crowd of nixies and pixies and other super- naturals, nude and draped, who hang about the ghostly horse and clutch at the verrifed maiden, and otherwise make themselves disagreeable. Of all this there is hardly a trace in Birger; but it Makes good material for a clever painter, who has a faucy to palut nude forms under moonligut; and ‘Unis seems to have inspire, Mr. Elenore’s composi- tion. Millars’ portrait of George Grote, the historian of Greece, In his robes a3 Vice ChancéRor of tue Uni- versity of London, i3 one of those portraits which betong Lo history, and ia true to the life, as all this painter's portraits are. He must paint what is be- | fore hin, und so far as idealization implies disguise or Matiery, MHiars is incapable of lt, He does not iinpart so thougitfui an air to his sitters, perhaps, a3 the more thought(ul and jess vivacious Waits; but he gives his sitcers the benetit of an interpreta- tion inspired by bis own life, vigor and mauhood. P. H. Calderon, R. A,, chief of tue St. John’s Wood School, above gontioued, who, a few years since, pai his “Most High, Noble and Puissant Grace”’—a child Grand Duchess of Haiuault or Bur- gundy, with her train of potent, grave and reverent séiguora, has, tas year, under the title “ON HER WAY TO THE THRONE,” given usa Serene German Royal Highness, a Grand Duchess of Gervistein, in all but fer levities, in powder and patcues und upper robe. and trainj of Tose, over Waite satin, on her way to the Throne Room, with a bevy of court beauties at iver heels. Mr. Leighton, ‘Hercules Wrestling an t it | the Possession of Alcostes," whith ins a right to bition, with | } peace, amid this horrible bustle of combat, lies the As the long-coated |; ys draw asunder the heavy curtaina that give 38 to the Throne Rooin tue pretty waiting maids settle the final folds of train and skirt, and the enthusiastic court barber snatches tne opportunity of administering a last touca of the curitug tongs to & tress (hat has strayed a little too much au naturei—a very fair satire on couris aa their fashions, watch has the advantage of being What satire is not always—pleasaut to coutempiate, But, aiter all, how poorly such stiff and built-up elegance shows by the side of real Fraceeuch grace as Charms aud touches at once in these ITTLE BLACKBERRY GATHERERS,” of Mason's (168), as they biacken their preity little fingers and stain their rosy lips among the bram- bies that tangle the furze and bracken of the steep, wooded hill up which they make their way. G. Mason, A. KR. A., has wou hts honors by an art of | troe and tender idyllic suggestiveness ratner than showy, technical achievement or eiectiveness., It 1s to the honor of the Acagemy and of English taste that his genuinely poetical quality was so soon and 80 fully recognized. Lis pictures seem to slirink from observation rather than to court it, But once flud them ont, and their charm grows and deepens. Uniuckily, his health is uncertain, so that a large picture which he had hoped to finish for the exhibi- ton must stand over, and ne sends only this Littie upright composition and another—a little milkmaid knotilng up ber fair bair with both hands as she haijts with her yoked cans on either side of her. Watw’ portraits of Millais and Leighton, which should comein here, I nave already noticed. ANNE BOLRYN'S ARRIVAL AT THE TOWER, E. M. Ward, KR. A., sianch to English history, in which ‘he is well read, even to minuteness, has painted the touching incidents whica accom paniea poor Anne Boleya’s arrival at the Tower, when, asking tue Meutenant (Einesee) if she was to be comunitted to @ cell, and being answered 10, but to the apartment whieh your Grace occapted on the day of your coronation”—susdued by the memories so harshly -and strangely recalled, she bursts into tears and Mings herself on the steps With @ passionate “Jesus, nave mercy upon mei Tne King’s haiberdiers, In magniticent uniiorms of scarlet and gold, very like that still worn by the beef-eaters at (he ‘Tower on royal public ceremonials, liue the steps; on the right nand cor- ner are grouped a kuot ol Spamiards, Iriends of the Spaaish Ainvassador, who see in Anne's humiiia- ton & retribution for the suffermgs of Katherine, The dwaif and big dog, common appeniayes of every great Spanish houseuold, are not wantiug. MILLARS’ ‘MOSBS,"" (with Leighton’s ‘‘Alcestis,") 1s the achievement of , ihe year in art of the large and serious kind, as {| his *Cnill October’’ ts in toe way of landscape. It | 19 evening. Israel has been fighting ‘all day with Amalex; and as the hands of Moses were neld up iIsraei prevyaties,. and as they feli 80 felt. Amaiek. Mo’es’ hands were heavy, and Aaron and Hur stayed them up; the one ou the one side, and the other on the other side; and his bands were steady till the going down of the sun. There 18 the incident told by the painter not less directly and potenuy in his colors than in those strong words, Itis a peculiarity of Millara already mentioned that he must paint what ts before him; hence he is unusually at the mercy of his modeis, Here he has been lacky, The French war drove over a swarin of Freach modeis, among other waifs and strays, and he found sone, them two noble heads, brothers, one for his Moses, another for his Aaron. The picture has been seven years on hand, taken up and laid aside, from time to time, aud the neads were sttil untin- ished when this chance came. The brothetiy re- ainter well, The paint- is by tar the strongest work, the nearest to tho. grand and severe in style, yet produced by the painter, To attempt it @ man most turn his back On the chances of purchase ag well Se popplanty. Millars can afford do this, thanks to bis _im- meuse rapidity, resource and ¥ of pew HSNNESSY’S “NEW ENGLAND BARBBRRY PICKE attracted notice, even in this room, by the bril- Maney of the colors and the grace of the compoal- tion. THE QUEEN OF S0OT3 ONCE MORR, J. C. Horsiey, K. A., has another of the Marys of the year. This time it 14 tue Scottish Queen inno- centiy feeding the sparrows at her barrod window, as scern and suspicious “building Bess,” the Countess of Shrewsbury, her jailer for sixteon cars, enters ihe room, with her ‘‘sair held doon”? jusband, of whom Bess 18 sald to have been jealous with Maury, We must hurry on, past Kichardson’s “Hundred Yeat 0,” @ falr-haired young lady in ting tamily portraits, Tose, aus e 1 y Vida es Sueno,” that its beauty is not more flecting | than her own, and 0. W. Cope's (another of our few historical painters who have found employment on He the in the Houses of Pariiament pom 3 | Dr. ean confer with Coe erg! rey, | the Lombard street bookseller, about the plan of the noble hospital, to which he devoted his savings; | to Abna Tadema’s wondertully clever and powerlul painting of discovered b; it th Pratoriar wrapped in a | e ite puiacoy afer the Murdo r by the Suards ot Galigwis hovsewoid, ‘Thy face of ‘to adjust’ her boot or siocking, and when Lan. andios, nized with terror, has of the oble g: jueness of ene. ths Pree torian greets him with « bow of nook. respect; the white lestals bapds Shatter te, separ Pom earn the doorway pect crowded about coward, whom. as “Imperator.” “The in to our Ei lish painters for the cor its Onish an its consummate dexterity in re) fon of tex- ture and surface, i carried so far that 1c 1s doubtful whether it be not carried to the Feit ‘at which it impairs the effect of every hat Cannot be so accurately painted, faces first an: foremost, Certainly these ae, the least satisfactory arts of Mr, Tadema’s wonderfully clever work. ‘ouching the painter's name kmay en passant that it it Frisian. The termination “ma" is in “that dialect. Halbertma, known as the author of a valuable work on the very Close relation of the Frisian tengue vo the EnglisiL. M. Tadema is another of the many artist e: destrom Paris forced to London by the war. He has settled Fol tut oe ashore ah aah . This 18 meant or English art, not for M. Abna ma. HEROULRS Share the highest honor of this exh! Millars’ Moses for aior and ambition beyond 1 _aues- tlon, and as of Church for achievement~also, Everybody knows the outline of the story, whether or not has risen above Lampitre so far.as the play ot se gh or owen bis knowledge to William lorris, in Whose Earthly Paradise the sacrifice of Alcestesis the theme of one of the tales. Here, how- | ever, is the argument of the picture, Acmetus | being sick to death Apollo 8 from Zeus that he shall be rescued from dea! hogan find any one to take his place, Pheres, his old father, whom he atonce applies to, distinctly declines, So'do all nis relations. But bis young wile, Alcestes, mother of | children, agrees to die for him and dies, As he is in tears of sorrow, Hercules, a knight errant and one of his laborers, comes and asks for hospitality. | Admetus gives it, concealing his cause of sorrow, rather than turnaway a guest. Hercules, indulg- ing rather too in drink, and thereby scan- daltzing the household, learns the death of Alcestes, Shocked that he should have forgot himself at sach atime, be determines to go to the tomb and reseue Alcestes from the grasp of death by sheer force. His deadly straggie with the grissly Thanator is the bd of Mr. Leighton's picture. The attend- ant maidens crouch in terror while the terrible com- bataways to and fro, while oid Pheres clasps one of the orphan children in bis arms as if to shut out trom her the awlul sight. Strong Hercules, his lion skin fying in the wind of the wrestle, has gripped (ne marble like frame of Thanator and 16 hurlto; him backwards. On the bier, like an image. o: dead Alcestes, robed trom chin to foot in white, her pure head crowned with flowers as pure, an her rounded arms laid straigat and still by her side, Behind is the biue sea, seen through trunks of olive. ‘This 1g the painter’s most powerful work, laid asido olten during its progress owing to illness, but at length happily “brought to an end. Thad hoped to have led you right tnrongh the ex- ; hibitton tn one letter. I find it impossible. {have completed hardly half my round, and the limits assigned me are already, I fear, overpassed. 1 must takeany chance of being allowed to complete my cir- cuit at some fature opportunity. 3 FOREIGN MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. It 1s stated that the Café Grétry, on the Boulevard des [tatiens, Paris, has received orders to close, a8 it is frequented by men of the Lourse, who talk too freely of the disastrous financial eilects of tho revolation. According to the International, the Swiss Lega- tion in London has noufied all “swiss resideats beionging to the firat banof the reserves to hoid | themselves in readiness for immediate departure, | 48 8000 as required, to reinforce the contingents of the active army, the whole of which is under arms, The cause given for this sudden mobilization of the Feaeral Landwelr 1s that the Berlin Cabinet have claimed opeuly the possessioa of the German-speak- ing cantons of switzerland. A decree of the Commune requisitions all vacant sana in Paris as lodgings for the inhabitants of the bombarded quarters, The town of Verovitica, in Sclavonia, has been aimost entirely destroyed by fire; 490 houses were burned, and 4,000 inhabitauts remdered houseless, Tot ineenging Bie fracas with tne police within the district of the Worshtp street Police Court, Lon- don, on Monday, the 24th uls., there was not a single charge arising theretrom, ‘nor a single act of dis- order reported by the thousands of persons who ook part in the procession of the matchmakers, All wine and liquor shops in Paris have been closed, and the sale of spirits to troops nas been Prohibited. Some wealthy ladies of St. Roch support a girls’ orphan sagrnta in that parish. Tue National Guards | eutered the asylum at night, made the children arise, stole the casi box, containing 1,800/, and j carried of ail the iinen 1n the house, strippiug even the beds of the orphans. A Cadet Guard has just been established in Hun- THE CABLE CONTROVERSY. Grave Accusation Aga‘nst the Atlantic Teles graph Conpany. ASSOCIATED PRESS OFFICE, New York, May 11, 1871, } To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— Igee that Mr. Field has caused the publication of ®@partof the correspondence growing out of my efforts to obtain from him Mr. Weaver's letter about our Complaints of illegal and dishonest displacement of cable business from its proper order on file. If you shall see fit to use what he bas thus furnisned, please find herewich some further extracts, which should appear in their proper order if the case is to. be fairly understood:— LETTER TO ME. FIELD'S CONFIDENTIAL SBEOBETARY, re Ageccranen. P: en } BR, B. Wann, E acd casein DAR StR—We are informed from London, on authority of Mr. H. Weaver, that the latter has addrouod a lower Mr. Field, of of about March 8, in response to my letter of the 7th of March last. Will you'be tnforna me whether you have heard tro: fir, Weaver on this su: Or hens offers expieuation “th rose ex] of the Bing of March 7 tending to show that business = * 5 had been placed of ite order on file, ¢ * * Whenyou Fefloct that wo Lave been endeavoring ever since about the rebruary last to obtain this explanauion, you will not deem us unreasonable if we beg that there ‘may be no fur- ther delay fn placug us it ¥ Saee Golan th placing 1, In possession of Mr. Weaver's state- hee ablgicey ag SIMONTON, General Agont. Here follow several letters that passed between Mr. J. W. Simonton, Agent or the Associated Press, and Mr. Oyrus W. Field, one of the directors of the Cable Company, in which the former persistent asks for Mr. Weaver's expla! mn, which Mr. Field, however, as persistently refui Tue followmg & the most Unportant part of the correspondence:— New Yorx, May 10, 1871. Crus W. FIeup, Esq. :— ah MT 30 Deak SrR—In your favor of yesterday you say that you are "doing with the memorandum received from Mp. Woater exactly as req by him." Am I to understand from this that Mr. Weaver requested you to withhold trom us, at your discretion, « statement of facts. which he had verbally given fo ono of Our London agente “saying, at the same (ime, that he had forwarded the “formal reply" to our complainte?. It #0 he has added still more to the injury we have suffered at his hands, for we were entitled to full anu frank response Jona ago. T must to give me the fi Surely your deairo obtained here, 1s not us, Aa heretofore Weaver's statemen' or Tospecttully protest against, your persistent, fallure eo ascertained ‘Mr. Weaver in London. gested, We are well aware that Mr. not bé satisfactory to yourself. We appreciate your reluctance to disclose whiat you know fs #0 damaging to your irlend. But the question favolved is ona of private rights, of law and good faith. We are entitied to havo, Io writing, the facle-as Informally presented by Mr. Weaer to our London agent. I’ you continue to dey my Fequest for them until after Mr. Weaver’s arrival here in the Kuasia we shall naturally conclude that the delay bad no other purposs than to-enable him to withdraw the statement made in the immediate presence of investiza- tion and aubstitute somo other that wili be less obnoxious to criticism only. because less frank and full. My assistant, Mr. Hueston, who hamds you this, will, with your permission, copy at once aud in your presence so much of Mr. Weaver's letter as relates to Our complaints. If you accede to this proposition. 1 am willing to postpone any iur- ther action in the case untill one week atter Mr. Weaver's Arrival here, and as much longer (within reasonable bunds) as you find necessary in order to procure any additional facie abedaing light upon the case. “Hoping this proposition will be acceptab! fam very reapeetiully yours, |. W. SIMUNTON, General Agent. Mr, Field having declmed to furnish the Weaver letter, and having Yatled to answer this letter, Mr. Smonton deemed it proper to publish the facte:— OFFICE NEW YORK Ass8001aTED Press, New Youk, May 13, 1871. ei 8 to you, sa | To me Error or THe HERALD :— ‘Mr. Cyrus W. Field meets our grave accusations of unfatrs neas and duplicity in cable management by causing the pab- heation of the foll sy Eo Ovriok Or Tuk NEW YORK ASSOCIATED PxRBA, Ww Yori, Dec. 18, 1870. The Hon, WinutaM Ontow, President, ‘snd Oxaus ‘Ww. , RLY :— GENTLEMEN—I beg leave respectfully to suggest that if the cable companies would, in the present condition of affairs, eo recedence to our three London despatches dally giving Opening, progress and closing of European markets, the suit would bea great accommodation tothe pubile.” Att! same time {t would assist mater‘ally in accomplishing tt object in view In doubling the rates—ihat 1s, the reduction of business over the cable. An anawor is solicited by very re- spect(ully, J. W. SIMONTON, General Axent. Ar. Onto: Will_you please refer the enciosed to Mr. Very fal, Dran Su Field? , ‘sais ‘SIMONTON, General Agent, Mr. Field Js quite welcome to any advantage which he can find in publishing the above. The public wiil see thal It contains ouly a sugvestion—made openly, officially and without any attempt at concealment— as to something which would have been a great ac- commodation to the entire mercantile community, At that time the two Anglo-American cables had sud~- denly ceased worklog, and the remaining (irench) cable was temporarily in such condition that but & small amount of business could be transmitted over | 1, AS a consequence it became so badiy blocked that | messages irequently were not delivered until ¢wo or three days alter dale. In this block were in- cluded our messages giving quotations of European ‘ary, on a’simdar plan to those which have been for Some time in existence in Switzerland and Wur- temberg. Tne guard consists of boys of eleyen years of age and upwards, and admittance to the corps is looked upon as an honorabdie distinction, as no candidate ts accepted who has not attained a certain degree of progress in his studies, besides being of good health and respeciable pareats, A TIGER CAPTURE. The Secretary of the Americus Cinb on a Hant+A Capital Run—The Tigress Neatly Caged. y As the tastofal “Charlie” Hall was standing near Desbrosses street ferry, on Thursday afternoon last, speaking with omicer Field, of the Fifth pracinct do- teciive force, he saw a fierce-looking little girl, Damed Maggio Murphy, hiding away behind an im- mense pile of timber, and he at once surmised that she was trying to evade the unpleasant officer, who, by the way, had @ warrant for her in his pocket, Accustomed to the habits of tne animal at the Amer- ious hunting grounds, he sald, “Go for her, Dick,’’ and the detective pinned the little creature in a man- ner that left her but a smaW lope of escape, Charlie [en La ct fer as answering to the description of a girl for whom he had filled in a warrant on the 6th Of the present month, and when the warrant was brought to light Maggie was at once declared a pris- oner, Maggie said she would “go for’’ Charite if she lost ber bonnet in the attempt, but the old tiger sent her off in cuarge of the ollicer to answer for her misdemeanors, On the 6ih of May Maggie was Jobing her busi- ness a8 tobacco cutter, when she met William Lan- than, of 104 Leonard street, stauding in West roadway, waiting for an uptown car. she stooped Naghan made some remark to her she drew from her pocket @ murderous-looking knife, used in the Manufacture of tobacco, and stabbed hin in the shoul- der with it, wounding him fearfully. sfe was sent | to the hospital by an oficer, and it was not until Thursday that the little tigress could be captured. Thanks to the gallant secretary of the Americus Clab, Maggio is now placed beyond the possibility of | oe @uy one else; but should she “go” for the | experienced huntor the cuauces are she will be completely “cupbed.”” She ts held to answer at the Court of special Sessions, BILLS SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR. The following aaditiona! biils have been approved by the Governor, and are now on file in the office of the Secretary of State:— 800, Relating to the Seventy-ninth regiment. 891. Reet of F. B. Van Dusen, $92, Relating to contracts of Ambrose Clark and William H. Douglas on Brie Canal. 893, Relating to Sixth regiment. 604. Changing name of Clifton Springs Water Cure Company. 89. swing baigge across Chemung Canal feeder. 806, Relief of Alexander Barkly. 807, poke ge dG ponaenocee Bridge Company. les, 893. Reilef of Gardner 899. Rellef of N, Stanton Gera, 900, Relief of Joseph Scovilie and Lewis H. Faton, 901, Uakwood Street Raiiroad, Onondaga county. 902. Relief of W. T, Denison. 903. Improved towage on canals, 904. Keliet of K. Nelson Gere and Charies W. Steves. 905. Relief of William H. Dougiaa, 906, Incorporating Weenawken Transportation Company, 907. Relating to savings banks, 908. Reliet of George W. Hunt, 909. Glens Falis Water Works Company. = 910, Tontine Mutual Savings Bank, New York city. v1, American system cable towage on canals. 912. Bring bridge over Cayuga Iniet. 913. Reliet of M. U. Birdseye, 914, Coruwali Savings Bank. 915. Incorporating the Sixth Ward Savings Bank | of city of Albany. 916. Supplying the village of Yonkers with pure | water, 917, Improving Fourth street, Brooklyn. 918. Amending clarter city of Cohoes. 919. Knlarging boundaries of city of Auburn, 920. Kelief of Nationai Fiber Company. 921. Drawbridge over Flushing Creck. THE DES MOINES (OWA) BIVEA LANDS. Ontcaco, May 12, 1971. At Des Moines, Iowa, yesterday, in tne United States Court, the case of Stricker v®. Miller was dis- posed of. It involved the title to and possession of | the so-called Des Moines river lands, Miller was the occupant of some of these lands adjudged to belong to the Des Moinos Navigatién Company. Last win- ter he was foreibly ejectea by the ted Marshal aud his home destroyed. Ho was brought before the court yesterday and fned $600 tempt, It was surrender the land wil should be remitted; ott goned until payment of the fine. great imp ‘ance, as there are several hundred per. | Tae markets, which all the commercial worid, a3 well a3 Mr. Field, knows we distribute instantly on re- ceipt to every commercial centre in the land. It was felt that the temptation to unscrupulous speculators offered by this state of affairs was too great for the public interest, 1f they could procure (a8 we feared) the ig back of the general re- ports and tho prempt trausnussion of their own private advices m.liions of dollars might be made by a Tew parties out of the many wao would be jcuimi: by such rascality, Hence my tuquiry as to whether, if this ‘exceptional case, the cable authorities would not iecl jusiitied in bringing for= ward promptly the few words which wou.d place the Whole country in possession of the qhotations consutiting @ basis of commercial transactions. As bota Mr. Orton and Mr. Field could have known the hour and minute of our receipt of these messaged they could have nad the means of detecting the fact had they not been instantly diffised everywhere, not for the benefit of the press, but for the informa- aon and protection of the commercial puolic. My suggestion, thus opealy and frankly pteferred on good grounds, was meet by Mr. Field’s statement in writing that “all messages must, by law and agreement between the companies, be forwarded in me exact order in whioh tiey are received.’’ What 16 tlie resulu? In tié iace of this positive de- claration vy Mr. Field a3 to the duty of himseif and associate cable managers, at least one commer- cial despatch was withheid—for what reason Mesers, Weaver and Field best kaow—and a mes- sage toa private party was put Beventeen hours ahead of it. So much is proved; so much is ad- Tuitted. This violation of the law and of commercial honag was comunitted deliberately and with a pur- pose, and you fail to give us your formal statement as to what such purpose was, . Isubmit tat those who counselled us to take measures with a view to preventing such did not over-estimate the danger, Jf such a vit Uon of law and duty 18 to pass unrebuked there dauger that the cable, undex present manag: ment, ‘will become the mere instrument of a few specula- tors, who will reap the profit through fllegal and dishonst preference, while the business and the money of the great boay of the patrons wail be ac- cepted as a means of maintaining the line. We have never taken exception to the declaration that all messages Must be sent in the order of reception: but we compiain that while presenting that just law Qs oné the letter of which could not be tifracted even whon the pudile interest would be subserved thereby, the cable authoriues themselves set it at naught to the advantage of some patrons and dis+ advantage of others; that they do {{ surreptttiously, and that when we seek to ascertain the facts they interpose every possiole obstacie to their disclosure, and try to Wear us out by vexatious delays under idie pretexts. Very pee, J. W. SLMONTON, General Agent, ja- 1 THE OPPENUEIMER-PETERS CASE. To THR Epttor oF THE HRRALD:— Permit me to correct a wrong unpression which Is likely to result frum the article in your iasue of to- day commenting upon the action py the young Jowess, Oppenheimer, for breach of promise of mar- Tlage. The defendant introduced himself to Miss Oppenheimer as Charles Weil, and of the Hebrew faith, Whereas, in truth, his name ts Charles Peters, and he 1s not of the Hebrew faith. Upon aliss uppen- heimer obtaining information of the true state of facts she was, naturally enough, sorrowfal at the deceit precnees upon ber, Peters, prior to this, had seduced her, and to soothe her feelings he promos to conform himseif to the Hebrew religion, and romised to marry her forthwith; but she did not make it a condition Precedent to their marriage that he should ahs his reilgton, Instead of perform! his promises Peters suddenly left his u abode an absconded, and his whereabouts could not be ascers tained by Miss Uppenbeimer, and not by tho Sherif for some days after the order for Peters’ arrest had been placed in his hands. After the private exam- ination ad with the parties, and on reducing the bail from $1,009 to $200, Judge McCunn said in open court tat Miss Oppenhetmer was Diameiess in her conduct and deserved the pity of alt She then re- fused to marry the prisoner, for the reason, as she stated to the Juage. that ln View Of the prisoner's ast deceit aad faithlessness she could not trust im im further, and not because he would not assume her faith. Yours, respectiully, — 5. D. SEWARD, Alsorney for Amella Oppeanelimer. THE NEWARK SILVER PLATERS, ‘The Latest Phase of the War in Fort Lips plat. ‘yhe matn facts of the fight between the rival board’ of directors of the Lippiatt Silver Plating Company in Newark have already appeared in the HeraLp, On Wedneaday nigit last, on warrants issued by Justice Dean at the imstigation of Colonel Lewis, some siX coustavles were arrested and leld to bau. ‘Shey Were in possession of the works in behalf of the Lippiatt get + hence tleir arrest Yesterday they appeared before Justice Dean for hearing, but Uolonet tee tm. appear, thoy wero discharged. Culonol Lewis sent, @ tele- gtam from New York, saying that he would not revurn to Newark. Its likely that Ne will keep bis word; for inasmuch as Yesterday noon One of the late arrested consiapl ir. ng, had tn his possession a warrant for the guilant Colonol, pherniog, lum with tuo very grave crime of forgery, wis party are no lon@et tu possaasion af sons Whose casos aru identical With thas of HeHerda, | “Korv! Livuiacs ig