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6 LITERATURE. Recoutections or Samvat Brxex, with Passages from his Note Books (1771-1862), Kidated by H. &, Scud- der, Philadelphia: Porter & Coatos. 1t is not often that wo come across the recollections of an unknown man that are go weil worth perusal 4s this volume of Mr. Breck’s. In a bright little 1n- troduction, by Mr. Horace EB. Scudder, we are told that this book is aot given to the worl beesuse of the great reputation of the author, but because he kept a complete journal during one of tho «most Intoresting periods of our history, Mr, Breck came of an old Boston family, and he was counected with the An- firewe of that city and the Lloyds and Aspinwalls of New York; cousequently his associations were with the best people in the country. Mr. Breck began bis diary in the year 1800, and when nearly sixty years old he undertook to arrange his recollections !n or- cerly torm for bis own amusement, Ho also wrote his reminiscences of several yoars previous to that time, His diary 18 full of personal expericoces, ancedotes of contemporaneous celebritios and comments on cur- reat events, apd ou the books ho read. The larger part of the prexent volume is devoted to the recollec- tions. The book docs not pretend to add tmportant facts to history, but it adds, in two or three justances, to our acquaintance with historical facts. Mr, Breck says very little about his personal history, but plunges immediately into his recoilections of other peopto. The account of a naval encounter in Boston barber throws u now light upon an old subject. He says:— “The Revolutionary War brought many Freneh ships | of the lime aad others into Boston, some- times to eft and sometimes to escape tho enemy. It became necessary, thereiore, to have a permanent agent to collect supplies. The French King honored my father with that appoint ment, which he held until the peace, greatly to the satisfaction of the several commanders with whom he held intercourse, He sold their prize goods, negotiated their bills of exchange, and furnished the ships of war witn all they wanted, Ho ontered upou this business about the year 1779. 1t was in the summer of the following year, I think, thas two or three French frigates were lying at wochor in the harbor, when there appeared off the lighthouse another frigate of that nation, convoying two ships with spars and naval stores seat around from Newport tor the use of the squadron in Boston, Before this convey could Touch the lower harbor it was overtaken by a British fifiy-gun ship (the sagittaire, [ think), and an en- gagement was forced onthe Frenchman in order to save his storeships, Making, therefore, a signal tor them to take shelter in the harbor, he prepared for battle, This he did with considerable confidence, although his ship mounted only thirty-two guns, be- cause he saw his countrymen at anchora faw mies off with aa overwhelming force, and very naturally counted upon their immediate ald. With the hope, then, of speedy succor and the certainty of her convoy getting safely into port, the Ma- giclenne—tor so tho frigate was called—~calmly awaited the attack of the British crais: Tt was a fine morn- both ships wore close in with the lighthouse; the whoie town was ip motion, and all the heights were crowded with people. Iran with the rest and reached be top of Beacon Hill The cannonadiug had com- meuced and was kept up with spirit for an hour, whea | the’ Frenchman strack. Those around mo who had Glasses permitted me to look through them occasion- ully, It appeared to us spectators that when the boats bad passed between the ships cach vessel was occupied with throwing over the dead and refitting the rigging. All this consumed some houre, In the moantime the srews of the frigates moored in Boston harbor wore bustling on shore to get a supply of bread and other matters that might easily have been dispensed with for kalf a day; bat until they were regularly and fully equipped tor a cruise they would not stir, 1 pertectly romember the commotion that prevailed among my father’s clerks, agents, bakers and victuallera, all striving to expedite the departure of these ships. The uuxioty of the townspeople, too, was excessive, and revere remarks were made in every quarter on the Biuggish behavior of our new allies, At length, about five o’clock in the afternoon, when tho Englishman and bis prize were out of sight, our friends weighed anchor and commenced the chise, whiel lasied until they reached Halifax, at which port the captor and captured shiy had arrived the day before, The Frenchman returned to Boston tn about ten days, leaving on the minds of the people of that town no very flattering opinion of their vigilance or courage, 1 do not dnd any accouni of this battle either in Gordon's, Stedman's or Marshall’s histories of the Revolutionary War, aod yet tt was an event witnessod by thousands and of a character sufficiently important for historical record, Twelve years after this engage- ment I made a journey from London to Holland. While sitting 1m the boi it Harwich that took me on board the packet I passed near a frigate that was an- dergoing repairs, on the stern of which I saw written ‘Magicienne.’ It was the very vessel just alluded to,” Mr. Breck’s report of Judge Peters’ account of the arrest of Colonel Flower is interesting in itself and im- portent {rom a historical point of view, Mr. Ureck’s book, while it is distinguished by no great literary merit, is written in an agreeable manner, and will be found a vory cntertaiming companion, Ipots axp Toeats, with an Essay on Christianity. By Mopeure Daniel Conway, M. A. New York: Henry Holt & Co. Mr. Conway’s ‘Idols and Ideals’’ consists of a series of essays on the antagonism of religion and science, with a concluding essay, of greater length than any other in the book, on “Cbristianity,’’ wherein the writer endeavors to show that tho Christian religion is ® salt that has Jost its savor—that is, has beeo univer- sally rejected by the iutelligence of tho present gen- eration and will soon be swept away in every nation where civilization reigns, Mr. Conway holds this tre- mendoas revolution and the approuching triumph of Beionce as facts that require no proof, and he deplores the pessimist speculations of those Englishmen who fear that “tho downfull of creeds will involve the downfall of the social and political Institutions whieh bave grown up along with the creeds.’ Ae bas no apprehensions of an unhappy result upon the masses of such a sweeping away of the old faith, when the interests of truth 60 clearly demonstrate tho nocessity of a “clean sweep, fore ang aft,’ and it is tho duty of he disci pies of Darwin to ply the broom with a sub- Lime disregard of consequences, Notwithstanding Mr. Conway's positive assurance that che intelligence of England is divorced from the established religion, and that the religion itself is vir- tually disestablished when it bas become detesiable to Carlyle, there are many intelligent persons both in England and America whe will continue to believe in tho stability and eternal yourn of Christiavity, and Who cagnot be convinced that its “!undamental doce irines have seen their day and deelined,” or that “it 18 Wishout a distinguished defender ot known compe- tency aad disinterestedaess.’? Mr. Conway speaks of Christ as a grout man laboring under a “popular delu- sion,” and alindes, with the conscious pride of superior wisdom, to the “unsuspecting confidence” shown in many of iis teachings and regrets that He Incked the knowledge to ve obiained in the smallest of our theological schools, which would have ‘supported Him to his last moments and enabled Him to restrain the ery, “My Goa, why Last thou for- gaken me?’ To Christ, Mr, Conway says, “untimely death brought pain and unmitigated disappointment,” He exbibita Mr, Moody as the typica ister of the day, preaching “the divine drama ot blood,” Bat perbaps even in Mr. Moody he might find much to emulate and applaud, for he bas a remarkable habit of admiring men of the most opposite principles and practice and whove principles and practice are most opposed to his own, Mr, Conway ia not only a free binker, but a loose thinker, and there is litile in bis pew work of force or originality. Christian min- A Text Book ov Hanmoxy ror Seitoons axv Ste- pests. By Charles Edward Horsley, Harper & Brothers. The above named work, just published, was com- pleted ouly a short time previous to the death of the author, which took place in New York in 1876. Atan early age Mr, Horsiey evinced stroug musical talent, aod 4 iz @ long residence in Germany, where ho was the 4 and pupil of Spohr, Mendelssonn aud Hauptman, he underwens that thorough training which enabled bim to present in an attractive garb the theoretical knowledge which i so necessary to tue really artistic stadont, Wisely ignoring in his treatment of the suvject that branch of music whieh refers to acoustics, or tho nature of sound, the author plunges at once into the study or what he cails ‘the grammar ot composition,” or 10 ether words practical harmony aud tho methods of NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, ving power to that harmony which are most useful in composition, As the writer justly mtimates, our grect dramatists, poets and Licrary men generally did not study the origin of their respective languages, bub they tranaferred 10 paper their inspirations according to gramcatical laws; and so in music, Bach, Handel, Mozvrt, Beethoven and all the great composers never troubling themselves about the length of a string nec- essary to juco a certain number of vibrations, were content merely to master such compound studies of intervals, the construction of the triad, its additions, inversions, suspensions, kc., as enabled chem to clothe their ideas with tho noble harmony that has made their names immortal, Starting with the text that the story of harmony is the simplest imagtuable, and that six sounds comprise its utmost theorctical limit, the autbor proceeds in an easy and pleasing form by a series of progressive illustrations to lift the student up the stepladder of knowledge to the point where he may successfully analyze the works of the great musicians, and at the same time write his own ideas in a musically gram matical shape, He gives no rules as to the creation of melody, for this is as much an inspiration as a poom and rules are useless, but be shows how, wken wedded to harmony, melody becomes muaic, and, like the few bits of colored glass that make the kaleidoscope, six sounds inverted and transformed produce chords of wonderful strength or the softest of sentimental sbades, BOSTON BOOKS. BURNING OF THE CONVENT—WARRINGTON— GENERAL LITERARY ANNOUNCEMENTS, i Bostos, May 18, 1877. It really seoms as if the makers of books and the writers lor newspapers were all under conviction that Boston needed humiliation and were ematically | devoting themsolves to the work. Miss Martincau | flung some very sharp stones in this direction, gentle Barry Cornwall had a few words to say about certain Bostonians, Dr, Townsend was disposed to consider us as barren fig trees, Joseph Cook we have always with us taking the conceit out of us ag fast ds he can, and the journalists give us no rest at ail, Once upou a time, before half of us turned Unitarian in religion and notbingarian in politics, when we all went to meeting Sundays and to the polls election days, wo judulged ourselves in riots whenever things did not go to our mind; anything would arouse our noble rage aud incite us to tear up the pavement, and yell and build a bonfire and drink rum and not go bome till morning, unless we happened to have a diayor sufficiently spir- ited to read tho Riot act and make us behave like men and not like beasts, Usually wo indulged im these transports at tho expense of some defenceless creature, anegro or a handiul of frightened women being the persons generally favored by our attention; but wo never, except in the anti-slavery riots, so tuoroughly disgraced ourselves as we did when we commnitied the act recorded in “The Burning of the Convent”’—a little | book written by Mrs, Louisa Whitney and published by Jamos R. Osgood & Co, ‘The Rev. Dr. Lyman Beecher was less politic than Mr. Moody, and ono of bis ways of fostering a revival in bis own church was to attack others, aud, in the winter of 1833-34, he preacued a sories ol sermons against the devil and tho Pope of Rome, denouncing convents and dispensing considerable valuable inior- mation about the depravity that went on within their walls, ‘There is not a shadow of doubt of bis honesty, but the result of his ignorance was disastrous, His hearers connected every word that he said with the Ursuline community at Mount Benedict, tn the @: tremo porthera part of Charlestown, and little by Little rumors of an attack on the convent became rife. His discourses were supplomented by the extraordinary statements in “Six Months in a Convent,” a book written by a silly girl, who, after receiving the charity of the Superior for a time, became a nun, with- out avy vocation, and ran away before her novitiate was half finished, The Boston truckmen toox up the matter, aud one summer night they poured across Charlestown bridge, giving one wrathiul roar aa they passed, and then swialtly, silently sped through the streets of the sleeping town and with u horribie yell dashed into the convent grounds. Vor woeks the uns had lived iu fear of such an attack, and the Su- perior had been driven almost to maduess by slan- Gerous reports about herseli aud ber convent, and the children, knowing what was going on, wore half wild with excicetnent; bat no preparations for resistance or for flight had been mado, The mob loitered about, yeiled, shricked, fired two shots at tho Superior, built boniires, drank themsolves into airenzy and tinally plundered and burned the building. The nuns, cower- ing i the garden, surrounded by their frightened charges, sat and saw their home destroyed aod then, aided by a kindly neigubor, fled as best tbey might, and found retuge where they could, On the other side of the bulluing, tranquil and curious, sat and stood a crowd of Boston gentlemen, waiching to see what the truckmen would do, and at last straggling back to Bos- ton With them in perfect amity, teasing a coach load of fugitive children as they went, | Such ig the story that Mra, Whitney tells, and she makes it Very interesting and gives many glimpses of convent life as it appears to the clear, unsentimental visions of achild, Unttl within a year or two Mount Benedict was kept exuctly as the rioters lett tt, except that the bodies of the nuns were removed from the tomb at the foot of the garden and that a fence was butit around the base of tho hill; the shattered wails crumbled away but slowly, the trees im the orchard ecased to be fruitiul, and the man who occupied the old gardoner’s houso found his poeition a sinecuro, and even the Catholica, while refusing to sell their land, balf forgot why they held it, At last they yielded vo solicitation and the estate was cut up into lots and vid off at auction. Seeing the workmen busy in curting off the dirt from the hill and reducing it to the dead level about it Mrs. Whitney docided to write her story belore it was quite forgotten. Several other new books appeared Satarday, but nearly all of them are very small. ‘Five Vost Pockets’? come at once from Usgood & Co, Three of them contain essays by kmerson; one mw Aytoun’s “Lays of the Scottish Cava sers,”’ the Inst, Lowell's “My Garaeu Acquaintance,’ “Brief Historios uf Russia and Turkey” are ulso to be issued by the same house. Koterts Brothers will briag oat T. G. Apple- tou’s “Syrian Saushige’’ and Alcott’s ‘*Tybio Lals.”’ Saturday Lee & Shepard promise the second Flaxie Frigzlo ‘Doctor Papa’’ very soon; the most amusing thing in it is the little girl’s strasgle with the doctrine of freewili and ture knowledge absolute which she is as interested in as Milton’s Eve, Lockwood Brooks & Co, anpouncea whole set of now books called “Ihe Wayside Series.” The firet volume isto be anonymous and will be entitied “N’import,” a word of mystic meaning; “Student Lifo at Harvard,” “Frau Domina,’ and ‘!ravellers’ Tales’? will follow soon, Still another book, which contains mauy small at- tacks on Boston's self-conceit, is Warriagton’s on Portraits,” a volume just issued by its author, the widow of tho late W. 8. Robinson, As acity Mr, Rovingon loved Boston, and many of her best men were his best friends; but he did occasionally enjoy poueturing our idol# and letting us see that they were stuffed with sawdust or loflated by gus. Everybody who knew anything of politics know tho man who ad been Cierk of the House for so long, aud all jour- nalists watehea for his letiers as « congregation watchos a clergyman who Is accustomed to make per- | sonal uppitcations, and is as likely to hit one person | as another if they need it. “We have gota live slavobolder in the olty,’’ he wrote, in 1956, ‘‘and of course the Boston aristocracy arc in ecsiasies of dolight."’ Speaking of a legislative boro who put the house to sleep, he told of ove man who defied his Jave, saying that he bud been a reader of the Daily Ad- vertiser tor yeara, but fell asieep as soon as he finished reading the third oumber of “Little Dorrit,’ with which he had lortified bimseif, He says sharp things abont the Tremont Temple mob, another of our fo- spectable disgraces, He had ne reverence for Cam- bridge, and unmereiaily ridiculed Judge Parker. Kven wore iuteresting than the reprinted passages from Mr, Robinson's letters is Mra, Rovinson’s biog- raphy of bim, because it shows what the life of a working journalist reaily is, and how great the in- fluence of one pen may in time come to bot the man who wields it never ailows himself to use it dishon- ostiy, His wile waye;— The domestic stages might be thus desertbed—While im this place we starved; here we paid our depis; there we were comfortable, For several years $400 served for the support of a family of four, and to the last he remained compara- tively poor, but bis influence never ceased. Mis wile writes pleasantly, tenderiy aud proudiy of him, and prefaces ber work with @ motto, of which the sad significance is touching, Sho bas published the book herself; it was such @ doubtiul investment that no publisher would take it, but no historian, no politician aud no journalist can afford to ignore it, LITERARY CHIT-CHAT. Tho Turkish question has precipitated upon the book market in England, on the Continent anu in tho United States an avalanche of maps, The best Eng lish one is Sanford’s “Turkey in Europe and Tributary States,” on a scale of fifty miles to the inch, published ip London, England bas a little less than three million children on her public school registers, but the daily attendance is only 1,984,573, Mr. B. Cracroft, » careful financial writer, bas started a new weekly paper in London, entitled #iman- cial Opinion. i ‘The word “torestry” has fairly beoome naturalized as descriptive of the whole art and science of trecs; and now we have trom London the Journal of Forestry and Estate Management, the first number of which bus Just appeared, The Turkish question has revived such interest in everything relating to Mohammedaniem that thoy nave actually brought out tho Koran in London im tho “Chandos Classics” series, and it ts having a large sale, In England, as in the United States, the retail book- seller is dying out, the Post Office Directory for 1875 showing many less bookshops iu London than in any of the years prior to 1856. Pettehgill’s Newspaper Directory and Advertisers’ Handbook for 1877 1s the most comprehensive and best arranged work which has been issued with ro- spect to the spaper businces in America, It con- tains a complete hist of the newspupers and other pe- riodicals published in the United States, the Dominion of Canada and other British provinces; a tull list of periodicals published mn the United States, by counties; a list of tho daily newspapcrs in the United States, with especial notation of those having # circulation of 5,000 and over; a list of weekly newspapers having & circulation of 5,000 and upward, a@ list of religious weekly newspapers of the country which admit advor- tising in their columns, anda list of the agricultural newspapers. Great pains have been taken to make the information reliablo, and Messrs. Pettengill & Co. appear to have been quite successtul in this important feature. Mr. C, Derby, of Appletons’, bas just returned from | the South, where he has been hobnobbing with the literary people of that region, Ho was the guost of Miss Augusta J. Evans (Mrs. Wilson) while in Movile, and of Joff Davis at Vicksburg, Mv.“Davis fs hard at work on his memoirs, and promises the first volume by the fall. The late Philaréte Chasies left a book on Shako_ spearo’s sonnets, which his widow bas translated into English, His thoory t¢ that the sonnets are addressed to no leas than threo beautilul ladies, and to Lords Southampton and Pembroke. Mr. Walter M, Fisher’s new book, ‘The Califor- nians,”? pablisbed by Macinillun, 18 described by the Academy as @ trath-tolling book, full of sharp witand uncompromising satire, Mr. J. R, Groen’s very successful ‘Short History of the Enghsh People’ has been wholly rewritten and on- larged Into three volumes, Among the ant!-Darwinites must be reokoned the Rev. F. 0. Morris, whose “Double Dilemma in Darwin. ism’? utterly ignores the scientific facts in the works of Wallace and otber naturalists, and applies opithets to Darwin not found in any scientific vocabulary. The London Kcho sounds a warning to literary mon founded on the early deaths of numbers of brilliant promising scholars, Tho younger race of writers are described as men of excitable intellectual tempera- mont—nover earing for rest, revelling on strong coffee and tea, turning all the nights into days, smoking qhomeelves into excitemeut and paying the penalty of unnatural lives by an carly and untimely death, John Murray bas to press Mr. T, P, Withers’ *‘Pio- neering In South Brazil.’ Tne London newspaper called the Radical has been fined £20 and its manager sentenced to three montis 1n prison for printing what is described as an obscone and blasphemous article on the subject of Good Friday. The threo hundredth anniversary of the death of Titian will witness the erection of a monument and statue to his memory at Pieré di Cadore, his native place, The Italian Alpine Clud will do nonor to “tho first painter of mountains” by attending the ceremony. «The last fow months have boen fruitful in blogra- phies of notable persons, And now comes Mr. Scar- lett’s “Memoir of Lord Abinger, Baron of the Ex- which bas little less interest than the lives of Harriet Martineau and Rajah Brooke, Mr, Van Laun’s “History of French Literature” catches {t on all bands {rom the critics as the work of an ignorant, superfictal, blundering and misleading writer, albeit of admitted enthasiasm for bis subject. Count Moltke’s book, ‘‘Briele Aus Russland,’? bas appeared in Berlin, and makes a curious and iuserest- tng little volume. A lite of Lord Melbourne, by Mr. M. Torrens, M. P., bas just been completed, and is iull of new and inter- esting material Jules Michelo’s “Bible of Humanity”? is in the press of J. W. Bouton, Dr. Latham’s groat *“Knoglish Dictionary’ will soon become accessible to American libraries in @ con- densed form, The London Zraminer claims that in orthography 1t distances all rivals. The American Bible Society published last year 558,488 copies of the Scriptures, or parts thereof, and received trom sales of publications $227,928 80. The Twentieth Century is a forthcoming new English monthly, which, ag its name imports, will alm to be ahead of the times, We are to have anew History of England since 1815, in several volumes, from the pen of Mr. spencer Wal- pole, ‘The twolfth volume of the “Year Book” of the Ger- man Shakespeare Society is just out, ‘The East Greenland Seas have been carsiully written up by Dr. Dorst, iu Petormann’s Milthei/ungen, Part 5, and will interest all stadents of Arctic subjects. A translation of “La Gaviota’’ (tho Sea Gall), one of the best novels of the lute greut woman novelist of Spain, Ferman Cubaliero, has been brought out in Loo- don, in two volames, Frank Board, the artist, has just completed the Manuscript and drawingsof a book on the use of the Diack board in the Sunday school, Mrs, Rebecca Harding Davis, whose popularity and power a8 a novelist have made such a brilliant reputa- tion both at home and abroad, will begin a new story in an early number of Lippincolt’s Magazine. Itis un- necessary to say that a literury treat is in store “1 most Important announcements by the Harper Bros, are Dr, Schafl’s ‘Creeds of Caristendom,” in three large octave volumes, containing nearly 2,500 pages, and “Court, Camp and Siege,” by Colone, Wickham Hofman, late of the United States Legations in Paris and London. The latter is in press and will appear very soon. Capes’ ‘University Lite in Athons’” will soon appear. “The American Antelope and Deer, and Thoir Do, mestication ” is @ forthcoming book from the pen of Judge Caton, of Ilinois, which Hurd & Houghton have in press, The Harper’s “Half Hour Sories” has been re- markably saccess{ul. Three editions of “Tao Turks io Europe” bave been called for, and every work has ‘mot with a large and rapid sale, Kugene Lawronce’s “Primers of Greek and Latin Literature” will shortly be added to the hat, NEW BOOKS RECEIVED. Roles of Proceeding and Debate in Deliverntive Assem- bien, Gather C. Cushing.) Mears. Thompson, Brown & Uo., Boston. Applotons' Journal (June, 1877). Messrs. D. Apploton & ©o., New York. ‘The Coul Trade, (By Frederick [:, Saward.) A compon* Published at No, 111 Lady of Fastton. son and Brothers, 0. 1, May 1877), Office of n No. est, New Bodtord, Mai w Lands Within the Arctic Circle. Nareative of the disouverien of the Ay Togorthoff enn 1872-7 6 one of the trations.) k e " Asiatic Di , with an ry Forces and Armanent of the Towot astern War (with colored .D. Applevon & Co., Kroadway, New York. paper cover), by Christian Hrondway Right Rev. J. bs. Spi Jatholic Publication Se ie information, road> ow YorR Flirts or, The Li a Mos maps). Alter Many Days wore a Ber tA the A Collection of Poems (by Mar- riett Skidmore, ") wiek an Lot by Most Key. J, 8. Alemany, D, D,, Archbishop of San ee P, O'Shea, No, oY Barelay street, and 42 Park place, ork, ttongill’s Newspaper Di! ory and Advertise s’ Hand- Mook jor Ih, Mears. 5. Me Pettengill & Co, No, 37 Park vow, New York, ‘The Magazine of American History, vith Notes and Queries ohn Austin Stevens), June, I877 (paper cower). Messrs, A. 3. Barnes & Uo.. New York and Chleao, | MAY 21, 1877.—WITEH SUPPLEMENT. BRITISH ART. CRITICAL BuVIEW OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY EX- HIBITION—THE GEMS OF THE COLLECTION, [From the London Times.) “Labor et Ingenium” bas now become the standing motto of the Academy catalogue. If this year we do not fina more than usual of the ‘ingenium” the re- sults of the Labor” are agreeably apparent in the large proportion claimed by the pictures of young aud comparatively unknown men in the most noticeable and uttractive work ot the Exhibition. This we take to be in a large measure the result of the well directed labor of recent yenrs. The imfluences of better teach {ng.-more thorough study, @ more intelligent appre- ciation of artistic alma and objects, and a botter guid- ance of artistic taste is apparent—that is, within the mits and conditions of the Exbibition. There is gull the same absence of the nobler style of deco- rative painting, aid even of history largely con- ceived and gravely treated, which may be explained without reproach to the painters, by the all but entire absence of any field or demand for painting of this kind, Such Ristoric art as we baveis of the minor kind, dealing with the anecdotic and picturesque in the past, and choosing subjects as they happen to give opportunity for’a piqaant point or effective costume. The only forms in which our parntors tako note of contemporary persons or events are portraiture, do- mestic life to its affections, humor or pathos, sport. ing pieces, and secnes of manners at hore or abroad, which after serving for the {llustrated papers become part of the stock in trade of the painters who have owed their first opportunities, and often the best purt of their artistic education, to those papers. All who know our painters, as o class, aro aware of the larzo and tncreusing number of the most successful among them brought ous by the iMustrated papers and peri- odicals, Landscape, home and foreign, comes lurgely in wid of these sources of subjects, Tho faco of na- vore, at all events, ia much, and, om the whole, well painted now in comparison with other times, ‘THe ProTuRys, In room 1 Mr, Kyre Crowe's “Sanctuary” shows as a fair haired woman in red, Casping 1m terror tne sanc- tuary stool of a charch, wuile bebind the rails, wince suuts off the sanctuary, gosticulates a crowd of bafiled pursuers, Tho defect of the picture piciorially is the wide empty space between the woman and her pur- suers, A more serious delect is the diflicuity the spectator feels.of conjecturing the offence of one so young and scomingly #0 tnvoesnt. Tho painter may Dave meant to set us this asa problem. But it wa bold thizg todo, for the chances aro tem to ove that the impatience of such puzzles te stronger (oan their interest. There iso puzzle in alr, Frauk Dickseo’s “Harmony.” ‘The painter i8 a recent academy meodal- list, and bis masters may be proud and pieased at this proof of the soundvesa of their selection, In ap antique chamber, lighted by a palnied window of silvery rather than gorgeous splendor, Juminous gray predominating in the glass, and leaving tue su- premacy of coiorso the human actors in the scene, #18 a bright haired maiden, in & robe of golden brown brocade at the organ, the sunlight through the painied window encircling her fair bead ay with aa aureoie, whiie hor young lover, leaning on ‘the organ in rapt adoration, foeds eyes and ears at once. is, in- deed, harmony of sweet sounds and young hearts tcn- derly felt and tastefully exprossed by tho painter, From harmony We pass to discord, irom the cathedral organ room, with its pair of young lovers, to the Com- mons House of Cuaries [,’s Third Parliament; the Par- lament of the Petition of Right and the Fires Remon- strauees, with its crowd of old enemies, iis hot Churoh and King cavalicrs, and 1s sturdy, self assertive, Puri+ tan high Constitutionalists, at that most critical of 168 many crisos, when, on tue Speaker refusing to put the question of the reading ot Sir Jono Eliot’s remon- strunce and declaring be would Isavethe clair by the King’s ordors, if avy off lo speuk after delivery of the royal message, Hollis and Valeatine hoid the speiker down io his chair oy the arms, backed by Coryton, Hayman, Stroud, Seiden apd Hobart, wil the doors were locked aud the protest read, that *‘whoover should bring in innovations i igion, or sock to bring 10 Popery or Arminianiam, or should advise tho taxing of tonnage or poundago not granted by Parlia- meut, or should pay the same, should be accounted enemics to the Kingdom.” Here (19) Mr. A. 0. Gow | bus indeed chosen @ critical momeot in English his- tory, wheao the Parliament first broke decmively with the King. During the scene reprevented, Charles Lun self wus in the House ot Lords, whence, alter vaiuly seeking udinission by the Usher of the Biack Rod, he despatched the Cuptuin of the Guard to break open the door of the Commons’ house at the moment of their adjournment. 1t was for this act of determined resist- ance to the royal mandates that Elio} und his leading ussociates were committed to the Tower, where he dicd sume thrce years later, alier refusing the subunis- sion by which the others bad purchased their liberty. Cromwell should be recogpizable in the crowd, though we do uot hear oi bam in the group round tho Speaker’s chair, dr, Gow bas certainiy not exugger- ated the pert dignity or comeliness of the mous’ champions or the good lovks of the M. P.’s of Charles’ third Parliainent geucraily, Bat there is a Iaudable absence of theatrical strain or exaggeration of avy kind about the picture It it shows none ot the vividness of effoct or vitality of expression that irre- sistibly urrest attentive those who kuow the historic signiticance of the incident wilt ind matter to interest them in the picture. That 1s wore than we can prom- {ze them in Mr, Pottie’s “Hanted Down" (23), « big, hall nuked and Wholly savage Highlandwan, like awoif breath against tbe rocky wail of he bas sought reluge irom the pur- ) Claymore inhand, Mr. Vetie 18 here, as ulwuys, effective, But the canvas 18 100 big lor’ the Kubject, wuich would have been quite as telling and leas obtrusive on # ewalier scale, 4 TOUCHING BURUACT. It ia not easy at once tw read Murcus Stone’s “Sacri- fice” (57), But we presume that tne old coupic who seem wo Weigued dowo with sorrow ate the futher and motner of the fuir, tll gitl, Who holds im her band,a burning letter, Ler sad face still swollen with recent woepitg. I'he color is tenuer sud ploasing, tue senti- ment unobtrusively, yet feclin, conveyed, Ali wo Und to suggest a question is the choice of the costume Of the Regency, 10 uo sense gravelul to our yes, though now so mucb allected by tue younger painters, wiio sc- lect the architecture of Queea Anne for their houses, and ber style im their furniture and decoration. Mr, Millaig bas never painted a diner half jeugth toan his seuted “Sergeaut Major o! the Yeomeu of the Guard’ (52) The character of age in tho texture and color of the fave, in the drawing, setting and effect of the eyes, and the conilict of yeurs und disci pline in the pote of the head aud carrmge of the body, ana the parting ol the dress, aud the power of the ensemble, stamp the work as worthy of the artist, *‘Beolenters,” tov, like cardinals, are bistoricul wmouu- mounts, Who knows how long either may survive, particularly in such acunsummate example as Ser- goant Major Montague? J, W. Oukes hus found a pure, breezy, spacious subject iu the vorder countries, “where Cheviot ridges swell to meet the sky,” ani hi fitingly clothed his swell and sweep oi" grecn will with the mantle of gray ¢loud.they so olteu wear in that ‘sols’? region of the tslund, W, CU. Horsley, lately employed abroad for one of the tilustrated papers, sevus good fruits of bis travels in (62) “fle Hoar of Prayer vp board a Turkwh Trou-clud.”” Nothing cau the deep-liguied shadows of the ‘tween sted with the glimpse of sea aut store through tue port, OF Luan the fiyures kneeling oF pros- trating (uemselves in the directiow of Mecca, euch op bis lutte prayer-carpet. orkmunship of the picture id warranis high son of tue academician, Who has otber picture: one of a bunting man trying to lug out is bor: fast {n a Devonshire boy, which shows humor as the power to paint have seen Srskii persistent irish tenant and his legal adviser ( tore, but there is character apd humor enough in both to make us glad to seo them » In “the Old Pump Room, Bata,” with its groups of gout-bobbied bewux and invalids, prett he reverse, Mr. Storey has found a capital subject, and sketched what will, no doubt, be an effective picture when be has bad time to patot it, An attendant mieus he bas used his 2 t al privilege of associate to send in bis undnished pic- tures, to be finished, no doubt, alter the close of the exhibition. In gallery No, 11 wo are first arrested by Briton iti. viore’s Legend of St Patrick” (70), when the venera- bie saint, seeking a eite for bis church and monastery ot Armagh, finding amid the bowlders on the till a roo aud her vewly dropped fawn, took the fawn in bis arms und bore it down to more hospitable levels, 1o1- lowed by the mother, grown miraculously fearless of the saint ‘The benignity and dignity of the grout Irish je and the mixed expression in the eyes ol fawn bind, Axed om each other in love crossed with io 8 jon, are wortby of ups and amazement rathel the painter. THE PICTURE OF THE YEAR, In this room ts What wiil, no dyads; be the picture of Ryypsian Feust,’’ worthy for di- ral merits to rank with his *Babylo- Slave Murket,’’ the * semsation’’ of two years ugo. We have ail read of the ae atthe Egyptian feast. memento of tWansioriness OL earthly delights was no death’s beud, but the wooden image of a mummy, hero shown as large as a mummified drawn round by player, preceded by one who prociaims to each group ol ieasters, *Look hero; drink ana be merry; ior when you die such will you too be’? Lerodotus indicates a smaller image than Mr. Long has painted, doscribing it ng Of A CtIDIt oF two cuDits long, At most, and carried round by ove man, who ed the serio! full sized mummy dragged round on a p carved boat of Osiris by a team of slaves u preacher, x8 we see here, No dou supplied the painter, with vaiuabie pi apd mutive; and seeing that he has soated hist in a gigantic hall, decorated with whole rangos of hier- oglyphs, such a6 are found in the temples and tombs op the banks of the Nile, a hail of dimensions such as we have no reason to think would have been possible in any ordinary or éven palatixl Egyptian nouse, he may have felt there was room for such a slave team and full-emed mummy as he bas used to point the moral of the ghastly emblem, Allowing for this pictorial oxaggeration, Mr. Long’s work ia worthy of the highest praise for the clever. pexs in the arrungemont of the guests, not seated tamely at jong boards, bat gracefully and va~ rioasly seated io little groups of both sexes and all ages, with youth aud beauty predominating, round those ligutcarved tables of pain wood, of which so mavy bave been brought to Tight trom the tombs; tho Jadiétous treatment of tne pestis Lo punted walls in {he background, so as to get all the effectol ther ci id characteristic color without iuter- 5 the ingenious variety of groupibg, combined with the the gubject, und the interest of tbe ex: « pleasant occupation to decipuer, trow that the white-beaded cidevant jeune femme, a Lady Kow | ofthe beau monde ot Theves or Mempais, Wao takes the lesson of the muminy even oxtentatiogsiy to heart—ns one who is very tur indeed, as yet, irom (hat sort of thing—to that of the lovely young girl on her left band, who site wide-open eyes aud an innocent simile, 8 if the lesson of mortality, inatead of’ fl an echo in her heart, left only wouder whether there can be a world of ues and shadows and oblivion beyoud thia of brightness aud joy and love, But we might go the round o: the picture in this way, reading ‘Ube expressions of various guests, The group of masi~ clans on the makes an acmirable pendeat to the feasters, and gracelutly completes the composition. 4 POWRRFUL WORK, Mr. Culderon is at bis best and in more strength than for some years past 1 his large proture (215) ia the Great Room on the theme of one of Tennyson's poems, 1m the Prin they broaght her war- rior dead,” The good kusght Hes stark, 10 bis armor, on the bed, whose curt hide his face, His young wile hus been sitting in ber tearless, dumb of bereavement iu the great ir at the vedside, moment painted ts when, alter all other means of an- Jocking the tount of tears have tailed, the old varse ot pinety years Urings in bis ebild, The mother has flung versed! on her knees trom her seat, clusping tho child convulsively to bor breast, while the patural flow of tears euses the o’eriraught heart. Her mutaeas, fuil of grief und pity, stand behind, The burst of wiiely agony 8 most powertully and pathetically expressed, in a movement of perfect dramutic truth, and all ihe details of the pcture are jargely, harmoutuusly and artisticully treated, UINTORICAL SUMJECTR, In the Great Room the tirst conspicuous picture that arrests the eyo 18 EB. Lony’s “Ancrent Custom,” o graceful Egyptian girl having her eyevrows bieckened by u Nubian femme de chambre, intent ob her work as 4 painter should be, and with u capital turn of the bead lo express uud emphasize ber absorption im ber per- jormance, “Puinpered Menials’’ (156) outside @ ‘Tuugier aristocrats doorway, giving 4 very cold shoul, der to a wandering mendicant who presents bis alms cup, is the second of a series of tilustrauions by J. %. Hodgson ot North African lite, the trat (12d) Commercial Activity in tho Kast’—traders hail asleep dy their Wares in the buzaar—is very fubny in a quiet way. E. Armtage’s “Serf Bi Anglo-Saxon noodle on bis death be his blives (168), is, after Mr, Long's the lurgest and most studied composition tm t hibition, The scene 1s the courtyard of an old mauor bouse. The old lord lies stretched out 1 uy 4 lavorite hound by his side, bis daughter lean! the head of the couch, with ber children near ou the otber side 0: her the Indy of the manor, und bi priest, to whose exhortutions, we mi ori’, the Act of deathbed emancipation’ is due, Near the ‘head of the litter sits the scribe, who inseribes the bume ant standing of the emancipated; beyoud and near the old man’s fout stands his son, Io irout ot him 18 the group of serfs, their craits and call- ings recognizable by their tools and implements. In the urchwuy of the court, behind # ebain fasteued to keep out the crowd, 1s 4 group of r churla, among them a lair young motber, with ber child upon her shoulders, In one coruor of the court stunds the re- tamer, carrying the cluster of spoars Which will be deliv- ered to the emancipated tn token that they are hence- forth !reo men, license to bear arms, entitling their re- lotions to claim a treo man’s wehr, Mf their blood be spilt by misadventure or manslaughter. Th.s 6 an bistorieal subject im the large una true sense, the representation, in a typical incident, of one of the institutions or usages Which materially shaped the carly soctety of our island. The pamting is rather dun, dry and se- vere, with palpablo traces of the sound French school of Deluroche, in which the painter studied. It, asa type of its class, claims the distinction of standing alone 1m this eabivition. WHAT THE BRIISH LIKE, Atype of what the English public forthe present prefers is to bo found jm (174) Mr, Orchardson’s “Queen of the Swords,” the country dance figure cailed the Triumph, in which some of us in old fashioned country bouse parties may have raised Jomed bands to let the ladies pass under them us under a@ triumphal arch, But en our grandiathers or great-grandlathers raised their baads they bad swords in them. It 13 uudersuch a festive arch of swords that the viack haired belie of the ball 18 painted, passtug proud and shy at once, followed aud precoued by her pretty companions, The picture ts delightful m toe, hike ‘all tho paiuter’s work, but, like all his work, suggcets rather the diispidation of & long disused maneion, with rotten floors und worm caten tapes- tries, toan u Well preserved, well ordered houso of tho period to which the manners and costume belong. So the two musicians hoisted ona tabic look painluily shabby, Suil, the tono of the picture and (he grace, if occasionally Bohemiwn and dé grace, of the ugures, curries of ull the mustiness of their sur- roundings. We tndnitely preter this picture to Mr, Orchurdson’s only other contribution (138), Jessica’? — ablack haired girl in yellow, with a slovealy brown sucquo at her back, drawing netde a yellow purtiere. Here ihe luck trimness, forced home on us on & larger scale, jars on one’s concoption of tho gentle Jewess of the ‘Merchant of Venice,” though, to be sure, the Gnetio was, in all probability, aimost as irowsy then as it is pow. SCULPTURAL WORKS. J, Pettie’s “Sword hud Dagger Fight” (203) between a truculent looking gallant ia white saun aud a Mepu- istophileslike antagonist in black, in saudy open- ing, closely shut in by wood, at once suggests the idea of duel d outrance, irom which nly one, und It tay be neiiber, will come out ahve, Nothing can well look “saglier’? or more determined, ana We almost look to see the spring of the lither and wickedor looking black clad swordsman under ols oppouenv’s guard, for a coup de Jarnac, 1 is a reliel to ture trom the clink of Mr, Poitio’s rapiera, and the yolp and clamor of Mr. Ansdeil’s setiors on the keoper’s duughter, pecling potatocs—“Rejocted Addresses’ (208)—1o the suave and gracious 6weetness of Mr, Letghton’s young Eastern mother giving a ksson on the guzla to her prey daughter, These figures, and the litte girl over the tilu- mivuted manuscript supported on a tortoise shell read- ing stand, inlaid wiih mocher-o'-peari, called **stuay”? (208), suggest creatures of an Eastern ideal world as unreal us George Lesie’s Enghsh ove, aod are not loss beautiiul—most peopie would prob.biy say are more beautiul—in their more luxurious, softer aud daintier way. We may complain that they tend toa kind of more wi smnoothners and softiess than be- longs to even uderess temale loveliness, But tbat this over-soi does Dot spring lrom any lack of maniy power tn the artist 8 incontostabiy shown by his great uchievement here—the third example of a modern painter producing remarkable work tn sculp- ture, Sir Edwin Laudseer and Mr, Watts being the lirst and second—a life size statue iu bronze of an athlete struggling tm the cos of a python, which st: the lecture room, Whetuer we louk at the the anatomical dotails of figure we must admit 1 « placo among the few great Euglwh works in brouze or marble. We may doubt the power ofa man in this position to resist the horrible crushing power of the spake; but we aro not culled upon to supp that he will long resist it, The struggle is still in suspouse, and tor our part wo bo- lieve the pytuon will win; the mau has been ill ad- vised Lo uliompt resistance with an arm held bebind him, He could huve no power of off thrast in that direction; but, again, how should even the expertest of uthictes know ut once how beat to tacklea python ? It (s not us if such inutches were in the regular day’s work. The man’s grip of the ground by tne foot th. gives tho principal point d@appws to bis resistance rendered with iminepse power, We. seg that itis the gradually coniracting colt of the serpent, Dot any vol- untary action of the mag, that is slowly lifting bis otuor tout irom the ground. The struggle will sovn be over, and thea Heaven beip the man! Wo can laucy we hear his bones cracking. 1 SWRET AND TRNDER. Let us (ura for reliel to the imexpressibly tender and touching terra cotta in the same room, a young mulher of Buuiogue suckling her cuild. Ot'the many wraveiul models 19 the reahetie matter—whieh suits the wateriul—winich M. Daiou bas fouud in this class and quarter ol France, ve bus never found a sweeter than this, The long cloak gives him the advange of am- ple drapery, which the first peasant mother and child exbibited by the scuiptor lacked in ber more succine, a:b, and the expression of the face here is, i pussi- ie, more full of maternal tenderness, It is rare, in- ued, that man English exhibition we hav oppor- tunity of evjoy!bg unalloyed satisiaction i two forms ‘at nee so compleie aud 80 Coutrasted ay 18 afforded by Mir. Leightou's straggling athiete and M, Dulou’s nars- ing moter. The arrangements for the proposed art exhibition for the benettt of Beaufrain Irving’s family baye taken sash shape as to insure success, Mr. August Belmont has subscribed $500 19 addition to the receipts, and other contributions to the tuad bave becn made by Miss Catharine Wolfe, Mr, Van Valkenbergh, Mr. J. n rwood, Mr. Samucl Hawk and other gent men, It is also ansounced that the adaitios iw Mr. Kelmont’s collection when exbivued will be | only those painted by Mr. Irving, and which Mr, Bul- mont es Wemporarily in fis gallery out ot rr vo at's memory, and to the public a portunity to see soveral of th works, As alread, will be open, at Wednesday, Thursday, Friaay and Sa nine A. M. wo six P.M, aod om Friday and Saturday evenings. The adratasion foo will be $1. This will b a rare opportunity for lovers of art to see some markabie and cerebraied works by native and foreign artists, iW AN IMPORTANT ART LIBRARY. The library of Sefor del Monte, of Havana, Cuba, will be offered for sale by the Messra Leavitt to- morrow and joliowing evenings, The collection being made by a sincere art lover shows, in almost eve: volume, some curiosity or other which only a genuine expert would pick up, Here is Gruner’s vook of Tathography, tlustrating the sculptares of the Orvieto Catvedral, one of the first efforts of that renaissance whieh began in sculpture and preceded by a century the puintings of Cimabue, Theso seventy-seven bas- reliois, long attributed to Nicolo Pisano, happen to iilusirate to pertection the articie on Orvieto by the conservator of the Louvre, th the earrent number of the Gaselte des, Beaux Aris. We notice, too, such rari. ies as the illustrated Album of the French Salon, for the years 1843 and 1944, tne tattor being the year when Couture contributed bis famous “Amour de Vor,’ the bibliopuile Jacov’s original work on the Middle Ages and Renaissance (1848), 1n five volumes; Catiin’s indian portioho; the seven Volumes of the Musée Franguis, with the tile pages completo aud inany prool impressions; four dillerent works, con- taining the matehloss arcoiteanral drawings of Samuel Prout, tac-simites of the drawings by Raphael, preserved in Kagland, and copied by one o1 the ingenious modern proc one of the five old Buimer copies of Holbern’s English portraits; Lvalian drawings of the HER MAJceSTY'S THS COMING INTESNATIONAL BRITIN CELE BRATION AT PETERSBURG, VA,--ORIIN OF THR ANXUAL PLGTIVAL—SOCKETIES AND DgS~ TINGUISUED PEOPLE TO DE PRESENT. (wx TELEORArH TO THE BeRaEn,) BIATHDAY, event, Throughout Canada and the United States thu celebration bas been talked sbowt and prepared for during the past twelve months, and now (bat It is clone at band some account of the origin and history of the movement which i represents will provably be of we torest to readers of the Hxxato, ONIGIY OF THE CELEBRATION Since the civil war there have sevtieg im Virginia a large ber of Englehwen, Sovtehmen and irish. men of the middie and, Gpper chen Some of the most illustrious of the nevle bhoaves which covstitute the peerage of Great Eritele are represented by settlers bow to Virgina, Such grand old historic names a6 Beavclerk, Powys, A’Court, Fitzwilliam, Noel aed Nevilie, comacetions of the Duke of St. Albans, Lord Liliord, Lord Heytexvary, Lord Fitzwilliam, the Earl of Geimsborough and the Marquis of Abergavenny are townd pursuing vVerious useful avocations of commerce and agriciiure tm the Old Dominion, The cousin of a noble Deke Is merchant im the Southside, while the son of & distingatshed dipiomaties is selling greter- tes, Virginia, always @ State im which “good biood will tell” im soc! circles, presents Pecullar attractions to tho younger sous of the arm tocracy and landed gentry of Knglaud, In addition to this class Virginia bas aiso scoured numerous adopted citizens belonging to tho hosest yeomaury aud industrious tradesinen of the old couatty, Thue estimated that altogether there 15,v00 te 20,000 British settlors in this State, that since the war investments in lands, mines apd mat actures, tended to milliona lo Amelia county alow British colony, founded by Murray M. iacker, Depaty Lord Lieutenant snd Jusiice of the Peace, bas é invested upward of $600,000 19 real and e- tate. rinco Edward county another colony bas established “Eoglish merican Rank,’ end vecome an appreciuble influence, politically and so cially, aught with Old feelings of loyalty a aitucnment to ihe Orowa which bas so often fired the British tes he battle cial supremacy, Thoy did not loave ti d eoustry because they bad ceased Ww love her, but because the forces of modern progress impolied them ty seek new bomes and enterprises in the great Republic of the West, Comiog under such circuinstances, they have made splendid citizens, law-abiding and peace never sevking offiey, bul ever ready to work lor ihe good of their adopted Stato, Naturally, ever, they, liko our German, French other citizens of foreign extraction, love to remember their old universaries. and four years xgo a sudden aud spontuncous movement led ta tno ceiebration of Queen Victoria's birthday in Rich mood with regal honors. Tne peopie of Virgiia, always un essentially British community, cordmliy Welcomed the movement, and anoual British colebra~ tions in the month of Muy thus became regularly @s+ tablished us part of the history of the year in Vi Last year the British Assoviation of Virginia, uades whose auspices the British coiebrations aro held, de- erded to luvite the societies of St. George, St. Aw Qud St. Patrick to unite ina grand tolernational avie bration to be held in Petersburg during this mouth, Mr. St. Audrew, @ prominent settior, Was sent as # ui convention of the N cau St. George’ pion, bed ia Hamilton, Canada, September last, to iuvite tbe co-vperation of that body, which was promptly accorded. The Norta American Caledonian Association and the St, Aus drew’s and Irish societies soon gave in their adhesion to the project, and the result willbe found im the notable assemblage which meets on Tuesuay, and ia which 200 300 delegates from Canada and the United States are expecied to participate, PATRONS OF THK CELEURATION. The international British celebration Is under the immediate patronage of the Kuriof Dulleriu, Gover- nor General of Canada; Sir Eaward Thoraton, britisl Ambassador ; Governor James L, Kemper, of Virgin Consul General Archibald, of New York ; Covsul Gens eral Donehoe, of Baltimore; Consul Ayer Myers, of Norlolk; Hoo, W. &. Uameron, Mayor of Peversburg; Hen. Lewis Thompson, President of St. George's Union; Hon. William B. Smith, Presideut of Caledon juu Union; General Patterson, President of Hiberuiaa Union, and others, INTEREST IN THE CRLKBRATION, Letters of sympathy with the ovjects of the inter. Rational celebration have been received from His Royul Highness Prince Leopola, A. J. B, Borestord Hope, M. P., aud the Governors of many of the States of the Union. The Karl of Dufferin cannot attend te celebration ov account of an accident, and Sir Edward Thornton bas beenwsuddenly recalled to Europe; but bo h have evinced the warmest interest in the inceps tion aud progress o: the celebration and deeply regret their unavoidable uvsence. PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION, The President of the British Association of Virginia is the Hoa. David 8 Tonnant, one of Petersburg's greatest merchaut princes, Mr, Tennant is a cosmo. Pulitan sort of business man, He ts a banker aud manofacturer nia, head of the grevt le & Co, of London, por- seases factories in Australia and landed estates im Scotland, A niece of Mr. Tennant was recently married to the Right Hovorable Lora Ribvlesdale at the aristocratic altars of St. Georgo’s, Hanover sq whou Kuri Russell, Lord Hougiton and abouta hundred Mr. of the greatest peors in Knyland were present. ameron, of the Committee ot Arti an of Cameron of Lochiel, as is Mayor of Petersburg, ‘Vetegrams have veen received to-day announcing that several of the Canadinn and Western delegations are now en roue lor Petersburg, and by to-morrow morning the famous Cockade City will be ablaze with, flags and decorations and the stroets crowded with Br.tishers, THE PARIS EXPOSITION. In consequence of the increasing importance of ite orgauization the industrial and commercial meeting iu relation to the Purts Exhibition of 1878, which have taken place ou Tuesday, 22d inet, at Coo; ¢, 18 postponed to Thursday, 24th of May, at al the same place, A MOTHER AND TWO CHILDREN DROWNED, {From the Cleveland Leader, May 19.] A very sad affair occurred last evening at the Globe dry dock, noor Wiliow street. It was the drowning of Mrs. John Donovan and her two lovely children, one w girl two years old, and the other a boy six months, ‘The affair was voluniary on the part of the mother, aud she carried with her, clasped to her bosom, her two only children. Family trouble at intervals for some tume in the past seems to Lave led to tne dese Perute dood, Walle a short dispute anda blow or two from her husvand a iew minuws before the occurrence seems to have been the imaediate cause, it appenrs from iniormavion gatnered that the busband, Joun Donovan, who bas been fn the employ of the Gas Company on tno enat side, for some me, Went bo lis home, at No 45 Male berry street, last evening, at the ciose of bis day’s , KOmewbat intoxicated, He bad a dispute with Douovan about flour and then quarreiled with her rding the night dress of the litte girk [tis said be sapped her in the face, when she deal: Bim a blow on the head. Ho then strack her on the forehead, r. Grieved and angered ment she quickly got ou her feet, seized & either atm and ieit the house, saying to ano, of No. 44 Mulberry street, I’m goln) Sho walked rapidly to the Globe dry dock, fol vy Mrs MoCaun, who evidently thougot that sbe intended doing away with heisell and children, though she says that she supposed Mrs, vono' was going away only for a short ume, as had been her cuse tom when family troubtes arose, On reaching # dock Mrs, MeCanu came up with the desperate mother and took the little girl from her, She at once snateb i back from hor, aud thea, with boih hugged to be bosom, threw herself inio the water, Mrs. MeUai lovked on till she saw the three faces rise once to the surface, dud thea rad through the street crying for help, Men and women soon answered ber calls im large numbers, bus Dot until all was over. The mother bad risen with ber baves for the last time and had gone to the bottom a iifeless corpse, carrying in her dyiug grasp both cutidren with ber, While men were at work searching lor the bodios the busband came the rescue, whea he was arrested and tukea to the Fourth precinct station house, where ho was locked upon the charge of causing the triple death, ite is am Irishman and forty-live years of aee, being fifteen years the senior of the dead wite, He admits that he and his wile have pot lived happily together for some tine, nent that ho hit her just betore sho started for the river.