to the present article-the adulterated nature of the material which gave them being. The decayed members of the profession would be benefitted by the establishment; for the profits resulting from the sale of the various articles might be appropriated to the extension of their comforts in the sullen season of age and infirmity:-or, if the council board of the Academy judged fit, the net produce might be devoted towards sending out to Italy annually, and to be maintained for three years the successful candidate for that honour, who shall have painted an original design from a given subject. The above appear to us to form ample inducements for carrying such a scheme into execution; and we are not aware that any objection could be brought forward which should neutralize, or even materially detract from the important advantages that would be derived from it by the numerous and increasing members of the profession. The germ of the above "hint" is to be found in the Introduction to a "Practical Treatise on Painting in oil colours."Printed for B. and J. White, Fleet Street. Page 25. BON MOTS OF TALLEYRAND. The discussion in the Council of Ministers must have been highly important to-day, said the Count de S. to Talley rand. What passed there?—" Five hours," was the reply. On another occasion, he was asked what he thought of a sitting of the Chamber of Paris, where a very animated discussion had taken place between Baron Pasquier and the Bishop of Hermopolis, Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs. Minister," said he, "was like the three per cents, always below par." The During Polignac's ministry, Talleyrand went to see one of his nieces; "Eh bien! uncle," said the lady, "how do you find yourself in that arm chair, which I have had expressly stuffed in a peculiar manner for myself?"-" Not too well, my child, your arm chair is like the minister, it makes one lift (shrug) the shoulders." An ancient emigrant speaking to him of the empire, criticised all its acts, and found nothing well done, except by the Restoration. "Your remarks are just," said the Prince, "under the empire every thing was behindhand, they merely performed wonders, whilst now-a-days they perform miracles." One of Napoleon's weaknesses was to attach much importance to the opinion of the Fauxburg Saint Germain, the quarter where the emigrant nobility principally reside; he could not get the better of it. "What says the Fauxburg St. Germain ?” was his frequent question. After the victory of Austerlitz, addressing himself to M. de Narbonne, one of his aide-decamps, whose mother's attachment to the Bourbons, and hatred to Buonaparte, were well known" Well," said the Emperor, "does your mother love me this time?" Talleyrand, who saw the young officer's hesitation, replied for him-" Sire, Madame de Narbonne has not yet got farther than admiration." During the Consulate, it was insinuated to Buonaparte that M. de Talleyrand availed himself of his place as Minister of Foreign Affairs, to speculate at the Bourse, and that he had thus gained immense sums. The First Consul had a mortal antipathy to stock-jobbing in general, and felt particularly indignant that his principal Minister should be so devoid of principle as to enrich himself by such undue means. The next time he transacted business with his great factotum, he sharply said-" I understand, Sir, that you are rich, very rich; and that you have gained your wealth at the Bourse; you have speculated then in the funds ?" "Never but once," replied the wily statesman. "How is that?" bought in, Sir, the day before the 18th Brumaire, and sold out the day after." Napoleon could not help smiling at this clever repartee, and the gathering storm on his brow was dissipated. The reader will remember that it was on the 18th Brumaire General Buonaparte so unceremoniously cashiered the Council of Five Hundred à la Cromwell. "I de m'embrasser ?" instantly retorted Talleyrand. The first individual who demanded of the Constituent assembly, the abolition of the titles of nobility, and who renounced his own armorial bearings, was Monsieur Mathieu de Montmorency. This ancient family descends from an apothecary called Bouchard. The evening of that memorable debate, M. de Talleyrand met M. Mathieu de Montmorency at a party, and, approaching him, addressed him in the following terms: "How does Monsieur Mathieu Bouchard?"" Bouchard," replied the other, “ you are mistaken, Sir, my name is Montmorency; I descend from the celebrated constable who fought so valiantly at Bovines, and also from that constable who fell upon the battle field of St. Denis."-"Yes," replied his witty persecutor, "and, to do you justice, you are the first of your family who ever laid down his arms.' SIGHTS AND EXHIBITIONS. The ingenious Mr. Burford has opened a new Panorama in Leicester-square. It is a view of Bombay and the adjacent country, a scene admirably suited to the display of pictorial power. Mr. Burford has produced a beautiful picture, and has preserved the features of his subject with a fidelity surprising to those who have visited the spot. THE PANTECHNICON.-A visit to the neighbourhood of Belgrave-square will be well repaid by a view of the Pantechnicon. 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It is not to the writer of the critique on "the Friendly Advice to the Lords," that we address ourselves; we plead the cause of the great majority of the people of England to a respectable section of their countrymen, with whom every consideration of expedience and interest, as well as brotherly affection, incline them to live on terms of kindness, seeing that Providence has ordained that they must live together. Whatever be the hopes or the expectations of Tories or of Whigs, of Moderates or of Radicals, respecting the Reform Bill; whatever be the present or ultimate issue of the contest that is waging between the antagonist principles of "resistance," and "movement;" whether the sun of England's prosperity is doomed to pale or brighten; whether we are entering on a course of heightened enjoyment or of aggravated endurance, as we must glad and grieve together, it is important that the sum of our pleasure should not be diminished, nor the amount of our suffering augmented, by idle recrimination. There has been a great deal said, out of Parliament and in Parliament, about the violence of the reformers. Unless in the idle words of a few political writers, we can conscientiously declare, that we look in vain for the proof of what is so strenuously asserted. The English reformers, as far as our experience enables us to judge, are a patient and long suffering race, as indeed reformers every where are. They have been reviled and trodden upon in a thousand ways and on a thou sand occasions; they have for the last forty years been subjected to every species of outrage and contumely, which the wit and power of their enemies could invent and perpetrate; and, notwithstanding, they are, even now, gentle and easy to be intreated; they are even now content to accept redress in any form that their masters choose to proffer it. Were the English reformers of that bold and reckless temper that they are represented, would they allow themselves and their cause, night after night and week after week, to be insulted by the very spoilers, whom they seek not to punish but to restrain? Among the examples of political meekness and forbearance, of which the modern history of England is full, is there one more conspicuous than the resignation with which the majority of the people have allowed, and still allow, the great question, which, by their votes in the late election, they had so unanimously solved, to be perplexed and delayed by the opposition of men, on whom the fiat of condemnation has gone forth from the one extremity of the isle to the other? Would any other set of men in this country, would any set of men in any other country, permit, as they do, the sacrilegious invaders of the commonwealth to arrest judgment, not by prayers for mercy or pleadings in mitigation, but by impudently challenging the jurisdiction of the court, and insulting the person of the judge and the jury? If the reformers were men of violent tempers, they would not have stopped to argue with the possessors of rotten boroughs; they would have announced their will, and commanded obedience. There is no wish nor thought of violence on the side of the reformers; they have right, they have reason, and they have numbers, and why should they be violent? It is only the unjust, the unreasonable, and the weak, and therefore fearful, that seek to carry their cause by noise and turbulence. Away then with these false imputations! Let us discourse together as men who are honestly impressed with a sense of the importance of our subject, and of the necessity of its speedy and amicable settlement. The Quarterly commences by a statement, which might have come very properly from a reformer, but which seems passing strange in the mouth of an anti-reformer. Nearly all the literature of the country, we are told, the clergy, the bar, nearly all the men of property, nearly all the men of business in the kingdom, are averse from the bill.* Now it is proved beyond the possibility of denial, and indeed the Quarterly distinctly admits it, that in the present House of Commons, there is a majority of not less than from 130 to 140 in favour of the bill. Here then is the working of the present system. So insignificant, under it, is the influence of those classes that in all other countries are looked up to as the political guides of the people, that they are incapable of commanding but a very small minority on the very question which they are best qualified to pronounce upon. If there be any topic on which we reformers have been more bored than another, it is on the tendency of an extended franchise and the annihilation of the rotten *The Critic adds all the three Universities and all the women-Say "all the old women," and sink the pleonasm of the three Universities. |