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THE TuRNER GALLERY.

With a very few exceptions, the whole of the oil-pictures bequeathed by Turner to the nation are now hung in Marlborough House,—mostly in the upper rooms recently occupied by the Museum of Ornamental Art ; the water-colours, (save those in sepia') and a few of the oil-pictures, still, however, remaining on the ground-floor. Of course, there are a number of other water-colours not to speak of minor studios, as yet unhung : but the nation has hero before it the most conspicuous portion of the splendid bequest. All the periods of Turner's practice are now amply represented; the strong, full, careful studies of his youth, marked in delineation, negative in colour ; the broad vigorous works of his prime, daring and reserved at the same time, and intermixed with less profitable emulation of Claude and other older masters ; the fervid wonders and limitless grasp of his advanced manhood ; and then the wreck of these, often floundering in extravagance, not seldom brilliant and glowing still. Even to enumerate, much more to estimate, the newly-hung works, would be beyond our space : we can only mention that, among the more famous or interesting of them, are two hike-scenes, painted before the beginning of the present century ; Spithead—Boat's Crew Recovering an Anchor ; Apollo Killing the Python,—a splendid piece of horror; the Deluge ; Crossing the Brook ; Pilate Washing his Hands,—a Rembrandtish figurepiece, full of mystery and glory, as well as eccentricity ., Caligula's Palace and Bridge ; the Vision of Medea ; the Parting of Hero and Leander ; the Snow-storm off Harwich; the two Venices—Going to and Returning from the Ball ; and a portrait of the artist himself, in his youth. Some of the unfinished works also are extremely ilne,—the Petworth Park and Chichester Canal in particular. An official "Descriptive and Historical Catalogue" of the National Pictures of the British School, compiled by Mr. Womuni and revised by Sir Charles Eastlake, on the same plan as that of the Old Masters in Trafalgar Square, embraces all these works in the Turner Gallery, as well as the Vernon Gallery, &c. ; and furnishes a good deal of desirable information in a handy form.

BIRTHS.

On the 4th June, at Weston Hall, Yorkshire, Mrs. Christopher H. Dawson, of a son and heir.

On the 4th, at Buhnershe Court, Reading, Lady Catherine Wheble, of a son.

On the 5th, at Woodslee, near Brighton, the Lady of Dr. Henry R. Madden, of -a daughter.

On the 8th, at Southborough, Kingston-on-Thames, the Wife of Sir Frederick Currie, Bart., of soon. On the 10th, in Eccleston Square, the Hon. Mrs Frederic Hobart, of a son. On the 10th, at Ness Cottage, Notting Hill, the Wife of Charles J. Bayley, Esq., Governor of the Bahamas, of a daughter. On the 11th, in Woodlands Terrace, Blackheath. at the house of her father, General Sir Edward Nicolls, K.C.B., the Wife of J. Hill Williams, Esq., of 12, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, of a daughter.

MARRIAGE& On the 4th June, at the Chapel of the British Embassy, Paris, George Harris, Esq., H.M.'s Consul-General at Venice, to Ellen Henrietta, daughter of Daniel Magniac, Esq. On the 4th, at Banwell, James Adeatie Law, Captain Bengal Service, second son of the Rev. Chancellor and the Lady Charlotte Law, to Harriette Ellen Blachley, third daughter of the Rev. W. H. Turner, Vicar of Banwell, Somerset. On the 9th, at St. James's Church, Piccadilly, Captain H. Byng, R.N., of (Wend= Hall, Essex, to Mary, eldest daughter of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Oubbins, CM., of Belmont, Hants.

On the 9th, at All Souls', Langham Place,-the Rev. Edward Spooner, son of the Venerable Archdeacon Spooner, to Octavia, daughter of Sir Oswald Mosley, Bart. On the 9th, at Lacock Church, the lion. George Augustus Hobart, son of the Earl of Buckinghamshire, to Jane, eldest daughter of Sir John Wither Awdry, of Milton, Chippenham.

On the 10th, at Kelvedon Hatch, Essex, the Rev. Almetic John Churchill Spencer, son of Bishop Spencer, to Isabella Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the Rev. F. AS. Pane, of Priors, lathe same parish.

On the 11th. Frederick, only son of Richard Webb, Esq., of Dennington Hall, Herefordshire, to the Hon. Miss Fiennes, youngest daughter of Lord Saye and Sele.

DEATH&

On the 8th April, on board the Gosforth, on his passage from India, LieutenantColonel Edward James Pratt, H.M.'s Ninth Lancers ; in his 49th year. On the list May, at Burleigh Fields, Loughborough, Cassius Matthew Johnson, Lag., (formerly Clanchy,) a Major-General in the British Army, and LieutenantColonel in the Portuguese Military Service.

On the 31st, at Brighton, Charles Edmund Rumbold, Esq., of Preston Candover, Haute, late M.1'. for Yarmouth. On the 31st, in St. George's Terrace, Islington, Mrs. Sarah Townsend; in her 90th yea..

On the 2d June, at Hastings, William Hammond, Esq., of Camden Road Villas, and Exning, Suffolk ; in his Old year. The deceased was one of the last lineal descendants of Shakspere. On the 4th, at his rooms In College, the Rev. Richard Watson, Vice-President and Tutor of Queen's College, Cambridge, and Senior Rector of the University; in his 36th year.

On the Si,, at Wraxall, Somersetshire, the Rev. James Vaughan, for fifty-six years the Rector of that parish ; in his 83d year. On the 6th, at the Moat, Charing, Kent, Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Groves ; in his 85th year. On the 6th, at the Rectory, Pewsey, Wilts, the Hon. and Rev. Frederick Pleyden Bouverie ; in his 72d year.

On the 6th, at Newbury, the Rev. Ilibbert Binney, D.C.L., Rector of NewbEtry, Barks, and Minister of Trinity Chapel, Knightsbridge ; in his 64th year. On the 8th, in Grenville Road, St. John's Wood, Douglas Jerrold, Esq.; labia 55th year.

On the 8th, Mrs. Jane Selland, relict of the late James Bolland, Esq.; in her 92,1 year.

On the 10th, Mary, relict of Joseph Neeld, Esq., of Gloucester Place, Portman Square ; in her 92di year.