24 AUGUST 1861, Page 2

libtlnitaa.—.A. great Art Congress has been held at twerp on

the

18th inst., attended by representatives from all Euro e, in the midst

of a popular festival such as has rarely been witnessed even in Bel- gium. The guests spent some hours in the Exhibition of Modern Belgian and German Art, followed by a dinner, to which 13,000 guests sat down, in an apartment nearly 1000 feet in length, formed in the Theatre des Varietes. The rural fetes, religious ceremonies, and a ball in the evening, brought the festival to a close. The finest work exhibited is said to-be a " razzia" of Bashi-Bazouks, by Cermak, a pupil of M. Gallail, Brussels. The work, it is reported, stamps him as the "Millais" of the Belgian school.