PHOTOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION.
One exhibition of photographs has scarcely closed in Pall Mall when another opens in Bond Street, at the so-called Photographic Institution, next door to the Clarendon. The collection, if not a very large, is an extremely choice one. A considerable portion of the specimens reappear from the former exhibition, and their excellence is rivalled by that of the new corners. The list of contributors comprises Messrs. Fenton, Cundall, Sherlock, Llewellyn, Bisson of Paris, and many others of the foremost names in the art; as well as Mr. Delamotte, whose photographic studio is or was connected with the gallery, and of whose pictures frtim the Crystal Palace a large number is included in the collection. One, pro- bably the latest of all, is specially conspicuous ; being a "take-off" of the Royal and Imperial party as it sat on the dais in the transept of the Palace on the occasion of Louis Napoleon's late visit. It is curious, Ana on the whole brilliant, but blurred in parts—more so than the companion- picture of the opening of the building in June last. A list of subscrip- tions for copies is in coarse of filling-up. The number of framed speci- mens is 320, besides some in portfolios ; the subjects chiefly views, then architecture, objects of art, fac-eimile engravings, &c. ; portraits form
only a small minority. '
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