The members of the New Society in Water Colours have
very tempe- rately memorialized the Government for a local habitation worthy of their name, and justly claim additional facilities of exhibition, in order o_ to encourage "meritorious artists, who are seeking efficient moans f bringing their works into public notice."
M. Dessanges has painted a very interesting series of portraits of offi- cers who have obtained the distinction of the Victoria Cross. Indeed the picture is now being exhibited at the Egyptian HalL
Engraving made its first appearance in France on cards, which were in use towards the end of the fourteenth century, and the whole history of which occupies the opening chapter of the Gamete des Beaux Arts. A curious paper, with fantastic and tasteful illustrations of ancient lock ornamentation, precedes a criticism of the Paul Veronese lately restored to the Louvre' "Jupiter hurling the Vices out of Heaven." The en- graving is a faithful reminiscence of this famous picture. The corre-
ondence from Florence is adorned with drawings of two of Pampaloni's finest statues, "The Arnolfo di Lapo " and Brunelleschi," and the usual faithful summary of the sales of pictures and curiosities at Paris winds up the bi-monthly number of April.
A committee, amongst whom are MM. Fonld, De Moray, Ingres, Delacroix, Horace Vernet, and the Marquis of Hertford, have arranged for the special exhibition of the most distinguished of the works of the lamented Ary Seheffer. This graceful homage to deceased merit is much in vogue in Paris just now.
To those curious in such matters Mr. Waleaby, of Waterloo Place, offers the eight of the magnificent bed, designed in 1737, which stood at Stowe during one hundred and eight years, and served as the resting- place of the Royal personages who were guests of the house of Chandos.
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