will be the result of the most successful search after this world's honours, if, when life's last scene has shifted from before us, we are not permitted to hear the voice of the Redeemer saying, "Friend, come up higher." There is but one way that leads to that sublime rest, where the soul lives in the blessedness of her strength. There is but one portal through which we can pass to behold the face of God in love. It is the way of holy faith, fruitful in good works; the perfect merit of the Lamb of God. May that faith, and that inheritance, be given to us all!

APPENDIX.

(A.)

In no department of Art has there been a more rapid advance than in the application of water colours, for a few years past. The British Society of Water Colour Painters, have, in their several exhibitions, shown results surprising and delightful, which are but promises of yet more exquisite perfection. The cheapness and facility of this Art should recommend it to an increased attention in this country, as well calculated to enlarge and refine the general taste among us.

(B.)

Some allusion to the fact here stated, may be found in a very interesting address of our estimable fellow citizen, Mr. Thomas I. Wharton, before the Society for the Celebration of the Landing of William Penn, some years since. Mr. D. P. Brown has also treated it with his wonted spirit, in his letter to Lord Brougham.

(C.)

I have no doubt, but that a better knowledge than my own, would have suggested the names of not a few other of our native Artists as worthy of mention; and it is particularly pleasing to know, that there are those, yet young in years and Art, who bid fair to need no friendly herald to precede them in their way to well deserved fame.

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(D.)

The author would not condemn all shades of yellow in the painting of houses, but only the more glaring and the more heavy. There is a pale gentle yellow, (I use the term not with artistical niceness, but in its common sense,) which is very pleasing; but even red itself is almost as tolerable, as the vulgar gaudiness, or the dull deadness, with which some of our citizens have coated their buildings.

(E.)

I am happy to learn that the subscription list to an engraving, now in progress by Wagstaff, of London, from Mr. Inman's admirable whole length of the good Bishop, shows a very general reverence and love for his memory, as it embraces the names of persons belonging to every religious denomination in this city. Some yet more durable and public monument should, however, be erected to commemorate such unusual worth. It is to be hoped, that the design talked of some years since, of a monumental statue in the vestibule of Christ's Church, may be revived. Few among us would refuse to contribute for the purpose, and we shall not soon have so fair an opportunity of securing a costly work of Art, which will do honour at once to the taste and the religious sentiment of our community. Inman's picture, (or the engraving from it,) will afford the sculptor the best authority, as it is considered by the family and friends of the Bishop, to be as remarkable for its truth of resemblance as for its power of execution.

(F.)

I am happy to have here an opportunity of spreading before the public, the noble Memorial of the Artists of Philadelphia to the Congress of the United States, at the time when there was some hesitancy as to the propriety of giving the public patronage to any Artists not born among us. It is a paper full of philosophic truth and generous sentiment, and one which the opponent of all artificial restrictions upon industry and invention cannot appreciate too highly.

To the Honourable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, in Congress assembled.

The Memorial of "The Artists' Fund Society of Philadelphia,” an institution conducted exclusively by Artists, and incorporated April 29, 1835, "for the purpose of advancing the happiness of their professional brethren, and of promoting the cultivation of skill, the diffusion of taste, and the encouragement of living professional talent in the Arts of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, and Engraving,"

RESPECTFULLY REPRESENTS:

That your memorialists have heard, with infinite pleasure, of a proposition made, or about to be made, before Congress, for the execution of sculptural decorations of the east front of the Capitol, at the seat of the National Government, in conformity with the requisitions of the original for the completion of that front; and they deem it not improper, as citizens of the United States, having an interest in all that relates to the Arts, to exercise a privilege, in common with other professions, of presenting, for the consideration of your honourable body, their views of what, in their opinion, may advance the public good, and contribute to elevate the character of those Arts which have always been the means of transmitting to posterity a knowledge of the state of refinement and intellectual standing of a people.

It is a gratifying evidence of the improvement of the times, that while the Useful Arts are most liberally encouraged throughout this vast Republic; while public buildings, canals, rail-roads, and manufactories are rapidly springing into existence, and human ingenuity and skill, in all departments of the Mechanic Arts, are stimulated to vigorous and renewed exertion, Congress has not forgotten to foster and encourage the Fine Arts.

The orders already given for a new device to our national coin; the intended decoration of the interior of our National Hall with paintings, and the exterior with sculpture, afford an honourable employment to our Artists; and, if well executed, will both promote their own excellence and advance the public taste.

Without meaning to institute invidious comparisons, or to dictate

to those upon whom the selection of an Artist for employment upon the Capitol devolves, your memorialists respectfully present to your notice the name of LUIGI PERSICO, a sculptor, now in Washington, who both as an Artist and a man, is entitled to distinguished consideration.

Mr. Persico is an Italian by birth, and your memorialists are aware that many of their countrymen believe that none but natives are entitled to Government patronage: but your memorialists dissent from this doctrine, and entertain the opinion that Artists of genius and high moral character, whose works have a tendency to exalt the sentiments, and refine the manners of the age, should, upon the fair principles of competition, find an easy passport to employment in any part of the civilized world.

It would be a matter of regret, if our countrymen should be found less liberal than the people of other nations, in availing themselves of the skill of accomplished foreign Artists, whose merit is so often accompanied by valuable information and refined taste. The examples, in this respect, which have been set for us abroad, are worthy of emulation. We may point to the recent case of our gifted countryman West, whose name was rendered illustrious by the generous opportunities extended to him in a foreign land, for the development of his genius in the highest department of painting; who was honoured by the personal favours of the British monarch; and even when the fame of Sir Joshua Reynolds, the founder of the English school, was at its height, received the appointment of Historical Painter to the King. But the American Artist, in the true spirit of republican simplicity, rejected the royal proffer of knighthood, received a more honourable distinction-the presidential chair of the Royal Academy of Arts, given by the vote of the English Artists. Copley, too, an American, was honourably received and encouraged in England, as were our Leslie, our Newton, and others, who long since were acknowledged to be distinguished ornaments of the British school. Much might be said, likewise, of the liberal encouragement held out to foreigners upon the European continent: a striking instance of which is presented in Thorwaldsen, by birth a Swede, who was drawn from obscurity by the fostering care of foreign patronage, and is now the boast of the Italian school of sculpture. This may, possibly, be the