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 DO.TTICH COLLEGE.

��which this exhibition, and its Tenerable artist, now more than eighty years of age, are visited by the stranger in London.

I would fain, were it in my power, to do justice to such subjects, describe some of the curiosities, at the Polytechnic Institution, or the pictures in the National Gallery, and at Dulwich College. At the latter place are several fine Morillos, and, also, a provision of be nevolence by its founder, where six poor men and women, having past the age of sixty, are supported in comfort and respectability. Will not this charity come up in blessed remembrance, when the tints of the pencil are faded and forgotten ?

Saw, at 50 Pall-Mall, a remarkable collection of pictures belonging to Mr. Vernon, among which we particularly designated &quot; The Broken Heart ; &quot; &quot; Too Late at the Well ; &quot; &quot; The New Scholar,&quot; by Mulready ; and &quot;Uncle Toby and Widow Wadman,&quot; by Leslie. But it is a losing office to delineate with the pen any exquisite painting. The instrument and instrumental ities are alike inadequate.

What then shall I say of the British Museum, that unequalled repository of the wonders of every clime, and the munificence of its own ? Nothing at all.

This omnium gatherum of an article is already too full. It is time to release both myself and my readers.

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