terms of
high praise of the liberality which has been manifested toward him by
the papal authorities.

LITERATURE, SCIENCE, ART, PERSONAL MOVEMENTS, ETC.

UNITED STATES.

The Exhibition of the National Academy of Design is now open. It is
universally admitted that the paintings surpass those of any previous
year The opening of the Exhibition was celebrated, according to custom,
by a dinner, attended by artists, amateurs, and men of letters.
Admirable speeches were made by Rev. Doctors BELLOWS and BETHUNE, who,
though pole-wide apart in the sphere of theology, spanning the distance
between Arius and Calvin, find common grounds of sympathy in their love
for, and appreciation of Art. Mr. DURAND, the President, in a very
felicitous speech, narrated his experience as an artist and as one of
the founders of the Academy.

Mr. GREENOUGH, at Florence, has nearly completed his group of the
_Pioneer_, for the Capitol at Washington. It represents a backwoodsman
rescuing his wife and child from an Indian who is in the act of
smothering them in the folds of his blanket. The action of the group
symbolizes the one unvarying story of the contest between civilized and
uncivilized man. The pioneer, standing almost erect, in the pride of
conscious superiority, has dashed upon one knee the Indian, whose
relaxed form, and cowering face upturned despairingly, express
premonitions of the inevitable doom awaiting him, against which all his
efforts would be unavailing. The heavy brow, compressed lip, and firm
chin of the white man announce him one of a race born to conquer and
rule, not so much by mere physical strength as by undaunted courage and
indomitable will. Those who have seen the group pronounce it to be a
sublime conception grandly executed.

A portrait of Mr. Calhoun, painted at Paris by Mr. HEALEY for the Common
Council of Charleston, was exhibited at the Exposition in Paris, where
it was pronounced one of the best portraits of the season. The size is
seven feet ten inches, by four feet seven. The sum paid for it is one
thousand dollars. We believe it has been forwarded to Charleston.

Among the pictures by our artists, completed or in progress, we notice
one by Mr. WRIGHT, representing the well-known story of Washington and
the damaged cherry-tree, which is executed with decided cleverness.--Mr.
DUGGAN is engaged upon a David and Goliath, one of those massy subjects
affording ample scope for the bent of the artist's g