(_A SKETCH IN THE CORPORATION GALLERY AT THE GUILDHALL._)
_The Gallery is crowded, and there is the peculiar buzz in the
air that denotes popular interest and curiosity. The majority
of the visitors are of the feminine sex, and appear to have
come up from semi-detached villas in the less fashionable
suburbs; but there is also a sprinkling of smart and Superior
Persons, prosperous City Merchants, who regard pictures with
respect, as a paying investment, young Commercial Men, whose
feeling for Art is not precisely passionate, but who have
turned in to pass the time, and because the Exhibition is
gratuitous, earnest Youths with long hair, soft hats, and
caped ulsters, &c., &c._