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Daily Southern Cross, Volume 3, Issue 106, 26 April 1845, Page 1

| O N SAL E, At the Stores of the Undersigned : BRANDY, W. I. Rum, Gin, Arrack, Sherry Wine, Flour. John I. Montefiore. Auckland, March 29, 1845. . Statue of Peter the Great. — We have been favoured with a private view of a statuette of Peter the Great — a copy, reduced in volume, of the colossal statue of that monarch, lately set up, by the order of the Emperor of Russia, at Cronstadt. This work is due to the chisel of M. Jacques, a sculptor who has recently arrived in this country on his way to Paris. The statue has a twofold interest — historical as well as artistical. Historical data the most precise have directed the labours of the artist. For the countenance an admirable plaster cast, taken from the great Czar of Russia, after death, has been furnished by his successor on the throne ; for the costume, the entire suit he habitually wore, preserved at the arsenal at Cronstadt, supplied the complete authority for the model. These clothes were placed by the artist on the body of several Russian grenadiers, but they resembled boys in these habiliments of the giant Czar. Peter the Great was seven feet high in stature. Nature, appeared to have supplied him with a form as colossal as his intellect, that no physical or moral obstacle should resist his power in the great mission of civilization he was sent upon earth to accomplish. The statuette is full of life and energy. The head is far more than the usual size — the countenance has an expression of strong passions, and above all of indomitable will ; the broad and expansive brow speaks of the intellect; within. The Czar is represented after the battle of Pultowa, standing with his sword unsheathed on the prostrate flag of the enemy. There is in the figure an air of natural excitement and warlike action ; but it is combined with that calm habit of command so well in accordance with an august leader, whose breath breathes " the fate of the foughten field." We have an additional motive for speaking of this chef d'eeuvre — the artist, at the moment he had reached fame and affluence, having been ruined by a conflagration, which destroyed the whole fabric of his fortune. — Post. Turkey. — A loiter from Constantinople states that the health of the health of the Sultan occupies the attention of every person in that capital. His brother, Abd-ul-Azis, who, though the present Sultan has male children, would be called to the throne, according 1 to the laws regulating the male succession in Mohamedan states, was born in 1828, and is of a robust constitution. As much as the present Sultan is feeble, timid, and deprived of enei'gy, is Abd-ul-Azis petulant, stubburn, and self-willed. Shipping. — The 'Austrian Lloyd's ' publishes the following table of the amount of tonnage of the ships of different countries employed in commerce : — Great Britain, 3,047,418 tons ; France, 589,517 ; Russia, 239,706 ; Austria, 208,551 ; smaller maritime states of Germany, 551,144 ; Holland, 275,084; Belgium, 27,416; Sweden and Norway, 471,772 ; Denmark, 153,408 ; Spain, 80,000 ; Portugal, 80,525 ; Sardinia, 167,360 ; the Roman States, 38,000 ; the Two Sicilies 213,198 ; Lucca, 20,000; Tuscany, 25,512; lonioan Islands, 58,662; Greece, 137,558 ; Turkey, 182,000. What's in a Name ? — Captain Marryat relates that there were two lawyers in New York with the peculiarly happy names of Catcham and Cheetham. People having laughed to see these two names in juxtaposition over the door, the two lawyers thought it advisable to separate them by the insertion of their Christian names, Isaac and Uriah. The painter, however, finding the board too short to admit the Christian names at full length, put only the initials before the- surnames, which made the matter still worse, for there now appeared— « I Catchem and U Cheateni.