12 MARCH 1859, Page 19

. No less than 4150 pictures have already arrived for

the great Paris Exhibi- taco,. and some two thousand more have been promised. The term for sending in paintings ended with the first of March; a large number of artists,

however, have received permission to delay the sending in of their produc- tions for some weeks longer. The greatest number of these works are, as might be expected, of French origin ; but there are a pretty considerable number also from Belgium and Holland, and a few from Italy. The Eng- lish pictures are sent in one lot, having been previously inspected by a home jury of artists ; a special apartment, "le salon anglais," is assigned to them.