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584 THE LEADER. TNo. 476. May 9. tq*a
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were most of them thrown down , besides many private residences . The houses not thrown down were so injured as not to be habitable . The damage was estimated at 3 , 000 , 000 dols . The deaths were reported at 5 , 000 , but this was believed to be greatly exaggerated . A number of small towns to the north of the capital had also been destroyed * and in Guayaquil the shock was felt severely and did some damage .
584 The Leader. Tno. 476. May 9. Tq*A
584 THE LEADER . TNo . 476 . May 9 . tq * a
Cape Of Good Hope. Tcffi Second Cape Par...
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE . Tcffi second Cape Parliament was opened on the 17 th of March . The Governor congratulated the colony on the proceedings of the first Parliament , at whose request he had mediated between the Orange Free State and the Basuto Chief Moshesh . He enjoyed the confidence of both contending parties , and had succeede d in negotiating peace on a permanent basis . He had felt it his duty to continue the employment of the mounted border police in advance of the Cape Territory , to prevent a large vacant tract from being occupied by thieves and turbulent characters . On the other hand , schools
for children had been established in the peaceable states , and every effort made to secure their welfare . The beneficial introduction of Caffre labour into the Cape colony had been attended with some danger , and additional guarantees for public security would be required . The number of immigrants already landed is 2 , 078 ; they have proved most valuable to the colony , and many have applied to have their relatives and friends sent out to them . The estimated revenue for 1859 is 450 , 000 / . The revenue for 1855 was 270 , 000 / . The Orange Free State having solicited a federal union , his Excellency recommends both Houses to consider the whole question of the possibility of uniting the several portions of South Africa under some common Government .
The Governor Was to perform the ceremony of turning the first sod of the Cape Town and Wellington Railroad on the 31 st of March , at Salt River , about two miles from Cape Town . . dFhe breakwater in Table Bay is to be proceeded with . Mr . Coode , C . E ., from Portland , has been appointed chief engineer ; and Mr . Andrews , of the Xondon Docks , is to be the resident engineer . A disease called the hoof sickness is very prevalent among cattle . The Government is making searching inquiries regarding the symptoms .
Brazil. The Avon Has Arrived From Rio Wi...
BRAZIL . The Avon has arrived from Rio with the usual monthly Brazil mails . The opposition with which the Cabinet is met appears to have weakened and rendered it undecided what line of policy to adopt in the administration of internal affairs .
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. EXHIBITION OF THE ROTAL ACADEMY . The exhibition of 1859 is not so striking as usual , in the particular of large canvases by the academician , and is therefore pretty generally pronounced " below the average ^ " But although the number , of enormous posters is decreasing , because picture galleries are filling fast , and artists find small works more profitable ; though some of mark court ridicule instead of applause ; and though some of the greatest favourites are inadequately represented , it must be allowed that these walls , no less than those of previously opened exhibitions , prove a powerful
onward movement by the whole mass of British Art . The projections , are in fact , to use a second figure , less notable because the level is rising around them . We have so little space at our disposal that criticism is almost out of the question here . We have not ropm for reverie or diatribe or interpretation . So our good reader must perforce content himself , as regards our dealings with hira with a few dashes at the truth about some paintings that happened to strike us on , our one short visit , under conditions highly unfavourable to maturity of opinion . We shall , no doubt , continually recur , to this collection ; and though we cannot talk of all that is remarkable in one notice , it is probable that ere we have done we shall have indicated most of the works
that deserve notoriety or claim good report . To begin , as , probably every one else begins , with the object of everybody ' s curiosity , Millaia , exhibitor of JSTos , 15 , 298 , and 488 , colled respectively " The Vate of Best , " " Spring , " and " The JUve of James I . of Scotland . " This poor , dear man has extorted , by his convulsive clutches after fancy , which is not in him , and his deplorable decay in other respects , for the which ho should be pitied , not blamed , more newspaper space than was onco allotted to the late Mr . Turner , R . A . A good deal of this is waste , because the offender has been * treated as an accomplished but wayward and Insolent pet , of whom stupendous 4 hing » were to be demanded , instead of a loyal
i ^^ i ^ gi ^ painted him , and there he s ! S iSgei fe benign , that the practical may not go torepresenS ? Som Chattiest and m £ st idlal ™ rSOf the Not being bees , we cannot settle where we life * to-day so we must drift with the crowd , and W look and long at Mr . Hargett ' s fine expansive li ^ f able by cockneysfor the true green colour of ita verdure : though W . Linnell ' s " Harvest / ' where orange dominates , must be admitted by the sanm country-sick soul as about the grandest landsca ™ here . But somewhere between these hantrs « T ^ f and Found , " by P . H . Calderon ; catalfgued ^ s "French Peasants Finding their Stolen Child " ( 634 ) . This picture well tells its affectin ° - stonr In a country fair a peasant couple have recojmised their kidnapped child in the troupe of a travelling show . They have called in a gendarme , who extemporises justice , and summarily disposes , we can see " of all the claim for maintenance , & c , set up by the showwoman . The indifference of the child , very credible under similar circumstances , is finely rendered , and though there is hardly enough intensity in the mother , the picture is an interesting one Mr . Wyburd , in 666 , " Undine Discovers fierself to the Knight Hulbrand , " shows steady progress .
His canvas is larger than usual , but he has covered it well and evenly . It is imperfect-r-of course—for though a more luminous pair of eyes were never painted than those of the golden-haired fair one , she is saying nevera . word , and her feet are exceptionabl y long . Going round the West Room—we shall come to the dii majores of the others some other day—we find , , 111 480 , " The Burgess of Calais , " by H . Holiday , a picture of great mark . Bareheaded , barefooted , and in his shirt , with lialter round bis neck , the patriot about to yield himself , in the words of old Froissart , " purely to the will of the besieging king , " bids adieu to his wife . His face is full of unbending resolution , and determination to
bear up against his own griefj while a faint attempt to console is excellently indicated . The lady , on the o ther hand , is a true picture of passionate desolation * Hard by is Mr . . Millais' " Love of James I . " ( No . 482 ) . A great deal has been said , because this is the least obtrusive of the Associate ' s jyorks , about ; its poetry and paramount excellence in point of drapery . iLet those ; who think so enjoy their fond belief . The monarch is indicated by a hand outstretched from prison window . The ladylove is a tall , slim , " inexpressive she . " Her rich blue robe is certainly well painted , but is far outdone by the white stole of the burgess , which is provokingly handy . for this odious comparison . Another grand landscape , this time by J . T . Linnell , hangs in the north-west angle of the room . It is called , A litter of th
-Thunder Shower . " The metallic g e leaves under the thunder-cloud , and the delicacy of the cut hay , must be looked and wondered at . One of the most popular pictures this year is Mr . Hicks s ( 519 ) , « Dividend Day at the Bank . " Everybody can understand the scene and the characters ; bus , as a whole , though the British public do mob it as though it were another " Derby Day " it is clearly only progressive . " Sandsfoot Castle , Weymouth ( 539 ) , by E , W . C ! ooke , is curiously hard and true . We do not believe in the extravagant clouds mm . J . Linnell , senior ' s , " Evening" ( 546 ) . We know and have seen what he means , but he has not quiw hit it . His attempt is singularly hko the lurid smoke of a glass-house rising in volume , ancr w , consequently , as a landscape feature , a dead failure . In the school of Salvator , Mr . W . D . Kennedy has blended the styles of the scene-paintor ana ya . Zeitter . The result , though very quaint , is noc altogether unpoetical , and deserves a look en passant to Mr . Soloraonls " Not Guilty . " SOCIETY FOR TUB ENCOURAGEMENT OP THE HNE ' . ARTS . The fourth conversazione of , the above society-took place on Tuesday , evening , at the P <> rtland ® £ e [ J 0 Regent-street , kindly lent for -tho ocwonjj J Institute of Fine Arts . There was a nwMWg attendance of ladles and gentlemen , wlio » PF ^ to tnke considerable interest in the pwnjjgf g hlbited in the three rooms winch compose ww ^ T / hermd read an interestingV » V " " ° « T ^ l in Connexion with tho Fine Arta . " ™ / dS e l work of art ; and the word poot , which ww . W'g from a Greek word , signified a creator , fl og " mnn himself was tho work of map . A P « w » U statue , a mu 8 ical composition , or a 4 r « n » i » J ^ last all the arts unite ? was an «* " ° li * ° ff £ ii power . In that sense , every man was & J J « " J ,, j Srtist . The child inrolved the P ™ ™ tf " $ ffi ! e nature , and it remained to bo seen wl M ™ Jgn . was to be pre-eminent in tho man . . Jn ll 9 * JJJi \ ayr dation for all creative power wastho >™* % l \ 9 Without a high moral feeling there couw w
straggler Who honestly does all he can and fails , like others of that tribe , to please everybody . In our opinion , Mr . Millais draws his best , paints his best , and thinks his hardest : but in all particulars , he has passed the culm of his capability ^ and should be leniently dealt with accordingly . " The Vale of Rest" is , as all the world knows , a very striking picture of two ugly nuns in a walled grave-yard . ; . ' the latter painted ( some way ) after Anthony . One of the uglies—a brawny one too—digs a grave ; the other returns vacantly the stare of the spectator . There is no vale , but a plain English churchyard / very unpicturesque indeed , and no rest for the eye on the canvas . An infelicitous cloud , stuck against the
wall , has caused , and will yet cause , a good deal of merriment- We ought to add , that many artists are of opinion that Mr . Millais has a gift of powerwonderful power ( with the brush they mean ) , but we apprehend we are not writing to artists . If this ¦" power ** of theirs contributes aught to the charm or elevation that painting should effect , what an infinitesimal remainder would be left were it here subtracted 1 , With the " Spring" people are , also , pretty familiar by this time ; but there is plenty yet unsaid about it . On a stone terrace , it would seem , overhanging or adjoining an apple orchard , are disposed in a row , and in various postures , a number of young females . If we had any belief in Mr . Milthis intended
lais' sestheticism , we should fancy was to flout womankind , by contrasting the spring time of some family he hated with the luxuriance and beauty of nature . The apple blossoms are gigantesque—the maidens' heads diminutive . They are nearly all " old folks '" children , having old heads on young shoulders , and such a strong family likeness that we almost , fear they may be portraits . They are as small and wizened in growth as the grass in the orchard is rank ,, and straight , and tall . On the whole , a more evil-looking little party were seldom collected in one picture ; and , to add to this defect , the work , as a piece of painting , is " nowhere , " when compared with that of a Mr . Hughes , whom we may as well notice .
Mr . Hughes has two pictures , one of which ( No . 609 ) , an intensely Prse-Raphaelite , claims notice among the first . It is called " The King ' Orchard | ;" it is , perhaps , the most lustrous picture in Ihese rooms , and would be a glaring eyesore in a boudoir ; but it is , for all that , a thing of intense beauty and sentiment , as well as fidelity . The legend runs thus :- ! - " . Songs tell how many a page pined for the grace of one so far above his power of doing good to , as a queen—* She never could be wronged ; be poor / he sighed , ' for him to help her ; ' " and our artist has expounded this dictum of the ballad . The
scene is an apple orchard ; the queen is a fairy-like little girl ( with a head a trifle too large , if her arm is not too small ) , who reclines in superb indifference upon a bough while an intensely , wretched little lover breathes passionate songs on his bended knee to a mediaeval hurdy-gurdy . He , too , absurdly enough , has elderly furrows of age on his childish brow , but the sentiment of the legend is stamped on his features so truthfully that he must be admired . The third in this group is a toddling baby , who plucks flowers in a corner with all the insouciance of an infant and a disinterested party . The faces of these dear human blossoms are all as marvellously
wrought as their quaint and gorgeous raiment , and the apple flowers are as far superior in execution to those of Mr . Millais ; as they are in drawing ; while the drooping green tail-feathers of some bird of paradise , humming-bird , or other Xinnean curiosity , sitting overhead ( we confess ourselves unable to name it , but apply to the British . Museum , or the nearest birdstuffer ) , are so imitated , that we at first believed they were natural ones , incorporated , by way of a new vagary , with the painting . We have now used up our expletives . We feel like the foreigner , who , beginning with " Wonderful I Magnificent I Superb J" had nothing left for a climax stronger than " Pretty Well ! " So we must only say , reader , if you do , or if you don't believe , you may go and look . On the whole , this the best work of its school and class that we have had the good fortune to see . Within a yard or so , and something put out of countenance , is one of Mr . Harry Johnson ' s
regulation sunsets , " Hierapolis " ( 608 ) . A few / gaunt pillars lonely in the waste , a stagnant sedgy pool at their foot , stand clear ' against the sky , and show the fulfilment of the prophecy , " I will make it a possession for the bittern , and pools of water . " No . 621 is a glorious flower piece , by Miss Mutrie . Good bye , dear Miss Mutrie—thanks to Ruskin and you—to the stereotyped gold vase and the sculptured" staircase , and welcome the homely crock , with its mottled red face as faithfully painted as the treasures pf the garden it holds . Hard by is the' " Travellers Joy , " by Miss A . F . Mutrie—another group of nature ' s children nestling under and coiling round some hillside mossy stone . But not the brave colours of nature that outvied King Soloman nor those of Mr . Hughes , whose textures were never dreamed of in Tyre or Bosrah , have put out tho light of Mr .
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Leader (1850-1860), May 7, 1859, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07051859/page/8/
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