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86 THE LEA DEB. [No/460/JANTJAitY 15, 18...
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THE GRAPHIC SOCIETY. The second conversa...
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with Austria , that ought not to reduce the value of public securities below the level at which they stood during the Russian campaign , and to drive down Bank Stock—the most solid of all investments—7 per cent ., as is actually the case . For never before did a prospect produce riiore than the reality . " YVe must look elsewhere for the causes of the panic . They will be found , I believe , in the character of . the Government itself , and in the general belief of its unstableness . Whatever may be the personal merits of the Emperor tliey are no guarantees for the existence of the Empire . So long as
life and the full vigour of his intellectual faculties are vouchsafed him he may maintain the system established in i ? l 5 i . But should either of these fail , men have very little confidence in the harmony of a regency necessary toensure its duration . Although no opposition may appear upon the surface , it is latent , biding its time and cherishing its revenge . The present regime is popular because it is , and therefore the source of emolument and place , but it has struck down no roots into the soil of France , since it is nothing more than Bonapartism , the idolatrous worship of the sayings and doings of one man .
Next to this instinct of the unsoundness of . the system must be placed , as one of the causes of the panic , the wide-spread belief that there is a great deal of coquetting going on with the revolution . The partisans of rational liberty and of constitutional government are found to be invulnerable alike to the blandishments and to the threats of power . They will neither ; come over nor allow others to go to them . So . it is thought a clever piece of policy to call up the worst spirit of revolution , and to set it uppn the lovers of freedom in order that while the two parties are harrying each other , and people terrified by the horrible phantom of a red republic , the Empire may hold its own . Unfortunately for the success of this measure men will see and judge for
themselves . They perceive that if Prince Napoleon enters into correspondence with M . Hubert—the man who toppled the President of the National Assembly from his chair on the loth May , and leaped into his seat—and sends him on a confidential mission to Algeria , he must give strength to the party and encourage hopes which are believed dangerous to society . Experience teaches that no man can toy with revolution . Her dalliances are deadly , her embraces mortal ; and those who think to use her for their ^ purpose but arm her . against themselves ; Philippe Egalite fatuously imagined he had charmed her to place the crown upon his brows , but she carried his head beneath the knife on the Place de-la Revolution .. Cannot his successor in the Palais Royal
learn from his fate the danger of pursuing hiss policy ? The Italian part of the question has , I really think , but very little to do with the present' state of things . " Were Victor Emmanuel to proclaim himself ; King of Italy to-morrow , and obtain the assistance of 40 , 000 French soldiers to expel the Austrians from Lombardy and Venetia , it would not create a panic , especially when it is understood that England and Russia would remain neutral . On the contrary , most Frenchmen would see in such a programme employment for the arniyT—a safety-valve for the escape of turbulent spirits from the earth , and a prospect of increasing French territory by accepting from Sardinia the concession of Savoy .
The true cause of the panic is the unsoundness of French finance , and the extravagant notions entertained with regard to credit . The expenditure is so great that another loan is believed to be inevitable , as the necessities of the State are made day by day more apparent . Accounts are carried over from year to year , and in order to postpone payments , the bills of contractors during the Crimean war are subjected to investigation by a commission , Nor is it Government alone that is so needy and importunate a borrower . All the great
provincial cities have been permitted to borrow money to carry out ; public works with a view to give employment to the working classes . Besides the immense sums Already expended by the city of Paris , the municipality is to form a now building fund of 400 , 000 / . by charging it to future revenue , and has been moreover authorised , by a decree of the 6 th instant , to borrow 600 , 000 / . Where there are such a reckless expenditure , such improvident mortgaging of future resources , and so little political stability , the occurrence of panic ceases to be a matter of wonder and astonishment .
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86 THE LEA DEB . [ No / 460 / JANTJAitY 15 , 1859 .
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LuqK . —A Vienna letter saya : t— M . Pollack , an un ~ liceinsed broker on 'Change , won 260 , 000 fl . ( 26 , 000 * . ) . 40 , 000 fl . ( 4000 / . ) , and 400 fl . ( 40 ? . ) , at the drawing of the Credit Bank lottery on the 3 rd instant . M . Pollack ia a Jew , and tho elders of the Hebrew community havo already obtained a donation of 800 / . from him . An acquaintance of ipine , who sold tho adrio to Pollack , yesterday dryly remarked that the man had novor before given anyjproqf of talent , " Tjpra OoAkWHipJroiiRB .- —A groat demonstration of these hardworking men was held at Sussex Hall on Thursday . Their grievances and their demands for legislative redress were very ably explained by Canon Ohampnoyo and several of their own number . They complain of the manner in whioU the middleman system presses upon them , inasmuch as it oompola them to « pond a considerable portion of tholv wagos in compulsory drink in public-housei } .
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The Graphic Society. The Second Conversa...
THE GRAPHIC SOCIETY . The second conversazione for the present season of this interesting body was held on Wednesday evening , by the enlightened permission of the London . University authorities , in the handsome library of that institution . A large number of celebrities and notabilities connected with the fine arts were of course present , and , as usual , the charming opportunity of cementing and forming acquaintances was so heartily embraced by the numerous members and the visitors of their introduction , that the spacious apartment presented , at one period of the evening , very much the appearance of a huge ant-hill . The
walls were hung , and the ample library tables covered , . with meritorious fine-art productions , kindly exhibited for the pleasure of the company by membei's and amateurs , and these attracted successive groups of admiring gazers . Mr . Sant ' s " Due d'Aumale , " Mr . Baxter ' s delicious trio of female heads , and Mr . J . Deffett Francis ' s masterly drawing of '' Sefiora Perea ISFena , were the most remarkable efforts of portraiture exhibited . Mr . Thurston Thompson ' s gigantesque photographs of heads from Jtaffaelle ' s cartoons were the marvel of the evenings and Mr . T . M . Richardson ' s splendid portfolio of water-colour views in the Highlands its most generall y interesting feature . A "Barber ' s Shop in Brittany / ' by Mr . A . Solomon , which will no doubt
posed for distribution are now on view at the Palace , and form of themselves a most attractive exhibition .
hereafter take a place on the Academy walls , cannot be more than" mentioned in the space at our disposal ; and the same remark must apply perforce to at least a dozen of Mr . James Holland ' s powerful morcedux exhibited , not by the artist , but by their gratified proprietors . A highly-finished rustic sceile , with a lovely figure , by Mr . F . Topham ; a wheatfield , by Linnell ; Mr . M'Kewan ' s folio of watercolour sketches from " Wales arid the North : ; and Miss Claxton ' s " Old Maiden ' s Progress , " were all much noticed , and each , according to its degree , admired . Along the eastern end of the apartment were ranged several of Mr . Owen Jones ' s designs for the People ' s Palace at Musweli-hill , and it is hardly necessary to add that they stood out boldly among the more imaginative works in their vicinage . THE PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY . The sixth annual exhibition of the Photographic Society is now open in the large room of the Society of British Artists , in Suffolk-street , Pall-Mall . The great objects of attraction are the large photographs of Caldesi , and Montecchi , and Mr . Thurston Thompson , from the cartoons at Hampton Court . The most artistjcal works are the composed figure subjects , by Mr , H . O . Robinson , Mr . . Roger Fenton ,
and Mr . Delferrier . Very pleasing copies of works by Raphael , Leonardo da Vinci , Caracci , Paul Delaroche , Philip , and others , are shown by various wellknown artists and manufacturers in photography . When we say that the whole collection numbers upwards of six hundred works , our readers will at once jump to the same conclusion as ourselves , that , while there is much to condemn and to ignore in it , there must also be more than enough to repay the most fastidious critic for one or two visits .
exhibition ov 1861 . The council of the Society of Arts are moving energetically in the matter of the proposed Exhibition of 186 ) . The Crystal Palace Company , although opposed by the courtier advocates of South Kensington , are not yet without hope of being allowed to house the treasures of the world on that occasion . Of the two inaccessibilities , we are induced , primd facie , to prefer fchat which has a palace ready built upon it to that where ail has to be done . There are plenty of ways of impending . for the public
benefit the vast sum an exhibition building at Kensington would cost ; many bettor ways or devoting such a sum to fine-art purposes . We regret to observe the continued flow of art-treasures to this Brompton seclusion , which seems dictated , not in favour of , but in spite of , tlio public . It is rumoured that the "Boilers" are agape for the East India Company ' s superb collection , now one of the few ornaments of the City . We hope they will yet be denied the tempting' morsel , and that the old ladios and young gentlemen of the east will still have a gratis museum within a day ' s march of their homes . CnYSTAfc PAlAOB ART ONION . Wo have in former numbers devoted so much space to argument in favour of this project , that wo need now only congratulate the public on-its proximate realisation and ourselves upon the keenness of perception which led ua to recognise its ad vantages and espouse its formation when as yet it had comparatively few friends . Specimens of the works pro-
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We are glad to note that Mr . Blake will move , early in the ensuing session , for a select committee to sift the Art and Science Department' and its fnanageinent . We read in the columns of a daily-contemporary that ten pieces of v £ ry interesting antique mosaic have re ached the Louvre from Athens .
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The Great Dodd And Cullenford - Controve...
THE GREAT DODD AND CULLENFORD - CONTROVERSY . A meetin g of subscribers to the Royal Dramatic College took place on , Wednesday at the Adelphi Theatre , under the presidency of Lord Tenterden , when it was announced that the donations received amounted to 2930 ^ ., and that subscriptions to the extent of 250 / . per annum'had been promised . The Provisional Committee were voted the thanks of the
society for their valuable services , confirmed in their offices , and , at the same time , we are sorry to observe , permitted , -without contradiction , to indulge in most ungenerous aspersion of the spirited pareufc of the scheme . We were , of course , prepared by rumour to learn that the sanction of the ' subscribers ' would be invited to the severance of all relations Uctweciithe societyandMr . HenryDodd , onthestrenglh of that gentleman ' s alleged breach of faith . We had been informed that the Executive Committee had washed their hands of him , and had refused him a list of subscribers he sought with a view to his
justification : But we Were quite unprepared , before we compared his published " Correspondence" with their published " Report , " to find upon what insufficient grounds they have dared publicly to . hupvigu his honour , and to question his charity . The society have , however , blindly sanctioned the acts ot their Committee , the connexion is terminated , : uul with it may depart the jprospect of much future advantage to the charity from the same source . But the truth must be spoken : Mr . Dodd is an ill-used man . He it was who started the project of the Dramatic College or home for poor actors . It was
he whose first offer of two and a half acres of good land was enthusiastically responded to . When that offer was doubled , he was a finer fellow still . He offered one hundred pounds' worth of bricks . Siiil he was well . He talked about other gifts , ami being possibly a rich elderly cliaracter with little occupation , evidently hojjed , if permitted , to do a great deal for the institution . But after a life of toil and saving our capitalist was naturally a little timid , arid desiring to be just as well as generous , he 1 ms chanced to gall the pride of one or two gentlemen who would tolerate no other view of their mutual relations than that Dodd ' s business was to give ,
and theirs to spend . Dodd is the man of real property , practical and business-like . The Committee are men of stage properties , impracticable and unbusiness-likc . They entered heartily into the theatrical exhibition of last summer , when Dodd was a rich arid mysterious stranger in the Thespian camp ; but , from the hour he showed the usual symptoms of substantiality , they chafed at the liaison . Thoroughly acquainted with the " heavy" Jiuc ol business in all shades , they yet rcfusod to recognise the capacity or peculiarities of thoir new acquisition . They determined to have a pantaloon in ¦ the com . _____ _ Jl ____________ _!?___ ______ _*_ . __ _» _^ i > "l ^_ . » _ rl J \ i \ -v % 4 1 * ir * v \ n ill " t uiu i
Eany , ana aocprumgiy caswuuu * u * ' ««« -. iut when he demurred to being cased of his possessions , with the usual placidity of that muohnut-upon personage * they abused him for not play mtf fairly , throw tho loaves and fishes at his hoad , and "hustled him off the stage as an hnpostor . Much stress is laid in the report read on AY ednosday last upon tho allegod unconditional nature of JDodd ' a original offor . But unless a document now before us , dated 16 th Novombor , 1358 , and purporting to be signed by Mr . Cullonford , I ho Committees
seorotary , is a base fabrication , tho said wore not only ^ ve ^ aware , all along , that certain conditions and stipulations would bo pressed , but alao doliberatiely kept tho publio mooting ol . July tho 21 st ju ignorance of lliom . Tho settlement ot tho deod 01 jjLffc or conveyance appoars to havo boon lofl ; by Mr . Dodd vory nmoh to a certain Air . Maophail , a solicitor . This gentleman ' s oo » tospondonoo contrasts vory favourably with that 01 the Provisional Oommittoo . The former is sousibio , earnest , and kindly 5 tho luttor sooms Ungod witu
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 15, 1859, page 22, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15011859/page/22/
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