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• VV ^ er Colour 6 xjiibit # ojifc ; : 4 pfeiii | a ^ r < B ^ tiha ] a ; . - . c ^ n 46 ; . " ( a : p , to its own standard , either in . -power oryaxvepy . Of ; course artists i ? o masterly cannot fill the little : room * Vaa'&i ^^ interest and admiration - \ but tlie *©¦ & 4 oihipg of the unforeseen . Callow ' s scenes in continental ' tqms , I ) atid Scott ' s , rough and living sketches , Alfred Taker ' s nolisHed ^ Ottps ot animals an ^ of Srevious works- —eicejp t ; rjjerb ^ ps the- , larger of Taker ' s hunting scenes , wHch is more vi ^^ Hunt has a village girl's hea ^—no' iqealisflijj but an umni 3 tak , eable matter of "fact , — " d ocumentj '' as , y ? emtejj neftrd a man of business call a portrait . He also reproduce ? fruit and flowers , as he and ifature alone can do ; this xeax , ^ de ^ d , o ^ r ^ i ^ Qiocvisea adding to his flora . Among the varieties is * not of frostbBranwhitebut he does riot
a scene , y ; melt half so well as he freezes ; and a frost scene of the old pattern is valued all the more for the other attempt . Excepting always the idle ejideayour to ; paint the sun vi $ -a- > visto the spectator y no sun of anybody'ssucceeding that ever we saw . The young men of the Society are not the least successful . Duncan , especially , is developing much free power in lifeso ^ e l ai ^ c ^ pepffects ; and some day he will be able to prevent his material from standing forth top obviously . The place of honour in the Eastern wall is accorded to liewis ' s Oriental letter-writer—in which a turbaned scribe is inditing ike love-letter of a Veiled lady more loyely than literate , to the sympathetic delight of her negress . The picture is clever , especially in the accessidiis ; for the bearded gentleman connected wi&the > pen is not so strong as the lady ' s checked shawl ; and two cats , lazily ;; iying » one of tbem . listly eying a butterfly , form the happiest bit of t ^ ewhole .
THE NEW WATEECOLOXTB SOCIETY . Not only is there more variety in the room to the west , but there is also moire of a lauo ^ aple ambition to take up stirring subjects with a human interest in them . The fact is partly due to the exte-nsion Of the use of water coloiir material into narrative painting , especially among younger artists ; partly to the personal character of the men composing the junior society . & eye ^ variety there ismovement and ability . In landscape , " WV Bennett , M'Ewatn , Vacher , Charles Davidson , and others , give views of mountain , lake , valley , wood , park , and town ; noi ^ vigorous , now elegant , now dashing , now smpotlUy finished ; , but alvvays able . Louis Haghe is still Minister ofth ' e Interior , and . presents a brilliant view Of the "Audience Chamber oftheMagistrates du France de Bruges , '' with .
royal visitors' surveying it ; a fine room , and fine company , powerfully painted , but harsher than is usual with the artist . Among story pictures , Wehnert nas an aiustration ; of Edgar Poe ' s Raven . Warren paints a hunchback storyteller of Damascus , with portraits of the Syro-Lebanon Ser formers . Mole , a striking and graceful groupof Highland reapers escending a mountain side . JEdward Corbould , what a contemporary well terms " a gigantic miniature" of Grodiya , or rather , a highly-finished portrait of a beautiful model , with magnificently painted accessories , displaying all Corbould ' s power and reclness disregard of divers canons in art . The picture that attracts most notice is Mr . Michael Angelo Hayes ' s " Sixteenth Lancers breaking the hollow square at Aliwal ; " a charge of cavalry right at you ; full of action , and also of daring attempts at feats in draughtraariship which are not always , though often , successful ; the general effect of " go" is capital . But , after all , the masterpieces of the exhibition appeared to us in the first quick view to be Charles Davidson ' s forest scenes—so varied , so full of vegetating life , so open to the breezy skies . NATIONAL INSTITUTION . Still more ambition marks the various collection in Upper Regentstreet ; the material of oil inviting more vigour both of subject and treatment . The collection this year is an improvement on its predecessors : some of the younger men are growing maturer j good recruits have been found ; and in all departments there is active merit . Eckford Lauder has a largely designed picture of Naomi and her daughters . In " Sunday Trading , " Armitage illustrates a common enough tragedy in daily life—a little orange girl shrinking before a policeman—with much force and feeling . Clever , matter-of-fact landscapes by Percy , Thorpe , ana others ; chivalresque stories and scenes , such as Glass ' s " Free Companions , " riding in easy procession along the moor path ; more than one clover portrait , including a good likeness of Erasmus Wilson ; a plentiful
sprinkling of pretty faces , with or without / names—such , amid many other diversities , make up a collection which is fairly asserting its claini to be included in any complete purview of English art . But certain of the works we shall have to notice more specifically hereafter . "Z .-.
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Cure ov a Sick Lion . —The veterinary art must have been rather low among the Romans , if wo may judge irorn the following ludicrous proscription for a sick hon , givon us by Pliny . " The lion is novor eicke but of the peevishness of his stoinacke , loathing all meat and then the way to cure him , is to ty unto him certmno shoe apes , which , with thoir wanton mocking and making mowes At him , may move his patience , and < 'nvo him from the very indignitio of their malapert Bnucmesso into a fit of mndnesso , and then , so soon as « o hnth touted , their bloud , ho is perfectly wol againe ; « nu this is the only help . "—Zoological Notes and ¦ Anecdotes .
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DIORAMA OF WELLINGTON'S CAMPAIGNS . I would confidently recommend any lively Frenchman who may be desirous of studying the Englishman at home , and of penetrating the secret of our glorious institutions , to pay a visit to the Gallery of Illustration during the triumphant campaign which may be predicted for this new diorama . He will there be solaced with the favourite and familiar sound of " yilainton" to his heart ' s content ; he will there ascertain that neither national debts nor peace societies have quenched the firm belief of all sound-minded Englishmen that what they have done they can do again with the greatest pleasure and alacrity , against any odds . The proprietors of the new diorama have followed up their last enormous success by a capital subject , very apropos , calculated to fire even Maryle-Tbone militiamen to a auasi-militarv ardour , and to a resolve to defend
their " omes and halters . We have the career of the " Dock , " from his native home in Ireland , through the oriental exploits of his insatiably active youth , and the gigantic European conflicts of his eventful manhood , to the last great crowning victory by which the destinies of Europe were changed on the Belgian plains ; admirably illustrated by pictures graphic as a chronicle , faithful as history , and f lowing as romance . It was Very judicious on the part of the artists not to content themselves with painting a series of battle-fields from a studio point of view ; nothing could have been more fatiguing , because nothing more unreal . Episodes and incidents of the campaigns , such as the finding of Tippoo Saib ' s body after the assault oi Seringapatam ; the night after the the deadl
"battle of Talavera ; the incident at the river Alberche ; y tug of war at the heights of Fuentes d'Onoro ; the death of Crawfurd ; are far more " seizing , " because the action is more concentrated , and more readily grasped by the spectator . The more simply pictorial subjects are perfect in local colour and warmth : the Tagus , the Royal Palace at Madrid , Burgos , San Sebastian , are each , as pictures merely , delightfully free and beautiful ; and when they are made backgrounds for such figures as are bere manoeuvring , in a gigantic game of chess , with all the world for arbiter , a severer interest lends to the beauty all the force of human vicissitude and nationaL history . It is difficult to particularize-special excellencies in so varied and complete a series-of illustrations . For gorgeous and vivid variety take the reception of the ] VIahratta Envoy in the British camp ; for gloomy grandeur the Indian " Droog ; " for local picturesqueness the Halt of the Convoy in Portugal ; for architectural solemnity , the Chancel of the Church at Ciudad Hodrigo ; for the sentiment of contrast , the plains of Vittoria and Salamanca after the battles ; and for general artistic skill and effectiveness the Bridge at Sorauren , the Cathedral of Burgos , San Sebastian , and Toulouse . Where the engagement is actually represented , as at Assay and Busaco , it is dashed in with amazing force and freedom ; a peculiarly military subject , such as ' the lines of Torres Vedras , would satisfy even Corporal Trim for professional exactness ; and as to the set scenes , the Siege of Badajoz , and the last charge at Waterloo , bring you face to face with death and glory ! But why need I say more , than that Grieve , Telbin , and John Absolon are the artists ; ana that they have painted from sketches taken on the spot . In order to insure a proper division of labour , the animals are painted by Alfred Corbould . Perhaps we might , if severely disposed , take exception to the musical accompaniments , which were rather dull and dreary , and not particularly appropriate ; but the running accompaniment of Mr . Stocqueler , who recited descriptively the events recorded in the pictures , was soldierly and sufficient , and above all English ; thoroughly English . Mr . Stocqueler dwelt with a sort of grim humour upon the invariable decision of every battle , but it is right and pleasant to add , that he more than once , made graceful allusion to tho brilliant prowess of the enemy , " the most gallant troops in the world ;' ¦ ' and that these parentheses were received as heartily as tho burden of his discourse . We all love the " Dook , " and if the love of any is growing « old , let him pay a visit to the Diorama of the Wellington Campaigns . It is a patriotic cordial that will do no harm even to cosmopolite philosophers like ' Le Chat-Huant .
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MONEY MARKET AND CUT INTELLIGENCE . n . SA . TUHDA . T , May 1 . Tun « V ,, ? P ? nn ( l otosod on Monday at 9 » Jfr ; on iS oni ^ n ^ ' Thursday , thoy closed at 00 gi ; minm ° i ? l lla ( Juri 0 J ha ™ been from 64 * . td 60 b . pro-X ZA ?*™ Bond « »* W » . premium . riuo olOoiol record of dealings m Foreign Stocks
yostorday includes Mexican at 84 > £ to $ ; ditto Small at 84 £ , * ditto Three per Cents . atr 27 £ to % ; Brazilian at 99 ; Buenos Ayres at 78 J to 701 ; Venezuela , 48 ; ditto Deferred , 18 : Chilian Three por Cents ., 66 £ ; Equador , 4 J to g ; Grenada , 21 to $ ; ditto Poforred , 9 J ; Peruvian , 3 . 01 to 102 £ ; ditto Deferred , 62 £ to 63 ^; Spanish Now Deferred , 21 J to |; ditto Certificates , 2 & ; ditto Passive , 5 ft ; Portuguoa ' o Fivo por Cents ., 99 £ ; ditto Four per Cents ., 37 fc to J ; Danish Fivo por Cents ., 104 i ; Russian Fivo por Cents ., 116 f to 116 ; Sardinian , 90 ^ to 07 J ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Oonts , 61 i to 02 ditto Four por Cents ., 93 to § ; Belgian Four-and-a-Halfpor Conts ., 90 ^; and French Four-anda-Half per Cents ., lOO ^ f ., at tho Exchange of 25 f . 45 o . BBITISn FUNDS FOR THE PAST WEEK . ( Clohing Piuobs . )
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Leader (1850-1860), May 1, 1852, page 425, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1933/page/21/
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