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daylight picture less interesting than the " Summer Morning , " by T . Danby ; and both of them are exceeded in interest by a little picture near the ground , from the hand of Mr . H . Desvigaes , called Evening—Cattle Grazing . " Here the air is as tranquil , the sheep are in quiet action , but the broken ground , the glancing shadows , the varying effect of local colour and of distance Y , give that gentle motion which belongs to the air . Sometimes in . these historical pictures of inorganic life the human incident connects the sympathy of the spectator with the design , and illustrates the force to the great law- Thus Stanfield ' s lt Last of the Crew "—representing the ship stranded on the rocks , not only br ings before you the broken vessel , the departing storm , and the dancing waters , but tells the resistless might of the tempest , and the power of death that it carries . The saine . law may be illustrated in yet more tranqail traits—such as WHliams's
' - * Heath JScene—an Approaching Shower "—a broken ground with the darkened Tight glancing fitfully into a gloomy distance ; or Greswick ' s ** Passing Cloud . 1 '—a more open scene , where a shower coquettes -with the sunlight , and forms a varnished surface of unabsorbed water ; Redgrave ' s ' . ' - OlctEnglish Homestead , " , still better , his lc Midwood Shade , " where the tall trunks of trees , rising upwards out of view ,, and the glancing leaves , distinct amd yet thick and multitudinous * enclose the aisles between the trunks like some great natural cathedral . - Two pictures that challenge notice are Mr . Antony ' s < c Nature ' s Mirror " -r-a solitary pool surrounded with willows , and Mr . Linell's " Disobedient Prophet , " a composition -with the story of Balaam , representing a precipitous ihank surmounted by pine-trees , whose trunks glow with the setting sun . ; but both fail from their inattention to the true incidents of life . With
all his power , JV £ r . Antony has allowed the group of trees on the sinister side of the picture to look as if they were cut out of a lighter-eoloured paper , and pasted on ; so solid is the group , so hard its edge . Mr . Linell ' s tree-trunks are really glowing ; but the whole ground crumbles like rich loam under a broken bank ; an effect perfectly natural in parts , but nowhere seen in mountain land like this , unvaried by harsh , sharp , straight linesl ¦ « In fact , such a bank would fall away . The difference between mere attitude and mere life cannot be better
illustrated than by Ansdell's traveller fighting wolves , where the limbs of the struggling animals lack the short and sudden swell of action , and Ms Highland scene , with a shepherd gathering his sheep together : the woolly aniirtfjiTfl , mostly in a posture of standing , bafe with the upraised lead , the w ^ rj > linted limbs , the sharp eyes , and starting attitude , which bespeak the flh yne ^ , the vigour , and promptitude of the Highland sheep , while the misty ktiQospaere tells the distance so well that the spectator can hear tha voice of ine shepherd almost as well as his dogs . As scenes of Living effect , we may also mention Poole ' s " Song of the Troubadour "—for " story there is
none , sir , " but the effect of moonlight is so powerful that the pictures around it with brighter colours are dim ; Sidney Cooper ' s " Morning Effect —Harbledown Park ; " Sant's " Children in the Wood " --that is as to the wood , noi the children , and Roberta ' s views in Venice , in which the pupil of our great scene-painter , Stanfield , carries the recollection of the spectator back to the older scene-painter , Canaletto . For art , as well as nature , turns back to a common standard after the lapse of generations , and the laws # hich" sustain the stones of Venice "' one upon another , are the same in the picture of both artists and in the city on the waters .
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WYLD'S WAR MAPS . Mb . TTim > continues his contributions towards the supply of maps illustrating the n ^ wsjof the day . We have two such before us . One shows , in a comprehensive view , the position of the Bosphorus as the strait between the JSea of Marmora and the Black Sea , witt some of the most important points of the coast on either side of the long peninsula which that strait divides . In cantons , on the same map , are plans of tie Bosphorus and the Straits of the Dardanelles in detail , showing the soundings ; and also a slight map of Schumla . The second map shows the course of the Danube from Giurejevo to the mouths ; presenting , in a view , the places Silistria , Varna , Schumla , and the _ Dobrudscha , which are the scenes of tie most recent military transactions in that quarter . In cantons are th « Serpent ' s Island at the Sulina mouth , plans of Kustendjeh and Varna .
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BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIRTHS . AIU 3 YLL . —May 22 , at 4 , Carlton-terrace , the Duchess of JLrxyll : a daughter . BB ^ JWNB- —May 81 , in i / owndes-squaro , the Ho > a . Mrs . George Augustus Brownei a daughter . OU &RIE . — -Majr 81 , at Worcester-park , Surrey , the wife of Sir Frederick Ourrie , Bart .: a son . HOPE - —May 28 , at Arklow-house , Oonmaught-place , Lady Mildred Hopo : a daughter . 8 IMBON . ~ May 25 , at Swainston , Ialc of Wight , Lady Simoon ; a daughter . MARRIAGES . BAETLBT-PKOCTOR--Ma : y 81 , tho Rev . Henry Alfred JJarrot rector of Chedgrave , in the county of Norfolk , and domestic chaplain to the Earl of Waldegravo , to Jane Frances , youngest daughter of Vicc-Admirai Sir William count P Proctor « Bart - Langley-park , iu th . e same MSsU&BRr-ZANCiLBOL . -May 4 , at the Garrison Chapel . Corfu , lieutenant Cecil Brook Lo Mosurier , Jioyal Artillery widest son of Frederick II . lM Moburioi , Esq .. to tlto Contesina Zancwol , eldest daughter of tho Oonte Zancarol , of vorfU .
WATSON—TREDOROPT . —May 12 , at G-onoa , Sir Caarlea Watson , Bart . or West Wratting-park , Cambridgeshire , to Georgina , third daughter of the late Rev- Robert Tredcroft , of 'langmore . Svissex . ^ B ^ UftTON—HA 1 LE 8 . —June 1 . at St . James ' s Church Piccadilly , ty tho Venerable Archdoncon Warburton ( father of the bridegroom ) , Augustus Frederick Warbarton , liSq ., of H . M . Fifteenth Regiment , to Maxy Anne Campbell , youngest daughter of tho late Lieutena . nt-Colonol Mailoa . K . H .. and jjrajiddaughtor of Sir Robert Campbell , Uart . DEATHS . HOTHAM . —Way 13 , at Bombay , Georgo Frederick Ilotham , Esq ., Sixth Bengal Cavalry , and Adjutant of tho Fifteenth Irregulars , eldest surviving son of Captain tho Hon . G . F . Hotham , JLIT ., and tho Lady Suonn HoLlnam , agod twenty - Beven . IiONDBSBOROUGH . —May si , the Hon . Alberta Doniaon , the infant daughter of Lord and Lady Londosborongh . BIILLIGBN . —May 28 , at tho Admiralty-house , Ouo « nstown , Martha , Milligon , wife of Rear-A * hniral Sir William - Carroll , K . O . JB ., Conimandor-in-Chiof on tho Iriah station . OGILVY . —May SO , at 48 , Dovonshiro-strcot . Portland-place . Sarah , Lady Ogllvy , widow of tho late Efcear-Adnainu Willlum Ogilvy , Bart , of Ualdovan-house , N . li . SIMPSON .-May 20 , at York , Sir John . Simpson , Knight , agod flfty-ei ^ ht *
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THEATRES . " VtviAw , for Heaven ' s sake go to the Hayimabket ! " writes aa anonymous friend , who seems to have more regard for my judgment than for my health , and no regard at all for my enjoyment , sinc& he thus earnestly adjures me to go to the Hatmahket , and tell the truth respecting the Knights of the Round Table . It appears that the accounts of that piece in the other papers exasperate my friend , who calls it " a very wretched production , indeed , "
™^^^^ w such , indeed , I rememb-er the original to have been , as I intimate ^ last week " It is , " writes my irate correspondent , & narrative , and n « t a dra ma at all . Almo-st the whole action takes plac « off the stage , the performers only coming on to tell each other ( and the audience ^ "what has been going on . The tniing is not -without a certain sustained interest ; hut when it u over , you cannot recal a single striking incident ( except Compton ' s exquisite little bit in the coffee-house ) which you would care to see again , or take a friend to see—always a grood test of a play . " This so completely accords with nay recollection , of the original , that I am disposed to accept it as a verdict n ot very far froia true . But you must have considerable naivete , if you imagine I am going in pure gateie de cceur ^ to test the accuracy of a verdict it % so much easier to accept ! Call me indolent , call me unconscientious , call me a
puppy—I submit with meek acceptance to all that your defrauded wrath can fling at me ; but I am not going to be bulKed into five acts of unpromising narrative . Nor does tte rest of my correspondent ' s letter sharpen the dull edge of appetite . He speaks of "VandenhofF in terms I do not caje to repeat adding , " thes Herculean , efforts he makes to be cool are tremendous , and he seems to think that to take snuff perpetually with intense vigour is the acme of nonchalance , " That sentence has a tmtbful air about it . If Vandenhoff takes snuff as he " takes the stage , " my private suspicion is that I would rather not see him personate the polished villain . Snuff is a great ingredient in your polished villain , an-d the way it is usually taken on the stage is so exactly that which we observe in distinguished circles off the stage !
The French Plays are beginning to be talked about at hist , thanks to tie '' Joie fait JPeur" and the perfect style in which it is acted . On Friday JRornulus was performed , —too late for me to give any account of it ; and tonight , alas ! is the last night of the season . The first appearance of Grisi in Norma ^ the part which slie alone can play , created no little stir , and fluttered the dovecots in Corioli . " She is only to play twelve times ; and then hushed for ever ( to the public at least ) ¦ will be that ; voice which has transported us for twenty years : But I ^ on ' t get dithyrambic ; and as I can only speak of her in that strain I will change the subject to Vadxhlajx and its opening night . :. . -
That opeamg n ^ g ht was Moaday ; and if you remember the merciless rain , with the moist relaxing wind of that day , you will s&e how appropriately the native gaiety of that scene and the brilliancy of the ** 10 , 000 additional lamps " ( not lighted ) were set in the framework of a British summer night , wauxhall , at the gayest , is not to me a deliriously exciting scene ; but Vauxhall in continuous rain , Vauxhall forlorn , draggled , muddy , steaming , damp , with anxiety on the face of the waiters , and solitu de in the icsquets , is not what I should call a poet ' s dream . However , fortunately for Mr . Wardell , if he made a false start on Monday , he recovered himself on Wednesday , when the Derby crowd had real Vauxhall weather to lure them .
I have nothing else to speak of ; unless it be that Charles Matthews , now fairly out of his difficulties , re-opens the Lyceum next Monday ; and that Alfred Wigjan , for whom I have now another source of sympathy , ( he has been suflenog , I hear , from the same malady as myself , overworked brain , ) re -appeared last Monday , in th e First Night .
GEOBGE WIGHTWICK'S DRAMATIC READINGS . On Thursday , at Willis ' s Rooms , the autihor of the Palace of Architecture , read Shakspeare ' s Henry the Fourth . Unable to be there , I begged one on whom I can rely , and who is in such matters a second self , to send me an account , which I subjoin : — " Dear Vivian , —I kaow you regretted your inability to be present ' at Mr . Wightwick ' s Dramatic Reading , and , indeed , you . had reason to do so . We , who hava seen you La the discharge of & painful duty , wincing under the unintelligent interpretation , of Shakspea , re by some of our ' leading tragedians , ' felt how much amends -would have been made you on Thursday night by Mr . Wightwick ' s highly poetical and intellectual rendering of—not one —but au the characters he had to assume . His reading is remarkable for quiet powe r ; he never rants , nor forgets the reader far the actor ; there is no striving afteT ' points , ' none of that slovenly devouring of a passage in order to ' throw oat a particular effect , which is we feel that lav
observable m some modern—especially French—recitation ; ^ et rarely e forcible passages appealed to us so forcibly ; and , -without labouring after new readings , or seeking to extract obscure and subtle meanings from plain expressions , Ms careful and intelligent delivery often awakens the hearer best acquainted with Shakspearo to a perception of significances unremarked before . He possesses the great advantage of a very expressive voice , particularly musical and pleasing in its natural key , and capable of extremely Taried intonation , without straining or forcing . " As especially happy , I may cit « nis delivery of King Howry ' s beautiful apostrophe to sleep , in ( I think ) the 1 st scene of the 3 rd act , —the scene in which tlie king reproaches his son with removing the crown ; and many of the comic acenes , which seemed , indeed , especially relished by naa audience—perhaps because our mirthful emotions find readier outward expression . However , my object in writing is not to be metaphysical , but to beg you and the public , when next you liave a chance , to go and tear Mr . Wightwick read , and judge for yourselves . —Ever , yours , < c H . "
There is nothing more for me to add beyond the pleasant news that next week a French comedy at the St . James ' s will be succeeded by Marie Cabel and the troupe of aa Opera Comique . Viviak .
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MONEY MARKET AND CITY INTELLIGENCE . IMday Evening , June 2 , 1354 . We have had a very busy and exciting week , marked by a Kroat and decide < l rise In the Funds , wfiioli began on . Saturday evening , and on Monday they had nosarly reached 92 . Tlio heavy " Bears" got such a fright that they cam o in and bought back their accounts . The Bank , however , mot tho increased demand with plenty of " Stock , " and thus swainpod tho market 5 besides this , it woa understood that influential brokers again sold for the AtikIo-Hebrew party , and this sent the Funds down again to below 91 . A- partial reaction on Tuesday and Wednesday took plaoe ; and notwitluiLanding tho latter boing tho groa . t " Derby" dny , and half tho " housG " on tho Downs , there was * u > lack ofbvsinoss . It in evident that it is a struggle between the Chancellor and themonied interest in tho City—the patfty which doos not approve of Mr . Gladstone ' s now prlnciplo or " No Loan . ' Htinco tho slashing articlo in the Economist , tho weekly Treasury organ , indorsed by tlio Times om Monday morning , and tho speech of tho repreuentativo of tl » o millionaires . Mr . Thomas li&ring . 'last week , as condorana-tory of tho finance sohoiues of the Chancellor , allows what * ho men of tlio VjOJ& think . When such authorities differ who shall ajrrec V but wo cannot help fceliovlngiutke long run . that the Ch » nooil °
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Leader (1850-1860), June 3, 1854, page 524, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2041/page/20/
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