The Express. — London, England, 1858-05-03 00:00:00

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The present year's Exhibition in Trafalgar-square searepre the impression, at the private view on Friday, of big usamelly attractive. The Academy itself is better re reseeksil them we remember to have seen it for meant swam ; some of the members, whom we scarcely expected le most et all, as Sir Edwin Landeeer, have very ogreish', illeeppshood as. The rising, but untitled men, aim evidence la air astributions °wanned advancement, excepting in die ease of the two leaders of pre-Rephaelitiam. One of theee-14. Militia—found that he could not, in time for the Academy, finish with the care and elaboration he bestows am ell Ns works, a large picture—" The Return of the Cresaders"—apon which he is engaged ; and as for the other—Hr. Hanna Hant—it is difficult to speculate whoa his great picture of " Christ in the Temple" will be reedy for exhibition. A good deal of pre-Rephaefite talent hes bean likewise diverted from the production of easel ;team for exhibition., by the employment afforded in the numerous well paintings now in progress at Oxford. Of pictures, met especially in the figure departuiset, whose subjects will furnish topics for conversation, them are in this year's gathering • very large proportion. The portraits are so numerous ea usual, and not less nerborions. Tbs land scape painters are still the principal dam of artists who absent themselves., and overrun other exhibition', or lean viva In water-odours, with the nebizrealy exciptke of the Ise poor a ulptors who still pine an lewhaish in their =tam able dim. Thin ars airy ber Initinital *km in this Exhibition, and the prisms of two or Etna astable works of this asariptisa miselkd as koreitly—so less than the pars) oisarditt alai in this higher breach of art—that Insiarissi pi*. Is Bagisad has, when we oaten area this stay asaftriss at car iambi all fall of nearly asiparenaisd pia 11111 sad hairnet, inn with warpradagly Mlle . . . ... --- ensenesoment deadopest. If we meameste the works ensented in the 14th matey, haendlng the decoration of the "aid pointed timber " at Weelmienter, Ely, and one or SW ether cathedrals, the nemereas paintings executed in the brilliant reign of Edward 111. in St. Stephen's Masi end elsewhere, •ad—feafo interrollo —the spirited prefect of Alderman Boydell in his Shekspeare gallery, sad hotly, the recent decoration of the Hon.. of Lords—we have almost exhausted the list of works of art pretending to any thing like n►tional character or interest. Indeed what should be understood by historical painting is very ill defined. Of the highest broach, whose charecteristice are grandeur and simplicity, and purity of outline, and that oompletenees of form which more especially belongs to sculpts*, we have samelly • single example. Even if we lower this highest stenderd of sterner art, and merely contend for elevation of eabjest, snob as nand narratives, incidents from history, or themes ham the posts, It is quite humiliating to think how Sew poisters we can point to, especially in our own thee, wise support the dignity and honour of their prolhetion by • noble effort to rise like hilts to "this high argument" We suppose the esplana des Is to be had in the probability that they would mist but with Eliten's reward. The want of patronage fur heroic works has, pertieularly since the time of Wilkie, compelled artists who wield not confine theinselite to portraiture, landscape, or salmi pillaging, to a oompromies with their =bides in the.. smismious pictures with more Weiler subjects for which wettest borrowed the French word pram. This result her bum brought about, we suspect, is some measure, by pongees and inconsiderate public criticism. Mr. Ruskin is aSeguado with exaggerating the importance of man copying, and sinking the painter to the level of the photegrepier, MAW at seeking to raise him into the poet ; bat Mr. Itsain's imitators in the public pew have apparently sought to degrade the painter still further. Allegory, for instance, so constantly employed by the poet, Is entirely proscribed to t►e painter, because, fonoodt, It doss net suit this "practical and common-swe " age. Alm Danis and Talmo, and Spencer and Dryden no Jaeger reedy and has the Pagrim'a Program lost its popularity? Why If each opinions are entertained we might Imitate the priests of rid, and make bonfires of our bibles in the perks and mares—for no book is so full of allegory. In were instenoes, however, artists have listened to the voice of their own natural aspirations, and, though within freers or cabinet proportions, have produced works of historic interest. Of such artists Mr. Ward is a distinguished ex ample. We rejoice to have to welcome in this Exhibition three pictures by this painter quite above the level of room These are the oil painting of the " Cosesbnest of the Fugitives, by Alice Lisle, after the Battle of Sedgessortr, fen the reign of James II." (488), the fresco of which le now morticed up at the New Palace, Westminster, sad the two pictures commiesioced by the Queen—the " inelastic& of the Emperor of the French Into the Order of the Oster" (35) sad " Queen Victoria at the Tomb of Napoleon" (264). The first is entitled to primary consideration : the painter who revivifies the past standing in the Isms relation to the magi who commemorates the present as doss the historian to the ehronicler. The fresco of Alice Lido has, in amid es's with the practice of the old masters, and to quit ita derksned situation, a light background, but the background to, in the oil painting, very deep in tone, as at once sppro piste to the subject and the oil medium. The description of the subject given by Macaulay is that more directly followed, and the particular purge detailing the incident will be found in the catalogos. Tits expression of Alice is very noble and drumatic, and her widow costnme (properly at that time old locklaned) very simple, ladylike, and suitable, not forgettiog the cavalier's portrait for a brooch. The sentiment of torti llas is admirably expressed in her whole attitude, as ohs &MMus rather than leans on her staff with bar gym reined to heaven, remotions of bar perilous pukka, but fully prepared to meat the fat* that wen= her, sa the first victim of the "bloody rim ;" unmoved at the unnemesary and eager alo ha°, of the officer at her side and his companions; end =intimidated by clenched fiat, drawn sword, pointed . . . - - salmi, ce pls. Thee is perhaps a little too nook genies leeks in thee figures, more especially in the servant Im ploringly on her knee. The large scale of this picture awe to salt Mr. Weed's broad and rapid etyle of execution letter than the amps sith of the other works la which hie Seems brush la ad sellehetly retrained to much the &Shiley of ads am mirth. details. Hen we hen also a eatlefying falser end break of effect, Impressive depth of tone. and a enagenty trealnesat and out of the draperies, which we do an Sri se lemeastely la the matter *tares. The first lespreithea of the repreemeleiths of the " Loral laths" Is neer diseppaiedsp. The sone appose hes spinal than we should have saticipated. This apparently inelspilloant effect, however, arise, from no fault of the artist, but Ls to be attributed to the contracted dimensions of the chamber at Windsor in which the investiture is held. Some !allowance also most be made for the difficulty of dealing with contemporary subjects, for though the knowledge and tact necessary for breathing life into the dry bones of the past, as is the " Alice" episode, is not here necereary, yet it is w ham still more arduous to remove the common-place cha racter of present events, which mere familiarity with will degrade, however dignified, and debase, however heroic. The point of time chosen is that when, the ceremony having been coachman!, and the insignia of the ancient and most ' distinguished order of knighthood in Europa placed by her Majesty on the pence of the Emperor, he took the hand of the Queen with the' intention of kissing it, which she did sot, however, permit, but, as is usual en each occasions be tween sovereigns, gave biro a salute on both cheeks. no assess ',its with a Look of quiet satisfaction ander boo bee* eyelids es she abstractedly unfurls a brilliantly pined fin of Spanish pripertiona. By her side will he sr 'WSW the Pam* Refol. though he beck only is to be sea, (This Isms was sussed, we ham, horseback made by the arsalsemeelL) lead the Shiest& is rich bias sirs sevens. will be Bethel la sesembis the late Lord Ellsessem, Led amenhin, the Magi of Immisernii, the late Priam • Likftegn, ae nkhop of Mend (aciating), Lady Cas ale. and 11111 BUIS'', of Weasels' (la attendance on the QIN*. SO Dubs of Wellrapen mad Cambridge, Earl de Oeey, Lod Aberdsre, and the Dena of Windsor. The per • santhent of the figures is nicely observed, sell the carsilki, theme\ Whir 'obi', is yet Heal and berenthioun Is the " Vhit be the Tomb et Napless" Yr. Weed bas mesh* le thew ewer that reserkabb yeast (which 1 4 wee tatty hoped would eel sadthel reecsalsthe) se addlticsal peakel Stara d eistertal ahem by tellies edveiste et theestemiellembeet efrenaletemes. 'Il, peselhei wiry le the Clem Is Mars, it ea be r••• membered, bed ten pretrethei me that the visit wee ee 1 WWII espeethi; the tem e the tomb is the crypt of the InnMee bed bra allowed to go out ; ad whew the rely our is hot here from the singrarly ednekleme Cora which had bream err them, there tree bat few lights dimly burning. The Asa in the Mews is impres sive ; bet the darer and artificial light gives • black heavy bee, essearing Me the horny French oolouufng of the sehoel at David, whisk is net pleasing, though, of course, inewleable. We cannot help remaking that the Queer is ears to look askant at the Lopmer rather dubiously, and the fightabog seems to glees angrily though the portal as if at some insincerity. TM card of the Invalids., attended by an acolyte, very draortratively buries his face in his hands before the black marble sarcophagus, with its emblematical silver star, its memorials, and its IMMO/0 ael, I and offers up a prayer for the perpetuation of the At the sides are grouped Count d'Ornano, the governor of the Invalids., (the only survivor of the Adieux de Fontaine blew) Lord Cowley, Lady Ely, the Princess Royal, the Primer Mullikin Penes Albert, and the Prince of Weir. Mrs. Ward, the wits of the Academician, has attempted with perfect success a higher class of subject than heretofore, In the affecting scene from Mr. Hepworth Dixon's " Life of Howard," in which, with a strong presentiment of being about to lay down his life on him intended errand of mercy to Rau* the philanthropist takes leave of his tenants at Car tilages, whom he had so much benefited. All the iscidents mud ocossearies in the picture are tastefully roses, dud the colouring Is particularly ptomains, breathing, as it were, of pre country air and benedoence. Mr. Ward's *am keno, we undentead, bean purchased by Mr. Bally, for en graving. The most popular picture in the Exhibition will probably be Mr. Frith's very elaborate and bewildering repre sentation of Epsom Baca on " The Derby Day" (318). Mr. Frith's Maine will receive a visit from at Teen all the " fast" me sad men &boat town, to are if they ass rectapies the portraits of themselves or any cf their Maeda. The peat merit of this artist'. " Margate Sands," exhibited three years duos, annually raised high expecta tions in mamma to that work, upon which Mr. Frith has been known to be engaged during the pester part of the last two years. Many beta and " books," we dare say, were made upon the " event" of its exhibition. Compared with the Margate picture, it is no lees artlstioslly clever, and finished with equal dainty delicacy of touch; but it has little of the pure and exqui site humour which won inch general admiration for the former. Mr. Frith, may however, reasonably plead that the subject is warmer and the fun neoemarily " fester and more furious " than that of the more leisurely Cockney vacation at the watering place. The picture is certainly more of the " Sherry, Sir?" and "Coming, Sir I" school. For the de lineation of characters such as Longues, guardsmen, pawn brokers, real swells, sad the swell mob, which only the west end habitue will properly discriminate—for greedy gambling, animation, and effervescing champagne excitement, as well as for light, air, and sunshine, this extraordinary work can hardly be too much eulogised. But all this can be, if such a some hes ones been witnessed, far mere easily Imagined than described. Two or three incidents only shall we offer as samples. We are platted on the hill maids the barriers—the jockeys are mustering their horses, and some taking a preliminary canter. In front of a carriage full of unquestionable ladies kneels an acrobat, stretching out his arms, inviting the leap of has young child ; bat the little starveling heeds him not, his hungry gess losing entirely absorbed by a hamper of luxuries from Fortnum and Mason's, the unpacking of which has caught his eye. On the roof of a " drag," occupied by dissipated men and loom women, one of the " fellows," him self unmistakably on stilts, is pouring out a glass of cham pagne for 'little girl on stilts; but one of the women restrains him, having even now a Dense of pity beyond her fast friend. A chevalier if isedri.trir and knight of the knuckle, in the ahem' of a thimble-rigger, hasjust "cleared out" a ample dupe, two of the very ands of whose shirt are gone, and • Scotch sharper and Jew swindler areexaniining his watch and chain. Thom confederates of dm thimble-rigger are no less ably in dividualised than are • bully with whip and bull-dog, sad three others, disguised as • smirking Quaker, • fashionable gentleman, and a country farmer, the latter dis playing a note, which he pretends to stake, in order to tempt a real unsophisticated countryman—whom his sweetheart tries to restrain—to follow his example. In an open bsrouche sits, like a crushed and withered flower, a splendidly dressed but evidently wretched English "tea vista," under the protection of a heartless rich coxcomb and thorough " gent," who looks with in/treble indifference at a bouquet offered by • flower-girl. She listens to an artful old gipsy, who has contrived to awaken some forgotten saaocia tio•e, which once more agonise her wounded heart. There is • slight anachronism between the costumes, which are of the prevent day, and the thimble-rigging to which we have alluded, which has not been seen thus openly for at teeth two years, any mon than the rouge-et.neir and hazard booths and prick-in-the -garter tablas Mr. Frith has intro duced. Some of the incidents an Hogarthian, but Mr. Frith is too neat and pretty t give as much of Hogurth's force of character, depth of meaning, or humour; for this lemon all his women are better than his men. Mr. Onnbard —at present our most munificent patron of art—has, we hear, for 3,000 guineas, become the owner of this picture, including sketch and copyright, and ham engaged his country man, Mr. Blanchard, to engrave it. Oar madam will rejoice to hear, after his serious illness of last year, that Sir Edwin Landeeer has sent two very remarkable contributions to the Exhibition. The first night be • companion to the famous " Shoeing." It is a picture of a Flemish farmstead. A girl is seated milking • cow, and although her heed is averted you see plainly In the pleasure sparkling in her eye that she listens with no small satisfaction to something the young fellow on 641414 at the door is saying, while he seems to be abstractedly owing her name on one of the uprights of the shed. Her absorbed attention is taken advantage of by a mischievous magpie, who is quietly dragging away a spoon which has bees *toed in • sabot, and thus the old fable is illustrated, end the title of the picture, " The Maid and the Magpie" (180),adloded. The quiet satiefaction in the turn of the sow's heed and the foreshortening of her hind quarters, the'msuk•ayed calf, and the drowsy goats feeding, are perfect, bat there is • eielein bloom and woolinese in the execution which we have net remarked in former works of the anat. Sir Edwin's sidenisidag rapidity and certainty of execution may, however, bases to great advantage in the large study in coloured shallot of " Desr-etalking" (No. 800), and still l oom plathly then la the whisk of the brush in the oil pic tom. The stubby Miters of the red dew browsing, the more I welly sad eves ousts of the hind and fawn, and the sheen on the bieth eock in the foreground, are discriminated with the Month nicety. The flat dead surface given by the chalk Is also admirably suited for the representation of the grey mountain mists, no less than the stronger markings are for the warm vegetstion and the square malt* Wes of the Highland stmersits. The heads of the deer-stalkers peering above the locks, sad attracting the both* of the deer, are very expressive. Mr. Egg, like Mr. Frith, has found employment for hie pencil in depicting the actualities of every-day life, but has given us instead of a gay crowded tableau • fine ethical poem. He has affixed no DUO to his stern story, but for thole who cannot read it in the picture its painful interest may be further ascertained from the extract of a fictitious diary. It is divided Into three compartments. The centre ens mimeses an hveniedial catastrophe which has Mien upon • peaceful, happy home. In hie comfortable arm chair in the midst of • tastefully-furnished apartment sits the husband and tether, in speechless dismay and anguish, hold ing in his hand • note, in, we will suppose, his wife's head writing, and with his foot stamped on a miniature which together have conveyed to him the evidence of ►er die honour. She has fallen 'Medic with shame at his feet, while in the baskgroend two little gide, her children. startled at the scans, have thrown dove the card house t hey were btuldlag. The fearful commemorate, after the lapse of some years, are pourtrayed in the two aide com partments. In the on the wretched outcast mother, sunk through varies* steps of depravity, is now seen crouching at night behind the shattered remiss of • boat in one of the dry anima of the Adel*, as we learn from the 'petrel moonlit that tower in the diem* end Waterloo-bridge, with tea meellsetione of 'aikido. The legs den intent pre tend, from seder her sitawh ithe is looking reetersedelly at the mom, rammitramen of other children and of the days el be; lanoesuey streepize over the euheoquent beU el memery. Is the ethos' aomperumeat the cadres are NM stow perdelly emus up. The 'mbar has died a lacer bona was, sad they have removed from dr siajaatly hr ilia km Nampa** ltdrinr. The rawest is mire loom praybs tit& be bled burled ia bar &Ws lap. Bat tba Tte (T43rts. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 3, 1858. eider gki, seated at the ors window, is pang taarfally at the same moon, vrbesapare says at mos quieten the wretched Nothar'• yearning instinct, anti awaken in the bream of the daughter the fond Mal diction of childhood. Other seggestive points, such as the divided apple, on. half on the earpet, and the other with the tartest its core, the sees dead over the moon which itisatilka the hour in the dils *Mr, and portraits of the War and mother ling up is the briging, being all that is saved tom the wreck of botoo. We meat not %ether pardealease. Rights pease we cannot gin this noble welt than that the artistic treatment in fully athiquak in earsestneas and power to the severity and yahoo of the subject. Mr. Egg has also a picture from Tbaclerey'e Bs mood, but inferior, we think, to the sae exhibited hot peer. The incident chosen is that immediately below the playful decoration of Esmond after the beide of Wynendeeh wha, the scarfs. represented in the former work. He is kneeing, and Beatrice is in the act of dubbing him knight with the sword. The great point of the former picture, the sweet pale hoe of the mother of Beatrice, is here comparatively libitum though the wilful beauty, end the staunch old dowager with bar towering bead-deem and bedizened flagely are very true to the characters of the novelist. Eamond's ap pealing loving look of earnestness is also finely rendered. Bat taken altogether the work is inferior, and the brick-like tone rather unplesant, though the colour is in parts extremely rich, and the accessories admirably painted. Mr. Henley has also • highly poetical work in two coospertmems with a beautiful morel underlying the lair , nation. It is entitled " Flower Girls—Town and Country" (360). In the first a number of raeaquere are at the entrance of aha sward. In the principal group a " zany," with his long sleeves and • Louis Quince bergire on his arm, thrusts rudely aside a bunch of Mira offered him by a wretched-looking flower girl, while his one plane, who I, evidently still unused to such scenes, loose in pity upon another poor flower girl who has fallen asleep on the cold ground. Preceding this couple, beckoning them, and pass ing out of the picture, is • figure reasqued as Meplintophadee, who has left the impression of hie cloven hoof on some fallen flowers. A girl waving her " folio" bells over the mowd of gaping spectators and bard-faced smug policemen, is alight ing from • hired carriage and follows with other masque raders, while in the dim distance • pawnbroker's sign seems to indicate what it will all come to. The other compartmeat is the greatestposaible contrast. A number of children intim coun try are gathering with innocent delight wild flowers, violets primroses and such like, and weaving garlands, wreathe, and nosegay., with which the elder girls laughingly decorate the views as they nestle under • hedgerow through which twinkles the cheerful flicker of sunlight. We have seam nothing from Mr. Horsley so charmingly suggestive in idea or admirable in execution as them contrasts of town and country. There is another sweet little picture of rural life, by this gentleman, "The Noonday Sleep" (116). Mr. J. Lewis, though he has heretofore received little courtesy at the hands of the hanging committees of the Royal Academy, sends no less than six pictures. Thus, this distinguished painter—who has pared so . many years of his life in the practice of water-colours-- and only recently resigned his Preeldeatedp of the Society of Painters In Water-Colours, with the intention of devoting himself to the practice of oil—appears determined to prove his perfect mastery of this more enduring medium. A certain heavy—technically called " leathery "—add., ob servable in the works of most water-colour painters who turn to the practice of oil, ha has contrived to avoid ; and these pictures have all his better characteristics. With a lees manageable vehicle he still solves one of the moist difficult problems in art—that of uniting the most marvellously deli cate and minute detail with breadth of effect. A most sur prising example of this will be found n " Lilies and Roses, Constantinople " (61), in which a thicket of white roue is by the subtle employment of half-tints and skilful menage meet of the composition, : rendered not In the least spotty. The graceful peas and the tasteful dress of this Eastern beauty most he seen to be appreciated. Bat turning boa this mnintrue, if we had to select say parti cular work which should exhibit the greatest number of this artist's extracriihimp gifts, we should point to his most °on side:able work in the present exhibition, " A Kibab Shop, Scutari, Asia Minor" (101). It is quite wonderful the depth yet transparency in the inner apartment of one half of this picture in contrast with the bright sunlight of the fore ground, slightly modified through the open Intervening apartments of the " Kibab Shop," and still more intense an roof and minaret, arec through the window in the distance. Mr. Lunen knowledge of animal character may also be sem in the varied Buttering. of the pigeons, and the sly look of seeming recognition between the dog and kid. The listless life of the Turks, sipping their coffee and smoking their 'ogreish., le lA/Lewin, admirably pourtrayed In the several figures, end the minutia of Oriental detail ars, of course, Imitated with marvellous pm:limbo. For the advantages of power and depth of tone, offered by the new Biathlon, and already secured, we must turn to • single figure on • Isms sods admirably broad in light and shade— "An Arab of the Desert of Sinal"(114). This evident portrait, moreover, Minds a gr•Yfying proof that in oil Mr. Loeb has entirely got rid of the leaden tones which disfigured his flesh in his water colour drawings, through the nee of crude body colour, and the exaggeration of pearly tome. The pioue Turk, at their afternoon prayers in the" Interior of a Mosque at Cairo" (246), are admirable, but in all respects the met exquisite gem of limpid colour, and In faultless setting, like • Collin( jewel, is " An inmate of the Hharainn, Cairo" (122), laughingly bringing in refreshments, though In very small sine might very easily cause it to be OTWOOked ens more readily than the other. Indeed, such refined work is comparatively lost in such an exhibition. Here we must for the present pause. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, Mendelesohn's " Athalia" and Roesini's "!Rabat Mater" will be performed on Wednesday next, May 6. Vocalists: Madame Clara Novell° (being her Bret appearance this sea son), Min Dolby, Mr. Sims Reeves, and Mr. Wain. THE LONDON PRESS MUSICAL AMATEURS.— Tn is very praiseworthy' searniation had a rimiest on Sa turday evening, at the Manor House, Walworth, for the purpose of spending "An Evening with. Maori sad his Wntings." The lecture, whki wee neatly composed and ably delivered by Mr. a. W. Boyle, wee vocally sad in stramentelly 11l .W by Easenbers of the association and lady friends, is a style of excellence far beyond the usual reach of assetessre. The large room wee crowded with members end Imbed mid the whole proceed ings of the evade( paned off to th. satire estialeceion of eQ present. CRLMORICE GARDENR.—The season at this favourite place of resort will commaoos this day (Holiday , with in creased attractions end completely grounds. Among other novelties there will be • las Morena. view consisting of sixteen sketches of India. sad illsandons of its cities, its prison, andg a role. Preparations are now =cm for holding the sh ow of Aeration pleats of Waterer and Godfrey in these gardens, and many of the plants hen % m arrived and occupy their oo:sounder the specious tot to thin towering. The ground has been newly out, end groups of figures repreemillor Havelock and the heroes of India occupy various command ing peados'. The arrangements for the music and the ballet will be as stbrective as in former sesame. HIGHIATET B.—On Saturday an addition was made to the attreetkeis of this popular place of entertainment, by the of the sew " Leviathan Platform," so called from It. ftaeeYa as, ft being upwarda of 110 feet in log* and sagely the ow width. A colonnade or gallery runs walla to Its =dm loge, and is covered in with aa arched roofed mengsind area, and supported by light pillars of the same mamisi. In this gallery, fitted up with ammo velvet-middens* sesta, the spectatars. or the dancers them selves, in ors cis midden shower of rain, may Sod ► an agree able place of mama. The pledorm and' pillory an lighted by gas banish phis* In crystal vases, sad by • doom of brilliant AO% mingled with the broad gross loves and white Ibsen of • mass of lilies, Girsnag the capital of • handsome peter I. the centre of the area. Mr. Hinton may reesesellylbege to receive, during the approaching monmsr, • large ham, of patronage sod support. - - ROYAL COLLIOZ Or Pi=lf4olB.—The follow ing appanatants wore sods a the of the =nail on Saluda last : —Lard Wary sad Mr R te4et Mathison were sisasa vkitintrare of the who •, Dr. Liao Platal. Wall emehiod medwutor is wiewee oaf arta ; the Rev. J. Temp* had soar d Rigby. wid the R.. Dr. Major, bead sear of Khee Oellese &heel, woo soudoeted ee Newohom of the onoell. The hflowlo. (asthma WWII also odid le the NW of eseshore:—The la. W. Rowe, W. Theme Clionerbown ; Profweera Maur, Tamest, asil Osivreeowl, of Kimee CAI" Lewes ; nod lvehowee Mown, Cbrietwee. limo% awl AAA= V= Caw r. L. We iwe appoisiol trt; Dr. Lowasew owl Mr. LAM, Mr mood lb . Magma he mob; owl Dr. T. 8. Bermes fee moral end political pillaiogiw. . ! . Ns.s aI'ER .. 4-..ai., ..c., (• '.. i. '1 41:. - '-. V.' '-'ssaudx (Stamped Id. Additional.) [lr W °PENCE. of the sister arts have been indebted. Sometime, for tie poetic character, onnethass for the touching truth of their =tattoo& (Rear, hear.) Picture, illnetrative of in ow the works of well-Innews living writer, have of late years formed an interesting part of our exhibitions, ' exemplifying the relation to which I allude. It le, there fore, with feelings of especial achnewledrpoimi, as well ea in consonance with the public voice, that I beg to the health of Mr. Dickens and Mr. Therberay. (Ch eese . Kr. Moues—Following the order ed your tomes, I have to take nest part in the duet to be performed M aoltnew lodgement of the compliment you have pail to literature, In this home of art I feel it to be too muck en interehange of compliments, se it were, between near relation, to ere* into any lengthened expression of our thanks for the honour you have done ue. I feel that it would be changing shy splendid eamenbly Into a sort of family party. (A laugh.) I may, however, leis leave to my that your otter, whom I represent, is sarong awl healthy—(a laugh)—alle has a Tor great allied= for, art an undying interest in you ; and it' always • very greet gmtinoetion to her to me herself' so well rerneenbeeed within these walls, and to know that she, is an honoured guess at your hospitable board. (Cheers and laughter.) Mr. THlbeilake--My Lords, Mr. Chairman, and Gen*, men,—Permit me to say that lad it not been for the diced act of my friend who has just eat down, I shots* most likely aver have lees included in thetas* which you have he* phoned to &Mb ; and I should lave tried to her not a writer but a pointer, or deli of *Oar* That> wee the *job ef roy eaely mid I mot re member when Ms. Mehra wee • ',styrene men, and. hat commenced delighting the waif with some 'harm ing humorous works of wed* I cannot unties the name-- Oughtee)—but which were coloured light gream, and eke* ewe ewe I lugh.) youg man wanted meek* 'le Ohms* ►kis writing& and I recelle* walking up to hit ambers with two or three drawings lea. my band, wltlah , atimige to my, he did not fad enfeeble. (Laughter.) Butte gun =house, blight which cue over my &ethnical mdeliamt, it wield have bele my pride and my pleasure to have eavoured Gee day to•tlod • place lon these walla for one sl rely perbeinanom. Thiedisappnnt meat ceased me toiler* my attention to • different walk oC art, and now I can eniy)101111 to tremslated" on these welter I have been, lamb to my talent , * friend Mr. See. (Rear, hear.) I shell, hemmer, ever think with pride and pleasure of my name having been mentioned from that chair, always connecting it with the perms who first eat in It. Yon, sir, know whence he came, and we, gentlemen, are alt aware that the knight of Plymmith has net left the knight of Plympton behind him. (Cheers.) Sir Joshes Reyrolds was sue of the most delightful of men, and to have been well 'yokes et bent hie chair ht one or the greatest purifications I could experience. (Hear,. bear.) The men of my profession have lou r b een conaeotd with painters. I myself have had the happiness to number sewer* among the demon friends of my life. You yourself,. sir, have mentioned that Goldsmith always attended them aunt venarles ; and I understand that Johnsen too was Inagua in the very bat year of hie life. Despite the shortness of his: Beath, he delighted to walk up the Maim of the Roy* Attedetny, and sit at the tenet of the good Sir Joshua. And. we who have no sathina, nor any long steps to get isp—(a lengh)—ehall *ways be happy to receive your welcome and. partake of our hospitality. (Cheers.) The Ch thee left the chair, and the oompasy Domed themselves through the different saloons, lingering till • late hour to gratify their cariosity in inspecting the. collection. BANQUET AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY OP ABM The inauguration of the new exhibition of pictures and sculpture st the Royal Academy was odebrated on Satur da by the turd sunivenwry feenval. TM doors of the Academy were thrown open to the guests of the botitatlas at 2 o'clock, and soon after that surly hour • eery didaguitheol company, which received medium! 11001111411110 to it• numbers, arrived to avail themselves el their envialibprivilmr. As the afternoon wore on the rooms ap se ling sad scolpture were comfortably fined, =2 B enleepusts 'roam of eseiseut statesmen, ecclesiastics, and wanton, could be seen engaged in lively converse on the Mdse of tho various marks wheel challenged their criticism. Awing the *tem which appeared to attract most nodes were Liana's •• Wheat Yield." H. O'listY• " Eastward Hof Prides" Dliby Dish" " Costribendiata," Sir E. Leaders?* " Desr-SWking,' T. 8. CeoWs 00- *obis Evatispr and 3.l's " Seim beet Th i c knuy's The dinner eseememeed at sight o'clock, Sir Charles liamt lake, the president of the Insimation, 'espying the Stair. Armes the resets were hie Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, Ws Zneelleney Baron der Ceti*, the Duke of Newman, the Duke et Redand, the Dohs of Norihumber land, th e Marquis of Lansdowne, the Raft of Derby the EAR of Weinrich, the Lord Chissellor, Lord Staaley, Lord J. Masers, the Clieneenor of the Exotteasir Sir J. Piddag ton, Mr. WSW*, Lad Chides Jns Ciamiktl d .r a d , Chief Baron Polis Lord Cranwceth, Earl of Lard Palmerston, the Master of the Rolls, the Speaker of the House of COMIDOODS, the Biabep of Loses the Bishop of Oxford, the Bishop if Carlisle, Earl °manila Lied St. ertli l4l A lt 4 tgr e itZtrift t's Attoraey al, die ter- Wood, Mr. Gladstone, Idr.Cardweli. Mr. lakerridare, Lord °coed* Mr. Robert Lowe, Sir R. W. Carden, the GOVIEDOT of tin Bank of England, Sir R. Mareldeon, Mr. Hope, M.P., Mr. Bohai &spats" M.P., Sir W. F. Walks, of Xers, Writ Mils, M.P., Mr. U. Drummond M.P., Professor Peraday, Kr. Alderman Salomon+, the Pnekleats of the =of Physicists sad Burg' one, Mr. C. Diets, Mr. Y. The rRISIDENT rave in secession, " The Health of her Mejes the Q 0401 2 :" The Heal th of his Royal Highness the meiort, end "The Health of his Royal H ness the Prince of Wake and the rest of the Royal Penaily," "The Army sad Navy," connecting with the army the manse of his Royal Highness the Commander of the Fors ; with the navy that of the First Lord cf the Admiralty. The Duke of CANTRIDO7I, who was received with loud cheers, said in the course of his speech—My lords, and gen tlemen—As regards the duty which the army is now dis charging, nobody, I think, will refuse to admit that the able and admirable manner in which my gallant and distingniehed friend Sir Cohn Campbell conducted his operations in India is deserving (tithe highest praise. (Cheers.) 1 do believe that there never was an Aker—not even excepting some of the pealed captain" of the age—who has exhibited mere military talent than the Commander-in-Chief in the Est has (S -played in his present arduous and trying campaign. (Chess) I know that the feeling of my gallant friend towards his troops is that their behaviour has been most gratifying to him - and in saying this I am sure it will be understood that th at behaviour moat have been of an order worthy of this nation. (Cheers.) But, cattlemen, In an anembly like this, met to do especial honour to the arts of pesos, I fair that these allusion' to the arts of war may be thought somewhat out of place. Yet, In order that we may continue be the uninterrupted enjoyment of the luxuries end refine ments with which we are permitted to regale ourselves to night, my advice to you, gentlemen, is, Pray don't forget the army ; bat maintain it in such a state that we may never find ourselves in lees agreeable society than we do at pre sent." (Cheers and laughter.) I ottm hear it stated that soldiers are not fond of science or of art ; but I am glad to say that that is a mistake. I believe that among the mem• hers of my proteins there is a genuine appreciation of your productions; and I trust that we are not the worse mergers on that account. (Cheers and a laugh.) The toast to "The Navy" wane acknowledged by Sir J. Pakington, end "The Foreign Ministers," be Baton de Cette, the Bavarian minister. The Lord Chaim:shot then responded To the Noblemen and Gentlemen who then ho noured the Academy with their preeenke," and concluded by proposing " Prosperity to the It Academy," for which the President returned thanks on behalf of the members. The PRESIDENT afterwards proposed The Health of her Majesty's Ministers." The toast was greeted with loud applause. The Bari of DRAM—My low* Mr. President, and gen- Usesen,—ln the name of my colleagues and myself allow me to return you my grateful thanks for the honour which you have done la in drinking our heaths. I thank you, sir, for the manner in which you hes paid to us the pommel tri bute of your regard and good will. I say this personal tri bute, because, on one occasion like the present, surrounded by men of all opinions and of every politioal denomination, hero in an assembling in which even for a short time we mil breaths en air untainted by the breath of political strife, it would be absurd and ridiculous if I were to attempt to connect with the toast just given any of the slightest political significance. (Hear, hear.) We accept it, gentlemen, as I am sure you mean it, as an expression of that kind and generous feeling with which every body of Englishmen regard those, whatever their opinions, who to the beet .f their ability and judgment are devoting their time, their attention, and their labour to what they oceceive to be the public interest. (Cheers.) As my noble friend the Lord Chancellor has said, it is one of the privilege of office to be admitted to participate in anni versaries like the present ; but, unfortunately, I can say for myself at lee, and probably for all who have had shod a period in which to familiarise themselves with tl a t e . labours of office, it is also one of its penalties that we have not at command that leisure which would enable us to avail ourselves of those advantage.; and unhappily I may say for myself that both yesterday and to-day my time wee so entirely engrossed by public engagements that It wee rely • few moments before we et down to dinner that I was able to enter these rooms, and that, beyond running he tily through them, and having bad pointed out to me by some of my friends the greatest ornaments in your collection, and which you will forgive me if I do not venture to specify—(a laugh)—l have had an opportunity of observ ing, admiring, sad appreciating those triumphs of art by which we are surrounded. (Cheers.) But among the few to which my attention wee more particularly celled, I have certainly seen exemplifications of a study of nature, of imagination of invention, of combination, of onlontiag, and of design, which have impressed me very strongly in favour of the present year's exhibition. (lifer, hear.) So far as I have been able to form I can hardly say en opinice from the tiermant glimpse which, as I have said, I have lOW 'hie to obese. it fully coallnned the report made to me by those more fortunate than myself in having time at their deposal, that the present ealdbition may lady vie with any of those which of late years have pre ceded it. (Chen.) There wpe, however, one consolation which I promised myself in attgthis banquet. I thought that I should bad berm free for two hours at least from the importunities of those requests which, sometimes in a milder, sometimes in a more pressing tone, are urged epos the attention of the members of a government. (Laughter.) In Downing-street I expect, of courts, three or four times • day at all events, to receive applications trout oiergyessa for livings that are not yet vacant, from barristers for &pregame which nobody dreamt of i: ,:do to iniad on sum- Wrier individuals for no red of Ps— (leughter)—but I had fondly hoped, when I nuns to the tranquil and climb, regime of Tratalgar-square to have bed no each solicitations made to me. (Laughter.) I have been diseppointod. (Removed Luebke) You, sir in the most permesive teem and with wet flattering allu sions to what took plea es former egeastom, have hinted your confidence that the goverment would not be dead to the claims of art ; rot Iwo hinted that, great as are the services which the Royal Academy hes rendered to the country, and which I cheerfully selmovhdge, they might be greater sail if they eajoyed greater ecomeinodation. "0 V Angelus Ills, Prozimus so:eclat.' (Laughter.) If there was soother room, or another house, or • berm house, it would incalculably income the advan tages which the public derive from your labour. (Cheers end laughter.) And, sir, I owe you my thanks for record ing that the fire speech from the throne which adverted to the improvement of the fine arts as an object of public interest was one which I had the honour of edvidng the sovereign to deliver in 1862. Sir, that also reminds me that In throe days, when we were yet green in office— (langhter)—my right hon. friend who then, as now, was Chancellor of the Exchequer expressed, at one of these 'adversity festivals, not only his hope and wish, but elso deluded mortal I—(laughter)—he sanguine expectation that the sent u l d , r e e e ttld see the Royal Academy and the , Nodose' del in a mach Improved situation. Un kfeant47 that cent met arrived we reseed to be reejsuesi _hie foe the shidstradea of Maim (A laugh.) " Liberal and propesi gerarmesels" for the last vfx ram m ve aw *sir sespissl, it le eid tor we es my that of **lmproved she e(t a Aceemy end National Gallery I have nit seen die hotbed's. (Chews sod isoirbotr.) with emewbsse I eball tot meet the errors of ws right boa. bland b I hese this wasokikia. that i s l a ss yea mill est di* et Me peseue less attentive them their t al it mot, it we bays sot the Wm, to be 11104811111d i := 1 " of FrOicrelio at Perm MO dna ow of mods& (Cheers me lessitier.) Bat, to spook seattenly, I hole it to be op of del mob slielle of • poseramset to promote the hums.' of the , Ise arts. I Mid OM to be es abbot of WO sedioeal be- Vaa; and for es the Channel/or of the heels--heels-- sad llZe wof Cosmoses will allow me, I shell hese the great Osman la wsulbother to their sdnineseeest to the Wasted rey_power. (Clime.) The noble owl coseloled b 7 seletowledpmeet far the toast. The of the isombere having beta drunk red erbowlislied by the B of °trona, and that at Lad et. Loused's by this noble tied leaned tot hiressif, The PRESIDINT TOSS and said—Anson the mote who who honour us with their memo, out this works ere some of those iletiagsiehei s of Mims to whom the problems THE CRYSTAL PALACE. The managers of the Crystal Palace inaugurated: their summer 'emu on Saturday lest under happy auspices., It is true that the weather had not u yet settled tab Its per. • lament mummer sunshine, and that the dulness, tearful, smile of April still struggled hard with the merry laugh., of May; but yet there was enough of the latter to sheer that It was the rising power, and to preserve freer imminent peril the angelic bonnets, the vapoury Nbes, and the ride silks and satins of the immense crowd of hie atml decidedly didifOrbe ladies who crowded the transparent halls during the whole of the afternoon. The main attraction of Saturday wen of course, the concore., for which the airiest and pleasantest of music halls had beam improvised in the great transept. Mr. Ryles had been sum— moned on short notice to deck it with hia splendid =Mee and rhododendrons, and had succeeded in =Mulling them in the front of the orehetstre in gorgeous masses of odour- The latter, also a marvel of celerity, had only been completed. the night before, but looked as tasteful and complete as if it had been the result of long and careful preparation The effect was very charming. The heads of the musicians Thin; above the foliage and dowers might have led one to imagine that Pan himself was there holding high festival, truly that the scoompliatied cAsf of Sydenhaat is a much mom per. sonshis individual than Apollo's rival Is represented to have bean. To make all complete, a graceful little fountain trickled gently in front, and in liquid mune acted almost like:espell upon the ear between the grand bursts of the more ambitious harmony of the orchestra. One peculiar merit cid these Crystal Palace °courts is, that the "election is generally non conewhat out of the beaten track of hackneyed moiled popekerities, and that people Lave therefore opportunities of beating, at them, music which has not been worked to death elsewhere. Mendeissohn's overturn to Ray Bias, • insince, although a great favourite with the amateurs, le en net as nory-day piles 4 retistaisce, nor is Mr. Mac anesfs theerfal, and, on this occasion, most appropriate sentata " Mayday," so generally known as it ought to be. They wore both given In excellent style, the recent sop nentenen of the band tang splendidly in the overture, end Maims Sherrington's sweet voice, and the oorreot &gni dr well trained chorus of the Royal Italian Opera, giving ibil sin to the hearty, cheerful, pleasant music of the enallals. Mr. Ashen played a magnificent violin solo, on sirs then the Zonate, and last, though not least, Mr. Sims Rams banned new tire to Pamir s well-known "Come, if you dean." As the abject of this article is to nodes the vowel Meares of the opening May-day, not to enter Lilo my special musical criticism on the conoert, we most pais over many attractive features In the latter, but cannot avoid noticing the charming effect produced by the novel inter mingling of the human voices with the bend in the engage ment of the Prscioso. •It dram us very forcibly that suck a union If carried oat mare frequently, and more enenevely, would plan Immensely, as the human voices give an ea premien and vitality to the music which the most delicate and reined instrumestatien could not bs expected to produce. After the concert the compsay all crowded mound the oare fally roped off spies, within which the monster nugget from Australis displays its unadorned enthrone &rise This immense mar of the precious ore was food by a party of four diggers, two of wheat were natives of New Brunswick, and two emigrants from Gravesend. One had been eleven years in the colony, and two had been ere years at the diggings, getting merely a precerloom subsistence, when suddenly they came upon this piece of thumping luck, the vans of which le scanewlireis about 8,0001. sterling. It is exposed in a gine ease at the bees of the Heade cecitedas, earefolly gouda by two pollosnien, sad watched over with ; paternal cam by the youngest amber of the intonate ex ploring party. It is a large dat moo of nearly pure gold, about two feet long, with en irregular breadth of a foot more or leen and its Male yellow colour Indicates It to be of the very hue quality. lee attraction on Saturday was very great, the rail being quite besieged by emulous '• prospectors" and there Is little doubt but that many a crude scheme of nalgration was suddenly brought to maturity by the tempt big emanate of this valuable fragment, although the Mame of getting a similar one is something like what ma Hat of getting the 110,0001. prize In the old lottery. The non curious thing about this nugget I. its form, which is that of molten metal, as if some vast matrix had boned up somewhere and °meowed, and that a portion had then run into the place where it was at last discovered. If one hundred and eighty-seven similar nuggets were all placed in a long row with the new arrival at their head, they would aboat represent the cost of the crystal nine in which this ON solitary specimen is eel& bind. RwwAl, COU.AOg On Hilgosonii:—The following gessiewea, having undergone the ireopeeery exaceleatirew for the diploma, were admitted member of the Collage at She weedwg M sine Cows of Esseakiere es the 30th alt., vie. "-- He m% Mesa Jon* Carew-von • George W"" Tamer& : Anew 13eaniagtori,M ; Geary William Locke, Navy; Arthur de Nod Welker, 'Upper Berkelay-renet, Portawa-avere flows Palmer Deadel, Brasineter, Dorset ; Predrill*. Amy Chalk, Arm) ; Henry Me Knight, ghelleid ; M ica lle=ao, o4 Tilhwarlt s ltrat d Za v te ; Chorine . ; Clineseelset. At the w inewing of the coon. Massa ME Am. Duelist, of bar blejesey'a abip Ags menneeek pawed hie azashweian Is, naval serge,* awl Gawp VAAasy for navel eirkeeat-surgeon ; dos h aw gemelimpa bed prevrawdy bra admitted a nwebee of es Naga, hie Alpha* Weft date Ally IS, meg, atTOTAL PALO*. HALT-CROWN DAT. am SAIVIDAT, KAY L—Arbeheione on payola* ;Ott; AO b 7 Min *liar 6,971.