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London, England, 1853-05-07 00:00:00

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some the. Mooniest debate.
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of many hien. gentlemen. So murk tsoilosion terentileil at
the time that it great many IiVrISORS did 111.11 'VI what was
going forward.

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ELECTION.

Sir .11. inspired by lllothe% of !direly ab-
%tract virtu., moved on Tuesday fur a Goventraent
pruseenlioti agaitud Sir Frederic Smith, fur haring
illegall.‘ ',Maine(' an appointment iii the l'omt-ottice
fur sone Joseph (i real head, the ',gm of a Chatham
elect PE.

Sir I. Tilt:mi.En, niter %Andy wanting fur some
toutiiher of the Government to express an opinion
upon the Nubject, rei,istetl the motion both vu legal and
mural grounds.

Messrs. WILLIAMS, Fox, PELLATT, DUNCOMBE, and
other members having spoken, Sir F. KELLY, by a
stirring appeal, brought up most reluctantly
Lord J. ltessELL, who professed unmitigated IT- •
probation of the motives which had actuated the hon.
mover, and equal detestation of electoral corruption,
hut exonerated the Government from any responsi-
bility in prosecuting the case. on account of the " am-
biguities" in the report of the committee who
inquired into the incidents of the Chatham election.
The Sot,tcrron-tiENEum. added his legal authority
to the conclusion that such a prosecution was inex-
pedient, because it would most p.obably be unsuc-
cessful.
11r. 11. Mem WIND denounced the hypocrisy of the
motion. Looking through society front the highest
ranks to the lowest, he found bribery everywhere.
The Nadler was bribed with three and sixpence to
kill hares against the law. and an earl was bribed
with a marquisate to vote against, his conscience.
The House of Commons was a mere place-buzaar,
where offices were bought and :Ail to the highest
bidders. Such was the only principle on which
government could be carried on. Purity motions,
like those on the paper for the night respecting India,
were nothing but so many " squeaks of a pig who had
got no teat."
Upon a division the motion was negatived by ItSB
votes against 74 ; majority lift.

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.
Colousstomi Isoviter.---Itelanaling to the ad-
dresses of the Legislature, her Majesty lias appointed
a commission to inquire into the charges of corrup-
tion at Kingston-on-Hell and Canterbury.
New Alintur.u.---'Taunton election terminated on
Tuesday in the return, by a much narrower majority
than had been anticipated, of the Liberal candidate.
At the close the numbers were—Sir T. Ramadan,
878 ; Mr. 1-1. Badcock, 366 ; majority, 7.
ELECTION CO3IMITTEES.---TllO Bolton committee
has decided that Messrs. Barnes and Crook were
duly elected, and pronounced the petition of Mr.
tireenhalgh frivolous and vexatious.— For the I wrong!,
of Tonnes the cotnmittee have found Mr. Mills duiy
electe4.---The petition against the city of Dub/in
election was withdrawn after its committee had been
nominated.

MINI ST FRIA T. INTERPELLATION.V
The CuANeema,ou of the EXCHEQUER, questioned
by Lord A. Vane, said that no distinction would be
made, in extending the legacy duties, between
property under settlement and property under
trust.
By Mr. PAeltr...--Woubl consider, but could not.
pledge himself to, a scheme for commuting the
seven years' income tax, when desired, into a single
payment in the lump.
Viscount PAtanats.rox, questioned by Mr. Phinn,
denied that any instructions had been given to the
Postmaster-General to inspect or open any letters
addressed to Inreign refugees in this country. Nor
had any such letters been meddled with, BO far as he
was concerned, since he took office.
Sir .1. GRAHAM, replying to Mr. T. Baring, said that.
discretionary instructions had been sent out to the
admiral on the East In(iia station to take precau-
tionary measures for the protection of British com-
merce against piratical attacks on the coast
Borneo. Orders wer.' also given to the admiral to
obtain due evidence of piratical intentions before re-
sorting to force.
Replying to Mr. Mas.ey, the CHANCELLOR of the
ExenEQueu stated that Government, during the
session, proposed to introduce a bill giving better
security to the depositors in savings banks.
In answer to Sir J. Shelley, Mr. S. HERBERT ex-
plained that newspapers we:e admitted to the soldiers
barrack libraries, and full permission given for their
perusal, with the exception of :mei' journals as
habitually indulged in religious or military contra-
vasies.

THE PEA( s CoNFERENcE sent a deputation to the
Foreign-office on Wednesday. .Mr. Cobden, as spokes-
man, said that they came ia consequence of learn-
ing that important treaties were now being negotiated
between England and America. and they wished to
seize the opportunity of ttr,itet the introduction of
.ome clause binding both contracting parties to settle
all future differences by arbitration. The Earl of
Clarendon felt equal interest in the object of pre-
serving intact our ftiemlly relations with the United
States, but doubted whether an arbitration clause
was the surest means of 'wearing it. He misted
more to the spirit of the age and the better feeling
and sense of mankind.
A o)3l3mm:from the Consemative Land Society
has been visiting I:oil:shin,, t.) e‘plain the objects
and extend the operations of the society. Public
ineetinpt have been held in Yo:ic and Halifax, and
the committee were taking measures for the pur-
chase of an estate at the place last mentioned.
Branches of the society, with influential local corn-
mitees, are in course of formation iu the principal
towns in Yorkshire.

THE PRESS.

fine 4tts.

THE ROYAL ACADEMY.

THE exhibition of the Royal Academy of 1853 may
challenge comparison with any of its recent prede-
cessors. We doubt whether any European capital
could produce so creditable a collection of modern
art---we feel confident none could surpass it. The
standard of excellence has been raised, and the
average of attainment proportionably advanced. It
is now no longer •" the portrait of the year" that is
the object of general attraction, as in the days of
Sir Thomas Lawrence.

The portraits of the present year (we know not
whither, indeed, the declaimers against portrait-paint-
ing will consider this as a proof of general improve-
ment)
are rather below the usual average merit. Mr.
Grant, we think, if not less careful than usual, shows
less power ; his heads want the spirit we once admired
in them, and the accessories are painted with less
vigour. His portrait of Lord Campbell (ls 4), never-
theless, has truth and a strong resemblance to re-
commend it; that of the Duke of Portland (370),
painted at the request of his tenantry., exhibits the
dignified simplicity and courteous good humour of
that noblemates character, with all the health and
vigour of unabated manhood, even at a period of life
advanced beyond the usual age of man. A small
full-length portrait of Lady Londowlerry (89$), by
the same artist, is carefully finished and neatly
executed, but the attitude is ungraceful, and the
choice of the colours in the dress is far from happy.
A likeness of Sir Charles Napier (70), leaning on
his Arab charger, by Mr. E. Williams, is amongst the
portraits that struck us most as preserving truth of
resemblance with great merit in execution. The
Misses Elwes, painted as peasant girls by Mr. Eddes
(88), is a pretty picture; a:td the portrait of Mrs.
Philip Crawley (331) and her numerous lapdogs (for
an undue prominence is given to the four-footed
favourites), by Mr. Buckner, shows careful study
and brilliant execution.

Mr. Hiram Power, the clever American sculptor,
by Mr. H. W. Phillips (858), is obviously painted
eon amore. The subject is a happy one, and Mr.
Phillips has alone it justice.
The portrait of Lady Be Blaquiere (271), by Mr.
Swinton, seems to have engaged his greatest attention.
It has the grace and air of breeding for which his
portraits are distinguished, but the background
occupies a space important, enough to require more
care anti study than he has bestowed upon it. His
portrait of Lord Malden (565) has perhaps higher
merits and greater defects. It is bettjr painted and
has more effect; but a broad-brimmed hat casting a
shadow over the upper part of the face, and a pink
tittentsey jacket, give a masquerading air to the
picture---a piece of bad taste too common in every
age, and against which we are not unwilling to avail
ourselves of the opportunity of protesting.
The landscapes are numerous, and many of them
of a high order of merit. Mr. Cooke is happiest in
his home subjects. His views of Venice, in spite of
scrupulous exactness of detail and admirable draw-
ing, are so deficient in local colour, in brilliancy, and
in atmosphere, that there is no spot of earth which
they recal less to us than the glittering towers of '
Venice, glowing and inciting between the two.eleuients
of air and water.
Mr. Roberts has several pictures, and no work of
his can be devoid of merit ; but we do not under-
stand his slight and careless outline, hardly covered
by a thin coating of colour, leaving the canvas be-
neath quite visible. His drawing is coarse and inac-
curate, and the public has been too long and too
thoroughly acquainted with buildings of Venice to for-
give Mr. Roberts his total neglect of local colour. His
picture of "The Opening of the Great Exhibition-
lion-room of 11451 " (415) is a subject we can easily be-
lieve he undertook unwillingly, and in which the diffi-
culties were great ; but we cannot congratulate him on
having overcome any of them. His picture is gaudy
and tasteless; it suggests spare perhaps, but aerial
perspective is wanting, and he seems to have relin-
quished all attempts at subordination of parts and
general effect.
An "Affray in the Pyrentes with Smugglers" (325),
by Stanfield, is clever and spirited, but the figures are
too large and too important to the subject to be totally
sacrificed, and the landscape requires the support of
the figures to give it interest. "The Victory" ( 571, with
the body of Nelson, towed into Gibraltar, is a grand
national subject, and is handled with the affecting
solemnity that properly belongs to it. but the charm
of a tine effect is wanting with atmosphere and
distance.
" A Summer Sunny A:let-noon" (306), by Mr.
Cooper, is an agreeable picture ; and " The Wild
Seashore at Sunset" (155), by Danby. has merit of
the romantic interest which that imaginative artist
knows so well how to spread over his works; but
there is a mistake in his conception of the scene : at
sunset the light is derived, not from the red orb of

SATURDAY,

the sun, but from the pure white sky, and thus the
whole of the sea would have been illuminated.
" The Monarch Oak" (4SO), by Mr. Anthony, forces
it-elf upon our attention by its size and its absurdity.
When he painted it, the artist must have been pre-
pared to bear, and probably to defy, the hostile criti-
cisms which he challenges : we shall leave him to his
own reflections, which, we think, must soon convince
him of the faults of a style almost universally con-
demned.
"Night"and "Morning" (46 4: 60), are among the
most striking and poetical of Sir Edwin Landseer's
works. In the first, two deer, with their horns
interlaced, are engaged in a death struggle with
each other, each ready to sink in the extremity
of rabid exhaustion ; a misty night closes on
their enmity; and in the next picture morning
dawns on the same spot and discovers their bodies
cold and still; but undivided in their enmity, even
in the last agonies of death. The vulture hovers
above, ready to dart upon the prey which a stealthy
fox approaches with an eager but cautious audacity.
Where the sentiment is so finely rendered, we are
ashamed to dwell on mere technical merits; we should
otherwise direct attention to the fidelity of each detail,
the beauty of parts, and the wonderful skill displayed
in the manipulation.
The " Twins" (291) is a picture of inferior merit,
though parts are excellent, and each separate animal
is of exquisite execution: there is a total absence of
effect, of distance. and of atmosphere.
A small picture of deer, by the same artist, which
he calls "Children of the Mist" (170), has much of
the merit none of his works can be without; but why
affix a joking title ? and one, too, which would be
quite as applicable to London citizens in a fog ?
"Ruth Sleeping at the Feet of Boaz" (127 ), by the
amiable President, ha, all the solemn and sober tone
which he always diffuses over his sacred subjects ; it
has much harmony of colour and much delicacy of
sentiment. The scene is in the tent of Boaz, in which
the ordinary utensils of a wandering Arab are scat-
tered, perhaps with an over-profusion. Ruth reposes
on draperies, happy equally in the contrast and in
the harmony of colour, but her attitude is one in
which she could hardly have lain, and certainly could
not have slept. Boaz, lost in solemn contemplation,
seems unconscious of any feeling but the sacredness
of the trust confided to his forbearance. We cannot
but regret, however, that Sir Charles should have
represented him resting his arm on a copper sauce•
pan, a solecism which his models, the old Venetian
masters, would never have been guilty of;---and
why should Boaz be made a Turk?
"Othello Relating his Adventures" (174), by Mr.
Cope, has met with much attention, and perhaps de-
servedly. The head of Desdemona is pretty, but the
gesticulating Othello is grotesque, and we are
tempted to join in the surprise of the lady's kinsfolk
at her perver e preference for the Moor.
"The Execution of Montrose," and "Josephine
Signing her Act of Divorce" (390 & 512), !by
Mr. E. M. Ward, are among the most attractive
pictures in the exhibition. In the first, the noble
and loyal Montrose is exposed to the base and
coward y outrages of his republican conquerors :
he accepts their insults as a homage, and walks
to the scaffold with the air of a bridegroom entering
his nuptial chamber. The subject is a noble one ;
we regret Mr. Ward has not treated it with all the
sentiment of which it is susceptible, and which we
are sure he is capable of rendering.
Josephine consenting to the act of her own degra-
dation is a subject equally painful and unpoetical.
It is true that the unfeeling husband exacted this act
of compliance, and it is true that the sacrifice was
completed in public ; but Mr. Ward has given it a
melodramatic air that destroys the effect. The visi-
ble agony of the principal sufferer may be very
natural, but her daughter would have suppressed the
outward and somewhat theatrical exhibition of sorrow
which the painter has attributed to her ; she was in
the presence of those who regarded the Humiliation
of her family as their trimnph, and, before the ma-
jesties and highnesses of the mock court, etiquette,
if not pride and self-respect, would have imposed
some restraint. In historical pictures truth and pro-
bability are frequently lost in the endeavour to ex-
press trio much. This scene is by candle-light, and
the lurid light casts a strong and black shadow over
the group below, who scowl and start like the villains
in a melodrama, and who, in despite of stars and
collars, satins and ermine, look more like bandits m a
cave than nobles and councillors surrounding their
rince in his cabinet.
Mr. Severn has displayed imagination and in-
genuity in conceiving an unhackneyed incident in
the lite of Mary Magdalen (215). No painter that we
know of has yet represented her in the act of purchasing
the ointment with which she bathed the Saviour's
feet. The size of the figure is that of life. The
Magdalen, in laying the money on the counter, turns
her head towards the skies, which open and disclose
a vision of the Cross, borne aloft by innumerable
cherubim. Her whole figure is in shadow, cast, we
suppose, by the somewhat substantial clouds which