The Express.
London, England, 1852-05-01 00:00:00

FRANCE.

rims, FRIDAY EVENING,
General Canrobert, the commissioner of pardons
despatched to the departments of the Centre, has
sent in a second report, which appears in the Condi-
tutionnel. One feature in this document deserves
your especial attention, us openly- avowing the detest-
able principle of favouring the classes on which the
government relies for the maintenance of its power,
at the expense of those whose intelligence and need
of independence make them stand aloof. This impar-
tial distributor of mercy says that " the amnestied
belong to that interesting class of labourers and arti-
sans, that rude and laborious class which peoples the '
army. He could have wished to pardon also
a great number of persons occupying a compara-
tively elevated position in society by their instruction,
their fortune, and their profeysion. But among such
are found the heads of secret societies, and they are
considered by the authorities and the population
highly dangerous for the public tranquillity." I
cannot more forcibly paint to you all that there is of
barbarous and odious in the system of the govern-
ment than by citing this disgraceful boast of the
commissioner of mercy.
General Canimbert's report is as follows:
Monseigneur,—lnvested with taw full powers with which
which your confidence had honoured me, I have just gone
through the departments of the centre of France, to carry
to the political prisoners the effects of your clemency. All
my efforts have been used to extend it as much ss equity,
prudence, end the security of the country would allow me.
Penetrated with your sentiments, Monseigneur, and with
the serious re-ponaibility which weighed on me, I visited in
succession the principal localities which had been most dis-
turbed by turbulent ideas and insurrectional acts. I there
carefully examined the documents connected with the
charges against each prisoner ; I inquired into his former
conduct, his position, and the degree of influence ho pos-
sessed, and then announcing lond.y my desire to make your
pardon as extensive as possible, 1 consulted the ecclesiastical,
military, and judicial authorities on each of their eases, and
then made known that the object of my mission was to
light. n, but never to increase, punishments.
This plan of proceeding gave me the greatest chance of
avoiding error. It required more than a month's continual
peregrinations and incessant labours, and the result has
been to diminish the punishment, or give full pardon,, to
727 prisoners out of 4,076, who had been condemned. Cer-
tainly all those who have been released ere far from hying
innocent ; and, in order to show clemency to so many without
discouraging the authorities and alarming the inhabitants,
I was often obliged to insist on the strength of your govern-
ment, which, being able to protect all interests, was ali!e to
relax the rigours which, a short time since, were indispens-
able, but which are now less mar and on the little
danger which there was in setting at liberty some of the
simple instruments of insurrection, and on your wish to
exercise clemency.
The majority of those who are set at liberty have fami-
lies: they belong to that claw of labouring men and arti-
sans who are so readily led astray, but are equally suscep-
tible of goad impressions ; to that laborious class which sup-
ply our regiments, and must naturally meet with support,
Monseigneur, teem a soldier raised to the honour of being
your aide-de-camp.
I could have wished to h'iv been able to have released a
greater number of primes occupying a higher rank in
society from their education, their fortune, and their .iro-
fession. But amongst this class were the chiefs of secret
societies, the promoters of rebellion, and the instigators of
disturbance, and they were considered by the inhabitant.
and the authorities as dangerous for public tranquillity, and
the more guilty from their knout( d go of the mischief which
their petty ambition made them commit.

Wltls segud—to. She greater nrunber. of than, I was
obliged to respect the decisions of the mixed eommisaio:
to the integrity, firmness, and intelligent devotedness of
which I must hero render full justice. If some exeepti its
have been made, they have been called for by a will to
assist honourable families whom the fault of one of ti. Ic
members had reduced to despair or misery. I h• ee
perhaps been imprudent in extending your clemency to
certain prisoners in this category; I ought, perhaps, to
have forgotten the recommendations of your inexhausti is
kindness, and only to hove looked at the sorrowful eft -et
produced on the manes be seeing pardon accorded to he
heads while them they had armed still remain captiie.
lAs have already had the honour of informing you in
my previous letters, I was struck at the invasion of the -
tzlical spirit in the centre of France ; saciailitat i.
prized
to me to have established its principal fortresses is
the Nierre, the Cher, the Indre, the Allier, the Crewe,
and some parts of Auvergne and the Limousin. The exp.*.
nation of this may doubtless ba found, at least with rertd
to the three first named of these departments, in the soar
venient but certainly dangerous practice which many biro
landed proprietors have, of not occupying themselves w tk
their large estates, at a distance from which they reside, nd
who let them out on lease to speculators, who frcquer. ly
know nothing of cultivation, but are alwuys greedy of
gain, and have no other object than that of getting as ma it
out of the had as possible, without caring how much tl .y
may imposeridi it, and grinding down the country Feed's
whin have ita pro!erty of their own, and are oblige.' to
comply with ell th. it demands. We may oleo perhaps a. ek
fur the cause in the topography of the country ; in the . tie•
memos agglomerations of the workmets in their frequ nt
emigration towards the capital or the centres of great wen ks,
from whence they rctwn home corrupted.
Allow me, monseigneur, to conclud, this letter, which is
already long, by an olcitrvation which is furnished me by
what I have seen during the Let month. In the dere 't-
ownie where the peaceable inhabitants have not for tt ir
immediate ction a compact army of nearly lOW 00
men, they fear the dangers of socialitm, because they p -r-
-etire in it the knife and the torch incessantly vaspenced
over their heads; they know that circumstances wh eh
have taken place in France fur many long years have drit en
our country to that hard alterria!ive—to be or not to be.
They thus air rup to God fervent prayers that he will I,e-
-serve your days, and maintain to your government that
protective furor which is the salvation of the country.
For ley own part, Monseigneur, I shall he huppy a id
amply recompetraal for the trouhli inherent to my delitate
1111.4011. if I have been able, in nispensing at, my road too
acts of r or el. inei.ey a... 1 of your rotes mai generosity, to
increase the motives which th.• hietals 01 order have lar
blessing yi ur iiiimortol n-one.
I am, Monseigneur, with profound respect, your v. ry
humble arid very devoted servant,

CANROHEIII.
It is important to note that the Orleanist party is
of consich rabic strength iu the Council of .Statc.
This leaning towards the interests of a family un,hie
which tic wester of the present councillors h. :d
important functions has already made itself ma•ii-
fest in the views expressed by many of them on t to
question of competence referred to the section -hi
contenticur, and will perhaps give to the decision
the latter tribunal a turn which was hardly I It-
pteted. lii fact I understand that an attempt has
been made to compronii-e the matter in this way :
It is held that the question is either administrative,
judicial, or political. In the first case only can it se
referred for deeisi.m to the Council of State.
If the question be judicial, the ordinary ti-
bunals must pronounce; if political, it fls
equally beyond the sphere of the Council of
State. Thus it seems by no means improbable ;• at
the tribunal before which the cause has been car:. d
will pronounce its own incompetence to decide ,t.
In the mcuntime, M. Abbattucci, the keeper of • to
seals, has caused the affair to be placed on the 03 Wr
of the day in the Council of State. The belmswar
of this bc;dy is described as being reserved tows: Is
the government, and nut altogether devoid of an .01-
dependent tone. The nucleus of an opposition is
forming there, and begins to be felt.
The haiall has given deep offence to the goes la-
ment to-day by citing the names of the councils rtl
of state to whom the decision of judicial competeece
in the Orleans question is referred. This twoceeti .kg
on the part of the Orleans journal, which OW3II
meant as an emphatic appeal in face of the public to
the responsibility of the arbiters between the exe a-
five and judicial powers, is interpreted as a meninx
and attempt to intimidate. The Public has received
orders to answer the offensive article, and to retaliete
by publishing the names of the judges who assert,3d
their independence and competence in the decision of
the 23rd. The jurisdiction of the Council of Si to
is bused upon the organic decree of the Piesid. it,
in which the functions of that body are defined. Sy
Art. 17, the Rectum do cotatentieur is to preps', a
report upon all litigated matters, as well as upon rIl
conflicts that. may arise respecting the attributlon. of
the administrative and the judicial authorities. 'l6is
section is composed of six councillors, including the
president of the section, and of a certain numbit of
masters of requests, who have a consultative voice in
all matters, and a right to vote when they arc
pointed reporters. The President of the Repul tie
appoints three masters ci! requests to act as aro-
vernment counsel before this section. When
the report is made, the subject is coesi-
dered in a public sitting of' the Council of 81 ate,
deliberating an confrnlieur. This assembly is cuss-
posed, Ist, of the members of the section before nr. ra-
tioned ; and,2ndly, of 10 councillors of state, appointed
by the President of the Republic, and taken in esp,al
numbers from each of the other sections; and half of
these are replaced by other councillors every two
years. The president of the contentious section 1,,c-
-sides at the general meeting. After the presen.a-
tion of the report, the parties interested are heard 'ty
their counsel ; the government counsel are also he d,
and then the Assembly discusses the matter v. ill
closed doors, and gives out a written judgment. to
councillors of state now composing the content. us
section arc: MM. Mul:ard, president ; Quentin 1; a-
ched, Boudet, Boulatignier, Cornudet, id
Marchand. The 10 councillors who have li
appointed to complete the Assembly delibera • ig
au contentieux, are MM. 'envier (since deceased) id
Suiu, from the section of legislation; Joseph Btki. ty
and Ch. Giraud from the section of the inter:.' ;
Vuillefroy and \Valise from the section of put Jo
works; Allard and Villemsin from the section of
war, and Charlemagne and Vuitry from the swan
of finance. These are the removeablc and depend. nt
judges who are to sit as a court of appeal from the
judgment of irremovable magistrates. 'fhe coun-
cillors of state all receive large salaries, and may be
dismissed by the President of the Republic at ;my
moment. _ .

I Invite your intention to the following menacing
paragraph of the Petrie, directed against the corres-
pondents of foreign papers—English papers I shi,,ld
rather say—as these Are the only ones which der! to
publish anything in opposition to French governmi itt:
"The Minister of General Police has determine I to
prosecute before the tribunals, in virtue of article 15
of the law of the press, the correspondents of French
or foreign journals guilty of publishing false news.
Article 15 enacts that the propagators of false news
shall be condemned to 12 months' imprisonment and

I,ooofr. fine."
A correspondence, inspired by the governim nt,
states that, according to all probability, the Fri ~ch
troops will cease crc long to occupy Italy.
All the members of the tribunal of common.. at
Thiers (Puy de Wine) have refused to take the t. h,
and consequently are deemed to have resigned. M.
Lebeau, a member of the council-general of the Pas
de Calais has also refused the oath.
Incendiary fires appear to be upon the increase in
the departments, especially in the Loirct and I taut
Rhin. In many recent instances large tracts of N, oud
have been consumed, and villages have been half
destroyed.
About 250 political prisoners under sentence of
transportation were embarked on the Regain, at
Cette, on the 25th, and on the next day 100 more
left by the Felaireur.
Sixty-eight thousand out of the 80,000 bonds
of the Lyons Railway have been subscribed for,
and the company has, it is said, decides! on not
negotiating the remaining 12,000, except at the
rate of 1,123 francs. The whale of the bonds of
the Nortlisin Railway have been taken. 'these
two gnat companies certainly ought to congra-
tulate themselves on the success of their operation,
and it will probably facilitate the placing of the
bonds of the other eumpat ies. The sums recently
demanded from the money market are estimated at
660 millions, the calls for which are divided over a
term of two years. The sums already paid, or to bo
paid in the present year, amount to about 253 mil-
lions.
At the Roam, the Five per Cents. closed without
change, at 100.35 ; the Three per Cents. fell 25c., and
closed at 70.60. Railways were firmer. Rouen rose
10. Orleans, 7.50. Central, 5; and Testo and llor-
&aux, 12.50. But Strasbourg fell 5; and Dieppe,
2.30. Northern, Havre, and Lyons are without
change.

INSPECTING FIELD-OFFICER AT LIVERPOOL.—
We believe that Colonel Dorinzey, K.H., of the 86th Re-
giment, is to encomia to the vacant Inspecting Fiehl-06iotr-
ship at Liverpool.

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the content. us
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Cornudet, : id
who have In en
bly deliberat i :Ng
ice deceased) ..ad
; Joseph Bou!ly
of the interior;
action of pui lie .
n the section of
front the sect on
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appeal from :ho
tee. The ei.,tn- I
ries, and ma; be
Republic at . oy
lowing menacing I
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nee which dat. to !!
ench governm at:
has determined to
rtuc of article 15
indents of French
ehing false news.
tors of false news
mprisonment and
the government,
tiiity, the French
r Italy.
il of commerce at
1 to take the e Ai.
re resigned. M.
teneral of the l'as
on the increase in
Loirct and Ilant
ego tracts of v nod /
Fl have been half
under sentence of ill
n the Itequin, at
xt day ltio more
the SONO bonds
m subscribed for,
, decided on not
it, except at the
L' of the bonds of
en taken. These
ought to emigre-
-4' their operation, r
be placing of the
he sums recently I
I arc estimated at I
re divided over a
✓ady paid, or to bo
to about 253 mil- ill .
,as. clmed without
Cents. frit 2:,e., and
irmer. [town rose
and Teste and Mir-
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„yons ate without
AT Llvinternit..—
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THE BUDGET.

(F,o the DAlir News.)

•
Tux Tory Budget is now before the country, intro-
dint it and illustrated by the tory CUANCELLOR of
the EXCHEUVER. More than two !tours, by the House
of Commons cluck, did that literary individual spend
upon his explanatory oration. The house was very
fall—and the audience very attentive even to the
last sentence of the speech, when a loud and ironical
cheer arose as the labouring mountain gave forth
its &rad mouse. All Mr. DISIMLI intends to do is
—to take off nothing, and to keep on the income
tax!

Starting with the assumption of a deficiency, whilst
there is, in fact, a surplus revenue, he closed with a de-
claration that he must have still more. " Give, give,"
is the cry. His speech might be almost thus epi-
tomised :—" We are in office, and in office we intend
to etap. We have got the surplus of three millions
lot us by tho free-traders and Whigs. We moan to
keep it. Sonic people expect a reduction of taxation
of one sort or other--s lightening of excise duties,
or n mitigation of the income tax, or an abolition of
some import duty. But we mean nothing of the
sort. e can dispose of the surplus vets quietly
without taking off any impost or making any chine
at all. As to plans for the figure, we Pifer Fume—
plans are troublesome to think about, and sometimes
difficult to carry. We mean to propoac—nothing:
except a renewal of the income tax. Wo will keep
all we have got- -we 'II take all else we can get.
nirpe diem." 'fern the speech which stay ste will,
to this complexion--and this alone—does its financial
portion conic at last.
After a sprinkling of dull truisms übnut taxation
being levied by thrte methods - -on imports, by
excise duties, and by direct initaxsts—the financier
of the protectionist party went into an elaborate
statemc'.t of the advantages which had resulted from
the police of 1%12. lie revieoed the list of duties
taken 4, showing in detail and by figures, how well
that policy had worked--exhitaiting a glowing
picture of the !mulls of the very policy his party
hate prided themselves upon opposing. Indeed, this
pint of his address was a purely free-trade speech,
clETred loudly by the occupams of the opposition
leashes, els cially when lie do clonal it would be
hopeless to ex set to supply any deficiency by extra
cut MP duties. Indulging his Inflects with a relation
of the good deeds of others, he might have been ex-
pected to tell next how the it bright example had sti-
mulated him to eniul.e.c their deeds. But not a word
of the sort did he say. With sonic skill—and with a
clearness of voice and expression forming an agreeable
contrast to the unintelligible jumble of his predecessor
—he dilated on the sins of an unequally levied tax
on nava e doing this with such un air that his
hearers thought his great point must be its reform,
if nut abolition ; and extorting from the house a loud
their of approbation when he euid that " to a dirt
tax theme should be no exemptions." Glancing off,
however, from this delicate ground—with a passing
sneer at the sanitary reformers who took elf the
Viindow-tax, slid a second sneer at the present house-
tax --which only maching 4oo,tusi houses, produces
mow!' less (lie thinks) than it should do—he
finished his first hour's talk by depicting the
unhappy fate of a CticNeettant of the Etearaft'ut,
whom he declared to be a creature put in office for
prey and plunder. Ilia statements of figures were
of csairse, Untitled to with great attention. The ex-
penditure fur the coming year he estimated must be
increased by additional payment. on account of
eon% icts and of the Kaffir war. For the latter he
should propose an extra two hundred thousand
pounds, niakiag a total under that heading
of 660,000/. Anodic( new source of expense
would be the militia. That would require
thne hundred and fifty thousand pounds—the esti-
matid total for the year being 51,163,979. To meet
this he had customs duties that would suffer from the
forthcoming reduction of sugar duties, and an excise
to which no Great Exhibition traffic would contribute,
—for which hops would pay 1:1,1 than had been usual,
though malt might be unusually productive. He
run over the catalogue of other items, amongst
which he placed rather more than two
millions and a half fur six months' income
tax that must fall into the ensuing account,
the whole giving a total of 18,953,5019. In this
way ho schemed out a deficiency between expected
demands and anticipated proceeds—of rather more
thou two millions. To meet this he asks for pro-
perty and income tax to the tune of five millions
dine hundred and thirty-seven thousand pounds!—
the sum ho estimates those taxes to produce for 1553.
In estimating the revenue for the coming year,
Mr. Disaatet had, he said, been informed by some
of the first authorities in the country, that he must
count on a lose of income-tax to the amount of
150,000/. from the lauded and agricultural populas
tion. This estimate is valuable as a gauge to indi-
este the precise extent of the " ruin " which free
trade has been accused of bringing down upon the
heads of the country party and their dependents.
Mr. Dtsaarf.l truly characterises the national
prosperity as " great and sound," but on the
other hand, this prosperity has been achieved
by the depression, and out of the pockets, of one par-
ticular class. What is the extent of this heart-
rending depression? To what amount has free trade
damnified the agricultural interests? As they also
share in the general prosperity, what balance will go
to the account of " ruin"—wheu their savings in con-
sequence of the cheapness of provisions and of other
advantages that free trade has extended to them in
common with others— is put against a loss of income
represented by 150,0001. in scvenpences? Surely
that is but a small price to pay even if they have had
to pay it (which is not the case) for "great and
sound" national prosperity. If that is all the harms
free trade has done, it has been an unalloyed benefit.
But if the financial statements of Mr. Dismal,'
were calculated to cause disappointment, other por-
tions of his harangue must excite unmitigated stir-
prise and no little gratification. Indeed, altogether the
speech addressed last night to the House of
Commons by the CHANCELLOR of the Exeueuusa
will be mad throughout the country with mingled
feelings of wonder and dismay by the followers
whom he has hitherto led, and of triumph on the
part of those to whose principles and policy he has
at length given in his adhesion.
There never was a sight more ludicrously pitiable
than that of the ministerial ranks yesterday
evening during the elaborate oration of their
chosen chief. For two mortal hours they bad
to endure the protracted pain of having their
political teeth extracted one by one, amid the cheers
and laughter of those who sat opposite to them. For
the last six years the country party, as Mr. DISRAELI
romantically dubbed them, have been clamouring
against the reduction of customs duties on foreign
articles of consumption, and eloquently bemoaning
the ruin which the system of free trade was calcu-
lated to bring on our colonial possessions. Foremost in
every cabal and loudest in every denunciation hes
been the man who now occupies the post of finales.
minister. Yet, ere two months of office have rolled
over his head, this very man rises in his place
and volunteers the most startling and conclusive evi-
dence of the entire fallacy of all he had hitherto
averred, and avows his abosolute conviction of the
moons of the policy against which lie had mutinied
under PeeL,and pertinaciously thwarted in oppasities
to Rusexti.. It was hut the other day that bit Jinni
PAKINOTON, in answer to a question ing the
sugar duties, declared his officially
suasion that the gradual progress towards mit=
tion between foreign and colonial wee work-
ing calamitously for our West Inrilitrpendencies,
and his unchanged determination to restore in their
behalf a differential system. But now Mr. DISRAELI
comes forward, as leader of the party in the lower
house, and exultingly demonstrates the sound and
beneficial working of the Sugar Bill of 184$, and
positively repudiates all idea of resorting, even for
revenue, to an augmentation of our customs duties.
Still more marvellous and edifying are tbe eon-
fcesions of the new convert on the subject of the
excise. With a coolness and effrontery unparalleled
Mr. DISRAELI recurs to the varied assaults which he
and his followers were accustomed to make during
the existence of the late government upon each and
ell of the items Prom which this great branch of our
asthma revenue is derived. Nobody can have for-
=he successive motions and divisions for the
ef the tax on malt, on hops, on paper, &c,
is allot which the new CHANCILLOR of the Elan-
Win figured. Yet he now confuses with inimitable
arevflatisl that all that war utterly unreasonable and
absurd; eteehedieg his may& of the 'tato al
ewe eases 1091111 w with the weed exprasion of his
fins, miesiiesse is vides with Lord °soma
Illaisoms, Id* miss* asked to abrupt* all nosh

internal taxes—and his own present resolution to'
maintain every one of them.
Ihe third great branch of national income Mr.
DIbRAELI carefully reserved for the last ; although
' by a sort of Quixotic temerity !itches° to lavish upon
it in the earlier portion of hi I speech a
peculiarly emphatic awed or reprobation. We allude
to the income tax. Anticipate:3 the report of the
'elect committee which he said it would be preeeint
tuous in him to anticipate, he declared that the result
of their laborious investigations was to prove that
I any alterations in the schedules would bo to render
the system. if possible, more intolerable than it is at
precut. No modification, in his opinion, was at all
likely to mend it ; and as fur the tax as it stood, it
was, he thought, deservedly must unpopular, and, by
' reason of the large exemptions it contained, utterly
unjust in principle, and eminently dangerous to the
future welfare of the state. And therefi,re Mr.
Distiseht sums up his whole statement by the naked
proposal—to continue it unmodified for another year.
So this, then, is the upshot of all the pompous pro-
raises of a new system of taxation, which should relieve
' agriculture without oppressing commerce, and equal-
ise hurthens without endangering the income of the
nation. The bubble has suddenly burst, and nothing
is left but the gaping tools who have for six long
years been running after the political wizard, and
the laughing spectators who were deceived by his
mystical talk and conjuror's tricks. The whole
thing turns out to be a miserable, shabby, and
coarsely executed delusion—at the end of which
the dupes find themselves ordered home,
as there is no more to be seen, and the
lights must be put out directly. In dumb
and dogged despair, the unhappy country gentlemen
listened last night to the funeral service extemporised
by the great high priest over the corpse of Protection.
As each new round of scornful cheer. broke from the
crowded benches of the Opposition, they no doubt
still consoled themselves with the fond expectation
that something was reserved for them at the end
which might at all events serve as a decent pretence
for acquiescing in the open apostasy of their chief—
something for themselves, if not fur the fanners of
whom they have been such very dear friend.. But
when, having rapidly uttered the sentence wherein
he proposed to renew the income tax for an-
other year, the great necromancer suddenly sat
down, the sense of their forlorn condition
was ton heary to be borne, and rushing from the
house, they lett the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
to receive, almost alone, the overwhelming acknow-
ledgments of Sir CHARLES Woof) for the justice he
had tardily rendered to the free trade financial policy.
But whither will the hapless NEWDEGATES and
YOUNGS, TYRELLB and 'filomesox. fly ? They
accused Pt E!. of having betrayed them six years
ago; at 1 il'ilLtELl'S bidding they hunted him to death ;
yet now they find themselves "sold" again, and by
the very person who led them out against the illus-
trious statesman we have lost. For ourselves, we
can hardly affect to sympathise in their surprise,
and still less in their chagrin. We have fre-
quently expressed our belief that six months of office
would dissipate the dream of returning to protection.
We own, indeed, that we did not anticipate so rapid
and complete an annihilation of the phantom-hopes
they obstinately cherished, or that six weeks would
have been sufficient to accomplish the end. Neither
could we have supposed that, in addition to a solemn
recantation of his errors concerning free trade, Mr.
Distetni would have volunteered such confessions as
his speech of last night contains on the general sub-
ject of taxation ; —or that he should have abstained
from sprinkling with some species of fiscal confec-
tioner). the dry and bitter potion ho laid before his
adherents. Bo' so it is. The spell is broken, and
the matchless faros is over.

EIGIITY-FOUItTH EXHIBITION OF THE

ROYAL ACADEMY.

The wind haring at last got out of the East, and
a few "site shoures " of April having fallen, just before
April bade us good bye, yesterday was as bright and g nial
• day as could have been wished fur the annual " private
view "of the Royal Academy's exhibition—that pre-liba-
tion of the luxuries of art about to be offered to the public.
There was, of course, the customary gathering of notorieties.
The exhibition is a fair average one, but not remarkable
for any prominent works. The President and Sir Edwin
Landseer do not show at all ; Mr. Malready has only con-
tributed a landscape ; and Mr. Leslie has sent a " Juliet,"
which, for his own sake, one could have wished away.
The place of honour in the inner room is occupied by
Mr. Macliee'sgreat picture of Alfred in the Danish Camp.
It is eminently characterised by all the artist's wonderful
inventivesess of fancy and fine force of execution. Compared
with other contemporary artists it is in its kind unequalled ;
compared with other works of Mr. Mathes, there are some
that have pleased us better. There is a world of varied
and minute detail, elaborated so distinctly as to detract
from the unity of the picture's effect. There is—but this is
always more or lees the case with Mr. Maclise—a degree of
hardness in the colouring, a deficiency of shade, and •
staring exaggerated expression in many of the counts-
limners. To outweigh these minor defects the whole work is
plate, overflowing, with thought and fervid feeling. No-
thing can be more powerful than the group of
soldiers in the foreground, op the spectator's left,
' playing at dice. A tipsy jollity and licence per-
vades the Danes, explaining the stern indignation
to: which the disguised Alfred gives vent in his sidelong
scowl. The glimpse of the dim forest recess through the
tent is exquisitely beautiful.
Mr. Roberts surpasses himself this year. His " Interior
of the Cathedral at Vienna" is in his own finest style; but
his " Venice " is • new and meet successful flight. It is
Venice as it actually exists, and at the same time Venice as
seen and conceived by the artist. It has a charm quite
equal to any of the Venice' of the various distinguished
painters with whom that city is • favourite theme, end yet
strictly original—differing from all their versions.
Mr. Stanfield's Port of La Rochelle is such a ter
water as he slime can paint. His " Bay of Raise," though
possessing many beauties, is less successful. There is an
artificial " got up" air about—• rare defect in his works.
But we must reserve for more mature inspection, and for
a time when parliament enmeshes is on our spaos, de-
tailed criticism of the paintings in this year's exhibition.

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