The Express.
London, England, 1847-05-24 00:00:00

reritteerosa of that instituticm. grim thet abed
lone o'er* the disports at the imam* west bib di•
mensafttes room, and there discovered the decreed lyiesr
odour on
the door lifeless. On stooping down, he perceived en
of prussic acid, and suvicion was immediately raised by the
discovery of two prussic acid bottles empty, and a wine-gbies
on the table. All attempts to restore the deceased were ems
him The cause generally assigned for the committal of the
act is, that the cucumstunces of the deceased were greatly
senbermased. He has left • wife and lir children. On
3dooday an inquest was held. Vcrdict—" That the deceased
died from the teems of hydrocyanic acid, administered by
himself; and that there was not sufficient evidence to show
the state of his mind at the time
of his committing the act."
NWLL.
FOOD Mom —A detachment of troops muched from.
Pcndennis Castle to Helston on Friday, to repress some anti-
cipated disturbances. On the preri. ue day a gang of miners
at Stithians stopped • waggon load of bread, belonging to
3dt. Teogue, mu)or of Peary*, and stole its contents.

Jmt arts.
EXIIIIIMON OF THE ROYAL ADELAIDE INSTITUTE.
—The origin of this, the first exhibition of the Institute, is
related by the committee of management in an " address "
prefixed to the catalogue. " Considi ring," says tho com-
mittee, " that during the last ftrty years, about ,fifty new
artists have annually offered themselves to the notice of the
public, while not ire established favourites have been in each
year lost to the artist world, and that during these forty
years scarcely any space, excepting the vileries in Suffolk.
street and Pall Mall, has beta added to that originally pro.
vided for the Royal Academy, several gentlemen, anxious to
afford increased facilities to artists, and with an entirely die.
interested view, have formed the Royal Adelaide Institute."
There was yet, it appears, another reason—Ws committee
considering that the pictures and gru,pture for which
"there is no available spree" at the It iyal Academy, or in
any of the other g dirties, are" more than sufticisnt for a fine
exhibition." Every artist wishes his works to be even by the
public ; every author his writings to appear in 'knot.
Bad pictures and bad books soon Sod their proper de,tioa-
tions—the garret and the cheesemonger. Nor is there much
in the present exhibition of a better clam of art than garrets
generally engross. Here are 131 artists exhibiting 2.12
works; and out of the whole number, and it is
a large one, two—certainly not mire—can be said
to rise above stupitying mediocrity. Never was
such a dead level scene of indifferent art, or so much
impotence spread over so large a sur are. The friendliest
eye will (Id to discern aaything deserving special acmmen-
datioo except No. 96, "Saturday Night," by W. H.
Knight, and No. 172, " Christ in the Garden of
Gethsemane," by A. Melville. There is much to
commend in the Saturday Night," a well-told story, skil-
ful grouping, sad considerable variety if character. Mr.
Knight is evidently an observant artist—one who looks on
nature for himself--and one who paints not from memory,
but from fresh and careful oboes ration. His " Saturday
Night " is almost as good as Mr. Collinson's " Charity
Boy's debut," in the present Royal Academy exhibit on.
Both are young—and bcth of promise. The " Christ in the
Garden of Gethsemane " is the work of a man who has
thought over his subject ; the kneeling angel is charmingly
conceived, with a touch of that devcti.inal thinking about it
which the old masters always had, and as Mr. Herbert in-
duces us to hope, is not attog, ther extinct. Two-thirds of
the pictures at the Royal Academy arc inferior to these two
by Mr. Knight and Mr. Melville. Why were they omitted ?
Probab'y they were overlooked, and among so many we are
vii lag to think so. But such omissions ought never to occur
and perhaps will not occur again, for the Royal Academy,
with two exhibitions of rejected pictures—one at the Egyp-
tian Hall, and another at the Adelaide Gallery, mud look
a second time before a picture is returned either for want
of room or for want of merit. The pictures we have named.
however. are outs in the desert of paint which is now spread
over the walls of the Adelaide Gallery.
PORTRAIT OP SIR HARRY SMITII.—A portrait in
oils of Sir Harry Smith, "the hero of Aliwal " is now on
view at Messrs. Paul and Dominic Colnaghi's, in Pall-mall
East. The likeness is excellent. The name of the artist is '
R. Mosley.
MII. SOLLY'B PwrcaEs.—That very curious and
valuable picture, "The Annunciation," by Carlo Critelli,
sold at the Solly sale for 310 guineas, has since been bought
by the Right Hon. Henry Latonchere, M.P.
WINTERIIALTER'S PICTUREB.—Mr. Alderman Moon
has given LOOM for the copyright of the two pictures, by
Winterhalter, recently on view at St. James's Palace.
INDIAN FRESCOES.—The Court of Directors of the
East India Company hive recently received from India
copra in oils of part of the remains of the antique fresco
paintings in the Buddhist cave temples excavated in the
socks in the neighbourhood of Adjunte, in Kandesh. The
frescoes an probably of different ages; but some of them I
may have an antiquity of 1.700 or 1,800 years. They contrast
very favourably with the Italian frescoes of the middle ages ;
and some of the countenances in the most ancient are singu-
larly fins and riper:rive. What is or.urual in rinticso of
a very early paned, a knowledge of perspective in
Will buildings is manifisted.—Athencrum.

Hem MAIBSTY'S THEATRE. —The lovers of the
ballet ware rejoiced by the re-appearance of Carlotta Grisi
es the He ket hoards, after an absence of two years. Oa
this oxaeton. the celebrated ballet, " La Esmeralda," ori
=composed for her by Perrot, was re-produced. Tina
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one of the few productions of its elm which have
some pretender's to be regarded as dramatic works. We
seed mearady remind our opera-going readers that it is
headed ea Victor Hugo's romance, " Notre Dame de
Pavia" end is a pantomimic and " choreographic" repre-
sentation of several of the most remarkable scenes of that
work; a perusal of which, however, is necewary, to
air
the stay of the ballet intelligiblf. The orgies of the
banditti sad (spies in their famous haunt, the Cour des
Minolta," when the unfortunate poet, Gringoire, falls into
their heads, and is about to be hanged but for the interposi-
tion of the gipsy-girl, F.:emerald:l, who agrees to marry him
that she may save his life, form a striking and picturesque
scene. The mingled feeling and sportiveness of the gipsy-
girl, who amuses herself with the poor poet's terror, while
e endeavours to relieve it, as represented by the charming
&amuse, was real and elegant comedy ; and her dramatic
talent was not less happily shown in the strength and expres-
sion given by her to the tragic scenes which followed.
A large portion of this ballet, like every other, necessarily
eteasiets of a mere exhibition of dancing; but here, more than
usual attention is paid to make this exhibition consistent
with dramatic truth. Esmeralda is a dancer by profession ;
and Carlotta Grin's most beautiful pas occurs in a scene in
which the gipey girl is called in from the street to exhibit
before a gay company. Carlotta Grin equate all that has
ever been done by. Taglioni and Fanny Elssler in rendering
dancing a dramatic language, suggestive to the fancy and
affecting to the feelings—in giving it something of an iota-
giaative and poetical character ; while, as a display of grace
and beauty of form and motion, she even excels both her
rivals in rendering it attractive and charming. It is
hardly necessary to add that her appearance was hailed with
all the demonstrations of enthusiasm to which she is so well
accustomed. As a whole, the ballet was splendidly got up,
and excellently performed. Perrot's Gringoire was genuine
eomedy ,• end Madame Petit Stephan and M. St. Leon
danced admirably. The opera of the evening was " Lucia
di Lammermoor,'' in which Madame Castellan and Freschini
performed with increued effect. We observed Jenny Lind
in a box, joining most heartily in the general applause. The
fair Swede is announced to appear in Donizetti's opera, " La
Pita del Reggimento."
ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.—The " Barbiere di Se-
vigils," announced for Saturday evening, was postponed in
consequence (we understand) of Madame Pennon's indis-
position. Mozart's greet masterpiece, " Don Giovanni," is
announced for Thursday next.

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