The Express.
London, England, 1849-12-06 00:00:00

FINE ARTS.
NELSON COLUMN.
Yesterday was the private view of Mr. Carew'.
alto relieve of the " Death of Nelson."
Few subjects bare been mere hackneyed or mid-
treated; and it is 'loci:ter that that which in narrative
accelerates the tingling of the reader's pulse, should
have called forth so much that is common-place in
the artistic line, from the days of West downwards to
our time. That the conventional costume of the
period militated against its due performance) in paint-
ing is pearible, though Mr. Carew has adroitly parried
this detect in the enbject by giving as much
nudity as is allowable in the heat of combat.
In so doing Mr. Carew has avoided both the tortuous
ways of allegory and the insipid farms of the classic
mania. The two favourite moments of compostrs are
generally either that in which the hero is struck down
on the quarter-deck, or when reclining in the cock-pit.
In Mr. tamer's work Nelson is car ied off in the act
ofissuing his last sea mandate; the expression of
with its resigned, though Mill in-
domitable energy, is title, and the attitude has
conscious ease. Captain Hardy, speaking-trumpet in
hand, is the next commanding tigure. Name's old
grumblers aro modelled with great power of hand,
particularly the one clearing the hatchway. The by-
play pantomime is not the least skilful part of the
compueitioa, whether in the sorrow of the doctor, as
he leans over the hero, or the sinewy tar who points
out to a savage mulatto the marksman who has laid
him low. If inclined to be hypercritical, we might
object to the group on the extrewe right as having
less action than the other figures, and by being em-
ployed in hauling ropes, somewhat weaken the in-
terest which should centre in the principal personage.
But, on the whole, this large miss of bronze evinces
considerable and matured power, as well in the ear-
nestness of its conception as in the style of handling.

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL.
Cannelton', Das. s.—At a congregation holden this day
the following degree. were ooefereed :—B D.: J. W. Blake.-
ley, Trinity Colt ; R. C. French, Trinity Coll. M.A. :
G.. J. Lyons, Trin. Coll. ; J. Fearenside, St. John's Coll. ;
J. B. Jima, St. John's Coll.; M
J. M. Lakin, Bt. Peter's
Coll. M.D. :W. A. Roger., C:ius Coll. A. :8. B.
Bona, St. Peter's Coll.; J. litho:Wham Trinity Coll.; R.
Knight, Queen's Coll. ; J. Mune,. Trinity Coll.
At the same congregation the following guess passed the
senate:-1. The muter of Trinity College having offered
to the university two plias of 151. each, to be given every
year, so long as he holds his present professorship, to the
two persons who shall show the greatest proficiency in moral
philosophy, in the examination for the moral sciences trips,
appointed to commence in 1851, provided that, in the judg-
ment of the examiners, they posses. sufficient merit;
to accept the same. 2. To authorise the vice-chan-
cellor to communicate the thanks of the senate to
the master of Trinity College for his munificent offer.
3. W harem, on the 31st day of October 1818, the following
regulation concerning the theological examination was
approved by the Senate: " That persons who present
themselves for examination at the theological examination.
established by grace of the Senate, May 11, 1842 be required
to produce a certificate of having attended the lectures deli-
vered during one tors, at lent, by two of the three theolo-
gies). professors, v's., the Regius Professor of Divinity, the
Margaret Professor of Divinity, and the Nortisian Professor
of Divinity." That the regulation now proposed shall first
come into operation at the theological examination in the
Michaelmas Term, 1850. To amend the second clause as
follows : " That this regulation shall first come into operation
at the theological examination in the Michaelmas Term,
1850 ; but that it shall not be obligatory on candidates, either
admitted ad respontiendwas questions, or having completed
the exercises for the degree of 8.C.L., before Jan. 1, 1850."
PRIFERItteTII.—Bev. P. C. Nicholson, to St. Philip
P.C., Salford. Masehester ; 4101.: pat., the Dean and
Chapter of Masehester.
Rev. 3.11. Way, to be one of the ministers of Christ'.
Church, Woke, t, at. liwithin, Bath.
VACAllT.—Perpetual Curacy: S ileombe, DEMO, dio.
Exeter; pat., the ye= of West AltiegtOn ; Rev. G. Will-
Oak, prom.
Mastership of the Charterltoule, Hull; Rev. 0. ht. Car-
rick, dee.