The Express.
London, England, 1858-03-19 00:00:00

FINE ARTS.

PRFbCOES FOR THR Niw PALACE.—Yestarday bar
IMareity, accompanied by his Royal Highness the Prince
Corot, paid a de t to the radio et Mr. Iderinst, at
John's-wood-road, kw the purpose el Ingeding tint gentry
men's great cartoon of " Mimes bringing down the Tables ei
the Law to the Israelites." Mr. Herber bee been mimed
are this cartoon for upwards of two year, end Is now abed
eturcute it in hero for the new Flores of Parliament. Mb
Royal Highner Prince Albert has evinced W hirer in
the work by frequently villain( it during its pope, sad
yesterday brought her Majesty to inspect it on ilemnegieden.
The Callan was graterely pleased to express am deep M-
ien* and approbation, both of the subject and Ile manse of
treatment by Mr. Herbert.
PoRTIRIT oF LORD PALMERATON.—A charm-
braid,' and boort, andettering, fall length, life-site portrait
of Lord Palmerston, paired by Mr. F. Cruickshank, is on
extubitket at 123, Pall-mall In the present conjunction of
eirctunstancee and with the present change in the aspect of
the political world, the following description of the picture in
the prospectus announcing its intended engraving by Zobel
reads rather oddly, not to say mockingly .—" His lordship
le introduced as addressing the members of the House of
Commons on the assembling of the new parliament, Thurs-
day, May 7, 1867, urn, the occasion of his lordship's
triumphant return to power after appealing to the sense of the
country upon the important Chinese Question." The back-
ground shows of course the interior of the house, with
the Speaker, and two or three portraits. " God Save the
Queen," the very pleasing little picture by Mrs. E. M.
Ward exhibited at the Royal Academy last year, may also
be seen at the same house.
SALE OF PI,

interesting sale of some
pluming productions of the English school takes place to-day
at klearn. Foster's, Pall-mall. Included an the pictures
" Lucy Admit," by Cranriek and Frith ; " Nell Guyana,"
by Ward , a study of a some from the Vicar of Wakefield,
by Frith ; and a ses-pieos by Stanfield of an unusually low
and peculiar effect. " The Sunbeam," by J. Philip, is sur-
prisingly different in subject and treatment from some of the
artist's more recent works. A particularly fine example of
the figure-subjects of Redgrave is afforded in " The For-
tune Hunter." The story is felicitouely told, and the paint-
ing, especially of textures, has great imitative power. Two
or three pictures by Mr. Pettit appeared to us superior in
every way to the artist's works just exhibited at the National
Institution. Thom is an exquisite sunny landscape by P.
Neeroyth. A very small but highly-polished gem, " The
Recruit," by F. Goodall, offers in its truthfulness of cha-
racter an amount of promise the artist has scarcely subse-
quently redeemed. There an, besides, a goodly collection of
water-colour drawings, including some by 1). Cox, a little
less blurred than more recent works.

DRAMA.

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LYCEUM.

Miss Helen Fancit closed her starring engagement
at this theatre last evening in the character of Pauline, in
els Lay of Lyons, supported by Mr. Charles Dillon, in the
sort ol Claude Msinotte. Pauline is one of the moat cifec-
ties Lewis parts in one of the best acting plays of the
modem drains and it is no insult to the profession to say
that Miss Fancies embodiment, although not equal,
for various reasons, to what it was in the Macready days, is
still the best performance of the character on the English
sears. If Mr. Charles Dillon had a reputation to make as a
Brut-claw actor, he might safely take his stand upon his
Claude kielnotte. He is equally good in the comedy scene
and in the parts of high parks, and we are glad to sea that
ha has had the good sere le dries the assumed prince some-
thing like a military molds me, sad not like the state foot-
man that is tee ahem premested to os. Mr. Dillon's open,
natural style of eetlag, wed absence of stage voice, give an
agreeable terse le the ohmmeter, even where the passages of
tike ontimmil ems is the way of the real pathos of the
story. The plies was well acted throughout, sad received
with entLusisms by a eery crowded audience.