The Express.
London, England, 1860-01-19 00:00:00

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THE QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. CCXIII.,
pordland THUD DAT.
Jahn klersig. Albamoneeirst. .

If7NII WES IN P 42111.

The eels of Lerd Henry Sepaorde wises veil
anadosed to Twofp, mil the prior given wen arena higher
that the trot dew. The attendees. was otomidersble,
although not we re it se et the egooioe We. The fel-
, beta: moped the Wee et "Mee the lock were
edj ealeallated -ea save our readmit trouble -
pee We begin with the rerealstor of the
dents :-Leatta, 1848, Bfr. 600. the Wets ; Chateau-
Larose, wee year, 161 r. 600. ; 1411011i13% 1848 (mag-
num), 200. 80c. ; ettotean-Menctoz, ante year (magnum),
306.; do., 1844, Mr. 2084 Leah*, lane year, ISO- 708.
Brea-Montsa, same year, 121 r. ; Latour, 1834, 20fr. ;
Breas-Youtes, min year, 181 r.; Chateau-Team, 1847,
146. • fluaterne-Yquem. 1841, 12fr. 80e. ; &Wenn-
Riesions, same year, trot lot, Bfr. 460. ; all the net,
6k.flaaterne, 18.34, 7fr. 300. ; tautens, Lor-Ralson,
9fr. 700. • other Seuterne, wonderfully fins, 19fr. •
and Baut-'Barns, Bfr. 60c. The Burguadiee, or rethe;
the great range of wines koown by the generic appel-
lation •of " The de Bourgogne," were .old cheaper
his Mill at high rates :-Volney-Bautenot, 1849,
7tr. 160.; Cheeibertie, same year, 104. 800. ; do.,
1848, 104.; Riohebourg, rum year. 116.; another quality,
Ott.; Romeo* year eakeown, 104.; Cluunbertia, ditto,
106. ; rod Hermitage, pear =Mums, 66.10 e.; Chateau-
Grille, white, enceediagly floe, 46. be.; white Hermitage,
peer nalmown, Bfr. ak. ; Cbaolia, 1866. an ennensily good
year for that wine. 36. ; and ditto older, Hr. The wool
duty of 6 per cent. most be added to these pine as well as
the =pesos d aurying sway the lots. The sale west of
with great rapidity, the purchasers of the Bret Ise taking in
moat cases the whole at the wise included nadir the wake
la the ceselosse.

PRIM' BM./ IN THE HOUSI OP COIIMONS.—
Ilig. gels of the examinsis, sat yestardej in cormittas-
non N. 17 of the His., of Gannon, bin proof that the
orlon bad bra canned with is tbe
:CM, NI of which pared. vit. :—Usoppord—Osweetitafyti
Newtown Missy (Addition] Capital. &o.); Oriat Werra
Railway; B,lwerdale sad Newman, Railway; Mater Rad-
sa • Islackbarn Gm; Symingtoe, Biggar, end Broughton
Railway; Commercial Docks Acts Amendment ; Liverpool
Oisparadon Water ; 81. Hones Canal and Railway (Powers
one Railways near Liverpool sad llaashasbar); London sod
North Western Railway and thiat Hama Canal and Rail-
way Companies ; Halos Burgeons Lads and Osmond=
Tolls; Hinckley and Leicester Railway ; Carinthia Rail-
way (Brancbas to Lanark, olio.). Oinpasad—Bromnton,
Chatham, Oilliugham, do. Water. Mr. Freer, one of the
szendnera, Mao sat la Committee-roma No. 115 for the same
purpose, end disposal of in following bills, Me. :—lJoop-
prad—flotath Devon Railway; Bradford, Wakefield, and
Lail Railway; Dorset Central Railway (New Works, do ;
Caledenisa Railway (Lienaltagow Breaches, dc.); West
Middlesex Water; Brattish Drainage and Improvement
Nanny ; Inverness sad Ross-shire Railwyy ; Wellington
(seep) Water; North Landon Railway; Grist trip Com-
Ps7 10" Sowiscwit Railway; Midland Railway Barna-
Noe-Trout Breathe) ; Midland Railway (RowilYy and
Bunn Ilan), Leeds, Bradford, Ind Rallies hurries, aad
Bradford, Winfield, and Leeds Railway Grsyatim Lnal-
peratin. Oppeed—Wakellebt Gravi,ation Water.
LIVERPOOL POULTRY EXHIBITION.—Yisterday
the 7th annual show sintssenced at Lucm's Reporkey, sad
will be contiand tadsy sad to-morrow. Urnieds of 370
pens wirecribird, the birds—particularly the genie kinds
snalikeirgadeedlid inpwiontr over those previously shown.
Brides meraseas mastory prime the committee awarded
awned' of a domes silver cops. Mr. Batley, of Mount-
street, Liman, and the Rev. Mr. Pullen (Ehtby Wig*
Yorkshire) writhe judges.
LAILOZ TIME OP MACHEItOL.—d. Rind excitement
was emerand at Partsneuth a Monday and TursE
awing to tbe saresein arrivals of ening bone y
lades with maakerel as scarcely to be safe. Many,
deed, wire obliged to let saw their nets to save the never
hen swamping. doom:Bug to towage, soma bad 40,000 cm
beard, sad so down to 10.000. It is reamed that upwards
of a minks and a half adds favourite Bah Wan named with-
a a few miles of the beak of the hoe of Wight. Tbe seen
at Penman% was of ths most lively description. W
isiarnee, sad carts were chartered at fabulous prices
wave, Him Is Ohs railway for London, de. One speadative
barber ea tbe Point invested 7004 in a ready•nmey par.
arra, and got the heat start for London and Brighton.
Tiii VICTORIA BRIDOE.—Thu idea of a Grand
leaeriai Exhibillea has bra very happily suggested on
die bearmika of the Victoria Bridge nit summer, and
the satkipated visit of one of the royal princes. This 000 b•
lie. will attract Unmans of radian. from abroad, and
aiso would convey to thew a better idea of the resonreee
sad atay 4 Cowie than a provimaisl exhibitlea ca
begs sods. Tbe raw rade by Canada at the universal
en if Llll6llll sad Parr was of gnat haperitire to
the previous in as sheaths to her sideral wealth and
pauper r ladvaley, nod It Is well otermed " tbat ape oar
lent gti w shield be are to man a grans end rote w-
het &pry; While tic eriesekaa would be snit as weed fa-
der the roger amend of nerd= by the whole cosairy,
whit 1M pswspei abs of tits adorprlas Dabs In a grist
"—Omah New as .
47:r0 lifeboats are to be planed at the beak of the
We of Wight, one at Brooks and tbe other st Orange Chine.
Tbe amt of these boats will be 7001. Tile Urban In-
stitution 411 subscribe 3601. towards it, and the nit is to be
made., by pablio sabicapelos la dr Wand. Thio latter
manna at the pr_sot time to 3001. The andauel
weeks at the beak al &holds of wider as OM=
' 41111aboals ea OM ow assasaary.

Mr. Watts, the ardit hos whom so ranch wee anticlpetsd,
had evinced gnat powers of drawing in his «Caractaous
Crowned," which obtained one of the three first premiums in
the frit Westrafterier SaU timpani/lg. Naos this early
triumph the pub& bed ems Mho besides a few
portraits from the asters Mid,- and then were
chiefly remarkable for their substitution of Pre-
Raphaelite peculiarities for the ordiaery.oonventionalisins of
portrait painting. Thies facile, together with the planning
.state of the artist's health at a pa/antler period, were well
adapted allernately to raise expectation in ease inerMre, end
sidle serious misgivings in others. Accordingly we were ant
surprised to hear, upon the :gnat completion of the work, the
mosopposite opinions violently maintained by pruhased oritke.
The facets, that—without actual inspection of end aoquaintanos
with the remains of the great wan-paintings of the Reptilian&
era still existing in Italy, without due allowence ke the
teekakel difficulties to be surmounted in any single-handed
attempt at recovering as almost lost art, without reeonecting
that fresco painting is the severest test of artistic know-
ledge mid nseisne, and without sans abatement for a
first expenses; It would be unjust to pretend to form
en estinmes of mash a work se Yr. Ws& bee attempted.
Apart from Rime earieldsraticar, several &he bas connoted

as that with all the asaassary aid of opus idaassa, the gloom
et nearly over/ day of Its pretest month bee rendered my-
th* like fair sprosiaties delis greet labour of love almost
out of the question. We make these marks in no apelogetlo
spirit. We cease be blind to auseerthe tearer impede.
how snd errors of detail, but we lee amertheess arrived at
the conclusion that Mr. Watts's ham is essentially pest—
peat in coseption and great is draughtsmanship.
The subject chosen is meet appropriate to the Hall. It is
• represeerien of en luteginiuy assemblage of dui great
early Impel* from Moses down to Edward the Pilas—
ter king who hes been called the Realish Justinian-
The design omen the end wall from the rater lofty pan_
bran to the summit of the arch, by which the hall is ter-
minated elerelly. The general disposition of the comp,-
lithos meads as of Emphasis " &heel of Athens." The
figures de oohed, and thirty is number. Commencing
from the top of tle fresco a Gothic window repose the adja-
cent lines of the building. Effectively relieved from the
imitated stained glees of this window is a group of three
sculptural flgurOs Is monochrome of Religion, and on each
side Mercy sad Jeers. At the base of the pedestal on
dealt these figures an placed stanch Moses, his arms resting
ati the Tables o(the Lew, end looking upwards at Religion,
as indicating the true source of all Law. To the left are
seated in row the great authors of classical polity, Lycargus,
Mies, Dram holding a sword, Bolen, the more seven
Noma, and the grave terns Tullius. Two or three of
these figures, by their foreshortening and motive," recall
the Prophets of the Seine chapel. On the other side of the
inspired Hebrew are seated Rennes or fieeostrier
the mythic Zoroester (!), Confucius whisperkg Pytha-
goras, and Menu, the let prone at fall length
la • rather ghastly trance of Hkdoo abstraction.
This conclave of historical and semi-historical law-
givers after their apotheosis, in composition so far recalls In
its simplicity the " Hemicycle" of Paul Drenthe. Bat
hen the analogy meth The remainder of the deign is
mush moth seettered, sad there is an aim at giving dramatic
episode.
In the middle rem of the picture a broad loading-plea
divides a Bight of marble steps, which occupies the whole of
the remaining space. Justinian, with his wife Theodor*
properly occupies the centre of this landing-place, as having
transmitted Boom law to modern Berope. At the feet of
Justinian Beedietines are trsasoribing the Coder and Pan-
ders, while • Jwiesensult and a peripatetic Bishop present
them to three pieterthre barlawiam—a Lombard, • Cloth,
and • Freak. In epperently intentions' awkward proxi-
mity to the fermentative of the Church staads Mehemet,
Korea and wermellar be hand, looking up to Moses. On the
spectator's left, sad ranging dean the steps, stands the gi-
gantic Charicesegee, crowned and leaning on his sword, sad
a Baron group, including the youthful Alfred, Ins, and a
Druid—thus indicating the Indigenous orgia of • poetics
at least of the spirit of our laws. Oa the ex-
treme left of the foreground sits Edward 1., la
kingly ermine and knightly chain-mail hauberk. This
is a very effective figure; the face is of a fine English type,
and from its portion It seems to serve as a corbel for the
spring of the arch to the ceiling. The opposite ether of the
foreground is net so satisfactoty. This is occupied by
Stephen Lugton, the Papal Legate, sad two tithe Baena of
Runnymede holding Magna Charts with • supererogatory
scowl.

We have said that in conception this is a great work, and
it is not the less so for possessing that essential element of all

preatnese—simplictity. But for ourselves we should have
preferred to ere • more cosmopolitan spirit pervading the
lower section of the design. This portion a rather vacant
and inanimate from the sparse (Retribution of the figures, and
there is abundant room (according to the precedent of the
great Italian works) for the introduction of other of the great
Continental legislators. Why, for example, should Napoleon
be excluded—the signer of a Code at once the most comma.
brutes and compendious P We would not have had the
figures leas in axe, knowing how impossible it is to see much
of the detail of many of the noblest frescoes in the world
from the small scale of the figures; but more personages
might have been introduced with no loss of clearness.
Doubtless, however, it was here the artist's paramount *-
Motion to hidings the Roman and feudal source of English
law. It le, we believe, contemplated by Mr. Watts to carry
oat this national deign in a emir of frescoes round the
hall in which the mffirrative of &WWI legislature will be
continued to the present time.
It will be perceived that this fresco is not merely imitative
or represeidative. bee ennadally suggestive, almost as mach
eo, forma, is pure aloppy. The obareetaistic individuality
of the lowa sad their fseedom from academia insaity is a
merit elegy due to the art6t's pre-Raphaelite madisney.
Dramatic unity was quite impossible. The very EMU* of
the subject necessitated the utmost limnse in rasped of time '
and plies. But such oreyeetionalients are comoroa to moat
rand works of high art, and especially those of a mono- '
mental descriptioa. For persona who feel the incongraity,
we csa offer mo argnmerte—lt is an affair of idiosyncrasy.
Bach persons °odd not madam Bitakspirare as an author,
more thee they could Micheal Angelo ea a painter.
With regard to Mr. Watts's promised adherence to the
architectural features of the Hell, we have indicated erase
range, in which be has succeeded. The coloured marble
pavemeat voald, however have harmonised better with
Italian Gothic; s needievil ascetic feeling pervading the
work is appropriate, bat fa the hardness of the outline it
is wrid to mews. It appears to be imeginsd by some
eathorldes that a painting cannot combute with Clothier
architecture anlem it be lb:washout symmetrical; mid Mr.
Watts his bra dellesded far • supposed seat of piston/ma-
nom But sorely this is ellegether • mistake. Itrosviscley,
6 whke le the alibi simeni dike pier algae, Mame mestebis-

.159•111radierafillits Meileis,- wren. weer areart;eses he.
coming seeresnd mon popidari The hail was erred to
ths dome, bat by an aletaidant supply of alisie Itherverthey
cord be plead, the sadism drat to be danfertably sC•
ormodated. Some modern critics are disposed to all in
question the sublimity of Haydn's chef errs, though
they will not ready convert the scold to their way of *hied*.
Bat Ile to its supreme hasty dare can • be, Wane *pinion.
It Is all melody, grace, sad suaehise; sad lb wry debars,
we believe, la the settee .beadhe oder . the very mist-ken
notices that it is wanting In tbe grander attributes of sacred
music. We have seldom beard Its beauties more daily Ms-
played, or more thoroughly enjoyed than thirty derehat night.
I. the int and second parts the solo siege& were Madero
Learess-Sherrington, Mrs Bias Berm, dad Mr. Weir
The mar of Madame fillaningtoo's part is perfectly
salted lo her powess---bee clear, inible voice,
brilliant moray sad vigorcui, animated manner.
We bays scarcely ever heard the two splendid airs, " With
verdure clod the adds appear," .and "Oa mighty wings,'
more delightfully executed.' Iff. fleetest a tardy dieing
id this oratorio is well known ; sad he probably ewer sang
better, or produced greater sirs, Asa re this ameba
His great sir, "la native worth sad boom cask" or a
performance of incomparable swallows. Mr. WWII, who is
also thoroughly at home in this oratorio, did not fall art of
his companions. His air, " Bolling In foaming billows,"
was a magnificent performance. And in the concerted pieces,
especially the trios, " Most beautifal spear," and " On
Thee each liviag soul await.," the three ins voices blended
admirably.
In the third pert, the music of Adam and live was sang
by Mr. Weiss sad Mies Gray, who append in public for
the Ara time, and made a most successful debit. This young
• lady Is a pupil of Miss Ralnforth, so keg sad so justly a
favourite of the public, and her pieforraire did brier both
to herself sod her instructress, for the• ass quart with
which she is gifted by aerie have received every
advantage that can be give* by at. She •wes timid
and agitated ; but this did act prevent her trout
showing a pure, sweet, eympatistie voice, delicately a
twos, acs• exosikat method of exceed= sad pireeteg, and
meek railroad and feeling. As she pied raidsace her
?ow, cowered; and when she came to the lovely duet,
'Graceful Consort," she sustained her part not only with
firmer of tor bat with warmth of expreedon. In short,
Miss Gray's debit has given fall assurance of a suoceedul
OS/W.

The abseases, on the whole, mere excellently 110 g, sad
Raydn's charming instrumentation wee displayed fa all its
Meaty b Mr. Relish's admirable orchestra. The prime-
ante, from beginning to sad, called forth marks of we-
strained delight.