The Express.
London, England, 1857-05-02 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 2, 1857.

li ROYAL boarruriox OF GREAT BRITEIX.—YOF
tardaj, at the weal =Wag of this institution, the Duke
of Northumberland, LG., P.N.S., president, in the chair,
the mewl report of the committee of visitors was read and
!adopted. With the report, a Het of books preaented, amount-
ing In number to 312 volumes, aed making a total, with
I those purchased by the managers and patrons, of 1,186
volume (including periodical.) added to the library in theyear,

was given. Thanis-ersm mini to thapresieent, treasurer, end
esireitery, to the somulttere ofnensgers and visitors, and to
Preinace Faraday, ix their services to the institution
iris. the past year. The following gentlemen were ILlADi-
mody Meted makers foe the Insuing year President, the
Mime( Northumberland, K. 0., F.R.S.; treasurer, W. Pole,
laq.,M.A., P. 118.; merefary, Rev.,. Barlow, M.A., F.R.S.
The mergers are--Joie Charge Amid, Esq., F.A.S. ; Sir
Benjamin Collins Brodie, Bart., D.C.L., F.R.B. • Benjamin
Boyd Catiben,Esq., F.H.8., P.lll. A. ; Thomas Davidson, Eq.:
Warren De la Rue, Esq., Ph.D., F.R.S. ; George Dodd,
Em., F.S.A.; Itr Charles Fellows ; Sir 11. Holland, Bert.,
M.D., F.R.S., PALS. • John Carrick Moore, Eq., M.A.,
P.ILIL, P.O.E. ; Fredenek Pollock, Eq., M.A. • Jaime
Ramie, Esq., P.B.S. ; Joseph William Thrupp, Fa. ; Joha
Webster, M.D., P.R.S. ; Lord Wensleydale; Charles Wheat-
atom, Esq., F.A.S. The slaters en—Berish Botßeld, Esq.,
M.P., 1.R.5., F.S.A. ; John Cheek, Burgoyne, Esq. ; John
Robert F. Beast, Req. ; Edmond Beckett Demises; Esq.,
M.A., P.C. ' • Hugh W. Dimmed, M.D., F.S.A. ; C. Went-
worth Dilks, ,Pea., Esq. ; Edward M. FosbalL Esq. • John
HaU Olidstems, Esq., Ph.D., F.H.B. • Joha Dicks Eq. ;
Caplan insert M. Leen, R.E. • Thomas Ids, Esq. ; Rev.
Freda& D. Iliseriee, M.A. • Timm N. R. Mimeos, Esq. ;
Jam* Say, M.D. ; Thom; Town, Erg.
The Austrian Mots Novara, which is to
anewesseleste the world fir Mesta@ parpows, bee
jast essaind istoustiem lima M. de Humboldt ma-
eandmig these mien el Mime whkb it is mast done-
, able to elmidela They AU sight closely-wetiten folio
pease to Ids own beadweleng, sad Way sae to the one-
ties at tiossortisoptstsr, raid owl wana esereste la the
nee, pertinairly last diereseed, by Hwabsidt him elf
1802, lie. The hosed phinseipher pothiehrly dwells ea
the impaction of antinomies iste the nag of the ladles,
Atlantic, sad Perils Oesews, to shone the in... altitude of
the waters, in order is amble tams gmentlices to ametain
whether it has wedierces coty dime ; r elm el denwein-
tog the positions of the velem= mow in activity, with re-
open to satin herbeers, week as Ilea Premises, Ample°,
Gwyn: mil, Callao, sad Tailplane°. The Norms I. sajoined
to primate sight or tea spedneeme et inchyte, rich is ermine,
tremor& of the voiesone viand, se es to Imes a compin•
voklaio ealledies seepapideally elaselfed.

twrshe exhibitsare all more or ler good—thoroughly
Stanfieldian in choice of subject and execution: they
are " Fort Soma, St. Jean de Luz ;" " The Wreck of
a portion of the Spanish Armada off the Giant's
Causeway" (hereafter to be alluded to) ; " Calais
Fishermen taking in their Nets—equall coining on"
Qui admirable picture) ; "Calm in the Gulf of
Salerno" (all the old manner, its merits and faults).
Mr. Ward has, as we have said, no picture this year.
Mr. Creswick has three, very natural, and all repe-
titions of Mr. Creawick. Mr. Redgrave exhibit,
four, all charming, both in the figures and landscapes.
Mr. Roberts produces his usual number of power-
fully
painted interiors; and Sir William Ross more
than his usual number of portraits. Sir Edwin ,
Landseer has three admirable pictures, of which we
shall say more in a future notice;
six of more or less merit; Poole, one,wi th all his faults,
and but few of his merits; Denby, an admirable picture,
exquisite in feeling and colour; Leslie, one, which
we hesitate to condemn, but cannot commend; Egg,
a charming subject, from Mr. Thackemy's Esmond,
good both in colour and treatment ; Frith, two
exquisite sketches one, "The Flower Girl,"
to be mentioned especially ; and Millais, three,
all wonderful in colour and execution, with
the same mixture of genius and extravagance that
has made for this great artist as many opponents as
admirers. J. C. Hook presents us with many of his
charming sea-side scenes, full of nature and good
figure drawing, each one telling a story, and telling
it well, without effort, simplicity of treatment being
this rising artist's peculiar charm. Of Mr. Horsley
this year we cannot spnik too highly ; his pictures
are excellent both in design and treatment, showing
an improvement both rapid and sure upon his post
works, though Mr. Horsley's spurs were won long
ago, and the degree is already high that he has
taken in his peculiar school of art. Cooke contri-
bates some fine sea pictures, even better than usual,
though scarcely surpassing his picture of last
year, " Chioggian Fishing Vessels, &c.," which is
one of the beat studies of shipping we remember.
Cope has one largo and two small pictures, the
large one to our mind the worst ; Abraham Cooper,
the usual number of horses and figures, the latter
bad., both in colour and drawing ; root, his smooth
skinned nymphs in plenty, very pretty and unna-
tural; Sir Watson Gordon, many fine portraits;
F. Grant, also a goodly number ; F. Goodall, two
pictures, of average merit ; Solomon Hart, two, de-
cidedly below the average; Ilerbert, a beautiful scene
upon the French coast, perfect in die artistic treat-
ment of water and cliff, and charming in its aerial
effect; Knight, seven pictures, generally well painted;
Patten, two, consisting of pink-skinned large-
limbed muscular claisicalities ; Frank Stone, the
. .

same number, but well executed, and both in subject
and treatment superior to thaw of late ,ears.
Thurburn offers us some life-like portraits ; Mlther-
ington, four charming English landscapes; Lee, we
regret to say, sends nothing to represent him, and
this is the more to be regretted when we remember
his picture of the "Breakwater at Plymouth," which
excited so much of the public approbation last year.
Nevertheless, in spite of the absentees, the
Royal Academy is well represented, and a better
show of really good pictures we have seldom seen
apes its walls. And as for those artists whose
lams, though without the addition of the magical
/otters R.A. or A., are known to us all, they muster in
great force. Wallis, whose t•Chatterton' made so
kreat and deserved a sensation, has two pictures,
which will demand from us a more extended notice.
Faed has but one picture, but it is one that both in
treatment and feeling surpasses even his previous
productions. Linnet has some admirable landscapes,
showing all his peculiar and skilful treatment;
Amgen-, several pictures of great power, in which
we reap the benefit of his late sojourn in Spain ; for
he has not only caught the character, but the very
atmosphere of the country he visited ; and laat, but
sot least, Mr. T. Philip's brush has not been idle,
and the result is two pictures of great merit.

h'ER'S COLLECTION OP CABINET
PICTURES.

We have seldom spent a half-hour more pleasantly
than th►t whkh we devoted yesterday to the examination of
this collection, which remains on view in Mr. Phillip:
rooms, New Bond-street, till Tuesday ezt, when it is to
be broken op by the suctimiesee hammer. It consists
exclusively of worts by distinguished living French
artiste. It is the harvest d ten year: gleaning among
the eidulitioas sad stadia of Paris. There are only

some hundred pintinp fa it. all of mall size, and yet it
may be doubted whether a gallery so perhot in its kind is
anywhere to be met with. There is not one indifferent pic-
ture in the collection, and though differing widely both in
respect to the subjects treated sad the manner of handling
them, a general harmony pervades the whole collection. This
is the consegussee, In the first Pa= of the pictures having
been selected =elusively from the works of =Maws of
real genies and peat •110011911111•1116• I• and, In the
i
monad pee, of their having boa ierted by one
In whom astural Mate and Judgment of the highest order
bed been matured by mercies into wring Wight. It to
eaddenbag to rebel that war= so admirably adept= to pro-
&IN • Ildigkitel amok. me • 'bolo are about to be dia.
preened. Me gems cd pare wake, every ow of them snit
In ttae be valuable, yet seek will toes something by the
breaking up el the eked', in which they lave bed set with
such skN, enksneing =oh other's =Wise. There is a les&
soap by Rana Bralerer, tall of atmosphere sad amid= ;
Ruh, deffekesly-land ea pisom by R. Lab= ; Joyous,
robe= pemaat Allem at Brittany by Lutainsite ; taken:
de pare, gay end gallant, by Chic= Pichsi, Laden, sad
navel= ; puke domestio sows, embodied in =work!
coke; by Oelliersin—we could 'rattle about them Be

mgr. 'Hi'M let tba mar go sad Jodie for himself. He will
then acquit us of exaggeration, and confess that Mewing this
collection produce@ .....what of the ss @Set se his mind
as sprediag an @maim among pms bt wham pales is
attuned sod teamed by habitual obourecaos of thaomersaiss
of the test society.

hail this Exhibition, then, ea a proof of the widening of our
art taste and knowledge. Bakes we can become creators we
must educate a race of appreciators who will admire—and
bay. The weber. atn Sew nobleman, not always possessed
of beretlitary wisdom, can never produce a race at artiata.
Such patrons lead, bat do not follow. They went
their children sod horses, trim and pet dogs,
painted, their bosses drawn, their parks skete.hsd ;
but they let liaydtms die before their onealehed
pictures, and Barry* freeze in Drury Lease heel&
Nineteenth-century art has broken from the patron's draw-
ing-room, and appeals to the crowd, who do not patronise,
but purchase.

The Manchester Exhibition le a vast epitome of art, an-
cl and morkini—the beet of its kind ever sampled.
Everything is to am, and nothing to sell. Rich tapestries
dock the walls ;—Vendykoi end Holbeins bloom above as;
;
cues of ivories and bronzes, each worth a king's nutmeat, are
piled on either side of us ;—tirophles of Raphael were, such as
ware beeped on the bullets of the Medici, delight our eyes on
the right;—on the left, the red end black mem of
Etruria have been disentorebed to again delight the living.
Gold and sliver ere crowded in vises and ingots, till we
mom to have all the wealth of Manchester incarnate
before our gam Gems sad porcelain, gilded armour,
statuary, awed into one vest diapason of art, that has token
nineteen centurlee and mote to think out, to hew out, to
shape out, end to bring together. It is at owe humiliating
and encouraging to think how little duns great encyclopedia
Pericles saw, end how little even Raphael beheld. Bebindone,
lies all medicinal art,—behind the other, all the climax and
results of the Reanimate of chancel art and the ries
of the romantic end Platonic schools of thinking.
What nation but our own could let millions lie quiet In
ouch luxuries? What provincial city but Manchester
would ham deidmd,or could have got together, or would have
wished for such a sight P It is as muck as to say, 0 bro-
thers! wo are weary of this spider-spinning, this weaving
thin lilacs and blue-striped stuffs for the men of Aahantee—
weary of Iron bare and such materialities—weary of ever.
revolving wheels, and the jar and buss of many-tiered lac-
tation Give in Plow moults of a life steel beaten to Ingres
—ivory fretted thin as a dragon-ora wing—china feed
and white as the lily's bell—and, above all, pictures, those
magic results of oil, and earth, and canvas—the grapple of
Rubies, the cathedral twilight of Titian, the gentieboad of
Vandyke, the saintliness of Camggio, the Modems of
Guido. The men of Manchester wished, end 101 the Exhi-
bition

For beauty, this third Exhibition cannot be compared with
that of the Perk or that on the Bill ; it him not the great
trees of the one, or the hanging flowers and 'wielding (rag-
nom of the other. It it not so crystalline and luminous,
nor so transparent, nor is it such a Deendaniel of glees, as
either. It is not musical with fountains, nor does it echo
with the notes of birds. It is not an Indian hamar or a
glass Louvre. Architectural art is scarcely visible, while at
Bydenham it is the chief feature: Greek art is only mm
hart reflected through the minds of Gib Kin and llacdowell—
at Peng° Park it rules the eye, and turns the medieval
into splay religious eccentricities. Ties three tubes,
with the rod and white brick front, and the fist
tillid•like wings, are seneible and pleasing, but not
astonishing , the greet hall, with its long *Lip of skylight
over head, and the neat transept and the two aide galleries,
do not lead the eye up, but drive it down on the three lines
of statues that hem you in with beauty on either hind. The
' beets on the side walls, thiamin of the &Wages and Bernal
*illations, the water-colour and engraving galleries, all
led up well to the great organ gallery at the west and.
The bluish grey colouring is clear and simple. The right
Lad gallery is devoted to modem pictures, beginning with
llogarth and going down—or rather up, as moat think—
to leuedseer, Ward, and other living worthies.
The left hand gallery is devoted to the Old Mar
less, beginning " with the beginning,' as Pan-
. .

lagtruel wished the story told. Down the right
and left side walks of the groat middle hall come the
Historical Portrait Gallery, beginning with Richard the
Second and coming down to our own timer This is Mr.
Peter Cunningham's province, while Mr. Scharf putt the
old masters into order, and Kr. Egg draws up the moderns
in teak end Mao' nearly chrenologically es may be. The
centre of the gnat hall is devoted to came of metal work
and ivories, chins, armour, ; before these come the
statuary, and here, too, is the Oriental court that Dr. Boyle
marshals, leaving Mr. Waring to the Besieges end Bernal
collections, that are here too. Bronze vases, old chore and
furniture are heaped about the gale omen of smaller works
and curiosities, and the generate bold the photo-
graphs, engravings, end water-colours. Thus under one
roof we me a complete epitome of art ; we have the wayside
block of marble, overgrown once with wild laurel, that some
wandering Diedalus first toilsomely chipped into a fire-side
god—the rude picture that the Italian first called a mint and
gilt end crowned—the iron shell of armour that by degrees
grew a trophy of the engraver's art—the beautiful bung
earth that the Chinese Ent shaped and hardened—the In-
dian's pennyworth of ivory that an Italian's lifetime turned
into a casket worth its weight in jewels—the traiwiforming,
in fact, of a hue thing, whether canvas, wood, steel, or day,
into • glorified and more spiritual creation.

NORTUERN OCEANIC CURRENTS.—It may be
remembered that Prince Napoleon during his voyage in the
Northern Sees in 1856, wishing to waist in acquiring in-
formation relative to the currents which bring into the bays
of the north a large quantity of timber, the origin of which is
unknown, threw overhand from the Reine Horton's at dif-
ferent points of his voyage a number of small boxes in deal,
each containing a bottle sealed, in which was placed a note
Indicating the place from which it come. One of these notes
ban lost been transmitted to the Academy of Sciences. It
_ . _

we thrown from the Reins Hortense on the 10th of July,
1656, in 69 deg. 30 min. N. W. and 13 deg. W. lon. She
we then in the ice near the meridian of the Ile de Jean
Mayen. The boa was footed on the 29th Nov. last at Dna-
genr, in Iceland. Gew': lies ia 66 deg. 12 min. N. lat.
aod 24 deg. 20 rein. W. limos., nearly in the middle of the
westena coast of the Gulf of Hume, which runs deep into the
Wend to the met of north ceps of Inland. The snivel of
the hoe at this point confirms the mistenee of a great current
running lowans Cape Penwell, between the metals meat of
Greenland and Iceland.

ATOMS.— Mr. Choked wan peedearly in his
element in hie sixth Ware ca the 16SY lowa, and ninth on
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width eastpletes 111 Idlosteetes (70 salsa) et the
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