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

to how far this principle of classgleation shook' ex-
tend—whether landscapes and
be segregated like portraits; but ; be that i
is an evil to make any mixture mlitaiefountWelill!
wearies the faculties of thespoo .P.Tobody
the evil of hanging picturesso &lir Veer ou
nerve of the eye by compelling a constant shifting of
the focus ; and it is a worse evil to compel a similar
shifting of the focus of the mind. The Academy
kabischa comer On, to a,sartahrty, within a certain
limit of Basing; and we are all wont to be enr-
prietd, when welromm home. to find how little we
remember ei what we have sees. If there were
a portrait gallery for one day, or me order of pr-
eens, and a collection of landempee which might
be visited alteraately with another of figure
pieces, we should (with proper ventilation) hear
little more of the Academy headache. Artisti add
that they wield • then Mend a fair damn of a fair
judgment, and them woad be an end of the wonder
atisdng their Mende why their pictures appear so
much better in their own painting rooms than in the
Academy rooms.

This indicates other applications of dielpeleciples
of order in hanging the pictures. Imgile to the
artist and the instraction of the public tEteeopire
that the 'WAS of each painter should lei. seen in
their own atmosphere, and tested by some silidard
of eomposieos. The first consideratisa seggeele
that OW iltrtirld pictures of any artist &soil be
pispedlelestlier ; and the second that, Atm If*
Odom ate exhibited, they, again; should not he
armed. bat groped for oompadena. Seek egg&
maim of the plot* of araltilm, be varieneebed
test amyl; ommilleht ; but eget Molt is she*
Pieedeabila sited ieridely more impetiort the loga"
the nabli OZNIMita. It is • relit thing to hod
assn diem shookatedialted, hat dire is more Is do
yet. It hi Ciieat. thing that Abeibmkboe me no
bow allowed tbree`ilnir for bushig iv that
fietices, mist .the. OM .of compallem with
Ohm. Tbet • monism gehribge is , sods* mit
it Ss MA I, world gambles et the Mendebeeff
the body holm the issemely of the Vers, er offibe
bed plaserei it, die mhotteed that Aeadddidadi Oil
Noll be expected ti side their =
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They will give their gold n
whisk lb, Ihethw ith hoist to the ceiling Atli
the Seer, dm stultifying their owls mod p hot Sig
meet not be expected to WAIL Sebodebe slew
worry upbeats. What thee is Ili lb dirt 'llfibee
is the remedy ? Why, in laving alba glom .31
is for this that the abode and the weedier St li
Academy have been confound by the nalims snit
while that wealth exists and inermea, So pith
has a right to insist on a sufficiency of wolf St the
favourable exhibition of all pictures of good poem se.
As for that upper line, it is a Imbues which. Sold
not be submitted to on any pretence. lifloiever
oleo the facts of hyperotism, according to Mr...ADA
discovery and practice, have taught as, they, have
proved how very slight a strain to the ones at des
eye in looking upwards affects the whole itriteft
inducing more mime eamatenees thea Mall INN&
MS. 'fleece ahead be so each strain cm eldeerego
er Mot es leaking at pleats, under diMeeltko it
light or attitude. If the managers auk how the
can do more than send away half the Otero diet
cam, and cover their walls with the Net; the rig*
is, bet, that they will seem wilier 'bow to pe•
vide farther areas of mil.vdolleg tide Sri belt
imp by an ever incesedog Sam et Milliugs 1 MI
next, that they eanelt=oloor mat rind*
of order into their "• lift the two depot*,
mob already separated74o. eselptare and ta•
embilimw-diey want, =doted 'Min, uses ogees
'sso moss Securable *dew -As for **Mob-
ebble—the time of melts"' sad earillislbs
.or ot be Sr off. Every great Art-indidieb,
wary great colonisation of popular esemohme
mod pies me, ash as seems now a diedselleallb.
Me of ale ilm, coed show more and mei
dimereg el:making oar expensive Art-geren
leldt ISt SSW of weeds. If the public will but
legged leer hag of artists on the points in which
they ere agreed. the Academy will have to show
dew for repudiating the principle of order which
le pending in all other Art-enterprises, and link
to Ohl to the requirements of a profession villa
has had enough of needless mortitionim, and id a"
public which would rather enjoy pientree widest
my needless penalty of headache and weariness, of
overstrained attention at the time, ends ma* nukes,
lion of imperious afterwards.

Itt selecting Sir JOHN RAN.DEN as Under-
Seeretary of State for the Wsr Department, Lord
PANYURZ has, all things considered, mode a good
choice of a representative in the Haase el Commons.
In the last Parliament Sir JOHN was one of the few
young English members who achieved anythiug like
a Parliamentary success, and exhibited a certain
capacity for racial life. The OCCIIHiaII as which
he first distinguished himself in the Hesse was
one, too, which at once placed him among the
more advanced Liberals—the Ballot. Nor are
there wanting ether circumstances connected with
Sir Joan Rametnim's personal position in IA which
indicate the poinciana of practically libeled views.
Though the pomessor of a property in Huddersfield
so extensive that it may be supposed to convey with it
very eoesiderabk political influence in that import-
ant borough, Sir Joan ROINDEN commenced his
political career by the creditable reeolatioa, not
only of never seeking to avail himself of that in-
fluence, but of never permitting it to be used lee the
advaatage or to the disadvantage of any camilidste
far the reprommattica of Huddersfield. We de mat
of course meet that had Sir JOHN &minas per.
seed an opposite coarse, his influence could have con-
trolled the choice of so important a town. But there
are, perhaps, few persons in his situation who would
have resisted the temptation to assist political
friends to the utmost extent of their power.