The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
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THE ARITISO ORESS.

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they bias entered, have resolved upon a gelaal rectßanba"
Lion of the twiny, so as to render it as nearly as poseible
similar to what it was before the Revolution. The camp
now forming at Luneville will consist of regiments esta-
blished on the ancient principle. The corps of carabineers,
which used to be one of the finest in europe, composed
of men selected from all the other cavalry regiments, will
be immediately res Sered to its former pre-eminence. It
will be increased to 1,200 men, and divided into two batta-
lions. At least four new regiments of dragoons wilt be
raised. There will be a diminution of the chasseurs, but
to compensate, a new corps of lancers will be formed. The
horses necessary for there changes are now purchasing in
Germany at high price, and for ready money. Some spe-
culation as to foreign politics has been excited by these pro-
ceedings, which, however, are wholly referable to the inter-
nal poiicy of the French Court. The declaration of the
Earl of Livaaroot. on Friday evening with respect to the
probable continuance of peace, was so clear and explicit,
that no rational apprehension can be entertained. " I never
knew a period," said his Lordship, " when there was a
better foundation for the hope of a permanent pate."

We have given in another part of our Paper a sum-
mary of the proposed reductions on articles of foreign
produce and manufacture. We observe with great satis-
faction, that as much as public opinion can as yet bare
been exprrsed it is decidedly favourable to the liberal
measures of his Malawi's Government. Indeed we
should disparage the information 'and understanding of
the commercial interest if 'we supposed' that any con-
tracted notions of peculiar benefit would operate so power-
fully on their minds as to disable them from arriving at
a sound and rational judgment on this highly important
question. The mode too in which it was stated by Mr.
Huserssow would of itself go far towards removing any
unfounded alarm which this general revision of the pro-
tecting duties might have excited. In the speech of the
President of the Board of Trade they find a cogent and
irresistible address to their judgment, founded on no vain
or untried theories, but on the ascertained results of suc-
cessful experience. We gave on Saturday a very full
report of the Right Honourable Gentleman's statements,
to which, clear and convincing as they are, it would be
imprtinent in us to add any observations for the purpose
of rendering it more easily intelligible. For those to
whom the labour of perusal is too great it would be useless,
and for others it would be absolutely superfluous. Mr.
HusIMPION reposes with confidence on the principles of his
system, which he well knows will be supported the more
firmly the more thoroughly it is investigated. He has,
therefore, brought forward the subject at this period of the
Session, in order that it may be duly examined and approved
by the country before Parliament shall finally give it the
sanction of legislative authority.

CITY, SATURDAY Evawixe.
The Money Markets were lighter on Saturday, the
rumours that had been put forth with a view to depress
them being quite forgotten. In the English Market Con-
sols were steady at 924 934 for Money, and for the Account
934 4.
In the Foreign Market Greek Scrip was much better ; it
was done at 5 44 discount. The fall of Patras, so confi-
dently stated in the French Papers, had necessarily a good
effect upon it. We have no doubt, as we have always
stated, that this stock will turn out ultimately one of the
best things in the market to the holders. The cabal against
it must give way; the confidence of the public is clearly not
shaken, and the worst is now gone by : all that remains for
the Greeks are ftesh triumphs. South American Securities
were firm : Colombian Bonds were done at 904, Mexican
Scrip (1826) at 1 premium, and we must give Brazilian
Scrip at the same price, although we did not hear of any
hargaina '..wing done in it; but that we understand was
about the quotation. The Old Spanish Bonds were steady
at 244 ; and as the Times has backed oaf of its denials of
the new loan, and all doubt on that subject is now at an
end, we may expect the Bonds to advance considerably;
those of 183 were at 184.
Advice. were received yesterday that the Danish Go-
vernment bad approved the terms of the loan contracted
with Meesrs. Thomas Wilson and Co. It is expected to
be issued to the public in the course of a few days. The
amount of this loan is stated to be three millions and a half
of three per cent. stock, of which five millions are to be
advanced in the present year at 75, and the remaining two
millions and a half in the next year at 78. The object of
the loan we have already stated to be the reduction of the
present rate of interest on the Danish debt.
The Globe and Traveller of this evening announces as
from authority, that " the United States of North America
will immediately follow the steps of England, in reducing
the interest of that part of their national debt which consists
of stock of a high denomination." A loan for this purpose
is represented to he in a forward state.
In the Share Market every thing was improving, not-
withstanding Lord Lauderdale's speech. The New Pearl
and Coral Fishery, however, still continues to attract the
great st attention. The Shares rose to-dav from 21 to 24
premium, and the opinion was that a -further advance
would take place. Pasco Peruvian averaged about 20, and
cemed steady at that price. The Mexican Trading Com-
pany's Shares bore a pr, 'Dim of 74 to 8, and the New Pe-
ruvian left off at 34 premium. Nothing was done in Co-
lombian Agricultural Shares, but there was a great deal of
bustle in the Australian Company, the Shares of which
were as high as X 5 premium.
Two new Companies are forming, both of which are
well spoken of ; a New Zealand Association for commercial
purposes, and the Borneo, Soo Loo, and Banca Company.
If the latter should realise half the advantages expected
from it, it will be one of the moat valuable speculations of
the day.
The Stock Exchange had an additional cause of agitation
to-day, by reason of the election of the Committee of the
Foreign Market. The contest was carried on with a degree
of electioneering spirit unusual in this place. The ballot
closed at two, after which there was a scrutiny.
Not a single bargain, that we heard of, was made either
in Coffee or Sugar.

About eleven o'clock on Friday night the Duke of York
left town, in his travelling carriage, for Belvoir Castle, the
seat of the Duke of Rutland, on a visit to his Grace for a
few days. His Royal Highness is then expected to pro-
ceed to Newmarket, for the purpose of attending the first
week of the Spring Meetings. It is understood that the
whole of Isis Royal Highness s household, together with all
the furniture, &c. in York House, will be removal by the
3d of April, in consequence of his Royal Highness's resi-
dence bcing about to be pulled down, and the materials
sold in lots. Part of the Royal Duke's collection of pic-
tures, &c. were packed up and removed on Saturday to his
Royal Highness s temporary residence in South Audley-
street.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence, travelling
under the name of Count de Munster, 1.-. sided on Tuesday
last at Oatend with his family. He arrived at Ghent on
the day following, and set out again on Thursday on his
way to Germany.
On Saturday the Duchess of Gloucester visited the
Princess Augmta.
Yesterday divine service was performed to the King's
Housabold, at his Palace in Pall-mall, by the Rev. Dr.
Blomberg.
On Saturday afternoon a Cabinet Council assembled,
agreeably to summons, at the Foreign Office, Downing-
street. -Three o'clock was the hour appointed for the
Meeting to take place, but the Members did not arrive till
past that time. There were present the Duke of Welling-
ton, the Earls of Liverpool, Harrowby, Westmorland, and
Bathurst, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. Secretary
Peel, Me. Secretary Canning, &c. The Cabinet sat in de-
li e:Taloa till ne...rly five o'clock.

AReAt-LANE THEATRE.
There was an overflo;744lllahouse very early on Sa-
turday evening, to witness what the bills bad announced to
be " the last appearano of Mr. Kean." It had previously
been circulated with ne small industry, that several years
might elapse before the actor would re-assume his profes-
sional duties, and the anxiety to witness his performance
was commensurate with the fear which this rumour bad
excited that be might possibly not return to the English
boards. However, weliave his own assurance, and that
of Mr. Elliston, that he will re-appear on the stage before
the close of the present summer. The interval will be oc-
cupied in the fulfilment of several continental engage-
ments. He commences at Brussels, and is expected to
play there in the course of the present week. OF the
play of Othello, and of Mr. Kean's delineation of him
who " loved not wisely, but too well," we have only
to repeat, that his performance is perhaps the finest and
, moat powerful representation that can be imagined of a
character, perhaps the most interesting in the whole
range of the drama. In the third act of this play
he displayed the very perfection of the art :—the con-
flict of the powerful passions of love, jealousy, and revenge
revealed in those close denotements working from the
heart" was pourtraved with a force, fideity, and Intense-
ness of feeling that we almost hesitate to call it acting.
His Othello is a masterpiece ; it has been termed, and
not undeservedly, " the greatest e'en of genius on the
stage." Mrs. Bunn performed Emilia, and performed
.it
better than we ever before witnessed. It is a part sus-
ceptible of great interest, and it lost none of that in-
terest in her impressive delineation of it. Mrs. West's
Desdemona and Mr. Wallaek's Ingo are below their
respective reputation in other characters. Mr. Kean
had no sooner fallen on the stage (and the death scene
was one of the best) than his reanimation was in-
stantly required by the trumpet-tongued crowd in the pit
and gallery, and no sooner was he thus summoned back to
life than he prepared to address the audience in a speech
which we subjoin. Various opinions may be entertained
as to the propriety of his making any address on this oc-
casion; but as to the impropriety of several of the topics
which he thought proper to introduce into it, there can
be but one opinion. It was *either discreet nor decent to
bring again before the public that subject, which his
facetionsfriend Mr. Elliston told the audience had "soured
the mind of Mr. Kean a little." It would have been wise,
we should have thought, in Mr. Kean not to draw from
oblivion an affair which "bath no relish of satiation in it."
As to the boast of "a grand dramatic triumph having been
achieved," there was a coxcombry and silliness in the boast
which betrayed an equal want both of manly sentiment and
moral prudence. Mr. Kean's attack upon the engine that
he describes " as placed for his destruction," by which
we presume he meant the Press, is bath injudicious and
unmerited. The Press—the liberal part of it at least—
discriminated between his character as an actor and his
conduct as a man; they separated his public from his pri-
vate station; they distinguished Othello from Mr. Kean,
and denied the justice of driving the
.former from the
stage, for an offence fbr which the latter had already paid
the penalty. But we will let Mr. Kean speak for himself.
IL.; addrees was to the following effect:—
•• Ladies and Gentlemen—ln the powerful conflict of gratifying
sensations with which sty bosom glows, you may easily suppose that
I cannot possibly express or give vent to my feelings at this moment.
To a London audience am 1 indebted fur my first and only sup-
port ; and by their protection have I been enabled to combat against
one of the moat malignant attacks that was ever made on any indi-
vidual. (Applause. and cries of Bravo.') Without adverting to
past circumstances I cannot but feel that a moat powerful engine was
placed for my destruction. (Loud cries of • The Times, the Times,
aye the Times.)' It was endeavoured to enlist your displeasure
against me. But under your patronage and kind countenance I have
successfully fought those who appeared as my professional enemies.
(Applause.) I should have sunk under the power which was thus
raised against me, were I not protected by the shield of that libe-
rality which is the characteristic of the British nation, and which
should be an example of imitation to the world. (Much applause.)
To you, Ladies and Gentlemen, am I this moment indebted for my
professional existente ; and may I take the liberty of adding, that in
the part you have acted you have achieved a great dramatic
triumph. (Much laughter and partial approbation.) In reference to
the liberal management on this occasion, I beg to express my most
grateful acknowledgments. The Manager has acted towards me
in the hour of my adversity with the affectionate kindness of a
father, a brother, and a friend. With the renewed expression of
my gratitude for all your favours, I beg respeetfull- to take my
temporary farewell of you, and hope to hare the hon Our of appear.
fay before you again early in June." (Applause, mingled with
slight disapprobation. )
As Mr. Kean was about to make his final bow and re-
tire, Mr. Elliston, who stood at the corner of the curtain
during the delivery of the speech, came forward, and
proved his fatherly and brotherly attachment to Mr. Kean
by. a most fraternal embrace. After this theatric exhi-
bition, which excited bursts of laughter, they, like two
waltzers, quitted• the stage. After the storm of mingled
disapprobation and applause which followed this speech
had subsided, the ballet proceeded, but the audience
evinced a disposition to postpone the pirouetting, of Mr.
and Mrs. Noble to the appearance of Mr. Elliston, whom,
from his late deportment, they rightly judged to be in a
speech-making mood. Accordingly, a pretty general cry
of " Manager ! Manager !" was raised, principally in the
pit, and Mr. Elliston stepped forward to the front lights,
and, in a rapid tone of delivery, said,
" Ladles and Gentlemen—You have ordered me here ; I am--as
I always am..-at my post. What is your pleasure ?"
A long pause here ensued, which was only interrupted
by some good-natured person in the pit exclaiming, " Good
night, Elliston, they only want to make a fool of you." No
reason was assigned for the call of the Manager, and as thus
no materials were given for making a speech, Mr. Elliston
was obliged to fall back upon his own resources. He pro-

•• If there be any person here inimical to the interests of the I
theatre (Cries of %o, no') ; I ens sure there are none who can be'
insensible to the merits of Mr. Kean. (Applause.) Circum-
stances have occurred, Ladies and Gentleman, which have soured
his mind a little. (Laughter.) It might be any man's case ; how-
ever, Gentlemen, it appears you have agreed to bury all that is
past in oblivion. Mr. Kean feels the same I.:whittle now for your
tint patronage that he ever did ; I know it. (Laughter and ap-
plause.) I now have the honour to announce that he will absolutely
return in Jne—that he will then perform fur twelve nights, and I
hone that for many years afterwards you may hate the opportnnity,
Ladies and Gentlemen, of receiving him and me too." (Shouts of
laughter ar.d applause.)
Mr. Elliston then retired, and the merriment which this
eccentric oration excited seemed to keep the audience in
perfect good humour for the rest of the evening.

We understand that Mr. Kean has entered into a new
engagement with Mr. Elliston for twelve nights, at fifty
pounds per night.
ADELYIII THE•TRE.—This elegant little Theatre closed •
on Saturday evening, after a very successful season. At
the fall of the curtain, Mr. Lee, the Stage Manager, came
forward and addressed the audience as follows:
" Ladies and Gentiemsn—This evening terminates the present
brilliant and prosperous season; and I am deputed by the Pm. j
prletors to offer a few inning words to their kind and liheral patrons ,
Ladies and Gentlemen, I am grieved to say, that in consequence of
the death of our beloved and lamented proprietor, Mr. lodwell,
and the domestic arrangement of his friend and brother proorietor,
Mr. Jones, this is, in all probability, the last time I shill have
the honour of appearing before you as the representative of the pre-
sent proprietorship. Under these circumstances, Mr. Jones avails
himself of this opportunity of expressing, t"rough me, his heartfelt
gratitude to the public, to whom he is proud to acknowledge hill:-
self indebted for the uninterrupted sucress with which you have
crowned our endeavours to please t and of paying public tribute
to the memory of his deceased friend, Mr. Rods ill, to whose
superior talents and unwearied exertions he attributes the superior
rank which this Theatre now holds in public estimation. !laving
performed the duty imposed on me by my proprietor, it yet remains
for me to discharge another debt of gratitude. It is customary, at
the close of a season, for the Performers, through the medium of
their Stage Manager, to express their acknowledgments, and bid
farewell to their patrons—but this is no common occasion. The
Perfortners of this establishment have for six years been as one
family, and we are about to separated. We are about to quit
the spot which, for six years, has been the scene of your approving
smiles and plaudits. deeply regret it ! I assure you, in the
name et my professional brothers and sisters, that however fortune
may dispose of us, we shall never cease to remember, with pride
and gratitude, the many, many happy hours we have passed in
your presence. I now, Ladies and Gentlemen, conclude; and, in
the name of the proprietor and performers, respectfully bid you
farewell, and may God bleat you!
PIIRENOLOGY.—TIie great pressure of matter of a tem-
porary interest renders it absolutely unavoidable to post-
pone our notice of Dr. Spursheinfs lectures for another
day.
The following epitaph is on an old tomb-stone in a
church-yard at Sheffield :
Here lies the body of SARAN SgXTOX,
Who, as a wife, did never vex one—
We can't say so Much for her at t'next stone."

THE EXHIBITION (IF THE SOCIETY OF
BRITISH ARTISTS.
When we announced in the British Press of Saturday.
the opening of the Second Exhibition of the Society of
British Artists, we had only room to remark on what
struck ns as its most prominent feature of. improvement;
via. the absence of that meretricious taste for hill' colour-
ing which had hitherto prevailed in the British School, to
an excess which obscured much of its excellence, and
detracted much from its praise. The great hotly of our
artists have here shown themselves capable of higher in-
tellectual exertion. They have shown themselves adequate
to performances which may appeal to the meat ligaments
judges, and deserve the admiration of the most fastidious.
It is a singular fact—but it is not the less true—that
the Fine Arts follow the character of nations. In France,
in Italy, in Germany, in England, the style of music, of
poetry, of painting, are as different as the character of
the different nations, and by an accurate observer
can be as readily distinguished. We shall at present
confine our illustration to Painting, as furnishing a
proof immediately connected with the subject before us.
The great masters of the Foreign Schools excelled in historic
painting; and England is at present, as it always lies been,
greatly inferior to them in this department ; but it would
be unjust to ascribe this inferiority to any inherent want of
power in our artists to attain to the same rank of excellence
in the historic branch of the Art. The true cause is to be
traced to a very different ori,iin. Religion, in Roman
Catholic countries, very early opened afield of exertion, that
not only called forth all the talent which could be pressed
into its service, but furnished patrons of rank and seeahli
to every scholar gifted with the inspirations of his art.
Hence proceeded all the grand and sublime compositions
which wrap the mind in holy meditation in all their places
of worship—the painted ceilings arrested the eye when
turned upwards to heaven—the magnificent altar-piece
struck the beholder with awe, while it presented to his de-
vout imagination the history of his faith and the sustained
suffering of its martyrs. All the creative powers of genius
were called forth in aid of the Catholic church. and to con-
firm and strengthen, through these means, the reverence
exacted by its priesthood. A perfect knowledge of the
human form, and a facility of drawing it gracefully in ail
its situations, and of fore-shortening it correctly in all its
attitudes, was manifestly essential to all historic painting,
whether the subject were sacred or classical ; therefore it is
that this branch of the Art has been cultivated from the
first in the Foreign Schools, and still continues to be cul-
tivated, though with abated enthusiasm, yet with far
greater encouragement; and therefore with greater suc-
cess than with us.
The style of the Dutch School is peculiar and national:
it partakes of the coarse habits, and marks the rude unre-
fined character of the people. The Hollanders had no
leaning towards devotional enthusiasm, and no taste for
religious magnificence. The productions of their best mas-
ters—excellent as they are in their way—deal in aeries; of
vulgar life, of that bind of life which we may be quite
sure made up the popular manners—dancing, elr;mcing,
playing at bowls, and all the low excesses of vulgar merri-
ment. The minds of the painters themselves—it is gas
to collect from the want of : lieacy observable in their
pictures—were of the sante gross stamp with the common
herd, whose manners they transferred to their canvas.
We are aware that liesess was the chief of the Flemish
School—in whose mind, by the way, there was enough of
grossness—and that several names of note are exempt
from this reproach ; but these found their chief support
and encouragement in a different walk or the Art ; anti
they had, moreover, an inherent attachment to the more
moral and elevated conceptions of nature, which a well-
regulated mind, in every situation, and whatever be its
pursuits, will always preserve.
In the English School of Painting—whidi is but of
modern date—the peculiarity of the national character may
be observed to take its own direction. The domestic affec-
tions are stronger among the English than is any other
nation ; they-discover more anxiety to preserve the resemu-
blance of those to whom they are nearly connected by the
ties of kindred or the claims of friendship. Hence portrait
painting, from the encouragement it thus receives, is car-
ried to greater perfection in England than in any other
country. The same feeling shows itself with equal activity
in the encouragement given to miniature painting, which
is no where carried to such a height of excellence. Its
influence is in perpetual operation, and occasions a demand
for likenesses, from the shadowed profile to the most finished
enamel.
The fondness for Lang scope is generated by the same na-
tural tendency iu die English to connect the social feelings
with the beauties of rural scenery, and with all those emo-
tions of the heart and of the mind with which the ho.III),
ties of nature are associated. Our favourite poets err those
which excel in romantic description ; and we turn eftenest
to those pictures which place before us the village church
—the bridge—the cottage—the coppice-wood—the hill-
side
clothed with moss and fern—the old barn enriched
with weather-stains :—these, with all the local beauties of
pastoral scenery, will be found to excite a stronger and
more general interest amonoet us, than any other depart-
ment of painting taken separately. In England, when
walking through a gallery of the ancient maters, the
visitors, male and female, will pass historical suhosets with
little interest, while they dwell with delight on the exqui-
site productions of Cul- r, and RUYSDALI., and HUB-
BIMA. This strong preference to the beauties of Land-
scape arises from the fact that they are more congenial to
the national feeling, and consequently produce a more im-
pressive effect than any pleasure afforded by allegorical,
historic, or purely cles.tdcal subjects, however superior their
abstract merit may he as works of Art.
In what we hare here said we must not be understood as
intending, in the slightest degree, to depreciate the labours
of those admirable artists who have devoted themselves to
the latter branches of the Art. To give for th all those
powers of the pencil of which they arc capable is the pre-
rogative of the highest genius, and may well confer im-
mortality on its possessors. In truth there is no branch
of the Art in which the attainment of excellence does not
confer a reward sufficient for the pursuit of ambition.
We have been led to the above remarks purely frail a
desire to defend the artists of our own country from the
imputation which foreigners are but too apt to test upon
them, of being inadequate to all the higher efforts of the
Art ; by shoving to what causes their superior succos in this
department is to be ascribed, and by what peculiar cum-
stances their superiority Lea been fostered and mrintained.
We proceed now to the pictures which most attracted
our attention in the present Exhibition, without meaning
by this to undervalue the many works of merit which our
limited space may oblige us to pas•:. over.
. We were struck at our entrance with the burst of sun-
light which gleams on the mountains of Borrowdale,in G
V Xleli extraordinary picture. The effect is magical, lied
one which, till now, we had conceived to be beyond the
power of the Art to produce. We actually hesitated for
some time to decide whether it was not the sun itself
bcatniwg on the picture. Many other persona we know
were equally in doubt. We consider this picture alone—
had he painted no other—as sufficient to rank his name
with the very first masters. But this picture wad meet us
again as we proceed ; we shall leave it, therefore, for the
present, and follow the order of the Catalogue.
13. A Study of John Bold, one of the crew of Paul Jones,
who escaped with lira !run: a French pi isca—nowl;ving at
the advanced age of 87. C. J. Ox
The portrait of This veteran pirate is drawn with great
force; the features bespeak his character; they are ex-
pressive, even in advanced age, of all that ferocity and
firmness of purpose which marked him in the vigour of
life. It may impart additional interest to the picture to
state—as the artist in jnatice to it should have done—that
the red flag which ha bears in his hand was meant by
the bearer to testify that he gave so quarter' and that the
black skull-cap which he wears upon his head was called—
among the desperate crew to which lie belonged—the cap'
of death.
14. The West Front ej- Not re Dante, Rouen. D. RoBIRTs.•
This is a composition which, with several oilmen of a
Similar kind in the *sent Exhibition, displays this Artist's talent
to great advantage. The rictute is fultof lite and activity. whieh add
much to the attraction of its principal subject. The colours distri-
buted in the difftsent dresses of the assembled troupes contribute
greatly to the liveliness of the seem If the building itself were of a
less cold and sandy hue, we should like it better, as being more in
harmony with church architecture, and more specially with that
style' of it in the represeutralea of which Mr. tiobetr, rt elm-witty
netts. (To be eon& twil.)