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BRITISH INSTITUTION, PA LLMA LL

Mite Aittg.

On Saturday Ilse signed Exhibition of Patoting, was
sowed to the private Jasper:ilea of sbeaubseribers, previous
to the admission of the public yesterday. It reelable as
zeal variety of pictures, and a greater number of histo-
rical, poetic, and inventive 'objects than any previoue Ex-
hibition of the same order. that is to say, of works almost
all predated within the year. But it is not in the spirit of
designing slam that improvement to a very considerable
extent is observable; colour and finishing are evidently i■
s rapid state of adreseeraest among the artists who usually
contribute most to these exhibitions. Many of the pieces in
the present one require from those whose senses
are best Stied for the oceepation, diligent and pro.
longed research to gather their manifold excel-
lencies:, sad impart a due mole of the genies and
assiduity with which they have been executed. I■ she
character of she subjects, rocs, there is more originality of
choice than the imitative habits of the art (we mean be a pro.
tensional sense) would have ltd se to (aspect ; so that if these
obvious indications of lase and selection be trust-worthy es
to further improvement (the warrant fur which we have is
the emulous disposition of our race), posterity will witness
the establisheeut of • school, as distinct and national, as
elaborate ie skill, as correct and excellent in its ob-
jects, conceptions, and execution, as any that have goes
before. The picture which occupies the chief etas*, .1
in the gallery is No. 11, 'lobe, by Sir WILLIAM FICECIIEV,
a piece of rich design, of bright, thosiih not splendid co-
louring; the eagle is dotty imagined. Hebe has nut the sen-
sual luxury of human beauty which the Italians have ge-
nerally bestowed on her; bet her chaste bloom of loveliness
would have graced any of the most spiritual personages in
their religious pieces.
No. 14. Athol Highlanders returned from hauling to
red Deer, by WILKIC, displays the strung discrimination
of character, strict judgment, and correctness of that great
master, which are ul ble in a still greater degree is •
No. 17, Finished Study of Reading a Will, painted
by him also. The grouping in the latter piece is vari-
ous and admirably chosen. The point of time is no less
judiciously selected. All the countenances conspire to
inform the spectator that the scrivener his nut yet got
through with the reading of the preamble. Every fats
betrays suspense, and none either joy or mortificatiOn.
The jolly widow, having fu► an instant checked her grief.
displays a mixture of confidence and anxiety as to the testa.
meatery dispositions. The man of war, lensing over hoe
chair, has evidently proposed himself as connubial wencher.
His experienced mein, the decline of his head so a■ to ens.
ble his lips to form a junction with the top of his cane, sad
the expert preseulat:on of his ear to the voice of the reader.
prove that he only waits to be certified as to the valise of ibe
spoils before he will summon the garrison to surrender.
The piece, for its size, is as full of incident, character, and
geusine humour, as could be well contrived.

No. It The importunate Author, from Les Fackeitz, of
Mounts, by G. 8. NEWTON. A pirct of rich design, full of
mental expression and vivid humour, yet finished iu strict
accordance with nature.

No. 97. Bargatetag for China, by K. leraAvrow. A
familiar and ingestions design, of corresponding execution.
No. 39. .An Italian Ploscer•atail, by Mrs. ASILET,
dims a mind of penetrating habits in the detection of pic-
torial objects, and of considerable accuracy in the display of
the most specious and stliking, u well as the most ordinary
burs of colour.

No. 48. As /*alien and hie Horse, by the same Lady,
eviueee great skill in observatiou, and harmonious colour
log of a very agreeable tone.
N 0.42. Miranda, and N 0.44. laeogen is the Cars, supposed
dead, compaeion pieces, by JontiIBOADBM, are rich in ex.
preasioa. The flesh colouring of the former too nearly re-
sembles the latter, though no two objects should be more
distioct. But Miranda meats to be the happier desigo—an
buss of almost natitiasad imsastyi tkowlifiliWylatbiraad la-
ramose face, • little hardened by sorrow at her father's re-
cital.
• The Exhibition abounds in landscapes, and animal
pieces of great promise. The woods end landscapes of the
Hatnaabaa add not a little tu the embellishment of the
collection.
No. 87. Pointers, To Au by E. Lalloaxata, is • work
of great excellence; of rigid adherence la nature, bulb in
fbriu and colour, yet senator to heave with the palpitations
of actual life. We have nut room to describe the many
well.finisbed pieces by this gentleman. Perhaps the next
best by him to the one jest named is N 0.220, Sehers
of a Boar—the mildest display of a, subject of so
violent a character that could be wished, without the
abridgment or any fenetiou of power, either iu the
dog, or in the savage thing he is tormenting. Mr.
LANDIMER'S accuracy is this department of the art
is too well known to benefit by our commeadations. He has
very powerful rivals in his owe hoe Is Air. T. Cantrrd••,
and Mr. T. WARD, whose pieces we may notice more
particularly at some other time. Several landscapes, both
real aid composition, by Mr. T. C. HOWLAND CICIRLIIII
anJ webers, enrich the collection. They generally
evince advancement.

Ne. 72. Belirhature's Feast, by .1. MARTIN, is one of
the most conspicuous pieces. It rather excels his Babylon,
in the Exhibition of last year. He Seems to have exhausted
all the resources of the pallet in exquisite combinations of
gorgeous colouring. Every division of the piece is filled
with business and character, glowing light, wide and exten-
sive perspettive,deep glimmerings of light searching into pro-
found recesses ofsbadow. ne awful *retrace shines with
appalling lustre from the wall over a hall of splendid archi-
tecture, • feast of sumptuous revelry, where are guests in.
numerable, gorgeously clad in comities. varieties of eastern
costume—the grim Dalton, surrounded by idolatrous firm,
more strongly developed by the prophetic refulgence of the
miracle—the consternstion of the women, the prostra-
tions of insupportable terror—the guilty confusion of the
Monarch—the superstitions astonishment of the Magi—
the chalice, in short, from the mist profose and sensual in-
dulgeuce, to the horror and amaxement of supernatural
visilutiou, all combined as they ■re in this painting, dis-
cover the greatest vivacity of imagination, the most per-
severing spirit in realising its Images, awl consummate art
in giving them their due effect. It is almost inepuiht hie
to describe in language the many felicitous groupings in and
about the main ground of Chip painting, the lavish accermili-
lion or circumstances, of historical and poetic detail, and of
cunningly contrived incidents._

No. 80: Flounder Fishing—Scene neer Battersea, by C.
Dcaux, is • piece of promising excelleace, which will re-
mind those wbo behold it of Ctlvr, as we were led to
think of CLAUD. LORRAINS, by
No. 195. An Ancient City, moonlight, by T. C. HO/LARD.
No. rle. Chevy Chase, by the lain EDWARD BIND, R.A. is
full of the peculiarities which distinguished the perfursasesee•
of that excellent Artist—a great display or passinn---enso-
lions of almost all kinds--correet deliatatious, and culnuriog
of the truest character (p3iufully au in the wonaded and
dead). Some of the attitudes are, however' of se awkward
descriptiou, and by nu means uphold Ike heroic effect is-
tended.

No. 230. A Soldier relatiey hie Adventures al the Battle
of Waterloo, a Sketch, by tk ewe author, is of moselr
more felicitous execution.

Nu. 434. The estbarhalion of Louis the Righteeriik, by
the same Gentleman, will, for noire reasons than that of his-
torical importance, become highly valuable. Those which
we have uuticed are not selected, because of their pers.
mount excellence user ell the others, but as specimens,
almost iodifferently taken, of vast somber, of highly cre-
ditable performances, whirls persons of taste will easily
select and dwell us with great satisfaction, arranged is the
present Exhibition.

The preparations for the Caroost ion in Westmin.
ster Hall ore now proceeding.and rumour fiats the
mouth of May fur this splendid spectacle.

A great deal of money was lost on Friday night
on the division upon• Lord A. HAMILTON'S motion.
Not less ultsu 6,000/. was betted in the lobby of
the House of Commons between seven and one
o'clock the, the msjority•w>ould not exceed 100. •

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TH R CHASE.
HARE HUNTING.

On Taeschty last the Hon. Hr. lenkinsotes harriers ran
a hair is their usual good style from Sutton, near this town,
to the river Severn, where the hounds were at fault. Piss
had attempted to play a trek upon the hound* and spurts•
men : she had taken the water, and when nearly i 4 the mid-
dle of the river, she ceased swimming sod floated down the
stream to all appearance like a log of wood; and this artifice
would have saved her life had she not been discovered by
some bargemen, who were coming up the river in their vessel.
She was permitted i4l lake her own way, no stump( being
made to disturb her for about tea initiates, and every thing
was kept ■s quiet as rould be, when havime floated about
200 yards down the stream, she begau by heaving op her
ears, and then her head, to discover symptoms of life, and
coming opposite a small wood or roses near the river, ahi
swam to the aide she west in at, and after a further ruts of
about four minutes she was killed.—(Skretraburp Chronic/. )

GREYHOUND COURSE.
On Saturday last ■ swatch fur 111 guineas was run sear
Psrliassrioo, the ere) of R. Oliver Gaseoigoe, E-q. by
Messrs. Furnish and Cropper'■ dug, Rhenium, and Messrs.
Hopp, and Ctulibrres dug, Ebor. The odds were is lawyer
of Etna; bat Rher►am rue in grand style, sod killed his
bare.—( York Herald.)