The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-19 00:00:00

PARLIAMENT.AR•Y DIVISIONS.

(From the Votes a7.:1 Proceeaneys of the Reuse of Coinntons )"
WEDRESDAY, FAB. 18.
PUBLIC-HOUSES (SCOTLAND) BILL.
Order for Second Reading read; Motion made, and Ques-
tion proposed, " That the Bill be now read a second time :"
Amendment proposed, to leave out the word " now," and
at the end of the Question to add the words "upon this day
six months :" - Question put, " That the word 'now' stand
parr of the Question." The House divided:—
MAJORITY—AYES, 123.
Arkwright, George Evans, William Loveden, Pryse
Armstrong, Sir A. Farrer, James Lygon, General
Baillie, H. J. Ferguson, Sir R. Matheson, Sir J.
B4.ines, M. T Forbes, W. Maule, Fox •
Baring, 11. B. Forester, G. C. Moncreiff, James
Barrington, Viscount Freestun, Colonel Moody, C. A.
;Harrow, W. H. Freshfield, J. W. Morgan, 0.
Bennet, Philip Fuller, A. E. Mailings, J. R.
Beresford, William Gilpin, Colonel Newdegate, C. N.
Berkeley, C. L. G. Goold, Wyndham Newport, Viscount
Best, John Gordon, Admiral Packe, C. W. 0
Blair, Stephea Gore, W. 0. Pakington, Sir J.
Boldero, H. G. Greene, Thomas Patten, J. W.
Booth, Sir R. G. Grosvenor, Lord R. Perfect, Robert - .
Bowles, Admiral- Gwyn, -Bowel Prime, Richard
Boyle, Colonel, Halford, Sir H. Robartes, T. J. A.
Bramston, T. W. Hall, Colonel Romilly, Colonel
Brotherton, Joseph Haliewell, E. G. - Sanders, George
Bruce, C. L. C. Hamilton, Lord C. Seaham, Viscount
buck, Lewis W. Harris, Captain Sotheron, T. .
Cabbell, B. B. Harris, Richard Spooner, R.
Campbell, W. F. Henley, J. W. Stafford, A.
Campbell, Sir A. Herbert, H. A. Stanley, Edward
Chatterton, Colonel Hildyard, R. C. Stanley, W. 0.
Child, Smith Hindley, C. StalAton, W H.
Cholmeley, Sir 3i. Hodgson, W. N. Strickland, Sir G.
Christopher, R. Hope, Sir J. Tennent, Sir J.
Cochrane, A. D. Hope, Henry T. Tollemache; John
Collins, Thomas Hotham, Lord Townley, R. G.
Cowan, Charles Howard, C W. G. Tyler, Sir G.
Craig, Sir W. G. Hughes, W. B. Verner, Sir W.
Crowder, R. a. Inglis, Si R. Verney, Sir H.
Davies, D. A. Johnstone, James Walsh, Sir J. -
Deedes, W. Knox, W. S.
Dodd, , •. Langston, J. H. ,
Wellesley, Watkins, Colonel
Lo
oorde
CI.
Dull, James Langton, W. H. West, F. R.
Duncombe, T. Lennox, Lord H. G. Wigram, Loftus
Duncuit, John Lewis, George C. Wodehouse,Edmund
Du Pre, C. G. Lindsay, Colonel Young, Sir John
Edwards, Henry Lockhart, A. E. TELLEB.s.
Egerton, Sir P. Lockhart, W. Drumlanrig, Vis.
Egerton, W. T. Long, W. Mackenzie, W. F.

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LONDON,

TIIE BRITISH INSTITUTION.

1 The collection displayed this season upon the walls
1 of the British Institution is one of mere than average
I excellence I -and considerations of justice prompt us
Ito assert as much at the very outset from-the pleasure
we have personally derived from wandering succes-
eively through, the three apartments forming the
gallery of exhibition. Among the:contributors, will,
as- usual, be found several of the most distinguished
_members of the Royal Academy, of Suffolk-street,
.and of the Portland Gallery,. Altogether the number
of pictures supplied by those and other artists are,
tbis year, no less than 531, so that considerable
variety is secured to the collection. Thirteen speci-
mens of sculpture' are, besides these, distributed
through the Centre of the rooms on pedestals ; and
the observant visitor will 'turn
,with curiosity, not
unrecompensed by gratification, to,(No. 643) " Inno
cence," by J. H. Foley; A.R A:ealready celebrated
by his exquisite recumbent statue of Inn offering a
bunch of grapes to Bacchus. Among the customary
things in the gallery will, of course, be noticed the
glossy haunches of the horse, and the vulgar features
of the human biped in attendance, invariably pour-
trayed by J. F. Herring, as .in (No. 128) the
" Watering Place near Dumfries ;" or those marvel-
lous bundles-of pine fruit:and apricots, finished even
to the twinkling dewdrop, and the scar of the bee
puncture, such as GeLance
_alone can give us, as in
(No. 21), a further specimen of his skill as an artistic
votary of Pomona.`` It is agreeable beyond all
-things in the British Institution to turn
from the tawdry paintings suspended from a little
below the ceiling to 'the modest pictures disposed in
some less elevated position. Almost invariably the
former are scarcely a jot more meritorious than se-
veral square feet of oanvas daubed over with the
gaudiest oil colours_ Whereas the latter, though
merely on a scale of as many square inches, are fre-
cpently gems -of art from the hand of a master. The
more moderate the capacity the greater the ambition,
would almost seem to be the rule among the majority
of the contributors. Thera is the huge picture (No.
18) for example, entitled " Peace," and produced by
a foreign gentleman with the euphonious and ma-
jestic name of Gambardella. Such a picture as it is
—8 feet 3 by 7 feet 3...-with a young lady in
a deini-iseini state of nudity in the centre, looking
exceedingly cold, attended by a number of stark-naked
little_ cupids looking colder still, the said cupids twin-
ing garlandi of flowers, blue, red, and yellow, all the
colours in the rainhoW, as bright in dye as if they
had been cut out of a bran-new efflorescent chintz,
while the said young lady is guarded by the oddest
lion ever seen in or out -of a menagerie—a sort of
leonine Mrs. Gamp,_ with a maudlin grin on her face,
masqueradieg in a hearth rug. As for the mystery in
the helmet we can make nothing of it. 'Where the
shadowy reflection in it comes from, how it comes
there, whose it is supposed to be, the artist's or
the spectator's, must remain problems incom-
prehensible even to those who have managed to ferret
out the meaning of the cuneiform hieroglyphics. Not
far from this, we turn with a sense of distaste from
(No. 2) the " Study of a Head," in which W. Gale
has represented the most brazen-faced of women. But,
no ! the most brazen-feced, the most obtrusive, the
most intolerable is at the opposite extremity of the
suite of apartments, in the large picture (No. 461)
illustrative of a " Spanish Dance," by Newenham.
A grand and solemn effect has been produced by J.
Danby in '(No. 24) his "Twilight at Sea," where
the waves crimsoned by the departing sunset seem
plashing into sluggish repose. J. Linnell shows him-
self more than usually adventurous in his national pic-
ture (No. 45) pourtraying " A Boar Hunt in England
—Olden Time." Pickersgill, the Royal Academician,
contributes (No. 50) a rather fat-faced and comely
" St. Ursula," as well as a companion head—that of
(No. 151) "A Monk of the Order of St. Francis at
his Devotions," the latter countenance being replete
with an exquisitely• mingled expression of intellectual
force and seraphic adoration. Newenham has a more
pretentious and, in some respects also, a more suc-
cessful attempt in (No. 57), his huge painting of the
Princess Elizabeth, afterwards Queen regnant,
examined by Gardiner, Bonner, and others, on the
question of Transubstantiation. Clever though the
picture is in some particulars, it is, nevertheless,
as a whole,.coarse and formal. Sir Edwin
Landseer's (No. 58) " Deer Pass" is more
remarkable for the vast, hard, solid-looking,
flinty boulder atones':.. piled about HA pass
in confusion, than for anything more deserving
admiration. Like every production of his magic
brush, however, it will be regarded with attention,
and betmany, we dare say, with satisfaction. "El
Sueno" (No. 63) is a pretty oval-faced brunette—
evidently a sketch "from the life"—by H, W.
Philipps. The identity is preserved even to the
beauty-spot under the right eye—" the mole cinque-
.spotted like the crimson drop .i' the.bestorr.ac, s eese-
su &
p --as on the bosom or erbogee. .‘ A allot) after
the Buffalo" in the Far West (No. 70), by J. W.
GlasS, affords a capital notion (restricted though the
view is), of the exhilarating exercise of the trappers on
their mustangs, when careering over the grass prairies
of North America. For an admirable glimpse of
English scenery commend us to Ansdell's pic-
ture (NO. 73) of " The Common," with
its powdery earth burrowed into holes by the
rabbits, or trampled into dust by the hoofs of the
ram scenting the air with such an aspect 'of inquisi-
tiveness. The most exquisite picture in the gallery
this season is F. Denby'e (No. 109) " Scene from the
Vale of Tempe," fit harbour for the gods of Greece
at allhotirs, but more especially in that very twi-
light which has , been here selected by this
distin-
guished artist, this genius, whose appended initials
A,R:Aealrveys appear to us like a direct sarcasm on
the cilluerie and favouritism of the Royal AcadernY•
Immediately 'under the lovely painting
by Dan by,
just mentioned, is a charming little picture, bril-
liantly finished,-by A, Gilbert (No. 110), represent-
ing " A River Side," with a storm clearing off-
" The Drover's Halt" (No. 146), is a master-
piece, from the hands of T. Creswick and R. Ans-
dell. Sant's (No. 162) " The Mother's Hope"
would be more agreeable were the colouring less
crude ; and J.. Gilbert's (No. 221) " Charge of
Prince Rupert's Cavalry at the Battle of Naseby"
will repay examination for more reasons than the
simple but noticeable fact that it is the greatest effort
we have yet seen from the artist's easel. The work
is replete with an animation such as would have been
like cordial to the heart of Wouvermans. The Wil-
liamses are all of' them this season more than usually
"in force," end one of their contributions (No. 243)
" The Gypsies Releasing their Donkeys from the
Pound," by G. A. Williams, deserves a very cordial
eulogium, as marvellously truthful to nature
and eminently characteristic of the rural scenery
of England. Frost's little study (No. 373),
though rather hard in its finsh, is deliciously
expressive of the beauty of "Galatea"- while T. F.
Manibitirs picture (No. 405) of "The Shepherd's
Daughter" is in every respect a charming represen-
tation of native arid rustic loveliness, such as might,
from the tame lamb caressing her feet to the holly-
hocks peeping ovet the paling, have been appropri-
ately
sung by the verse of Tennyson. For invention,
for excitement; for comic diablerie in every imagina-
ble 'elnipe of absurdity, and ridiculousness, examine,
say we (No. 421) " Tarn o' Shanter," as delineated by
our perennial Cruikshank. It is a wonderful aggre-
gation of humout and ugliness. Various other con-
tributions to the walls of the gallery are entitled to
particular mention, but the foregoing will be suffi-
cient to specify here, as evidence that merit and variety
are discernible in the present collection of paintings at
the British Institution.