The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-26 00:00:00

EXHIBITION OF PICTURES
(SATURDAY.)

SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER COLOURS.
Copley Fielding is decidedly the master spirit in this
forty-third Exhibition of the Society of Painters in
Water Colours. His pencil has scattered exquisite
lights, and shades, and hues, and distances, and atmos-
pheric effects over the walls of the Gallery in Pall-
mall East. His genius blooming through the pigments
of his palette, has literally sown beauties upon the
canvass. Although there are upwards of forty distinct
compositions from the easel of Copley Fielding in this
year's collection, we have no hesitation in awarding to
him a superiority which he has never before possessed.
We are gratified and surprised at so much indisputable
excellence, accompanied by such extraordinary industry
and apparent precipitation.
No. 31. " The Isle of Staffa," by this gifted artist, is
of a prevailing neutral tint, giving the impression of a
dull, gross day, with the Ilebridian waves surging up
towards the Cam-shell Cave; the sullen foam upon their
ridges blearing the view of lona on the horizon.
No. 80. " Italian Landscape, with Sea Port," by the
same, is a delicious contrast; it is glittering with a more
sprightly animation, and, although the feathery cloudlets
overhead are less like the ghosts of the Sirus, which we
could wish them, it is clear, from many of the other
paintings of Mr. Fielding, that he has been taking a hint
from the Oxford Graduate. So much is this perceptible
that we shall be disposed to anticipate, in 1848, a series
illustrative of Shelley's poem, beginning—
" I bring fresh show'rs for the thirsting fiow'rs,
From the seas and the streams;
I bear light shade to the leaves when laid
In their noon-day dreams, &c."
The suggestion, by the way, is not to be slighted. It is im-
possible to give any adequate impression of the merits of
the entire collection on a first day's hurried survey, nor
would it be scarcely fair to dismiss any piece (except the
most execrable) with a hurried ejaculation of contempt.
For the present, therefore, we shall content ourselves
with culling a few sentences from the note book of our
memory, mentally pencilled there as we traversed the
apartment.

No. 56. " Drumadown," by W. A. Nesfleld, is a
very hazardous, and (because of its boldness) a very
praiseworthy venture. Turner in a delirium could
not by possibility have produced a more phosphoric
blaze of yellow ochre and vermillion. But we cannot
induce ourselves, nevertheless, to stigmatise the picture
as an exaggeration. We have ourselves seen a land-
scape flooded with the pomp and magnificence of a sunset
almost as dazzling and gaudy : the beams flashing up
from the lea through a network of vapours, and dyeing
their extremities as with blood ; the combination of
gorgeous colours, looking indeed more like n peep into
some celestial kaleidoscope than the farewell glories of
Dan Phcebus.

No. 67. " A Day in the Forest of Atholl," by W.
Evans, of Eton, is wonderfully clever. Seen in glimpses
through the cluster of people gathered about it, the
picture looks like a Turner—one of the great man's
least eccentric productions. The curling and gathering
up of the mists, the tawny blossoms of the heather in
the foreground, and the crouching figures of the deer-
stalkers, are the simple materials out of which the
painter has created a very charming and beautiful whole.
No. 172. " The Hallowed Relic," by Alfred Fripp, is
certain to attract much attention, for it is a picture con-
ceived by a mind truly poetical. There is a pathos not
merely in the kneeling virgin by the sepulchral cross,
cot merely in the sanguinary hue of the sunset, not
merely in the dim crescent of the moon, which,

" Like a dying lady,"

looks palely down upon the mourner; it is desolate and
pensive to the minutest adjuncts, and the colouring is
equally of a character.

Besides the foregoing, we observed a capital little
sketch of a "Page," by the facetious and inexhaustible
W. Hunt, as well as a sort of pictorial pun from the
same humourist, entitled " Drawing by Two Lights."
V. Bartholomew has a very brilliant and natural com-
position of preppies in a china bowl, with orchard-fruit
scattered over the table. The exhibition is unusually
meritorious.

Amongst the nobility and other patrons present we noticed,
the following :—The Duke of Newcastle, the Earls of Elles-
mere, Jersey, St. Germains, Powis, &c.; Countesses Grey, St.
Germains, Jersey, Po*is, and Dowagers Essex and Morley ;
Bishops of London, Winchester, Lichfield, and Chester;
Lords Monteagle, Colborne, Charles Townshend, &c. ; Ladies
Monteagle, Charles Townshend, Grey, Clinton, &c.; Sirs
Edward Sugden, Edmund Head, Walter Jarne:;, &c.; Ladies
Head, James, &c. ; 1)r. Whewell, Mr. Rogers, &c.

MARYLEBONE VESTRY.
THE HEALTH OF TOWNS' BILL.

On Saturday, at- the meeting of the Marylebone vestry
(the Rev. Dr. Spry in the chair), a numerous deputation
of inhabitants residing in the Regent's Park, under the
control of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests,
waited upon the vestry to present a memorial against the
Health of Towns Bill, in which it was urged that the
effect of placing the paving, lighting, and cleansing of
the metropolis under the control of persons nominated
by the Government would be to increase the rates, and
they stated that this was exemplified in the neighbour-
hood in which they resided, where the charge made by
the Woods and Forests was 16d. in the pound, while in
the district over which the vestry had control the sum of
9d. in the pound only was charged. The memorialists
further urged the vestry to take some measures for giving
them the advantages enjoyed by their neighbours iu re-
spect to these rates.
Mr. Joseph and Mr. Wilson spoke in favour of the
memorial, and Mr. Daniel asked Sir B. Hall if he could
give the vestry any information as to the intentions of
the Government with respet to the Bill ?

Sir BENJA:IIIN HALL said that Lord Morpeth had
stated last night that it was his intention to bring on
the Health of Towns Bill on the 10th of May; but he
(Sir B. Hall) was still of opinion that, from the represen-
tation made to the Noble Lord, the Bill would either not
be brought forward at all, or that it would be so much
modified that it would be far less objectionable than it
was at present.—(Hear, hear.) He (Sir B. Hall) had in-
formed the Members of the Government, both publicly
and privately, that it was not true that the borough of
Marylebone and the other metropolitan districts were
opposed, as it had been asserted, to all sanatory improve-
ment. He had informed them that they were most
anxious for such a measure, based upon the principle
of representation which they were accustomed to, and
which he (the Hon. Baronet) maintained they had a
right to insist on.—(Hear, hear.) He (Sir B. hall) had
been given to understand that there were a certaia class
of persons going round the metropolis, endeavouring to
make it appear that this Health of Towns Bill was a
beneficial measure to the ratepayers. If the character
of those parties were inquired into, it would be found
that they had a very different object than benefiting the
ratepayers.
Mr. BULL said it had been falsely reported that the
vestry were opposed to any plan for improving the
public health. He was desirous that they should give
some public disavowal of such assertion, and with that
view lie gave notice, that on Saturday next be should
move a resolution, expressive of the readiness of the
vestry to support any Government measure for sanatory
improvement which did not touch upon local privileges,
and which was based on the representative principle.

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one of his fingers, received while making a post mortem exa-
mination on the body of one of his patients. The deadly
virus began to show its effects soon, and although all was
done that medical knowledge could accomplish, it spread
through the system till the fearful tortures to which it gave
rise were ended by death. 1)r. Fiddes was highly esteemed
where he was known, and will be much missed, not only on
accoant of his professional ability, but for his general bene-
volence and gentlemanly disposition.—Aberdeen Herald.
PARISHES OF ST. MARYLEBONE AND PANCRAS.--
The report of the Poor-law Commissioners, appointed to
inquire into the administration of the poor-laws in the
parishes of St. Marylebone and Pancras, in connexion with
the death from starvation of Louisa Mordaunt and Joseph
Woodward, has just been printed. As the object of the Com-
missioners was simply to report the state of facts to Sir G.
Grey, the Home Secretary, no result has yet been arrived at
in reference to the two cases of death from starvation. The
report is valuable as containing a full account of the mode in
which relief is administered to the poor in the two parishes
which were the subject of inquiry.
THE NEW BARRACKS AT BRISTOL.—The new
barracks at Horfield, near Bristol, being now completed, with
the exception of some of the fittings of the interior, will be
delivered up by the contractor Mr. Baker, in the earlfpart
of next week, when they will' be taken formal possession of
by Major Selwyn, of the Royal Engineers, who throughout
the erection has acted as the inspecting officer for the Board
of Ordnance. The barracks are intended for the immediate
accommodation of four companies of infantry, and two
troops of horse, but they have been built with a view to
ultimate enlargement, and by some small alterations, which
may be easily effected, may be made to provide accommoda-
tion for double that number of troops. In addition to the
regular quarters for the officers and men, and the stabling
for their officers, there are connected with the building an
hospital, horse-infirmary, chapel, library, reading-room,
baths, armourers and farriers' shops, granaries, and
magazine. There will also be a school, in which the children
of the privates and non-commissioned officers will be edu-
cated. Within the walls of the building is a spacious area
for an exercise yard, measuring 326 feet by 394 fat. The
cost of the erection has been about 571, and although an
extensive fire and some other adverse circumstances have
occurred, they have been completed within the time speci-
fied in the contract.
ROYAL FAVOUR FOR THE FREE KIRK.-4t is re-
ported that her Majesty had recently subscribed 2001. in aid
of the Gaelic schools, under the superintendence of the Free
Church. This gift was presented through the Duchess of
Gordon, and was accompanied by an expression of favour
towards the church to which her Grace belongs.—Montrose
Revise.
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