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London, England, 1870-02-22 00:00:00

a man. Pilate reminds one of an Italian statesman

whose portrait I have seen.

Iu the remaining

pair the Saviour seems straight from the Resurrec-
tion, while the Pope is iu his most gorgeous vest-
ments; the Saviour is commanding him tostrengthen

his brethren. To my- own taste fe,Aing there is

something very painful in the representa'.ton of the
Saviour hi_ the wo.ler., sculpture and paintings here.
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hardly venture to describe it, still less to pretend

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to analyse it. While it is less and less human than
it is in the old masters, it is also less and less
vine, so that I don't know what it is coining t9'
Surely, better nothing than gaunt, dropping, long"
drawn pictures, whica as much as possibe nl23°
nothing. All Italians, and Romans among thew'
look at Madonnas with a re tl, though possibly
mixed, admiration ; fur the truth is, the Madonna
of Art is a healthy, natural, simple, kind-healtea,
woman. Are artists and their employers afiaA
the images and. pictures of the Saviour being
garled with a mixture of feelings ? If
s), diary:
reason aeainst any representation at all, 11w.
giving it a grim, ghastly, aud scarecrow-leolce
sociated with the fleshly realities one secs in it '
to these pictures. He s .tes anything but a 1"1-
etker of our nature. Well, I Inns' leave this ; 0111'
repa,,entationB I speak of happen to constitute
almost half the sculpture. There is a Sent, 1-1
the by, who has made his own bed, anti des ttl'°°
; atal it is a bed of thorns. The pictures are
chiefly modern, but there remain two sides of the
cloister to be filled, and I foresee that the lioasal
Princes will have to contribute a good deal fr°°l
their ries to make up for the absence of It" 1.
There are a great number of large pictures rc-
presenting Jesuit Fathers, and other holy—t°
sometimes very heavy and not very pleasant-look'
ing--emen, lifted off their teet during their '1 ev
Lions, and wa,fte t to Christ on the cross, or up-101
beam of heavenly light, or at least off the grotto'
we tread on. 'l'here is a picture of martyrs 11
prison waiting their turns for death, which
please many who may be unmoved by the
more ambitious subjects. The few pictures al"
ready there from the Old Masters I leave to the
critics. There are half a dozen small pictures will°
I looked on with the more interest that I Wye
wished to see the subject, and shall not. "I'lleS 31'"
views of Monte Casino, the great Benedictluet
monastery between this and Naples, and no dot°
they are put here to plead silently for the preset;
vation of the monastery. There is a vast quaatitl
of tapestry, good, bad, and indifferent, but good for
lining walls, moderating the light, and keeping °IIt
draughts. One thing I had forgotten--a most 1111-
portant personage. In all this glass, china, sculir
Lure, and other fragile matters, there is the univer
sal cat. of the house. It is a most mischievous an
active beast, and has done a fearful amount °f
damage; what is more, it has a pocket like a Cbriw,
tian, and appears to be lavish of its money. ';
name is Victor Emmanuel. It is stated, on iaf3
lible authority, that it has bribed the servants
the Messageries Itnperiales, and the servants an.
porters of all the railways and all the packet eoula
panics trading to Rothe--nay, the very carriers Os'
carters in the city itself—to handle as roughlY
they can all the packages directed to the catheli
Exposition. Under its instigation they have turned
these things upside down, rolled them along the
o
ground, thrown them down from piers ani
vans, drenched them with salt water, and irrePi,
rably injured most of them. The floors of the
position, so I read, though I saw it not, are streW%
with broken arms, legs, and heads, the victims of tbl
creature's malice. A box of glass, worth £20011:
Catholic Germany, having to pass through 1,
euteieion of this formidsble monster, upon he'll°,
opened here was round to contain 'waling but
worthless debris. Nobody doubts who has done it
all. But one cannot help asking,—How is it that tii"
special powers which have worked so many tniracl°
for Rume, on any or no occasion, have faded berj!
this emergency? Why did they not lift these h°"ci.
ft out the ground, waft them over all obstacles, and
even carry them through the air to the Holy City?
Wny have they allowed the enemy of mankind to
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do all this mischief ? Is he in the Exposittan,
smile say he is on a still holier flour, in the veil
sanctum sanctorum of the Council, breaking every
thing to pieces there, and turning everything °I),
side down ?

This reminds tne of another subject. It
model of the memorial of the Council of the Vaticil
now in• the course of construction. It is a tall 31).0
iiand,ome design. Round the base arc lour angel/a
ugures, one holding the cross, another the hall 3%
crossof earthlyand heavenlydominion. The two otber
have open Bibles ou their knees, which, however:
they are not reading, for one is gazing at souietliw,b
above, arid the other at something below. At e
top is a handsome young girl, somewhat strolib
minded, holding a sword, with which she has ill
decapitated au ugly monster with a long tail, still
wreathing and turning the sting towards hcr, Ai3
with the usual claws and bat's wings. A €l°l
heads, though separated by the one successitlf
stroke, still show in death their wonted fires co
envy and malice. Two are human—that is, is'
heads, for the sculptor has not hit on the idea °,
two faces on one head. One is the head of a pilaf°
sopher ; the other, enveloped in a light fold, is tb
English ideal of a widow, but meant, I suppose'
for Sin. It is said that at the present pace of affalr'
the memorial will be finished long before the Coull
cil has done its work, just like the Boulogne pillar
to commemorate the invasion and conquest of 140 l
land. To say nothing of modesty, would it not 13e
common prudence to put off the execution of the
memorial till something has been done at least
ostensibly worthy of it?

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1311-1711 S.
CALDEcoTT -On the 2lst inst., at Yew House HoddeS-
don, llerts, Mrs. Henry Caldeeott, of a daughter.
MIDDLETON—On the 21st inst., at 33, Berkeley-
scinarot
' Mrs. Charles Middleton, of a son.

MARRIAGES.
HARRIS —SAMS—OR the 19th inst., at St. Saviour's, Hane;
hill, Alfred Hobert Harris, of High-street, 80r0w,411 t,
Annie Eliza, eldest daughter of the late Joseph Sault-1
E6q., of Acre-laue, Bi ixton.

D EA T lIS.
HAnnisox— On the 19th inst., at 15, Sutherland-place,
l'iudico, Win. Currio Harrison, Esq., egad 76.
Snow; —On the 19th inst., at Mickleover House, Derby,
Oilley Shore, Esq., of Meersbrook, aged 73.

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Tuesday, February 22, 1870.