The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-19 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

THE OLD NAVY CLUB.—Tae members of the Navy
Club dined together at the Thatched House Tay.-tn,
on Thursday, Rear-Admiral Sir Watkin Owen Peli
was in the chair; and the guest of the evening Was
Colonel Campbell. Among the members present
were Vice-Admiral Sir S. Pym, K.C.8.; Rear-Ad-
miral Deans Dundas, C. 8., M.P. ; R,ar-Admiral Sir
C. Napier, K.C.B. ; Rear-Admiral Sir W. Dillon,
K.C.B. ; Captain Houston Srewart, C B.; Captain
Mike, Captain the Hon. R. S. Dundas, C. 8., Captain
Dalyell, &c.
We regret to learn 010 Admiral Sir Eiward Cod-
rington, G.C.8., still lies in a very dangerous state,
and is not expected to survive many days.
Admiral the E srl Dundonald, G C B , was at St.
Vincent, March 10, and was to leave the following
day fur Bermuda,
.to await the arrival of his suc-
cessor, Vice-Admiral Sir G. P. Seymour, C. 8.,
K.O K. _ _ _

Captain Kellett, C.B , in the Herald, surveying-
vessel, has arrived in Simon's Bay, on his way to
England. We are sorry to announce the demise
of Pay master and Purser Thomas Woodward, of
that vessel. The Harald may be hourly expected.
She has been in commission for an unusually
period, Captain Kellett's appointment being dated
Feb. 8, 1845.
Lieut. Harvey, now serving in the Firebrand,
steam-frigee, returns to the Ceylon as flag-lieutenant
to his father, R.-ar• Admiral Superintendent Harvey,
of Malta Dockyard.

As the National Exhibition of Paintings, just
open for the season, the counterpart of our Royal
Academy Exhibition, was temptingly near, we could
not evade the duty of inspecting it. Art in England
must be at a very low ebb ; at least I do not remem-
ber any exhibition for many years which the critics
have not declared to be of " inferior merit," " a
great number of moderate productions," " few of
sterling merit or with pretensions to high art," &c.
That may be quite true, but I wish our Angelo Tit-
marahes could just take half an hour's stroll through
this display of Danish talent. The Danes have pro.
, duced great sculptors. Their paintings are coloured
statuary when they treat animated subjects, and their
, landscapes are as hard, crude, and clear as the
daguerreotype sketches in our shop windows. Out of
204 subjects contained at this exposition of the ICon-
gelige Akademie, there was not one historical picture
—not one piece of a higher order than imitations of
Dutch cabinet pictures, frigid landscapes, and stiff,
spiritless portraits. The late war had given its in .
epiration to some of the artists, and we saw some very
vigorous episodes on canvas. The " Episode of
Slaget ved Fredericia," by M. Simonson, is a vivid
representation of men in green and brown, stabbing,
shooting, and bayoneting each other, with a large
display of men in theatrical agonies, and, with " the
Battle of Idstedt," a piece of the same character, by
M. Sonne, is entitled to notice for a certain precise
force and cold reality. The landscapes are frightful.
Turner, in his wildest moments, never dashed gam-
boge and yellow ochre over his trees in a more
reckless manner than our Copenhagen Acade-
micians. Their gkiea are of unadulterated ultra-
marine, the perspective Gothic, and the taste
and selection of subjects, to my eyes,
decidedly bad. I would except from the general list
of portrait-painting mediecrity M. Baumann, who
has a fine manner and rich colour. The fruit sub-
jects, principally by Jensen and Ottesen, are far
superior to the rest of the exhibition. It was, how-
ever, interesting to see the decided and hearty way in
which the spectators criticised the paintings, and jus-
tice compels me to add, the national taste is so far
cultivated that the largest groups were round the best _
ejm—edytflOr' 1 I old° w4l'V'so u nldr,s),:t4ned,
n obstinates.
Ointment ard
efforts of exhibitors. Although the walls are only
whitewashed, the light was tar better than can beuTnlSivE,ArlsaElNTEi
Sores.— Mr. John Mackie, proprietor of the
afforded in any public building here, and the room- 5 PillsCAaprevEila
Wick, informs Professor Holloway, by letter dated, Anrir 3":
were so extensive that every artist had fair play ; ' if,sl, that he is aware of numerous instances in which Hollo-
-1 and the rawest signboard daub of a green boat in a was 's Ointment and Pills have been of the greatest service to
sky.blaie sea, with amber waves and verdigris tfratehse, sufferers in that part of thaendcountry, more especially as regards
wounds of long standing
had as good a chance as the best battle-piece o i
.._ cured by their use. No fern ly
the names of many respectable ctable that
te
esoWihd-; hifaLerbnneletnteentigrei Iv
best artist. A dinner, a visit to the Casino, whichorlight
i must in proprie►y state to be a theatre for
it
wasnt theseh excellent medicines, which are so justly celebrated
shouldparie be without a supply of
attrughout the civilised world.—Sold by all Druggist', and
comedy and vaudevilles, finished the day,
htatbeir bees Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London.
with no small anxiety the voyagers sought
the ten- 1
at an early hour, and there wrestled with. ex A ri,
J.ERRIGLE EDITOR.—At a public dinner at
If the " martYrsa"d
sive mattresses, which their English notions led them Galway last week, Nr. J. F. Blake, editor , f a Galw 17
of over their per- paper, said' lie h
hadtaken ac business of ' 8.
to imagine should be under instead active part i
vice. the English Go-
taken
sons, until they gave up the contest as hopeless, Ind
vert m t'
en would have another story
pared and submitted a plan to tell !He had pre• i
Inserted themselves between two layers of feath. r
in '4B, which, if it had been
wool, and pad line, which, with the aid of a posse ful
completelyothers, would have
stove, pled by Smith O'Brien and the
of England! He had
stove, soon satisfied them for the want of blanket
Next day ( had the honour ofs
.
(Thursday) we being overturned the
proposed that, there should be taken hundred anickedmen
power
nd that fory of these should be
invited to an interview with Count Sponneck, the —each man like himself
to!' Portsmouth, and on a certain
Minister of Finance, whose connexion with the re- sent to Liverpool, thirty
and burn down the English fleet,
his name
cent negotiations has caused to be gene- day and hour to set fire to
i aud at one WOW to destroy the GroYernmeatt
1

Thetis, 38, Captain Kuper, C. 8., is ordered to pro-
ceed from the Brazil station to the Pacific station.
Caradoc, steam-vessel, Lieut.-Commander Dern-
man, is ordered to call at Devonport, on her way to
the Mediterranean, from Woolwich.
Tartarus, 3, steam vessel, Lieut.-Commander Risk,
will be ready fur sea by the Ist of May.
Athol, store-ship, Lieut.-Commander Pearce, ar-
rived at Sierra Leone, from Devonp )rt, March 20.
Falmouth, lighter, Carrick, master, arrived at De-
vonport, with stores from Woolwich, on Wednesday.
Vulture, steam-frigate, in charge of Mr. Biddle-
combe, master, of the St. Georga., returned to Devon •
port, with the relief from Pendennis Castle, on Thurs-
day morning.
Qaail, lighter, Iveney, master, put into Plymouth
Sound on Thursday morning, from a foul wind, laden
with stores from Pembroke, bound to Portsmouth.

Notice has been given to the late officers and crew
of her nijesty's steatn-vet,sel Cyclops, the Hon.
George Hastings captain, by Messrs. Burnett and
Wynne, that an account of bounties, &c., received tOr
the undermentioned captures, will be forthwith depo-
sited in the registry of the Migh Court of Admiralty,
Successo, captured Dec. 25, 1848 ; Espe-
rance, captured May 10, 1849.
Notice has been given to the officers and crew of
her Majesty's steam-sloop Grappler, entitled to share
for the tonnage bounty granted for the capture of the
Brazilian schooner Diana, on the 11th April, 1849,
by Messrs. Ommanney and Co., that a distribution of
the net proceeds will be made at No. 40, Charing-
cross, on the 14th of May, 1851, the shares
not then paid will be recalled at the same place,
according to Act of Parliament. Amount of an
in-
dividual share :—Flag, 6/ 12s. 6.1. ; lieutenant Com-
manding., 13/. 10'- 114. ; fourth clasg, 3/ 71. 8,1.,
fifth, 3/. 04. 11A.; sixth, 2/. Os. 7d.; seventh, 1/. 133.
10.1. ; eighth, U. 7s. ld.; ninth, Os. tenth,
134. te t 1:
134. 5.
; eleventh, 10s. Id. ; twelth, 6 9 ; thir-
teenth, ss.