The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-07 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.

(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.
STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE.

The following Resolutions were reported from the above
Committee : _ _ _

1. That in the case of the Cameron's Coalbrook Steam
Coal and Swansea and Loughor Railway (No. 2), petition
for leave to deposit a petition for a Bill, the standing orders
ought to be dispensed with :—That the parties be permitted
to deposit their petition accordingly.
2. That in the case of the Manchester, Buxton, Mat-
lock, and Midland Junction Railway, petition for dispensing
with standing order No. 121, the said standing order ought
not to be dispensed with.
3. That in the case of the Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe,
and West Yorkshire Railway Bill, petition for dispensing
with standing orders Nos. 105 and 166, the said standing
orders ought not to be dispensed with.
4. That in the case of the Midland Railway (Purchase
of Leeds and Bradford Railway, and Increase of Capital) Bill,
petition for dispensing with standing order No. 134, the said
standing order ought to be dispensed with, provided a clause
be inserted in the Bill, enacting, that in the event of the
Act 7 and 8 Victoria, cap. 85, coming into operation as
regards the Midland Railway Company, the capital of
that company shall be held for the purposes of that
Act to be increased only by the amount of the capital of
the Leeds and Bradford Railway Company, viz., the sum of
900,0001.; and that the borrowing powers of the Midland
Railway Company shall not be increased beyond the borrow-
ing powers now possessed by the Leeds and Bradford Railway
Company.
That the Committee on the Bill do report how far this
order has been complied with on the Report of the Bill.
First and fourth Resolutions agreed to.—Report to lie on
the table.

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFOR
REFORM ASSOCIATION.
(EVERY MONDAY AND WEDNESDAY.)
Sir,—On Monday the stb, considerable interest
attached to the declaration of the Government as to its
future proceedings on the subject of the Income Tax.
The Minister declared with frankness, that the Govern-
ment bowed to the decision of the House whereby the
Income Tax was only given for one year; but he an-
nounced with equal clearness, that the arranged system
of taxation, including removal of Window Tax and
alteration of Coffee and Timber duties, could not go on
unless the House agreed that there should be no more
changes.
,On Tuesday a Resolution was moved in Committee of
the whole House, for proceeding to lighten the charges
on the agriculturists, by substituting an equalized Poor's
Rate in England and Wales. This is the first appearance
noted in the House, of an idea which has been several
times met with out of doors. Surely if an invention
were wanted fur increasing the expense of maintaining
paupers, nothing could be discovered like determining
that ono set of men should everywhere spend, and
another should pay. There appeared to be considerable
unanimity in this persuasion; and the motion was con-
sequently withdrawn.
A Motion followed by Lord Naas, for' a Committee
to take into consideration the present mode of levying
the duty on home-made spirits in bond. The Govern-
ment resisted it, on the ground so Strongly put forward
on former occasions, of the necessity for maintaining the
duties it is least desirable to alter, as the means of al-
tering those it is most. The motion resulted in a vote
of 159 against 159; and the Speaker, according to some
rule existing on such occasions, gave his casting vote for
the motion, which was consequently carried. The
Member for Sheffield proceeded to what in pulpit phrase
is called " improve the occasion;' by asking the Minister
if he did not thereupon intend to resign. The Minister
replied with firmness, that he should take his own
counsel. There appeared some probability of a second
division, on the question being proposed in the Com-
mittee; but it finally ended in reporting progress, and
the question is to come on again on Friday.
The theory of all this is clear. '1:h? Protectionists
are so strong, that whoever cbuses to join with them, as
in the actual case the representatives of the Irish and
Scotch distillers, may show a powerful front. Thus at
the present moment, the fates of Europe anu the world
perhaps hang upon whiskey.
I am, Sir, yours very sincerely,
AN OLD REFORMER.
London, 7 May, 1051.

THE HON. MRS. NOBTON'S
NEW NOVEL, "STUART
DuNLEATn ."—The .Examiner, in its notice of this charm-
ing story, says :—" Like the crystal fountain among the
fountains of the Crystal Palace, this novel shines among the
new novels of the year lire-eminent and peerless. No prose
work of equal power has yet come from the pen of Mrs.
Norton, and we are glad to announce her return to a field of
composition which she has already so successfully cultivated,
by a notice of the present contribution of her genius to the
vast wilderness of novelty, instruction, and delight which
May has opened to our metropolis. Stuart of Dunleath' is
a very beautiful and touching story. While Eleanor and
Margaret are each, in their several ways, among the most
lovely creations that ever graced a romance or a home, the
subordinate characters are likewise remarkable for the mas-
terly touch and boldindividuality with which they are. drawn."
[ADVERTISEMENT.] —Beni Life in London, of May
4, gave over three columns of cricketing, including a column
of the opening dinner at Grillon's Hotel—names of the
thirty-five new members—the All-England Matches to
come, &c.—and also five columns of the four days' doings
at Chester, &C., &c. The average sale of Bell's Life exceeds
regularly published at four
ot
ci
lrotcykt hoonuss aant
ud
r.
d.aßye/l's
morning,L ie iis
n
time for all the morning
mails and railways.

The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa gives an ac-
count of the receipts and expenditure of the Turin and Novi
Railroad during the year 1850. The total receipts amounted
to 1,68 1671., and the expenses to 1,036,911 f. ; thus leaving
a net profit of 661,255 f. The average circulation was 700
passengers per day.

I

ILL: it 0 Ai.l C D M 11.
TiItiVATE VIEIV
Expectations of the most lively claseeiption had been
formed as to the character of the exhibition for the pre-
sent season of the Royal Academy. It was, conse-
quently, with no little iaterest and with no small degree
of curiosity that we attended the private view of the col-
lection on Friday. Having, rather fortunately, attended
upon that occasion immediately after the visit of her
Msjesty and the Prince Consort, we were enabled to
talte an almost uninterrupted survey of the paintings
hung upon the walls previously to the arrival of the dis-
tinguished visitors, by whom the various apartments
were subsequently crowded rather inconveniently
We .were, therefore, enabled to form a more i tis
dtcieusly-considered • estismita of the merits of the
display than is usually permitted to the critic upon simi-
lar occasions. Not only most cordially, but LilO3G con -
weatiously also, we find ourselves enabled to cougratu-
lete the members and stesoo".ates of this great national
institution of the fine arts upon the numerous and bril-
liant evidences they have of srcled this year of the capa-
city of the English sat 00l of peintieg throughout the
whole variety of its manifold departments. When it is
Considered that our artists will have their productions
during the present season sub:Lined to the cen.iderti-
tion of so many intelligent travellers from the continent,
accustomed in their own country to depreciate
our students of the brush through ignorance
of what they ; Lave actually accomplished, and
educated' themselves. to the full uppreciation of tile
Ben-
ner'• art by being familiarised with the masterpieces
collected together in the galleries of France, of Belgium,
slid or Italy—the more:tbau ordinary success achieved
just now by our Academicians will he a source, we feel,
of very general satisfaction. It should be remembered,
moreover, as a means of enhancing these pleasurable
sentiments, that the testimonies of more than customary
excellence here referred to have been) ielded by a very
great majority of the cornributors, and are rpecimene,
consequently, in almost every one of the various classes
of pictorial composition. Almost each one among the
number of the principal Academicians has striven appa-
rently to sustain the repute acquired in accumulative
force during so many years by themselves and their
predecessors, and two only of any. very wide celebrity
have refrained from participating in this elevated com-
petition for applause. These defaulters are no other
than Turner and Mulready—for we cannot accept the
little sketch painted as far back as 1809 by the latter,
and numbered 168 in the catalogue, as anything at all
approaching to a substantial contribution. Regretting
toe absence, however, of these illustrious artists, as the
public will inevitably do, it cannot but be acknowledged
that they have earned for themselves by their many
great achievements the privilege of reposing upon their
laurels now, in the ripened season of their genius, and
the autumn of their popularity. Deprived of their aid,
nevertheless, the Royal Academy collection for 18M
has proved itself worthy of being viewed contemporane-
ously with the great Industrial Exhibition. From the
miraculously executed historical pictures of Maclise to
the animal paintings of Landseer, from the inimi
table landscapes of Stanfield to the fruit pieces
of Lance, from the classical compositions of
Dyce to the marvellous meadow scenery of Lee
and Cooper, throughout the whole diversified range
of art, from its loftiest to its lowliest department, we may
discover examples sometimes of masterly skill, and
sometimes of the noblest inspiration. Not that we
would pretend for a moment that all of the chief con-
tributors have proved in this instance equally successful,
or alike entitled to share in these widely-distributed ex-
pressions of admiration. On the contrary, some, from
whom better things might have been anticipated, have
revealed a lamentable decline of power, or a yet more
lamentable perverseness of taste. W hat, for example,
could possibly be said by way of extenuating the
derision which must necessarily descend upon
tho veteran head of Uwins for (No. 35) his
very hideous and fantastic picture of Ulysses,
with the yellow figure in the foreground? Even
Maclise's remarkable painting (No. 67) of " Caxton's
Printing-officein the Almonry at Westminster," in some
respects the most astonishingly finished picture in the
Gallery, cannot altogether escape the blame attached to
a work containing not one elevated sentiment, not one
suggestive incident, not one veritable manifestation of
character, not one countenance with anything like a
genuine flesh-tint, not one line of vigorous expression
thrown into the features of even the principal person-
ages represented. Edward tho Fourth himself
might stand for the effigy of a great lubberly
boy, and Caxton be nothing nobler than a very cadave-
rous old gentleman, but that their intended identity is
marked in black and white upon the seventh page of the
catalogue, Failures of this description are scarcely com-
pensated, wo imagine, by the most amazing evidence of
ingenuity in the details, by the depicting of rusty nails,
end damp letter-press, and deal frameworks so strangely
actual in their semblance as to reveal even the grain of
the wood and the influence of dry-rot on its particles.
Dyce, unlike Maclise, has contributed a really splendid
production, also in its subject relating to
our national literature—a work of caring
simplicity in design, of surprising energy
in conception, and of the most satisfactory finish in re-
gard to the mere manipulation of the painting, devoid
at once of unnecessary minuteness and unpardonable
affectation. We allude, of course, to' (No. 77) his
" Kina Lear and the Fool in the Storm," a work in
which,' with a true Shaksperian eye to contrast, he has
blended together the grotesque and the pathetic, the
fantastic and the sublime, placing in the midst of a tu-
multuous agitation of the atmosphere the old mad
King, crowned as with a diadem of calamities,
and that strange comrade of his—the most mar-
vellous of all the marvellous Fools of the
most wonderful of all wonderful Dramatists. In
Lear the artist has proved his extraordinary powers,
among other things, by a rather uncommon and adven-
turous achievement, namely by depicting him fore-
shortened with flowing draperies, a labour of ingenuity
almost miraculous in its accomplishment. In the Fool
ho has effected yet more, ho has demonstrated a wild
and subtle imagination, whether we look upon that face
gross and almost bestial in its lack of " speculation,"
yet delicate and almost beautiful in the tenderness of its
half-awakened solicitude, or regard that attitude so en-
tirely expressive of carelessness in the negligent tossing
up of the feet as Motley lies full length upon his chest
along the heath. Standing in front of the picture
we can fancy to ourselves the weird and howling sough
of the wind blowing among the silver tresses of Lear and
jangling the tawdry bells of the Fool in the midst of the roar-
ing of the thunder and of the hurricane. Landseer, not less
than Dyce, surpasses himself this season by a brilliant
and admirable illustration of Shakspere. His theme is
(No. 157) the love scene between " Bottom and
Titania"—tho weaver with a head so astoundingly
asinine, and the enamoured queen of the fags with a
face and figure so exquisitely suggestive of Fairy-
land! Even to the little bronze-complexioned
elf in the foreground, standing with his
tiny muscular legs astraddle in front of
the clownish victim of the metamorphosis, daring him
with all the pluck of a microscopic audacity, to the other
and daintier elves swarming about the rest of the green-
wood, dangling from the branches, shaking down the
dewdrops, or riding on those visionary rabbits with eyes
as pink as any shade of mother-o'-pearl, and wool as fleecy
as eider down. The production is a delightful example
of those rare powers which have recently gained this
master his knighthood. Leslie, striving equally with
the foregoing to realize the dreams of the same immor-
tal poet, has endeavoured to. depict (No. 140) "Falstaff
personating the King;" but neither the Prince, nor the
rascally old wit, his companion, can be regarded as
o in
non
Any respect successful performances. The hostess,ceis
led
the other hand, is the most sniggering of fu 7
housewives, Francis the most dapper and conspiaissaenatoodf
tapsters, and Bardolph, with his red bulbous n
his drooping eyelids, the most self-possessed and self-
satisfied of, topers. Webster might bo said almost
as truthfully as Turner and Mulready to have refrained
from sharing in the present season's competition ; for
we can scarcely be tempted to accept as tokens of his
ability the three trifling studies (Nos. 106, 106,
and 173) he has this year contributed to
the Exhibition. Not so Witherington, whose
sylvan representation of (No. 179) " Midsummer " is
a masterpiece of rare and fascinating excellence.
To the very robin feeding its young upon the ,foot
trail through the copse, the artist's labours in this
charming picture have been grateful in every par-
ticular. Stanfield's (No. 196) " Battle of Roveredo,"
one of his large war-scenes, in which a con-
fused assemblage of fighting-men, is introduced in a vast
and mountainous landscape, paintod,as Stanfield alone
canspaint it, will be:viewed, we doubt not, with universal
pleasure as a fine example of the manner of this di-
tinguished artist in, his very happiest mo-
ments. Throughout the picture has been "worked
up" with an extraordinary regard to its com-
pleteness, whether it be, for instance, in the
faintest veil of clouds on the Alpine ridgeS, or in the
smouldering beam of wood tumbled among the ruins in
the valley. Poole's noble painting of (No. 344) " The
Goths in Italy"—the only work rom his hand in the
collection, but one which cannot fail to elevate and en-
hence his reputation very remarkably—arrests the at-
tention of the visitor as one of the most successful pro-
ductions in the exhibition, and this, moreover, in the
very highest school of art. The subject appears
to have been suggested by the following gorgeous
passage from Gibbon's " Decline and Fall":
" And the principal warriors insulted the hills and
gardens once inhabited by Lucullus and Cicero, along
the beauteous coasts of Campania. Their trembling
captives, the sons and daughters of Roman senator!,
presented, in goblets of gold and gems, large draughts
of Falernian wine, to the haughty victors, who stretchedne-trees,
their huge limbs under the shade plane-trees,
and
t
f
artificially disposed to exclude the scorcbu
to admit the genial warmth of the sun. These delights
csmp wereisen
comparison
enhanced by the memory of past hardships t
of their native soil, the bleak and barren lids of Scythia, and
the frozen banks of the Elbe and Danube, added new charms
to the felicity of the Italian climates pp ,
."
aragrah the artist
Taking his inspiration from
hin a composi.
has, with the powerful hand oif.:a
master,
ali
lion of marvellous beauty, realised the golden and vo-
luptuous fancies of the annst. To these, moreover,
he has added the fruits of his i
own poetical perceptivity,
and of a sensuous and abounding magination. In group-
L. .l 3 everywhere immeasurably superior to
group-
ing
othrepowrs previous productions, while in colouring,
also, wo cannot but regardtbaew‘hqoulli' impracticable with
lY
triumphant over
every difficulty. What
would l
most men be has fully accomplished—imparting to
his
tissh-tints in the open air ell the glowing warmth of
vitality. The naked figure towards the centre is sur-
prisingly perfect in its aeatemical proportions ;
and the betiding form of the handmaid in chequered
light and shade, is an exquisite episode to the
main composition. Later on we may take occasion to

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decoy exhilii..ion. Among theie" the cleituiligAvrwslibquby
jointly ' p?oduced by Lee and Cooper, occupy a
conspicuous .positimai, together with tLe charming
mythological pictures. of: Frost. • and Pickersgill, the
Wilkie-like.productions of labodol, and the humorous
paintings cf- Frith. of Egg, and of Solomons.
Never befoie, perhaps, were the rooms of the
Academy so alArmingly -crocirded with portraits;
but, fortunately, they represent this year so many of our
eminent contemporeries, that they are in some measure
invested-with interest and redeemed from monotony.

During. the private. 'View of Fridtty we observed an,
unusual attendance of notabilities, and on the following
day the annind dinner-. given by the Academicians and
the as6ociales past;ed off with a success in the highest de—
gree satisfactory.

NEWPORT, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
REPRESENTATION 01? THE ISLE OF WIG-BT.
The rebignatien of Mr. C. Cavendish Clifford mused
groat rejoicings in the Tory camp yesterday, but gioom
earn° with the morrow in the shape of the underntien-
ticned cddres:s, from Rlsvard Dawes, Eq., of St-
flelen'.q, u 'rivestaut, a. Liberal, a Free Tradar, and a
Refo.ccurr. lle solicits the sut,lreges of the electors, and
add , "It isi my firm intention tts go to the poll!" " Oh,
drao." rays the Tories, " then vve cannot." He has
canvassed Itydr.,auch obtained a great majority of the
votes. lie addresses the Newport elector!: this even-

"TO TUE ELECTORS OF THE COUNTY OF 'HIE ISLE OF
wroirr.
Gentlemen,—Having been solicited by a respectable
myself to be rwopoeed as a
beds. of the elector.; to allow-
candidate Cor the representation of the Isle of Wigan, 1 have
consented, in conasquence of the retirement of Mr. Clifford,
to the application.
4, Possessing property in land, I am deeply interested in
the prosperity of the agricultural classes; but I am
thoroughly satisfied that the free-trade policy of the present
day has produced a higher degree of happiness and con-
tentment amongst the people, and greater prosperity /o the
kingdom at large, than would have been obtained under the
old system of corn-laws and high duties upon the general
food of the population. In my opinion, free trade has not
only increased the comforts of the working-classes, but it has
disarmed the disaffected of every, pretence for hostility to
Government, and probably saved the country from confusion
and ruin. At the same time, I deeply lament that the tran-
sition from protection to free trade has 'entailed any amount
of distress on the agriculturists; and I think it due to that
valuable class of the community, that l'alliament should in-
vestigate their complaints, and give them every possible
relief, short of taxing the food of the
people. I believe,
however, that, while Parliament may devise some remedy,
the landlords themselves must do much in the re-adjust-
ment of rents to the actual state of things; more especially
as they themselves participate in the general prosperity of
the country consequent on the reduction of taxation and
the cheapening of all the necessariesiand many of the com-
forts of life.
" With respect to Papal Aggression, I would resist every
pretension of Popery which is inconsistent with the dignity
of this country, and with our civil and religious rights; and
especially I would support any measure for placing convein-
tual establishments under salutary inspection, and for regu-
lating bequests devised for religious or charitable uses. I
would restrict the Church of Rome to the same amount of
religious liberty, and the same means for its propagation, as
are enjoyed by other religious denominations.
" As a member of the Church of England, I am mortified
to perceive that the aggressions of the Papacy have been en-
couraged by a party within the Establishment. My own ar-
dent desire is to see that Church administered according to
the intentions of our noble Reformers. I should wish to see
its internal administration reformed, and its revenues more
equally distributed, so as to render them subservient to the
happiness and usefulness of the great body of the clergy.
With regard to the Dissenting bodies, I cheerfully admit the
immense services they have rendered to the cause of Chris-
tianity in every part of the British empire, and I shall al-
ways be ready, as far as I can, to aid in maintaining their
rights and privileges.
" I am prepared to consent to a well-considered measure
for the extension of the suffrage, so as to keep pace with the
increasing education and influence of the people, believing
that in proportion as the foundations of our constitution can
be safely enlarged, the fabric itself is strengthened.
" In conclusion, I have only to say that, so far as depends
on me, the canvass for your suffrage shall be carried on in a
spirit of fairness and candour towards those electors who
differ from me, and that, if elected as your representative, I
shall endeavour to serve you faithfully.
" It is my firm inteution to go to the poll.
" Should the shortness of time or other circumstances pre-
vent a personal canvass, I trust that this plain statement of
my principles will be deemed satisfactory by the great body
of the electors.
" I have the honour to be, gentlemen, your obedient
servant, " EDWARD DAWES.
" St Helen's House, St. Helen's, Isle of Wight,
May 6, 1851."