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

MAY 7,

EVENING,

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS

.From the Yctes and Proceedings of the House of Commons)

T UESDAY, -MAY 6.

lIOME-MADE SPIRITS IN BOND.

Motion made, and Question proposed, "That this House
do resolve itself into a Committee to take into consideration
the present mode of levying the Duty on Home-made
Spirits in Bond." The House divided:—

AYES-159.
Fox, Richard 31. Miles, William
Fox, S. L. Moffatt, George
Freslifielti, J. W. Monsell, William
Frewen, C. H. Moody, C. A.
Fuller, A. E. Moore, G. H.
Galway, Miscount Millings, J. R.
Gilpin, Colonel Murphy, F. S.
Gooch, E. S. Napier Joseph
Goold, Wnydham Newdegate, N.
Gordon, Admiral Norreo,.Sir D.
Gore, W. R. 0. O'Brien Sir:Luclna
Grace, 0. D. O'Brien, Sir T.

Anstey, Thomas
Are Captala
Arkwright, George
Bagge, William
Baillie, H. J.
Baird James
Bankes, G.
Barron, Sir H.
Barrow, W. H.
Bateson, Thomas
Bennet, Philip
&Mina, Lord H.

Beresforci, William Granby, Marquis of O'Connell, John
Berkeley G. F. Grattan, Henry O'Connell, M. J.
Bernard, V iscount Greenall, G. O'Flaherty, Anthony
Best, John Greene, John Ossulton, Lord
Blake, M. J. Grogan, Edward Pakington, Sir J.
Blaudford, Marquis Halsey, T. P. Plumptre, J. P.
Boldero, George H. Hamilton, G. A. Power, Dr.
Booth, Sir R. G. Hamilton, J. H. Power, Nicholas
Brooke, Lord Harris, Captain Rawdon, Colonel
Brooke, Sir Arthur Hastie, Alexander Rendlesham, Lord
Bruen, Colonel Hayes, Sir E. Repton, G. W. J.
Buck, L. W. Henley, J. W. Reynolds, John
Bunbury, W. Herbert, 11. A. Roche, E. B.
Burghley, Lord Higgins, George Sadleir, John .
Burroughes, IL N. Hildyard, R. C. Scott, Francis
Campbell, W. F. Hildyard, T. B. Scully, Francis
' Cayley, Edward S. Hill, Lord E. Sibthorp, Colonel •
Chichester, Lord J. Hodgson, W. N. Somers, J. P.
Child, r"mith Hotham, Lord Somerset, Captain
Christopher, R. JollitTe, Sir W. H. Spooner, R.
Clive, H. B. Jones, Captain Stuart, Lord J.
Cobbold, John C. Keating, Robert • Stuart, John •
Colvile, C. R. Keogh, William Stuart, H.
Conolly,Thomas Langton, W. H. P. Sullivan, Michael
Cowan, Charles Lascelles, E. Talbot, J. H.
Crawford, W. S. Lawless, Cecil Taylor, T. E.
Dawson, T. V. , Lennox, Lord A. Tenison, Edward K.
Deedes, W. Lennox, Lord H. G. Tollemache, John
Devereux, John T. Lewisham, Viscount Tyler, Sir G. ,
Disraeli, B. Lockhart, W. Tyrell, Sir J.
Dod, J. W. Lowther, Colonel Verner, Sir W.
Duncan, George Macaghten, Sir E. Vesey, Thomas
Dunne, Colonel M'Cullagh, W. T. Vyse, R. H. R. H.
Edwards, H. M`Gregor, John Waddington, 11. S.
Farrer, James M'Neill, Duncan Walmsley, Sir J.
Ferguson, Sir R. Maher, N. Walsh, Sir J. B.
Filmer, Sir E. Meagher, Thomas Whiteside, James
Fitzpatrick, J. W. Mandeville, Vis. Wodehouse, E.
Floyer, John Manners, Lord J. Wynn, H. W.
Forbes, W. March, Earl of =LIM
Forester, G. C. Maunsell, T. P. Naas, Lord
Fortescue, Chichester Maxwell, Hon. J. P. Hume, Joseph

Acland, Sir T.
Adair, Hugh E.
Adair, R. Shafto
Alcock, Thomas
Anderson, Arthur
Anson, Colonel
Armstrong, R. B.
Eagshaw, John
Raines, M. T.
Baring, Sir F. T.
Bass, M. T.
Bell, Jacob
Bellew, M.
Berkeley, Admiral
Berkeley, H. F.
Berkeley. C. L. G.
Bernal, Ralph
Blackstone, W. S.

NOES-159.
Ellice, Edward
Elliot, John E.
Estcourt, J. B.
Evans, J .

Ogle, S. C.
Owen, Sir John
Paget, Lord A.
Paget, Lord C.
Palmerston, Via.
Parker, John
Peel, Sir Robert
Peel, Frederick
Perfect, Robert
Pigott, Francis
Ricardo, John L.
Rice, E. R.
Rich, Henry
Robartes, T. J. A.
Roebuck, J. A.
Romilly, Colonel
Romilly, Sir John
Russell, Lord John
Russell, F. C.
Salwey, Colonel
Scrope, G. P.
Seymour, H. D.
Seymour, Lord
Shafto, R. D.
Smith, Vernon
Smith, John Abel
Somerville, Sir W.
Stanton, W. H.
Strickland, Sir G.
Talbot, C. ,It.
Tancred, H. W.
Thicknesse, R. A.
Thompson, Colonel
Thornely, T.
Townley, R. G.
Trelawny, J. S.
Trevor, Thomas
Verney Sir H.
Vivian, J. H.
Watkins, Colonel
Wellesley, Lord C.
West, F. R.
Westhead, J. P.
Willcox, Brodie
Williams, Johu
Williams,
Wilson, James
Wood, Sir Charles
Wood, Sir W. P.
Wrightson, W. B.
Wyvill, liarmaduke

Ferguson, Col.
Fitawilliam, G. W.
Fordyce, A. D.
Forster, Matthew
Fortescue, J. W.
Freesturi, Colonel
Gallwey, Sir W. P.
Gibson, T. M.

Greaten, C. Pascoe
Grey, Sir George
Grey, R. W. _

Grosvenor, Lord R.
Hall, Sir B.
Hallyburton, Lord
Hanmer, Sir John
Harris, Richard
Ilatchell, John
Hawes, B.
Henry, Alexander
Ileywood, James
Heyworth, L.
'Lindley, C.

Baird, James
Blewitt R. J.

Bowles, Admiral
Boyle, Colonel,
Bright, John
Brocklehurst, J.
Brockman, E. D.
Brothertou, J.
Bulkeley, Sir H. B.
Bunbury, E. H.
Cardwell, Edward
Carter, J. B.

Hobhouse, T. B.
llodges, T. L.
Howard, Lord E.
Hutchins, E. J.
Hutt, William
Jackson, William
Johnstone, Sir.J.
Ring, P. J.
Labouchere, 11.
Langston, J. H.
Lawley, B. R.

Cavendish, C. C.
Cavendish, G. H.
Cavendish, W. U
Chaplin„W. J.
Clay, James

Clay, Sir W.

Clerk Sir G.
Cobden, Richard
Cockburn, Sir A.
Colebrooks, Sir T.
Collins, William
Cowper, W. F.
Craig, Sir W. G.
Crowder, R. B.
Currie, Raikes
Denison,,J. E.
D'Eyncourt, T.
Divett, E.
Douglas, Sir C.
Duke, Sir James
Duncan, Lord
Dundas, Admiral
Dundas, Sir David
Ebringtoli, Lord

Lewis, Sir T.
Lewis, G. C.

Littleton, E. B.
Loveden, Pryse
M'Taggart, Sir J.
Mangles, B. D.
Martin, C. W.
Matheson, Sir J.
Maule, Fox
Milner. W. M.
Moncrielf, James
Morris, David
Mosty-n, E. M. L.
Mowatt, Francis
Mulgrave, Earl
Nieholl, J.
Norreys, Lord

TELLERS.
Hayter, W. G.
Hill, Lord Marcus

The following Members paired on Lord Naas's motion :
FOR. AGAINST.
Sturt, H. G. Paget, Lord G.
Du Pre, C. G. Tufnell, Right Hon. H.
Mundy, W. Lemon, Sir C.'
Stafford, A. Mitchell, T. A.
Halford, Sir H. Melgund, Lord.
buncombe, Hon. A. Howard, Hon. E. G.
Farnham, E. B. Evans, William.
Mr. O'Flaherty paired, in favour of Mr. H ume's motion on
the income-tax, with Mr. T. buncombe, &L.P. for Finsbury,
against.
Mr. H. B. Clive, paired, in favour of Mr. Hume's amend-
ment, with Mr. Slaney, against.
Mr. Adderley paired all night with Mr. Sheridan.

1851.

THE- RO YAL ACADEM Y.
(PRIVATE VIEW.)
Expectations of the most lively description had been
formed as to the character of the exhibitiorik fOr the pre-
sent season of the Royal Academy. It was, conse-
quently, with no little interest and with-tio' 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
w
Id4jesty and the Prince Consort, wo ere enabled to
take an (limit uninterrupted survey of the paint,ings
hung upon the walls previously to the arrival of the dis-
tinguished visitors; by whoa' the fariopi.apartments
were- subsequently crowded rather inconveniently.
We were, therefOre, enabled to form a more rju..
dlciously-considered estimate of the merits of the
display than is usually permitted to the critic upon simi-
lar occasions. Not only most cordially, but most con-
scientiously also, wo find ourselves enabled to congratu-
late the members and associates of this great national
institution of the fine arts upoa the numerous •and bril-
liant evidences they have afforded this year of the capa-
city of the English school of painting throughout the
whole, variety of its manifold departments. • When it is
considered that our artists will have their productions
during the present season submitted to the considera-

tion of so many intelligent travelliers from the continent,
accustomed in their own country to depreciate
our students 'of the brush through ignorance
of what they have actually accomplished, and
educated themselves to the full appreciation of the lim-
ner's art by being familiarised- with the'ntaasterpieces
collected together in the galleries of France, of Belgium,
and of Italy—the more than ordinary success achieved
just now by our Academicians will be 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 yielded by a very
great majority of the contributors, and are specimens,
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-
-1 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 163 in the catalogue, as anything at all
approaching to a substantial contribution. Regretting
tne absence, however, of these illustrious' artists, as the
public will inevitably do, it cannot but be acknowledged
that they have earned for themselves byttheir many
great achievements the privilege of reposing upon their
laurels now, in the rifiened season of their genius, and
the autumn of their popularity. Deprived of their aid,
nevertheless, the Royal Academy collection for 1851
has proved itself worthy of being niewed contemporane-
ously with the great Industrial Exhibition. From the
miraculously executed historical
.pictures of Macliso to
the animal paintings of Landseer, from the inimi
table landscapes -of Stanfield to the fruit pieces
of Lance, froth'„ the classical compositions of
Dyce to the marvellous' meadow scenery of Lee
and Cooper, throughout the whole diversified range
of art, from its loftiestlo 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 iu 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. What, for example,
could possibly be said by way of extenuating the
derision which must necessarily descend upon
the 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-office in the Almoary 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 the 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, we imagine, by the most amazing evidence of
ingenuity in the details, by the depicting of rusty nails,
and 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 daring
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
" King Lear and the Fool is 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
he has effected yet more, he 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 end
jangling the tawdry bells of the Fool in the midst of the rear-
ingof the thunder and of the hurricane. Landseer, not less
than Dyce, surpasses himself this season by a brilliant
arid admirable illustration of Shakspere. His theme is
(No. 157) the love scene between " Bottom and
Titania"—the weaver' with a head so astoundingly
asinine, and the enamoured queen of the fays 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 iu 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 vi,ionary 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 in
any respect successful performances. The hostess, on
the other hand, is the most suiggering of fun-tickled
housewives, Francis the most dapper and complaisant o
tapsters, and Bardolph, with his red bulbous neseand
his drooping eyelids, the most self-possessed end
self-
satisfied a topers. Webster might be said almost
as truthfully as Turner and Mulresdy 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, 108,
and 173) he has this year contributed to
the Exhibition. Not so Withering ton, whose
sylvan representation of (No. 179) " Midsummer " i 3
a masterpiece of rare audits ascinating excellence.
To the very robin feeding 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, painted, as Stanfield alone
can paint it, will be viewed, we doubt not, with universal
pleasure as a fine example of the manner of this di-
anguished 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 bn the Alpine ridges, or i
smouldering beam of wood( tumbled among the ruins thes in
the valley. 'Poole's noble painting of (No. 344) " The
Gotha in Italy"—the only work from his hand in the
collection, but one which cannot tail to elevate and en-
hance his reputation very rennarkabl thearrests
at-
tention of the visitor as one of the mol—t 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 hips and
gardens once inhabited by Lucullus and Cicero, along
the beauteous coasts of Campania. Their trerabling
captives, the sous and daughters of Roman senators,
presented, in goblets of gold and gems, large draught!
of Falernian wine, to the haughty victors, Who stet etc hed
their huge limbs under tee shade of planess!
artificially disposed to exclude the scorching !LIP, al,i(l
to admit the genial warmth of the sun. These delighti
rvne
enhanced by the memory of past hardships: the_c.ongia,
ar.
of their native soil, the bleak and barren hills of SLyt.n charms
the frozen banks of the Elbe and Danube! added ueu
to the felicity of the Italian climate.".'''
Taking his inspiration from this paragraph, the artist
has, with the powerful hand of a waster, ind a composi-
tion of marvellous beauty, realised the gol en and
mereovt r,
vo-
luptuous mucks of the annalist. 'looe these,eti
he bee added the fruits of his own p
.ti Perceptivity,
sitd
nahti
joiruairriac
tpicehoaalbolute
teghr,
dt a sensuous and abounctinigmimineshgriztn. In gioup
iug the work is everywhere
ws asi.. ly euperior to
any et' Poole's previous p.rocluctions
also, we cannot but regard it
every difficulty. What would he wholly
moss men, be has fully accomplished—imparting to his
flesh-tints the open air all tpe glowingwarp4 of
:Ridley; Thenieaked figure towlirde—the' centre Is sur-
prisingly perfect in its anatomical proportions ;
and the bending form of the handmaid in chequered
light and shade, is an exquisite episode to the
main composition. Later on we may take occasion to