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London, England, 1851-05-07 00:00:00

M A Y 7, 1851.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS.

:From a e 17; tes and Proceedings of the Houle of Commons )

TUESDAY, MAY 6.
• HOME-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.
Ansley, Thomas Fox, Richard 11i.
Archdall, Captain Fox, S. L.
Arkwright, George Fresh!leld, J. W.
Baggo, William Frewen, C. H.
Baillie, H. J. Fuller, A. E.
Baird James Galway, Viscount
Bankes, G. Gilpin, Colonel
Barron, Sir H. Gooch, E. S.
Barrow, W. 11. Goold, Wnydham
Bateson, Thomas Gordon, Admiral
Bennet, Philip Gore, W. R. 0.
Bentinck, Lord H. Grace, G. D.
Beresford, William Granby, Marquis of
Berkeley G. F. Grattan, Henry
Bernard, Viscount Greenall, G.
Best, John Greene, John
Blake, M. J. Grogan, Edward
Blandford, Marquis PI alsoy, T. I'.
Boldero, George H. Hamilton, G. A.
Booth, Sir It. G. Hamilton, J. H.
Brooks, Lord Barris, Captain
Brooke, Sir Arthur Basile, Alexander
Bruen, Colonel Hayes, Sir E.
Buck, L. W. Henley, J. W.
Banbury, W. Herbert, H. A.
Burghley, Lord Higgins, George
Burroughes, H. N. Hildyard, R. C.
Campbell, W. F. Hildyard, T. B.
Cayley, Edward S. Hill, Lord E.
Chichester, Lord J. Hodgson, W. N.
Child, Hothani, Lord
Christopher, R. Jolliffe, Sir W. H.
Clive, H. B. Jones, Captain
Cobbold, John C. Keating, Robert
Co!vile, C. R. Keogh, William
Conolly,Thoinas Langton, W. H. P.
Cowan, Charles Micelles, E.
Crawford, W. S. Lawless, Cecil
Dawson, T. V. Lennox, Lord A.
Deedes, W. Lennox, Lord H. G.
Devereux, John T. Lewisham, Viscount
Disraeli, B. Lockhart, W.
lied, J. W. Lowther, Colonel
Duncan, George Macaghten, Sir E.
Dunne, Colonel M'Cullagh, W. T.
Edwards, H. M'Gregor, John
Farrer, ames 11P.Neill, Duncan
Ferguson, Sir R. Maher, N.
Filmer, Sir E. Meagher, Thomas
Fitzpatrick, J. W. Mandeville, Vis.
Floyer, John Manners, Lord J.
Forbes, W. March, Earl of
Forester, G. C. Mailmen, T. P.
Fortescue, Chichester Maxwell, Hon. J. P.

Miles, William
Moffatt, George
Monsen, William
Moody, C. A.
Moore, G. 11.
Mullings, J. R.
Murphy, P. S.
Napier Joseph
Newdegate, N.
Norreys, Sir D.
O'Brien Sir ;Lucius
O'Brien, Sir T.
O'Connell, John
O'Connell, M. J.
Anthony
Ossulton, Lord
Pakington, Sir J.
Piumptre, J. P.
Power, Dr.
Power, Nicholas
Rawdon, Colonel
Itendlesham, Lord
Repton, G. W. J.
Reynolds, John
Roche, E. B.
Sadleir, John
Scott, Francis
Scully, Francis
Sibthorp, Colonel
Somers, J. P.
Somerset, Captain
Spooner. R.
Stuart, Lord J.
Stuart, John
Stuart, 11.
Sullivan, Michael
Talbot, J. H.
Taylor, T. E.
Tenison, Edward K.
Tollemache, John
Tyler, Sir G.
Tyrell, Sir J.
Venter, Sir W.
Vesey, Thomas
Vyse, R. 11. R. H.
Waddington, IL S.
Walmsley, Sir J.
Walsh, Sir J. B.
Whiteside, James
Wodehouse, E.
Wynn, H. W.

- TELLZIII.
Naas, Lord
Hume, Joseph

NOES-159.
Ellice, Edward Ogle, S. C.
Elliot, John E. Owen, Sir John
Estcourt, J. B. Paget, Lord A.
Evans, J. Paget, Lord C.
Ferguson, Col. Palmerston, Vis.
Fitawilliam, G. W. Parker, John
Fordyce, A. D. Peel, Sir Robert
Forster, Matthew Peel, Frederick
Fortescue, J. W. Perfect, Robert
Freesturi, Colonel Pigott, Francis
Gallwey, Sir W. P. Ricardo, John L.
Gibson, T. M. Rice, E. R.
Grenfell, C. Pascoe Rich, Henry
Grey, Sir George Robartes, T. J. A.
Grey, R. W. Roebuck, J. A.
Grosvenor, Lord R. Romilly, Colonel
Hall, Sir B. Romilly, Sir John
Hallyburton, Lord Russell, Lord John
Hanmer, Sir Joh* Russell, F. C.
Harris, Richard Salwey, Colonel
Hatchell, John Scrope, G. P.
Hawes, B. Seymour, H. D.
Henry, Alexander Seymour, Lord
Heywood, James Shafto, R. D.
Heyworth, L. Smith, Vernon
Hindley, C. Smith, John Abel
Hobhouse, T. B. Somerville, Sir W.
Hodges, T. L. Stanton, W. H.
Howard, Lord E. Strickland, Sir G.
Hutchins, E. J. Talbot, C..E.
Hutt, William Tancred, H. W.
Jackson, William ahicknesae, R. A.
Johnstone, Sir_J. Thompson, Colonel
King, P. J. Thornely, T.
Labouchere, 11. Townley, R. G.
Langston, J. H. Trelawny, J. S.
Lawley, B. R. Trevor, Thomas
Lewis, Sir T. Verney Sir H.
Lewis, G. C. Vivian, J. 11.
Littleton, E. R. Watkins, Colonel
Lovcden, Pryse Wellesley, Lord C.
M'Taggart, SlrJ. West, F. R.
Mangles, R. D. Westhead, J. P.
Martin, C. W. Willcox, Brodie
Matheson, Sir J. Williams, John
Mattle, Fox Willyams, H.
Milner, W. M. Wilson, James
Moncrieff, James Weod, Sir Charles
Morris, David Wood, Sir W. P.
Mostyn, E. M. L. Wrightson, W. B.
Mowatt, Francis Wyvill, Marmaduke
Mulgrave, Earl TELLEILI.
Nicholl, J. Rayter, W. G.
Norreys, Lord Hill, Lord Marcus

Acland, Sir T.
Adair, Hugh E.
Adair, R. Shafto
Alcock, Thomas
Anderson, Arthur
Anson, Colonel
Armstrong, R. B.
Bagshaw, John
Baines, M. T.
Baring, Sir F. T.
Bass, M. T.

Bell, Jacob
Bellew, R. M.
Berkeley, Admiral
Berkeley, H. F.
Berkeley, C. L. G.
Bernal, Ralph

Blitekstone,-W. S.
Baird, James

Blewitt, R. J.
Bowles, Admiral
Boyle, Colonel
Bright, John
Brocklehurst, J.
Brockman, E. D.
Brotherton, J.
Bulkeley, Sir R. B.
Banbury, E. H.
Cardwell, Edward
Carter, J. B.
Cavendish, C. C.
Cavendish, G. H.
Cavendish, W. G
Chaplin,.W. J.
Clay, James

Clay, Sir W.
Clerk Sir G.

Cobden, Richard
Cockburn, Sir A.
Colebrooko, Sir T.
Collins, William

Cowper, W. F.
Craig, Sir W. G.
Crowder, R. B.
Currie, Rallies
Dcnison,.J. E.
D'Eyncourt, T.
, Divett E .

Douglas, Sir C.
Duke, Sir James
Duncan, Lord
Dundas, Admiral
Dundas, Sir David
Ebringtou, Lord

The following Members paired on Lord Naas's motion :-
70ft. AGAINST.
Sturt, 11. 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.
Duncombe, Hon. A. Howard. Hon. E. G.
Farnham, E. B. Evans, William.
Mr. O'Flaherty paired, in favour of Mr. Hume's motion on
the income-tax, with Mr. T. Duncombe, M.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.

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 he 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.

THE ROYAL ACADEMY.

(PRIVATE View.)

Expectations or the uro:zt lively dezeription had hem
formed as to the charazter of the exhibition for the pre-
sent season of the Royal Acathmy. It was, conse-
quently, with no little inters"; 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
Majesty and the Prince Consort, we were enabled to
take an almost uninterrupted survey of the paintings
hung upon the walls previously to the arrival of the dis-
tinguished visitors, by whom the varioas apartments
were subsequently crowded rather inconveniently.
We were, taerefore, enabled to form a more ju-
dicicusly-considered estimate of the marits of the
display than is usually peivaitted to the critic upon simi-
lar occasions. Not only most cordially, but tuosb con.
scieatiously also, we find ourselves enabled to congratu-
late the members and associates of this great national
institution of the fine arts upon the numerous and brit-

liant evidences they have afforded this year of the capa-
city of the English school of painting throughout the
whole variety of its menifold departments. When it is
considered that our artists will have their productions
during the present season submitted to the contidera-
don of so many intelligent travellers from the continent,
accustomed in their oon 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
art by being familiarised with the masterpieces
collected together in the galleries of France, of Belgium,
and or 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 & 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-
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
tne 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 1651
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 w hole diversified range
of art, from its loftiezt 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 widels•distributed ex-
pressions of admiration. On the contry, 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'a 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 any thing like a
genuine fleeh• tint, nut 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 in the Storm," a work in
which, with a true Shulesperian 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, 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
Titanic"—the weaver with a head so astoundingly
asinine, and the enamoured queen of the flip with a
face and figure so exquisitely suggestive of Feify-
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 dawn. The production is a dclightfcl example
of those rare powers which have recently gained this
master his knighthood. Leslie, etriving equally with
the foregoing to realize the dreams of the same inarrior-
-tal poet, hakendeqvuured to depict (No. 140) " Falstaff
aipersonatingtahe ,Kitege" but neither the P. ince, 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 sniggering of fun-tickled
housewives, Francis the most dapper and complaisant of
tapsters, and Bardolph, with his red bulbous nose and
his drooping eyelids, the most self-possessed and self-
satisfied of tope's. Webster might be said almost
as truthfully as Turner and Mulready to have refrained
from sharing iu the present reason'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 3-ear contributed to
the Exhibition. Not so Withering ton, 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, ill 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-
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 from his hand in the
collection, but one which cannot fail to elevate and en-
hance his reputation very remarkably—arrests the at-
tention of the visitor as one of the most successfal pro-
ductions in the exhibition, and this, moreover, in the
very highest school of art. Tne subject
s
to have been suggested by the following agorgeousppear
passage from Gibbon's " Decline and Fall'.
" And the principal warriors insulted the hills and
gardens once inhabited by Lucullus and Cicero, along
Their the beauteous coasts of Campania. trembling
captives, the sons and daughters of Roman senators,
presented, in goblets of gold and gems, large draughts
of Falernian wine, to the haughty victors, who stretched
their huge limbs under t'' e shade of plane trees,
artificially dieposed to exclude the scorching rays, and
to admit the genial warmth of the sou. These deli ,lit; were
enhanced by the men,ory of past hard;hips: the coinparis, n
of their native soil, the bleak and barren hills of Scythia, and
the frozen banks of the Elbe and Danube, added new charms
to the felicity of the Italian climate."
Taking his inspiration from this paragraph,
golden
has, with the powerful hand of a master, in a composi-
tion of m he) arvalleus beauty, real.zed tthe artist
and vo-
luptuous :uncles of the annalist. To these, moreover,t
he has added the fruits of his own poetical Per,c_eT iviY
and of a sensuous and abounding imagination.,
group-
ing the work is everywhere immeasurably superior
while to
in colouring,
also, of Poole's previous produetione,fl
triumphant over
also, we cannot but regard itas 41'17 impracticable
every difficulty. What would be vt
most men he has fully accomplished—imparting im artieg towhitihs
flesh-tints in the open air alt tto glowing.P warmth of
figure toawnaarttntienael epenrotrpeoritsiobn•usr;
vitality. The naked
ofis the handmaid in chequered
prieingly perfect in
isito. episode to the
and the bending form
light and shade,
is
toter an
n o
en
xeq u-
Iv° 'nay take occasion to
main composition.