Star.
London, England, 1830-03-08 00:00:00

FINE ARTS.

MR. MIATHIN PICTURES OR EUCLES, Axe 'mime.
A clever contemporary Ras termed these pictures the high iraged+
and low farce of paintfirs. This distinction is. in part corrett ;
slam it would be difficult to select... Mime tout:bind *sae from
history than the Death of Buries ; so far the definition holds good ;
but the picture of Punch is not merely low farce. as we 'think we
can show in contruiting the breadth of its bu:nour with a few of the
more sober accessories of the scene.

The Devils of Eerier.
The subject is taken from one of the most brilliant epochs in
Athenian history, and, as Mr. Hayvion obeerves in his " Desaip.
don," the particular moment hinges on a disputed passage. .
" Plutarch says Eucles rushed from the battle of Marathon.
as soon as the victory was decided ; ran wounded and exhausted as
he was, to the city. and appeared in arms and heated,—" ra:;
gvair.:.s'ta'r"'"—shouting, " Hail, we triumph !" ond dropped
instantly dead. The Greek professor of Oxford thinks coo worms
means tne chief magistrates or primates ; the Greek professor of
Cambridge thinks it refers to the first houses he came to ; and thus
the moat eminent 'oboists differing as to the exact meaniog. I have
taken the liberty of supposing that he ran to the houses of the first
magistrates to announce the victory ; and then his tech's', revert-
ing to his family, that he rushed to his own house, and dropp‘d
dead just as he reached the threshold—huzzaing as he fell !
• This is the moment selected. In the centre is Rucks pilz,
wounded, and dying : —his eye half closed —the hand which holds the
shield relaxing—his limbs tottering, and. the honour of die soldier
stimulating him to the last, he grasps with dying energy the broken.
Persian standard he has fought for aid brought triumphantly fror.i
the field. He has, as a list effort, lifted his arms as be shouted,
" Hail, we triumph !" but his strength has failed, and his whale
weight is thrown on the right leg and bent knee and foot. which are
double up as he falls,
• "It has been attempted to give hint the look of a soldier, fresh
• from a fierce fight--his helmet is cleft in—his crest is shivered—hi,
sword is disp!aced, sad in the contest he has lost one sandal and
peace.
" Right opposite Euchre, hesitating and distracted, is his wife ;
who is supposed to have rushed out with her newly-boen infant, at
hearing the voice of her husband; his pale but wain( fact—slits
bloody and exhausted look—his feeble attempt to fold bee in his
arms, and his dropping attitude, have told her at once the truth.
With one foot in the act of going forward, she leans a little back on
the other, and pressing her hand to her heated brain, seems afraid to
believe the evidence of her convictions. Clinging below to his
mother, is the eldest boy, recognising his dear father. bet terrified
at his appearance; and behind are the old nurse, and the aged father
of Eucles.—the one thanking the gods his son is victorious though
dying, while [the poor old woman is weeping at what she is sup—
posed to have felt would be the truth, the moment she beheld her
Miter.

" In front, on a step, Is a figure swinging forward to catch Elides.
while a young woman, seated on the step, is looking at him with
great interest, and a young girl dinging to her is regarding him
with terror. Immediately above is a Greek on horseback in the do.
mestic dress of the Cheeks, with the Chlamys (or cloak) and Petas is
(or pliable leather hat,) housing."
Probably it needs little beyond this brief description to point out
the tragic affliction of this picture. Powerful and painful as it is,
we had almost said we could revel in its sublimity, for such an
epithet it truly deserves. The figure of the " pale, wounded, and
dying" Bodes is admirably drawn. Mr. Hayden ea plains away
an objection already raised to the foreshortening of the right leg
and foot, (which has been considered violent,) by observing, that'
" if the foot was In a simple, easy, straight-forward position with
I the leg, all appearance of weakness instantly vanishes ; but the
muscles having quite lost their strength, the weight of the body
and limbs presses on the foot, and the foot is doubled sideways, as it is
unable to keep its straightforward appearance from the muscles having
lost their vigour." Thus we leave the disputed point, for the grand cf.
fort of ire &soldier "fresh from a fierce fight." This may be
painfully yet how is the woe sharpened by the opposite
of the wife of es End. Over the agonies of exhaustim and death,
imalleally In the face of Ender, gleams a faint and feeble
nit of joy at the sight of his wife: her attitude and
boo me those of distraction and woe, and the struggle is
ralltgehatened by the fond boy, and the figures in the back of the
scem du sheet, it would be difficult to give the reader an idea of
the awl with which the sublime pathos of this picture strikes the
spectator. Our mind's-eye, as it were, saddens at its recollection,
sad we must enjoy its perfections wore to ourselves than at a
"private view," as on Saturday, which to say the truth, from the
crowd of visitors, was more like a public day.
The picture has been purebasad in fifty shares of ten guineas
each ; but its possessor remains to be decided.
" Endes" bas laid so strong a bold on our sympathies, that
" Punch," with its pieties and gravities must stand over till our
nest number ; the humour of the subject will not evaporate in the
meantime.—Mirror.

The Hamburgb Papers state that there is great sick-
ness it Copenhagen; 30,000 persons are under medical
care, and it is supposed that there are 10,000 others who
are endeavouring to effect their own cure.
11 Mr. Gerard Callaghan's election having been declared
void, a contest for the representation of the city of Cork
may be expected. It is said that the present member for
the county, Mr. Boyle, will be a candidate, in pursuance
of an arrangement made between the two Noble Earls,
with whom he and the other county member are severally
closely connected.
Over the door of a vendor of varieties in a country vil-
lage is—" Licentious dealer in Backy and Snuff."
The much distressed plaid business is beginning to
revive in Leeds. The market at Bradford on Tuesday was
brisk, as usual. The Halifax district trade is improving.
The card-making business, which is one of the staple
manufactures of Halifax and the immediate neighbour-
hood, is comparatively brisk, and this is the more grati-
fying as it serves to indicate the generally improve.l
state of the manufactures.—Leeds Mercury.

CORN—EXCHANGR, MARK—LANE. Maacn S.
Our market was abundantly supplied with all kinds of Grain
last week, and several vessels arrived this morning from the Suffolk
coast; the major part of the Wheat born the latter county, Essex,
and Kent, being in very bad condition, could not be disposed of,
although lower prices by 2a. to 3s. per quarter would have been
complied with to have effected a clearance ; even the front dry
samples of Wheat were heavy sale, at last Monday's prices. Not-
witlwanding the very large supply of Barley, the line malting
qualities met a tolerably free sale, at from 325. to 3es. and the
discoloured and inferior sorts were • taken off by the distillers at
from Hs. to 275. Beans fully supported last week's prices. The
Oat 'trade was exceedingly heavy, and rather cheaper, in come.
queue, of the magnitude of the supply. There is no Arra ion in
the price of Flour.
Wheat, Kent & P.m: . SW 7es Peas, Grey . 341 374
&iliolk„ . 40s 72s I Beans, Small . 34s ells
Norfolk . 60s 6ss Tick . 322 3112
Rye . . 28a 3es Oats, Potstoe 25. 30s
Barley . . 24. Us Poland . 24$ 26s
Malt 54s Ms Feed . las 231 •
Pees, White . ...f —a Flour, per sack, 552 60s
Boilers . 364 40s Rapeseed 361. MU. per last.
13111011.146710/111 LAST Mtge.
Wheat, English, quarters 12,650' Irish Oats
Do. Foreign . • -- Rye, English .
Irish Ditto . • . 256 Beans,English
Barley, British . 16,027 Ditto, Foreign
Do. Foreign . . -- Do. rish .
Irish . • Peas, English . . --
Malt, &ghat . . 0,615 Ditto Foreign . 1,4G0
English Oats . 16,439 Eneish Flour, sacks . 16,423
Foreign Ditto . . American ditto, bll4. . 525
D, Mama 11.
NAIVE? :

8311THFIEL1
ctn.'s Al

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Beam. — 6466
Sheep agd Lambs 33,560'
Beef
.. .... Id to 4, 24,
Mottos ... ..4• 44 4 10.1,
Lomb

4 ,i 7 s

Cabe.
pip
Veld. ...... ..5. 04 se 61 041
Pork 4. 4d Ss 64

Hay (per loss 1), se3 Os. to Al 01.—Ckwer, £3 0.. so Al
Straw, £1 ot. to At 14,.

NEWGATE AND LEADENDALL, MARCH e
TM supply was not very grew at these markets today ; am!
theft vr..s hide of no variation on Saturday's prices.
By the Carcase.—Per stoat of Sibs.
Beef
Motion

COAL EXCHANGE, Nlaara e.
There were may Moen new ships at lowan to-day; but owing
to the number left NNW es IMay last, the supply ref Shanderlaa.4l
sod Newcastle Cool was eery abooduat. Walls End Coals are
IYU Ios. per clashing lowa dos they were a smooth ago. There
were oat WNW wierehanes at the Coal Exchange, anal the business
done was test near !goal to the NW,. . ,

EXiodarrliod desiag thi -pima abonth.. 100.
Bum W • Cool. .. , 3t 04 336. 94.
Ober um - . 01. no od.
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