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      The Summer Exhibitions. The Water Co&Otj...

      Water Colour exiiibitibns does more than come up to its own standard , either in power or variety . Of course artists so masterly cannot fill the little room , and its four screens , without muchto excite interest and admiration - but there is nothing of the unforeseen . Callow ' s scenes in continental towns * David Scott ' s rough and living sketches , Alfred Tayler ' s polished groups of animals and sportsmen , are the very counterparts o £ previous works- — -except perhaps the larger of Tayler ' hunting scenes , vrhich is -ttiore vigorous and not less miw ^ has a villa ^ e girl ' s headi ^—no idealism , but an unmistakeable matter of fact .- ^ - « document , " as we lately heard a man of business call a portrait . He also reproduces fruit and flowers , as he and Mature alone can do j this indeedcertain adding to his flora the

      year , , crocuses . Among varieties is a scene , notof frost , by Branwhite ; but he does not melt half so well as he freezes ; and a frost scene of the old pattern ja valued all the more for the other attempt . Excepting always the idle endeavour to paintthe sun vis-a-vis to the spectator ; no sun of anybody ' s succeeding that ever we saw . The young men of the Society are not the least successful . Duncan , especially , is developing much free power in lifesonie landscape effects j and some day he will be able to prevent his material from standing forth too obviously . The place of honour in the Eastern wall is accorded to Lewis ' s Oriental letter-writer—in which a turbaned scribe is inditing the love-letter'of a veiled lady more lovely than literate , to the sympathetic delight of her negress . The picture- is clever , especially in the accessions ; for the bearded gentleman connected with the pen is hot so strong as the lady's checked shawl ; and tveo cats , lazily lying , one of them listly eying a butterfly , form the happiest bit of the whole .

      THE JfEW WATEECOLOTTE SOCIETY . Kot only is there more variety in . the room to the west , but there is also more of a laudable ambition to take up stirring subjeets with a human interest in them . The fact is partly due to the extension of the use of water colour material into narrative painting , especially among younger artists ; partly to the personal character of the men composing the junior society . In every variety there is movement and ability . In landscape , "W " . Bennett , M'Ewari , Vacher / Charles Datidson , and others , give views of mountain , lake , valley , wood , park , and town ; now vigorous , nowelegant , now dashing , now smoothly finished ; but always able . Iiouis Hashe is still Minister of the Interior , and presents a brilliant view of

      the " Audience Chamber of the Magistrates du iFrance de Bruges , with royal visitors surveying it ; a fine room , and fine company , powerfully painted , but harsher than is usual with the artist . Among story pictures , Wehnert has an illustration of Edgar Poe ' s JRaven . J ¥ arren jpaints a hunchback storyteller of J ) amascus , with portraits of the Syro-Lebanon Serformers . Mole > a striking and graceful group of Highland reapers escending a mountain side . Edward Corbpuld , what a contemporary well terms " a gigantic miniature" of G-pdiva , or rather , a highly-finished

      portrait of a beautiful model , with magnificently painted accessories ,- displaying all Cofbould ' s power and reckless disregard of divers canons in . art . The picture that attracts most notice is Mr . Michael Angelo Hayes's ( f Sixteenth Lancers breaking the hollow square at Aliwal ; " a charge of cavalry right at you ; full of action , and also of daring attempts at feats in draughtmanship which are not always , though often , successful ; the general effect of " go" is capital . But , after all , the masterpieces of the exhibition appeared to us in the first quick view to be Charles Davidson ' s forest scenes—so varied , so full of vegetating life , so open to the breezy

      skies . NATIONAL INSTITUTION . Still more ambition marks the various collection in Upper Eegentstreot ; the material of oil inviting more vigour both of subject and treatment . The collection this year is an improvement on its predecessors : some of the younger men are growing maturer ; good recruits have been found ; and in all departments there is active merit . Eckford Lauder . has a largely designed picture of Naomi and her daughters . In " Sunday Trading , " Armitage illustrates a common enough tragedy in daily life—a little orange girl shrinking before a policeman—with much force and feeling . Clever , matter-of-fact landscapes by Percy , Thorpe , and others ; chivalresquo stories and scenes , such as Glass ' s " Free Companion s , " riding in easy procession along the moor path ; more than one clover portrait , including' a good likeness of Erasmus Wilson ; a plentiful

      sprinkliag of pretty faces , with or withoutnames- ^ -such , / amid many other diversities , make up a collection which is fairly asserting its claim to be included in any complete purview of English art . But certain of the works we shall have to notice more specifically hereafter . Z ,

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      Cube Op A Sick Lion.—The Veterinary Art ...

      Cube op a Sick Lion . —The veterinary art must have boon rather low among the Romans , if wo may judge from the following ludicrous prescription for a sick lion , given us by Pliny . " The lion is never sicko but of the peevishness of his atomackc , loathing all meat ; and thon the way to cure him , is to ty unto him certftino shoe apes , which , with their wnriton mocking and making mowes at him , may move hia patience , and drivo him from tho vory indignjtio of their malaport Hiuicinesao into a lit of madnesso , and then , ho soon as l » o luith tastod their blond , ho is porfoctly wol againo ; " » d this ia tl » o only holp . "—Zoological Notes and ¦ Anecdo tes . , ^^ W-WALKINa AND SLHEI ? -BAT 1 IING J-r-Ahout two <> dock in tho morning , tho watchmen on tho Revenue Jinny wore much surprised at dosorying a man disport-J'lff mniHoli' in tho watdr , about a hundred yards from , H '> 01- () - Intimation having boon given to tho rovowuo boat ' s crow , they pushed oiY , and tmcuoedod in Peking him up ; hut , strango to my , ho had no idoa wiiatovov of his poriloua situation , and it was with tho mmoHt difficulty they could persuado ltfm ho was not W" 1 lu lied . Buf tho most singular part of this novel "" venture wuh , that tho man had loft his house at twelve o ' clock tluit night , and wnlkcd through a

      difficult , and to him dangerous road , a distance of nearly two miles , and had actually swam one mile and a half when ho was fortunately discovered and picked Up . —From Chambers * s PocJcet Miscellany , vol . iv .

      Diorama Of Wellingtons Campaigns. I Woul...

      DIORAMA OF WELLINGTONS CAMPAIGNS . I would confidently recommend any lively Frenchman , who majr be desirous of studying the Englishman at home , and of penetrating the secret of our glorious institutions , to pay a visit to the G-allery of Illustration during the triumphant campaign which may be predicted for tbisf new \ diorama . He will there be solaced with the favourite and familiar sound of'" yilainton" to his heart ' s content ; he will there ascertain that neither national debts nor peace societies have quenched the firm belief of all sound-minded Englishmen that what they have done they can do again with the greatest pleasure and alacrity , against any odds . The proprietors of the new diorama have followed up their last enormous success by a capital subject , very apropos , calculated to fire even Maryle * bone militiamen to a quasi-military ardour , and to a resolve to defend their " om . es and halters . " We have the career of the " Dook , " from his native home in Ireland , through the oriental exploits of his insatiably active youth , and the gigantic European conflicts of his eventful manhood , to the last great crowning victory vij which the destinies of Europe were changed on the Beteian plains ; admirably illustrated by pictures graphic as a chronicle , faithful as history , and glowing as romance . It was very judicious on the part of the artists not to content themselves with painting a series of battle-fields from a studio point of view ; nothing could have been more fatiguing , because nothing more unreal . Episodes and incidents of the campaigns , such as the finding of Tipppo Saib's bod y after the assault of Seringapatam ; the mght after the battle of Talavera ; the incident at the river Alberche j the deadly tug of war at the heights of Fuentes d'Onoro ; the death of Grawfurdj are

      far more " seizing , " because the action is more concentrated , and more readily grasped by the spectator . The more simply pictorial subjects are perfect in local colour and warmth : the Tagus , the Royal Palace at ] VIadrid , Burgos , San Sebastian , are each , as pictures merely , delightfully free and beautiful ; and when they are made backgrounds for such figures as are here mano 3 uvring , in a gigantic game of chess , with all the world for arbiter , a severer interest lends to the beauty all the force of human vicissitude and national history . It is difficult to particularize special excellencies in so varied and complete a series of illustrations . For gorgeous and vivid variety take th © reception of the Mahratta Envoy in the British camp ; for gloomy

      grandeur the Indian " Drpog ; " for local picturesqueness the Halt of the Convoy in Portugal ; for architectural solemnity , the Chancel of the Church at Ciudad Bodrigo ; for the sentiment of contrast , the plains of Vittoria and Salamanca after the battles ; and for general artistic skill and effectiveness the Bridge at Sorauren , the Cathedral of Bui-gos , San Sebastian , and Toulouse . Where the engagement is actually represented , as at Assay and Busaco , it is dashed in with amazing force and freedom ; a peculiarly military subject , such as the lines or Torres Vedras , would satisfyeven Corporal Trim for professional exactness ; and as to the set scenes , the Siege of Badajojs , and the last charge at Waterloo , bring you face to face with death and glory ! But why need I say more , than that Grieve , Telbin , and John Absolon are the artists ; and that they have painted from sketches taken on the spot . In order to insure a _ proper division of Corbould

      labour , the animals are painted by Alfred . Perhaps we might , if severely disposed , take exception to the musical accompaniments , which were rather dull and dreary , and not particularly appropriate j _ but tho running accompaniment of Mr , Stocquefer , who recited descriptively the events recorded in thapictures , was soldierly and sufficient , and above all English ; thoroughly English . Mr . Stocqueler dwelt with a sort of grim humour upon the invariable decision of every battle , but it is right and pleasant to add , that he more than once , made graceful allusion to the brilliant prowess of the enemy , " the most gallant troops in the world ;" and that these parentheses were received as heartily as the burden of his discourse . We all love the " Dook , " and if the love of any is growing cold , let him pay a visit to the Diorama of the Wellington Campaigns . It is a patriotic cordial that will do no harm even to cosmopolite philosophers like kE Ohat-Huant .

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      Money Market And City Intelligence. Fjud...

      MONEY MARKET AND CITY INTELLIGENCE . Fjudat , April 80 . Consols oponod and closed ' on Monday at OOif : on Tuesday , Wednooday , and Thursday , thuy closed at Q » U ' , Exohoquor Bills ( Juno ) have boon from ( Ms . to OOs . prornium , and India Bonds at 87 s . premium . . The official record of doo-lings m Foreign Stocks yesterday includes Mexican at 34 ± to &; ditto Smnll at 34 J ; ditto Throo per Conts . at 27 * to £ ; Brazilian at , 01 ); Buonos Ayi-os at 781 to 70 *; Vono ^ uela , 4 . 8 ; ditto 3 > oforrod , 18 : Ohilia ^ Throo per Corits ., GOJtj Equador , 4 J to & j Grenada , 21 to |; ditto Poforrod , Oj ; Peruvian , 101 to 1025 ; ditto Poibrrod , 0 2 * to 03 *; Spanish Now Deferred , 21 * to f ; ditto Certificates , 2 ft ; ditto Passivo , 5 |; Portuiruoso Jfivo per Cents ., 09 * j ditto Eour per Cents ., 37 * to | j V *™*}* Jfivo por Cents ., l ( Hi ; Kussian Fivo per Cents ., 11 W to 110 ; Sardinian , 00 i to 97 * ; Dutch TWo-and-o-IlaU per Cents , 01 * to 02 ; ditto Four per Cents ., 03 to 8 ; Belgian l ^ our-and-a-Half per Cents ., 00 * ; and Fronoli Four-anda-Hivlf per 0 © nt 8 ., 100 & f ., at the Exohango oi 261 . mo .

      British Funds For The Past Week. (Closin...

      BRITISH FUNDS FOR THE PAST WEEK . ( Closing Pbiobs . ) Satur Mond . Tuet . IVedn . Thurn . IHd . Bank Stock 220 220 J 220 J 2201 220 J " percent . Red 09 08 ? 081 OS ? W * 3 por Cent . Con . Ans . D 9 fr . 00 § 09 ? ODJ 91 )} sSerOont . An . 100 * 100 & 100 J KM )? 100 J Now 5 por Cents ...... 12 " .... .. •••• Lonff Ana ., 1800 0 «* 0 J 6 J 0 } Ind . St . lOfr por Cent ...... Ditto Uoiuls , JC 1000 87 83 Ex . Dills , J 1000 71 p 71 p 70 p Ditto , JL'OOO « 7 p ...... 08 p Ditto , Bmull 07 p 71 p 87 p 70 p

      Foreign Funds. (Last Oiririarari Qdota,T...

      FOREIGN FUNDS . ( Last OiririarAri Qdota , tion dubino * nn Wh » k KWDura Tjiubhday Evknino . ) Kolgiiin ^ iior OontB 081 Peruvian , 1849 Wl Uruzillim 6 per Oonto . ... OS ) Pomvii » n , Deforr <> a o « Buonoa Ayros . < . 70 * Portuguoao 0 per Oonta . 89 * Chilian l \ por Oonta 102 Portuguese 4 per Cents ... 87 f Da \ mh 6 per Centu 104 * BuBninn Bonds , 1822 ...... 11 ( 1 WutoU 2 J per Cents 4 ) 2 Sardinian Bonda Wi Dutoh 4 por Cent . Cortif . 03 Spanwlv Paaslvoa of ISouttdor .. 4 : 8 p » nJ « h 3 p . Ot . NowDef . 214 Granada , ox Deo . 1840 .... 2 Spanish Com . Oertif . of Granada , Doforred fll Coupon not funded ... a * Mexican 6 perOenta 84 Veneaiuola . •¦•• < f Mexican Small J ) 4 | Vene » wel » Deftrred 18 Moxtouni ) poirCenta ii 7 f

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), May 1, 1852, page 21, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_01051852/page/21/