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428 THE LEADER. [No. 319, Saturday,
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We observe that Mr. Burfokd has brought ...
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THE "WINTER'S TALE" AT THE PRINCESS'S. T...
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Exhibition Of The Royal Academy. The Pri...
C 586 ) , appeals more truly to our common nature from the circumstance thatshe is a poor ^ and plain , ami coarsely-attired blind girl , than would an abstract or ideal figure , endowed by the artist with grace and *? # -, We « uinot find time or space to say how charmed we are with » L Enfant du Beaiment" ( 553 )—a wounded child , placed , for safety during a fight , on an old cathedral totnb , and covered with a soldier ' s coat . But we must say a word or two , in obedience to a strong impulse , with respect to the painting of the Blind Girl . " We allude to the handiwork , the mechanical labour , which appears to us inferior to that which Mr . Millais has taught us to expect in all his pictures . The red drapery over the girl ' s head is almost slovenly in its execution ; so are other parts of the picture . Can it be that Mr . Millais is led by the extraordinary temptations of patronage to neglect his lame ? We trust he will not stoop to the level of those " distinguished" painters who reckon their triumphs under the head of so many commissions or sales in the course of a year . We may notice that the picture of the " Blind Girl" is hung a little over the line , and takes the light , on the upper part , in an awkward manner . The marks of the brush in painting round the butterfly on the girl ' s cloak , are distinct and even obtrusive . This would not be the case were the picture hung six inches lower . In " Autumn Leaves" ( 448 ) , despite the wonderful detail in some parts , there are others left in a comparatively unfinished state ; or worse ; finished inconsiderately , and in a manifest hurry . WOT , ^ ,. ,, . A . " Portrait of Owen Jones , " in his Alhambra Court ( 271 ) is very creditable to Mr . H . W . Phillips . " " Portrait of a Gentleman" ( 293 ) is the formidable title of a small picture by Mr . Millais—a little boy looking up at you from Mr . Puvch ' s scrap-book . The Spanish scene , by Mr . Phillip , of sick persons praying at the entrance of a church , is a work of great power . Mr . J . Leslie ' s group of peasants listening to a monk , " Near Rome" ( 372 ; is a fair collection of studies weir brought together , but on too large a scale . Had it'been half the size its tameness would have been only half as shocking . Mr . Poole ' s " Conspirators—the Midnight Meeting" ( 373 ) is meant , no doubt , to be very forcible and striking . The attempt of this painter to merge his accustomed warmth in one brown tone , and to paint strong shadows in a light , flashy manner , has a result very suggestive of a Rembrandt that has been washed out . "The Scape Goat" ( 398 ) ° y - Holman Hunt , is another of the paintings v » hich we reserve entirely for further notice . Our hasty visit to the Academy Exhibition has led us to believe that the Hanging Committee have , this year , performed their duty in a way that contrasts favourably with the conduct of last season ' s committee . We have nothing to urge against their hanging Mr . Leighton ' s intolerably bad , big , and ridiculous piece of dulness as nearly out of sight as its own size and the height of the walls will admit—except that a more efficacious plan would have been not to hang it at all . This gentleman , who was jerked , last year , upon public notice by certain admiring li . A . ' s , and who was about as cheerfully accepted by the public as Mr . Fkei > brick Peel would possibly be if put forward at the present moment as Foreign Secretary , has sent a picture which he is pleased to call the " Triumph of Music" ( 508 ) , and which is the very reverse of a triumph of painting . To notice this glum caricature at any length would be preposterous , after having been compelled to pass over many works of merit . Otherwise we should allude to a few of its features by way of showing cause for our great wonder that so large a piece of unspeakably bad art has been admitted . One piece of good news in conclusion . The Octagon room is definitively abolished . Henceforth no " rising" artist will be buried alive .
428 The Leader. [No. 319, Saturday,
428 THE LEADER . [ No . 319 , Saturday ,
We Observe That Mr. Burfokd Has Brought ...
We observe that Mr . Burfokd has brought St . Petersburg to that stay-athome minority of the public who will not be tempted by cheap travelling and the ratification of peace to go to St . Petersburg . We shall visit the new panorama and report thereon next week .
The "Winter's Tale" At The Princess's. T...
THE "WINTER'S TALE" AT THE PRINCESS'S . The principle of " illustrating" Shakspeare on the stage , with a minute attention to the concomitants of scenery , dresses , action , Sec , having for a time done good service in rescuing the acted drama from absurd conventionalities , ha 3 at
length degenerated into an impertinence and a piece of presumption . John Kbmble was the first to break into the new ground of archaeological correctness ; and he was worthily followed by MACitEAmrand Puklps . But the system growing rotten with over-pampering , has reached its culmination in Mr . Charles Kean ; and Mr . Kean has reached Amp culmination in the Winter ' s Tale , as produced on Monday night . Not content with making the scenery and dresses accord with the ancient world ( for which , as we said last week , there is warrant ) , he arbitrarily follows out a whim of Sir Thomas Hanmej * , and changes Bohemia into Bithynia . Then lie proceeds to edit the play ; cuts out the allusion to Hemrione ' s father , "the Emperor of Russia ; " sinks the reference to Julio Romano , the Italian painter ; and deprives Autolycus of one of his best bits of humour , in which he talks of the Puritan who sings psalms to hornpipes . All these matters are inconsistent with ancient Sicilia and Bithynia , and must be removed . Next , in order to introduce some striking specimens of antiquarian knowledge , and of the scene-painter's art , localities are to be changed with a free hand and the action of the play is to be twisted ; and lastly , for the sake of some effective tableaux , the majestic , though fantastical , structure which Shakspeare ' s genius has reared for us is to be turned into a mere wooden framework , on which to trail these luxuriant tendrils of ornament . The pleasure with which Mr . Ivean , in the fly-leaf to his play-bill , gloats over " the opportunities which have been afforded "—or which he has taken— for introducing the Pyrrhic dance , the festival of Bacchus , and the tableau of Luna and the Stars < presided over by " Time , as Cronos , " which is equivalent to saying '' Time , as Time" J , is convincing evidence of the tendency of his mind in connexion Avith the classical drama . The show , however , is magnificent ; the scenery extremely beautiful ( especially the last scene , which , with its semi-darkness , its burning cressets , and its mysterious gleams of light , is very solemn ); the tableaux both interesting and gorgeous ; the dresses full of grace and colour ; and the groupings instinct with the old Greek sculpturesque character . But Siiakspear ^ is submerged ; and , what with the length of the performance , and the poverty and vulgarity of the acting ( a condemnation from which we except Mrs . Kean , who was tender and womanly , though rather too feeble ) , the general effect -was that of dulness—an effect we never before experienced with the Winter ' s Tale .
From The London Gazette. Tuesday, April ...
FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE . Tuesday , April 29 . BANKRUPTS . — John Dickenson , Coslinm , licensed victualler—Louis Brode . Noble-street , Cheapsside , and Compton-street , Brunswick-square , fancy box maker — Joseph Hale Buyan , Lambeth-walk , oilman— Sa . hvbl Hook , Tovill . Kent , paper manufacturer , and Challord , Gloucestershire , silk throwster—Edwin Tomlinson . late of Barnes Cray , indiarubber manufacturer — John Iw-XJBRSOLB , Sawbridgoworth . brewer— Joseph Archibald Joyob , Rood-lane , Fenchurch-street , merchant— Sabaii Wooldbidge . Winchester , butcher — Edward Deacon Cooper , Bawdscy , Suffolk , grocer—John Da vies , Shrewsbury , printer—Suban Stone , Littledean , Gloucestershire , innkeeper — Tuohab Williams , Crickhowoll , grocer — George Clayton and Geougb Cuookes , Shclllolu , grocers — John Wtldh , Shcllleld , licensed victualler—Eowabd Lane , New Ferry , Cheshire , merchant — Joiin Hypb , Stockport , spindle maker — Robert OnitBLL , Ashton-undcr-Linc , chemist—Ukhjamin FoitsTEit , Nowcasfcie-upon-Tyiio and Wallhcml , draper . SCOTCH SEQUESTItATIONS . —J . M'Qdarkik . Aber - deen , furnisliiuff tilor—W . Stevehsox , Glasgow , baker . Friday , May 2 . BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED . —Cuari . es Edwaiid Bird , Old Broad-street , morchaut . BANKRUPTS . —Thomas Ward . Groat Winchester-street , commission ngent—Henhy Coxon , Soutli Shields , bookseller and stationer—William James Bbdeli ., Gloucester , ship builder—Thomas- Ward , late of Great Winchcstor-Btroet , commission agent—BurroN R , iciiakdson , Manchester , dyer—Hbmrv Saoar , Manchester , innkeeper—John Bii / ton and William Mackenzie Wyllib Wkmysb , Caledonian-road , linendrapcra — Hknjamin Casbon , and HBtfBT . Cabboh . Kingston-upon-HulI . taimors— Geobqk BbBfttaoir , Wellhigton-torraco , Claphain-riae , bookseller—William Brinklkt , Bruton - pfaco , Berkeley - nquarc , MiaAleMx , builder—Joiin Wiuttaickr , Manchester , Hour Oealer-rJambs Mooan , Ardwiok , Maucheutur , livery utablc keeper—William . Williams and William Itouiiui'H , Gwerh-y-Mynydd . PllntHhiro , builders . SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS . -Andrew Brown , Lanark , grocer— -John Lovh , Glasgow , wine and Hpirit merchant— William Rbid and Peter Baitnduub , junior , Dundee , leather merchants ! .
BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIRTHS . ABDY On tho 2 Cth ult ., at Cambridge , the wifo of J . T . Abdy , Esq , LL . D .: a son . BRUCE . — On tho 2 Gth ult ., tho wife of Wm . Downing Bruce , Esq ., barristcr-at-law : a daughter , MITCHELL . — On tho 2 Gth ult .. at St . Mary Abbotl ' sterrace , Kensington , tho wifo of J . W . Mitchell , Esq .: a daughter . MARRIAGES . ELWES—LANE—On tho 28 th ult ., at Henloy-on Thames , Valentino Dudley Henry Caroy Elwes , Esq ., lato of the 12 th Royal Lancers , only son of Carey Charles Ehves , Esq ., of Great Billing , Northamptonshire , to Henrietta Catherine , second daughter of Charles Lane , Esq ., of Badgmoro , Oxfordshire . KEY—McNEILL . —On tho 28 th ult ., at GouviHe , Jersey , Captain Astlcy Cooper Key , R . N ., C . U ., of 11 . M . S . Suns Paroil , son of the lato Aston Key , Esq , to Charlotte Lnvinin , youngest daughter of Edmund A . McNcill , Esq ., of Cushoiidun , county Antrim . PORTER—SCR 1 VENOH . —On tho 24 th ult ., at tho parish church , Leziiyro , Isle of Man , Henry Sincklor 1 'orlor , lino . , to Maria-, eldest daughter of Harry Scrivonoi ' , Jisq ., of Ramsey , Isle of Man . TOWER—PANMURE —On tho 20 th ulfc ., at All Saints' , Fulhain , Bonamy iUanscll Power , Esq ., to Elizabeth Lady Panmuro . DEATHS . BLACKETT—On Friday , tho 25 tb , at Villonouvo-sur Yonno , in Franco , John Fenwick Burgoyno Jilackctt , of Wyluin , Esq ., lato M . P . for NowcaHtlo-on-Tyno . BROWNE . —On tho 24 th of December last drowned while bathing off Port Lyttclton , Now Zealand , William Morphew , eldest son of tho lato Lieut . John Morphew Browne , of tho lnt European ltogimont , Uombay , in hiu 21 th year . FORD . —On tho 20 th ult .. Oharlos , last surviving hod of the lato Rev . Honry Ford , LL . D ., canon Residentiary of Hereford , and Principal of Mngdaluu Hall , Oxford ngod 00 . MORTIMER . —On tho 20 th ult .. at Upper Konth-streefc , Gosport , John Mortimer , Esq ., M . I ) ., ng <; d 74 , Inspector of Hospitals and Fleets , and lato Surgeon of tho Roynl Naval Hospital at Haslar . VALPARAISO . —On tho 2-Hh ulfc .. nt 3 , Snymour-plnca , Newroad , after a long and nevero ilmeSH ,,. Ilia Exoolloncy the Marquis of Valparaiso , Count of Moiitealegro , a Ciraudoo of Spain , & o .
WIIARNCLIFFE . —On Wednesday , tho 23 rd ult ., at 15 , Lower Grosvenor-street , Caroline Elizabeth Mary . Dowager Lady Wharncliffo , and widow of tho ilrst Lord Whariicliifo , aged 78 .
The Operas. Madame: Grisi Reappeared On ...
THE OPERAS . Madame : Grisi reappeared on Thursday , at the Koval Italian Opera , in her great part of Norma . Far be it from us to speak of this admirable artist , who has been the delight and pride of our lyric stage for so many seasons , in other words than those of perfect sympathy and respect . Still it is impossible to refrain from regretting that she should have been persuaded to tempt the public favour again season after season , after the dramatic solemnities of a leavetaking which had something in it ( ag all such occasions must have ) that appealed to emotions which we do not like to have lavished enpureperte . Tianscendant as she has been in a wide range of impersonations , there is a bound set to natural powers which cannot be transgressed with impunity ; and the anticlimax is sometimes as paintully evident in the audience as it is on the stage . The Old House in the Hay market , is positively to open its portals once more on Saturday next with no less an attraction than Alboni . Who can forget the mayic of that voice when it was heard in'the Semiramide , on the opening night of the Royal Italian Opera , at Covknt Garden nine years ago ? Alter Ajlboni we are promised the Piccolomini , who will-appear in the lyric version of La Dame mix Cumtlias , the play forbidden by that austere guardian of British morals , the Loud Chamberlain , but suffered to pass current in song . Later in the season Johanna Wagnek , the Helen of the Covent Gam > en Troy , is promised for the first time to the long-deferred expectations of a London audience , and we trust the opportunity will not be missed of producing the Orfeo of Gluck . Mr . Lomley will be traditionally strong in ballet , with Kosaxi in the Parisian version of Byron ' s Corsair , and we may confidently hope to be reminded of the time when Taglioni , Fanny Ellsleu and Carkotta Grisi danced a pas de trois before the rapturous lorgnettes of the Omnibus box .
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London , Friday Evening , May , 2 , 185 t 5 . The settling of tho share account has occupied tho attention of tho Stock Exchango all Lho early part of the week ; then , yesterday being the 1 st of May , was a holiday , and tho Hanks closed for business . Tho Bank directors , however , met and separated without any alteration in tlieir rates of discount , and this morning , despite of tho Ministerial majority last night , tho touo of tho markets is gloomy and lowering . Money is exceedingly scarce and tho iiull account of suoh magnitude , that enormous rates have boon given for cuutinuations . Mexicans are flatter , the expected arrival ol dividends has boon delayed for a mouth , perhaps two liirKish 0 per cent , are fairly 1 ) 7 , and Now Turkish 4 per cent . 101 J . Fronch Railroads aro very firm , particularly Lions , Enstorns , and Northerns ; Belgian Lines aliout t / io « aini ; . Luxembourg * keep at 7 , Sambresat 12 ; in all tho other U «» - ginn lines there is little change . Great Western of ^ iuilltl * aro remarkably linn . East Indian shares are generally wen supported . In tho heavy homo markets , quotations have improved and again receded . Mining shares aro much lu' « ' a (! t Vi ,, fow transactions in Fort Bowons , Liberty , Chancolioi villo , and Waller Gold . Tho Joint-stook Bank shares aro very flat , and no <} is l ' . " tlon on tho part of tho public to invest . Consols closo w four o ' clock at 02 tf , k-Aberdeen , 2 ,, d , 2 « J ; Bristol and Kxotor , 88 , flO ; Calodoninn , r » 04 , « 0 ; East Anglian , H > 4 , 17 J ; Kastorn Countuis , »» , >» < Edinburgh and Glasgow . , t ! 2 ; Great Northern , 0 U . i > ' >»' Ditto , A stock , 70 , ft ); Ditto , li stock . . 125 . 127 ; < •';•"' Southern and Western ( In > huid ); iO 2 , lot ; < . roat W 4 < " ( il , < ? 1 A ; Lancaster and Uarlinle , < U > , 72 ; P" ^* -, ' , " , * , Vo pm . j Ditto , New Thirds , fij , 01 ; Lancashire and YoiKhimo
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Leader (1850-1860), May 3, 1856, page 20, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03051856/page/20/
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