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    September 10, 1853.] THE LEADER. 879

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    PICTURE OF THE DUBLIN EXHIBITION. (From ...

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    A LAY VIEW OF MEDICAL TESTS. It is a fol...

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    monstrous absurdity of Lord Palmerston's theory — it g 0 ^ 3 n 0 f arfc ^ er — of a British propaganda . Lord Aberdeen , loftily above Bermondsey views , perceives that great Britain is a power made up of conquests over nationalities , and gcof ns a foreign policy affecting to befriend struggling nationalities . Lord Aberdeendoes not why England , which has conquered and plundered India , and keeps India down for India's good , should set up for a hater of Czar Nicholas , who is a good despot in Russia , and keeps Poland down for Poland ' s obviou * eoocl . Lord Aberdeen does not see why England , crushed several rebellions in Irelandshould

    which has , be fanatically angry with Austria for keeping down Hungary ; and knowing that England forces an alien church on Ireland , he understands the eagerness of the Pope to plant Cardinal Wiseman in Westminster . He knows that we have had Kaffir wars and does not think Nicholas a ruffian for thinning his army among the Circassians ; he knows that we send off periodically rebellious Mitchells and O'Briens to Van Dieman ' s Land , and does not feel horror because Louis Napoleon institutes a Cayenne . Whenever he has to write to the Neapolitan

    Government about Sicilian affairs , he does not plunge into ecstatic liberalism , because he bears in mind that Great Britain has a proconsul at Corfu , occasionally deno unced by parochial Mr . Hume . Such a man is eminently fitted to hold the first governmental office in Great Britain ; and undoubtedly it is a happy arrangement , a Coalition Government , which includes , with Lord Aberdeen acting the Russian , Lord Palmerston to talk the Bermondsey , policy . Nost-Electoe .

    September 10, 1853.] The Leader. 879

    September 10 , 1853 . ] THE LEADER . 879

    Picture Of The Dublin Exhibition. (From ...

    PICTURE OF THE DUBLIN EXHIBITION . ( From d Special Correspondent . ) The Great Hull has a grand and imposing aspect ; but it is in reality smaller than it appears , the noble pro * portions and gracefully coupled shafts adding a fiction of size . Looking up a distance of one hundred and five feet to the noble span of roof , the apt Irish description of " panels of blue pk y in frames of unpainted deal , " seems faithful ; it is , however , the same problem of chromatic decoration solved by Mr . Owen Jones in the Crystal Palace , and applied here , with the difference that Mr . Owen Jones contended with the difficulty of making his ornamentation apparent , while Mr . Lanyon ( of Belfast ) was obliged to subdue the colouring of the timber structure to a sober harmony which Avould not interfere with the exhibited fabrics , and the crosstracery of the gallery balustrades is alone unpainted . In one point the Industrial Palace far excels its prototype in Hyde-park ; the light is of a delicious grey tone , obtained by employing fluted glass of a greenish hue , and the careful exclusion of direct rays of

    sunshino . The Central Hall is international ground in art and manufacture . English and German sculptors contribute casts , private collections provide antiques . Among these tho Centaur is a good modern antique . A Leda , exquisite in tho articulation of limbs through tho soft thin tunic , recalling Goetho ' s description of drapery as thousandfold echo of form , serves to warn modern sculptors whoso Ledas abound here , that Grecian marbles embody divinitywhore they only

    suc-, cee d in develop ing inane- unchastencss . Dieudonne ' , of Paris , in « Christ Praying in tho Garden , " produces » perfect statue , and Irish sculptors retain their placo "I imagina tion and manipulative excellence . A young i'ublii , sculptor , Mr . Baxter , lias made a successful «« ort nfc introducing genro in tho " Lesson Inter' upfed , " and Lawlor is conspicuous in grace . MacuowoII ' h first work , " Cephalus and Procris , " docs no uwcroibt to "Eve , " beside which it stands . All tho hro

    ups , ui , i ma ( sll to t ] j 0 couj ) ( VwU 1 ) y ljo . | i £ j p j . u . ca a ( . f ] e . s loading from the central to the lateral hulls ; ° '' . Y ' approximating fabrics they produce tho >! ° 1 ' arin <>» iou . s union of tho ideal and useful . Baron I'irocljo tti ' s equestrian statue of tho Queen is conspiex ? - ' W '" ]) 1 . ilco ' Jones's life-sizo statuo of Mr . Dargan w » i 111 <; m 'y '» » s an admirable ! likeness of the outw mntoriul form of tho Trish industrial hero , but tho Con ) ! T dfcy ° f ilv ° Kxl » il ) itioii iuhI orimme . it of the !« :.. ' .. ; llll ( is Ul ° dessert service of Messrs . Kerr and Mill Ml »» : nrnji-i , WH'VICU OI MCSSl'S . iVOlT 1 U 1 (( lIm

    ,-.,., ' J » ' »» tmting "Midsummer Night's Dream . " It is pro " n 1 U <)(](> 1 S ° * W" lU ) ynUm Kil ' k ' »»« l » ' » l >> y nnatT ¦ louilin ^ of lv ' K «» mw < - <> art , and its fcis ] , . IU 1 ) l ; mlill tf i (; *«> Practical beauty . Swedish W ra' ' () n"orl . y US ( - iu ]«> m ! laiu umnufhd , uro , iCi ' n ^ T i th " H »»« n , ( v "' liout Wing too muoh vit ; r ; Iied , is su / Iiciently «««•« Sl ° 1- 1 H ' 0 ( IlM > " '"'"'""'" 'y »{? l > t »» d shadow . Bel . li ( . ,. * la ' ' ' ° > who is represented sleeping on a bank , lieii ' aT" ? UIU ? H tllolluotill tf Khll l <> ' "» vision , the ass's u 'Ixoil botween tho brunches overshadowing tho

    Poet , Puck flies through the tree , and fairy heads issue from each branch ; Fame , in an apotheosis , trumpets the poet ' s praise ; her wings are outstretched , and in emblem of his immortality , . she . holds his image graven on a star . On the centre-piece the fairies enact their play . In fanciful construction rise three plains of fairy ground—the first is the Jealousy , or Titania and Oberon disputing for the page ; the second , the Kevenge , Puck seeking the flower , and selecting it from an exquisite little parterre ; Oberon rejoicing over the prize ; Titania sleeping , unconscious of the juice squeezed upon her eyes , her loving caresses of Bottom , and the termination at ; the top h the reconciliation between the fairy

    monarchs . Other dual groups are introduced . The cream-bowls are surmounted by Puck looking out through his knees with genuine Robin Goodfellow mirth and malice ; the salt-cellars are supported by three fairies ; the plates present on the edge three oval medallions of Shakspearo ; Tragedy and Comedy joined by Grecian chimeras in dead gold , the centre of each varied , but all are symbolical of night . The whole drama has found a truly Shaksperian realization from an Irish artist , working from art-material indigenous to the soil , and brought to perfection by English artisans directed by Irish , capitalists—a new reading of " union" facts .

    Ireland again contributes design in the Queen ' s Plate , executed by Garrard , of the Haymarket , under the instructions of Prince Albert . It is a Kiosk temple , raised in the desert over a fountain , the clustered columns and springing arches rising to the dome in Moorish architecture , partly suggested by the Courts of the Alhambra , and from the tomb of Noormahal , in tho Taj Agra . It is of silver , enamelled and gilt , bright and frosted , and modelled by an Irishman , Mr . Percy . At the base , where the sacred fountain runs into silver basins , three horses form the

    groups : one quietly drinks , while a negro boy holds the reins ; another , escaping from the Arab , who , in trying to regain his hold , startles the third into rearing-, which rouses a Persian hound , who completes the confusion ^ by leaping and barking . This portion was modelled by Mr . Cotterill , and the rock foundation , nearly hidden by sand , and surrounded by luxurious Oriental vegetation of palms and bananas , by Mr . Spencer . Here a flamingo stoops to drink from a stream which flows through the sand from the fountain , and two lizards , unconscious that a vulture is near , sport under the trees .

    The foreign contributions , unlike those of tho London Exhibition , are not the products of the nations , but of individual- ; . Instead of the Chinese exhibitors , tho ivory temples , and tho ingenuity exerted in a national effort , China is a well-chosen collection , supplied by privato speculation . Tho Indian department is bare of tho gorgeous shawls and the stately appointments of Indian Princes ; choice selections from the Queen , the East India Company , the Asiatic Society , Lord Gough , and Mr . Twining , supply tho place of independent manufacture . Valuable as these intrinsically are , they give placo to an interesting and completo

    system of Hindoo mythology , tho property of Mr . Bridge of Dublin . Jowelbry and tapestry—tho Viergo and Poisson , after Ilaphael , equal to painting , and a collection of Ormolu clocks , are the principal objects in tho French compartment , with a limited display of textile fabrics . Even the English lmvo left this open and unrivalled for Ireland ; tho jacquards , brocade looms , and tho tabinets are ontirely at home , and Belfast secures tho flax manufacture . Tho Irish Fisheries Company exhibit salmon swimming- in their models of weirs and stairs , the artificial production of the fish , hero exemplifying

    other tendencies than art ; and tho Irish locomotives in tho " machinery in motion" prove that mechanical power has practical followers as active as tho abstract science of physical research . Belgium , first in paintings , in hist and poorest in nnmufaetin-o ; but a lovely ntntuo , by Fraikin , of Cupid Captive , atones for tho poverty of their portion of the lateral hall . - Berlin reproduces tho Dresden Gallery in porcelain pictures and groups in bronze and zinc , after Kreismann , Kiss , Miiller , and Ranch , with ornamental table groups of infinito variety . Tho . Court of Modern Art , with Raphael ' s Child and Dolphin , afior tho fablo of . / Elian ,

    occupying tho centre , is approached through the foreign hall , and leads to tho Medituvul Court , which has been fitted up rather in resemblance of a privato oratory than an exhibition of church manufacture , and a ceiling of transparent blue with golden stars lends n soft , ovoning light , very beautiful in effect . The Gallery of Old Masters mid Rubbings of Ancient Brasses , lead from thin through the Furniture Court and to the Agricullural Museum of seeds and implements . Scotch industry has been peculiarly active , and the interminable collection inevitably suggests that " model farming" may bo u nowly-doviHcd pathway on tho road to

    ruin . It is a department which , almost entirely neglected in comparison in the Crystal Palace , has met with considerable acceptation and space in the Dublin Exhibition . In the Northern Hali , iron and hardware are exclusively English , ' and though American cotton is brought to , Manchester for manufacture , arid English iron tempered to steel in the factories of the new world , in the progress of Irish industry but little chance of entering on a portion of this trade is perceptible . ,. - .- . Among the trades of Dublin bookbinding comes into the domain of art : landscapes , inserted in leather , cover the volumes of light literature , and devotional books are bound in gold and studded with stones .

    A new and delicate fabric of gold and silver laces , on a ground of tulle , is exhibited , in the gallery of the north hall ; the patterns are from Irish schools of design , and are shown unfinished in the process of working ; the endless bobbins and labyrinths of pins seeming a hopeless chaos , but woven in cabins , and by the sensitive fingers of Irish peasant women . It has been purchased to decorate the court robes of the Queen , and , from the poverty of its origin in the West , is to shine in the royal drawing-rooms , at St . James's . Philosophical instruments , and naval and civil engineering models , in tho southern galleries , are more especially the products of England . Science is , however , vindicated in a series of

    careful geological charts , illustrating the soil of Ireland ; the raw materials of coloured marbles , flax , peat , mineral substances , and those used for food , occupy a large section close to the entrance . Not very long since , these were esteemed the wealth of the country , but Ireland has come into the patrimony of labour , the groat heritage of our generation , and has learned that the Celtic genius and intelligence can be developed into manufacturing skill , that the abstract science of the physicist can be rendered into material for prosperity , that enterprise will be successful , and that industry is a more valuable possession than the gold of Australia and the iron of England . London collected the marvels of the world and the handicraft of the nations .

    Dublin has no malachite from Russia , no carvings from Austria , no feats in mingling colours , in costly fabrics , from the East ; . Germany and Italy arc absent , Spain has not even a wine jar , Prussia and Belgium strictly are contributors in art alone , Bavaria , too busy with her display in Munich , in the coming year , has nothing for Ireland ; Brazil is hardly more than botanic , and England in silver work , gems , and iron . Scotland , in the invention of agricultural implements , excels the Irish mechanic and farmer . In designs and mindcraft , in art , and loom-work , the Celtic race has taken its

    stand in the first rank ; and the women of the West have founded trades and delicate hand manufactures which will progress to the perfection of Continental excellence , and perhaps to the splendour of needlework in Eastern lands . Less ambitious of interest , and in variety every way behind its great prototype , tho Industrial Palace yet affords abundanco to repay the artist and connoisseur in tho most perfect scries of

    paintings in . Europe , from the earliest Byzantine eftorts to our own year ; while the visitor in search of a picturesque scene will feel no disappointment . To Ireland its great good is , that it affords n daily means of acquiring definite information , in its surpassing recommendation as a temporary college for industrial training , and a moral example of what one man may achieve for his country .

    A Lay View Of Medical Tests. It Is A Fol...

    A LAY VIEW OF MEDICAL TESTS . It is a folly as well as an injustice to pursue with scandal and derision a class so valuable as our medical men ; it has but a solitary palliation , that although deference is duo to tho profession , tho public havo fi priori no convincing assurance of tho fact . This if procurable we have a right to insist on . Its existence- wo venture to deny ; its possibility we hope to prove .

    A professional examination should bo a guaranteo from recognised censors that tho public shall not bo victimized by tho unscrupulous or uninformed . Consequently it will approach perfection in proportion as it realizes , or be futile in proportion as it recedes from , tho following conditions : — , 1 . Of inspiring a comfortable- reliance on ittf sufficiency . J I . Of admitting all who aro competent . III . Of closing tho avenue to all who are inadequate .

    Apply this test to medical examinations , and what do wo find ? We find that tho public , so far from confiding in the authorized ordeal , enforce another of their own , and compel « man to waif' for the experience ) which they withhold by repudiating his aid , at tho same time permitting all ho may have acquired to exhale in inactivity . Tho public , however , aro not altogether wrong , for though they obstinately ignore tho i ' net that u young

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 10, 1853, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_10091853/page/15/