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Landscape Painting In 1853. : It Is Not ...
critics get through in one word—cidar-oscuro ; a remarkable-fact being that there is no such thing in any of his pictures . The mistake of attributing this quality to Lee is the mistake of unison for harmony . The slender stream of blue that winds across the picture is , we know from its place there , a river ; but what nuance can you find in the dull , uniform sjbreak , to give you the faintest idea of water winding through several modifications of light and other influences . The water in Boddington's scene lurks darkly in deep , still pools , eddies round the weeds arid bulrushes , glides smoothly over the mossy shallows , and anon flashes out into the sunlight . There are a thousand variations in this landscape of Boddington ' s , and among them all we cannot detect one trivial accident . By this avoidance of what Nature in effect avoids—the result only of a fixed view such as you cannot get in Nature—we are alone able to appreciate the value of chiar-oscuro .
Yet if Lee had abandoned his mono-chromatic style , to produce as wonderful a concord of diverse effects as is this picture by Boddington , what would some critics have said ? An artist—especially a landscapepainter—may come , in time , to acquire a certain handwriting- —style is strictly the expression here—by which not only he himself , but what he theans , is recognised ; as we become familiar with the vile scrawl of a friend's letters , particularly when they are all on the same subject . In fact , the spectator of a work , the style of which he knows very well , is , to a great extent , the delineator of what he sees in it . Are we hasty in assuming that this fact is often overlooked , to a painter's undeserved reproach , and that it was so overlooked by the critic who wrote thus of Creswick ' s " Happy Spring Time" ?
; " Mr . Creswick , we think , has on this occasion hardly done justice to his great powers of depicting English scenery . At all events , No . 375 , which he entitles The Happy Spring Time / reminds us far more forcibly of a cheerless and backward season , like the present , than of those genial attributes of Nature which befit that hopeful period of the year . Mr . Creswick is eminently a landscape painter , and has therefore the less excuse for neglecting to pourtray some at least of the characteristic features of the season which he undertakes to delineate . . . . some of Nature ' s tokens which we look for in a correct delineation of spring , and of
which the absence is ill supplied in Mr . Creswick ' s picture by tall , naked bee-1 trees , devoid of foliage , and a few fallen trunks , the very emblems of desolation ai ) decay . "—Times , April 30 , 1853 . m The length to which our paper has run obliges us to defer noticing tlio works of Jutsum , Percy , Gilbert , the WilliamseSj T . Danby , the youLer and a long list of rising painters ., ' 6 '
Vg$G The Leader. [Saturday ,
vg $ g THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,
Health Of London During The Week. The To...
HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK . The total number of deaths registered in London , which in the preceding week was 984 , rose in the week that ended on Saturday to 1053 . Excluding from the comparison the corresponding week of 1849 , in which cholera raised the mortality from all causes to 2456 , it appears that the result of last week does not differ materially from the average as corrected for increase of population . Summer cholera and diarrhoea exhibit a small decrease in the present as compared with the previous return . The . deaths ascribed to diarrhoea are 126 , of which 115 occurred amongst children . The tender age of nearly all the sufferers , 97 of them not having completed their first year , is Bufficient to dispel the popular error that the use of fruit is the exciting cause . Small-pox was fatal in only 5 Cases , measles in 13 , scarlatina in 27 , hooping-cough in 28 , ague in 1 , typhus in 48 . Last week the births of 775 boys and 743 girls , in all 1518 children , were registered in London . In the eight corresponding weeks of the years 1845-52 the average number was 1348 . At the Royal Observatory , Greenwich , the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29 * 736 in . / The reading of the barometer decreased from 90 * 97 in . at the beginning of the week to 29-40 in . by 9 h . p . m . on the 10 th ; increased to 29 * 83 in . by the morning of the 18 th : then decreased to 29 * 77 in . by 3 h . p . m . on the 19 th ; and increased to 29-81 in . by tho end of the week . The mean temperature of the week was 60-4 degs ., which is slightly below tho average of the same week in 38 years . It was below the average on tho first live dnys of the week , but on Friday and Saturday rose about 4 dogs , above it . Tho highest temperature of the week was 77 * 5 degs ., and occurred on Friday ; the lowest was 45-8 degs ., and occurred on Thursday , The greatest difference between the dew Iioint temperature and air temperaturowas 154 ( legs , on iYiday ; tho least () -9 deg . on Tuesday ; tho mean difference of tho week was C * 2 ( legs . The wind blew from tho north and south-went .
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/ BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . ' / BIRTHS . / Ou tho 17 th of August , the wifoof W . N . Forbes , Esq ., ofl 7 , £ Benufoy-terrnce , anil of Auchernach mid Duuiiottur , N . li ,: a son . On the 10 th , nt TCdghanlon , Birmingham , the wifo of Captain Henry Buckley . Tenner Wynwn . nl , Bngadu-Major : a daughter . On the ' 21 st , nt ' Richmond-hill , tho wifo of Arthur J . Otwuy , dititl ., M . I * ., priJinaturoly : n daughter , stillborn . On Uim 22 nd , at Cohhum-hitll , the Counti >; m of Ditrnlcy : n daughter . ¦ On tho 2 Hrd , at tho Iiouho of her father , in tho Brititth Museum , tl-e wilb of . / . It . Konyon , l £ nq . : u son . MAItlUAGKS . On tho 29 th of Juno , nt St . PiiuI ' h Cathedral , Calcutta , Jorvoino John CJroy , Ktiq ., C . S . hccoimI turn of the Right Hon . Hii-Otiarloa Edward Groy , to J'Jlizaljoth , oldcHt dauglitor of Honry Holroyd , K » a ., harritHor-at-law . On tho 15 th <; f August , at Florence , in tho Epincopal I ' uhtco , tho Marquiw of Uicc . i 1 ' iirucoiiio , of Kouio , mid MontopuUiiuo , in , Tiiaoj * tiiy , to Kormlio jICiihIuco , only daughter of tho Into Lioutoiiaut-Gonorul Ho ' nry . Kimtac ' e . ' ¦ Ou tho Kith , at tho Church-of Fit . Thomas d'Aquin , PnriH , tho Huron Amahlo do Montaignao do Chauvanoo , wiu of tho Virointo , < lq Montaignno do Chauvanco , to Mary , daughter of Owon levies , K « q ., lorinorly of Chihvell-httll , Notln , uud mibm-quently of Kttm-lioiiHo , Kiint . On tJ » o lHl . li , nt Monk «( . own Church , Captain Alexander i ? . fct \ V Xj ' V » . * , . Murray , EigUtv-oeventh Heyo-l Iritdi FuiiiliorH , ne < : oiid mm of tho ^~~ ° - * -oLif ^ tehjt * Hon , Loid Cringletio , to Kugonia Grace , oldoHt daughter X * j ^)^ = ^^?* rTrt . « -wBE > 5 aWt « 'in"nt-Coh ) ncl CurtiH . C . U ., lnniHinoro . / / sj sjjkv' { ^ : V' ®\ On ^ h ( - liUrd , ut Kothley Church , Archibald Smith , V . » q ., of P + J & fic * ~~ —^/ , "f ¦ ''¦'• ' ^¦ l @ WJW «»' H- >« in , harriHt , t < r-at-law , to Huniiii Kinina , youngest A ^ iio VrY- /* '• r '"" P *\ nJ | lpr of tho Into Vioe-Chunoollor Hir . lamou Parker , of Kf *<'» V ; V ' j K ' - ''• ' ' ^ v « WPw | T « iiiplo , LoiooHtoinliiro . ^ . W'j | * ' [ » - ' - ¦ '¦ "' . ' . " . ^• ¦ IwWjl ' -iSl-h , nl . Ht . Janien ' n I ' addington , CharloB James Moult , « O \ ' T-r " - * ' ,. '; . :, M & £ ., ~ tk \\ y lion of tho Lord JJiahon of UlonoiiHtor and UriHtol , to \ ^ T ^ " "'• v >& Wtif > vly uaughterof runtinltalli , Enq ., Groelt Con » ul-Uonoral . : "¦; ¦ . .-5 B- / J ( I \ < - , £ ™ - M ) ,.
Ou the 23 rd , at Itydal Chapel , John Wakefield Cropper , Esq ., second son of John Cropper , Esq ., Dingle-bank , Liverpool , to Susanna Elizabeth Lydia , third danghter of the late Dr . Arnold , of Rugby . On the 24 th , at All Souls Church , Lann-ham-place , the Rev . John Rowlands , Fellow of Queen ' s College , Cambridge , and rector of G-rimston , Iforfolk , to Georgiana , youngest daughter of Sir George Jackson , K . C . H ., her Majesty ' s Commissary Judge at Loando . DEATHS . On the 16 th of April , while fordiDg the river near Nelson , New Zealand , the Hon . ConStantine A . Dillon , fourth son of the late Viscount Dillon , in his thirty-ninth year . On the 14 th of August , at his residence , "Wimbledon , Mr . James Paxton , aged sixty-two , brother of Sir Joseph Paxton , and many years confidential servant to his Grace the Duke of Somerset , at Wimbledon-park , Surrey . On the 18 th , at Auchinronth , near Rothes , N . B , Lieutenant General Lord Saltoun , K . T ., and Colonel of II . M . Second Regiment , in the sixty-ninth year of his age . On the 18 th , accidentally drowned in Loeh Aise , Scotland , Edward Bethell Codrington , aged seven years and ten months , only son of Colonel Codrington , Coldstream Guards . On the 19 th , at Rogut . o-lodge , the seat of Colonel C . Wyndham , Harriet Dowager Lady Polwarth , daughter of Count Briihl and Alicia Maria , Countess of Egremont , aged eighty-one , On tho 10 th , at Leamington Spa , tho Right Hon . Sir George Coekburn , Bart ., of Langton , G . C . B ., Admiral of the Fleet , Major-General of Marines , and Rear Admiral of the United Kingdom , in his eighty-second year . On the 20 th , at Hewshot-hill , near Liphook , Hants , tho Hon . A . R . Tumour , Commander R . N ., in tho sixty-sixth year of his age . On tho 20 th , at Haslar Hospital , at the house of his hrotherm-li * w , Commander Jumes Howard Turner , R . N ., aged fiftyeight . When a Lieutenant ho commanded H . M . hrig Hanqer , on tho Falmouth station , and H . M . uttium-vossel Merlin , in ' the Mediterranean . On tho 20 th , at 20 , Upper Harley-fltreet , after a few days illness , J . P . Morier , Esq ., in his aoventy-sixtli year . On tho 22 nd , tho Right Hon . Edward Vernon , Lord SutHeld aged forty . On the 24 th , at his residence , 14 , Hawley-road , Kentish-town , Commander Charles Royor , Royal Navy , aged Boventy-Heven .
Gallery Op Illustration. Two Cities, Rat...
GALLERY OP ILLUSTRATION . Two cities , rather out of the way of the " Ocean Mail to India and Australia , " have been painted by Messrs . Grieve and Tel bin for the Gallery of Illustration . They are Constantinople and St . Peters burgh The first was exhibited two or three weeks ago ; the second , onl y last Monday . We have missed seeing Constantinople , but , as we hear that the city appears in all the glowing splendour of reality , it is easy for Us to believe the universal remark that a fine contrast is produced by the change to St . Petersburgh , moonlit , and terrible in its Gorgon beauty , seen across the frozen Neva .
" Illustrations" are nearly always exaggerated pictures ; indeed , a little exaggeration is sometimes requisite to give a good idea of reality . But here is a quiet look of truth which disposes us to take for granted as much accuracy as any one would desire . At all events , we can speak with positive approbation of the painting—of its general truth of effect . We have learnt to prize such merit more highly since the stage Las shown us that ever so much reading up in the departments of the scenepainter , the property-man , the perruquier , & c , does not generally assist
the touch of nature , and that even the actors ^—those abstract and brief chronicles of the costume of the period—can be formidably accurate without being the least real . To be sure , there would be no end gained or trouble saved in giving an incorrect view of a city which has never been buried , and consequently has not to be dug up before it can be Daguerreotyped . But the picture is worth seeing , if only as a picture . The illusive effects are as skilfully adapted to the painting as they could have been by Bouton or Daguerre . Q .
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MONEV MARKET AND CITY INTELLIGENCE . Friday Evening , August 2 ( 5 , 185 : ) Conkoi . h elo . sod on Friday last at i > . S £ to J for ftlh September ticcoiint , und have , din-intr tho wook pant , varied from that prico to < M \ to I , 0 H 4 to J , USJ 1 o \ , !) H 4 to 8 , opening yoHterday ( I < riday ) nt 98 to \ ; th »> market weak , und leaving otr at OHJ for money and account ,. The wot ; weather , no doubt , Iuih l > oi > n ono great caiiHo in tho didueHu of tho qiiotnt . ioiiH . ICaHttirn Countion HluircH lmvc at hint , hIiowu a diHj > o » ition to Who from tho low pri (!(« they have , ho long been at . Yowtordny they cloned nt , K 5 i to i , 1 ) iihiik'hh having l »> on dono at a ; J and llvo-HixtccnthH . Tho henvy railway hIiuh-h during tho wook havo Hlight . ly fluctuated from tho quotation .- ) of last woelc , and generally with a downward tnudoncy . Littlo bimineMH linn been dono in tho Gold Mining Mnrkot , mid tho hargainn traiiHactcd chicdy in a fmv CompanioH ; tho priceo quoted of tho othorn diflpla ' ying Hinall alteration . 'I'lievo linn been hoiiio inquiry and hiiHincMH dono in l ' oltiinoro , Mining HharoH , which , in ooiiMOononoo of tho favourable , report indued by ( lu » Company , havo Ihmmi doalt , in nt ono-HUtoen and i premium , with a greater inelinatiqn for lnirohaHO than Halo . Tho cloning pri (; eM yoHlorday wero , —Calcdoniaim OflJ to ( 171 ¦ Cork and Uandon , 11 ) . ^ l « , 20 * ; KaHtcrn Coun tioH , I : t 4 to ' ¦ Great , Northern , Kl-H 1 ; ( jreat Wontorn , HHi- »; Lanoanhiro and yorlcHlnro , 75-4 ; London , | iVorl . h WeHtern , 111 } to 112 x d London and Month Western , HR \ to HOJ : London and Hrighton ' . ir , Y j ..:, ' -N ^ wcaHtlo , and Iterwiolr , ( l » i , 7 Oj ; Vorlf and North Midland , 5 HJ , r , i > J ; 0 ,-,-at ( Jonlral of France , 2 J-i premium ; Northern of I'Yance , Mi- \ ; I ' ariii and Lyonn , 1 HJ , !!)[ proni . ; 1 arw aiul Orlenim , r . l-IJ ; i ' arin and HtriiHhonrg , : ) 1 ) -J ¦ H 10 Krnnce } to J prom , . Uj ) per India Scrip , * to S i » n > m . ' WcNtein o I ' rnuoo , ujiolOJ ; AuHtrali . m Agricvillnro , M 5-U 7 ¦ i ' r » a ' "' lu ; > ;> i ( l > * I'nim . ; Ditto of I'Yanoo , 4 to 1 prom . N Jl AuHlrahan Company , par to 1 : Pool River , J to 1 prem - Van Dioituui h Jiand , 10-17 , '
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CORN MARKET , Mark Lane , Friday , August 25 , 1853 . With , moderate supplies , our wheat trade is 2 s . dearer than Monday . Barley is firm , and rather more ready sale . Oats arc also the turn dearer . Beans and peas without alteration .
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BRITISH FUNDS FOR THE PAST WEEK . ( Closing Prices . ) Satur . Mond . TiU * . Wedn . \ Thur *' . Frid . Bank Stock 229 229 J 229 I 229 3 por Cent . Red . : 99 99 * 99 * j 99 j 9 !) £ 3 per Cent . Con . Ans . 98 f 98 $ 93 } | 9 Si 984 Consols for Account ... 98 | 99 J 98 J 98 | 991 3 i per Cent . An 101 $ . 101 £ I 01 J 101 ^ 101 J New 5 per Centa Long Ans ., 1860 515-16 6 0 India Stock 257 Ditto Bonds , . t' 1000 ... I 20 j ,., Ditto , under £ 1000 ... I Ex . Bills , £ 1000 2 p 2 p 3 p par 2 p Ditto , £ 500 3 p 2 p Ditto , Small 2 p 2 p 3 p 3 ' «'
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FOREIGN FUNDS . ( La . st Officia . ! - Quotation huhing this "Wekk endino TilUUSDAY EvJiNINO . ) Brnsilian Bonds 102 Portuguese . 4 per CciitH . 46 Ecuador CJ Russian 5 p . Cents , 1822 1 « i Gninada , ex Dec , 1810 , Venezuela < i \ per Cents . J » i coupon 23 Venezuela 1 p . Cent . Del . J « 4 Granada Deferred 10 Dutch 2 , \ per Cents . ...... J » j Peruvian 4 J per Cents .... m Dutch 4 per Cent . Ccrtil . J » . I ' eruvian 3 per Cent . Dcf . CO
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 27, 1853, page 22, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27081853/page/22/
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