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rpilE BEST MATTIJNC ANJ ) MATH OF X . COCOA-NUT F . I . IJK 10 . The . Jury of Class XXVI IT . Groat Inhibition , awarded the Prize Modal to T , TK . KLOAU , at wIkiho warehouse ( 42 , Ludmito Hill ) j ) urchaHern will find an assortment of Cocoa-Nut l < 'ibre manufactures , unequalled for variety and cxccllcnco at the iiiomI moderate priccH . Catalogues frco by j > oh ( ,. T .. Treloar , Cocoa-Nut Fil > r « Manufacturer , 42 , Lud ati ) Mill , London .
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A WAliDED a PKIZE MEDAL UNDE . R J \_ CLASS X 1 X . —TO THE CARPET TltADE— ltOYAL VICTORIA FELT CARPETING . —Tho PATENT WOOLLEN CLOTH COMPANY beg to inform the trade that their new patterns in CARPETS and TA 11 LE COVERS for the present season are now out , and will The found far superior to any they huvn hitherto produced , both in style and variety . Tho Public can be supplied at all respectable Carpet Houses in London and the country . The Company deem it necessary to caution tlio Public ; against parties who are selling an inferior description of poods as felted carpets , which will not bear comparison with their manufacture , either in stylo or durability ; and that the fjenuineneHH of the goods can always be tested by purchasers , as the Company ' s carpets are all stamped at both ends of tlio piece , " Uoyai * Victoria Cahi-ktino , London , " with the royal arms in the < tenl . ro . Tlio Conipany ' H manufactories are at . Khnwood Mills , Leeds , and Uorough-road , London . Wholesale Warehouse , at H , Ijove-lano , Wood-street , Choapside .
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MR . ALBERT SMITH'S ASCENT OF MONT BLANC , EVERY EVENING , at Eight o ' clock . Stalls , . 'Is ., which can be secured at the Box OfHco every day from Eleven till Four . Area , 2 s . ; Gallery , Is . —^ A Morning Performance every Saturday , at Three o ' clock . —EGYPTIAN HALL , Piccadilly .
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THE ROYAL MARIONETTES , AT ST . JAMES'S THEATRE . The re-appearance of the Marionettes in London takes place at the St . James ' s Theatre , on Monday next , Deo . 6 th , on which occasion the National Anthem will be sung by the whole Company ; then will be produced a New Introductory Address , written for the occasion , and delivered by Mr . Alhany Brown ; after which , a new Piece de Circonstance , entitled , an APPEAL TO THE AUDIENCE ; or , the Manager in Difficulties ; to be followed by a ShakBperian Fragment , called THE SIXTH ACT OF ROMEO AND JULIET , to which will be added tho popular Burletta , "THE CHALET ; " to conclude with an Entirely New Entertainment , by the EBONY MARIONETTES . Every Evening , at Eight . Morning Performances on Wednesday , the 8 th , and Saturday , the 11 th , at Three . Doors to open half an hour before each Performance . Private Boxes , £ 1 Is ., and £ 1 11 s . 6 d . ; Stalls , 4 s . ; Boxes , 3 s . ; Pit , 2 s . ; Amphitheatre , la . Box Office of the Theatre open Daily , from Eleven till Four .
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rriHE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL J _ STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY Book Passengers and receive Goods and Parcels for MALTA , EGYPT , INDIA , and CHINA , by their Steamers leaving Southampton on the 20 th of every Month . The Company's Steamers also start for MALTA and CONSTANTINOPLE on the 29 th , and VIGO , OPORTO , LISBON , CADIZ , and GIBRALTAR , on tho 7 th , 17 th , and 27 th of the Month . For further information apply at the Company's Offices , 122 , Leadenhall Street , London ; and Oriental Place , Southampton .
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CAWSON HILL MINING COMPANY . Shareholders in this undertaking are referred to tho Leader of tho 27 th November for a full report of tho First General Meeting . Persona desirous of becoming Subscribers can obtain a proapectus and fullest particulars upon application personal , or by post , to the Purser , at the offices of tho Company , No . 3 , Crown Court , Threadneodlo Street , City .
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BOARD OF SUPPLY AND DEMANDCONSUMERS PEOTECTION AGENCY . Provisional OfHco : Fjsnchurch Chamdkes , 1 C 9 , FuNOiiuncir-Stkumt , City . Now open only for diffusing information respecting thfl pl »" - . Due notice will bo given when the collection and exeoulion o orders are to commence , and tho names of the Supervwors wi " then tie announced . Objects of the New BtmineM concern : — To undertake tho execution , on behalf of the public , ol any orders for any articles of trade j , <¦ .. To secure tho purity , quality , right price , promp t ami » " - delivery of articles ordered ; . ' wl , , To osUhliHh and maintain , upon an extensive s < ' <« " » . ™" houses for receiving and textinq the articleH for conminipiio , To recommend to tho clients of tho Hoard the tr « l «« ' ™ » contractors , working men , and various persons whose hl may be required ; .. .. ,. ,. _ To settle accounts and make payments on behalf ol u » toniors or clients , &o . &o . &c . Admtntiiyes xecured to ciintomer . i tlenliwj with the Hoard- ~ An easy , safe , inexpensive ni ()( le <) f transmitting their o ' " ^ ' All and every security , Unit the existing state ol < . " ^ Hliill and the concentrated p ower of capital , labour , machine y . and experience can afford , us to the purity , quality , ng '"' 1 prompt and safe delivery of the articles ordered ; An eflicient responsibility in ease of damage and aeie . n , Simplification of household accounts ; . HP ( , ( l ( d All aiticlcK charged according to a hot of Mxoc t v > n <'" ' , , jh 1 i ( ,, 1 betw i the merchants and the Board : all such lists pi " and forwarded , from time to time . n-iwsio ' "f Reduction of prices , and great saving l > y <"" "" " ,. . fro "' all the coHtly experiments that consumers have i <> ' | Ui ( 1 ibeir not heing acquainted with proper p laces ol » upi y with well-controlled merchants ; . r . OIlf , uinp-Facility for credits app licable to the whole ol "" V { ; ,,, iiy lion , itiiif bearing upon tint whole of then- rly , be tlio terniH of receiving t he said income , inonUiiy , < i half-yearly , or yearly . . n i .., , mldroHrt , Further particulars to ho had by applying the above or by forwarding four postage hUiii |> h . imn TKCTlON The proHjiootiiH of tho OONHUMHKH' III "» J m > n n 1 HOOIMTY may be had alHO at the above addroHH , "y J |() AU i > app lication , or by forwarding ono postage-nt '"| 'P j . ' rlw , t , icully < ifi HUPI'LV- AND D 1 CMANI ) '""" . K ,, "" " ' J society . to lUrthor tho viown of tho Vomunwiu' 1 ' rotootum » oci « j
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done , and the officials are alarmed at a new " outcry . " We trust that it will be loud enough to affright them from their work . Amongst those who go to look , indeed , are many who are not the most experienced or the most clear-sighted ; it is not possible for every man , however quick or accomp lished in other things , to "pronounce upon questions of the kind ; and many , who feeltheir usual credit for sagacity somewhat at stake , fall into the natural asylum for perplexed intelligences , assume a compromise as the practical form of " impartiality , " or fall to balancing supposed motives , and are misled by insinuations that this or that man has personal objects . This , however , is not impartiality , but evasion of judgment . The case , we believe , is capable of being put into so precise and tangible a shape , that the man most unfamiliar with , technicalities may grasp ifc , so long as he does not suffer himself to be led off by general expressions or vague comparisons . It is strictly a matter-of-fact , and ought to be treated as such .
The pictures injured are nine— " Embarcation of the Queen of Sheba , " " Marriage of Isaac and Rebecca , " " Landscape with figures , by Claude , " " View in Yenice , " and " View on the Grand Canal , " by Canaletto ; " Consecration of St . Nicholas , " by Paul Veronese ; " Angels " Weeping over the Body of Christ , " by G-uercino ; " Conversion of St . Bavon , " by Rubens ; and " The Plague of Ashdod , " by Nicholas Poussin . A tenth , and that one of great importance , seems to have been touched , " The Raising of Lazarus , " by Sebastian del Piombo . Some of the more striking traces of the decorticating process in the nine pictures , are described by Mr . Moore : —
" The words ' La Heine de Saba va trotiver Salomon / written by Claude himself , on the quay to the right of the ' Embarcation of the Queen of Sheba , ' were distinctly legible previous to the last vacation . For this we have the authority of the official catalogue ; and I can , for once , testify to its accuracy . Some of these words are now utterly illegible . The unmeaning scratches left to indicate where they were mark the audacity , not the forbearance of the operators . The same may be said of the ' Marriage of Tsaac and Rebecca / In the Ghiercino , the lower portion of the outline of the angel ' s face in the centre of the picture is all but rubbed out , so that face and neck , until lately relieved from each other , are now
confounded in one unintelligible mass , ' The View in Venice / by Canaletto , scoured into a jumble of near and remote objects , offensively huddled together on the same plane , suggests , by the excessive rawness and spottiness of many equally white objects , a bad representation of a snow scene . In the ' St . Bavon' the features , modelled in transparent colour in the final process of the work , have been almost effaced from some of the heads , which now look like repulsive excrescences of badly imitated or diseased flesh . ' The Plague at Ashdod' has fared little better . So violently have some of these pictures been scoured , that scrumblings of their own body pigment are perceptible on their surfaces . "
These are palpable effects , which most men can trace for themselvp but even the more general consequences are comprehensible without a ; technical profundities . Canaletto was a scene-painter , and his nictur have the characteristics of a man practised in that branch of art thev precise in outline , illusory in point of distance , literal in colouring Thp somewhat lack aerial perspective ; but it will be remembered that in Ital the much greater clearness of the air diminishes the effect of aerial ue / spective in proportion to the distance . On the other hand , Canalet to i remarkable for conveying the local colour of atmosphere in a sunnv climate . Now let the spectator compare the damaged pictures with on of Canaletto ' s in its true condition , and he will see that the damaged me tures have a sombre , hard look , like an English scene on a day of steadv rain without mist , and that there is as little distance as ther « ia a ^ J ! clD ia
- »« - ¦ , i i-fn -in .-i -i -i .. ^ sun . Much the same difference will be seen in the damaged " Queen of Sheba " if it be compared with , the undamaged picture , by Claude , to t he left of the door as you enter . One is lit up with sun ; the other is the watery sun of a Scotch autumn . In like manner the Paul Veronese can be more distinctly traced in its outline , where the opaque colours were of a light species ; but in the dark parts , the removal of the transparent colours renders the picture more obscure than it was before , while the richness of its golden hue has gone . The reason is , that with the " dirt , " the " cleaners" have removed those delicate and transparent colours ' with which the artists finished their works .
When the decortications were made five years ago , we were told that the pictures would " recover ; " as though time could re-execute the finishing process of a Titian or a ^ Rubens : the spectator can now see how far the " Peace and War" has recovered . It has , indeed , recovered some of the dinginess that it had lost , but the painting which it lost has gone for ever . It may wait another couple oi centuries without ever being revisited by the warm hand of Hubens . It might be supposed that , in the present state of picture-cleaning knowledge , the alternative for the owners of ancient pictures lay between toleration of obscurity induced by time , and dilapidation . But that is not exactly so . Careful and tender cleaning , properly so called , without invading the surface , may do much to preserve pictures " . On the other hand , when dirt has once eaten into the substance , it is not to he
extirpated , even by abrasion , as we see in the water of the other damaged Claude—excoriated , without losing all its dirt . The practical question is this , will you prefer to see the work of the great master unmutilated , although as if through a glass dimmed by time , or will you tear off the glass and the surface of the picture with it ? We believe that most sensible men would say , let us retain the picture unmutilated . Well , at the National Gallery they are mutilating the p ictures which are the public property—mutilating valuable property which can never be restored .
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Etna ik Winter . —I saw Etna in its winter character at the beginning of March , 1830 . Three-fourths of the mountain , namely , the whole of the naked and almost the whole of the wooded zones , lay beneath an unbroken covering of" snow , while at the base all the fields were clothed in the brightest green of spring ; peas , beans , and flax , were already in full blossom , the flowers of the almond had fallen , and given place to the leaves , and the fig-leaves were beginning to unfold ; the meadows wero decorated with hyacinths , narcissuses , crocuses , anemones , and countless other flowers . Etna stood there as an enormous cone of snow , with its base encircled by a gigantic wreath of flowers . —Scuouw ' s j Earth , Plants , and Man .
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 4, 1852, page 1170, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1963/page/22/
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