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ON SUNDAY MORNING, 24th APRIL, at lOloven o'clock, » LHCTUKH will lie delivered at the
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Oxford Rooiim , !»(> , OaHtlo Htreot , Oxford Htroet , on UOD'H WO RICH AND UOD'K WORKSHOP . Uy WILLIAM MAOCALL , Author of tho •« JJduoation ol Tiwte . "
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d ? rettcfi wm& * ST . JAMES'S THEATKE . On Monday , will bo repeated , for the last time , tho celebrated Play of LK CHEVALIER 1 ) B ST . OEOllOHS , in which M . Lafont and Madlle . Pago will perform . On Wednesday next , for the BENEFIT of Mudllo . PAGE , and hint night but two of her engagement . On which occasion Bho will have the honour of appearing in L 15 S EXTREMES SE TOUCHKNT—Lo Chevalier Julian , ' M . Lafont ; La CointeHHe Itosino Madlle . Page . And in addition will he produced ( for tho first time in tlm country ) L 15 S FEES DE 1 'AlUS— Juliette , Madlle . Page ; Jjiiuru , Madilo . JSmma Floury ; HorteuHO , Madlle St . OeorgeH . IJoxos and Stalls may bo obtained at the ltoNideiuw of" Madilo . Page , 23 , King Street , St . J » n « w ' u ; at tho Hoi Ofllco ; and tit Mr . Mitchell's Royal Library , ' A ' i , Old liond Street .
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MR . ALBERT SMITH'S MONT BLANC , EVICKY EVENING , at Eight o ' clock , excopt Saturday . StallH , 3 h . ( which can bo Htwurcd at tho llox-olllco every day from Ulevon to Kour ) ; area , 2 b . ; gallery 1 h . A Morning Performance evory Tuoudny and Saturday , at Throo o ' clock . A View of tho celebrated M ' or de ( Hace , from Montunvoi'H , Iuih been added to the UluHtratioiiH . Egyptian Jlall , Piccadilly .
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An uxniiMTroN of piioToaitAPino PICTUItKH by the html ICngliHh and Continental AHihIh will be on ( ,,, 4 , « l at tho PHOTOCIRAPHIC IN STITUTION , KiH , New llond Street , on Thuruday , April 2 H . The Collection will include a great variety of new and important ^ Pioturen recently taken by eminent 1 'hotographorn , and Homo of the bout HpooiinoiiH ltom the luta Exhibition at tho Society of Artb . Adinisaion , Sixpence .
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It ia the Prior himself , who takes compassion on the youthful son of Columbus , and is here represented holding a cup of water to the boy ' s parched lips . The design is simple , grand , and perfectly original ; though the subject has been painted before , and is not capable of very different readings . Wehnert has treated the story with as much feeling , but his picture is not recalled by the sight of Hurlstone ' s . In the former work , Columbus , gaunt , almost savage with fasting and fatigue , sits on a bench , but stares straight onward , as if his purpose were again upon the road . His boy sleeps on his knee ; the long yellow hair straggling over the huge limbs ( Wehnert is the painter ) of Columbus . The Prior stands erect , and seems to invite the travellers to enter the conventgate . We recal this group for the sake of contrasting two compositions ,
both adhering to the main fact represented , hut resembling each other in nothing else . In . Hurlstone ' s picture the head of Columbus , who stands in the centre , nobly crowns the group . The face , turned a little sideways as the eyes rest on the boy , is expressive of manly tenderness and gratitude . The grave composure is just the reverse of what we notice in Wehnert—a wild and sickly glare . There is less difference in the case of the Prior . In both designs this figure has a high and austere bearing-, the beneficent character being most marked by Hurlstone . His other pictures , chiefly studies of Italian peasantry , are more finished than usual , and more agreeable . It is surprising he should paint no better portraits . They are certainly vile . < with the ious breast
Woolmer ' picture of the disrobing beauty " anx , " IB the prettiest of all his pretty trifles . It is sentiment in sugar . There are several good specimens of his light , graceful handiwork , all the better for a little extra care in the flesh painting , which is now getting to be wonderfully round and dimpled . There is more in the faces , too . The face of " Pining Care in rich brocade , " &c , which we have just noticed , is most delicately touched . So is the face in the " White Rose , " the next in merit , we think , to "Pining Care .. " Pretty little Pining Care , with her head nestling down so charmingly on one smooth shoulder , and her arms crossed over the diamonds ( which don't glitter ) on her " anxious breast ! " With the rich brocade slipping down from the white satin stays , and nicely indicating the perfection of her hips ! Woolmer has certainly caught the spirit of the Poses Plastiques .
Hill , more natural , but not so skilful as Woolmer , improves considerably . " May Day , " his principal work , shows a party of graceful children , grouped under a blossoming hawthorn bough , one being raised by the others , to gather the " May . " To look at one of Noble ' s pictures after this is like returning from a country ramble to go to the Casino . Yet Noble might paint charming pictures , if he would believe in the life that condescends to put on silks and feathers . There is some obscurity in his " Flowers of the Forest , " which represents a bevy of overdressed
beauties , lying about a lawn , and serenely indifferent to the critical gaze of two grinning bumpkins , across the hedge-row . Perhaps Noble , conscious of a failing towards the decorations and effects of the footlights , intends a pleasant kind of self-banter , in this tableau of artificial grace astonishing the natives . It is fair to add , that all the brilliancy does not here belong to the satin . Noble has flung a lustre over the flesh wkich we have never before remarked in his pictures ; the play of lio-ht on the neck and shoulder of one of the girls fairly takes one by RurDrise . Waireman paints Henry the Fourth soliloquizing on sleep ;
and Cowie—not so bold an illustrator—strives to embody a descriptive passage instead of a moral reflection . The " Flight of Desdemona with Othello" is told by Mr . Cowie with considerable skill , after the manner of Hook , in his Venetian scenes . Mr . Wageman ' s picture—it is needless to dwell on the absurdity of a didactic situation—is a more careful and independent study , finished to a level of hardness , without distinction of textures . Henry is discovered starting from his couch , and his restless condition is told with a painful truth , —iu the face only ; the attitude is one of ranting common-place ; it looks like Methodism delivering an . " appropriate remark . " Studies of heads , in which you recognise tno old models , are as plentiful as ever . Among the painters in this branch wo still find Chester Carles , who bade once for notice , if not fame , but who stopped growing some years ago . Gale , thoughtful and refined as
he always is , will not get beyond the production of solitary faces . His profile study has the same graceful and pensive dignity which marks his portraits at the British Institution . One more head remains for notice , the merit being higher than might be expected from the title . " Uncle Tom reading his Bible" is a fine type of the Nigger development , and would pass very well for a Toussaint L'Ouverture . The artist is Mr . H . C . Whaite . . ' . ¦ „ . , , . „ Decidedly the first of the landscape painters is Boddington . No nner pictures ever left his easel than those three landscapes in the Great Uoom . The clear shallows are as delightfully surprising as if lie had not a hundred times shown us how fresh water , running over a mossy bed ,
looks in the sunshine . There is a noble landscape by Allen , interesting as one of his latest works . It is finished in his best style , and resembles Lee in the harmony of distant effects . There are shady lanes with the glow of autumn penetrating far into their cool depths , reminding some of thirsty holidays , and others of Gainsborough ; while all agree that Shaver paints those pleasant scenes with true feeling , and is very happy in his groups of countrymen , and teams of waggon-horses , and herds ot lazy cattle , and occasional pedlars . There are sheep , by Wainewnght , of every breed , grazing on every description of open country , lennant is bright and airy as ever , and his varieties of heath seem inexhaustible . Clint , not less gay , but a trifle harder , gets mistaken for Tennant now and then by the oldest judges . West gives us his old Norwegian torrent scenes , all granite and foam , with dark pine tops and snlintered trunks shootiner up here and there in the midst . He has also
" Recollections of the Devonshire Coast , near Lynmouth , " and thereby tempts us to hope he will forget those raw , chilly , comfortless evenings in Norway . " ¦ „ . The Water Colour Room contains a few good drawings . Zeitter , indeed , shows to greater advantage here than in the principal gallery , his sketches being better pictures than any he has yet painted . Laurence has two of his fine crayon heads , both lady portraits . The miniatures are paltry , with one or two exceptions . S . R . Lock sends one which is equal to Ross in finish , if in nothing else , and which reminds us of the pretty face with its large round wondering eyes , so often drawn by Doyle . There are two enamel copies by Essex : one from the Chandos picture of Shakspeare ; the other from Vandyke ' s Gevartius , in the National Gallery . _
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MONEY MARKET AND CITY INTELLIGENCE . Friday Evening , April 22 , 1853 . Consols leave off lOOii The markets during tho huhI woolc have been absolutely nUniiant , hardly any busmen doing , und every transaction betokening a disposition in prices to dwindle and full lower . Tho eonfiiHod notionn prevalent with regard to tho Chancellor ol" the Exchcquer ' B llnanciul proportions , and the uncertainty an to whether Ministers will lie uble to curry their measure throng" th « Hoiino of Commons , have boon Hie combined causes to cunt mieh a g loom over tho inarkiitH . Foreign shares have been this week tolerably steady , and prices havo'l > een sustained . In the Land Companies shares tho depression has been seiiHibly apparent . Australian Agricultural are as low as 71 ) to HI , and their offshoot , West Jtivers , only 4 J to i premium per share . Taking into consideration that , iJioho latter shares have been dealt in as high as 12 to 14 premium Bince Christmas , the lull has been very great , but not altogether without reason . Many of the speculators in tins description of « toek must now sec that tho delusion of giving 120 per cent , for very tlouhtnil gold-produoiiig torritonoH , and no actual income cxiuting , all the gains " looming very far in the distance , " m in the end a barren and unprofitable iiivootiimnt . Our own mining market lin » boon dull . Gold mines the same . The West India mail brings most wonderful accounts of tho richness ol ( ho copper ore in Jamaica , and some of tho ooinpanien that have linen pnyeolod to work the mines in that part ol the world oommn-nd heavy premiums in their Hliares . There is a mine announced in thowoHt of England , not far from North Molton , which promises < iold tit , the ralo of one duiicii per ton of onrth raised , so tlml , t / ' true , ono need not weather the Capo to run the gauntlet at the dWiim of Uallurat ; but people are imirodulout ) as to auriferous wtiakli iu our own island . COUJS MAKK 1 CT . Mark Lane , Friday evening , April 22 , lBfi ! $ . The Hiipi ) lii , H of 'Wheat into London this week have hoon moderate , but a conuiderulile number of vessels have arrived off tho oouat from tho Mediterranean and Wiwjk Sean . Thin and an
exceedingly limited demand have rendered tho trade quite inanimate , and to fores sales lower prices muBt be taken . Tho supply of Uarloy and Oats is short , and prices are firmly maintained . Beans and Peas no cheaper . BRITISH FUNDS FOR THE PAST "WEEK . ( GkOHiifa Puicks . )
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THE TWO LANDS OF G 0 ~ LT ) . If a pilot be wanted at all for a two hours' run under painted canvas , it is better he should be a jolly fellow , who can tell a good story , sing a good song , and play the fiddle , than a solemn prig who can only talk from the log ( a copy of which any one may buy for sixpence ) . With Mr . Lee Carter a voyage becomes quite a subjective affair . He takes us first to San Francisco and then to the Australian diggings , but we are ready at any time to turn from the scene before us and listen to a song about it . " We wish , however , he did not strain so much at the comic business . It grows painful . An unfavourable comparison with Albert Smith is chalf ^ no-Afl- his manner , tone , the very tunes of his songs , are copied ; and
Mr . Lee Carter , with all his tact and cleverness , has not the face of Albert . Wiil it be believed that he starts precisely in the same way—by railway ; imitates the voices of guards and passengers , rings a bell , whistles , and repeats the various exciting incidents we experienced on leaving Londonbridge for Chamouni . The musical version of " News from London "a rifacimtnto of Galignanis Messenger—is not a remarkable specimen of humour . We have now said our worst of Mr . Lee Carter , to whom we are certainly indebted for considerable amusement . His scenery is nicely
painted by a young artist , Mr . Stanfield James , and sometimes the musical performance was stopped by applause at a good pictorial effect . The stage is fitted up like an emigrant ' s tent , with stove , crocks , kettles , goldwashing apparatus , revolvers , a cockatoo in a Loop , and , in short , all proper " fixings ; " while the space in front is decked with evergreens , precisely as at Mont Blanc . Mr . Harry Lee Carter is not quite new to the public , wo believe , but this is the first occasion of our meeting him , and we hope to " improve the acquaintance . " Q .
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406 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,
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On Sunday Morning, 24th April, At Loloven O'Clock, » Lhctukh Will Lie Delivered At The
ON SUNDAY MORNING , 24 th APRIL , nt lOloven o'clock , » IJCCTUKK will lie delivered at the
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Leader (1850-1860), April 23, 1853, page 406, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1983/page/22/
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