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monstrous absurdity of Lord Palmerston'a theory _ it goes no farther — of a British propaganda , jord Aberdeen , loftily above Bermondsey views , perceives that great Britain is a power made up of conquests over nationalities , and scorns a foreign policy affecting tobef ' lend strugg ling nationalities . Lord Aberdeen floes not ee why England , which has conquered and plundered India , and keeps India down for India ' s good , should et up f ° r hater of Czar Nicholas , who is a good despot in Russia , and keeps Poland down for Poland ' s obvious rrood . Lord Aberdeen- does not see why England , in enuuiu
which Jias crusneu reuauuuu jueitiuu , 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 ware , 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 denounced 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 Palnierston to talk the Bermondsey , policy . Non-Electoe .
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• PICTURE OF THE DUBLIN EXHIBITION . ( From a Special Correspondent . ) The Great Hall has a grand and imposing aspect ; but it is in reality smaller than it appears , the noble proportions 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 1 ) lue sky in frames of unpainted deal , " seems faithful ; it is , however , the same problem
of chromatic decoration solved by Mr . Owen Jones in tho Crystal Palace , and applied here , with the difference that Mr . Owen Jones contendedwith thedifficultyof making his ornamentation apparent , while Mr . Lanyon ( of Belfast ) was obliged to subdue the colouring of the timber structure to a sober harmony which would 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 sunshine . The Central Hall is international ground in art and manufacture . English and German sculptors contribute casts , private collections provide antiques .
Amon g these the Centaur is a good modern antique . A Ledn , exquisite in tho articulation of limbs through the Hoft thin tunic , recalling Goethe ' s description of drapery as thousandfold echo of form , serves to warn wodor u sculptors whoso Ledas abound here , that urccian marbles embody divinity , where they only succeed in developing inano unchasteness . Dieudonne , ofParis , i , " Christ Praying in tho Garden , " produces a perfec t statue , and Irish sculptors retain their place >» imag ination and manipulative excellence . A young J ^ iWiu sculptor , Mr . Baxter , has inado a successful eflorfc at introducing gonro in tho " Lesson Interrupted , " and Lawlor is conspicuous in grace . Mnc-< lowoll' . H first work , " Cephnlus and Procria , " does no discredit to " Eve , " beside which it stands . All tho "
M"oups add much to tho couj > d ' coll by being placed at * ' »« aisles leading from the central to ' tho lateral halls ; oile tf by tho approximating fabrics they produco tho i » ost harmonious union of tho ideal and useful . Baron ''"¦ ochetti ' s equestrian statue of the Queen is conspicuous in place . Jones ' s liic- » 5 zo statue of Mr . Dargnn oxcittts « H interest , an an admirable likeness of the outw"rd material form of tho Irish industrial hero , but tho h I (* j it liovjtl i \ r /« f ^ -krt i ^ ., i . : i . ; ± . i i i _ i » j . i . _ M « , t noveltof th Exhibition and t of tho
y o ornamen 'Ciurnl Hall , is tho dessert service of Messrs . Korr and »>» n 8 , illustrating "MidsummerNight's Dream . " It ia ' Ul » models of Mr . W . Iloynton Kirk , and amply proves tho loaning of Irinh genius to art , and its iiiiH tery j u bending it to practical beauty . Swedish •¦ « par was formerly used iiv porcelain , uiiinufaeturo , ut - under tho scientific uxporimonts of Sir Robert V > 'othe Irish felspar has lxx : n brought to great porfec-;) jj » » and is found to excel tlto Swedish in every quality . >« Htirvieo has boon passed through tho lire six times , 11 ( 1 without being too inuolt vitrified / is Huflidontly l ' " . l !! ' I" ' * " " tho necosmiry light and shadow . He'" <> ^ halcspeave ., who is ropresontod nlooping on a bank , ! " j' " ; y assumes tho ( looting-Hhupo of a vision , tUo ass ' s u 1 ( l u ' xed bufcweon tho bmnohoH 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 . Onthe 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 seoond , the Revenge , 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 is 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 ; tho salt-cellars are supported by three fairies ; the plates present on the edge three oval medallions of Shakspeare ; 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 the 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 the London Exhibition , are not the products of the nations , but of individual- ? . Instead of the Chinese exhibitors , tho ivory temples , and the ingenuity exerted in a national effort , China is a well-chosen collection , supplied by private speculation . The Indian department is bare of tho gorgeous shawls and the stately appointments of Indian Princes ; choice selections from the Queen , tho East India Company , the Asiatic Society , Lord Gough , and Mr . Twining , supply the place of independent manufacture . Valuable as these intrinsically are , they give place to an interesting and complete system of Hindoo mythology , tho property of Mr . Bridge of Dublin . Jewclbry and tapestry—tho Vierge and Poisson , after Raphael , equal to painting , and a collection of Ormolu clocks , are tho principal
objects in the Trench compartment , with a limited display of textile fabrics . Even the English havo left this open and unrivalled for Ireland ; the jacquards , brocado looms , and tho tabinets are entirely at home , and Belfast secures tho ilax manufacture . Tho Irish Fishorics Company exhibit salmon swimming in their models of weirs and stairs , the artificial production of the fish , here exemplifying other tendencies than art ; and tho Irish locomotives in tho " machinery in motion" provo that mechanical power has practical followers as active as tho abstract science of physicnl research . Belgium , first in paintings , is last and poorest in manufacture ; but . a lovoly
statue , by Fraikiii , of Cupid Captive , atones tor tho povorty of their portion of tho lateral hall , liorlin reproduces tho Dresden Gallery in porcelain pictures and groups in bronz e and zinc , after Kroismann , Kiss , Miillcr , und Kmieli , with ornamental table groups of infinite variety . Tho Court of Modern Art , with Raphael ' s Child and Dolphin , after tho fable of vElian , occupying tho centre , in approached through tho foreign ball , and leads to fho M ' cdiiuvnl Court , which ban been fitted up rather , in rosnmblaneo of a privato oratory than an exhibition of church nmnufaotuvo , and ii coiling of tnuiHpnrtiiili bluo with golden nthi'd luiuls a soft ; evening light , very beautiful in effect . Tho Gallery of Old Masters and ItubbingH of Ancient Brasses , lead
from this through tho i ' mnituro Court ami to tho Agricultural Muhouiu of seeds and implements . Scotch industry has beon peculiarly jiotivo , and tho interminable collection inevitably HUtfgestrt that " model fanning" may bo u nowly-dttviHcd , pathway on tho road to
ruin . Tt 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 Hall , iron and hardware . are exclusively English , and though American cotton is brought to Manchester for manufacture , and 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 the 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 great 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 are 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 tho splendour of needlework in Eastern lands . Less ambitious of interest , and in variety every way behind its great prototype , tho Industrial Palace yet affords abundance to repay the artist and connoisseur in tho most perfect series of paintings in Europe , from the earliest Byzantine efforts 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 a 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 .
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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 in duo to tho profession , tho public " havo ( I priori no convincing assurance of tho fact . This if procurable we have a right to insist on . Its existonco we venture to dony ; its possibility wo hope to prove . A professional examination should ho a guarantoo from recognised censors that the public shall not bo victimized by the unscrupulous or uninformed . Consequently it will approach perfection in proportion as it realized , or bo futile in proportion as it recedes from , tho following conditions : —
I . Of inspiring * n comfortable , rolianco on its sufficiency . II . Of admitting all who nro . component . HI . Of closing tho avenno to all who are inadequate . Apply this tost to medical examinations , and what do wo find ? Wo find that tho public , . so flu- from confiding in tho authorized ordeal , nnforco nnothor of their own , and compel a man to wait for tho experiencewhich they withhold by repudiating his aid , at thouamo timo permitting all ho may have acquired to oxhalo in inactivity . Tho public , howovor , uro not alfcogot-hor wrong , for though they obstinately ignoro tho fact that a young
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I ¦ _ - ¦ ' ¦ September 10 , 1853 . ] THE LEADER . 879
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 10, 1853, page 879, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2003/page/15/
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