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we reviewed, and recommended as it deserved, in the Exhibition of last year. The present work is so excellent in its kind that. it calls upon us for a few general remarks. Within these few years there has sprung up amongst us a new style of painting, which, though evidently founded upon the Flemish

No. 114-Titania, Puck, &c.-H. Thomp- the same young artist, whose picture of GOOD son, R. A.-The subject of this pictme is the same with that which we have criticised above, but it is much inferior. The figures are well drawn and coloured, but the Titania is too academical: she has all the severity and stiffness of a model. The composition of this pic ture is not so poetical, the fancy is not so pleasing or well sustaine, as in Mr. Bow-school, promises to exceed its original, by ard's but it is justice to observe that Mr. Thomson has made very rapid advances in the art since last year. The whole length Portrait of a Lady which he has produced in the present Exhibition does him great credit.

superadding an imitation of the manners and humour of familiar life, to the spirited and corect delincation of the forms and figures of the Flemish painters.

The Dutch painters are deservedly praised No. 142. The Death of the Earl of Argyle.—|| for their faithful imitation, their exact general J. Northèote, R. A—This subject is taken portraiture of every object before them. They from Mr. Fox's Bistory of James II. It is told || transferred to their canvas, as it were, the very without any with great expression and force, and is the best identity of the objects they saw, picture which this artist has produced for improvement from the standards of ideal beaumany years; but there is one error which wety, and without infosing into them any distinct point out, in order that the artist may correct || sentiment of character and action. it. The gaoler is rendered too conspicuous: he should have been thrown into a half tint. By being made thus prominent he disturbs the general mass of light; in other words, he interrupts and takes off the light from the lower part of the picture, where the Earl is seen stretched in his dungeon. Mr. Northcote should || have made this the focus of his light, in order to have preserved the strength and harmony of his general composition. We hope the art-style consists in a double point, the correctist will make this alteration, when his picture returns to him.

Mr. Turner has three pictures in the present Exhibition; two Views of Lowther, and ●ne of Petworth Castle. We could not suppose them to have been Mr. Turner's, but for the information of the catalogue.

The prescat English school, proceeding ou this foundation, has superadded humour and sentiment to figure, and a certain definite action, or, what we may call in poetry a MINOR FABLE, to the justness of form. All the figures are exhibited as doing something—what is done by each being the different parts of the

same action.

The art of the Painter, therefore, in this

ness of the Flemish school with respect to figure, and the imitation of the humour, and characteristic sentiment of the scene which he has chosen to represent. In plain words, he has to animate, to inform, and to characterise his figures, with that particular expression which belongs to the moral part of his subIn the composition of these pictures it was ject. He rises, therefore, to what may be manifestly Mr. Turner's design to express the called the dignity of composition in the EPIC peculiar hue and pellucidness of objects scen of common life. It is in this last quality in through a medium of air, in other words, to which the English school has improved upon WILKIE is express the clearness of atmosphere. To effect the barrenness of the Flemings. this purpose it was necessary to select those without doubt, the founder of this school dark, material objects, which serve as a foil to amongst us. His Village Politicians, his Blind aerial lights, and produce atmosphere by thei: Fiddler, and his Pay Day, are masterly compo contrast-Mr. Turner has neglected to intro-sitions in that peculiar style which we have duce these necessary foils, and has thus made a confusion between aerial lights and the appropriate gloom of earthly objects. Failing in this forcible opposition, without which a painter can never express atmosphere, the appearance of his pictures is that of a mere Bisy daubing, without substance or distinc tion, without either shape or colour. A man of Mr. Turner's experience should have understood better the principles of his art.

No. 100. Village Choristers rehearsing a Sundaj Anthem.-E Bird.-This is the work of

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Mr. Bird is certainly very little inferior to Wilkie; and in his prescut composition he treads closely upon him.

The subject of this Picture is supported with a great deal of propriety; the characters are happily imagined, and well distinguished, particularly those of the young man and the young woman, who form the principal groupe. There is in this groupe a degree of nature and truth, joined to a peculiar tenderness of expression, which we have seldom seen equal

well worth the attention of Great Britain. In return for our coarse fabrics, we might procure from it such articles as Iceland, with proper management, would yield in great plenty, such as fish, oil, feathers, and sulphur, the scarcity of which last article is such as to have already attracted the notice of Parlia

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led. Each scems to have a respect and alicetion for the other; and though the young man is playing upon the flute, and the young woman singing, they seem more intent and wrapt in thought than occupied by the business before them. There is a great variety of characters introduced, who are playing on va rious instruments of music adapted to a parochial concert, and each character is finely diversified and expressed. In the midst of then we see the veteran chorister, the leader of the Sunday band, full of importance and anxiety to correct them with regard to time; and his critical impatience is well expressed by his beating the table with a roll of written music. The incident of the mother, desirous to hear the music, but interrupted by the cry-have sustained, with the paper, a pressure ing of her infant child, and the effort made by the choristers to induce her to leave the room, joined to the reluctance with which she quits it these are circumstances which form a very pleasing episode, and are agreeable as lively traits of nature.

We could wish that the lights in this pic ture had not been scattered, and that they had becu made subordinate to some principal light; the want of this occasions, at a little distance, some confusion in the general arrangement of the groups. We could have wished, likewise, that the colours of the picture had accompanied some principal light; for the various complexions of the hearis, retiring into half tints and shades, carry with them too much decided colour; but if they had partaken more of the general tone of shade, they would have given that tranquillity to the retiring parts which is agreeable to the order of nature.Notwithstanding these inaccuracies, we will undertake to pronounce this picture to be one of the most valuable in the present Exhibition.

The collection of Pictures which belonged to the late Mr. Walsh Porter, were lately sold by Mr. Christie, and produced 33,0331. A picture by Claude fetched 27501. and another by Corregio, sold for 2,0501. It was altogether a good and well-chosen collection.

The Lansdowne Marbles, valued at 16,000l. and offered to the present Marquis for 14,000l. in order that it might be kept in the family, are to be disposed of to the British Museum.

Sir George Mackenzie, accompanied by Mr. Henry Holland, and Mr. Richard Bright, of the University of Edinburgh, had sailed from Leith for Stromness, whence they proceed to Iceland in a vessel from Loudon. The object of this voyage is to explore a part of that inhospitable country, which, nevertheless, in the circumscribed state of our commerce, is

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The following curious circumstance respecting the toad is cominonicated by a correspondent :-" A person," says he, “ in the neighbourhood of Maidstone, who manufac tures brown paper, informed me, that he had frequently placed a toad amidst a pile of sheets to be pressed, and always found it alive and well on taking it out, though it must

equivalent to several tons; but a frog could not survive the same degree of pressure."

Mr. Knight, in his Report of the Horticul tural Society, mentions an improved method of cultivating the Alpine Strawberry. The process consists in sowing the seed in a moderate hot bed, in the beginning of April- and removing the plants, as soon as they have acquired sufficient strength, to beds in the open ground. They will begin to blossom after | Midsummer, and afford an abundant late antumnal crop. Mr. Knight thinks that this strawberry ought always to be treated as an annual plant.

At a late meeting of the Society of Arts, a premium of fifty guineas was awarded to Mr. John Davis, of John-street, Spitalfields, for a highly ingenious Fire-escape, which promises to be of great utility in decreasing the number of personal accidents which are so frequently occurring in cases of fire. This contrivance consists of a curious, yet simply-constructed ladder, or rather three ladders so combined as to admit of their being slid out, like the tubes of a pocket-telescope to the height of from forty to sixty feet if required, carrying up at the same time a box to receive females or children, or small valuables, while the less timid can descend the ladder. This box, by means of a chain and pulley, worked by the people below, descends to the ground, where being instantly unhooked, another box is sent up, while the first is emptying. All this is performed in about two minutes. paratus is erected on a carriage with four wheels, niue feet long and five wids, furnished with the usual apparatus and harness for yokinga horse to it, for the more speedy removal to the scene of danger.

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Mr Yeates has been for some time employed in collating the Manuscripts brought from fudia to England, by the Rev.

dent from a bare inspection, that they were not all written at the same period or by the same hand.

Steam has been applied in America to the purposes of inland navigation with the utmost success. The passage-boat between New York and Albany is one hundred and sixty feet loug, and wide in proportion, for accommodation, consisting of fifty-two births, besides sofas, &c. for one hundred passengers; and the machine which moves her wheels is

Dr. Buchanan, and presented by him to the University of Cambridge. From the report of Mr. Yeates respecting them we have extracted the following particulars:―These Manuscripts are chiefly biblical, and are written in the Hebrew, Syriac, aud Ethiopic languages. The Hebrew Manuscripts were ob tained from the Black Jews, who have had settlements in India from time immemorial. Those Jews differ in many respects from those of other countries, and bear evident marks of being descendants from those ancient disper-equal to the power of twenty-four horses, and sions which we read of in sacred history. They have the Hebrew Pentateuch, but scarcely know of any other books of Scripture. A copy of the Hebrew Pentateuch, written on goats' skins, and found in one of the Synagogues, is in the Buchanan collection. The Syriac Manuscripts were collected from the Syrian Christians in Travancore and Malayala, where a race of Christians had existed ever since the apostolic times, and the native Indian Christans bear the name of Christians of St. Thomas to this day. They have the Bible and

other books not in our canon extant in the

Syriac language, and theirs is perhaps the purest of all the versions of Scripture now known. There is in Dr. Buchanan's collec

is kept in motion by steam from a copper boiler, eight or ten feet in length. Her route is a distance of one hundred and fifty miles, which she performs regularly twice a week, and sometimes in the short period of thirtytwo hours. When the wind is fair, light square sails, &c. are employed to increase her speed.

of our reading, that we cannot but caution, in the strongest terms, such readers as may be tempted to indulge their curiosity on hazardous experiments. We have known six or eight gentlemen dreadfully burnt by unexpected ex

An officer in the Bavarian service, who had made a variety of experiments to ascertain the ingredients used in the composition of the Greek fire, while recently engaged at Munich in a chemical analysis for this purpose, was, by the explosion of the article he was decomposing, propelled through the window, with his arms torn off, and his face so dreadfully tion a copy of the Bible, containing the Old burnt, that he expired in a few minutes after and New Testament with the Apocrypha, being taken up. We have met with so many written on large folio vellum, which was pre-instances of similar misfortunes in the course sented to the Doctor by Mar Dionysius, the Archishop of the Indian Church. The Hebrew Pentateuch already mentioned, being probably one of the oldest Manuscripts extant, is a curiosity of the highest value and importauce. It is written upon a roll of goat-plosions in chemical combinations. skins dyed red, and was found in the recordchest of a Synagogue of the Black Jews, in the interior of Malayala, in 1806. It measures in length forty-eight feet, and in breadth about twenty-two inches, or a Jewish cubit. The Book of Leviticus and most part of Deuteronomy are wanting. The original length of the roll could not have been less than ninety feet; and it is actually Morocco, though now much faded. In its present state it consists of thirty-seven skins, contains one hundred and seventeen columns of writing, perfectly clear and legible, and exhibits a noble example of the form and manner of the most ancient Manuscripts of the Jews. jumus are a palm broad, and contain from fortyfive to fifty lines each. Some of the skins ap pear more ancient than others, and it is evi

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Gold-beaters afford us the means of demonstrating the minute divisibility of matter: they can spread a grain of gold into a leaf containing fifty square inches, which leaf may readily be divided into 500,000 parts, each visible to the naked eye. The natural divisions of matter are, however, far more surprisingly minute; there are more animals in the milt of a single codfish than men on the whole earth. It is said that a single grain of sand is larger than four millions of these animals, yet each of them possesses a heart, stomach, bowels, muscles, nerves, veins, glands, tendons, &c. It has been calculated, that a particle of the blood of one of these animalculæ is as much smaller than a globe oue tenth of an inch in diameter, as that glube j smaller than the earth,

INCIDENTS

OCCURRING IN AND NEAR LONDON, INTERESTING MARRIAGES, &c.

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lated. Adkins traced the notes into the possesEXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY.-On Tuesday, sion of a Mrs. Lee, who resides in the neighbourMay 15, about 11 o'clock, as an old Gentleman, hood of John-street, a respectable woman; she who resides in the neighbourhood of Manchestersaid she received them from a man of the name of street, was sitting in his frout parlour, no other John Pullen, who has been a well known chaperson being in his house, he was extremely racter on the town for above 30 years. Adkins, with alarmed by the sudden appearance of a in consequence, exerted himself, and employed a black crape over his face. The terror of the others to apprchend him, and on Friday night old Gentleman was cousiderably increased by the Harry Adkins and Humphries apprehended him at man not speaking, but repeatedly making a noise a flash-house near the Seven dials. He underwent like the barking of a mastiff dog. The robber an examinaton before Mr. Graham and Mr. Kinopened the back parlour door, and beckoned to naird, when the informations of four witnesses the old Gentleman to follow him, which he rewere read over, from which it appeared that at fused. The robber then shook him by the the time of the rebellion in Ireland, Pullen was shoulders to induce him to go. The old Gentlein Dublin, and became acquainted with a man of man still refusing, the robber forced him into the the name of Danson, who now resides in London, back parlour, pointed at an iron safe, and made and supposing Pullen to be a respectable man, signs for him to open it. The old Gentleman not complying, the robber proceeded to take the keys frequently conversed with him; and in conversation lately, he told Pullen that he had a friend, from him; and, in the seule, the old Gentleman fell over a chair, and a table fell upon him, which meaning Mrs. Lee, who was going to Dublin. Pullen solicited Danson to request Mrs. Lee to cut open his nose, broke his shins, and bruized call at Mrs. Moore's, in Dublin, to get an EO him in other parts of his body. The robber aptable belonging to him, and bring it back with peared to know the key of the cabinet, and proceeded to unlock it, and took out three gold her, and also to take with her some Whitehaven bank notes, which he had by him, to the amount watches, three gold suutf-boxes, several diam d of 3001. and as they were not payable in London, and pearl rings, and other trinkets, to the amount of between four and five hundred pounds; then, they were of no use to him. He pointed out the way she could easily get them exchanged by a after giving the old Gentleman several severe coal-merchant in Dublin, who could pay them to blows, he took the cundle, left the room, and a Captain of a Whitehaven collier, who traded to locked the owner in. After some time the old Dublin; and, for her trouble, she was to receive Gentleman recovered himself, opened the window, and gave an alarm to the neighbourhood, the difference of exchange between England and no other person being in the house. The neigh-Ireland, which would amount to eight guineas in bours were obliged to have recourse to a ladder, the hundred. Both these commissions Mrs. Lee undertook, and by the correspondence that passed, and got over the yard-wall, and then broke the doors. It could not be ascertained by what Adkins received the private information of what was going on. On Pullen being taken into cusmeans the robber gained admittance into the house, but it is supposed by the area; that it is tody, he denied all knowledge of Mrs. Lee, his ever having had any of the Whitehaven bank, strongly suspected that the rubber was a servant notes in his possession, and the whole of the trans. who had formerly lived in the family, and that to prevent his being known by the old Gentle.action; and to induce a belief to what he said, man, he wore the crape over his face, and avoided he made use of the most horrid and blasphemous speaking a word, but only expressed his appro-expressions. It is, however, most satisfactorily in bation or disapprobation by making a noise like the barking of a dog.

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ROBBERY OF THE WHITEHAVEN BANK.-It will be recollected that in the month of Jan. 1869, the Whitehaven Bank was broken open, and robbed of notes to the amount of 15,000l. and by the exertions of Adkins, the officer, three of the robbers were traced out in Liverpool, and other parts of Lancashire. They were tried at the Assizes for Carlisle, lust summer, and two of them have since been executed.

Within the last fortnight Adkins received private information that a number of the stolen notes were in London, and that they were about to be taken to Dublin for the purpose of being circu

proof to the contrary, as a letter of his to Mrs. Lee, upon the subject of his EO table, and the Whitehaven notes, was produced.

The following singular occurrence took place, a short time since, at the Royal Navy Asylum, at Greenwich:-A female child, five years of age, was sent anonymously to that establishment, with 51. in bank notes sewed up in the infant's clothes. The following account of the birth and parentage of the little foundling was also given : -The father was described as a seaman on board a British man of war, and, however unusual, it appears that his wife, from some cause or other, was permitted to go to sea with him. The tar was killed in action, and, the day after his death, his wife was delivered of fine female infant under

one of the guns, and almost immediately expired. ||
The child was taken care of by the messmates of
ts deceased parents, aud fed with biscuit and
water;
all of them acting the part of nurses, by
turus, and carefully removing it from hammock to
Lammock, when they were called upon duty.
On the ship's arrival in port, the fifty pounds
above mentioned were collected among the ships
company, and the object of their bounty trans-
mitted to the Asylum. The child, which is re-
markably healthy, has been baptized Sally Trun-

nion.

The aggregate quantity of Corn and Flour imported into Great Britain, in 1869, was 1,482,758 quarters of the former, and 265,938 cwt. of the latter; of which were imported from Ireland, 853,556 quarters of corn, and 74,993 cwt. of flour; and from all other countries, 629,292 quarters of the former, and 490,945 of the latter.

Sunday evening, May 13, as a party of ladies and gentlemen were returning to London from Twickenham, the boat in which they were rau foul of a barge below Hammersmith, and had nearly been sunk. A lady of the name of Stebbs, the wife of an artist in Argyle-street, was forced overboard by the shock, and immediately sunk. Her brother, who was in the boat, jumped after his sister, but she never rose. The deceased hus left three young children.

On Tuesday evening, May 15, as Mr. MortelJari, the composer, was passing through Portlandplace, he saw a Gentleman leaning on the iron rails of a house, as if unwell He was approaching to offer assistance, when the stranger fell into his arms and expired. He was about 52 years of age, and the name of Taylor was found on a card in his pocket.

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Monday afternoon, May 14, at Charing-cross, as a chariot was passing along at a quick rate, in order to extricate it frous a train of brewer's drays, one of the hinder wheels caught one of the stoppers, and the chariot was overturned with considerable violence. It contained a ledy and three children; one of the latter, about four years old, was so burt that she died soon afterwards.

A young man of the name of Yeough was killed on Tuesday, May 15, in the Park, in a pitched battle with George Sorrel. The parties having quarrelled, they staked two guiners cach, to decide their dispute in a pugilistic combat. They fought for three quarters of an hour, and neither would resign, until at length, whilst Ycough was running in upon his adversary, he met a blow on the forehead, which caused his death.

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MARRIED. At Northumberland Lord Francis Murray, second son of the Duke of Athol, to Lady Anne Maria Percy, second daughter of the Duke of Northumberland.-At St.George's, Bloomsbury, George Stirling, Esq. of Glasgow, to Anna, third daughter of J. Stirling Esq. of Montague-street.-Captain Dacres, of the Royal Navy, to Miss Arabella Boyd Dal rymple, third daughter of Lieut.-General Sir H. || Dairymple.-Lord Bolton, to the Hon. Maria Carlton, eldest daughter of the late Lord Dorchester. The Marquis of Douglas, to Susan Euphemia, youngest daughter of William Beckford, Esq. of Fonthill.

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PROVINCIALS;

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REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES, &c. IN THE SEVERAL COUNTIES OF GREAT BRITAIN.

BERKSHIRE.

An elderly labouring man, of the name of John Tucker, put an end to his existence, by hanging himself in his cottage, where he lived at Spittal, in the parish of Windsor; the reason assigned for his committing this rash act, and which was proved on the Coroner's Inquest, was, that he was in arrears for poor's rates, for his little cottage, about 30s. and for which he was summoned by the Overseer to appear before the Mayor.The day previous to the rash act he took a poundnote, which was all the money he could get, carried it to one of the Overseers, and begged bim to take it in part, and he would pay the remainder as soon as he could earn it; the Overseer refused to take it in part, but told the old man

his wife

that unless he paid the whole, he would, the next day, make a distress on his premises. The poor man returned home to and children, and told them what had passed, and gave his wife the one-pound note. He could not rest all night. It pressed so much upon his mind and spirits, that when he got up in the morning to go to his daily labour, he committed this rash act.-Lunacy.

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.

A most barbarous murder was committed at Annesley Green, at the house of Peter Lloyd Tatenian, Esq. on the person of Abraham Hunt, who, with his wife, was left in the care of the house. Whilst the old people were getting their supper some persons knocked at the door of a

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