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First catching the eye, in the place of honour, as it may be termed, in the north room, is No. 1 -Presentation of an English Roman Catholic Family to Pius VII. containing portraits of the Earl (for whom, we believe, the picture has been painted) and Countess of Shrewsbury, Cardinal Gonsalvi, Reippenhausen, &c., by J. P. Davis. This subject we conceive to have been a very difficult one to manage; and, that Mr. Davis has successfully overcome the difficulty, should be received as no mean proof of his talent. We - have heard much difference of opinion respecting the tone of this painting: in our view, it is eminently good, and most judiciously chosen. By investing it with a glare of colour, it might have caught and dazzled the attention more, but it would not have retained it. Its subdued character is well suited to the subject. Bright, yet mellow, the distance to the right is very pleasing in its effect.

Rodomonte, King of Sarza, challenging Rug-|| giero to Battle (37) by Briggs, is not without firmness and spirit; but it is hard and cold, stiff and tasteless. It is one of those pictures which cannot increase the fame of the artist.

Musidora (45) by Boaden, has merit, but we should not have recognised it as intended for the fair one whose name it bears. We were still less pleased with Mr. Boaden's Edwin (59) from || the Minstrel. His Welch Peasant (107) is much better. He has also a Boy in a Vandyke Dress (279); a View from Aber Bridge, near Bangor (492); and a View of Penmen Mawr, North Wales (494).

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The brunette charms of Rebecca are most admirably contrasted with the roses and lilies of Rowena. The latter we suspect to be a portrait. The White Lady guiding the Lady Avenel, little Mary, and their old Servants, on their way to Dame Glendinning's (30) is marked with spirit and character; but, if a bad pun might be pardoned, we would say that we should have been better pleased had the White Lady been less mistified. Effie Deans (25) we had seen before, but found it not on that account the less pleasing.

Calais Cathedral (69) by Grieve, may be graphically and architecturally correct, but the grand

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entrance of the structure is more rich, bright, and mellow in colour, than the dull stone of the original warrants. The white tower and steeple are more in accordance with truth.

Domestic Employment (70) by J. Z. Bell, is a dull subject not treated in a very lively manner. A Domestic Scene (71) by Geddes, is infinitely more spirited, although one of the party is fast asleep.

Cottages at Northfleet (68) by Marshall, are picturesque and pleasing.

The Old Labourer's Evening Employment (79) by Bigg, is natural but not striking.

Constable's Beach at Brighton, the Chain Pier in the Distance (64) is at once correct and effective. The foreground is very bold.

Hofland's Moonlight Landscape (123) is one of his best the effect of the moon's light on the water, is extraordinarily fine. Hofland has three other pictures: Ullswater, from the road leading to Matterdale (196); Dovedale, painted on the Spot (215); and another Moonlight (440).

Roberts, we are sorry to say, has this season only one picture; but that one is a gem a most gorgeous little gem, in his very best style :The Chancel of the Church of St. Rombauld, Tirlemont (214).

J. P. Reinagle has three pieces: His Majesty's Frigate Blonde, Captain Lord Byron, discovering the Wreck of the Frances Mary, on her return from the Sandwich Islands, on the evening of the 7th of March (124); the same ship on her return, escaping some enormous icebergs by the timely dispersion of a dense fog (148); and Fishermen preparing to put to Sea, in the Morning (477). The first of these pictures is to us the most interesting: the waterthe entire scene-is highly spirited. Surely, however, the light cannot be that which is produced by the setting sun. The second picture displays all the requisite coldness of its subject.

Howard has so many "Studies "_different versions of his Florentine Girl-that he must excuse us if we sometimes confound the recollection of one with that of another. Whether we had before seen 128, we are not certain at all events, it is a good picture-the only piece he has in the collection.

From the chaste and meritorious pencil of Mrs. Carpenter, we find two productions: Psittica (142); and The Children in the Wood (183). The former a lady with a parrot is deficient in nothing but warmth of shadow. The latter presents extraordinary beauty and delicacy of colour, with much tenderness of feeling. One of the sweet babes has just expired.

Simpson's Captive Slave (136) will be recol lected as having been engraved for one of the Annuals, we believe the Friendship's Offering.

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The Siberian Exile (190) by Hurlstone, has a deep characteristic expression of melancholy, which will recommend it to the attention of many.

Tantalizing (145) by Kidd, is a very clever and highly-animated little picture. The subject, a mother holding her child in at the window of a fruit shop; the boy in attendance tantalizing the infant by holding a beautiful pear ready to pop into his own mouth. Kidd's Dressing for a Masquerade (146) is also very lively and effective. Vigorous and characteristic humour is displayed in Smoking the Cobbler (292). Theodore Lane's Too many Cooks spoil the Broth (129) is also an exceedingly-humorous produc-equally to our taste. In Reluctance (291) that

tion. The idea of broth from a live pussey-cat is quite new. The calf's head is a remarkably fine one; but we doubt whether the boiler would be found sufficiently capacious to receive it. Were the rope of onions as large as life it would be quite illusive.

Stanfield's Wreckers off Cape Rouge, with Calais in the Distance (131) may be termed a triumph of art. Stanfield has evidently studied nature with the happiest result. He has also studied, without copying, the best productions of our most distinguished marine painters. The water, at once turbid and transparent, if we may so express ourselves, is nature itself. The lights and shades are finely managed, and the dark shadows upon the water produce the happiest and truest effect imaginable. The floating mast the top-the wreckers and their boatare exceedingly bold. In this department, Mr. Stanfield may certainly, without arrogance, assume to rank with the first in his profession.

James Ward's Cows of the Ayrshire and Alderney Breeds (147) possess all the accustomed vitality of this author's productions. His Norfolk Phenomenon, in his Action of trotting at the Rate of twenty Miles an Hour (259) is an extraordinary effort. His Negro's Head, Study from Nature (312) presents the face in three aspects full, three quarters, and profile. Here too, are force and strength of character.

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Clater's Refreshing Pinch (197) and Country Comforts (199) are distinguished equally by truth of character, repose, and general accuracy of execution. The Cobbler (275) and its companion, The Oyster Girl (276) by the same artist, possess considerable merit, but are not

feeling is most deeply and forcibly expressed in the countenance of the father. Intrusion (293) is also clever. Clater has two other pieces: The Rabbi (343) and Christmas in the Country (490). The last-mentioned is larger than the others. The group beneath the mistletoe is capitally managed; and, altogether, it is in excellent keeping.

More variety of character than depth of humour is apparent in the father and mother, the cottage damsel and the postman, in Pidding's Valentine's Day (205).

A Cottage Scene, with Figures, Evening (254) by John and Elizabeth Dearman, is pretty-we might say more than pretty.

Havell's Walnut Gatherers, near Richmond Bridge (229) may be regarded as one of the best landscape effects in the exhibition. Irving's Scene near Kingston, Surrey (235) is brilliant..

Parker's Fisherman (250) appears to be a successful imitation of Good's manner.

The birds and the gold fish, in Blake's composition of Dead Game, &c. (230) are in colour and effect truly splendid.

Witherington's Rustic Wreath (237) is seen to more advantage here, than the engraving from it in the Friendship's Offering.

Mrs. Hakewill has two charming heads from nature (245 and 252).

The Bird Trap, or the Escape, by Harrison (264) is perhaps too bright and high toned in colour; but the expression is very animated:" that of the youngest child is entitled to high praise.

Sharp's "Tick, Tick" (301) - a father, mother, and child with a watch-is a clever, showy, well-painted picture.

Good as many of Mr. Good's pieces are, there| are few of them with which we have been so much pleased as with his Admiration (161) a picture which really deserves to be admired. The subject is an Italian boy, displaying his images for sale: the spectators are an old man seated, a boy and girl to his left, and the mother of the children to the right. Possibly the man- Studies of the Giraffe, in the Royal Menagerie ner may be somewhat exaggerated, but the at Windsor, painted for His Majesty, by R. B. lights are equally beautiful as remarkable. Davis (306); and the Giraffe accompanied by Every point in the picture tells. We are also his Keeper (368) by Van Worrell, will, from pleased with this artist's Fisher Boy (278). their subject, naturally attract notice. As picMr. G. S. Newton has a Greek Girl (218) in||tures, also, they are well entitled to attention. which he compels us to trace the features of many an old acquaintance.

In Heaphy's Return from the Fair (225) the damsel is too fair, elegant, and lady-like, for a cottage rustic; her swain, on the other hand, is unnecessarily coarse.

Great variety of character, and much knowledge of expression and effect, are displayed in the Soldier's Return (305) by Webster. The. rustic group, with which the returned soldier is taking his repast, is numerous: a wicked urchin is presenting one of his pistols to a younger,

of nature. Fine, and beautiful, and splendid as it is, the painting of the feathers is not the only great merit of the picture. They who recollect the power displayed by Mr. Lance's pencil in the || Wounded Heron, will not be surprised when we say that he has imparted to his poor exposed bird an expression positively intellectual. The Widowed Duck of this artist should also be borne in remembrance. In his peculiar province, Mr. Lance appears to stand not only alone, but unapproachable.

child, in whose face the utmost terror is appa-
rent; and generally, great consternation is shewn.
As we have intimated, much study and much
knowledge are evinced in this composition.
The same artist's Committee of Taste (443)
though more simple, is at least equally effective.
Three rustic children are feasting over a pot of
pilfered jam : a dog is looking up as very desirous ||
of partaking; the mother is peeping in at the
door. An engraving from the Cottage Diorama ||
(446) has appeared in the Friendship's Offering.
Fraser's Tinker (258) is well worthy of this
artist's humorous pencil. His Fisher Boy (449)
is also good.

Bonington, whose coast and water pieces were so justly admired the year before last, has come forward in a different branch of the art. His Ducal Palace, Venice (314), possesses great merit: every object in the piece is remarkable for its distinctness; but it strikes us that the almost total absence of air-tint is a defect. The picture would have been yet more valuable had it shown any thing like imaginative power in the artist.

Miranda (480) and Prospero (318) by Mrs. Henderson, are the conceptions of a bold and highly-poetic feeling. Miranda we particularly admire.

"Who'll serve the King ?" (329) by Farrier, is altogether one of the best productions that we have seen from the pencil of this artist. The story-boys playing at soldiers as a recruiting party is admirably well told.

Much power is apparent in the study for a Figure in the Wise Men's Offering (367) by Geddes.

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FINE ARTS' PUBLICATIONS, &c.

The Ladies Bagot, Burghersh, and Fitzroy Somerset. This is a happily-arranged group of most lovely portraits, from the fascinating pencil of Sir Thomas Lawrence. Grace, beauty, and intellect, are here eminently conspicuous. Sir Thomas is naturally very fastidious with respect to engravings executed from his pictures. this instance, however, we think he cannot fail in the enjoyment of a satisfactory feeling. Thomson, to whose burin the embellishments of LA BELLE ASSEMBLEE have often been in

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debted, has shewn himself worthy of his original.

Lady Georgiana Fane. This is another portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence, but in a style altogether different. It forcibly reminds us, though we cannot think it equally interesting, of his admired portrait of Mr. Lambton's (now Lord Durham's) son. The plate is in mezzotint, by Turner.

Lithographic Album.-It is with sincere pleasure that we perceive the lithographic art making so rapid a progress towards perfection. The London Lithographic Album for 1828, from the press of Messrs. Engelmann and Co., is a truly beautiful work, and eminently de

M. T. Ward's Dogs hunting Rats in a Barn (443) is, from its truth to nature, most excellent. The dogs are all life and nerve. The Place de Robec, Rouen (465), by Craw-serving of patronage. From the pencils of W. ford, is a faithful, interesting, and well-painted picture.

Smugglers alarmed (479) by Parker, is forcible and characteristic.

We are glad to observe that Davis (J. P.) is acquiring, or rather adopting, a greater sobriety depth, and mellowness of tone. His Trasteverina (401) as well as his large picture already noticed, gives much promise-evinces a noble feeling of the art.

Westall, Nicholson, T. Nash, W. Gauci, Mackenzie, Lane, Chalon, Childs, Fairland, &c., we have fifteen subjects in landscape, figure, portrait, and architecture. Fairland's Drowsy Messenger, after Farrier, is a chef-d'œuvre. Amongst the other pieces are two from the Corsair and Giaour; the Lake of Windermere ; a Bedouin Arab; an Eastern Beauty; Le Chapeau Noir; a View in the North Aisle of Westminster Abbey; Durham; Buckingham Palace; and York.

Of the Execution of the Doge Marino Fa- | liero (102) by Delacroix, with many other pieces, we must refrain from speaking till the ensuing month. We must not close, however, without briefly mentioning Lance's Vain Jackdaw, stripped of his Stolen Plumes (399). Such a profusion, such a gorgeous display of peacocks' feathers, was, perhaps, never before congregated in a single picture. The effect is splendid and even dazzling; yet it oversteps not the modesty || nard from the Hospice.

Passes of the Alps. This work, the fifth number of which has been published, is very successfully proceeding. Some of the principal views in the present number, illustrative of the pass of the Great St. Bernard, are the Château of St. Germain, from the défilé of Mont Jovet ; the Descent from the Great St. Bernard on the side of Italy; and the Lake of Great St. Ber

Literary and Scientific Intelligence.

Sir Thomas Lawrence's last-taken portrait of His Majesty has been some time in the hands of Mr. William Finden, the engraver, to be trans"ferred to copper, in the highest style of art.

The number of peerages created within the two last years has been unusually great. The titles conferred, since the commencement of 1826, consist of two Marquisates, three Earldoms, three Viscounties, and twenty-two Baronies.

The Emperor of Russia has presented Mr. Martin with a diamond ring, in token of his approbation of that gentleman's paintings and engravings.

Preparations are making for an exhibition of painting and sculpture in the town of Dumfries.

A gentleman at Leghorn has invented a new metallic compound, which he calls artimomantico, resembling gold in colour and weight. It is malleable, and does not tarnish. Snuff-boxes, &c., made of it, have been mistaken for pure gold. It possesses the recommendation of cheapness.

Mr. Smith, a trader in furs in Upper Missouri, has discovered a country hitherto unknown, situated to the south-west of the great salt lake, and to the west of the Rocky Mountains.

A new colony has been established at Port Raffles, on the north coast of New Holland, in lat. 11 deg. 43 min. S. long. 132 deg. 40 min. E., by Captain Sterling, of his Majesty's ship Success.

Works in the Press, &c.

In 1 vol. 12mo. Poems, by Miss Eliza Rennie. Mr. Bird's Poem, Dunwich, a Tale of the Splendid City, is nearly ready.

Henry Brandreth, Esq., author of "Field Flowers," &c. has a new volume of poems in preparation, entitled The Garland.

Gomez Arias; or, the Moors of the Alpujarras, a Spanish Historical Romance. By Don Telesforo de Trueba y Cosio. Dedicated, by permission, to the Right Hon. Lord Holland.

A second edition of Hamilton's East India Gazetteer, greatly enlarged and improved by the Author, from the most authentic materials, and brought down to the end of 1827. In 2 vols. 8vo., with two maps.

By the author of The Morning and Evening Sacrifice, Farewell to Time, or last Views of Life, and Prospects of Immortality; intended as a companion to the former work.

By Mr. John Johnstone, editor of Specimens of Sacred and Serious Poetry, Specimens of the Lyrical, Descriptive, and Narrative Poets of Great Britain, from Chaucer to the Present Day; with a Preliminary Sketch of the Early History of English Poetry, and Biographical and Critical Notices. This volume, embellished by a frontispiece and vignette, from paintings by Stothard, will be printed uniformly with the Specimens of Sacred and Serious Poetry.

By the Rev. Alexander Stewart, author of

The History of Scotland, &c., Elements of
Geography, for the Use of Schools or of Private
Students, on an entirely new Plan; in one neat
volume 18mo., with nine Maps.

In 1 vol. 18mo., with engravings on wood, by Williams, Mary Harland; or, the Journey to London, a Tale of Humble Life. By a Lady.

By the Rev. G. Oliver, Vicar of Clee, a History of Initiation, comprising a detailed account of the Rites and Ceremonies, Doctrines and Discipline, of all the Secret and Mysterious Institutions of the Ancient World.

An octavo edition of the Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord Collingwood.

By R. Jennings, a Pocket Atlas in Eightyfour Maps, illustrative of Modern and Ancient Geography; the First Series shewing the different States of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, divided according to the Treaty of 1815; and the Second Series, or Ancient Department, compiled from the most esteemed authorities.

The first volume of Works of the English and Scottish Reformers, edited by the Rev. Thomas Russell, A.M.

Legends of the Lakes, by Mr. Crofton Croker. Sacred and Miscellaneous Poems, by George Woods, Jun.

From the French, a History of the Dominion of the Arabs and Moors in Spain and Portugal, from the Spanish of Condé, by M. Marles.

Plans, Details, Views, &c., of the Great Hall of the Royal Palace of Eltham, measured and delineated by H. Dunnage, and C. Laver, Architects: with an Essay, Historical and Descriptive.

Arcana of Science and Art, for 1828; being the Popular Discoveries and Improvements of the past Year; abridged from the Transactions of Public Societies and other Scientific Journals, British and Foreign.

By Miss Edgeworth, a novel entitled Taking for Granted.

By Mr. Arrowsmith, a Comparative Atlas of Ancient and Modern Geography, from Original Authorities, and to be accompanied by a set of Skeleton Outlines.

Wallenstein, or the Swedes in Prague, from the German of Madame Pichler.

The Croppy; or, Orange and Green, a new Irish Novel, by Mr. Banim.

Durazzi, a Novel, by Mrs. Jameson.

A Series of Forty Eight Plates of Shipping and Craft, accurately drawn from the Objects, and etched by Edward William Cooke, under the superintendence of George Cooke.

Mr. Canning's Speeches, compiled and edited by R. Therry, Esq., have at length appeared : they consist of six handsomely-printed volumes, with a portrait-after Chantry's bust-a memoir, and a facsimile of Mr. Canning's MS. correction of one of his speeches. The work will form a valuable addition to all Parliamentary libraries.

BIRTHS.-MARRIAGES.-DEATHS.

BIRTHS.

OF SONS.-Viscountess Sandon.-The lady of Sir Thomas Ackland, Bart., M.P.-The lady of Le Gendre N. Starkie, Esq., M.P.-The lady of Captain Hastings, R.N.-Lady Alice Peel.Mrs. William Butt.-The lady of Lieut. Colonel Disbrewe. The lady of Sir James Urmston, Bart.-Lady Ellenborough.-Lady Paget (stillborn.)

OF DAUGHTERS.—The lady of George Lucy, Esq., M.P.-The Hon. Mrs. Fermor.-- The Right Hon. Lady C. W. Melville.-The lady of the Rev. Thomas May-Lady Henry Cholmondeley. The lady of Sir J. P. Orde, Bart.-Lady Gordon Cumming.-The lady of Archdeacon Parry.

MARRIAGES.

February 18, at Kensington Palace, Princess Feodore, daughter to her Royal Highness, the || Duchess of Kent, to Prince Hohenlohe, of Laugenbourg.

At St. George's, Hanover Square, William Douglas, Esq., to Selina Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Colonel Rooke, of Martinsherne, Berkshire.

At St. George's, Hanover Square, Captain H. W. Barnard, to Isabella Letitia, second daughter of the late Brigadier General Catlin Craufurd.

At Christ Church, Marylebone, George Geoffrey Wyatville, Esq., to Ann Sisum, daughter of the late Peter Phillips, Esq., of the Island of Barbados.

At Twickenham, Boyd Alexander, Esq., to Sophia, third daughter of Sir Benjamin Hobhouse, Bart.

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Aged 82, the Right Hon. Thomas Erskine, Earl of Kellie, Viscount Fenton, &c., Lord Lieutenant of the county of Fife.

At Ham, aged 90, General Gordon Forbes. At Yearsley Bridge, Mrs. Sarah Cordakes, aged 100

The Rev. J. H. Jacob, Prebendary of Salisbury, aged 72.

General Henry de Castro, aged 77.

Mrs. Charlotte Thornton, mother of Colonel Thornton.

In Pall Mall, aged 43, Lady Caroline Lamb, wife of the Right Hon. Wm. Lamb, and daughter of the Earl of Besborough.

Aged 78, the Earl of Radnor.

The Hon. Mrs. Craven, wife of T. Craven, Esq., and youngest daughter of the late Richard Lord Viscount Boyne.

At Bath, Mrs. Margaret Hay, daughter of the late Hon. Edward Hay, Governor of Barbados.

At Churchtown, Kerry, the lady of Sir Robert Blennerhassett, Bart.

At Madras, Lieut. Colonel Read.

In Jamaica, Lieut. Col. P. C. Taylor.

At Alverstoke, Captain Herbert Henry Vaughan, to Georgina, second daughter of Cap-gravine of Anspach (vide page 114), tain Katon, R.N.

At Naples, Her Serene Highness, the Mar

At St. George's, Hanover Square, J. W. Scott, Esq., eldest son of J. Scott, Esq., of Rotherfield Park, Hampshire, to Lucy, daughter of the Rev. Sir S. Clarke Jervoise, Bart.

At Paris, E. S. Gooch, Esq., eldest son of Sir Thomas Sherlock Gooch, Bart., M.P., to Louisa, second daughter of Sir George Beeston Prescott, Bart.

At Broom Hall, Robert Adam Dundas, Esq., M.P., to Lady Mary Bruce, daughter of the Earl of Elgin.

Jervis Cooke, Esq., of Portchester, Hampshire, son of Rear Admiral Cooke, to Harriet, only daughter of the late J. Bignall, Esq., of Rawleigh House, Devonshire.

At St. Mary-le-bone, Captain Molesworth, R.N., brother of Viscount Molesworth, to Louisa, daughter of the late Rev. Tomkins, D.D.

At St. George's, Hanover Square, Edward || Bolton King, Esq., to Georgiana, youngest daughter of R. Knight, Esq., M.P.

The Rev. R. L. Adams, of Grosvenor Place, to the Hon. Eliza Atherton Powys, fourth daughter of the late Lord Lilford.

At St. George's, Hanover Square, John Hales, eldest son of J. Calcraft, Esq., M.P., to the Lady |

Sir Richard John Strachan, Bart., Admiral of the Blue Squadron, K.G., C.B.

Aged 77, Mrs. Anne Pye, sister of the late Poet Laureat.

At Trant, Sussex, Katherine, eldest daughter of the late Major John Wolseley, and niece of the Rev. Sir Richard Wolseley, Bart.

Lady_Doyle, wife of Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, Bart.

Lady Caroline Bentinck, second daughter of his Grace, the Duke of Portland.

Aged 57, the Rev. Dr. Hook, Dean of Wor

cester.

Suddenly, Henry Neele, Esq., author of the
Romance of History, &c. &c.

Lady Fletcher, relict of Sir H. Fletcher, Bart.
Captain William Ramage, R.N.

Aged 83, the Rev. John Barwis, M.A., Rector of Nighton.

Lucy Margaret, eldest and last surviving daughter of the late William Wheatley, Esq., of Lesney House, Kent.

At Macclesfield, aged 73, the Rev.
Davis, D.D.

The Rey, Joseph Tweed, Rector of Capel, near Ipswich.

Aged 67, Jane, wife of the Rev. Hugh Jones, Vicar of Lewisham.

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