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      A rum lias been in circulation that although . the Trafalgar-square lions will be designed by bir I-. dvin I . nndseer , they will be executed by . Laron Marochetti . "We believe , " says the Art Journal , '' that the idea is without foundation , arising , perhaps , from the fact that the painter as working in the atelier of the baron . " r Mr . Henry Cole , of the South Kensington Museum , continues at Rome , the state of his health not justifying the hope of his early return : to England . The Critic states that a plan has been devised for removing the pictures how at Marlborough-house —destined ere long to be the residence of the Prince

      ¦ of Wales—to " the old riding-school of George IV . ' in a ad de-sac of Carl ton-gardens , a place with the ren .- existence of which we confess ourselves to have been unacquainted . " It has been condemned as unsnfe as the repository of public records , principally because it was not fire-proof , and the records have been removed to the new building in Fetter-Jane . It is now empty , and the stress of circumstances , it is said , has led Lord J . Manners to look upon it as a possible resting-place for the gifts of Vernon and Turner . " Surely this design ( if entertained ) is too preposterous and altogether too glaringly unjust to admit of ever being put in

      execution . . . . The famous collection at Rome of the disgraced functionary the Marchese di Campagna will be dispersed , and may possibly in its entirety find its way to England . In the event of its being so , it . will be probribly consigned to Messrs . Phillips ,, of Cockspurstreet , who will supply all requisite information on the . subject , and show to any inquirer photographs of the principal objects ^ A meeting of the friends and admirers of Stothard lias been held , at which it was determined that steps should be taken for placing some simple and appropriate monument above his so-long undistinguished grave in Bunhill-fields . The character of the memorial will be regulated by the amount of subscriptions .

      The Art Journal says : — "When the Ro } r al Exchange was decorated by Sang , we foretold the total obfuseation of that thin and wiry ornament in a few years . This is now accomplished—Ghilio Romano's naiads , with their vegetable continuations , are embalmed , in City smoke . The authorities are embellishing the Mansion-house with sculpture at great cost ; they may perhaps extend their cares to the Exchange , and decorate it with bas-reliefs presenting a history of British Commerce—the only kind of decoration that will resist the smoke-charged atmosphere of the City . This plan we proposed before Mr . Sang began his labours . "

      " We nre requested to state , that on and after the 15 th January the public . " will be admitted to view the pictures of the National Portrait Galk-ry , at the temporary apartments , 21 ) , Great George-street , on Wednesdays and Saturdays , by tickets , to be obtained ( as in the case of the Dulwich Gallery ) . of either Messrs . C . olnnghi , Pall Mall East ; of Messrs . Graves , Pall Mall ; or of Mr . John Smith , New Bondotreet . Messrs . Jennings aro exhibiting at their gallery in Clioupsido Sir George 1 Jay tor ' s historical picture of M Latimer preaching afc St . Paul ' s Cross to the City Authorities . "

      \\ O Glean The Following From Our Excell...

      \\ o glean the following from our excellent contemporary , the Critic , which , in its iniprovud form , deservedly takes a foremost rank amongst literary periodicals : — Mr , Box all , U . A ., has presented u picture , by his own liund , to the National Gallery , which will bo added to the collection of examples by Jlritish artists shortly . I ' . P . Oockerell , Esq ., will on Wednesday , the 10 th hist ,, deliver a locturo at tlio South Kensington Museum , 4 t Ou the Painting of the Ancients . " . Curtis , issued by the coinniittoo of the Architectural Museum , may bo obtained at Messrs . Chapiunu and Hull ' s , 1 'iocadUly . The exhibition of the Society of Female Artists , to bo oponocl for the second season uoxt month , will be hold iu tlio gallery next thu Haymarket Theatre . Pictures for the exhibition at the British Institution should bo sent hi during ( he next week . l

      larger front than any of the surrounding clubs , without exhibiting baldness or vacancy . Headers of Court news will have noticed that the President and Secretary of the Royal Academy had a private audience with her Majesty some days since . What was the great occasion for the use of this high privilege , granted to the Academy by George III ., and never used but for serious purposes ? Was it . to seek a favour , or to' accept one already accorded ? We suspect the latter . But perhaps Davis , the pamphleteer , will write to the Times and inquire ;

      At a meeting of the Manchester City Council , the mayor presiding , a marble bust of the . Prince Consort , presented through Mn T . Fairbairn , on behalf of the Executive Committee of the Art Treasures Exhibition , was unanimously accepted , and ordered to be placed beside that of her Majesty in the Town HalL The new bust , like that of the Queen , was executed by Mr . M . Noble . . " We have inspected a miscellaneous collection of paintings at Messrs . Christie and Manson ' s , which are to be sold on Saturday . The quality of the -works was on the whole what cofiue dealers call " good ordinary ; " a number of decent copies , many third-rate originals , a few nice modern pictures by unknown painters , a

      Nnsmyth utterly ' spoilt by restoring , a pretentious large picture by Guido—" The Death of Sophonisba "—so entirely repainted by some French hand as to be more . like-a modern work than a Guido , which , nevertheless , perhaps it was originally . ' It looks well enough now as a picture .. An early German triptych in good state was the best of all ; but although we noted all the works we feel that it is a needless waste of words and paper to speak further of them . Some of the worst are sold as the property of W . S . Lahdor . Strange to us that such a man should have such things . " Speculative" is a fit word for such pictures , but where , the speculation of those who examine them is to end is more than we can gUCSS _ ive declare that the real nature or origin of some of these pictures must be utterly unfathomable .

      The admired picture of < Homo , " by J . Noel Paton , representing the return of a ( Jrlmoan soldier to his Highland cot , is on viow ut Messrs . Lloyd Brothora , prlutsoHors , Gracoohuroh-stroot , City , by whom a mezzotint engraving of the painting will bu shortly published . Mpasrs . 1 'ullor , of tlio l « 'hio Arts Repository , Ruthbono-plneo , Oxfonl-stroat , havo thrown oi > on to visitors nn excellent , collection of wutor-aulour drawings . ^ Tho now oxtorlor of the United Sorvloo Club llouso in Wntorloo-plaoo la coinplutud . Tho removal of tho old podhnoub anil columns on tho wont sklu Is a niuo Inipi-ovoinont , and tho alterations altogether ylvn a more ologiuit and agreeable air to tho building , as wvll as udil to its nnparuut . slsso and vastnoss . It now proaonts a

      Pkqposed Government Offices.—The Views O...

      Pkqposed Government Offices . —The views of the Government in respect of new public offices have undergone a change . Without professing to be quite exact in a matter which seems not yet to have reached the stage of exactness , we believe the present intention is that a building shall be erected in Downing-street , for the purposes of the Colonial Office arid the East India Board ; and that Mr . Scott and Mr . Digby Wyatt ( the latter holding the appointment of architect to the East India Company ) will be associated as architects . ^ -r-ZVie BnilJ-er . ¦ .. ¦ - ¦ ¦

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      We Have But Little To Say Under This Hea...

      We have but little to say under this head . The first wcvk of the pantomimes was far from an encouraging one to managers generally . The attractions " of and at the new houses of Covent-garden and the Adelphi served to fill them ; but the diptheria panic , the miserable weather , and the occurrence ot' the accident at the Victoria , told prejudicially upon all the others , save , perhaps , the little Strand , where the most attractive company and the most amusing burlesque in town drew full audiences nightly . During the last few days , however , affairs

      force , was her unmasking of : D'Estignac's villany before Richelieu . To this scene , which exposes a powerful situation , our actress , who was dressed and looked superbly-, applied some of her broadest and most forcible touches , and roused the audience to enthusiasm . After this , the second and third acts , which offered ho situation of equal strength ,, seemed to flag . A great part of the climax had in fact been supplied too early , but though little room was left for artistical display , all that could be done was done . After the audience have been informed of the result , its development takes place . Jy Estigimc , having procured a lettre de cachet , proceeds to bury his man in Bicetre . But Marion , having procured a

      revocation of it , and a spare one besides , at the end of the third act delivers Solomon from an abominable cage in that famous prison , saves poor Bertha from sacrificing her honour to procure her husband ' s release , and fills up the blank order with the name of the wicked D' Esiignac . As for Solomon de Caux , who had so bored the Cardinal that he was not sorry to imprison him , and whose protestations were evidently received with as little favour by the ^ public ' as those of inventors in general , Marion contrives to interest in his favour the English Marquis of Worcester ; who is imported into the piece to adopt De Caux and his crotchet in a very few

      words , and thus to secu re to England the honour , glory , and profit of being the nursing mother of steam . The eccentricity of the moodj * inventor was well conceived by Mr . Emery ; but we object to the senility of Mr . Falconer ' s Richelieu , as . well as to the Cardinal ' s costume he adopted . The ferocious attempt of De Caux , when in Ms prison cage , to rend and strangle his wife through the bars , is also a repulsive feature in the third act , and whether due to author or artist , would be better left out . The reception accorded by the audience to Madame Celeste , was of the most thoroughly cordial nature . She wascalled before the curtain at the end of each

      act , as well as at the close of the piece , the success of which was certainly due more to her power than its own . The many richly humorous passages in Mr . Robert Brough ' s burlesque , The Siege of 7 rot / , have now been drawn more closely together , and the piece is consequently beginning to tell . . Shouts of laughter attend : Hector's ( Mrs . KeelyV ) admirable illustration of the Rarey process : Mr . James Rogers ' as

      Patroclus ) quaint sayings , singings , and doings ; the dreadfully whimsical combat , attended with all the minutiae of the P . R ., between Hector aud Ajax ( Mr . Charles Young ); and the appearance of that moiirstrum horrendum the Trojan horse ; , f u lly forty hands high . Miss Julia St . George , as Cupid , charms all her hearers by her artless and pleasing delivery of the , popular song , " Ever of thee ; " and the ballet ( otherwise tedious ) gives scope for some really good dancing by Misses At . Charles and Rosina Wright .

      have nssumod a more favourable aspect . Ir ' rost seems to have gained a trifle upon fog : the weatherglass has been doggedly at " Fair ; " and the various pantomimes and entertainments having been pruned whore requisite , and otherwise shaped into regular working order , are beginning to fill the treasuries . The novelty of the week has been the appearance of Madauio Celeste at tho Lyceum , in a now romantic throe-act drama , said to have been written for her by M . Eniile de la Roche , and eutitled Marion dc Lorma , or the Cradle of Steam .

      ' The author has endeavoured to introduce this celebrated character , whose representative is Madame Celeste , in a favourable light , and to gain for tier the sympathies- of tho audience by making her the avenger of her own poaoo and virtue uponone who had blusted both . Married in early lite to M . Cinq Mars , she is supposed , for the purpose of tho dramatist , to have been led astray by ono D'Estiynuc ( Mr . II . VanUenhoff ) , u villain of good society , who also brought her husband to tho scailbkl . Tho fixed object of her lite became a vendetta ; and in the first scono of the drama under notice she has the fortune to meet him in tho salon of Cardinal Hiu / ia / ieu

      ( Mr . E . Jb \ Uconor ) . D'Eatiffiiae , who is a epy of Cardinal Mazarin upon liichtiliou , has wormed himself into the secretaryship of tlio latter , and having formed a project ugainsfc tho virtue of Madame J 3 ertha de Caux ( Mias Portman ) , is flqhoming to lmmu . ro her husbtuul , Solomon do Caiue ( Mr . Empry ) , in the BlcOtro prison for lunatics . Tho impulsive Marion , at onoo comprehending tho plot , qonuoivos tho generous resolve of protecting tho unhappy Da Cuux , who , as his name imports , is u mechanician ( reported , of couvso , mad by his friends and neighbours ) , busy upon an invention Ibr utilising stoiun . Tho boat passage lu tho play , to which Madumo Coles to gave intonao

      The Dkajiatic College.—An Important Meet...

      The Dkajiatic College . —An important meeting of the committee was held on Saturday . A report was presented to tho meeting , which stated that Mr . Dodd , the eminent dust contractor who offered to present a piece of land on which the college might be erected , wished to hamper his gift with so many conditions that it was considered inexpedient to accept it . The report was adopted . As several other offers of land have bean made , it is anticipated that there will be no difficulty in obtaining nn eligible site . Tub Accidknt at tub Polytechnic ..- ^— Our eontercif porary tho Bulkier informs us that " the steps are of Portland stone , fenther-edged , and were put up twenty years ago , under tho direction of Mr . James Thomson , the architect of the building . Not long ago , tho treads having become worn , open iron-work , the interstices

      tilled in with eenicmf , wns let in on the faco of thorn , nnd it has been urged by some that cutting into tho steps for this purpose has loci to tho calamity . Tho iron facing on each step weighs about 1 cwt . Each stop probably weighs 2 £ cwt . On tho other himd , it is stated that tho fall commenced nt tho upper landing' , and that it iins been found that the jogglo here was not soundly made . The appoaraneo presented by tho staircase is most extraordinary , every stop being broken sharply ofl' about 4 inehys " from tlio wall . The accident will not fail to inspire tho gravest considerations . " And wo bag especially to draw to it tho attention of the proprietors of tho Equestrian Circus , Leicester-square . It haa boon stated that tho slender supports of tho galleries there hnvo boon certified " strong enough" by competent surveyors ; but wo confess to a sense of thoir insecurity whenever we

      contemplate them . Tare Cbntknauv ov Bcnxa . — Tho Caledonian Sooioty will cominomorato this event by a fustival at tho London Tavern on tho Sloth instant \ their arrangomonts aro of a suporior character . Miss Lizzy Stuart , of Scottish song celebrity , haa boon ongnyod to sing some of tUo poet ' s ilnost " eonga . They oortalnly oould not , havo chosen a more lilting oxponont of Sootia ' s minstrelsy than this lady , who lms ho auocoflsrully identified horacU ' with that o-lnss of inusfo , auil also with tho lltomturo of Burns and othor song writers of Scotlaud .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 8, 1859, page 23, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_08011859/page/23/