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      The Princess Royal. ¦ Division List On T...

      NOES . Hiarkburn Peter Jones , David Stirling , "William iitake John MaoEvoy . Edward Taylor , Simon Wat ijnwvpr George Maguire , John P . son / SllvM E- O ' Donoghoe , The Trelawny , Sir J . S . nalKHsh Robert Pease , Henry Williams , William Tellers for tho Noes , Mr . Coninghara ami Mr . Cox .

      c uDDly —Resolutions reported ; « 1 Thut the sum of 40 , 0 ()( M . be granted to her Majesty , for the Marrias ;© Portion of her Royal Highness ¦ the "Princess Rioy 3 *« Resolution read 2 ° ; Motion made , and Question put , " That this House doth agree with the Committee in the said R esolution : "—The House divided ; Ayes , 361 , Nous 18 . Utliorn Viscount Fitzjrerald , Rt . Hn . Montgomery , H . L . \ nderson , Sir J . John D . Montgomery , Sir G . . Snesley Hon . H . FitzRo . v , Rt . Hu . H . Morris , David vStrobus , EdmundFoley , John H . Mowbray , J . R . \ rbuthnotF , Hn . Gl . Foley . Henry J . W . Naas , Lord shlev Lord Forde , Colonel Neatc , Charles i ' asweil John Forester , Rt . Hu . Cl . Newark , Viscount Bailev , Sir Joseph Forster , Sir G . Newdegato , C N . TCflilhe Henry J . Foster , William O . Newport , Viscount Baines Rt . Hn . M . T . Fortcscuc , Hn . F . D . Nicoll , Donald Ball Edward Fortescue , C S . Nisbet . It . P . Baring , Rt , Hn . SirFnwcr , Sir W . A . Noel , Hou G . J . 2 ? > £ Frees tun . Colonel Norrcys . Sir D . J . Baring Thomas French , Colonel North , Colonel Barnard , Thomas Gallwey . Sir W . P . North , Frederick Bernard . Hn . W . S . Gard , Richard S . OTlaherty , A . Barrow , W . H . Gilpln , Charles Oglivy , Sir John Bathurst , A . A . Glover , E . A . Osbornc . Ralph Baxter , W . E . Glyn . George C . Ossulston Lord Beale , Samuel Glyn , George G- Pagot ,- Lord Alfred Beamish , Francis B . Godericli , Viscount Pakcnham , Colonel Beaumont , W . B . Grace , O . I ) . J . Pakinstou . Rt . Hou . Bective , Earl of Graham , Rt . Hn . Sir Sir John Bethell , Sir R . James Palmer , Robert Biddulph , R . M . Greer , S . M'Curdy Paltnerston , Vise . Biggs , John Gregory , W . H . Patten , Colonel W . Black , Adam Gregson , Samuel Paull , Henry Blandford . Marq . of Gray , Captain Pease , Henry Boldero , Colonel Grey , Rt . Hn . Sir G . Pechell , Sir G . B . Bonhatu-Carter , J . Grey , Ralph W . Peel , General Booth . Sir R . G . Grosvenor , Lord R Pennant , Hon . Col . Botfield , Beriah Gurdon , Brampton Perryi Sir T . E . Bouverie , Hn . P . P . Gurney , Samuel Pevensey , Viscount Bovill , William Haekblock , W . Platt , James Bramley-Moore , J . Hall , Rt . Hn . Sir B Potter , Sir John Brand , Hon . Henry Hamilton , Lord C . Powell , F . CBridsrcs . Sir B . W . HamiltonG . A . Price . W . P .

      , Briscoe , John Ivatt Hamilton . J . Hans Pritchard , John Brown , James Hanbury , Robert Pugh , I >* v'd Bruce , Henry A . Haukey , Thomson Puller , C . W . Bruen , Henry Hanmer , Sir John liamsden , bir J . W Buchanan , Walter Hardcastlc , J . A . Rani-say , Sir A . Buller , James W . Hassard , Michael Rayuham , Vise . Burrell , Sir C . M . Hastie , Archibald Rcbovv , J . G . Butlen Charles S . Hatchcll , John Repton , G . W . J . Buxtori , Charles Hay , Lord John Ricardo , J . L . Buxton , Sir E . N . Hcadlam . T . E . Ricardo , Osraan Byng , Hon . George Heard , John Isaac Rich , Henry Caird . James Heathcote , Hn . G . H . Ridley , Geqrgo Oalcraft , John H . Heuley . Rt . Hn . J . WRoupell , William Carnac , Sir . iolm R . Herbert , H . A . Russell , Lord John Castlerosse , Vis . Herbert , Rt . Hn . S . Llussell , F . W . Cavendish . Lord Herbert , Hn . P . E . Russell , Sir W . Cavendish , Hn . G . Hill , Hn . K . C Salisbury , E . G . Cecil . Lord Robert Hodgson , W . N . Schneider H . W .

      Charlesworth , J . C . Hollord , It . S . Scholclield , W . Dodgson Holland , lid ward Sclater , George Chcethain , John Hope . A . J . B . B . Scott , Captain R Ohristv , Samuel Hopwood , J . T . Seymcr , Henry Iver Clark / James J . Hornby , W . H . Seymour , 11 . D . Clifford , Charles C- Horsfau , T . B . Shelley . Sir J . V . Codrington , Gen . Horsman , Ht . Hu . E Sheridan , H . B . Colo , Hon . H . A . llothain . Lord Sibihorp , Major Colebrooke , Sir T . E . Howard , Hu . O . W . G Slaney , It . A . Collier , It . P . Hudson , George Smith , J . B . Collins , Thomas Hume , W . F . Smith , Rt . Hn . R . V . Oolvilo , Charles R . Hutt , William Smith , Augustus Conolly , Thomas Ingram , Herbert Smith , Sir 1 « . I ' owper . Rt . Hn . W . Jackson , William Smyth . Colonel Francis Jennyn . Earl Smollett , Alexander Oooto , Sir C . H . Jcrvoiso , Sir J . C . Somerville , Rt . Hon . Conyngham . Lord F . Johnstono , Hn . H . B . Sir W . M . Cottorell . Sir H . G . Johustouo , J . J . 11 . Spoouor , Richard

      Crawford , R . W . Jones , David Stafford , Augustus ( . ' rossloy , Frank Kerrison , Sir E . C Stafford , Marq . of Curzon , Viscount Koishaw , James Staithopo , J . B . Dalglish , Robert King , James King Stanley , Lord Dalkcith , Earl of King , E . B . Stanley , I In- W . O . Damor , Lionel D . Kitiglako , A . W . Btnploton , John Oavoy , Richard Kinglakc , J . A . Steel , John iJavie , Sir II . It F . Kinsooto , 11- S . F . Stoplionson . Robert IMvlsou , Richard Kinnaird , Hn . A F . Stewart . Sir M . R . ft > . DcnlBon , Edmund Kirk , William Stuart . Colonel Dorini ? , Sir JW . Kuntohlnill- Huges-Siurt , II . (*• Do Vo ' ro , S . E . son , E . S . ykos , Col . W . II . IMsraoli , Jtt . Hn . 1 $ . Kuox , Hu . W . S Talbot . C . It . M . Mvott , Edward Labouchero , Rt . Hn . Tomnost , Lord A . V . Dodson , John G . Henry Thcsigor , Sir F . IMimniond , Honry Lnngston , J . II . Thompson , Gonoral Du Oano . Charles LnuKton , W . G . Thornely . Thomas Duncan , Viscount Liuigtou , II . ( J . Tottenham , Charles Dundas , Frederick Laurie , John Treliisis , lln . C . ll . lt . Uunlop , A . M . Legh , « . C . Trollouo , Rt . Hon . Uu Pro , O . Goorgo Lewis , Ur . Hon . Sir Sir John Dutton , Hn . It . II . G . Coriiownll Turner , J . A . Kant , Sir James B . Liddell , Hon . II . G , Tynto , Culonol K . K'gorton , Sir I'hillp Lincoln , Earl ol Vane , Lord Harry Utforton , W . Tntt . Lovaino , Lord Vernor , Sir W . Bgorton , E . C Lowe , Rt . Hon . R . Vllllors , III . Hn . O . P . Rloho , Lord Lytton , Sii-U . E . L . IJ Vivian , Uu . J . C W . Kllico , ltt . Hn . E . Macartney , George Vivian , H . H . lilllco , Edward Macnulay , Jvu « "eth Waddington , II . S . lillihhibtone , Sir J . Maukie , Janies Waloott , Admiral Khun , Sir A . H . Mackluuon , W . A . Waldron , Laurcnoo Kivuls , John MnliiiH , Richard Warbunon . a . 1 ) . Kmnondo , John Manglow , It . D . Warr ») ii , Samuel UntcouiVP . H . 8 . MaugloH , O . E . Watkin , E . W . liudtou , ( Oarl of MuuuerH , Lord John Waiklnu , Col . L . Kviiiis , Thomas W . Marjorlbiiuks , D . C . Weguelin . T . M . Kwnrt , William Maascy , W . N . West irn , Button Kwarb , Josonh 0 . Mathoaon , Alox . Wliatmuu , James I ' ngan WiUiam Molgnud , Viscount Whltesldo , James Paiquhar , Blr W . M . Morry , Jamos Whltinoro , Honry Vei > wlok . Henry Miles , William Wlrkhiuii , , H .. W . Vorgus . Jolm Mills , Thomas Wlgram , Lottus . T . K «>" Buaon , Colonel Milton , Viscount WMoox , B . Al / Ghlo Ei'Hay , Alox . W . Monorluff , ltt . Uu . J . Williams , Wlillam fltKgorftld , W . It . S . MonuoU . itt . Hn . W . WilUttmH , Sir W . P .

      Willyams , E . W . B- AVoodd , Basil T . W . viidham , William Willoughby , Sir H . Wrightsoii , W . B . Wynn , Colonel Willougliby , J . P . W . vld . James Wynn , Sir W . W . Wingfield , R . B . Windham , General Wynne , W . E . Wise . John A . Wyndham , General Wyvill , Marmadukc Wood , Rt . Hn . SirC . Wyndham , Henry Tellers for the Ayes , Mr . Hayter anil tho Earl of Mulgravo . NOT 3 S . Ayrton , Acton SmeeDunue , Michael Stit-ling , William . Blackburiv , Peter Evans , Sir De Lacy Sullivan , Michael Blake , John Greene , John Taylor , S . W . Bowyer , Georgo Had field , Goorgo Towiisend , John S . Corbally , M . E . MaeEvoy , Edward Trelawny , Sir J . Cox , William U'Donaghoe , The White , James Tellers for the Noes , Mr . Coning ham and Mr . Maguire-

      May 30, 1857.] The Leader. 509

      May 30 , 1857 . ] THE LEADER . 509

      Three Visits To The Manchester Art Treas...

      THREE VISITS TO THE MANCHESTER ART TREASURES EXHIBITION . ( From , our Special Correspondent . ') III . TREASURES AND TRASH . If the Executive Committee of the Art Treasures Exhibition had kept steadily in view the title which was given to their undertaking , and the eclectic severity which that title inferred , they would have made a smaller but a much better collection . We have stated that there are about sixteen thousand objects in the Exhibition ; but it is not too much . to say that at least one half of these are not Art Treasures . What was the object in view : to collect examples of ever } ' school and every style , good or bad , or to illustrate the highest pinnacles of the * Arts by an assemblage of masterpieces ? If the former , then the object is certainly carried out , but at the expense of falsifying the title ; if the latter , it must be admitted that works of the highest excellence are largely adulterated with a plentiful sprinkling of inferior things . It has been already explained that the plan of arrangement ostensibly adopted , imperfect as it is , is still more imperfectly carried out . Those who examine the collection of paintings with the view to extracting from it an intelligible history of Art must go prepared with enough knowledge to render such an analytical process superfluous . What the compilers and editor of the catalogue have been unable to effect in a volume of three hundred pages , we cannot certainly undertake to accomplish in three columns . All that we can do is to take a sort of ' Voyage autour de l'Exposition , ' in the company of the reader , pointing out to him , as we go , such objects of interest as seem to us most worthy of notice . And , in the first place , to begin at the beginning , we will proceed to Saloon A , which is the furthest room on the left-hand side of . the nave , before you come to the transept , and there we shall find the earlier of the ancient masters , from the Byzantine school down to Raphael and Michael Angelo . After this , we proceed down that side of the building until we are stopped by the east wall , with the noble portrait of Charles the First by Van Dyck occupying the centre , and looking as if he were about to prance out of the wall . The specimens of the Byzantine school , at the west end of saloon A , are extremely good and interesting , and if the visitor will compare them with the masters of the early Italian school ( Giotto , Cimabue , Gaddi , Aiigolico da Fiesole , Massaccio , Botticelli and Lippi ) he will understand how the art of painting gradually grew out of the . simplest and rudest forms into the state which it attained before the coming of those great Apostles of Beauty , Raphael and Michael Anyelo . In Massaccio ( 38 , ' His own Portrait , ' and 07 , ' A Male Portrait' ) will be found a portrait painter of no moan order . The Virgins of Giotto and his contemporaries are insipid enough , but . they arc gracefully painted nevertheless . In Perugino wo begin to porecivo decided indications of that rapid ° advance which was fully carried out by his great pupil , Raphael . Leonardo da Vinci and Fva . Uartolommeo were great prophets of the now Art Evangilo , powerful draughtsmen , and masters of colour . Under the head of Michael Angolo there are but two picturos in the whole Exhibition , and one of those ( Mr . Labouehorc ' s ' Holy Family , ' 100 ) is , to say the least of it , doubtful . The two portrait * of Andrea del Sarto ( 107 and 108 ) must bo examined with care , as also the two lino Carlo Dolcis ( i' 2-l , ' Tho Marriage of St . Catherine , ' and 127 , ' Tlio Nulivity' ) . To those whoso minds are not yet mado up upon , tho pretensions of tho so-called pro-Raphaelitcs of the present day , w © recommend a careful examination of tho specimens of Mnbuao to bo found in thin collection , more especially of 517 , tho ' Adoration of tho Kings ; ' tho oxamploa of Mantegna and of Van Kyck , ami tho ancient copy of tho colcbrated 'Adoration of thu Lamb' altiir-picco by tho latter , may bo profitably examined with tho samo end , for they aro not only among the finest picture * in the collection , but they provo that tho pro-Uaphaolitos of tho present day copy tho vices without being able to imitate tho virtuoa of their great prototypes . Mabuso 8 Adoration' is indeed a splendid painting 1 . Tho jowola and embroidery aro drawn with microscopic ildolity ; but tho composition is so good , and the figures ho woll painted , that it looka woll at a distance when all tho nrotty niceties aro no longer discernible . In going ovor tho ancient musters , tho visitor must disregard entirely tho arrangement of tho catalogue . Ho must turn ovor tho list of tho whole collection , and mark tho dates for

      himself , and he will find himself putting Irancia and Van Eyck before Raphael and Tintoretto . Before coming to these last he must examine the fine Mantegnas in the collection ; Lord Craven ' s fine portrait of ' Luther and the Reformers , ' by Lucas Cranach ( 451 ); the eelebrated portraits of Henry VIII . and Francis I ., by Holbein ( 454 , 455 ); Albert Durer ' s ' Portrait of his Father' ( 462 ); the fine diptj-chs and triptychs by Memling ; the farr . ous ' Misers , ' by Qiientin Matsys , fronv Windsor Castle ( 499 ); and many others belonging to the same age which will be found on the north wall of Saloon A . Under the name of Raphael himself we find not less than thirty-three separate works catalogued , but none of them ( except , perhaps , Lord Ward ' s little cabinet-picture of ' The Three Graces ') can be

      considered first-rate , and none can hardly be reckoned genuine . There are , however , fair specimens of the three different styles into which his pictures are generally divided . The best pictures under this honoured name are , 133 , a fragment of a predella on ' The Agony in the Garden' ( belonging to Miss Burdett Coutts ); 136 , ' Madonna and Child' ( belonging to Lord Cowper ); 140 , ' Madonna and Child' ( belonging to Mr . Mackintosh ); 148 , ' The Madonna with the Pink' ( belonging to Lord Pembroke ) , and 159 , ' The Crucifixion , ' from the Fesch collection , now belonging to Lord Ward . Of the Titians exhibited we have not much to say in praise ; indeed , with the exception of 'A Richly Wooded Landscape' ( 230 ) contributed by her Majesty , and which is as valuable for its beauty

      as it is curious on account of the rarity of a landscape by that master , and two or three of the portraits , there is not much to occupy very serious attention . Lord Darnley's ' Europa 1 ( 231 ) is a coarse offence against the laws of public morals which is entirely unredeemed by the slightest spark of genius , and certainly challenges the attention of the Society for the Suppression of Vies . The Tintorettos are not much , better ; and those contributed from Hampton Court are , perhaps , the worst of the lot . Of Paolo Veronese , the best examples , in our opinion , are—275 , ' The Magdalen' ( belonging to Miss Burdett Coutts ) , aud 279 , Mr . Angerstein's ' Diana and Actason . ' Out of the eleven Annibale Carraccis exhibited , three stand conspicuously prominent , and one is celebrated all over the world :

      these are , the Duke of Newcastle ' s ' Coronation of the Virgin' ( 335 ) , from the Rogers collection , Mr . Denison ' s ' Madonna and Child' ( 331 ) , and Lord Carlisle ' s celebrated picture of ' The Three Marys' ( 327 ) . We must confess to no very great S 3 'mpathy with either of these works , for we rank ourselves among those heretics in whose estimation both the Caraccis lack all the qualities which go to the making of a great master ; but the visitor will do well to examine them , for they are celebrated , and he may come to a different conclusion . Of Guido Reni , the best three are , 336 , ' Cleopatra and the Asp' ( belonging to the Queen ); 337 , ' Assumption of the Virgin' ( belonging to Lord Ellesmere ); and 341 , ' St . Sebastian' ( belonging to Lord Ward ) . Some frescoes by Correggicr , belonging to Lord Ward ( 403

      and 404 ) , are charming and full of power , and the visitor will examine with interest the reduced original repetition of the celebrated Dresden ' Magdalen' ( 402 ) , belonging to the same nobleman . Perhaps , of all the masters belonging to the earlier part of the seventeenth century , the most thoroughly and nobly represented is Rubens . There are altogether forty specimens of this great master in the collection , and some of them are the best examples of his pencil that are to be found anywhere . Of these , wo would speak of ' The Rainbow Landscape' ( 21 of the Hertford collection ) ; tho portrait of 'Himself and Wifo carrying Fruit aud ( lame' (& 77 ); the ' Prometheus , ' with the Vulturo by Snyders ( 578 ;; the ' St . Martin , ' from Windsor Cuaile ( 587 ); and ' His own Portrait' ( 595 ) . The student who does not know

      much of Rubens as a luudsc . ipo painter has hero an opportunity of studying him in that character which , may nuvcr occur again ; for not only id tiioro tho famous 1 Rainbow Landscape , ' about which so much has been written and said , but thero aro throe nioru very fine landscapes by tho . same hand . In 577 wo i \ w \ the groat Peter Paul competing with ( and beating ) L indeeer in tho representation of game ; such a fawn and such snipus wore never « cun upon canvas ; and in 505 ho gives us a portrait as noble ns if it wore by Rembrandt , or Velasquez , or our own Sir Joshua . Tho portraits by Van Dyck in tho collection aro almost uniformly good . The specimens of tho must or aro twenty-five in number , examination tho

      and wo would recommend for special ' Portrait of Rubens' ( 597 ) , ' Charles I . on Horseback ' ( fl'Jl )) , ' Killlgrew and ( Jarow' ( 001 ) , and ' Philip an I Madame Lo Roy' ( o and 7 of tho Hertford collection ] . There aro fivo splendid pictures of Snyders in Saloon 15 , tho moat noticeable of which is tho splendid Market Piece' from Clumber , and tho Stork in tho Air boaqt by Hawks' ( 055 ) , from Mr . Tollomaoho ' s collection . Tho Dutch painters of Still Life aro woll represented in some noble specimens of Do Hocm , Van Huvsum , ami WoonJx ( from 892 to 900 ) . Out of tho twonty-oiyJii . examples of Rembrandt of tho Rhino which onrloh tho collection , some choice specimens may bo picked j tho four in tho Hertford collection ( 14 , 15 , 10 , and 17 ); ' HI ; ' ™ «

      Portrait , ' from , the Buckingham Palace collodion < owy , Daniel before Nebuchadnezzar , ' ( 07 < J ) , « wondwftU

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), May 30, 1857, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_30051857/page/5/