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      which is too gaudily blue in the sky and distance , all Copley ' Fielding 8 drawings this year look thoroughly true in effect . The feea i ^ iece ( No . 12 ); the grand "View on the Waste of Cumberland ; The Isle of Staff */ ' with its marvellously truthful and transparent sea ; and " Flamborough Head , " so delightfully airy and brilliant m effect-are aU drawings which cannot be too highly praised , or too often seen . . David Cox ' s « Stokesav Castle" is one of his best works ; the moonlight atmosphere being presented with real poetical feeling and great truthfulness of colour . « Valence" we hardly think worthy of him ; but his Harden Castle , " his " Villas of Sassenage , " and his "Windy Day ( tins last being perhaps a little too decidedly blue ) , are admirable examples of that darinvi and brilliancy which first gained him his hight pos . ion m

      g gour his art . Mr . Jackson ' s " Wreck on the Coast" is clever ; but his stormy waves in the distance are as sharp as rocks , and appear to stand just as still . Mr . Evans has never done better than in his " Yiew of the Water-Meadows at Droxford" ; it is powerfully , soberly , and most truly coloured . Mr . Cartel ' s "Well-known spot , in North Wales" ( rather a vague titlehas he forgotten the name of the place where he made his sketch r ) is one of the most beautiful and elaborate landscape studies we ever remember to have seen produced in water-colours ; it is a drawing to hang up and look at constantly , as distinguished from a drawing to be kept in a portfolio , and examined on state occasions . Mr . Berkley ' s " Dunluce Castle is one of those wild scenes which would have gained in real strength of

      effect if the artist had painted it a little less wildly—the fiery sun-set looks more theatrical than natural . Mr . Callow ' s " Churches of San Giovanni and San Paolo" we can vouch for , from personal experience , as being excellent architectural portraits , firmly drawn and simply painted . The "Italian Composition , " by Mr . Richardson , has a suspiciously English look in many parts of the scene . We like his " Glen Shee " much better . It has been taken from Nature , and looks like Nature ; which is more than can be said of his " Composition , " or indeed of any

      other landscape " Compositions , " modern or ancient , in oil or watercolour , that we happen to be acquainted with . Mr . Eripp ' s "Ben Cruachan , " and Mr . Dodgson ' s " Winter Sport , " rank together for excellence , widely as they differ in subject ; and as for Mr . Hunt ' s " Wood Pigeon , " it is one of those triumphs of manipulative dexterity , and exquisite softness of colour , which no wise man would attempt to describe—which all wise men ought to see and enjoy for themselves . There are many more drawings which we have not , unhappily , space to refer to ; and besides these , there are probably many others which we had not the advantage of seeing at all . " This misfortune was rendered inevitable by the crowded state of the room . The display of hats and paletots , shawls and bonnets , interfered sadly with the display of drawings in every direction . We saw enough , however , to convince us that the Water-Colour Exhibition of the present year is equal to any of its predecessors ; and to warrant us , therefore , in promising a real treat to all lovers of art who visit the lloom of the Society during the present season . W \

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      THE NEW WATER COLOUR SOCIETY . Pleasantly as ever opens the ever pleasant meeting of the New Water Colour painters ; and though the favourites , Warren , Louis Haghe , and Corbould , come well up to scale this year , still , to take a turn in sporting phrase , the fio ] di& the best horse . Odds are by no . njeans heavy on Mr . Warren ' s " DfBger , " against either Mr . Charles Weigall's " Dirk Hatfceraik , " Mr . Wbsolon ' s "The Nun , " Mr . Kearney ' s " Pietro Torrigianni , " orieven Mr . Angelo Hayes ' s " Bold Soldier Boy . " To be sure , Mr . Hati ; h cj ^ tiFii j Jak > is generally thought to be still unmatched , and Mr . CorboujPf" Margaret" has little to apprehend from Mr . A . Bouvier ' s Plagiarism . % But to descend , while we can with safety , from the language of noble sportsmen to that of vulgar critics , the exhibition of the New Water Colour Society-is the best , take it altogether , that we

      recollect . Wonderful , certainly , is the change since water-colour painting was but the stenography of art ; a change not so material as it is probably deemed by the enthusiastic gentleman ' who is about exhibiting a collection , illustrative of what lie calks the " progress" of water-colours , though it is but a displacing of oils : and we believe Corbould could whip up one of his magnificent trifles from this kind of cream just as Avell as from that . Haghe has become more subdued to the element he works in —water . But that is because he is truly a water-colour painter , which Corbould almost as truly is not , liis process with body colour being similar to tlmt of oil-painting . The " Margaret and Eaust" displays his delicate style of manipulation very effectively , and that is the best praise the picture deserves . The scene is the well-known " Plucking of the flower "— " 11 e loves me—loves me liot ; " and the pair look like a pair that are tired with polking ; not , certainly , like the Margaret and Faust

      of that most lovely scene . « The Magic Mirror , " with Earl Surrey m the wizard ' s room , looking on the phantom of the Lady Oreraldine , appe ™ be a better specimen of CorUld , . but the picturerj- ^ h jmg : so badly for light , it is impossible to get a fair view of it . Besides Warren s " Danger , " which means a young female savage eleepmg in ajrag ^ with a snake uncoiling from a stem very near her face , FmmW ' of " Au < rsburff Peasant Girl , " by him , and also a " Walk to ^ mmaus , 01 wblcTleasTsaid % aP s / tne W . Haghe has t ^« n toft 0 potoe .. auite eaual to his " Audience Chamber at Bruges" last season . Is it lenera ^ known that Haghe , who has the credit of tofl » ^ terous producer of effect in detail , paints , from an accident with his leit hand ? The " Happy Trio" gives us a stately young beauty , sitting at a Wnsichord . a cavalier bending over her , with his lute , and a warml yute

      toned old gentleman dozing near a window Mis otner picture as « slue d'Armes at Salzburg . " Bennett and Davidson have their usual allowance of sunny landscapes ; Tacher does not improve but one or two specimens of his purple and gold bay scenery areworth , re marking . Carrick , Fahey , and Harrison Weir punt separately , with so much evident observation of nature , each in a peculiar form , that it occurs to us how well they would paint together ! The youngest name , and one quite new to vlb , is Keeling . His picture of « Gurth and Wamba m the Forest of Botherwood" deserves notice as a work of some pretension and a great deal more promise .

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      THE AMATEUR GALLERY . The difficulty under which this exhibition started three years ago is now reversed . Then , it was almost impossible to get people to open their portfolios and to spare a single sketch . Even last year this difficulty had not been lessened . But the third season brings a surplus ; three hundred works are sent back for want of room , and those retained are consequently picked fruit . Mrs . Bridgman Simpson takes the lead in landscape . In portraiture Miss Houlton performs the same necessary but difficult teat ; and the almost public Mr . Richard Ford and Sir W . Gore Ouseley send a number of interesting scenes , gathered during travel . Lieutenant lower has a capital view of Granada , taken from the favourite point , the Gene-™ lifi > . which overlooks the Alhambra . The most practised hand ,

      apparently , is Mr . Eliot Yorke ' s , both in landscape and ornithological studies . It is curious in some instances to trace the directing hand ot tne real artist . Mr . Burcham , for example , has evidently studied under William Hunt , and has gained much o £ that painter s aptitude tor the minutely picturesque in homely and natural objects . The Coxswain of the Water Lily has brought some dashing sketches home irom the Danube . His more meditated impromptu style , after Leech , has less merit than the Magyar designs . We take leave of the exhibition for this year with hearty wishes for its success .

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      EXHIBITION OF GERMAN PICTURES . If this exhibition had been less ostentatiously christened , no one would have had cause to disparage it . At 168 , New Bond-street , there are on view , how many we cannot exactly say , but not many , compositions , by German painters , on about a level with the six first men of the " National Institution . " The most prominent picture , and the only subject , is the least worth notice . It is by one Camphansen , and represents Charles the First at Naseby . The " Good Samaritan , " by Schirmer , is so called from the incidental group of figures , it being a landscape . In it , as ma few

      others , the principal merit seems to be a clever imitation of foliage in the foreground . The distances remind us of Sydney Percy , but they are harder in outline , and are flat in colour . Weber has two of the best landscapes , and next to him are Achenbach and Leu . The most commendable work , however , is Tidemand's . It is a portrait , apparently , containing the figures of two boys . The nearest face has a very uncommon look of intelligence and feeling , with some appearance of childish trouble . It is as well to correct a misapprehension of the exhibitor ' s , as other people may fall into it too . The names he publishes are not those of the most eminent G erman artists .

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      EXHIBITION OF PHONOGRAPHY . A good exhibition of photographic pictures , including one or two portraits , haa just been opened by Messrs . Dclamotte and Cundall , next door to the Clarendon , in Bond-street . The views are just as they have loft the photographer ' s hands , and are not touched or tinted in the usual way . This is an advantage ; . As the first public exhibition of its kind it is noticeable , but a more comprehensive display might have been given .

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      MONEY MARKET AND CITY INT . KTILIOKNCK . Friday Evening , May 1 ! J , lH . > : i . DirniNO the whole of the . week there hus been u scumble doprcnnioii in the money market . JOvory ono is Hollhif , ' : money in said to bo li ^ ht , ami : tj per coat , in j » ivon for accommodation . Tim uncertainly prevalent about the fate of tho Exchequer Uilln , and the still undecided Kudgot , in influencing tho markets ; hut jnoro than nil this , the enormous quantity of worthier speculations to whirl ) persons have been eagerly Hubseribing during the last year and wit . liout a return , in ( dialling tlm conlldoneo oi tho speculators , and it in believed by Homo persons that a temporary panic ; will take place ore long . Krcnoh slmres , Ntnmburg still tnkiin K 'he lend , huvo been very high , hut i . \ ui heavy rates in Turib to realize . prollt . H huvo flattened this market ugaili . In tho iOnglitih heavy Muti-os but little change haH occurred . York and North Midhiiiri and Month Knstorn ( Dover ) urn wMUOwhut r \ 7 >> ' J '" '( Ih remain stationary , if anything a liltln lower . Jnnimijrhanm uri , . , iy T 1 |( , fri ( m iill ( , H vc > ,. (| ni | i w j t | , all upward tciul .-in-y . hi ' the Land Company and Mining HhureH oyMiHui . iralil ,, IuIIm liuvo ( llil )> u ,, i , u .,, . North liritish Australian ~ . *" "' luvt ' »! ' »» 'nlCompany which , about ilvo wcokn u <> , "M ^ jrroiiuuuijlmvoboou dealt at u » low tw * J nremium

      per wharo ; no rounon i « a « ni ( j ;] HMl for thin heavy full , l ' ool itivois aro Hat , notwitliHtundiiitf that thorn huvo boon heavy honA lido nurchascs in this nnirkct . by f , 'ood hrokors . Tho Jamaica Cojipor Mints tho Metcallo , Iuih ultu > experienced a non-Hi ( h'mblo fall , 4 M to £ . 7 premium i > or share , yet the aceountH ruceivod by thin company do not hooiii at all doHpondont , and tho only way to iwiumul for it iiiuh ! , bo , tho fall in tho price of - per , a Jail of &M per ton . Oalifornian mine . H proiniao Htuady and remunerative retimiH , but thero i » no diB ]> oaition oviniuid to invent to any amount . In ahorl ., tho minor luarketH are flat all round , and no nitfim of life . Consols are pnr ^ J for inoiiuy , and lor 1 st Juno account , J ( H )} } . Ah yet no clollnito arran ^ oment . has been authoritatively announced , of tho comx'ssiou of tho South JOaHtern of FraiKKt ( Lyoim to ( ivntwa . ) line , and it appears that a rmnoiiHtraneo on the Hul ) ject of •¦•>'" conccHHion haw been made in the . Corp * I , etfinlatif . On tlm whole , our markets close heavily , niul with iuiki / i gloom prevailing , without any real ( jood cause— oa far an ono may jud ^ e . CO UN" MAltlflfiT . Mark . Liino , Friday , May 13 , 1851 ) . Tun Hupplies of "Wheat during the week have been largo of Wheat , and () aln and moderate of Hurley . Tho demand for all urtioloH haa boon limited to tho tuipply of immediate wants , without any alloriilion in pricoH . Homo few itar ({ oos of Wheat and Rye now oll'the coast , or on passage , have boon taken for Jlel ^ ium and tho . North of Jb ' rauoo , whoro i > riucii ure fully an high na lioro .

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      47 « THE LEADER . [ Saturday ^

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      BRITISH FUNDS FOR THE PAST WEEK . ( OiiOHiuro Piuoks . )

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      FOHKION FUNDS . ( Laht Oi'fioiai , Quotation » uui » o tiih Wksk kmdiMO Fuidav lCviiNrwo . ) Ilnmlinn Nnw 44 per 0 ( h . 1 ( X > J J ' ortwjfuflao C p . Ct . Oonv . Brazilian Nnw , WJM & 31 ) 1 (> 5 1 H 41 30 HucnoH Ayrca ltonda 71 i itiiHHiun 4 J per Cents . ... 104 J Oranadit beferrod . ... 10 J Hpanitili 3 p . ContH 4 » ( hook , red 1 >| HnatiiHh 3 p . Ots . Now O « f . 24 ( Jreelr . l ) luo tt HpmiiHh Coin . O « rtil . of Moxiean : t per Cents 20 { j Coupon not Amdod ... < H l ' eruviun < li |> er Cents .... hh { Dutch 4 per Ccut . Cortil' . OflJ l ' oruviuu Scrip 3 | pai .

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      Satur . Mond . Tutu . Wedn . Thar : Frid . Bank Rtoolc 22 H 22 » 220 229 } 5 per Cent . Kod JtMJJ 1 < M ) J \\\)\ KK ) 100 09 } 3 per Cent . Con . Ann . iOO * 100 J UH )} ]( M ) J J ( X ) J 100 £ OoiihoIs for Account ... l ( X ) j lOOJ 1 ( H )| KM )} 1 ( K > 2 100 } 3 J per Cent . An NMJ 103 J 10 : Ji KKJ J 103 j 102 ^ New 5 per CentH Lontf Ahh ., 1 H (( O 51 fi-lfi 0 ( i 15-10 C >} India Htorsk : 2 < I 3 202 Ditto 1 ) oik 1 h , X' 1 ( N ) 0 ... IW 2 M 27 25 Ditto , under JSIOOO ... 32 33 25 21 ) 30 Ex . HillH , £ 1000 I p lp par pur 4 p 4 p Ditto , UfiOO 4 j > pur pur 4 p 4 p Ditto , Hmitll 4 p jiar 4 p 4 p

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 14, 1853, page 478, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1986/page/22/