Violet is limits of the *** 2. The heat increases through longevity at presents the has decreased years. "bone-third i fortality 1786, Fately of ་། was taken at one in forty th 1795, at one and one in forty-five in 1801, at one in forty-seven in 1911, at one in fifty-two; and in 1821, the results of the census one show a mortality of one in fiftylimits of human life 4. sal and adition of are the same now as p niac, and of corrosive sublimate will probably always continue the probably and concentrated colourless sur- same, But more persons live now phuric acid, produce the highest to an advanced age than in former degree of temperature, between times, Edin. Phil. Journal. a. the yellow and the red, in the orange. S9 9T A18m sidileb The average population of Ireand is 365 to the squa square mile, ***5. Crown glass or common while that of England and Wales white glass has the warmest point is but 210, and of Scotland 86; in the middle of red, blor, taking the whole island, less 25166. Flinte glass moves the warmest point beyond the well-m defined spectrum. Mr. Seebeck adopts here the limits as given by Newton.) WOD 1 75 "7. Beyond the red, the de- than 170. Newspapers, 4 The following is the number of newspapers pubfished within the United Kingdom, at three distinct periods, the earliest only forty-two years ago. 3 and Joy 516 zinsia. 9008 1782. 1790. 1821. Newspapers published in T 256 14 T6 Twice 9 79 146 284 in the yellow, and red in and be-mentary Reports :) DUNG yond the red.7b50) sir North End of Northumberland Longevity. The salubrity of Street, Strand 1998 England has considerably in- North of Wellington Street ost creased, and the mortality dimi-Strand by auosarings5 s6s nished, for many years past. The North of Essex Street, Strand 2700 West of Coventry Street t 52 0 result of the population-acts afford South of St. James's satisfactory evidence, that our an- South of Air Street, Piccadilly 49 80 7413 0 Wales 201,9621. - Scotland 1,124,2731.-Total 5,200,4901.— 0 South of Stratford Place • 59 4 76 0 0 North of Regent Street South of Orchard Street 70 4 0 In Norfolk, the number of miles North of Cleveland Street. Street, Great George Str. 5 6 0 The whole of Westminster, except the Abbey and part of Horseferry Road, is below the Level of the highest Tide. was 271, the income per mile 381. the expenditure per do. 261. excess of income 127.-In Suffolk, the number of miles 279; income per mile 341. expenditure per do. 311. excess of income 31. ́ Colombia. This rising empire contains four millions of inhabitants and has eighteen journals; fortynine schools of mutual instruction, ten colleges, and three universities, viz. one at Bagota, Caraccas, and Quito. All the sciences taught in Europe are cultivated, political economy and the mechanic arts excepted. The French language is particularly preferred, and the public library at Bagota, composed of 14,000 choice volumes, has a number of French works. STATE OF THE FINE ARTS. 7 THAT the English nation, with that depth of thought and sensibility in which it surpasses other nations, should not excel in the fine arts, would be unaccountable. An imaginative and ingenious people, possessing also judgment and industry, must succeed under favourable circumstances, and so we find it to-day. The English School of Art may justly look down upon most, perhaps every modern school now in existence. A Society of British artists has this year been established, and seemingly on a firm basis, so far as patronage and public attention are concerned. To secure its ultimate and permanent success, it need do nothing more than deserve it. On Monday the 21st of May, the exhibition for the season opened to the public. The objects of the new Society of British Artists" are exactly similar, both generally and in detail, to those of the Royal Academy itself-or, at all events, to what those ought to be and the means by which those objects are to be pursued, are, so far as they at present extend, the same. 66 The range of apartments devoted to the annual exhibition of this Society, consists of five rooms, leading out of each other and comprising a great room and a secondary one for the display of paintings in oil; one for the reception of sculpture and models; one for water-colour and other drawings, miniatures, &c.; and a fifth devoted to specimens of English engraving. In this exhibition Mr. Haydon has no less than eight pictures, the principal one is 129, "Silenus, intoxicated and moral, reproving (lecturing, it should have been) Bacchus and Ariadne on lazy and irregular lives." There is infinite matter in this subject; and matter, to the treatment of which, if we are not greatly mistaken, Mr. Haydon's natural powers, both of mind and of hand, are better adapted than those to which he has hitherto almost exclusively applied them. In the work before us, if we are in some respects disappointed at the result of this application, our expectations are more than answered in others. The figure of Silenus, propped up against the trunk of a great tree, and dealing out his "wise saws" to the halflaughing, half-listening Ariadne, who is crouching in conscious beauty at his feet, is full of a rich, and at the same time a refined and recondite humour; and the figure of Ariadne herself, almost in the attitude of the crouching Venus, is admirably conceived, and brilliantly executed: the rest of the figures are quite secondary to these two-and that of Bacchus is undoubtedly too much so, as well in regard to its execution, as Ju to 9 9 9 as its place and part in the com, Wwill increase, and its good effects A positionLow Je9 y19v ert tepnomeincrease with it, in proportion as Among others, we were much the efforts of the Society in, quesnie pleased with the Seventh Plaguetion are correspondent to the hopes o of Egypt,vby Martin Cattle and that have been excited by it, seems figures by Barnets The Widow equally certain. But amidst the by Richter, hearing, but not listen-pleasing evidence that we here ingute, the admiring comments meet with of the general advance i of her milliner and the unre-of Artis we are bound to notice it strained ogaiety of the maid at its apparently retrograde, move seeing her mistress once more her menti indag few, individual but de self, after having been so long dis-splendid instances. In fact, alguised sin of weeds," are delight though upon the whole, the prest fully expressed, and without any sent Exhibition may be promo undue exaggeration Hofland's nounced an excellent one, yet we "Ulswater, Cumberland, looking cannot conceal from ourselves, towards Patterdale. Nothing and should therefore do wrong. can be more delightful in its way in endeavouring to conceal from than this view nothing more others, that it is sadly defichastes in colouring, more correct,cient in first-rate works by our in perspective, or more natural first-rate artists. Turner does not and effective in its general result. exhibit one picture. Hilton, one Glover's Imaginary Landscape, of our two best depictors of hisand Linton's Vale of Linsdale, torical and imaginative, subjects, Heaphy's Game of Put. We exhibits but one work; and that, must mention, in particular, the though not without talent, is very admirably puzzled expression of far from advancing his claims on the man in the night-cap; in front; our general admiration, Howard, the partly independence and in whose somewhat vague, but yet difference of the landlord; the light, elegant, and airy fancies delightfully countrified sweetness were wont to blend themselves so of the gamekeeper's wife; and the pleasingly with the usual dull mounexaggerated truth of the whole notony of individual portraiture, sceneldm9226 (819099 £ 2 24 no has this year, done nothing but add to this monotony, with one slight exception, scarcely worth naming. And Wilkie himself has given us but two small pictures, both of which are not only inferior to to all his previous works that we are able to call to memory, but are by no means equal to some, that we meet with by artists of greatly inferior pretensions in 2 m Rippingilles cross-examining a Witness; and two of Northcote's, his own Portrait, and the Sylvan Pootor being a faun taking a thorn from the foot of a young peasant. eidt gritted t to The Exhibition at the Royal Academy displays, to our thinking, a greater proportion of general talent than we have had to boast of for several years past. That this is in part occasioned by the feeling of rivalship called forth by the New Society, can scarcely be, doubted; and that such feeling Unacquainted, as we are, with any of the secret history of modern Art, and concerning ourselves with its visible results alone, as they reach us in common with that C. d. that public of which we form al/Watt. These we ventureɔtogrank an part, we shall not pretend to as amongst the very finest works ofoq sign, or even to guess at, any read their class that your country has son for the deficiency, which we yet produced. Westmacott's statue q have however not been able to of a Nymph is also very chaste to avold noticing, but which we the and pleasing, but there is a modern t less lament as it affords us more air about it which cannot be made d time and a less preoccupied attento accord with sculpture. It is an 9 istana tion to bestow on that general ex-art that belongs, and ever must cellence, which, as we have stated belong, to antiquity; and, however above, pervades the Exhibition it may be in other matters of Art,e before us, In the first place, we in this we are convinced that our find several of the President's artists must be content to be imi portraits, and some of these of the tators, hoe h very highest class and, also, not Exhibition of the Old Masters, a few other portraits, which, if at the British Gallery. We should they do not rival si ill evince the respect that we feel Thomas Lawrence, at least make for the supremacy of ancient art, such near approaches to them, that if we suffered the numerous claims their artists respectively need not for attention, that are pressed lament t to see them hanging side upon us on all sides at this season by side with his. There are several of the year, to delay our notice of by Philips, some of which are the above splendid assemblage. coloured with that peculiar sweet- We shall, however, permit this no ness, of which he alone is capable tice to be for the most part genein the present day. Also, many ral; partly on account of the im-TE by Shee, Jackson, and Howard, possibility of doing any thing like that have each their peculiar me justice to the subject, within our ritsas we shall see hereafter, prescribed limits. It must {be Then we have a splendid Water our business, therefore, merely to Scene, by Calcott; three or four make the reader acquainted withh exquisite Landscapes, by Collins; the nature of this Exhibition, and and one of great power, by Con its comparative claims on his at stable; a highly clever piece of tention. As a general assemblage a character, by Mulready; one full of works of art, probably this of truth and spirit, by Leslie, illus year's selection does not equal trative of a scene in Don Quixote; some that have preceded it; be a rich and original one, by Newton, 'cause it is deficient in first-rate from Moliere; and in short, a specimens of the high Italian great variety of minor works, schools. But, putting this parti presenting altogether a display of cular class of works out of the talent that we scarcely think has question, there have been few, if been equalled in this country since any, preceding Exhibitions of this the first rise of Art among us. kind that have surpassed the present. In the works of Rem-0 brandt it is peculiarly rich. Here are the two splendid portraits of the Burgomaster Six and his Wife (56 and 58); " Joseph In the sculpture-room there are a few works of very considerable merit. Incomparably the best are Chantrey's statues of the late Dr. Cyril Jackson and the late Mr. 1 accused 10 » |