The Death of Abel. \ MICHAEL McGUELP. | | Dead Game. | THOMAS TICKLEPENCIL. | | Vesuvius in Eruption. | This picture is well arranged, CHARLES CARMINE, R.A. | and coloured with much truth | to nature; the chiaro-scuro Portraits of Mrs. Punch and Child. | is admirably managed. R.W. BUSS. | | Cattle returning from the Watering | OR THUS: Place. \ R. BOLLOCK. / | This is one of the cleverest "We won't go home till Morning." | productions in the Exhibition; M. WATERFORD, R.H.S. | there is a transparency in the | shadows equal to Rembrandt. The infant Cupid sleeping. | R. DADD. | | Portrait of Lord Palmerston. | A.L.L. UPTON. | | Coast Scene: Smugglers on the look | out. | H. PARKER. | | Portrait of Captain Rous, M.P. | J. WOOD. | / Should the friends of any of the artists deem the praise a little too oily, they can easily add such a tag as the following:--"In our humble judgment, a little more delicacy of handling would not be altogether out of place;" or, "Beautiful as the work under notice decidedly is, we recollect to have received perhaps as much gratification in viewing previous productions by the same." FOR THE HALF CONDEMNED: This artist is, we much fear, on the decline; we no longer see the vigour of handling and smartness of conception formerly apparent in his works: or, "A little stricter attention to drawing, as well as composition, would render this artist's works more recommendatory." THE TOTALLY CONDEMNED: Either of the following, taken conjointly or separately: "A perfect daub, possessing not one single quality necessary to create even the slightest interest--a disgrace to the Exhibition--who allowed such a wretched production to disgrace these walls?--woefully out of drawing, and as badly coloured," and such like. * * * * * A COMMENTARY ON THE ELECTIONS. BY THE BEADLE OF SOMERSET HOUSE.