The Express.
London, England, 1863-07-31 00:00:00

CRYSTAL PALACE ART UNION.

The annual drawing of prizes in the Art Union
scheme respected with the Crystal Palace took playa yester-
day, in the small concert room. Considering the very great
increase is the number of subscribers the attendance was
scarcely so nanserons as might have been anticipated, a fact
DO doubt attributable to the perfect confidence of the ticket
holders in the arrangementa.
Dr. DOUAI!, F.S.A., presided, and amongst the members
of the mune' who conducted the proceedings were Mews.
Fairbolt, F.S.A., G. R. Wed, F.S.A., H. Vole, Dr. Read,
and T. Bottom, F.S.A.. art superintendent; Mr. Farquhar,
chairman of the Crystal Palace Company ; Mr. Bosley, the
manager. Mr. Wilkinson, the secretary of the Art Union,
was also present. The ouinhers and prizes were drawn from
the wheels by Misses E. sod A. Ward, daughters of Mr.
Ward, the royal academician, and Miss Agnes Page.
Mr. Wrtareaow, the secretary, read the following report,
which on the motion of Mr. G. R. Ward, seconded by Mr.
H. Toot.; wee adopted :
" The council of the Crystal Palace Art Union have great
plasma to amealociog the marked increase which has taken
pleas in the number of their suheenhers during the poet
year. the sabseription lie now showing a total of 'early
4,500 members. This saw= they attribute to the ad-
mirable and interesting character of the series of
presentation works which they Mel prepared for the seise-
tic', of the subscribers. Prominent amongst the chief
features of attraction has been the portrait hued her Royal
H' hoer the Prioress of Wales, which has been eagerly
end numerously subscribed for. The council refer with
great satisfaction not only to the artistic merit of the
presentation works generally, hut also to the highly
creditable manner in which these productions illus-
trate the progress of Eoglinli art! manufacture. They
feel confident in the assertion that the presents.
tine works are of the fall commercial value of the
subscription paid, whilst in their executive details there
is • decided superiority over the examples of eimilar
claws of production prepared for commercial purposes.
The council, anxious to procure • work that would be an
object of great public interest, have secured the copyright of
the bust of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, taken
from life by Marshall Wood. A reduced model has been
made from the original by Mr. Delpeeh, whose mechanical
procese secures perfect flannel', and finished by Mr. Wood so
as to ensure • thoroughly satisfactory result. Although the
period at which this was completed was too late for the work
to be an essential service for the wit menace, the council are
most sanguine that it will be • maw of great attrac-
ting) io the ensuing year. It was impossible with due re-
gard to the production of this bust to secure more than •
few copies before the close of the lists. The list of prizes
for the past season will be found unusually numerous and
important, including many of considerable value. The
council were fortunate enough to secure • duplicate is
voluble. of the bust of her Royal Highness
the Princess of Wales, modelled from life by Mr.
Marshall Wood. This bust will be iocluded in the
list of the prizes for distribution to-day. To the awn-
ten of this work Mr. Wood in giving special
attention, and hes promised its completion as early se pow
able. The council have also secured the copyright of this
admirable work, with • view to its future publication.
Several new agencies have been formed, the operations of
which have been moat sumeessful. Especial reference may
be mode to that established at Sydney, where • large num-
I her of subscribers was proenred in a few days."

Amongst the priocipal prizes drawn were—Mee Young
of West.llM, Wandsworth (the lint prize), a marble bust
of the Princess of Wales, by Marshall Wood ; Mr. Robin.
we, a marble status of the Young Neese (second prize), by
Alex. Monroe, • beautiful study, in the artist's beat style;
sod Mr. J. Foster, bust of Evangeline, by Miller (third
prise).
Sir J. Paxton, Baron Chennell, Lady Knox, and Mr. S.
Outer Hall, also lame in for less important prizes.
The proceedings closed with votes of thanks to the two
young ladies who presided at the wheels, and to the chair-
man of the day.
The model of the bust of his Royal Highness the Prima
of Wales, the Jae sintilt of which ie marble will be the first
prize next year. was exhibited at the beck of the platform.
This work is also by Mr. Marshall Wood, and is an auelleut
likeness sad artistically treated.

Commanders A. Butler, G. Johnston, A. D. M.
Fletcher. and G. H. Clarke, R.N., have bees appointed
naval mail agents on the Southampton statioo.
Tag CHANNEL FLamr.—The Channel fleet, under
the command of Rear-Admiral Sidney Co'pays Decree,
C.B , arrived in Leith Roads on Wednesday from Bonder-
Imul. The yowls left their anchorage off the mouth of
the Wear &boot half-prat nine o'clonit on Tueedsy morning,
pawed fit. Abb'e Head at eight on Waimea:ly morning, and
were visible at the entrence of the Firth of Forth between
eleven and twelve yesterday forenoon. The fleet sailed
in two divisions, the starboard Hoe consisting of the Edgar,
Emerald, Liverpool, and Defame ; end the port line compris-
ing the Black Priers, Warrior, Royal Oak, and Resistance,
The ships being favoured with a light .oath-raeterly breeze,
sailed under moves the whnle way, the ironclad, occasion-
ally wire their auxiliary steam-power to enable them to
keep well up with the wooden vessels. The appraranee of
the fleet attracted univalves' admiration from all parts of
the land whence a glimpse of the impoing sight could ha
obtained. At Dunbar, Berwick, Mmtmlburgh, as well as at
the innumerable villages along the Fife rout, people flocked
out in numbers to see the ships aad enjoy a naval spectacle
each as is 'adorn witnessed in our waters. --Beaman .
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soma under 51. Is order to teas the alcmatim in the law,
the sot is limited to three years.
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