The Express.
London, England, 1859-03-14 00:00:00

FINE AR7B.

THE SOCIETY OF PAINTER@ IN WATER-
COLOURS.

This progremive and respectable art association,
founded In 1801, being earnestly desirous of extending their
numbers, their saefulness, end their atrocity for exhibiting,
by opening their rooms to theta painters who am not mem-
bees or associates, end being also willing and anxious to
establish schools and clams for the study and mottos of
their bomob of painting, base drawn up a very judicious sad
temperate memorial to tbs Lords of her Majesty's Treasury,
praying that they may be allowed to participate in the pro-
posed government grant of land at Burlington-gardens in
the Royal Academy and learned and eden,i6o bodies, on
which they wiU undertake to (sect a suitable gallery at
their own expanse. The art of painting is water-colours
he. taken deep root in this comae c, and has stained an
eminence in the feast exhibitions of Europe. The
society was formed in eamequence of the Inability of the
Royal Academy to foster water colour art in its infamy, end,
although the Royal Academy has numbered amongst its
members meaty who ban occasionally practised water-colony
paint*, yet these who paint only in water-colours are ex-
cluded from any participation in the honouree( that Meths'.
doe. The successful pogrom of this branch of art is gushily,
if net .etely, attributable to its being pursued as a distinct
sellool, end to its works being exhibited apart from *tam
la oil. The growing importance of the err ban fared ups
the attention of the moody the necessity of its extent' JO
bat this object they have hitherto fund t, be unattainable
from the limited specs at their command. The ground they
ask foe on the Itur:isgton watts is a very moderate space,
end they offer to pay for the sosommodation in the abate of
groan I rent, or otherwise, if the government think proper
to demand it.

Looking at the very modest amend of the petition, which
amount• to notbiog more than a request to be remitted to
participant to an eligible site, and a deolreble centralisation
of eabibitioes fir the public good, we cue see no miens for
• refusal. The gnat would lobe little or nothing oat of the
gab& purse, and it would be a na'toual recognition of the
voles and %mildews of the water.colour art, snob as hes
abeady been accorded by Prince, Rolland, sad Belgium.

THE LONDON-DIMON AND CNAIIINO-C10•11 RAIL-
WAT ADD ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL—Thu Choriag-area
Railway, as we soe on the Partimmagery plen, .noting teem
the Oresawieh-station, Leedorbridge, makm a sweep OM
the weeds of shop. AMID. the nortlenast anis of 81.
Thomeg's grouad witlie about le test at the earner of the
arw am* wMg,end bridges the street ekes le the west sad
of the wits. Besides the coasting win sad vibration hunt
psalm Wes, the magnetise gd the whole hospital will be
malt isrleasly beerlered with; oad no one can doubt that
the barpilal sum he dimegsdos an boipital, to an mareems
rest. Nothing short of removing the iastitutko sbegelbee
will reset the owe, if lb* railway he to go on. The
Is Wag beetled beicee a cosimatee of the House =-
nese ia the real railway style, sad it is to be hewed that
lb• hits reels of thee. whose lateness are moat at steks—the
sick—will Os overloobed la the common:a. In the mar
time we have head it gated that it. quell= ;of removing
the hispi•al has in some mass beet dlatimm4 sad that sites
bays Aprposed more unhseithy, if anything, the. the
sae ttal st promat semples, Ws should mietes le
ess a mere ailightaved view takes of de white gemisa,
tad • landing worthy of so great a oltairity medal, my at
Eholheith, se some similar suburb sadly acesadhis by
runway ; a am mare wince would be " fagalisty WOW Wet-
land to yousges the benevolent views el laden sal -
ppeellwwee this either liming ths hospital whirs It is, or
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