The Express.
London, England, 1850-05-13 00:00:00

THE F.XPRESS, MONDAY EVENING. MAY 13, 1860.

ARTISTS GENERAL BENEVOLENT INBTL-
TUTION.

On Saturday the anniversar festival of Ws 'nett-
tatioa took place at the Freemason's Tuna Greet Quest
street, Limola's•inn VAIN. Sir R Pasn,'Ben., M P., is
the °bale supported by Lord Hantinge, the Hon. Mr. Har-
dier, dolma Rawson, Mr. Dtvid Rifler= It A , Mr.
Clarks= Iltaufkld, RA., Sir Wm. Ross, ILA , Mr. Movies,
Mr. Elmore, Mr. Frith, Mr. Webster, Mr. Csoseriek,
Hardwick, Mr. Peach atom, Yr. Lames, and many other
distieguished artists and patrons Out.
The GRAMMAR la psupseimg the health of the Pena,
stated that Prime. 11it lsl Wane= him that Her
Majesty felt a deep Shun Y the welfare of this iustitation,
and be (hie Robert Peel) was dkestsd to doh that Her Ms-
inty had plated at the disposal of the society a declaims el
OW The money wee bil= of great importance to the
Insti (ha
tution, bat the value of the gift would sot weigh so
=aerially upon their sir de as the fest, that Her
Majesty, by her esuallieszese, had set an example
to other patrons of the sits. The tout having
beta responded to with the usual oaths/dm= the other
lapel toasts were duly disposed of. The chairman then pro-
posed the arse sad nuy, Wading is levy eulogistic spa
to the psspaalWievmwls et Lord Harding*.
Lord HARDINGS returned tkuks, saying that he had
the greaten satisfaction in ackweriedging this toast ea so
in ttttt tins an coca ions,. The army always felt proud at
these public festivals of receiving the approbation of their
snow countrymen. There was seareely any eau. of people
whit were so muck indebted to the artists as the army
were, fee it was from them they derived the most vivid re-
pose-stations of all their most resassakable &chanteuses.
He had, chamfers very great pleasure in Won aseocisted
with these who had so often rendered such Tenable si n c •
both he the military sad navel palestina.
The nest tout was that of " krosperity to the Artists
Gaunt Benevolent Institution," and the Cmatamaw, in
proposiag it, said he should not attempt to dilate spun topics
connected with the importance of the arts—topic with which
they were all quite familiar, and which had too often been
exhausted =other occasions of ais nature. The innorance
of theft:le arta in primula( refinement, aid in cultivating a
taste for the iatellutaal rather this the sensual, was almost
universally nicogaisted. The duty of the president on an oz-
union like the present was hot to seek an opportuniiy for
oratorical disiley, bat simply to do the best in his power to
promote the object for which the iturinni.in wee founded, by
making that object familiar to thou to whom it
might be c naparatively =lumen. The appeal which he
should now maks would not be so much to those who
were present this day, and who by their paean hull
given proof of the iuterest they telt in the =Wale of the insti-
tutiou—but it would rather be suds to those who were
absent, and on whose sympathy end active ambiance he
thought they had • strong claim. As his appeal was made
to the shunt, he mast observe that it could not be effectual
=less aided by that gnat and important institution, or
estate, or by whatever name they might call it—he meant
the daily press—an institution which whilst it must be IT.
Needed as a powerful instrument for dessminating know•
ledge, and correcting the errors and prejudices to which
mankind were liable, might truly claim the merit of always
standing forward—(so far as his experieses had enabled hive
to judge)—without relent= Spire= or distinction—as the
asnerons advocate of every cause which was connected with
chanty and unievolenc.. (Cheers.) la his opinion the
period at which ha reads this appeal was peculiarly
opportune, considering that within the last few
days there bad been mused all thou exhibitions
which presented the collective works of genius which
had sceumulated daring the past year. The opportunity
was sow (rend to every one, without trouble and at • very
small 0:51, at inspecting thoos works, and observing the I
pea& they afforded of the progress of set is this country.
Whist regarding those productions, people should bear in
wad the raisin' prooeee which in many cave had bans it..
unary to complete them. How many sleepless nights hail
beta passed, what du had beta experienced in
the productioi of these works which now adorned the walls
of the various exhibitions now open to the public ! During
the last year there were not less than 6,000 works of en
nbibited in London, and in the course of the present year
there would be seen not less than 4,000 works, the result
of the t.il and labour, and thought of the
past 12 months. These moan be coasidered the productions
of those who had been cons-'arauyely successful in the race
of competition, and who h adhad sufficient health and s t re egth
to enable them to contend for the reward they sought ; but
there were behind these, in a distant track—out of sight, and
he might say almost out of mind—thoss whew mooed. had
be; n clouded by misfortune and chseue, and some of whom
had left widows and orphans, accompanied by no other earthly
pommies than an unblemished and an honourable name.
The melancholy fact was, that severe suffering was often
attended by an independence of mind and a delicacy o
feeling which led to a concealment of the truth. (Hear,
hear.) It was for the purpose of mitigating that suturing,
and so mitigating it that the delicacy of feeling in toe per.
emu relieved should not be wounded, that this institution
bad been established. The right hon. but. then proceeded
to detail a variety of facts with • view to point out the
praiseworthy object of the boclety, that object being (as sp•
plated from sprinted report) to extend relief to all distressed
meritorious artists, whether subscribers to its funds or not,
where works are known and esteemed by the public, all will
as to their widows and orphans. He (Sir Robert Peel) went
on to say that he would eadeavour to make known to those
who were proud of being einsidered the patrons of art what
w, re the shims of this ruelient institution. Here was a so-
ciety, +monks: the directs re and president of which were
some of the most distinguished 'nista of Great Britain, end
since Ito establishment in the year 11114, twelve humored
cues had been relieved. In every ease there must be a
combination of merit and distress, which constituted
the sole claims to the benevolence of the institu-
tion. It we. a society which acknowledged merit,
in whatever department of art it was to be found, and its
objects were promoted upon principles of the greatest
liberality and the severest eeoncmy—liberality in the pay-
ment of the salaries of officers, and economy in the manage.
mint of the expenditure. He thought that these helm if
generally known, would be admitted to constitute • strong
claim to the charity of the patrons and admirers of art. Ana
be would venture to assure them that every work of art they
might have in their possession would he viewed with in-
creased satisfaction, if it were proved that their money had
been expended not only in purchasing the pictures, bat in-
censing the funds of an institution, whose mesitorions
object was the relief of deco and, in some cases, unmerited
distress. (Cheers.) The right hon. baronet concluded by
proposing "Prosperity to the Artists' General Benevolent
Institution."

The tout hada/ been responded to,
Colonel RAWDON proposed the health of Sir Robert
Peel, who, he said, had long been distinduished as a liberal
patron of the fine arts.
Sir ROBERT PEEL, in returning thanks, said he felt
deeply gratified by the my hied manner I. which the
company had responded to the toast. He might not, per.
heps, belong to the same political party as many of those
who were present, but the ground of art was a neutral
ground, and he had the greatest pleasure in meeting in
convivial society the professors and the friends of art.
The CHAIRMAN then proposed "Sir Martin Archer
She. and the Royal Academy." Many complaints had
been made, said the right hon. baronet, against the Royal
Academy, but In his opinion they were without foundation ;
and he was glad to have this opportunity of obstrviog that
he thought the public ware under deep obligations to
the Royal Academy for the manner in which it promoted the
fine arts in this country. He wm quite tore that the Royal
Academy would extend its limits whaler" each a step could
be taken with advantage to the oomanity, for his belief
was that the directors of that halation had no other ob-
ject in view than that of promoting the interacts of art. He
had witmemed the exhibitions of the Academy for the last
40 years, and he might safely say, without in-
stituting any invidious comparisons, that each year
increased his opinion as to the continued progress
of art in this country. He was happy to find that
the royal patronage had been so liberally extended to the
fine arts, and he had every reason to say that Queen Vittoria
would never withdraw that patronage . He hoped, there-
for*, that the Royal Academy wostM remain united, and
that its 'members would continue to exert themselves for the
general benefit of the profession. (Cheers.)
"The Royal Commissioners for Promoting the Fine
Arts," " The British Institution and all the other societies
established for the promotion of the fins arts," and other
toasts were succeedvity proposed sad warmly responded to,
and in the course of the evades sameriptions w►re an.
'minced to a large amount, including a donation from the
chairman of SOL

MORE WRECKB ON THE GOODWIN SANDS.—Dnr-
ing the wick a vary painful interest has prevailed along
the Kentish coast, in emorqueam of another shocking ca-
tastrophe on the Goodwin Saado—the wreck of three ves-
sels in one night, which was attended with lementable
loss of human life. The following brief details have been fur-
nished by correspondents at Deal and Ramsgate:—ln the
course of Monday night a gale of wind sprang up, and
continued with oerable fore, the whole of the follow-
ing day. Shortly before 4 o'clock en the Tueseley after-
noon, one of the hovelling boats, named the Buffalo, be-
longing to Ramsgate, or rather one of the crew, perceived
a large vessel on the outside bank of the Goodwin, with
masts gone, and lashed by a sweeping sea from the north-
ward. With all haste the boat bore down to the vicinity
of the wreck, and found the crew in a perilous position,
their boats having been dashed to pieces, end no possible
chance of escape. Those belonging to the hovelling
boat endeavoured to effect a sommanication with the
wreck, but were unable to accomplish it for a length of
time, on account of the heavy sea running. Atter
erect exertions they got the poor creatures off, with the
exception of one man, the mats. The vessel was the Teeing,
from Antwerp, with a cargo elf mime slice, Mead to Rio
Janeiro. Sho struck on the mei about eight *Week on
Monday night, shortly after the gals had commenced, and
though the crew adopted every mons in their power to
attract attention, there they ruminedi the whole night and
following day, ',Moat help, used dloomand by the mew of
the hovelling boat, on when they WY bloodogo Mr *king
their lives to save those of heelless. Meg eta* di"
shortly after their vessel stench they saw two Maar sidt*
on the sands, both of whisk in the conies et dee sight be-
came total wrecks, end every soul bolan to *I wit
with a watery gram The poor orestersollod=os
they did, for succour, but noon eons. Oa taw 7
fame contained in then dessmale being mode Mews among
the boatmen at Rawagste, sminben started the following
sorting for the sands. The result of their search too truly
confirmed the reports received ; they discovered the wrecks
of the vessels but no Ogee of the crews. A board has been
picked up merked "William and Henry, Captain Niches,
Hull and Exeter." A numher of lotterB have also been
found, addressed to " H. H. D. Rowl R.N.," in 1817,
and "quantity of wreck has been seen footing about.

DI7II.TN, NAT 11.
The preparatory committee of the Tenantericht
Conference have lamed an address to the Mends of
tenant-right throughout the country, setting forth
the duties which they have assumed to per-
rearm in makipre=itsons for the approaching
conference. They e're all authority or pre-
eminence, and state that they ere merely a volunOt
committee, who have one to perform " a very tumble
and troublesome bet indispensable duty, which no one
else was undertakieg—that is, to make preliminary ar-
rangements for summoning, holding, and conducting
a conference of the friends of tenant right, which
should devise some specific inmate of legislation to
be sought fer, and some plan of united action for Its
scoomplishment." They proposa to delay the suns-
mating of the conference till the second week in
June. The address contains the following passages :
The preeamt committee propose that the sankrenew
shall be essentially • ineedag of busk/see; that all
the arrancessants will be each es will best ;medium to • die
patch of beielame • that there shall be no attendees* of re-
porters for the MUM press ; and that no other publisity shall
be given to Its meowing' than what the coniennee iteelt
obeli judge Al. The preparatory seenuittes will ripen se
the tandems, the various plans for a rightlel tenant law that
may be laid Were them; end, for the C01111011b1•4141 of ell.
citing %Min, they hold themselves bound to submit to the
conferimes a emulated end detailed plan, such is in their
judgment will be the beet calculated to mark with lout
risk and moot certainty, the just demands of the tenants.
They also hold the:moves hound to lay Wore the eon-
femme, and to an' mit to its judgment the oath's of a plan
fora tenant league, to mita.. for an improved tenant law.
Among the "signs of the times " is the general
movement of disruption which is going on at present
among the Orange lodgcs of Ulster. In the Derry
I Standard we find another series of resolutions setting
forth the motives for breaking up the institution, end
signed by no fewer than fourteen masters of lodges,
who are described in the local journal as men of
resrecteblility and integrity.
Notice has been given at the Post-office, that a mail
will be made up to be despatched by the steamer
which sail, from Galway for Halifax and New York,
on the let of next month.
Mr. Pooly, the Paymaster of Constabulary, has been
arrested under a !;at, and lodged in Kilmainham, at
the suit of government.