The Express.
London, England, 1857-02-14 00:00:00

It is due to Mr. Keen that the public should know, as his
liberality appears to have been called in question, that
he hr refused from the outset any compensation for
undertaken the duties of management. He haa been
exerted with the honour. He thought that thew
peribresner would teed to the advantage of the proles-
alos of which he is so bright an ornament, and he freely
me Ids seniors am director. Wham he has played himself
he be melted the same amount ss other first-dee actors,
via., 10f. ; and whim ho he not played he haa received
noddy. Mr. Lean bee conducted these theatricals with a
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a bberality, and impartiality, which redound
highly to his honour. There s no living men who have
dose so much to exalt the dramuto raise the position of those
who pursue it aa a profession, and to destroy the deep-rooted
pnijudioe which se long existed against things theatrical, and
which was owing probably more to the conduct of actors
Unmanly/a in days gone by than to any vice inherent in
the profusion itself.

Ws hear it is Mr. Kean's intention to Tilt the theatre for
Weans tile in 1869, and the stage will sustain a loss which it
will Oct easily replace.

(From the Sunday Times.)

We have no doubt that Mr. 'lean acted strictly in ac-
cordance with the scale laid down, for the payment of theatri-
cal companies performing at Windsor Castle; but that is not
the point. Tho question is, her not that scale been regulated
upon a principle so parebnonious, that it only affords the
manager, who is compelled to close his theatre, the mans of
paying his actors a night's salary from the royal bounty P
Who is to blame kir this? What Mr. Kean calls "an extra
night's salary," is entirely doe to the generosity of the
manager, who might, were he so disposed, deduct it from the
members of his company oa the night his theatre is closed.
This must, therefore, not be taken into account when consi-
dering the recompense which an actor, forming one of a
theatrical corps deemed worthy of performing before her
Majesty and the court at Windsor Coate, ought to receive.
We most unwillingly dissent from Mr. Kean, when he
says "every incidental 'sprees" is paid the actor, one cause
of complaint being, that on arriving in Loudon by train, from
Windsor, between one sad two o'clock in the morning,
the company an left to end cabs and pay their has home
to the most distant part of the metropolis and its suburbs.
We say nothing about those incidental espouse for dress,
and other little matters which the respect dire to her Majesty
imposes on many an actor with a snail salary, but for which
no allowance seems to have been made by the liberal scale of
payment which hsa been laid down. Turn the matter how
we will, we cannot get rid of Mr. James Rogers, and his
*sad hoscororistas of " thirteen and tour-pence."

FINE ART GOSSIP.

(Prom the dtMMarm.)
. _ _

Mr. Hart, P;ofesaor of Painting in the Royal
Academy, commenced hie course of leonine in that institu-
tion on Thursday avowing last, the 12th init. The courts,
as pronalsed by the profeasor, will treat of art, ancient and
modern, compithending also the most rational methods of
investigating the principle' end =alpine the practice exam-
Oiled fa the productitas of the rested miters; to be fat-
laved by a summary on the origin and pc/per of the art of
portrait painting, with the consideration of the qualifications
required in the artist who nukes it his pursuit ; with the con-
milerstko, also, of those attributes imperative to swam in
its practice.

At • mural toestiag of the Water-Colour Society, held

an the ills in Mr. linnsel Red was elected an ArsOciate.
We:enderstand Mr.gteed is a painter of architectural subjects,
devoting hie pencil principally to the illustration of the inte-
rior, of Gothic &dikes.

lir. Shemeheake hae remolded the dad reeking over to
the State hie noble vary of pictures, we ere told, m a
=Milks that is both sew and Avenge, namely, that they
shell be open, made, namable revelations, to the pablio on
Sundays

M. ri'Dowell has received a commialion to assents the
Turner monument far St. Faure. The painter left 1,0004
by will for the memorial, and the competition for its mama-
don wee confined, we believe, to Royal Academicians.

. .
Art begins to Moo in Monello. At Melbourne an Hz-
!anion of *Oleg, sordyture, end photogrephy is now open,
of the prosperity ot which the load perm gook wordy.
Premiums, we we, are to be awarded for the bast speciosa*
at panting, in oil, water odours, dad as Joey ; for the best
Igoe in noble, Caen Oar, or plotter; for the best de-
ign fora sic-roomed cottage, adopted for the okay ; for
the bast "edam ot arnossental modelling; oad for the best
@petioles of photegrephy. The ululation is under the
patronage of the sonag governor, the Pulps, the bishops,
the loads of departments, University profor ma, and others.
. .

The archnect; of Vice Otis hems cntibliehed ea institute in
that city.

Tlio /taperer of &traria has ordered of Professor Ferrari,
et Vomit& a bronze stamp of Marco Polo, the adebrated
Venetia& traveller, to be presented to the town, and rend
on one of its public plias.

SCIENCE AND THE 001

The Council of the Royal Society has had for
some time under ansiderstion the position of sista sad id
culdmtion In this country ; sad it Ms been monad to so-
cept the following resciatioes, which hare been tratimeiteed
by the Presides* al the Royal Society to Lord Palmerston :
" I. The pseldent and council taped with much mamba-
don the step @beady taken to the Universities kr advent-
ins the study of physical schen by becluding ascend
branches of it in the public mandesdas, sad (epees their
hope that the kapronmen thee Intrainosil am receive the
intamion which the Wanda of edam esquire, sad that the
patillo snook may be dersby Weald te asks physical
latepal pet antic cease of duration.
"3. The punkin and emboli reeommend that the seta-
bikinis& of these in mitropolitst and peninciel schools,
14610 *cm who have net the mesas oroppetenfty of study-
ing st the mivarsities may be Main the slinests of phy-
sical science m a systimetio pia, be pecemeted by greats
Gam government In sid st each funds se may he locally con-
tributed for that purpose.
_ . . .

—"3. That the iont;ation at provincial zonsinneand Muria
be ancoorogai in like oransr, and that provincial lectures,
secaspealed by azonainotions, be estobildisd in Cheat Bri-
tain in towns which musk this outdone* and engage to
provide a part of ths exprnae—ouch leddrse to be in mid of
the ultools done niettoned, so that by mans at the two
combined, a sound knowisdge of tbs prhdipleo and appli-
cations of KUDOS may be systaddleally Ought.
"4. That digitate swarms ton the British Madam
and otherhatitutions sapporad at tin pub& exposes be db.
trawled to provincial raustons.
. . . .

"6. Thai naked publications karts* as adorn be mon

extessively aboobitsitbas they st ingest, by adebliSsi

doseticeeeto weeklies mid individual @lived in the culthe-
tios
at science.

"e. That the seen placed ennually by parliament at the
dieponl of gomrnmmt kr the reward el civil eervices, useful
discoveries In scitsas, end attainments fa literature and the
arta; be augmented ; that the portion to be approprkted to
science be defined; and that it be aufilciently huge to admit
c the grant of amuntlea, tithe natured good writs pen-
sions, se rewards of eminent acientilic mark.
"7. That the mai placed at the disposal of the Royal
Society kw the advancement of mien* be not necessarily
limited to the anneal grant of 1,0001., when on any
comics special mum may be assigned for an additional
sion.

That Wald& dhows shall be plead more pearly:

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