The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-20 00:00:00

THE POLICE IN POLAND.

Mr. HE NNESSE Y asked the Secretary of State for the
Home Department tor the name of the agent referred to in
the following paragraph of the Russian Ambassador's let-
ter, applying for the services of the English polic3 in
Poland :—" The first step to be taken should be to al-
low Sir Richard to put himself into communication with a
gentleman to whose care the Grand Duke has directly and
privately entrusted this object and, wethether any
money had been paid by tin Russian Government to the
English police since the return of the latter from Warsaw ?
Sir G. GREY replied that he did not know the name of
the gentleman, and therefore could not give it. Parties
applying for the use of the police in special matters usually
paid by a small allowance or gratuity. Such was the case
here. The cost was not defrayed out of the police rates.
Mr. HENNESSY asked if they received their pay
whilet in Poland ?

Sir G GREY replied that he believed not,
EYLON.

In reply to Mr. LYALL,
Mr, C, FOILTESCITg replied that the Government in-

tended to ask the colonists to pay more to the military ex-
penditure for Ceylon than at present.

TgE GALWAY SUBSIDY,
Mr. 13.4.A.TER rose to move the following. relolutions
—l. That, in the opinion of this house, in cases where
ordinary traffic supports e,sysral lines of steamers,
the present system or gtartingsub: idles for carrying the
trans-oceanic mails ought to be dispensed with. 2. That
this house is not prepared to grant a sum of money to the
Atlantic fleval I,laq Compaafr fur conveying the want.
between 6-alay and North 713.111.6;:a!

(LETT SITTING.)

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE —Tido Day.

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WARWICK RACES.—TII9 DAY.
BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
SCURRY HANDICAP.
Flower Safety , 1
Lord Stanley
Inkermau
Four ran.
VNION HUNT CUP.

July
Eily O'Connor
Faddy front Cork
Seven ran.
GRAND ANNUAL f 3 LEEPLECIIAE.
Sinking Fund 1
Light of Other Days..
;';.',741;; LIGHT WEIGHT STEEPLECHASE,
Worcester
Ireby

Five ran.
HUNT CUP STEEPLECHASE,Homburg
1
Deception
Seven ran.
YEOMANRY STEEPLECHASE.
Huntsman
Mrs. Morton
Five ran. Winner objected to.
HEAVY WEIGHT STEEPLECHASE.
Lady La Garaye
It's All Over
Three ran.

LATEST BET rING.
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.
sto 1 agst Knutsford
6to 1 agst Grirnatone (taken)

CITY AND SUBURBAN.
11 to 1 agst Adventurer (taken)
20 to 1 agst Gardener (taken)

LONDON GAZETTE---This Evening.

• FOREIGN-OFFICE, MArcu 17.
The Quten has been graciously pleased to appoint Wni.
Pasley Johnston, .Esq., to be her Majesty's Vice Consul at
Bussorah.

WAR-OFFICE, PALL, MALL, MARCH 20.
CHAPLAINS' DEPART74ENT.—ChapIain of the Thir.l
Class the Rev. L. Parsly to be Chaplain of the Second
Class; the Rev R. C. Browne to be Chaplain of the Fourth
Class.

MILITARY STORE DEPARTMENT.---Her Majesty has
been graciously pleased to approve of the resignation of
Deputy Assistant Superintendent of Stores J. M. Lloyd,
which appeared in the Gazette of Jan. 20, 1863, being can-
celled.

QUEEN'S COMMISSION.-2d Administrative Battalion
of Cambridgeshire Rifle Volunteers—John Busby, late
Captain 131 h Foot, to be Adjutant, from the 12th February,
1863.

BANKRUPTS.
That portion of the Gazette containing the bankrupts
had not arrived when we went to press.

Course of the Exchange—This Day.

Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 18
Antwerp .• • 25 40
Brussels — 25 40
nambirgh — 13 71
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles - 25 50
Frankfort on Maine —.• 1191
Vienna
Trieste .. 11 75
Petersburgh
Berlin .—
_ _ _ _

11 16-1
11 18±
11 181
25 471
25 471
13 8
25 25
25 521
25 55
1131
li 80
11 80

Madrid . ... , 49 491
Cadiz - 49k
Leghorn — 25 621 25 60
Milan .... 25 55 25 60
Genoa — 25 55 25 60
Naples
Palermo — 25 60 25 65
Messina
Lisbon —52 a
Oporto
Forign sold in sars (Standard), per oz,. 'D 17 6
Plexican Dollars
Silver in Bars (Standard)
South American Doubloons 0 0 0

Society for Encouragement of the Fine Arts.

Last night a meeting of the members of this so-
ciety was held at their rooms, Conduit-street,
Regent-street—Mr. Earle in the chair.

Mr. H OTTLEY read a lecture on "The Present
Position of the Royal Academy." The appoint-
ment of the royal commission to inqusre into
that institution was a great fact, whatever
might be its results, but whatever these results
were to eventuate in the promolion of the welfare
of the arts and its professors solely depended on the
artists themselves, who must take the lead if the
public were to take up the question and see all
parties righted. The lecturer then referred to the
last agitation on the subject, v,hich he defined as
one purely limited to the " ins" and the " outs," but
the possessions of large funds and the support of
fashion gave the former the victory. The chief griev-
auce was perhaps the irresponsible action of the
" hanging committee," by which, at the annual ex-
hibitions, the works of those who were working
their way to fame were placed out of sight, and it
often happened, too, that the worst pictures were
those selected for exhibition. He would not say so
designedly—that these inartistic works might serve
as a foil to the works of the academicians. Nothing,
however, came of the contest, as the public only
looked upon it as a professional squabble, and Sir
Martin Arthur Shee, the then president, succeeded
in making good his position—that it was not a na-
tional but a royal institution. He took the same
course in 1839, and refused to comply with the
order of the House of Commons calling for an ac-
count of the receipts and expenditure of the institu-
tion. So matters went on until last year, when
Lord Elcho succeeded in obtaining the appointment
of the royal commission, and although the noble
lord had to some degree lost the confidence of the
public as an art reformer, from his subsequent con-
duct in dining with the academicians, still the same
public had now come to look with greater discern-
ment upon the importance of a national art-educa-
tion. Looking at the constitution of the commis-
sion, he was afraid that Lord Elcho would surren-
der his old point and allow the academy still to re-
tain the National Gallery. Mr. Mushy Seymour
was very likely to take the same course, and the
other noblemen and gentlemen associated with them
were unknown either as artists or men of taste,
although some of them were men of learning, and
others were men of crotchets. However, in con-
senting to the commission, the academy had sur-
rendered the high ground of irresponsibility to
Parliament taken up by Sir M. N. Shee; but their
complacence was to be regarded with some hesita-
tion and doubt, although it was undoubtedly good
policy on their part to yield, They were still the
" ins," and the " outs" were still unrepresented ;
but the sootier their inactivity was got rid of the
better, else they and the public would have
to thank themselves for the failure of the corn-
mission, and the condition of the artists of Great
Britain would be in a lower and more degraded
position
theirPoles' who', although oppressed,
were
liberty. The admission
fighting
than
for
oot. lay
dilet
members—amateur
haaratists
Would lead
t
always been
the curse of art ; and, so far as the intentions of the
commission had leaked out, he dreaded they would
lay
establish a huge and gigantic monopoly. Having re-
ferred to the modifications which have already taken
place in the constitution of the academy and the
position of the associates, which was, he said, one
of indignity, he said the number of academicians
was too confined. it was said that, as the academi-
cians had the first claim for space, there would not
be room for the works of a greater number than
those already incorporated, and it was said by -Wil-
kie to the hanging committee, " Gentlemen, first
take care of yourselves, next of your friends, and
next of the poor devils who have no friends."
Looking to the state of feeling at the time the aca-
demy was established, and the haste with which it
was constituted, the public had now a right to ask, if
it were now to be established for the first time,
would it be placed upon the same basis as that on
which it had hitherto been placed P The inquiry
by the commissioners should not be limited to the
terms of the commission, but should go to show how
to supply a great public want and put the crown
upon the art education of the country as initiated
in the schools of design throughout the kingdom.
The thanks of the meeting were voted to the leo;
turer, and the proceedings terminated.