The Sun.
London, England, 1837-05-02 00:00:00

ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS.

PRIVATE VIEW.
On Friday, at one o'clock, the King, accompanied by
the Princess Augusta and the Dukes of Cumberland and
Cambridge, and attended by a numerous suite, visited the
Royal Academy of Arts, in their new location in Trafalgar-
square. They were received by the President, Council,
and Officers of the Institution. These apartments having
been allotted to the Society, in exchange for those originally
granted to them in Somerset House by their founder,
George 111., the keys were presented to his Majesty (in
token of homage to their immediate patron) by the Presi-
dent, to whom his Majesty graciously returned them, ob-
serving that he could not place them in better hands.
The King surveyed all the different rooms of the Royal
Academy with great attention, and expressed himself much
satisfied with their appropriate distribution, as well as with
the various productions of art assembled there on this oc-
casion. On departing, his Majesty being perceived under
the portico, was greeted with loud acclamations by an im-
mense concourse of spectators, which he acknowledged with
his usual affability.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent and the
Princess Victoria, attended by the Duchess of Northum-
berland and the rest of their suite, arrived at the Royal
Academy a little after three o'clock, by which time the
rooms were filled with a great number of visiters. Their
Royal Highnesses, attended by the President, passed through
all the apartments, and evinced much approbation of the
general arrangement and effect of the whole.
On Saturday the members of the Royal Academy gave
their Anniversary Dinner, at their apartments in Trafalgar-
square, which was attended by a numerous assemblage of
guests of the first rank and talent, among whom were—
The First Lord of the Treasury, the Lord President of.the
Council, Lord Privy Seal, the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer,
the Secretaries of State for the Home, Foreign, Co-
lonial, and War Departments, the Lord Chief Justice of
the Court of King's Bench, the Vice-Chancellor, Lord
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, Lord Chief Baron,
Sir John Nichol', Attorney and Solicitor-General, General
Commanding-in-Chief, Field Officer in Waiting, President
of the Board of Control, the Lord Mayor, Chairman of
the Board of Customs, Chairman of the East India Com-
pany, Governor of the Bank, Master and Warden of Dul-.
wich College, Presidents of the Colleges of Physicians and
Surgeons ; the French, American, Prussian, Netherlands,
Saxon, Belgian, Spanish, Portuguese, Bavarian, Grecian,
Danish, Hanoverian, and Wurternburg Ministers ; Dukes
of Nor'folk, Richmond, Devonshire, Wellington, Suther-
land, Buccleuch, Argyll and Newcastle ; Marquises Cam-
den, Conyngham, Abercorn, Anglesey, and Blandford ;
Earls Rosebery, Cawdor, Ripon, Carlisle, Morley, Brown-
low, Grey, Aberdeen, De Grey, Albemarle, and Norman-
ton ; Bishops of London and Gloucester ; Lords Prudhoe,
Burghersh, Northwick, Holland, Morpeth, Stanley, Lynd-
hurst, Hatherton, Neville, Burlington, and Tankerville ;
Right Honbles. Sir R. Peel, C. W. Wynne, Sir J. Gra-
ham, Poulett Thomson,. and J. W. Croker ; Hon. Gen.
Phipps ; Sirs H. Wheatley, R. H. Inglis, J. Conroy, Wil-
loughby Gordon, A. Carlisle, G. Phillips, and B. Stephen-
son ; Messrs. Ridley Colborne, T. W. Coke, R. Vernon,
E. R. Tanno, Davies Gilbert, W. Wells, J. Neeld, Hart
Davis, J. Sheepshanks, J. Morrison, J. Marshall, J. Tur-
ner, C. Babbage, J. Cartwright, C.- Hampden Turner, A.
Milne, W. Ilamilton, W. Seguier, T. Moore, Scrope,
Hallam, J. H. Green, &c., &c., &c.