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THE SUN.
LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1862.

There is at length, happily, every reasonable
prospect, we believe, of a settlement of the Great
Fine Arts Difficulty. Whether shall the Royal
Academy withdraw from its present position in the
edifice designed for the purposes of a National
Gallery alone ? Or shall the National Gal-
lery be removed. elsewhere—leaving the Royal
Academicians in quiet possession of their present
'vantage ground, overlooking the so-called (and
absurdly so-called)
Finest Site in Europe ?" Lord
ELCHO'S motion, last evening, in the House of
Commons, though it was 'withdrawn after a slight
discussion, in which the present and the late
Chief Commissioner of Public Works alone parti-
cipated,
was merely withdrawn then for the pur-
pose of its being introduced again to-day—as an
hif
unopposed motion. Mr. ColireEß nisei distinctly
intimated yesterday, at the close of his remarks,
that, to the motion itself, as it stood upon the
papers, he had no objection whatever.
Tae right
hon. gentleman's only hope
in connection with it was
—that he observed (in rather vague terms, terms that
might mean just anything or just nothing), the sug_
gested inquiry should lead to some "useful results,"
tending thereby to improve and encourage in this
country tilt love and cultivation of art. The
noble lord's motion, in effect, simply proposed
•
last night, and will propose again
this

evening, " That an bumble address be presented to
her MAJESTY that she will be graciously pleased to
issue a Royal Commission to inquire into the pre-
sent position of the Royal Academy in relation to
the fine arts, and into the circumstances and condi-
tions under which it occupies a portion of the Na-
tional Gallery, and to suggest such measures as may
be required to render it more useful in promoting
art, and in improving and developing public taste."
It is the demand, in other words, of another Royal
Commission, One there has already been, as every-
one who has paid the slightest attention to this
subject very well knows—a Royal Commission
before which all kinds of men of eminence were
examined at great length, including among those
important witnesses scientific authorities as distin-
guished as Professor FARADAY. The result of this
Royal Commission being---who can forget
it ? distinctly and most emphatically in
favour of the National Gallery collection
remaining in London, instead of being carted away
to that suburban Slough of Despond (but too well
known by this time) down at South Kensington.

As nothing definitive, however, came from this very
positive, and we will even say from thievery rational
decision of the Royal Commissioners, there- can be
no reasonable objection that another Royal Com-
mission shall be forthwith appointed by the SOVE-
REIGN as proposed by Lord ELCHO'S motion.
Time enough that something were done in this
matter. It has remained a moot point too long
already. There must be an end at last to any
further hesitation. The building at present shel-
tering under its roof on one side the Royal Aca-
demy and on the other the National Gallery, is, in
point of fact, not merely incapable of containing
both collections together, but even of affording each
of them adequate accommodation. Externally the
edifice is a disgrace to the country to which it be-
longs and to the object for which it was designed,
that object being, we repeat, the foundation of
a permanent home and abiding-place for
the National Gallery and its custodians. In-
ternally the edifice affords anything but sufficient
accommodation either for the purposes of the Royal
Academy or of the National Gallery. And while
this is so, it has to embrace within its narrow com-
pass both of these growing collections. Every
year, of course, the inconvenience of this, both
to the Royal Academicians and to the officials ap-
pointed to take care of the National Gallery,
increases. The TURNER Bequest has happily
brought matters to a climax. There is no escape
now from the imperative necessity for an early re-
moval from Trafalgar-square of either the Royal
Academy or the National Gallery. Which shall
make way for the other That is really
the plain
alternative. And in regard to the decision to be
arrived at upon this alternative, almost every-
thing seems in favour of the removal of the Royal
Academy, and against the removal of the National
Gallery.
The Royal Commission already referred to came,
indeed, to that one simple and obviously reasonable
conclusion. It recognised that the site at present oc-
cupied by the building called The National Gallery
was intended, as the name indicated, for the pur-
poses of The National Gallery. From the outset the
Royal Academy was there as the occupant of one-half
of the edifice simply and notoriously on sufferance.
As far back as 1839 the then Chancellor of the Ex-
:lacquer, known at that time as the Right Hon.
SPRING RICE, but more familiar to the present
generation as Lord MONTEAGLE, as plainly as pos
sible, though in the politest terms of course, inti-
mated that the Royal Academy was there just
simply—tolerated ! It occupied a portion of the
building, a whole moiety of it, as it happened, with-
out having any legal right of property at all in it.
Nay, with an imminent risk perpetually dangling
over it, like a sword of DAMOCLES, that it might at
any moment receive notice to quit, and to quit, too,
forthwith. Notwithstanding which, up to this
present date, the Royal Academicians have been in
no way disturbed. They have had broad enough
hints given them, no doubt, that they were becoming
every year more and more de trop, that the room
they occupied would be more welcome than their
company, that they would do well to be at last
flitting.

Not one of those hints have they, however, had
the grace to take. Even though they saw the
masterpieces of one of the most illustrious of their
body doomed for a while (in consequence) to be hid
away like the ghost of HAMLET'S sire " in the cellar-
age." Even though they saw that those glories of
English art had to be dragged off, one while
to Marlborough House, and another while to the
Brompton Boilers, until—under a threat from the
Crown Lawyers that the TURNER collection might
be altogether lost to the nation unless hurriedly
brought back to the National Gallery—they were
brought back thither again to be " cabined, cribbed,
confined" within the narrow compass of rooms alto-
gether unworthy of their reception. As the suffi-
ciently plain and positive decision of the last Royal
Commission (sufficiently plain and positive, that is
for all unprejudiced minds), was nevertheless in-
sufficient to convince the judgments of the Royal
Academicians, by all means let us have another
Royal Commission, whose decision in their regard
may be a trifle more imperative. Further delay
would be something less than preposterous.
Besides which, it will be a comfort to
every one to be well - rid of what
has long been an intolerable annoyance. If the
Royal Academy his not the grace to take itself off
—it must be made to do so. The Building about
which, or rather about the site of which, there has
been this long contention, is called, we believe, not
the Royal Academy, but the National Gallery ! It

was erected for the National Gallery, we believe,
and not for the Royal Academy ! It was only after
its completion that the Royal Academy was permit-
ted to move thither from its old habitation in Somerset
House. It was so permitted as an act of grace, and
just for the time being—it never being intended
that it should remain there en permanence. Like
incorrigible squatters who have been tolerated
too long, the Royal Academicians required some-
thing more than broad hints, though unmistakably
uttered some of them, to induce them to leave at
all, however reluctantly. The fact is, the Legisla-
ture must decide on their eviction—if in no other
way, by Act of Parliament. As a preliminary to
their removal, we heartily rejoice, at any rate, at
this immediate prospect of another and a final Royal
Commission—a Commission expressly appointed, if
appointed at all, to put an end to this vexatious and
too long protracted Fine Arts Difficulty.

We are favoured with another opportunity to
" see ousels as others see us." In social and tri-
vial matters M. ASSOLANT and others have been
presenting what they think to be Exhibition pho-
tographs of us to France and Europc— ryhai we
think, however, to be caricatures or daubs. In a far
graver matter Mr. THDRLoW WEED has been
giving a picture of us to the citizens of New York
which we can fairly recognise. He was sent
over here to be a kind of unofficial rectifier of Eng-
lish wrong notions respecting the North, to nullify,
as far as possible, the mischief supposed to have
been cans „
eu by the visitors from the South, one of
whom obtained English cheers by a free trade dis-
play
at Filo,
--mongs
el:a Hall. With him were asso-
ciated two
for
eoclr and the Continent ;
and an Episcopal Church
ties—a Catholic one, Arch-
bishop HuGnES
' France
the
ns, Bishop AVILVAINE,
for the
instruction of
h
through them or English bishops and
clergy' andtheir flocks. His
general report is, that
'the
was not in vain.
" Peculiarly fortunate was
mission
was the appointment
"The services of those
enii
hof the
two bishope.
and eminent divines, and devoted Union-men, ''' the
former in Paris, the latter all over England, Were
seasonable and effective; their exalted position,,
their high characters, and their fervid zeal, gave
weight and authority to their statements and

opinions:,
In one respect we think Mr. TIIURLOW WEED
is in error—he seems to think that the South had
produced a more favourable opinion itself at the
beginning of the quarrel than exists now, and bad
formed a public opinion against the North by an.
ticipation. The reverse of this, so far as we can
judge, seems to be the fact. From several causes,
both in this Country and in America, we should
say that there A far more widely diffused opinion
'

here than there was a year or more ago, that the
North would not only act most prudently in giving
up the contest at once, but that it ought to do so.

Mr. WEED states fairly the causes of European
want of sympathy with the North. We have been,
he says, always forward to sympathise with those
who were struggling to overthrow monarchies, and
shown alacrity in recognising the independence of
such as struggled successfully. He suggests, there-
fore, by inference, though of course he would not
venture to express it, that we might have a reci-
procal feeling towards those who struggle to over-
throw that rule-of-the-many which the old Greek
poet pronounces so emphatically to be—not good;
and, that we might be willing to recognise, too,
with alacrity, the independence of those who had
struggled successfully to throw off the yoke of
twenty millions of sovereigns. He does not forget
the MORILL Tariff as a natural cause of aliena-
tion, and says that the emissaries of the South used
it to show that the North desires a disruption of
friendly relations. Certainly, if commerce be only
one of the strongest bonds of amity between
nations, the MoRILL Tariff cut it nearly through.
The impression produced here by the natural
differences between the North and the South, and
by Mr. GLADSTONE'S expresesd opinions are
specially referred to, and fairly stated. Mr. WEED
objects to Mr. GLADSTONE'S view of the Federation
being a mere co-partnership dissoluble at the wish of
either party. He especially also charges him with
if supposed to be a retir-
te ns et rh, e brokeepni mo
op
ne n
pt
rhoep
ertsafe,y aonf d t sht
eo efi
rvaluable
r
forgetting that the South,
ns, arms, post-office, Custom-houses, public
ist niefigc
eu
apt.
tiaitroi
moneys and the like. But does Mr. WEED forget
two facts—one that the South, on a rough calcula-
tion, must be entitled to just that part of the par-
nership stock which lay within its territory, and
next that it offered to enter into arrangements for
a fair valuation and division of the stock. Nothing
however did the North require less than equitable
division.

Mr. WEED does not think that England, France
Belgium and Germany, though they begin to ex-
perience severe inconvenience in regard to their
cotton supply, will " intervene," of which the recent
debate will more fully assure him. He attributes
the impatience of France under the cotton famine,
not to unfriendliness, but to the EMPEROR'S " as-
suming, in the absence of employment, to supply
his people with food. While the North is success-
ful i❑ war he does not fear intervention, and it is
remarkable that this is written on the Ist of July,
just at the close of the six days' disastrous retreat.

Mr. WEED looks, however, at the series of irritat-
ing causes which have engendered hostile feeling
on both sides the water. While he owns that the
Trent affair was " rightfully settled," he yet testi-
fies that it has "left an arrow with poisoned barb
festering in our (American) flesh, and irritating our
nerves." English expectation of war, and prepara-
tions for it, are assigned as the reason ; bat he adds that
truth and fairness compel him to say that Govern-
ment and people sincerely believed that we " desired
a rupture with them ; and sought occasions to taunt
and snub them." He mentions among the causes of
this impression, our opinion that by "bullying" they
obtained advantages over us in the two boundary
questions; also the dismissal of Mr. CRAMPTON,
and our Consul, Mr% BARCLAY; American sympa-
thies with Russia in the Crimean war, the threats
to wrest Canada from us, and Secretary SEWARD'S
hostile declarations towards England. He acknow-
ledges that some of these grounds of complaint
were well taken, and even shows that from our
point of view we did not act unkindly in acknow-
ledging the South as belligerents.
On the whole, Mr. THURLOW WEED'S paper
may, as the production of an American, be regarded
as an apology for England. He seems to have fairly
appreciated our position, and comprehended our
feelings. To us it seems to say tv his countrymen,
do not judge England recklessly. There are dan-
gerous elements of embroilment between the two
countries, but it is from misunderstanding each
other. If both be fair and conciliatory, all will
yet be right.

IThe cotton question is fast becoming every one's
question. Mr. GLADSTONE must soon feel it in the
Exchequer, for our imports depend on our exports.
Not only are the latter needed as the means of
paying for Custom-house articles from abroad, we
might get over that in a measure by indirect trade ;
but our exports represent the immense amount of
wages which contribute their share so largely to
the consumption of tea and coffee, of tobacco, of
sugar, of spirits, and of beer. Lord PALMERSTON
will feel it in his fortifications, for he will hardly
venture, with diminished receipts and the possi
bility of an appeal to the Government for aid by a
loan, to go on sinking the public money in fortifi-
cations certain never to be wanted, although well
enough in terrorem, if we did not know what better
to do with our money. We income tax payers
shall feel it pretty directly; since, unless the
Premier consents to hold his hand awhile, his
demands on our diminished revenue can be met
only by an additional twopence, or threepence, or
more, and that at a time when the state of trade
will render the increased assessment something very
like torture, or a penal ii,fliction to many. In fact,
in the lowest, the most selfish view of the case, we
shall nearly all of us feel the cotton famine. That
the productions of our cotton mills should form a
third part of our foreign trade is alone proof
enough how widely the calamity must be felt by
which that trade is almost annihilated. In 1861 our
imports of raw material was of the value of
£38,600,000, our exports of articles manufactured
from it of the value of nearly £40,000,000. This
is the trade so nearly par4l7.od!

Under these circumstances we ought to look fairly
in the face the difficulties which are before us. The
calculation made by Mr. BAZLEY, and accepted by
another speaker and a large meeting at Manchester
the other day, seems a very fair approximation to
the sad truth. We give the details, but those who
do not wish to take the slight trouble of examining
them will remember that the well sustained con-
clusion is, that even supposing we could come at
the American cotton already grown, and what is
likely to be grown in 1863, the result is, that for
one hundred and thirteen weeks there will not be in
existence a supply for more than forty-six weeks.
This is his computation :—" Suppose the war were
to end to-morrow, the cotton supply could not be
resumed under former circumstances. The crop of
1861 was 4,000,000 bales. Of this they might
fairly assume that there were destroyed, ungathered,
and smuggled by running the blockade, 1,000,000
red,
culatfOvn
bales. That left 3,000,000 bales available. Of this
supply the Northern States would certainly take a
third, leaving 2,000,000 for Europe, including Eng-
land. For the Continent 500,000 bales were re-
e
of cotton cultivation
isnfgorusthls:oo,lo)ooof. bales_
ATsherseegawrdereed
the
crop of 1862 only one-fourth of the ordinary area
the supplylB6a three-fourths; and this would
reducing
pply, 40t
be the case in
400,000
towe had 1,500,000 bales
porl
hs'esucrop of 18620
aordeight weeks' sup-
y3fOrowmeekt
400,000 or eight
weeks' supply from the crop ofnl
863. or 46 weeks'
supply up to October, 1864, or 113 vc:eeks."
When a supply of raw taaterita of
this trade

which, in 1860, amoutted, from all countries, to the

enormous quantity of !,390,938,752 lbs., is deprived
of the almost as large mount of 1,115,890,6081b5.
the quantity received "min the United States that
year—it is easy to cor4ecture the terrible result on
the Lancashire mills. The following year shows to
how limited an extent other countries can supply
the deficiency ; since, in 1861, we received from the
States only the still large amount of 819,500,528 lbs.
Yet all other countries increased their remittances
by only 162,436,064 lbs. We must almost apologise
for troubling oar readers with what is so generally
repulsive as figures, but for which we might give
them many more, all pointing to the same sad con-
clusion of the fearful deficiency of employment and
loss of wages befalling our cotton districts in one
year, and likely to be yet felt for years to come.

The first consideration is similar to the one
which pressed on us in the year of the potato rot
in Ireland; for the sudden increase of pauperism
is frightful. The year 1357-8 was one of the worst
ever known in the cotton districts, but already it is
calculated that the pauperism is seventy-five per
cent. greater than in that melancholy year. Nor is
there immediate prospect of remedy ;—even would
the belligerents make up their quarrel at once, this
winter must be one of terrible suffering. h is
gratifying to see that charity is organising itself,
liberally and wisely, but the calamity is to a large
extent a national one, at the same time a purely
exceptional one, and, we fear, can only be ade-
quately met by exceptional legislation. The rate
in aid system must be put on the best footing, but
we can hardly doubt that Mr. HIBBERD'S proposal
of authorising unions to obtain loans on the secu-
rity of the rates will be requisite also. It is our
objcct, however, just novv to call attention to the
growing importance of the subject, rather than to
canvas the remedies. To support these and to work
them will require all the skill and wisdom of those
who thoroughly understand the cotton districts.
The first great object is to prevent this noble class of
operatives from being pauperized and degraded by,
we fear, two or three years of enforced idleness.

The law writers, unhappily for them, got nothihg
whatever from the motion submitted to the House
of Commons last evening in their behalf by the hon.
member for Finsbury. A majority of " five" in a
house of " fifty-seven" decided that the rules and
orders of the High Court of Chancery issued on the
16th day of May, 1862, by the Lord High Chan-
cellor, should continue in force, and should in no
way be interfered with by the Commons House of
Parliament. It would have been better for his
clients, we cannot but think, had the member for
Finsbury submitted his motion to the House in a
different tone, and not proposed its introduction as
he did by throwing out a really odious insinuation.
Namely, one to the effect that the rules and orders
of the Court of Chancery, to which he was thus
taking exception, were designed to create a
monopoly ! These rules and orders were issued,
as the Solicitor-General remarked yester-
day while opposing the motion, by the
Lord Chancellor himself no doubt, but at the
same time with the express concurrence of the
Master of the Rolls and of the other Judges of the
Court of Chancery. They were designed simply
and solely—who shall doubt it ?—for the better
administration of justice. If deserving people were
in any way whatever injured by these new rules
and orders coming into operation, their being so
injured is a matter of course of very deep regret,
but it is a result quite beside the real ques-
tion at issue. The undoubted aim of the rules
and orders that have already so operated, has been
quite manifestly all along the better securing
of the administration of justice in the Court
of Chancery. To attribute their introduction to a
deliberate intention on the part of any judge to
create a monopoly was an indecorum that we can-
hot wonder the House of Commons set aside at
once last evening. If these regulations
have in truth imposed a charge of from
£4,000 to £5,000 a-year upon the Suitors'
Fee Fund—if they have pecuniarily bene-
fitted one man exclusively, while inflicting serious
injury upon a large body of deserving and innocent
persons—if these and other evils have actually
resulted from the Chancellor's rules and orders of
the 16th of May ever since those rules and orders
came into operation—such facts are not only deeply
to be regretted, but it seems reasonably enough to
inquire whether the injured may not in some way
be relieved in their unlooked• for difficulty. But
to attribute the whole charge to a distinct
intention to create a monopoly is not merely to act
and speak in the worst possible taste, but to be
guilty of an outrage upon the highest of our judicial
functionaries. Under the circumstances, while we
cannot bat still grieve over the ills resulting to the
law-writers from the rules and orders of the 16th
of May having actually come into operation, we
cannot in any way regret the rejection of
Mr. Cot's motion last evening in the House of
Commons.

Her Majesty the Queen arrived at Windsor by
special train on the Great Western line yesterday.
LORD PALMERSTON.—After the labours of the
session are brought to a close, it is stated that the Premier
will pay a visit to the Highlands of Scotland, taking up his
abode at Tulchan Lodge, near Grantown, as the guest of
Mr. Bass, M.P.
THE ARCHBISHOPRIC OF ARMAGH.—There is
a report in clerical circles that the Archbishopric of Armagh,
which has become vacant by the death of Lord John
George Beresford, will be conferred upon the Very Rev-
Richard Chenevix Trench, D.D., Dean of Westminster.
The archbishopric is worth £15,000 a year.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—DRAMATIC COLLEGE FETE.
—ONE SHILLING DAY.—MONDAY, JULY 21.—Admissions
on payment, 25,603; ditto by season tickets, 2,567; total
visitors, 28,170.
CU niuMON LAW COURTS FEE FUND.—The
annual account of the Fee Fund of the superior courts of
law shows a large increase in the fees received last year.
They amounted to £51,156.
The export of English books to America (says
the Critic) has fallen off greatly during the current war,
but the extra import duty of 25 per cent. which Congress
has just imposed is likely to extinguish the book trade with
this country altogether.

OVERCROWDING OMNIBUSES.--The Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals have given public
notice of their intention to prosecute, under the act of
Parliament, all omnibus proprietors who permit the over-
crowding of their vehicles, to the injury of their horses and
the dt.nger of the public.

M. Horace Vernet has just arrived in Paris from
his chateau at the Isles of Hyeres. M. Vernet was born in
the year 1789, and is consequently now in his 73d year, but
is still as active and erect as a young man.
THE DRAMATIC COLLEGE FETE.--The enter-
tainments at the Crystal Palace on behalf of this charity
were continued wi,h great spirit yesterday, when between
twenty and thirty thousand persons attended the fair. All
the actors and actresses were again faithfully at their posts,
and although the receipts from the stalls and performances
hardly reach the high level of Saturday, the exertions of
all the popular favourites were well repaid by the public.
Every praise is due to the council, and to Mr. Benjamin
Webster for Vie general arrangements, and the or der with
which they were carried out. The receipts will probably
amount to three thousand pounds.

THE SECRET 60CIETY TRIAL—The Tribunal of
Correctional Police gave judgment in this case on Saturday
afternoon :—Greppo, Six, Mary, Roucol, Clement, Bonnet,
Boudin, Bouya, Hemon, Jumera, Leger, the two Mediu-
gers, Moreau, Perdu, and Gerard, were acquitted ; Vessel,
Bachelet, Miot, Gastinel, Carre, were declared to be the
chiefs, and were each condemned to three years' imprison-
ment, 400 fr. fine, and five years' interdiction of civil rights.
Alely, Barbarin, Lafarque, Creancy, and Joixanne, were
each sentenced to two years' imprisonment; Adine, Ba..
rouin, Beurthe, Bonnerot, Bray, and Vaudelin, to one year's
imprisonment, with 100 fr, fine ; and the others to periods
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LATEST NEWS.

CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA.

REPORTED CAPTURE OF BATON ROUGE
BY THE CONFEDERATES.
(Per Anglo-Saxon, by Telegraph to Cape Race, and
from Londonderry.)
NEW YORK, JULY 14 (Evening).
An uneasy feeling generally prevails concerning
military and political matters.
A meeting of the members of Congress for the
Border States has been held at Washington to
consider President Lincoln's emancipation scheme.
The New York Evening Post says that the
majority oppose the scheme, and will decline to
accept the proposal.
A large body of Confederates has captured Mur-
freesborough, near Nashville, and taken one Federal
Regiment prisoners. It is supposed that they will
attack Nashville.
Mobile despatehes say that the Confederates
under Van Dorn have captured Baton Rouge, near
New Orleans, and taken 1,500 Federal prisoners.
Considerable excitement exists at Louisville,
Kentucky.
The Confederates are reported to be in force near
Frankfort.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
Money easy. Gold further advanced. Exchange
firm at 1281, Stocks heavy and lower. Cotton
buoyant, and again higher. Breadstuff firmer.
A strike has taken place among the labourers
who load grain ships, causing nearly the entire
suspension of shipments of breadstuffs.
Provisions quiet. Coffee and sugar advancing,

PARIS, JULY 21.

The Patrie states that' Admiral Jurien de la
Graviere and General Forey will embark for Mexico
at the beginning of August.
The Patrie of this evening asserts that France
and Prussia have decided upon following a common
course of cenduct on the Servian question.
The Presse states that the number of men forming
the French expeditionary corps to Mexico will be
carried up to 30,000.

3 25 p.m.

The Bourse has been inanimate.
Rentes closed at 68f. 40c., or the same as on
Saturday.

TURIN, JULY 21.
Gen. Sonnaz has been appointed Italian Envoy
Extraordinary to the Court of St. Petersburg.

VIENNA, JULY 21.

The Governor of Transylvania, Count Crenne-
ville, has been summoned hither to report upon the
state of affairs in that province, with a view to the
early convocation of the Transylvanian Diet.

BRUSSELS, JULY 21.

The King was expected to arrive here to-day,
but, having taken cold yesterday while walking
in the Park at Lacken, he is obliged to keep his