The Sun.
London, England, 1836-05-30 00:00:00

Christmas, Alliston, T. C. Simmons, Blackstone, M. P.,
Whitegrave, F. W. Mullins, M.P., R. B. Wilson, Parker,
E. Freke, Bagshaw, M.P., Westmacott, L. Williams, T.
Thistlewayte, D. Maclean, M. P., D. Halford, Holdsvrorth,
Burgh, M'Donald, R. Vyse, Fyler, 1-1. Addington, Haines,
F- Ommanney, L. Flood. Mitford, B. Challoner, E. Taylor,
G. Gill, Mosley, G. Wilkinson, W. Toiler, E. Clive, M.
Dyes, Bernal, B. Simpson, Pinney, Saule, Gordon, Lindesay,

W. H. Judd.
MISTRESSES—BarIow Hoy, Askew, John Selby, J. Birch,
Colquhoun, Henry Charles Hoare, J. Portal, Fitzroy Kelly,
Charles Archibald, Aldis, Kemp, Henry, Tufnell, Afflick,
Robert Alexander, William Earle, Lainson, Samuel Wilson,
Bannerman, Maltby, Garratt, Ames, Camac, Henry Coe
Coape, Gurney, Basset, Hartop, John Jervis, John Round,
Buck, Joy, Morgan, Egerton, Skinner, Howley,. Monk,
William Herbert, Ireland Blackburne, Battie Wrighton, A.
Windham, Bishop, Mitchell, Bradshaw, Birch Reynardson,
W. Wynn, G.P. Burnaby, C. Shane, Crawford, D. Halford,
Meynell, A. Story, Vernon, Norwich Duff, E. Lambert,
Loug, Delap, Smith, Sotheby, Palmer, Bernal, Henry Clive,
Halford, Mosley, Purcell, Ed. Lytton Bulwer, Bulkeley,
M'Alpine, H. Murray, Admiral Lawford, Young, Methuen,
S. Brownrigg, Rushbrooke, Gen. White, Clitherow, M.
Gaskell, G. Digby, King, B. Challoner, Powney, Frank-
land, Dehany, S. Cary, Mayne, H. Bentinck, Phillimore,
Bagshaw, Webster, 0. Cave, J. Rolls, Rolls, G. Byng,
Every, Channon, Fitzgerald, E. St. John, Welby, B. Drum-
mond, S. R. Solly, Pugh, Robertson, Stoner, H. Bathurst,
D. M‘Lean, Pasley, Bryan, Col. Howard, Armstrong, Mo-
rier, Dawson, Planta, T. B. Fyler, Thistlethwaite, G.
Palmer, Blunt, A. Caldwell, F. Loftus, N. Sutton, Selby,

Wilkinson, Bligh, Hall, Elliot.
MlSSES—Doraville, Colquhoun, Wheatley, Laura Wheat-
ley, FitzWygram, Conroy, Georgiana Curtis, G. Curtis,
Long Wellesley, Clarke, Elizabeth Clarke, Maria Clarke,
Louisa Honywood, Caroline Honywood, Ferguson, Baillie,
Mary Law, Elizabeth Law, Johnston, Frederica Johnston,
Prince, Adele Portal, Harriet Whitshed, Tierney, Harriet
Tierney, Hankey, Frederica Hankey, Beauclerk, Henrietta
Beauclerk, Erskine, Josephine Erskine, Emma Tylney Long,
Seale, Roso Ames, Georgiana Beresford, Pugh, Stracey, Bar-
row, Lloyd, Lambert, Fanny Lambert, Riddell, Margaret
Burnett, G. Harcourt, Long, Stewart, Mary Ley, Coape,
Fanny Irby, Charlotte Coape, Clifford, Malcolm, Stapleton
Cotton, Balfour, Blackwood, K. W. Wynn, Spring Rice,
Theodosia Spring Rice, Howley, Otway, Wellesley, Sullivan,
Cochrane, Parker, Elizabeth Parker, Christie, Hervey, Ber-
nal, B. Allardice, C. Robinson, Herbert, Daly, Kerr, Morier,
Young, Lucy Young, Crosbie, Cole, Sarah Crosbie, D. Hoey,
F. Hoey, Doyle, Ferard, St. John, Campbell, Pinney, Ro-
bertson, Crawford, H. E. Blackburne, Hardy, Fielding, E.
Hardy, Watson, F. Paget, Taylor, Scott, Brownrigg, Rush-
brooke, Bentinck, J. Brownrigg, Bridges, Napier, S. Pigott,
M. Montresor, E. Bernal, Bingham, E. Blackburne, Wal-
pole, N. Collingwood, Barham, C. Sotheby, C. Dundas,
Smith, Les Value, Brander, M. Hawkins, Smythe, R. Ben-
tinck, Blake, H. Legh, Murray, Buck, L. Hill, A. King,
J. Forester', Hill, Pratt, A. Stephenson, Kennedy, E. Smyth,
.J. Reynardson, J. Stephenson, Gordon, Quentin, Bayly, Mac-
donald, Adderly, Wynn (two), Seymour. Elliot, Campbell,
Stuart, Fitzgerald, A. Bentinck, G. V. Harcourt, Wilkinson
(two), Methuen, F. Christie, C. Thistlethwayte, Cavendish
(two), Sutton (two), J. Gosset, Clinton (two), Beresford
(two), Dalbiac, Selby (two), D. Griffith, Meade (two), Beau-
champ (two), H. Bagot, Vaughan.
GENERALS—Sir Thomas Reynell, Mundy, Ellice, Viscount
Combermere, Sir Charles Maxwell, Sir James Kempt, Lord
Lynedoch, Lord Aylmer, Sir Patrick Ross, Sir George
Elder, C. C. j 3., K. C. T. S., and K. C. St. F.; Sir Lewis Grant,
Callandcr, STr H. Cumming, H. Monckton, Sir Charles Col-
ville, Forbes, B. Reynardson, Sir S. Whittingham, Grosve-
nor, Sir L. Otway, Sir J. S. Barnes, Sir J. Waters, Mawby,
Sir T. Dallas, Sir J. Lambert, Gascoyne, Morrison, G. Dal-
Lae, Sir G. Adams, Blunt, Dc Butts, Viscount Lorton, Sir R.
Wilson, Wardlaw, Sir E. Lloyd, Sir W. Hutchinson, Sir E.
Barnes, Vincent, Hon. Sir H. King, Sir G. Cole, Clitherow,
S. Rebow, Sir F. Maclean, Bart.; Sir T. Macdougall, Sir G.
Cockburn, Sir D. L. Gilmour, Sir J. Bathurst, Sir L. Wid-
drington, Sir H, Askew, Sir T. Montresor, G. Michell, Dick-
inson, Pigot, Wulff, Sir E. Paget, Crosbie, Sir E. Lloyd,
Shrapnel, Sir A. Brooke, Sir R. Donkin, Sir L. Moore, Sir
F. Wetherall, Sir C. Doyle, Sir S. Hawker, Sir W. Rooke,
Goldic, Sir H. Montresor, Sir S. Dickens, Sir W. Peacock e,
White, Sir R. D. Jackson, Sir H. Campbell, Gardiner, Sir
G. Quentin, Sir R. Darling, Sir H. Lowe, Sir W. Clinton,
Sir C. Dalbiac, T. Maitland.
COLONELS—PoweII, M. P. ; Sir ,Archibald Christie, Sir
S. G. Higgins, Doveton, Seale, Lord Brudenell, Ravcnshaw,
Fox, Webster, Sir W. R. Clayton, Henderson, K. H., Grant,
T. Woolridge, Galloway, Thornton, Webster, Clelland, Hon.
Leicester Stanhope, Smythe, Daubeney, Daly, Linton,
C. Fagan, Thomas, Phillott, Rowley, E. Jackson, Graydon,
Cox, Sir B. Camac, Sir H. Townsend, Higginson, S. Dabs,
Browne, Sir C. O'Donnell, Rice, Baker, 11/1‘ Pherson,
E. Walker, Bingham, Delap, Eden, Duffy, Williamson, Sal-
mond, W. Moore, Walker, Blanc, Hope, Munro, Richardson,
Godwin, M'Alpine, Choster, Loftus, O'Reilly, Barrington,
Monckton, Hill, Gooch, H. Blair, Perceval, G. Cathcart, Sir
do Tuyll, Coles, Doyle, Tonson, J. Home, D'Oyley,
Peach, Findlay, Lawtic, B. Butler, Howard, Gant, Shawe,
Sir J. Halloran, Sir E. Miles, H. Bentinck, Pasley, Stan-
hope, Sir .1. May. G. Higginson, Money, Baker, Sir R. Arm-
strong, Sir H. Elphinstoue, Cockburn Aitchison, Dobbin,
Porter, Dickson, Latter, Nickle, Barnard, A. Roberts, Dixon,
G. Hunter, M. Shawe, H. G. R. Trevor, Sir A. Maclaine,
Rushbrooke, Kenai', Sir J. Savage, Rowan, Clitherow, Bro-
therton, Armstrong, W. 11. Sykes, Tremenhere, Sir H. Wyatt,
Sir E. Currey, Alexander, York, B. Drummond, Caldwell.
MAJORS—Anstruther, Pugh, Pringle, Taylor, M'Arthur,
Bullock, Thornhill, H. Cadogan, J. Butler, Whyte, Vivian,
James, Andrews, Campbell, Boileau, Kennedy, Symons,
Swectman, Matson, Allen, Jervis, Sir F. Lee, Wells, Crosse,
Mackie, E. A. Campbell, Tempest, H. Pratt, Beresford.
CAPTAINS—Lang, Sir C. Bullen, Newall, Romily, Sey•
mour, R. Alsager, Stewart, J. A. Bailey, Brandreth, flughes,
V. Graham, Shea, Randall, R. Boyle, M•Crummen, Mony-
penny, Pete, Atkin, P. Dyke, J. Johnson, Bathurst, Watson
.1. D. King, Nicholson, Rose, Harcourt, Hill, R. Locke, Lai-.
kins, Probvn,y Campbell, J. Lowth. Dudgeon, D. Willan
Alderson, Blackburne Ehrington, Collard, W. Drake, W.
Horton, C. Lewis, Corbally, Steel, Higgins, Walker, G. Hig.
gins, Ridley, S. Malley, E. B. Phillipps, R. C. Macdonald
G. Stevenson, Astell, Nicoll, Ellis, H Dole, W. Flockton
Clinton, J. Meek, Wilson, Musgrove, R. H. Miles, Wynne
Shearman, R. Harvey, Savage, Jenner, Phillimore, D Arcy
Talbot, Freke, Gage, De Lacy, A. Mercer, C. Berkeley
Willoughby (two), Marshal.
LIEUTENANTS—W. F. Curtis, Cox, George V. Mundy,
Larnotte, Lacy, C. D. Robertson, F. Chapman, Charles Wl-
gart, H. Blair, Lumley, Drummond, Peebles, Brickcnden, P.
Anstruthcr, Phillott, William Wood, Godwin, Wynyard, C.
F. Seymour, Bourclieu, Lambert, Quin, J. Freeth, J. B.
Smyth, F. W. Hamilton, R. S. Hulse, Montresor, Membhard,
Walker, Daly, E. St. John Jephson, D'Ormieux Von Streng,
W. C. Symonds, Sutton, Wilkinson, S. Conroy.
CORNETS.—Booth, Tollemacho, trust, Hughes, Farquhar-
son, B. Proctor.
Ensign Walker.
ADMIRALS.—Sir George Martin, Sir Charles Rowley, Tol-
lemache, Sir James H. Whitshed, Sir Geo. Parker, K. C. 8.,
Sir Edward Owen, Sir Robert Otway, Sir W. Hargood,
G. C. 8., G. C. H. ; Sir Thomas Williams, Sir P. Malcolm,
Tomlinson, Schoenberg, Sir W. Hotham, Sir T. Rodd, Hill,
Lawford, Sir H. Bayntun, Sir T. Harvey, Sir C. Adam, Sir
D. Gould, Taylor, Sir J. A. Ommanney, Hollis, Sir R.
H.
Hussey, Sir John Wells, Sir C. Paget, Sir 11. Neale, Sir W.
Parker.
CAPTAINS (Royal Navy)—Hon. Frederick Irby, Ferguson
(of Pitfour), Sir Andrew Green, Waldegrave, J. O'Brien,
J. Baldwin, J. N. Campbell, Hardinge, Shippard, Hickey,
R. Oliver' Williams, Eden, J, Leigh, E. Wallcott, Fielding,
G. Back, Bowles, Wm. Symonds, De Starck, Thos. Dickin-
son, J. Montagu, I'. Carew, de Roos, Blackwood, Sotheby,
Laws, Sir J. Franklin, Pring, Fremantle, E. Collier, Sir T.
Cochrane, Herbert, Aitchison, Sir L. Curtis, Christian, J.
W. O'Montagu, Baynes, Nias, M. Duff, Cuppage, R. Burton,
M. Seymour, J. Hayes, Sir A. Farquhar, Sir J. A. Westphal,
G. Smith, R. Maunsell, Sir H. Pigot, Fielding, G. Back,
Bowles, W. Symonds.
CAPTAINS (Trinity House)—Pelly, Stanley Clarke, John
Locke, Timbrell, Stephenson, Brown, Philip Ripley, Drew.
COMMANDERS (Royal Navy)— Hon. J. Denman, Rivett,
Carnac, G. Evans, Philip P. Wynne, Tatnall, Cotton, Her-
vey, Pole, E. J. Johnson, M. Dixon, Busbby, J. B. Hay,
De Saumarez, Popplewell, Wm. Savage, Smart, Sir William
Dickson, E. L. Carpenter, G. S. V. King, J. C. Woolnough,
D. Mayne, Gooch, Mansel, Larcour, Machonochie, T. Gill,
G. M. King, P. J. Blake, Sir T. Thompson, E. Wodehouse,
LIEUTENANTS (ROYAL NAVY)—C. H. Ackerley, Sterling,
Sicklemore, D'Urban, P. Inglis, Henderson, H. W. Hill,
Morris, Oldmixon, W. F. Young, Franklin, E. W. Pitt,
Rawstorne.
The State-rooms and anti-rooms were, soon after the com-
mencement of the Drawing Room, crowded with company,
andcothnetineuveednisnogttihlleneKairngfivheaod'cla ock.
Inparty. The Royal Family
and the illustrious visitors at present in town were among the
company. The party to meet their Majesties included the
Duchess of. Kent and the Princess Victoria, the Duke of
Cumberland, the Landgravine, the Duchess of Gloucester,
the Prince of Orange, the Duke of Brunswick, the Duke of
Saxe Coburg, Prince George of Cambridge, the Hereditary
Prince of Orange, Prince Alexander of the Netherlands, the
Hereditary Prince and Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg, the
Prince of Leiningen, Prince Earnest of Ilesse, the Duke of
Argyll, the Duchess of Northumberland, the Marquis
Conyngbam, the Earl and Countess of Sheffield, Earl Howe,
Earl and Countess Brownlow, Lord Saltoun, Sir William
Fremantle, Sir George Seymour, Sir A. Barnard, the Dean
of Hereford, the Rev. Dr. Kuper, the Rev. J. R. Wood, and
1 Wood.

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 30, i `-3G•

ANNUAL DINNER for the ARTISTS'
GENERAL BENEVOLENT FUND.

This social meeting was held on SaturdNik...evening List,
at the Freemasons' Tavern. Previous, Weyer, to our
entering upon the notic6 of the proceedings, report &c. we
think it may be useful to mark the wide distinction which
really exists between the two Societies, whose titles approach
so very near to each other as to create no small confusion
in the public mind with respect to the distinctive marks
and purposes of each Society. Our readers will, therefore,
please to observe that the senior Association of these is
named " The Artist's Benevolent Fund ;" of this his Ma-
jesty is the Patron, and Sir John Edward Swinburne, Bart.,
F.R.S., is President, with four Vice-Presidents, a Council
and officers, &c. The whole of the receipts, whether as
subscriptions, donations, or bequests, go to form and support
a fund called " The Artist's Annuity Fund," which is spe-
cially under the control and management of a Committe of
Artists, and a Council composed of amateurs and artists.
There is also " a scale of payments" to be made annually by
artists admitted as members of " Mutual Benefit" Society ;
the earliest period of life at which an artist can be admitted
is 21 years of age, and the latest period is his 45th year ;
and the sum to be paid increases in the usual ratio of Life
Assurance Companies, from 21. 17s. 4d. per annum, for the
artist admitted in his 21st year, to 4/. 18s. Bd. annually by
those admitted in their 45th year ; after the latter period
no person can be admitted, nor of course receive any as-
sistance from this benevolent fund. It is, therefore, strictly
speaking, an Artists' Life Assurance Company, excluding
every other class of persons from partaking of its advan-
tages, not admitting even members of their own profession
if they shall have passed the unlucky age of 45 ; but at the
same time soliciting the whole public, of every age, to
supply, in a great measure, this means of granting full an-
nuities or gifts to the members of this select and exclusive
Mutual Benefit Life Assurance Society. A great many
persons have asked us whether it is not anomalous to deno-
minate a society " benevolent," which not only retains all its
own income for the support of its exclusive object, but also
those funds which benevolent persons bestow upon it annu-
ally ? We confess that there does appear to be something ano-
malous about it, on account of the mixture of the two prin-
ciples : namely, that of pure benevolence, and that of pure
trade ; the first displayed in the general subscriptions, &c.,
and the latter in their application to the support of those
whose friends ought, according to the scale of their " life
assurance" have sufficient means for that purpose without

any extraneous aid. These observations are made at the
desire of many friends of this and somewhat similar institu-
tions, with the best wishes and intentions towards every so-
ciety which encourages benevolent purposes, and at the
same time to afford an opportunity to its managers to ex-
plain and place the real state of the case in a clear light be-
fore the public mind.
The other society, the dinner of which we are about to
describe, is not " incorporated," as the former is, nor is it a
mutual benefit life association. It may, in facts be said
only to exist from year to year, entirely by the support
of public opinion. Its object is to relieve those cases of
distress and destitution to which even meritorious artists,
their wives, and children, are sometimes exposed, and
which cases do not come within the scope of relief af-
forded by the other society of associated artists, because
the destitute parties have not been subscribers to that joint
stock fund. In this association it is not requisite that
the applicant for relief should have been a subscriber,
the sole claim to its benevolent aid being merit in distress.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, K.G., is its
Patron, and its President is Sir M. A. Shee, P.R.A. It has
also many Vice-Patrons, distinguished for their rank and
talents ; and its Vice-Presidents are almost all members of
the Royal Academy. There is also a Board of Directors,
to manage the funds, and to examine into the cases of those
who apply for relief. This Board is composed of amateurs,
Royal Academicians, and other respectable members of the
profession, whose decision on the case is final. Having
placed both associations in a clear point of view before the
public, as it was requisite, we proceed to describe what took
place on Saturday at the dinner.
Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bart., M.P., a true friend to
the tine arts, very kindly took the Chair, supported by Sirs
M. A. Slice, P.R.A., and F. Chantrey, R.A., 'l'. Phillips,
and C. R. Cockerel!, R.A., Charles Ewens, Esq., Thomas
Griffiths, Esq., John Landseer, William Brockington, Esq.,
Deering, Esq., R.A., and J. H. Mann, Esq.,
After the silent discussion of the dinner, " Non nobis
Domino" was given in very capital style.
The CHAIRMAN then proposed " the King's health ;'
drank with the usual honours, and the national anthem.
" The Queen," with equal honours and applause, followed
by " Long life to the King and the Queen." " The Prin-
cess Victoria, and the rest of the Royal Family," followed
by an appropriate glee, " The Navy and Army," was fol-
lowed by " Rule, Britannia," in full chorus. After which
The CHAIRMAN proposed " the health of their distin-
guished patron, his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex ;"
and in doing so expressed his great regret, in common with
all the numerous friends of this Institution and well-wishers
of his Royal Highness, that the state of his health did not
permit him to give that degree of countenance and support
to this and other institutions honourable to British feeling
which his Royal presence would confer and afford, and
which his Royal Highness was in the habit of so kindly
conferring upon the honourable and benevolent institutions
of his country for a long series of years.
Sir M. A. SLUE then proposed " the health of the Ho-
nourable Chairman," whom lie properly designated as one
of the most constant and firm admirers and promoters of
the arts in his native land, to whom she owed the most
grateful feeling.
After the usual honours,
The HoN. CHAIRMAN, in returning thanks for their
honourable notice, said he was much gratified that he had
it in his power to attend this anniversary of so good an in-
stitution, as it was so identified with a purpose to which he
was greatly attached. He admitted that he had always
been a great admirer of the fine arts, not merely from per-
sonal gratification, but as conducive in a high degree to the
general prosperity, and intellectual improvement of the
country, not in works of high art alone, but also in giving
a superior character to our manufactures ; and he observed
that sculpture and architecture were rising in reputation
amongst us, and will continue so to do whilst the professors
of those arts show that they have industry and talent to
deserve public favour, with good sense and manly spirit to
suppert their just rights. The Hon. Chairman went at
considerable length into the various views which have been
taken of the arts at various times, and showed the causes
of degeneracy in them ; he also successfully opposed the
notion of certain economists, who assert that money laid
out on their cultivation, and their charities, is unprofitably
expended ; this be described justly as " a false and narrow
view of the subject," not arising from a due consideration
of this mode of cultivating the human mind, and as all men
of talent cannot be successful, it becomes the duty of the
respectable members of society to aid them in their time of
sickness and adversity. " And when I look," said he, "to
the long list of persons who have received the required as-
sistance from this Institution (for I see, by the Report,
• that 479 cases have been relieved, by sums amounting to
4,3051. 7s. 10d.), it is to me a convincing argument that
its funds deserve to be augmented, for which purpose many
small donations would be equally serviceable, with a few
large ones, in giving the required relief, and in upholding
that just and benevolent principle which is so deserving of
public support. That the prosperity of this Institution has
increased is evident, and that this will go on in proportion
as the benefits it confers are made known." And, in con-
clusion, the Hon. Chairman paid a very just eulogium to
the exertions of Sir M. A. Slice, the President, for the
care and assiduity with which he had promoted the pro-
sperity of this most excellent Institution ; which, he said,
must be a source of great satisfaction to the minds of those
by whom so much had been done in relieving the unmerited
distresses of their fellow-creatures. The Chairman then
proposed—" The health of Sir M. A. Shee, the President,"
which was drank with great applause.
The PRESIDENT returned thanks in his usual clear and
intelligent manner, endeavouring to show that whatever
prosperity the institution might now be said to enjoy was
not attributable to his exertions, but principally to those
of his most estimable colleagues, of whose judgment, zeal,
and fidelity to the cause of benevolence every anniversary
gave additional proofs, and lie hoped that as it did not fall
to the lot of every clever artist to be prosperous in pecuni-
ary matters, that there would always be found.tri Britain
enlightened and humane minds endowed with the goods of
fortune, and with judgment to relieve them in the day of
adversity. Sir Martin then proposed " The health of the
Vice-Patrons."
After which the CHAIRMAN proposed " The health of
the Vice-Presidents," for which
J. PHILLIPS, Esq., returned thanks in a speech full of
just feelings and correct views of the real nature and
utility of the arts, which adorn social life, and of the
vicissitudes to which its votaries, though meritorious, are
often subjected, without any moral deficiency on their part,
but often from high and honourable notions of individuals,
independence carried perhaps a little too far. He also
denied that he had done more than lie felt was his duty to
society and to his own profession. He then proposed
" The British Institution," which was received with much
applause.
" The Ladies" was next drunk with enthusiasm.
The CHAIRMAN then gave " The health of the Stewards
and other Officers," whose assiduity and care he compli-
mented in very elegant, and we believe just, terms.
The report was then read : it was very long, and we have
root% for only a part of the donations recorded—viz., the
British Institution, 50/. ; Isis Grace the Duke of Buc-
cleuch, 25/. ; Sir M. W. Ridley, 101. ; -- Macklin, Esq.,
10/. ; Lord Farnborough, 10/. ; Hope, Esq., 10/. ; Sir
F. Chantrey, 10 guineas ; Sanderson, Esq., 101. ;
Neild, Esq., 10/. ; Sir M. A. Shee, P.R.A. ; De-