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THE BANQUET AT THE ROYAL

ACADEMY.

On Saturday evening the president, Sir Fran cis
Grant, and Council of the Royal Academy, enter-
tertained a distinguished company at a banquet in
the new. galleries, Piccadilly. The Prince of Wales,
the Prince Christion, her Majesty's Ministers, Earl
Derby the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, Lord Cairns,
Mr. Chares Dickens, and all the principal R.A.'s
were present. The only departure from the pro-
gramme of toasts usually given was the omission
by reluest of Sir E. Sabine, " the Learned Socrates,"
and the substitution of that of '• Literature," coupled
with the name of Mr. Dickens.

Mr. CHARLES DICKENS, who was received most
warmly, said :—Mr. President, your Royal High-
nesses, my• Lords and gentlemen, I beg to
acknowledge the toast with which you have
done me the great honour of associating my name.
I beg to acknowledge it on behalf of the brotherhood
of literature, present and absent, not forgetting an
illustrious wanderer from the fold, whose tardy re-
turn to it we all hail :with delight, and who now sits
—or lately did sit—within a few chairs of, or on, your
left hand. (Cheers.) I hope I may also claim to
acknowledge the toast on behalf of the sisterhood of
literature also, although that " better half of human
nature," to which Mr. Gladstone r; ndered his grace-
ful tribute, is unworthily represente I here, in the
present state of its rights and wrongs, by the devour-
ing monster, man. (Cheers and laughter.) All the
arts; and many of the sciences, bear witness that
women, even in their present oppressed condition, can
attain to quite as great distinction, and can win quite
as lofty names, as men. (Cheers.) Their emancipation
(as I am given to understand) drawing very near,
there is no saying how soon they may " push us from
our stools" at these tables, or how soon one better
half of human nature, standing in this place of mine,
may eloquently depreciate mankind—(a laugh)—
addressing another better half of human nature sit-
ting in the president's chair. (Cheers and laughter.)
The literary visitors of the Royal Academy to-night
desire me to congratulate their hosts on a very in-
teresting exhibition, in which risen excellence su-
premely asserts itself, and from which promise
of a brilliant succession in time to come is not
wanting. (Cheers.) They naturally see with espe-
cial interest the writings and persons of great men
—historians, philosophers, poets, and novelists--
vividly illustrated around them here. And they
hope that they may modestly claim to have ren-
dered some little assistance towards the pro-
duction of many of the pictures in this magnificent
gallery. (Cheers.) For without the patient labours
of some among them, unhistoric history might have
long survived in this place, and but for the researches
and wanderings of others among them, the most pre-
posterous countries—(a laugh)—the most impossible
peoples —(laughter)—an d the absurdest suppositions,
manners, and customs, might have usurped the place
of truth upon these walls. (Cheers and laughter.) Nay,
there is no knowing, Sir Francis Grant, what unlike
portraits you yourself might have painted if you
had been left, with your sisters, to idle pens,
unchecked reckless rumours, and undenounced
lying malevolence. (Cheers and laughter.) I can-
not forbear, before I resume my seat, adverting to a
sad theme, to which his Royal Highness the Prince
of Wales made allusion, and to whichthe president re-
ferredwith the eloquence of genuine feeling. (Cheers.)
Since I first entered the public lists, a very young
man indeed, it has been my constant fortune to
number among my nearest and dearest friends mem-
bers of the Royal Academy who have been its grace
and pride. (Cheers.) They have so dropped from
my side one by one that 1 already begin
to feel like the Spanish monk of whom
Wilkie tells, who had grown to believe that the only
realities around him were the pictures which he
loved—(cheers)—and that all the moving life he saw
or ever bad seen was a shadow and a" dream.
(Cheers.) For many years I was one of the two
most intimate friends and most constant com-
panions of the late Mr. Maclise. (Cheers.) Of
his genius in his chosen art I will venture to say
nothing here, but of his prodigious fertility of mind
and Wonderful wealth of intellect I may confidently
assert that they would have made him, if he had been
so minded, at least as great a writer as he was a
painter. (Cheers.) The gentlest and most modest
of men—(hear, hear)—the freshest as to his generous
appreciation of young aspirants—(cheers) —and the
frankest and largest-hearted as to his peers—(cheers)
—incapable of a sordid or ignoble thought—(cheers)
gallantly sustaining the true lignity of his vocation=
(cheers)—without one grain of self-ambition, whole-
somely natural at the last as at the first, "iii wit a
man, simplicity a child"—(cheers)—no artist of
what Boyer denomination I make bold to say ever went
to his rest leiving a golden memory more pure from
dross or devoted himself with a truer chivalry to the
art-goddess whom he worshipped. (Loud and con-
tinued cheering.)

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