The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-11 00:00:00

ROYAL ACADEMY.

On Thursday, the 10th inst., being the twenty-eighth
anniversary of the foundation of the Royal Academy of
Arts, a general assembly of the Academicians was held
at their apartments in Trafalgar-square, when the fol-
lowing distribution of premiums took place, viz.:—
To Mr. Hutchinson George Smith, for the best Copy
made in the Painting School, the silver medal, and the
Lectures of the Professers Fuseli, Phillips, and Flax-
man.

To Mr. Charles H. Stanley, for the next best Copy
made in the Painting Schoel, the silver medal.
To Mr. Thomas Herbert Maguire, for the best Draw-
ing from the Life, the silver medal.
To Mr. Francis Browne Newman, for the best Draw-
ings of St. Peter's Church, Cornhill, the silver medal.
To Mr. George Stewart, for the best Drawings from
the Antique, the silver medal.
To Mr. William Graham Dewick, for the best Model
from the Antique, the silver medal _ _

Which was concluded with a short address from the
Keeper to the students.
The general assembly afterwards proceeded to appoint
officers for the ensuing year, when Sir Martin Archer
Shee was unanimously re-elected President.

COUNCIL.

NEW LlST.—Thomas Webster, Patrick MacDowell,
John Rogers Herbert, and Thomas Uwios, Esqrs.
OLD LlST.—Charles Landseer, William Etty, Abra-
ham Cooper,
_ and Edward Hodges Baily, Esqrs.
VISITORS IN THE LIFE ACADEMY.

NEW LlST.—Abraham Cooper, -Thomas Webster,
John Rogers Herbert, and Patrick MacDowell, Esqrs.
OLD LlST.—Edward Hodges Baily, John Prescott
Knight, Charles Robert Leslie, Charles Landseer, and
William Frederick Withering ton, Esqrs.
VISITORS IN THE SCHOOL OF PAINTING.

NEW LlST.—William Mulready, Charles Rubert Les-
lie, Thomas Webster, and John Rogers Herbert, Esqrs.
OLD Lim—Charles Lock Eastlake, Charles L%ndseer,
Ramsay Richard Reinagle, and Thomas Uwins, Esqrs.
AUDITORS.—WiIIiam Mulready, Esq., Sir Richard
Westmacott, and Philip Hardwick, Esq.
The Lectures on Architecture will not take place in
the usual course, the Professor being prevented the ful.
filment of this duty in the ensuing season by unavoidable
circumstances.

GREAT WHEAL MARTHA MINE:=A curious dis-
covery has been made in the mundic of this mine by
analysis of an average sample, namely, the existence of
cobalt, which, with the proportion of copper and arsenic,
is likely to render this hitherto supposed to be useless
substance available and valuable. The quantity of
mundic at the shallow level is enormous, being from five
to six feet 'Nide, of the average richness of the subjoined
analysis, made by Mr. P. N. Johnson, of Hattun-garden,
London:—
Iron 27
Arsenic 36
Copper
: ••
.•
Sulphur ••• ••• •• • ••• ... • 17-
Silica, &c.

ACCIDENT FROM GUNPOWDER.—Yesterday fore-
noon an accident of a serious nature occurred to a lad,
named William Heartly, whose parents reside at No. 32,
Ewer-street, Gravel-lane, Southwark. He was amusing
himself by making some squibs, and whilst mixing the
combustibles in a mortar the whole contents of the vessel
exploded, forcing out the windoi of the room, and
causing great alarm among the neighbours. The boy
was found extended on the floor in a frightfully dis-
figured state, his features being blackened and charred
by the powder. He was removed to St. Thomas's Hos-
pital, where he remains under the care of the house sur-
geon.