The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-11 00:00:00

ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS.

On Wednesday the 10th instant, being the eighty-
third anniversary of the foundation of the Royal Academy
of Arts, a general assembly of the academicians was
held at their apartments in Trefalgar•square, when the
following distribution promiums took place, viz.:—

To Mr. William S. Burton—For the best histories
painting, the gold medal and a discern's() of the Presideir
Ww3.

To Mr. Chaff les Summers—For the best group in his-
torical sculpture, the gold medal and a discourse of the
President West.

To Mr. John Robinson—For tho best architcctural
doEign, the gold medal and a discourse of the President
West.

To Mr. Francis Clark--For the best drawing from
the life in the life school, the silver medal.
To Mr. John Bagnold Burgess—For the best drawing
from the life, the silver medal and the lectures of the
Professors Fuseli, Howard, and Flagman.
To Mr. George Edward Tuson—For the next best
drawing from the life, the silver medal.
To Mr. James Luntley—For the next best drawing
from the life, the silver medal.
To Mr. Charles Summers—Fur the best model from
the life, the silver medal and the lectures of the Profes-
sors Fuseli, Howard, and Flagman.

To Mr. Thomas Christopher—For the best drawings
of the tower and spire of Bow Church, Cheapside, the
silver medal and tho lectures of the Professors Fuseli,
Howard, and Flaxman.

To Mr. James Rowley—For the next best drawings
of the tower and Spiro of Bow Church, Cheapsido, the
silver medal.

To Mr. Henry Saxon Snell—For the next best draw-
ings of the tower and spire of Bow Church, Chespside,
the silver medal.

To Mr. Gerge Edward Tuson—For the best copy
made in the School of Painting, the silver medal and the
lectures of the Professors Fuseli and Howard.

To Mr. William Cooper—For the nest best copy
made in the School of Painting, the silver medal.
To Mr. William Oliver Williams—For the best draw-
ings from the antique, the silver medal and the lectures
of the Professors Fuseli and Howard.

To Mr. Douglas Yeoman Blakiston—For the nexl
best drawings from the antique, the silver medal.
To Mr. George Herbert Bacon—For the next bes
drawings from the antique, the silver medal.
Which was concluded with an address from the Pre
sident to the students.

The General Assembly afterwards proceeded to ap-
point officers for the ensuing year, when Sir Charles
Lock Estlake was unanimously reelected President.
Council.—New List—Thomas Creswick, Richard Red-
grave, Francis Grant, and Charles Robert Leslie, Esqs.
Old List—Philip Hardwick, David Roberts, Charles
Barry, and Clarkson Stanfield, E,qs.
Visitors in the Life Aoademy.—New List—Charles
West Cope, William Dyce, Solomon Alexander Hart,
Patrick M'Dowell, and Richard Redgrave, Esqs.
Old List—William Mulready, Daniel Maclise, Charles
Robert Leslie, and Thomas Webster, Eels.
Visitors in the School of Painting.—New List— George
Jones, Charles Landseer, Wiliiam Mulready, and Clark-
son Stanfield, E4qs.
Old List—Charles Robert Leslie, John Rogers Her-
bert, Solomon Alexander Hart, Daniel Maclise, and
William Frederick Witherington, Esqs.
Auditors re-elected—William Mulready, Esq., Sir
Richard Westmacott, end Charles Barry, Esq.

ACCIDENT AT THE TEST OF ONE OF THE DUKE OF
NORTHUMBERLAND'S PRIZE LIFE BOATS.— Tuesday Was
the appointed. day for a special trial of one of Mr. James
Beeching's life-boats at Liverpool. At noon she was
launched from the Waterloo pier, and by the aid of a crane
and a rope coiled round her, turned completely bottom up-
wards, when, with an almost imperceptible rapidity, she
righted in what may be termed a " half waterlogged " posi-
tion. The boat was then manned, and rowed lightly and
well; but, as a last test, the crew got on the "starboard gun-
wale," sinking her to near the water's edge. Some half-
dozen. more men (some of them partially intoxicated) then
Jumped on board, and, overpowering the boat, which was
only 28 feet long, capsized her, throwing the whole number,
16 persons, into the water. The boat would have immedi-
at, ly righted had they not clung to her gunwale, but the
men hanging with their weight below her, kept her for some
five minutes bottom upwards. All were fortunately saved—
one somewhat strangely; he had stuck to the boat, and she
capsized over him ; when, however, she was relieved of the
weight hanging to her sides, and from her principle of con-
struction sat on an even keel. the crowd was astonished to
find him all safe, and not wet beyond the middle. He shook
his shoulders, and declared that he dared go anywhere in her.
THE VICTORIA FUND.—Her Majesty the Queen
has most kiadly signified her intention of founding a new
charity for the relief of the poor patients who have been
liberated from the county of Middlesex Lunatic Asylum at
Colney Hatch ; and it is to be carried on in a similar
manner to the Royal Adelaide Fund at the Hanwell Lunatic
Asylum. Her Majesty has already forwarded 1001. for the
promotion of the charity.
SHOCKING CASE OF BARBARITY.—BURNING THE
BODY OF A CMLD.—One of the most atrocious acts of
cruelty by a mother to her child that we ever heard of, has
within the last few days been perpetrated at Arncliffe, a
small village situate about twelve miles from Settle, and the
same distance from Skipton. A single woman, of the name of
Mary Hodgson, supposed to be aged about thirty, has been
living with an old man, named Richard Jaques, a widower,
between seventy and eighty years of age, at Apicliffe. She
has had an illegitimate child, whether born alive or not is
not known ; but its body she destroyed in the most inhu-
man way, by burning it in the kitchen fire. Her neighbours
noticed the fire as being unusually large, and, coming in,
found her and the old man sitting and blowing it with the
bellows. A Mr. Robinson, surgeon, went in with the con-
stable (suspicion being excited) and found the infant's
charred body among the coals.—Manchester Esaminer.
FALL IN THE PRICE OF BREAD.—Yesterday the
whitechapel,Spitalfields, and Black-
bakers at the East end,
friars-road, the New-cut, Marsh-gate, Westminster, the
Seven Dials, &c.,Drury-lane, Holborn, &c., fell the price of
the 41b. loaf one halfpenny, and now charge Id. (even money),
in some parts only aid. per loaf, weighed on delivery. The
best bread at the full-price bakers' throughout the metropolis
is 7d. ' • some of the first-rate shops at the West-end, Strand,
and the City, however, still charge 70. The average price
of bread during the present winter will not exceed sd. for
good family bread, and best 6d. to 61d., or at most 7d. per
loaf. There is an excellent stock of flour and wheat in the
metropolis, both British and foreign.
LINERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.—The United States
mail steam-ship Baltic, Captain Comstock, sailed to-day for
New York with the usual mails. The screw steam-ship
l Captain Wylie, sailed at noon for Phila-
delphiaarg:est cargo of British manufactured goods
Cit v of
withG l Glasgow, g
theow
ever shipped from this port by a steamer, the value being
upwards of 100,0001.
DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—Mr. J. M. Morton, the
eminent dramatic writer, has been appointed by Mr. Bunn
to the important office of stage manager—and a more popular
selection could not possibly be made. Fazio is to be the
opening piece.

CoLossEum.—The Panorama of Paris is exciting
much interest at this time, as all the localities of the late
events can be distinctly traced ie that celebrated picture.
THE AMERICAN ARCTIC EXPEDITION.—Dr. Kane,
the scientific and able senior surgeon of the American Arctic
Expedition,
.has been requested to deliver lectures on this
subject, at the Smythsonian Institution, Washington.
THE FARMERS.—Notwithstanding all the cry
about farmers, whose pockets are so little touched as theirs
in point of taxation, poor-rates, and turnpike tolls ? For
years they have been favoured in all these respects, a "great
fact" not to be denied.