The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-20 00:00:00

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THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
temp, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING the performances will commence with
HALLOWEEN.
And THE OVERLAND ROUTE. Messrs. C. Mathews,
Buckstone, Compton, Chippendale, Rogers, Mrs. Charles
Mathews, Miss Weekes, and Mrs. Wilkins.
After which, the new comedletta, HIS EXCELLENCY,
in which Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews will appear.
To conclndc with THE CHRISTENING.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S TECEATRE.---
Lessee, Mr. A. Harris.
I ITHIS EVENING, will be performed THE LADY OF
THE LYONS. Mr. G. Melville, Miss Heath, &c.
' After which, CRUEL TO BE KIND. A. "Harris, Misses
C. and R Leclercq.
To conclude with THRICE MARRIED.

Commence at 7.

ADELPHI., NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
.Sole rroprletor and Manager, Mr. Beni. Webster.
THIS EVENING, JANET PRIDE. Messrs. B. Webster,
J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, Stuart, C. Selby ; Miss Woolgar and
MISS Laidlaw.
To conclude with IN AND OUT OF PLACE. Miss
Julia Daly, Messrs. C. Selby and C. J. Smith.
Commence at 7.
Box-office open from 10 till 5.
Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, £l.
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, Is •
Pit Stalls, 2a.; Pit, is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, ls ; Gallery, a
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Wu. BATTY.
Immense Success of "Mazeppa."
A Grand MID-DAY PERFORMANCE will take place on
SATURDAY next, Aug 25, commencing at Two o'clock.
This Evening, Lord Byron's splendid Hippo-drama of
MAZEPPA AND THE WILD HORSE, with entirely new
and beautiful scenery, costly costumes, and appointments,
introducing the largest stud of highly-trained Horses, Po-
nies, Buffaloes, and Camels in the World.
To be followed by Scenes in the Arena by the Star Riders
of the day.
Doors open at half-past 8, performance commence at 7.
Box-office open daily from 11 till 4.
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST.
Director of the Arena—M. Felix Revolti.

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERT S.-
EVERY EVENING.

A Grand Selection from
MARTHA,
And Selections from
TROVATORE, MACBETH,
And numerous other Entertainments.
Balcony, Is, Hall. 6d.
Comic Vocalists—Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come-
dian and Mimic). and C. Marshall.
The ETHIOPIANS, consisting of 17 performers (organised
expressly for this Establishment), for the performance of
Vocal and Instrumental Music, Comic and Sentimental, with
Negro delineations, anecdotes, tc., in addition to the usual
entertainments.
The Fine Arts Gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday
Evening.

WEATHER.--SUN OFFICE, AUGUST 19, 1360.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
61—highest since noon yesterday.
55—lowest this morning and during the night.
64—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-29.72.
WIND—South-Westerly; rather fresh, with rain all the
afternoon.

AUGUST 20.
THERILOICETEIt, IN THE BHADII.
66—highest since noon yesterday.
58—lowest this morning and during the night.
62—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-29.90.
WlND—West-North-Westerly ; fresh, with fine sun.
shiny weather.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 4h. Om. Afternoon, 4h. 20m
To-moßnow.-Morning, 4h. 40m.—Afternoon, sh. lm

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THE SUN.

LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1880,

Fifteen thousand pounds were begrudged on
Saturday for the internal improvement of the
National Gallery, while from one to two hundred
thousand pounds sterling have been squandered on
those absurd and unsightly "boilers" down in South
Kensington. Now, viewing these two structures
even architecturally, the preference must be at once
accorded to that ridiculous stone cruet-stand in
Trafalgar-square. Compared with the hodge-podge
jumble of sheds, out-houses, Cockney imitations
of Swiss cottages, rabbit-hutch tenements, Bromp-
ton boiler: a " upon end," horizontal, perpendicular,
slantendicular, or otherwise linked together in every
conceivable attitude and direction—compared with
this (as we may term it) visible Charivari in wood
and metal, known among a considerable number of
Her MAJESTY'S lieges as the " Albert Folly," the
ludicrous structure disfiguring the Finest Site in
Europe, is really and truly quite a Vitrurian mas-
terpiece, or Palladian achievement. Yet upon
those Brompton Boilers or that South Ken-
sington Museum we have been lavishly ex-
pending sums amounting already to the gross
aggregate of £167,000 namely, upwards of
£60,000 for the land, upwards of £50,000 for
the collection, and upwards of £50,000 for the
buildings themselves. The best part of two
hundred thousand sterling freely given for
" Albert's Folly"—and a little item of £15,000
doled out grudgingly for an obvious and unques-
tionable improvement of the interior of the National
Gallery. T.he discussion which took place on Satur-
day in the Reuse of Commons when in Committee
of Supply, prior to the division upon the latter vote,
is in many ways worthy of particular examination.
It serves to illustrate in a deplorably vivid manner
the muddling system, or rather no-system, upon
which we are in the habit of dealing with art-
questions, as a nation affecting to rank high in the
scale of European civilisation. From that discus-
sion it will be seen that every one who took a part
in it admitted frankly that no determination what-
ever has: yet been arri red at as to the distribution or
concentration of our art-treasures, as to the future
organisation of the British Museum and National
Gallery, as to the ulterior condition of the site of
Old Burlington House, in Piccadilly, or of the
new Mt iseum at South Kensington. Nothing, in
fact—it is generally acknowledged—has yet been
decided -upon in regard to the whereabouts either
of the Moue Academy or of the National Gallery.
This, to o, after all the Committees of Inquiry that
have sates upon this problematic subject—entering
there ( with a view to its solution) into the most
elaborat s and lengthened investigations. Fre-
quently and openly, moreover, though these butt-
ters have been examined, both in the Press and
in the Parliament—it was yet insisted upon from
both sid es of the House of Commons on Saturday,
that no definitive resolution in regard to any
one of them has yet been accepted. All is said to be
held still—as the phrase is—in abeyance. We are
supposed, as a nation, to remain yet to the last irre-
solute as to what we shall do with our art treasures,
with our over-stocked museum-collections, and with
our long coddled, and dandled, and petted Royal
Academicians. The FACT being all the while that
we have nevertheless upon these matters arrived
now son ie time since at a tolerably clear understand-
ing, it not perfectly well understood, for ex-
:that the National Gallery is to be the Na-
tlalol.llery ? That it is only a question of time and
convenience when the Royal Academy is to remove
thence
elsewhere—from the present obstructive
16 location" r
(where the members of it have been so
long ssluatting)
at the north of Trafalgar-square,
to the site at Present occupied by Burlington
House in Piccadilly • Once get rid of the
Royal Academy, and the space at our corn-
madu for the national
art-treasures in the
present gallery as it now stands_lS DOUBLED !
Direct': ' that is done, we may forth •
with render the
Nationial Gallery 112 its contents worthy of its
design; ation. As it is at this moment THE national
part of our art treasures has to be looked for, not
in the ." National Gallery)" but in the Museum at
South Xensington ! The Sheepshanks collection—
Verno n Collection—The Turner Collection are
there down in thiut " slough of despond" near