The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-06 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--Crhis_Day.)

LONDON, May 6.—Wind this day at noon, N.B. ;
moderate breeze, and fine.
DARTMOUTH, May 5.--Arrived—Margasake, from Rot-
terdam for Japan.
PLYMOUTH, May s.—Wind N.—Arrived—Phoebe
(ss), from Southampton for Cape of Good Hope.
FALMOUTH, May s.—Wind N.N.E.—Sailed--Pauline,
for. Now York.
CARDIFF, May s.—Wind N.N.E.—Sailed—Port de
Berdeasia, for Hong Kong; Parana, Ceylon; Constance,
G.bral tar.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday Morning.

Wind E. ; fine.
Arrived—Orion, from Newport ; Le Crystal and Breeze,
Cardiff ; Dispatch, steamer, Jersey ; Carolinda and Le
Coq, Cherbourg; Nelly and Constantia, Shields; Cale-
Branch, Waters, Marquis Bute, Ally, Princess
Victoria, and John and Isabella, all from Sunderland ;
South Western, steamer, Havre.
Sailed—Bosphorus, steamer, for Liverpool; Wear,
Sunderland; Courier, steamer, Jersey; Havre, steamer,
Havre; William, Neath.
LIVERPOOL, Thursday Morning.

Wind W.S. W.
Arrived, May s.—Charter Oak, from Savannah ; Re-
triever, Hamburg.
Arrived, May 6.—Queen, from Rio Hache ; Walter
Lord, New Orleans.
Sailed, May 4.—Pedler, for St. Thomas ; Emma, Cape
Town; Thalia, (s.s.), Odessa; Fawcett, Newfoundland;
Horatio, Barbadoes.
Sailed, May s.—Wyke Regis, for Newfoundland; Jonge
Walgrave, Port-au-Prince ; Islv, St. Petersburg ; Can-
°lroise, Leghorn ; Alice Gill, Alexandria.
Sailed, May 6.—Sea King, for Boston ; Byzantium, Vera
Cruz ; Columbia, New York.
Off.—Mignon and Falcon.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning.
Wind N.E. ; tide, three hours' ebb ; fresh and fine.
Arrived, May s—Augustus, from Porto Rico.
Sailed, May 6—Amelia, from Patras ; Karen Louise,
Christiana ; Mette Catbarina, Nykobing ; Dowkboom,
and Friendshaft, Groningen; Christiana, Gottenburg ;
Francisca and Emma, Dantzic.
Sailed, May G.—Friar Tuck, for Hong Kong ; Kensington,
for Calcutta; Gustav Wasa, Gottingen ; P .ris and Lou
don, Paris.

DEAL, Thursday Morning.

Wind N. 8., fresh.
Passed—Plantagenet, for Labos Bay ; Scargo, Geelong ;
Countess of Seafield, Shanghai ; Louis Napoleon, Rio
Joneiro ; Belle of the West, Calcutta ; Winged Arrow,
Cardiff; Hero, Barbadoes ; her Majesty's ship Seamew,
Portsmouth--11 from London.

The Senatus of Glasgow University have conferred
on the Rev. Norman M'Leod the honorary degree of
LL.D.
The gold expected from Australia,
including that in
the vessels °which have recently left Melbourne, but the
whole of which cannot be looked for immediately, is
871,7001. Of this 307,000/. will be brought by the Rox-
burgh Castle and Sy,lenbatn, and 564,0001. by the Swift
sure, the Medway, the Indemnity, and the Red Jacket.

Sir Charles Eastlake's " Good Samaritan," and
Sir Thcmas Lawrence's "Portrait of Sic Valter
Scott," are the chief engravings in the current
number of this valuable serial. The s I,j -et of the
first is not treated entirely to our tase, either as
regards poetic conception or artistic detail ; how-
ever, it is a fine picture, and constitutes a fair spe-
cimen of Sir Charles Eastlake's style of pa'ntino..
Lawrence's portrait of Sco`t is, unquestionably,
the very best we have of the Great Magician.
There is a higher torte of spirituality and rneetal
expression developed in the face than we find in
any other portrait of him. Most of the likenesses
convey a notion of stolid imperviousness or heavy
abstraction, and fail to individualise the mixture of
benevolence andintelligencewhich radiated through
the plain and somewhat rugged features of Sir
Walter. The picture before us is among the hap•
piest of the great painter's efforts, and represents
the "Genius of Romance" with refined and fitith-
i ful accuracy. The statue of Thom'ts Moore, by
his namesake, C. Moore, is nicely engraved by
Roffe. The numerous vignettes and sket_iliFs sew-
tered through the work are of a vet y interes ins
class, including Pope's Villa, Pope's Monument,
and Strawberry Hill, accompanied by descriptions
from the clever pen of Mrs. S. C. Hall. The
general information connected with the fine arts,
and criticisms on the present exhibitions, evince
the usual ability displayed in the management of
this journal. We extract the following sensible
remarks from an article on the Royal Academy
the Royal Academy were well instituted at the
period of its creation, its institutions must for that t X
press reason be ill suited to the wants of the present
time. If it were rightly shaped to the Art conditions
amid which it saw the light, it can have no due adjust.
ment to the Art conditions which surround a, d appeal
to its maturity. The very theory cf its perf-ction ninety
years ago, must, interpreted according to the mere letter,
be the theory of its insufficiency to day.
"I'o say, merely, that the constituency fora rational
institution which shall be an adequate embodiment and
representation of the Fine Arts amongst us at the pre
sent time is, at the least, six times as large as that out cf
which the Royal Academy originally issued, is to give a
very incomplete expression to the amount of the i,-
terests now pressing for representation by means of such
an institution. The mere numbers of the artists who
constitute the true Art body of the nation now, and
who should therefore form a part of any institution which
affects generally to incorporate our artiste, is—as we
shall shortly have to show—a part only of the facts in
the case,—though a part of itself sufficient, ifehere were
no more, to sustain the argument for a new solution ee
the Academy question. When first it was felt expedient
to give academic figure, and something like means of
corporate action, to our native arts, the number of
artists thought necessary to compose an academic
presence of sufficient dignity and consistency was
obtained,—and that, not without difficulty, and
some delay,—only by admitting complimentarily
into the body two classes of persons who are
excluded from membership to-day,—foreigners and
females. It may be questioned much, whether tee
age was ripe for a native Academy of Ares which could
not find amongst the body of native artists a sufficient
number of members to constitute such Academy. Ba
that as it may, however,—out of the thirty-,ix
Academicians whom alone it was found passible at the
beginning to get together towards the full number of
forty which was the appointed figure of the young insti-
tution, nine were recruited from the ranks of foreign
artists—without seeking to include in that category its
future president, the American, West--; nd two, Mary
Moser and Angelica Kauffman, belonged to what we
apprehend is considered (though we are not quite cer-
tain whether the modern exclusisn be formal or merely
casual), the non-academic sex. Toe exclusion of the
foreigner from a native Academy of Arts—except under
some system of honorary attache-.ship, to be inc-eTorated
into its new and enlarged constitutions, when we g: t
them—will be recognised at once, we apprehend, us a
sound principle. The exclusion of female art, where it
can make its title to admission good on all otbt r grounds
than that of the artist's sex alone, we ho,)e to see either
justified on some argument which for ourselves we fail
to discover, or abandoned as resting on no good argu-
ment at all. There are, our readers know, some strange
motives operating, avowedly and otherwise, as the basis
of action in this Academy ; but we fancy that even a:,
institution which appoints its professors not to profess,
and gives its annual dinner as a sort of picture trade
sale, would yet hesitate to -uggest the alliteration as a
reason for placing the female in the cat gory of the
foreigner. We should not, however, Lice to assign a
limit to what some of the older and less apprehensive
members of the Academy would do in the direction of
the whim.ical. Bey, even if it should be finally deter-
mined, that the higher rank of the Academicianahip is a
senate, and its members must wear beards—and, on
business grounds, a; .d some other grounds of very sound
policy, there is sufficient argument why this should be
so—we can yet see no avowable reason for refusing the
properly-constituted claim of the lady artist to associ-
ateship, when the Associates' door shall have been
opened, as we hope to see it, sufficiently wile to let in
the body generally of the profession."