The Sun.
London, England, 1859-03-05 00:00:00

BANK OF ENGLAND.

An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Viotoria,
cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 2d day
of March, 1859:-

ISSRE DEPARTMENT.
Notes issued £33,593,490 Government Debt £11,015,100
Other Securities .. 3,459,900
Gold Coin & Bullion 19,118,490
Silver Bullion .... ----

.n 3,593,490

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—March 4.

MANSION-HOUSE.—James Taye, Wm. Sodo,
James Beaumont, Alfred Newbury, and Emma
Richards, underwent a final examination before the
Lord Mayor upon the charge of having received a
large number of squares of silk, part of a quantity
of the value of £l,lOO, which had been stolen from
the premises of Messrs. Vavasseur, Taylor, and
Co., silk manufacturers, 47, Cannon-street-west, on
the night of the 7th of January last.
A previous conviction was proved against Beau-
mont, who in 1854 was tried in the name of Pearce
and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment for
picking a lady's pocket of a purse containing £3
17s. Evidence was also given showing that Sodo,
Beaumont, Newbury, and Richards had been in
frequent communication with each other about the
time of their apprehension.
The prisoners, who declined making any defence,
were committed for trial, the Lord Mayor refusing
to take bail for their appearance.

GUILDIZALL.—Mr. Henry Potter, Mr. Samuel
Long, and Mr. W. A. Lamprell, three 9f the
guardians of the West London Union, were sum-
moned for refusing to pay to their treasurer the
sum of £4 95., as certified by the auditor to be due
from them in respect of an illegal payment, which
appeared by the general ledger to have been made
by them out of the moneys applicable to the relief
of the poor, against the statute, &c.

A long inquiry took place, but, nothing decisive
having been elicited, the summonses were ad-
journed.

WORSHIP-STREET.—Herbert Taylor, a man
about 27 or 28, and wearing the uniform of the 43d
Foot, was charged with the following brutal assault
and robbery.
Mrs. Mary Stephenson, the wife of a watch-
maker and jeweller in the Bethnal-green-road,
stated, that while she and her husband were in
their shop at half-past nine on the preceding night
the prisoner entered and inquired the price of a
silver watch which was exposed for sale in the
window. He was told £2, and left, but returned
directly after and asked to be allowed to look at it.
Her husband took the precaution of closing the
door before handing him the watch, which the pri-
soner examined, and, after observing that it would
take him as many days to earn as many shillings
as there were in £2, offered 355. and 375. for it in
succession, but uselessly, and asked her to inter-
pose with her husband to induce him to accept the
latter sum. She declined to do so, and the prisoner,
suddenly exclaiming, " Then, take that," immedi-
ately struck her husband such a heavy blow upon
the crown of his head with the butt end of a thick
stick, loaded with lead and secured with cord like a
life preserver, that the object of his brutality sank
to the ground perfectly senseless, with the blood
flowing profusely from the wound, and was now
confined to his bed. She screamed in terror for
assistance, and the prisoner, wrenching open the
door, darted rapidly into the street.
Henry Osborne, a slightly-built young fellow
of 20, and not much more than half the prisoner's
size and weight, said he happened to be passing the
house at the moment this attack was made, and,
chancing to look in at the window to see
what time it was, say, the prisoner suddenly raise
his arm and deal Mr. Stephenson a terrible blow
on the head. Notwithstanding their disparity, he
sprang upon the prisoner the instant he ran out of
the shop, and, throwing his arms round his waist,
twisted his legs round the prisoner's, so that they
both fell together ; but he still kept his hold of him,
shouting for help, and picked up the watch he now
produced on the exact spot where they had fallen.
The constable who took him stated that the pri-
soner had no money at all upon him when he was
handed to him, and the inspector on duty said he
found by the Police Gazette that the prisoner was
a deserter from his regiment, which was now sta-
tioned at Chatham.
Mr. D'Eyncourt complimented the witness Os-
borne as a fine spirited young fellow ; and the pri-
soner, who had no defence to offer, was remanded.

SOUTHWARK. William B. rocksopp, a middle-
aged man, was charged with intermarrying with
Sarah Sherwood, his former wife being then and
now living.
Sarah Sherwood, a respectable-looking young
woman, said that about 12 months ago she became
acquainted with i
the prisoner, who introduced him-
self to her as a single man n a prosperous condition
of life. On the 29th August last they were mar-
ried at St. John's Church, Waterloo-road. After

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living with him four months she was compelled to
leave him o wing to this ill-usage, and about a month
ago she heard that he had a wife living. Informa.
tion was given to the police, and he was taken into
custody.
Mr. Burcham asked her what position she was in
when she married the prisoner ?
She replied that she was a domestic servant, and
had saved a few pounds, which she handed to the
prisoner, and he soon spent it all.
Mr. Burcham remanded the prisoner.

LAMBETH.—Mary Ann Adams, a woman ap•
parently about 40 years of age, and servant in the
flunily of a gentleman residing at Dulwich, was
charged with concealing the birth of her illegiti-
mate offspring, and cutting up the body into small
pieces.

The prisoner, who declined offering anything in
defence, or saying a word in reply to the charge,
WUS remanded.

THE FINE ARTS.

(F,vm the Times)
Lord Lyndhurst has a better right to be heard
on the subject of the Fine. Arts generally, and of
the art of painting in particular, than most of out
public men. He himself is the son of a great
artist ; his early life was spent among artists, and
might
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many ties of friendship and cordial feel
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Lord Lyndhurst's advocacy of a profession from
which he may be said to have sprung. The painters
have given a Lord Chancellor to England in the person
of that aged man; whose strongest claim to respect
does not rest even upon his undoubted eminence in
his profession. In the decline of life, and when
most other men would have been content to repose
upon the laurels which he had so fairly won, Lord
Lyndhurst has taken a great place among English
statesmen. He did this by a leap so easy, by an
effort to all appearance so slight, that no one
would suppose his life had been assiduously de-
voted to the practice of a profession which cramps
and narrows even while it strengthens the intel-1
lectual faculties. It is not, however, of Lord Lynd-
hurst, but of the Royal Academy, we would speak,
It is sufficiently notorious that for some time past,
negotiations have been going on with the object of
transferring the residence of the Royal Academy
from Trafalgar-square to Burlington-house. The
country has recently paid no less a sum than
£140,000 as the purchase-money for the entire site
of Burlington-house, and the idea seems to be that
this site shall be devoted to the accommodation of
certain bodies connected with science, literature, and
the fine arts. Among these the first place is assigned
by common consent to the Royal Academy. It is
clear that the Academy can be no longer left where
it is, now that we have arrived at the settled con-
clusion that the National Gallery is to remain in
Trafalgar-square. Either the trustees of the
National Gallery or the Royal Academicians must
give way. One building of such proportions can-
not contain them both. The rooms assigned to the
collection of works by the old Masters are ridicu-
lously insufficient for the purpose. The formation
of a collection upon a truly grand and national
scale is quite out of the question, unless sufficient
space is procured for the exhibition of the pictures
with all necessary advantages of light and position..
The Royal Academy, on the other hand, as far as its
annual -exhibition of modern pictures is concerned, is
equally cramped with the older and permanent Gal-
lery on the other side of the building. We believe
that half of the complaints which are now made
against the management of the Academy would at
once disappear if they had sufficient room to place
the Works of artists not being Academicians in
situations and under lights equally advantageous
with those which assist the works of the more
favoured Academicians into public notice. It is
clear that not even under the most popular system
can every artist be an Academician, but at least
every one should have the opportunity of displaying
the results of his genius and industry without pre-
judice or drawback of any kind.

The question under dileussion before the Peers
last night was as to the terms upon which the
Royal Academy was to be removed from Trafalgar-
square to Burlington-house. The position of affairs
would seem briefly to be as follows :—The Govern-
ment are prepared to hand over a very large section
of the Burlington-house site to the Royal Academy,
upon two conditions. In the first place, the Acade-
micians must take only as much space as they really
and bona fide require ; secondly, upon the site
assigned to them they must erect at their own
proper costs a building appropriate to the purposes
of the Academy, as for exhibition halls, schools,
&c. The Academy ask for half the frontage of
the present building facing Piccadilly, and for a
large portion of one of its sides—these to be made
over to themselves and their successors in perpe-
tuity. They ask, in fact, for half the site, which
half represents in money value £70,000. As Lord
Lyndhurst explained the matter last night, the
Academicians are prepared to erect buildings upon
this site to the value of £40,000 or £50,000.
This they consider to be an equivalent ; but, of
course, as a mere question of figures, it is not so.
It is, however, perfectly clear that the matter must
not be looked at in that way. Is the space really
sufficient ? There can be no reason for driving the
Academicians to an unnecessary expenditure; still
less would it be politic, while we are laying the
foundations of a system which is to endure for cen-
turies, to haggle about a little ground more or less.
If, upon due consideration of the whole matter, it
is judged right to make a present to the Royal
Academy of a site suitable for their purposes, let it
be a suitable one. Do not let our children and
grandchildren be called upon to settle and resettle
this question. It is no slight responsibility which
the Academy undertakes—nothing less, in short,
than the training up of the successive generations
of English artists. If such a work can be best
carried out by the instrumentality of the Academy;
we ought to deal with its representatives in a way
which shall preclude the possibility of laying the
blame on the shoulders of the nation in the case of
failure. The objection which presses on the other
side is that there are many societies which are rival
claimants with the Academy for the Burlington-
house site ; but surely it would be better to find
some other location for the geologists, the astrono-
mers, the botanists, and so forth, than to cramp in
any way so noble a design as that of placing, our
English Academy of Painting upon the best pos-
sible footing.
If we are sure that the Royal Academy is the
best instrument for this purpose, by all means let
the thing be done ;if not, not. The Academicians
are now asking for two things. They are asking
the nation for the free gift of £70,000. They are
asking, in the next place, that the artistic educa-
tion of the country,—that paramount influence in
all matters of art,—should be handed over to them
and their successors for all time. We do not say
this will not be for the best, but it is a grave ques-
tim indeed when we come to take into considera-
tion the present close constitution of the academic
body. What is the general opinion of artists upon
the subject ? They are the persons whose voices
should be heard in such a matter. As long as the
Academy took no help from the public
.purse
beyond the accommodation granted to them in this
or that particular building,—as long as they gave
instruction from their own funds, and expended the
£7,000 per annum of their own earning in such
manner as might seem to them most fitting,—the
public had no great right to interfere in their affairs
even by a comment. The whole history of their
connection with the Crown, and of the various con-
cessions made to them' from time to time in the
way of accommodation, may be read in a most
pleasing and concise form in our Parliamentary
Report of this day. No man living could tell
this story better than Lord Lyndhurst, who in
his early life had attended the lectures of Sir
Joshua Reynolds and Barry, and who dined
with the Royal Academy last year. If he
have made out a case for his friends and clients,
there can be no doubt as to what our course should
be. Let the Academicians have all they ask, and
let us banish from our minds all niggardliness and
parsimony while laying the foundation of the school
of English painting. On the other hand, before
we give over at once so important a trust to the
charge of any body of individuals, no matter how
able, how honest, how eminent they may be, are
• we not justified in asking some guarantee that the
direction of English art shall not be intrusted,
' without possibility of recall or reconsideration, to a
' small self-elected body ?Is this the best arrangement
we can make for all time. It is not L 70,000 we
are about to give the Academicians, but absolute
and despotic power over English art. Is this for
' the best ?