The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-30 00:00:00

SOCIETY OF ARTS.

The second conversazione held by the Society of
Arts during the present session took place on Satur-
day evening at the South Kensington Museum. The
entire range of buildings was thrown open, includ-
ing the educational department, the Sheepshanks'
gallery, and the ornamental art museum, as well
as the new rooms recently constructed for the re-
ception of the Vernon and Turner collections. The
museum of patented inventions was also open to
visitors, by permission of commissioners of patents.
The programme distributed to visitors included a
ground plan of the building And also a plan of the
estate purchased with the surplus funds of the Great
Exhibition of 1851, showing the proposed site for
that of 1861. The band of the Coldstream Guards
was in attendance, and performed a choice selection
of overtures, waltzes, polkas, &c.
Refreshments during the evening were served in
the Turner and Sheepshanks galleries, the corridors
being brilliantly illuminated, and the vast com-
pany of conversazionists had an opportunity of in-
specting, much to the pleasure alike to their curio-
sity and palates, the ingenious patent hydrostatic
tea and coffee making machines invented by M.
Loysel, Associate of the Institute of Civil Engineers,
and for which he obtained the prize medal of the
Paris Universal Exhibition. There were four
colossal urns at work supplying the company
through their percolateurs, with at the rate of 2,000
cups an hour of the "fragrant berry juice that sun-
burnt mocha bears," and of the equally delicious
.essences of hyson.
The number of ladies and gentlemen present
amounted to upwards of 290, and included the fol-
lowing, among many others :—The Lord Chancellor,
Lady Chelmsford, and Miss Thesiger, Vice-Chan-
cellor Sir W. Page Wood and Lady Wood, Sir C.
Cresswell, Right Hon. C. B. Adderley, M.P., M.
de Suret, the Swedish Consul and Mrs. and Miss
Tottie, Count and Countess Pepoli, Count de Streze-
lecki, Baron Dircknick Holmfeld, Baron Hambro,
General Sir R. Airey, General Sir T. Troubridge ,
General Ladwick, General Delamotte, General
Portlock, General Wylde, Colonel Scott Adam, Col.
Andrewe, major Parry, Major Charteris, Captains
Wemyss Smith, Kenyon, Labalmondiere, Collinson,
Drew, Birch, Piper, Kirby, Edenborough, Powell,
March, and Maude; Sir Fortunatis Dwarris, Sir T.
Fremantle, Sir Chas. Fellowes, Sir Chas. Fox, the
Mayor of Chester and Mrs. Frost, the Mayor of
Norwich, Alderman Allen, Alderman Carter, Alder-
man Phillips, Alderman Lawrence, Alderman Mechi,
the Dean of Hereford, Sir James Key Shuttleworth,
the Rev. C. Gascoigne, Rev. C. Mackenzie, Rev. R.
Whittington, Rev. R. Burgess, Rev. J. B. Burnaby,
-Rev. Professor and Mrs. Willis, Professor John
Wilson, Professor Donaldson, Professor Henslow
and Mrs. Hooker, Mr. Sidney S mirte, A.R.A., Pro-
fessor and Mrs. Marietta, Professor Hullah, Herr
Assfahrt, Drs. Doran, Beale, Sibson, Ramadge, Dun-
das, Thompson, Pinches, Chowne, Bernays,
H. Barker, Babington, Farre, Connolly, Alderson,
Hoppus, Arnott, Walter Lewis, Percy, Lankester,
Purvis, Chance, Senhouse Kirkes, Pettigrew, Messrs.
Mathew Uzielli, John Dillon, W. Spottiswoode,
F.R.S., FitzroKelly, Rowland Hill, and Frank T.
Buckland, C. Wentworth Dilke, Harry Chester,
Henry Cole, J. Scott Russell, F.R.S., Wm. Hawes,

J. P. Frith, Peter Graham, J. C. Macdonald, the
Master of the Mint. W. T. Mackrell, Thos. Sopwith,
F.R.S., F. R. Sandford, George Godwin, F.R.S.,
Charles Brooke, F.R.S., &c.