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LONDON, MONDAY, MA Y 4, 1868.

We have now before us the particulars of the fare-
well dinner to CHARLES DICKENS, and they will be
found very interesting. So much attention has
been directed to all the details that have been fur-
nished of this visit to America that the closing
Beene will not fail to be regarded with pleasure.
It is satisfactory to notice that the most perfect
success attended the affair, and that the feeling
which animated the assembly was throughout of
the most cordial and friendly character. Mr.
GREELEY commenced the speeches of the even-
ing, and related au interesting anecdote in

connection with the object of their meeting,

Thirty-four years ago he printed one of Mr.
DICKENS'S earlier stories in the first number of the
first journal with which his name was connected,
and where, in truth, he had met with a real
" David Copperfield in Italia." Alluding further
as to the manner in which their distinguished guest
had
,elevated himself, he said that he was not
ashamed of having come up " from the lower
rounds of the ladder of the press," and though none
of those present had reached so high, still his suc-
cess was a sign of hope and encouragement to every

one of them. "We are each successful in his triumph
in seeing how he has done ; how nobly, how untir-
ingly he has done it ; with what thorough success he
has preached the gospel of humanity, until even
nobles and kings have listened in admiration. I
say we have in this success of his an encouragement
to every one of us, saying far up higher.' " When
Mr. DICKENS rose to respond the enthusiasm_ and
excitement were so great that for some time he

could not be heard. During his speech he
referred to the extraordinary tales he
had heard of himself relating to his doings
in America, and the printed news which
bore reference to his doings and sayings had

amazed him more than any " printed news" he

had ever read in his life. All these marvellous
tales had been surpassed by the intimation that
he was compiling a work on America, which was
the more astounding as he had made it well known
to his publishers on both sides of the Atlantic that
he bad positively declared that no consideration
would ever induce him to write another book on
America.

Considerable satisfaction was evidently expe-
rienced by the remarks which Mr. DICKENS made
as to his impressions on that his second visit to
America. He desired, he said, whenever oppor-
tunity offered itself, to express his high and grateful
sense of his second reception in America, and to
bear his honest testimony to " the national gene-
rosity and magnanimity." The changes which
have taken place since the period of Mr. DICKENS'S
last visit across the Atlantic have been striking and
almost marvellous. Those years, he admitted,
" have not passed without making changes
in me, and I am not so arrogant as to sup-
pose that I have nothing to learn and nothing
to correct in extreme impressions since I was here
first." This passage in his speech was loudly cheered,
and on his return to England Mr. DICKENS declared
that he should bear such testimony to the gigantic
changes in the country for the benefit of his country-
men, and also record his noble reception, and this he
should have allied to every copy of the work in which
he alluded to America, not in love and cheerfulness,
but in justice and honour. Points of difference, of
course, there must ever be, hut that is not to be
wondered at, and, as it is effectively put here, it
rests with the two great nations to uphold the great
Anglo-Saxon race and all its achievements before
the world. Conserning the chance of a war ever
taking place, Mr. DICKENS referred to the point in
the most spirited manner, and with real American
force of expression. He said that honest minds and
both sides the Atlantic must believe that it would
be better for this globe "to be riven by an earth-
quake, fired by a comet, overrun by an iceberg, and
abandoned to the Arctic fox and bear, than that it
should present the spectacle of those two great na-
tions, each of which has in its own way and hour,
striven so hard and so successfully for freedom, ever
again being arrayed the one against the other."

Mr. DICKENS read for the last time before au
American audience at Steinway Hall, and delivered
at the end some impressive remarks. The
shadow must pass, he said, which had been hovering
over them for some time, and in reading PEGOTTY'S
words he had felt their full significance, <tmy
future life lies over the sea." The relations be-
tween him and his American listeners must be
broken for ever, in actual meaning, but in thought
and memory they would long survive. By the
winter fireside, or in the green English summer
weather, Mr. DICKENS has declared that he will
often recall to mind the assemblies that have lis-
tened to his words ; and we believe that the feeling
will be reciprocated, and that in loag years
to come, when the shadows of life have
fallen and buried in oblivion much that now seems
important around us, there will be many to re-
member this visit of our great novelist and humorist
to the far West, and that they will tell their chil-
dren and impart to strangers the success which
attended his voyage across the broad Atlantic,
and it is not expecting too much to say that even
now we may derive great benefit iu our mutual re-
lations with Ainerica_froin the iindly feelings and

reciprocal tastes that have been encouraged, for
literature has formed a neutral ground on which to
meet.

The anniversary dinner of the Royal Academy is
always one of the most interesting festivals of the
year. it is one of those auspicious occasions which
gather together round one hospitable board the
foremost men of the day. Princes of the State and
Ministers of the Crown are surrounded by those
who claim the royalty of genius, by the agents of a
power not ;less mighty, though less tangible, than
that of the successful statesman. There are as-
sembled, too, those men who have won distinction
in other walks of life, who have investigated the
mysteries of nature as well as discovered the
secrets of art, who have followed more
material professions with that ability and that per-
severance which almost infallibly command success.
The lawyer, the general, the surgeon, the politician
mingle with the sculptor, the painter, and the
author, while that civic power which plays so useful
a part in our constitutional system is not left unre-
presented. England could hardly, indeed, find a
more worthy assemblage of her " representative
men," of the sons who have brought to her as well
as to themselves fame, and wealth, and power, than
is to be found in the annual banquet which in the
opening days of merry May happily inaugurates
the great pictorial exhibition of the season.
Saturday's festival was a more than usually bril-
liant one, and there were several circumstances
which heightened the general interest. The Prince
of WALES was present to receive a cordial welcome
on his return from Ireland, and to join in the re-
joicings over his brother's fortunate escape. Then,
too, there was the successful termination of the
A byssiniancampaign for matter of general congratula-
tion,while the circumstances more particularlybelong-
ing to the event of the day deserve especial notice.
It is possible, we may hope indeed probable, that it
is the last time the dinner will be given in Trafalgar-
square. On the 10th of December next the
Academy will have completed its first century, and
its members, while looking back with just pride
centenary by removing to their new g
upon their past history, are eager to celebrate
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which always oppose themselves to such Burlington House. If the technical
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day may be opened on the 10th of December. Such

the past, while it would afford a most interesting
and valuable opportunity for the study and compa-
rison of the works of our national painters during
the last hundred years. _ _ _

The Lord Chancellor, who, in the unavoidable
absence of Mr. DISRAELI, returned thanks for her
MAJESTY'S Ministers, referred to the creation of the
Academy in 1768, and remarked that it was a pre-
decessor of his—Lord CAMDEN—who revised and
settled its first code of laws at the time that he was
holder of the Great Seal. He remembered being told
by another predecessor, the late Lord LYNDHURST,
that in early life he had derived much pleasure and
advantage from attending in that Academy the

lectures of Sir JOSHUA REYNOLDS. In the history

he
observed, a specially distinctive feature. It is t
Europe which has not
of the Royal Academy, there is, as Lord CAIRNS
only academy of the kind in
been maintained by the State. It has been almost
from the first self-supported, and yet it has done
good service to the public cause. " I look back,"
said Lord CAIRNS, " on the history of the Royal
Academy for the last 100 years as the bright belt
of light which has shone athwart this century of
art, concentrating and binding together those
rays and flashes of genius which otherwise
would have been dispersed, or even ex-
tinguished." In its new sphere of action
we may hope that its influence will be yet more
powerful for good, since it will have greater scope
and be less fettered. At present the mere task of
selection becomes from the restricted space painful
and invidious. The President on Saturday gave a
few particulars of the difficulties attending this
duty. The works of art sent for exhibition amounted
this year to the number of 3,011. The pictures
alone amounted to 2,683. With the closest pack-
ing the number which the committee have been able
to get on the walls is but 896, while the pictures
accepted and not hung are 180. The rejection of
so many works of art must, as Sir FRANCIS GRANT
observed, necessarily cause much irritation, and if
the academicians have sometimes given reason for
complaint, it is evident that by the mere deficiency
of space alone they are often compelled to be un-
gracious. At the same time there are improve-
ments which might be made, and which will no
doubt be made, in the constitution of the Academy,
and it gives us good hope of future reforms when
we see that the recommendations of the
Royal Commission, which at first excited some dis-
pleasure at the council table, have since been adopted
one by one. The academy has achieved for itself a
proud position, and it has succeeded in doing much
for art, but there is yet more to be done which
the vigour and experience it has acquired will
better fit it to do. The Archbishop of YORK, in
an excellent speech, pointed out the beneficial in-

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and he hoped that in the next century they would do
as much to popularise it. The contemplation of
such works as were to be seen on the walls was (he
said) very good for cultivated men. Could it do
nothing for the uncultivated ?" Referring espe-
cially to a town in his own diocese —Sheffield—
he said that the preacher, and the teacher, and the
essayist were all doing their best against the bar-
barism which existed there, and that he believed art
also could do something. The picture" Worn Out "
in this year's exhibition shows how powerfully the
painter's skill can touch that magic sympa-
thetic chord which " makes the whole world
akin."

Near the close of the evening the toast of the
Royal Society was responded to by Sir RODERICK
NitmcmsoN, one of whose ancestors, drawn by
no less a pencil than that of Sir EDWIN LAND-
SEER, adorns this year's Academical exhibition .
Sir FRANCIS GRANT, in proposing the toast, com-
pared the firmness of the staunch old Jacobite to
the resolute determination with which his descen-

dant had combated the universal opinion respecting
the fate of Dr. LIVINGSTONE. Sir RODERICK himself
expressed his hope that at the next anniversary

dinner of the Academy they would have among
them not " the late Dr. LIVINGSTONE' of last year's
catalogue, but the living LIVINGSTONE himself--a
hope in NI, hich all must join.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—The Great Choral Festival
of 5,000 voices will be held at the Crystal Palace to-mor-
row, commencing at three o'clock, under the direction of
Mr. G. W. Martin. The programme will include Martin
Luther's Hymn, accompanied on the trumpet by Mr. S.
Harper ; also, the National Part Songs : " Home, Sweet
Home," "Men of Harlech," " The Campbells are Coming,'"
and the "Minstrel Boy." Madame Florence Lancia will
sing "Let the bright Seraphim," Trumpet Obligato, Mr.
T. Harper; and the band from the Duke of York's school
will be present and pl.ty between the parts.

The Town Council of Edinburgh will present the
:reedom of their city to Mr. John Bright at the close of
he present session of Parliament.

LATEST INTELLIGENCh.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)

STOPPAGE OF A PRESTON BANK.

PRESTON, Monday Morning.

The bank of Messrs. Roskell, Arrowsmith, and
Kendall, in this town, suspended payment this
morning. Its business was chiefly among the
Roman Catholics of Preston, and it received the
moneys of many, if not all, the Roman Catholic
charities. The extent of the liabilities is not
known.

DESTRUCTION OF GREYSTOKE CAS ME.

CARLISLE, Monday.

Greystoke Castle, near Ullswater, the seat of
Mr. Henry Howard, was destroyed by fire this
morning ; the main building is gutted, and many
family paintings of the lloward and Norfolk family
have been destroyed, Some valuable art treasures
have been saved.

BOMBAY MAIL.

ALEXANDRIA, MAY 3.

The Pera left at 6 p.m., and the Ripon at 4.30
p.m. yesterday. The former may be expected at
Marseilles on the Bth, and the latter at Southamp-
ton about the 15th ult.

OUTWARD INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRA-
LIAN MAILS OF APRIL 18.
The Delta arrived at 4 p.m. yesterday.

INDIA AND CHINA MAILS.
MARSEILLES, May 4.
The Messageries Imperiales steamer Peluse, with
the above mails, arrived here at 4 a.m. to-day.

AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, May 4.
(Per the Weser, via Southampton.)
NEW YORK, April 23, Noon.

Mr. Boutwell opened the argument for the pro-
secution, and declared the Tenure law to be con-
stitutional, and that President Johnson had no right
to violate the law in order to obtain a judicial de-
cision on its constitutionality. The President was
bound to enforce, but had no right to question the
acts of Congress. Mr. Johnson had violated the
Tenure Law, and thereby the Constitution. The
assertion that he had sought legal aid was a pretext ;
his object was to obtain despotic control of the Go-
vernment offices for corrupt purposes, and to recon-
struct the Union in the interest of the rebels. The
advice of the Cabinet could not justify the President
in defying a violation of the laws of the land. The
evidence regarding Air. Johnson's speeches went to
show that a man capable of making such speeches
was unfit to hold the office of President. The Se-
nators, in their verdict, had no right to be governed
by their private opinions of the expediency or con-
stitutionality of the Tenure Law. The charge had
been sustained by the evidence, and a verdict of
Guilty would bring peace to the country.
The Senate agreed that all the counsel and mana-
gers should deliver or file arguments.
It is announced that Attorney-General Stan-
bery's continued illness will probably prevent his
further participation in the defence.

General Logan read a printed argument, declar-
ing that the object of Hr. Johnson was the despotic
control of the public officers, and the removal of
Mr. Stanton was a clear violation of the Tenure
Law and the Constitution. The President averred
good intentions, but any criminal might make the
same pretence.

There are indications that the new Constitution
has been adopted in Soath Carolina by a majority
of 30,000 votes.

THE WEST AFRICAN MAILS.
LIVERPOOL, May 4.
The -West African mail steamer Lagos arrived in
he Mersey to-day. She brings 32 passengers and
~208 ounces of gold dust.

The different stations on the coast were very free
from sickness. The war between the natives at
Cape Coast Castle continues.