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London, England, 1844-04-29 00:00:00

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FOREIGN.
The object of Louis Philippe's visit to Dreux was to pre-
en% personally over the placing of the coffins of the deneased-
Ineinhercof his family in the tombs destined for them in the
'vault of the new buildings of the chapel. At half-past ten
en Tuesday, a.grand mass was celebrated by the Bishop of
Morocco. The mortal remains "of the Duke of Orleans and
the Princess Marie were then deposited in their final resting
Places. On Wednesday his Majesty visited, in all their de-
wa, the chapel, the . chiteau, and the new house built for
,the Bishop of Morocco. After breakfast and performance of
'ow mass, the King set out on his return to Paris, at twenty
Ininutes past twelve. A man in the crowd having shouted
`4 Five le Roi I Vice mon aneien Colonel !" the King ordered
one of his aides-de-camp to make inquiries, and the man
Leaving proved that he had served in the regiment of which
his Majesty was Colonel, lie made him a liberal gratuity."
The Duchess of Kent arrived at the Tuileries on Wednes-
day afternoon at. three o'clock. The King's carriages were
waitiug in the morning at St. Denis for the Duchess and her
suite. Her Royal Highness was accompanied on her entering
Paris by the Count de•Strada, the King's equerry. She will
occu_py during her stay the apartments usually occupied by
time King and Queen of the Belgians. Her Royal Highness
Will visit Versailles, Fontainebleau,- and the other Royal
Palaces before she leaves France. ' A grand dinner in honour
Of her visit will be given at the Trianon, -and on the 2d of
slay there will be a concert at Court. On Friday she re-
ceived the diplomatic corps in the Salle du Trone. Her
,R93ral Highness had with her the Queen, the Duke de
enaoure, and Madame Adelaide.
The Prince de Joinville arrived at Havre on Wednesday
In the Pluton steamer, and left on the same day at noon by
the Seine steamer for Rouen, where his Royal Highness
"eV,. and arrived in Paris on Friday by the railroad.
The Journal des Chemins de Fer says i—"We learn, from
tbeen appear to be well informed, that an offer has
n made -to the Government, by an Anglo-French Corn-
Pang, for the execution of the line of railway from Lyons to
ingnon. We- have -no doubt that a proposition, the result
of which; if accepted, would be the cornpletion_of the entire
"e, 'Tom the North Sea to the Medite ranean -will be well
received, by the Government, the Chambers, and the public,
rizarteei!'Llelt, if, as we are- assured, this Company offers to.
O;`-p...%°_,,e line without calling for assistance from the State.*
renes'm"l4'bt'ro.rci, Y,yhaccounts were received at Paris, from Flo--
It •• —"ng the death of the venerable Count Vittorio
over the affairs
o has for so long a series of years -presided
giii3bed life and
of Tuscany. The Noble_Count was a distill,-
,l'eTary and scientific scholar, and although in his
ghttr 7 'ninth year; was in the full enjoyment of all his facul-
es to the hour of his death.
e._ Frankfort journal states that the reigning Prince of Saxe
'etnir.Gothe is in future to be called Highness, instead of-
Ducal Highness, and that the Duke of Nassau has, in con-
sequence •of bit-marriage with an Imperial Princess ofltushia;'
APplied to the German Powers to be authorised to assume`"
the title of Royal Highness. It was not supposed that the
request would be, complied with. -

CfIURT---=-WASTICION.II.IIII.E.
Her Majesty and :his Royal'Highness Prince Albert, ,ac-:
enrapanied by the infant Royal 'family, contemplate paying
a visit to the Isle of Wight et an early period in the ensuing
illnuth• The sojourn of the Court at Osborne -House- inot:,
axPicted to exceed more thfn a week or ten days. The re-
tinue will be unusually small.
The Duchess. of Kent' is travelling under- the-title of
Countess of Dublin, -the Earl of Dublin 'having been one of
the titles of his late Bo al Highness the Duke of Kent, - •
Their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians pur-
NoB leaving this country on Tuesday or Wednesday next.
xtis Excellency Count de St. Aulaire gives a grand ban-
on Widnesdiry next, to the Duke of Wellington, Sir
ciobert Peel, Earl of Aberdeen, and the leading•members of
the Government, and also to the principal members of the
trP4 diplomatique, in honour of the fete yof the King of:
French. • It is to be a full-dress party. day of the King of:
rench. It is to be a full-dress party. On the following
the the Countess has a grand ball in further celebration of,
" auspicious event, for which, it is said, 500 cards of in-
citation have.been circulated. - •• •
ThaDnebess of- Leeds has arrived at the Clarendon Hotel
-`4ll 'Rornby Castle, Yorkshire. The „Duke is expected .to
11.10 bark for the Hague early in June, on his annual: isit to
tie Majesty the King of Holland, during the meeting of the
,taking or Falconry CIA in the Dutch capital.
,4,,,4,h_e Duke of _Devonshire entertained a distinguished party
4,lunner op Friday, last, at Devonshire House. A select
,
-cje assembled after dinner. • _ •
, ,1110 Earl and Countess of Shannon are expected to, arrive
intt's Hotel, on Wednesday, from • Castle Martyr, the
Lute Earl's seat, in Ireland.
•LaJErirl and Countess of Erroll left London on Saturday
-er,waina Castle, North Britain, to.prepare for the celebration
tn. coming of -age of Lord -Kilmarnock; on the 3d. of May,
rn. and Lady Erroll intend -remaining in Scotland till late
Lordutumn.
2,,.... and Lath Farnham, Baron and Baroness Dimsdale
FZ-Risses Dimsdale, Sir William and Lady Foulis and Miss
4-" is, Mademoiselle D'Este, &c., have arrived -at Mivart's
°tel. •
ix.r144'.:1-Rokeby, at his recent audit of his Northumberland
„Pertv, made a return of ten per cent. to his tenants gene-
ha"Y'• *The Noble Lord is still abroad for the benefit of his
ea u,.
Lto _ .
10w---Y Caroline Brrington,- after a lengthened visit to
11
.and Countess a
Grey, at Howick Hall, has returned to
The French Ambassador and Countess de St. Aulaire had a
Zbu%circle to dinner, on Saturday evening, at the French
ti • AIISONIXOTAANEOI7B.
The private view of the 40th exhibition of the pictures by
e Society of Water-colours took place pn Saturday, and
lo attended by
the Archbisho of Canterbury, Marquises
lourtliampton, Aylesbury and Marchioness; Earls Brown-
ro Cawdor, Jermyri, Powis, and Wilton ; Countesses.
Mansfield, and Powis, and Dowager Morley ;
Bali of London, Winchester, and Lichfield ; Viscounts
p,.%sea and Alford ; Ladies Chelsea, Marianne Alford,
4,.7,g1i0e, and Mary Wood; Lords Colborne, Prudhoe, and
1:"11 Russell ; Sir R. Peel, Sir M.. Shee, Sir T. Acland ; and
YAlnany artists of ,eminence,
,",..Inunirous, meeting of artists took place on Saturday
sight at.Willia's-rooms,•to.iake into consideration the recent
ryove of the GoVernment as to the illegality
,9f the art-
„,nns, and the best. course to be adopted in consequence of
that discovery.'"Mr. Wyse was called to the chair,'and' after'
d.i!e-usectitLwas :unanimously resolved to present peti-
" the Houses of Parliament, praying them to adopt •
the --pleasures as will-place on - a true and permanent basis
B4l7titotrnen *London and-all other similarly-constituted
beurpapOtedrthoif he
()'n *iirday"in
evening the seventy-first anniversary fete
the funds' of the Highland. School Society was cele-
futiirities
large room of the London Tavero, with unusual
liberant part Of the Society, and'With the accustomed
scriber/ " the proprietors of the tavern. Among the sub-
' were -her Majesty, 50/. ; the Queen -Dowager, 'lO
Ziruelas ; the Duke of Cambridge, 201.; the Duchess of Buc-
Ilin,„_• "'".251- the Chairman a second donation of 10 guineas ;
T..."'"uul Bond Cabbell, Es'q., 10 guineas ; Hugh Maclean,
Je;4isdeu'eased, late a Master in Chancery in, Spanish Town,
IlreitaZa (duty paid by the estate) a legacy of 1,000/. ; Mr.
urat, two guineas. The gross -amount was upwards
v!.MO/iv.
alec.er_ al ty
the Queen-Dowager will honour the perform
se •
n-n.fAncient Music on Wednesday evening with her pre-
•,Earl Howe (the director) has engaged Madame
4._,q4nri Allan, Miss 'Marshall, and Miss' Dolby, Signor
p„...11,1 Messrs: Bennett, Barnby, Chapman, and Machin.
''''guuetor, Sir H. R. Bishop. • •
theLl!e Chartists have been holding a Convention at Man-
eitt" during the paat fortnight, but have ndjourned their
having previously resolved. to hold their next Con.,
,30-Z,nla at Leeds. The. business of their last Convention
A;"Prised the re-organisation of the " National Charter
t,:nciatiod," and the appointment of Missionaries to agi•t ate
NA' city, town, hamlet, and village in favour of the " six
-"•1 of the Charter." •

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TAE
LATE GREAT CHESSMATCH
BETWEEN,TRANCE -AND- ENGLAND.-
th #having been suggested by the French champion
I:%:_te-Inglish amateur,. Mr. Staunton; in his proposals,
IsiC“YlOg a.match of chess with any player in Europe, had
Ili,l'ueed conditions which be knew would be unacceptable to
shi„ ()Ur countrymen instantly published the following deci-
atlf.and spirited challenge addressed to M. St. Amaut
.--
'I•AILENGE FROM MR. STAUNTON TO M. ST.
- AMANT.
at or dear Sir,—Your reply to my "Proposals"• reaches me
Pk ,ornent when the forthcoming Number of The Chess
c. ,;,'Yerro
Chronick is at press. This circumstance will ac-
IPt for and excuse the brevity-of the present communication.
rtt'lY challenge, to the terms of which you have taken so
every exceptions, was a geueral one, and its conditions, how-
t equitable, could never be so nicely shaped that they,
!oil dovetail with the wishes and convenience of every.
,Zllttal• They will not do so, it would' seem, with yours.
oc.°Ziag them, then, altogether out of sight on the present
att7,211, ; regarding only the impatience which you express,
hecyn","ich I feel, for another match, and. the assurance you
iloh,„„l6Lvea us-of your being in London this spring, I have the
j',!' to submit for your consideration another " defi."l
the 'VI engage- upon your arrival in London to play you at
tq ohst-• George's Chess Club a match of twenty-five, of
yoZY:one, of eleven, of seven, or of five games, at your
'l•l;._"°r.any stake not less than 100/. sterling.
and L 7 games Ours shall be played at your own appointed days
j Ails ' •
undertake to play 'every day, or alternate days, or
t•il I woek, as you may arrange, under the penalty of one
rlee for each omission.
11141%4 agree thatthe maximum time allotted for each move
Inia„Vo .ten, or fifteen, or.twenty, or twenty-five, or thirty
the at your pleasure ; and that either party.exceeding
the
time, shall on every occasion be fined a guinea.
ram. tch shall also be played in public or private as you
Leal „determine ; and, finally, I will consent that in each game
sueraYers-shall on their first move play king's pawn two
' elieve me truly yours, . - •
• JAMES STAUNTON.
• St Amant, editor of Le Palamede.
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ty,-,°ll/IP,VARK LITERARY INSTITUTION.—On Friday
ttn:„'"ng last Mi. Rumball,
the phrenOlogist, delivered a lee-
to tke "-Pailacies of Mesmerism," wherein he attempted
e 1 4'""e-the who/e" systeni- to be one. of delusion or fraud,
alexplained,. it, considerable, length; sundry means by
is
°Pe or the other could be detected.. At the conclusion
th,• kroekes, the mesmeric lecturer, opened up a battery on
gra thoiolocal gentleman,' And read several of hisdp.ibra;
11,,,1151 ill then ewspapers,:in refutation of what he
that tula
aqvanced; but as personality was .most a.shef I
tilre"ed -with the:discuision; we forbear comment. T e lecY-
went, off very well, but the attendancewaasery small.
CopisiT OF Tl!g EMPEROR OF RUSSIA. TO TIIIS
the7,TRY•r---Theapproaching visit of his, Ittaperial -Majesty
Inen,%9lperor of Russia: to , this countrvi, which. it may be :.re-
r,NO3"e-red was first --ahuounced in the I;fornirig Pesti will
cilryer tiaepreienf season the most, :splendid which has oc-
-46)._ th.e.visit of the-Allied Sovereigns, at the concl.u:
tiro,„_7l!_rilin-ligtthoetWhear, in 1814: The nobility and gentry are daily
014140p01i5,. and:the house-Agents are seeking
°"eS in every direction. Imperial Majesty, -who
aid
he attended 4y-several members- of his Illustrious.house,
apar, nuinerous retbine, will occupy , the splendid. suite of
menta ih St. James's Palace. Preparations are already
ali,Z7,tecl.at the Palace for his Majesty's reception, and
to tne mansions of' the leading members of the aris:-
finci 3c!, •whe -with each other in the magnificence
of hit,' .?edour of the fetes which they will give in honour
*in be Alajesty's visit... It is understood that there
t.,`!' a brilliant display of fireworks in Trafalgar-square
31_7 evening of the day on which his Majesty arrives.—
Post.
stifTevr hear that Sir James Duke M.P. continues to
iss°,lleverely from :an attack of rheumatism, that sore
pkbha rf4iYie:,elapee beforele will be able to attend to his
.1/4:: 11,1

THE LONDON DISTRICT POST-

OFFICE.

The changes in the London district (late twopenny post)
office were on Saturday last officially announced. Provision
Is made for ten deliveries of London local letters daily.
There are at present seven, and the alteration, it will be
perceive% has the effect of making an hourly delivery of
letters between the hours of one, r.ae., and six, P.M., in-
clusive. The following is a copy of the notice issued to the
various receivers throughout town ;
"London District Post-office.

" On and from the first of May (Wednesday next) there
will be ten deliveries of letters in London daily, and the dis-
patches will be made from this office at the following hours :
. MORNING. I AFPEANOON.
8, 10, and 12, A.M. I 1,2, 3,4, 5,6, and 8, F.M.
" By this alteration letters for tile country districts posted
before three o'clock, P.M. will be delivered the same even-
ing: and those posted 'before five`o'clock will be delivered
within a circle of six miles from the General Post-office the
same night. Letters for the last delivery ought to be posted
before six o'clock, and this delivery includes all places within
a circle of three miles from the General Post. office.
" N.B. Letters for the first delivery in the morning must
be posted befoie eight o'clock the previous night.
" ROBERT SMITH, Superintending President."

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To carry out the alteration announced al;Ove, 160 letter-
carriers have been appointed, besides several other officers.
The additional cost to the establishment is estimated at about
8,5001. per annum. The total cost of district post letter-
carriers alone employed in delivering letters in the metro-
polis is over 20,000/. per annum.

IRELAND.
ITIE STATE TRIALS.-SECOND DAY.

DUBLIN, APRIL 26.—Mr. -WHITESIDE resumed his argu-
ment at half-past one o'clock yesterday morning. He com-
menced by adverting to the Chief Justice's charge. The
Learned Gentleman, after referring at some length to the
evidence permitted by the Lord Chief Justice to be sent to
the jury with respect to the assembling the repeal meetings,
and then-illegality, proceeded to say :—lt made not the least
difference whether a meeting was convened magisterially or
not. The evidence received was irrelevant, and wholly at
variance with the question under consideration, because the
meetings were convened by the Association, and not magis
terially, therefore tho_place- in-:which they,wero nttered was'
very' difThrent frohi -that referred to in Home Tooke's case ;
and the fact of Mr. O'Connell having all his life 'adhered to
the' same principle which he professed before the mural was
a strong fact which should have been noticed in his favour.
IJpOn the ground of misdirection he submitted a case had
beeh made out, upon this application for a new trial.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL rose and said, that he wished to
take the opinion of the Court as to the course to be pursued
with respect to this motion. Eight notices had been served ;
and it was for the Court to say what number of counsel
should be heard for the traversers, but he did contend for it,
that every one of those notices should be opened before, the
Crown was called.on to reply.. Those acting for the Crown
did not desire any unnecessary delay, and he (the Attorney-
Geaeral) required that the several notices should have been
opened by such number of counsel as the Court might decide
:apen, before the Crown replied to the objections. After the
Crown would have been heard, other counsel might be heard
for; the traversers, the Crown, however, having the last
reply. . . ,
Judge BuirroN'-IVhat is saidle this ? - • = - '
• Mr. HENN, Q.C., should have been disposed to contend
that the Crown ought not to have the final reply, especially
in a new trial motion; but he was afraid their Lordships en-
tertained too decided an opinion upon the•subject. It ap-
ps i red that there were four classes of notices, One 'relating to
th cases of Messrs. O'Connell and Steele, 'another to Dr.
,Gr y and Messrs. Barrett and Ray; a third to Mr. Duffy, and
a fOurth to Mr. Tierney ; and there being those four classes,
each of those notices could be opened by a separate counsel ;
and the Crown having then spoken, the traversers could
rely by four more counsel.
_ The ATTORNEY-GENERAL--After the Solicitor-General and

I have spoken, the counsel for Messrs. John O'Connell, Ray,
Duffy, and Tierney, will have an opportunity of being heard,
prier to the final reply of the Crown.
Mr. HATCRELL, on the part of Mr. Ray—l have a motion
to make to your Lordships, to the effect that a new trial be
granted. The Learned Counsel continued to address the
Court for a considerable length of time, minutely discussing
the bearing of the law and the Judge's charge upon his client's
ease, and at six o'clock terminated his address by stating his
opinion that their Lordships would .be inclined to submit
to any inconvenience, even the terror of another trial like the
preeent, sooner than justice should not be done, and the ac-
cutrd denied the benefit of the law. Mr. Hatchell then re-
surned his seat, and the Court adjourned till half-past ten
o'c ock to-morrow morning.
SATURDAY.—THIRD DAY.
e Court sat this morning at eleven o'clock, when
Ir. MOORE., Q.C., proceeded to address their Lordships
on behalf of the. Rev. Mr. Tierney. He had to move their
Lotdships to grant a new trial, and to set aside the verdict
obtained in this case. The verdict returned was not sus-
tained by the evidence of the case, and also there was a mis-
dirpction in the charge delivered by the Lord Chief Justice
.to the Jury. The charge against Mr. Tierney was that he
had joined a conspiracy already formed, and they could not
prave his having joined a conspiracy by fixing the acts of
otbers done before he had any connection with them.
Sir. O'HAGAIT was counsel for Mr. Duffy, and it was his
duty, on that gentleman's behalf, to move for a new trial.
He, contended that evidence had - been improperly admitted
el whl ch should have been rejected; next, because the evidence
in is behalf was not properly laid before the jury; next, that
tb charge of the Learned Judge was objectionable, by reason
of nlisdirection ; and, finally, that the evidence did not sus-
taih the verdict. _ __ _ __ _

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The SOLICTTOR.GENERAL opposed the application, and fol-
lowed the order in which the application had been made. He
wo.dd contrast the statement of the Counsel for the traver-
serb with that verified and sworn by Hodges, the Govern-
ment reporter, a gentleman of great ability, and thehighest
character in every respect.
. ' udge CadatyroN—Whose affidavit is that ?
he SOLICITOR-GENERAL said, that of Mr. Hodges, the
sh rt-hand writer. And he would, call the attention of the
Co it to the facts of the case, as sworn to by that gentleman.
A ong the twenty-four names on the jury panel called by
M , Bourne, Mr. iligby's name was called by that officer as
John Rigby. On this Mr. Rigby hoping, and he (the Solidi-
tori-General) did not blame that gentleman, 'to avoid .being
raked on the jury by a mistake in the writing of his name,
said at the time that he was called John Jason Rigby, and
not !John Rigby, and suggested that, as Mr. PaSsworth had
been excused on the former day for serving on the jury on
siMilar.grounds, he might be exempted also. Mr. Bourne
then asked him if he were not the John Rigby that lived at
17$, Great Brunswick-street? to which Mr. Rigby answered
in the affirmative. Now there he was identified with the
Bathe John Rigby on the jury-list. He proceeded to discuss;
the next,objection to the verdict, viz., the extension of the-
trial into vacation, and really Mr. Whiteside had ninist
strangely interpreted, or rather misinterpreted, the words of
that Act.
At half-past four o'clock the Judges intimated their inten-
tion of adjourning the Court. .

THE SUPPRESSION OF ART-
UNIONS.

A general meeting of artists was held at Willis's Rooms,
King-street,
the best course- to be adopted in consequence of recent
notice James's, on Saturday evening, tothceonscidenert
notice given by the Lords of the Treasury prohibiting the
usual drawing of the Art-Union lottery. Long before the
time appointed for the meeting the room was thronged, and
the greatest anxiety was manifested in the proceedings.
Soon after eight. o'clock-Thomas Wyse, Esq., M.P.,
ascended
the platform, accompanied by the members of the Council of
Institute of Fine Arts, by whom the meeting hadheen cen-
THOMAS WYSE, Esq.,' having 'been called to the chair,
stated briefly the objects for which they were assembled, and
desired the Secretary to read the advertisement calling the
meeting.
JAMES'kAHEY, Esq., the honorary secretary, having read
the advertisment,
The CHAIRMAN again rose and addressed the meeting at
considerable length on the subject of Art-Unions and their
prospects. He observed that, in 1837; a feeling having ex-
isted for the further extension and improvement of the fine
arts, by combining with the interests of artists that of the
public at large, the Art-Union system was introduced, and
was soon afterwards extended to almost all parts of the land.
The characteristic features of this system were that it dis-
countenanced monopoly ; there was in it no combination for
the advancement -of particular interests, or individual advan-
tage, but it extended encouragement from- the highest to the
lowest, and, whilst it encouraged artists, it also promoted a
taste for the fine arts among the public at large, who were the
most enduring, the most noble, and the most elevating
patrons of art.—(Loud cheers.) • The Art-Union wished to
extend the civilisation depending on art to every
part of the country ; to give to every artist the
thence of becoming known to his fellow-subjects,
and to establish in this country a republic of art.
The .results of their efforts had so far realised. their
most sanguine hopes. In the first year of their labours the
subscriptions amounted to only 4001., whilst last year they
exceeded 14,000/. ; and this increase had taken place in the
space of only eight years. Similar augmentation had been
experienced in the Art-Unions of Edinburgh and Dublin,
which showed that the increasing taste for the fine arts was
not limited to the metropolis. The money which had been
distributed by the Art-Union of London, since its forma-
tion, amounted altogether to between forty and fifty thousand
pounds, which sum had been distributed generally among
the most meritorious artists, and had not been apportioned
to any favoured individual or coterie. He denied that the
Art-Union was a gambling society, though it came under
the letter of the law. To the law, as pronounced by the
Attorney-General, they must submit ; but they were, never-
theless, not precluded from doubting the soundness of the
interpretation-of the law, which had been otherwise inter-
pretated by other legal authmities. As doubts had arisen,
he wished the Legislature to take measures to prevent the
.continuance of those doubts in future. Without censuring
the Government for having acted on the interpretation
of the law by the Attorney-General, he at least thought
that that interpretation should have been elicited at
an earlier stage •of the proceedings, so that much, of
the expense that had been incurred by the Art-Union
of London, might have been avoided by premonitory notice.
The course he would advise the meeting to pursue was, to
present a memorial to the First Lord of the Treasury, repre-
senting the position in which the Art-Union of Lthicloitawas:
plae9d by the recent decision against :them ; stating the pre-
sent condition of body, what they had done for the ad-
vancement of art, and. their hopes of_accomplishing much
more for the future. Let them entreat of him that the law
might be it-modelled, and that they might be at least placed
in a condition to pursue the system whichliad hitherto been
so suecessful: Should-the First Lord of the Treasury not like
to take the initiative in the matter, then the question would
be whether it might not be advisable to submit the subject to
the consideration of the Committee of the House now sitting
on gambling.. It was-well known in what difficulties certain
parties had been recently thrown by an application to the
of the law against gambling,' and that they were-. obliged -to
appial to the Legislature for the suspension of the Jaw, and
for a subsequent remedy that would take their cases out of
-the operation of that law. It was well known what aym-
pathy,• and he'might add, what indulgence was shoWn by the
Legislature on that occasion.—(Cheers and laiighter.) It
was impossible to suppose that men who Were only-distin-
guished at Newmeiket should be • treated with greater kind-
ness by the Legislature than a body of men who had exerted
themselves to diffuse the arts of civilisation, and to spread
- the glory of the country to all parts of the world.—(Cheers.)
The first resolution, expressing regret at the 'suppression
of Art-Unioni, was proposed by Air. HowsE, and :seconded by
Mr. POWELL, and carried with only one dissentient, amidst
loud cheers.
• The second resolution was to the effect that a memorial be
Presented to Sir Robert Peel, requesting him to -move for the
appointment of a Committee of the House of Commons on the
subject of Art-Unions. -
This resolution was opposed by -Mr. RYLE, but was carried
almost unanimously.
The third resolution *as to the effect that
.petitions be
presented to both Houses of Parliament, praying them ,to
adopt measures to establish on a firm basis the Art-Union of
London, and all similar institutions. This resolution, as
well as the former one, was carried with loud acclamation,
the only hand held up 'against them beixq that of Mr.
Ryle;whe watt laudJy-lattglied 'At fcir his itordoivenng oppo'sition.