The Sun.
London, England, 1826-05-01 00:00:00

[FROM LLOYD'S.]

DEAL, APRIL 80.—Wind N.—Arrived, and sailed for the River,
the Fort William, Nash, from Bengal, and Lowther Castle,
Baker, from China; Angerona, Baker, Ninntvrrat ; Concord,
Leth, from Rio, and Sovereign Transport, from Portsmouth.—
Sailed, the Breadalbane, Burgoine, for Jamaica; General Harris,
Stanton, for China; Fairlie, Blair, for do.,and the Briton,
for the South Seas.

Posmsstounr APRIL 30.—Wind N.E. to N.—Arrived, the
Peruvian, Simons, from Rio Janeiro, in 92 days.—Sailed, the
Lady Holland, Snell, for Madras and Bengal ; Speke Transport,
for Deptford, and the Dryad, Swinburne, for Oporto.
PLYMOUTH, Aritt. 29.—Wind N.—Arrived his Majesty's
Ship Talbot, from Portsmouth, and sailed again eastward.—Sailed,
the Prospect and Restoration, for St. John's, N. 8., and Pal-
myra, Hughes, for London ; the latter struck on the east end of
the Breakwater, in going out, but is expected to he got off.

FALMOUTH, Aran, 29.—Wind N.N.E...Arrived the Four
Friends, Roberts, from London ; and Johaima, Duke, from Cork.
Sailed the Renown, Gardner, for Santa .Martha ; Lavinia, ATler,
for Cork ; and Sarah, Booster, for London. The Duke of Kent
Packet, for Lisbon, and the Countess of Chichester ditto, for the
Wanda, are detained till Monday next.

Arrived in the Channel;the Vansittart, —, from China.
Arrived off Dover, the Charlotte, Wipple, and Janorin, from
Bahia; William Penn, from New York; and the Diana, Bowson,
from St. Croix.

. Off Portland, the Maria, Sutherson, from Havana ; off Cork,
the Madawaska, from Savannah.

EAST INDIA. Sinprilic.—On Saturday, the dispatches were
dosed at the East India House, and delivered to the Pursers of the
following ships, viz. :—London,,Captain John Barnet Sotheby ;
William Fairlie, Captain Thomas Blair; and Canning, Captain
Bryan Boughton, for China direct.

DINNER AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY.

Sattirdai 'the Royal Academicians gave their annual dinner to
a very numerous assemblage of distinguished characters. The
dinner was provided, and served up in very good style, from Tree-
nniaons' Hall, in the great robin of tlle 'loyal Academy, in Somer-
set-Once. ,The, chair for the President, Sir Thomas Lawrence,
was placed under the picture of the full-length likeness of the
King, in a blue surtout coat? on which are, several orders.
On the right 'Orthe President sat the Lord aancellor, the
Duke of Wellingtoit,. Pritth' .Nterhazy; the Earl of Liverpool,
the Earl of Harrowby, &c. &c. On the left of the President at
the Duke of Norfolk. the Archbishop of York, the Duke of De-
vonshire, the Duke of Argyll, the Duke of Newcastle, &c.
The whole of the spacious room was extremely well filled. It
was brilliantly illuminated with gas, from a large bronze lustre
in the centre of the room, which was presented to the Royal Aca-
demy by the King.: The display of the principal pictures of which
the Exhibition can boast, gave the whole a most splendid, fascinat-
ing, and imposing appearance. _

After the cloth waa removed, the Grace was sung by a number
of professional gentlemen, in very fine style, and " God save the
King" followed after his Majesty's health.
Among the toasts were—" The Noblemen and Gentlemen who
have honoured the Academy with their presence."
The Loan CHANCELLOa returned thanks, and proposed the
health of—
" Sir Thomas Lawrence, the President."

Sir Thomas addressed the Meeting at some length. He took
a general view of the rise and progress of the Arts in this country,
particularly since the establishment of the Academy, which was
in the year 1769, at which time the the number of pieces of Art
sent for exhibition only amounted to 136, and the receipts
amounted to about 600/. Since that time the Academy had pro-
gressively flouriehed, having been honoured with the support of
the late and of his present Majesty in a peculiar manner, who had
honoured them with his company. They had also been support-
ed by Parliament, the distinguished characters who now conduct-
ed his Majesty's Council ; and in fact, by the Nobility and Gen-
try, who gave their aid in promoting the Arts, which advanced
so much, that the number of pieces of Art exhibited last. year
amounted to near 1,100, and the receipts to between 6 and
7,000/. The Institution bad not been formed for the benefit of
distressed Artists or any charitable purpose, yet since its establish-
ment
they had been enabled to distribute upwards of 20,0001.
The annual dinner of which they had just been partaking
originated with Sir Joshua Reynolds, the then President, who in-
vited some select friends to dine with him, on the day previous to
the Exhibition opening to the public. Among those friends were
Burke, Anson, and Gibbon. No doubt, Sir Abraham Hume would
.recollect being present, who was in the room (Sir Thomas Law-
rence, lo Acing to Sir Abraham, who bowed his assent.) The
President said he believed Sir William Sontt used to attend those
dinners; and he understood, from authority, that they were to be
remm c I from that place. He should always venerate that spot which
had given thew a beginning, and from which so much improve-
ment had been derived. He hoped they would not be disappoint-
ed in.the present exhibition, although he had to regret the loss of
the contributions of a very able and eminent Artist, who was not
in England. (This alluded to Mr. Wilkie, who is abroad for the
beneat of his health, which we regret to say was understood to be
essentially necessary.)
The PRESIDENT apologized for troubling a nobleman present a
second time by proposing 44 the Earl of Aberdeen, and the Bri-
tie' ti tution. '

The NoBLE EARL in returning thanks, observed that the
Institution was similar to the Royal Academy in its endeavours
to cultivate; the Fine Arts, and it had not been deficient in its en-
ktvotirs ;
;the Noble Earl hoped it would go on so, regulated by
care Led indu,stryr, had also received the support of the King
and the ParliiiniU;nt:'
4,449466`e6rnilany.present were—Lord Carlisle; Viscounts
I',ilmevitot), Melville, Beresford ; Lords Chief Justice of the
Kings Bendri.iAsiel, Baron, J. Russell, Northwich, 'Cawdor,
garyboro_
;2*tops of London, Durham, Oxford, Bath and
tyttl.s; the Lord Mayor ; Right Hon. G. Canning,
p,St4i.' (if the' Rolls, Vice-Chancellor, Sir C. Long, W.
Huskiaseri,'e. Arliethnot, Ifookham Frere, G. Tierney, Sir W.
Grant; . flonourahles Agar Ellis, Gen. Phipps, J. Abercrombie;
U. Broughton, J. W. Croker, aca. Ice,

LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, MAY 1, 1826.

With feelings of the deepest sorrow, we have this
day to record the occurrence of additional disturbances
in Lancashire. • The apprehensions which we ex-
pressed some days since, that the riotous disposition
which had been evinced by the populace at Blackburn,
would spread throughout the whole of the manufac-
turing districts of that county, appear unhappily to be
fast verifying. Theflamehas already spread to Manches-
ter, where disorders of the most alarming description
have taken place, and at the date of the latest accounts,
terror and dismay prevailed in that town and its
neighbourhood. The fury of the mob, had not been
confined, as at Blackburn, to the .destruction of
the power looms, but had been directed also
against the buildings which contained machines
of that description. A diabolical attempt had
been made to destroy by fire a factory in Jersey
street, Manchester, by throwing pieces of burning
cotton through the windows. The first story, and a
part of the goods in it, were set in flames, but their
progress was stopped by the great exertions which were
subsequently made for the preservation of tIA property,
and a catastrophe, which might have laid the whole
town in ashes, was thus fortunately averted, not, how-
ever, until damage to the amount of many thousand
pounds hid been done by the devouring element. For
further distressing particulars, we must refer our
Readers to the accounts which will be found in
other columns of our Paper, from different parts of the
Country, by which it will be seen, that some lives have
been already sacrificed in the lawless attacks made by.
the deluded people upon the Factories. However
deeply.the loss'of life on such occasions is to be de-
plored, it is a necessary consequence of proceedings of
the character of those which the unemployed menu.
facturers have unhappily resorted to. Vigorous and
decisive measures, when once the passions of the mob
are let loose, can alone stop the torrent which might
sweep away in its fury the whole property of the coun-
try; and, however we feel for the sufferings which have
excited them to violence, we must not permit our pity
to interfere with our duty, for the preservation of the
common
a
any price. We therefore rejoice to
findthat
military force is collecting in the dis-
turbeddistricts. Detachments of the Dragoon Guards,
of Horse Artillery, and of other corps, had already reach-
ed Manchester and its neighbourhood, and the result of
the deliberations of the Cabinet has been the issuing
of orders for the immediate conveyance, in fly-boats by
the canal to Manchester, of the second Battalion • of
the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards, the

63d Regiment of infantry and other forces,
which, we trust, will be adequate to the sup-
pression of all further disturbances. We can-
not, however, hope to subdue the spirit which has
actuated the populace, as long as the cause of it re-
mains ; and we must strenuously urge, that while-
prompt and decisive measures to repress their violence
are taken by the Government, measures for their re-
lief, equally prompt and decisive, should be adopted
by the more prosperous and affluent of this metropolis.

Since writing the above we have received intelligence
from Manchester up to a very late hour on Saturday
night. We are happy to say, that no fresh outrage
had been committed, and more general tranquillity
prevailed at that time. Extracts from the Second Edi-
tion of the Manchester Gazette will be found in angr
tiler column.

We have just been informed that a gentleman, now
arrived in town from Manchester, left all tranquil there
yesterday noon. A great number of troops had arriv-
ed from various quarters.

We understand that orders have been given for two
regimsnts, now in Ireland, to be brought over to Li-
verpool without delay. A Cabinet Council has been
summoned for this afternoon.