The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-23 00:00:00

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Balance reserved for the engraving of the
year.

2,383 14 2

13,440 5 0
1,796 10 10

Net stnount to be expended this year in
works of art

13,643 14 2

His Serene Highness the Duke of MECKLENBURGIL
STRELITZ moved, and Sir C. HOPKINSON seconded, the
adoption of the report.
The in,tion was put and carried by acclarnaticn.
Mr. T. UwiNs, 8.A., then moved that the thanks of
the Society be given to the Committee for their services
during the past year, and that they be requested to con-
tinue those valuable services—(Cheers) He was sure
that they must all feel that a lake debt of gratitude was
due to the members of the Committee, who exerted such
activity in the support of the Institution. The artists'
also felt that a deep debt of gratitude was owing to those
gentlemen, and, as an artist, he was delighted to stand
forward to give expression to the gratitude that was
felt by the whole body.—(Cheers.) Artists were
not men of words, nor were they accustomed
to address public audiences in public places; but they
felt deeply grateful to the Society and to the Committee
for the assistance they had rendered to the cause of Art.
—(Cheers.) By the aid of the Committee, genius had
been enabled to emerge from obscurity, which might
otherwise have been hopeless.—(Cheers ) He had great
pleasure in moving the resolution.—(Cheers.)
Mr. COOPER, R. A., in seconding the motion, said
that he had always found the Committee anxious to
listen to any suggestions for the benefit of the Society,
or for the promotion of art—(Cheers)—and he had no
doubt but that the establishment of this Society would
prove of great advantage both to the. artist and to the
public.— (Cheers.)

The resolution was then put and carried by accli-
mation.

Mr. W. 11. Roper, R.A., an Mr. Haggard, were ap-
pointed scrutineers of the drawing.
Hiss White and Miss Roy were the ladies who drew
the tickets from the wheel.

At this part of the proceeding his Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge left the theatre, amidst loud cheer-
ing, it having been explained that his Royal Highness
had a previous appointment to keep. The chair was then
taken by B. B. Cabbell, Esq., and the drawing com-
mencee.
The principal prizes drawn were as follows : .
Mrs. A. Packe, Grantham £2oo
Mr. W. Gow, Hungerford Wharf
Mr. J. J. Stone, Kensington-terrace, Bayswater 7O
Mr. G. Lancaster, Wyndham-road
Mr. F. Allen, Pershore BO
Mr. R. H. Green, Manchester
Mr. P. Brown, George yard, Lombard street BO
Mr. Henry Brough, Oughton, Cheshire
Mr. 11. W. Dobell, Kensington BO
Miss Connell, St. James's-place
Mr. W. G. Bull, Newport-Pagnell 5O
Mr. I'. H. Hughes, Henley-street. a bronze, value 50
Mr. G. 11. L. Wood, New Bond-street 6O
Mr. James Carrington Potterm, Bedfordshire
Mr. W. Christall "-0
Mr. W. Durrant, Norfolk •.. 70
Mr. T. Longman, Paternoster-row
Mr. A. G. Frazier, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Mr. F. Cooper, Worcester 7O
Mr. Butler Williams, Waterloo-place
Mr. G. Twiss, Cambridge l5O
Mrs. Puget, Finchley-road 6O
Mr. C. Clayton, Cambridge lOO
Rev. A. R. Lloyd, Whittington 2OO
Mr. W. Macdonald, Glasgow lOO
Mr. E. Shepherd, Coventry
100
Mr. John Jarmrdaawn,inhigahlfaaMteioonn-cslturdeee
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thanks were voted
the Ladies who had assisted a
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wheel, and to the Chairman, after which the meetingt3tZe-
parated.

THE MURRaIV IN SCOTLAND.—A good deal of
excitement has been caused throughout the north generally,
and also in the southern cattle markets, by various conflict-
ing statements at present in circulation with respect to the
appearance of the murrain in Ross and Caithness. The Aber-
deen Herald the sth instant contained the following para-
graph :—" The murrain has broken oat with great vielence
in Ross-shire and Caithness, both in cattle and
sheep, from which it has been conveyed to Edin-
burgh by stock from the north—many of which have been
obliged to be carted from the ship to be slaughtered, and has
made the trade very dull there. Every precaution should
be used by dealers and fanners to keep the infection from
this county." The John 0' Groat Journal states, " that there
is not the slightest ground for believing the report
thus circulated, and that the cattle exported from
the north were shipped in excellent order, and
were only seized with the distemper when infested
in the stalls of the Edinburgh cattle agents." A
correspondent in Ross-shire informs us that the first appear-
ance of the disease occurred about five weeks ago,
amongst the stock of a gentleman who had brought a
bull from London. This animal was admitted into the
byres in a diseased state, and ere it was discovered that
such was the case, the infection had seized all the cattle,
young and old. The pestilence next spread among the
sheep, to such an extent, that, from the time of its
appearance up till the 4th instant, no fewer than thirty-fonr
lambs alone had died. Dire as are the effects of the pesti-
lence amongst bestial, the woolly people suffer muche
evil] We trust the desolating progress of this devouring
measuresill
speedily be arrested, and that prompt and _
the malady.—
In
SALE OF THE FLEET /1.1
of
this
town
Irlrrbllee,:sadcooputreider.to prevent
PRISON.--On
ssopsre._adoof n
Monday the
the City
sold were the materials composing
auctioneers; the portions so the
w 0 f
coffee and wine.roonta, and the northern the
chapel, the
ianecmonidnaptourrtei,o.nwaof %hese
.samleedofbythembxrlds.initruenand Son, materials
prison. The prosiuee of the day's sail was upwards of 11004