10 NOVEMBER 1832, Page 19

We have heard a welcome piece of news—that S'EANMELD has

been elected an Associate of the Royal Academy. He is every way deserv- ing of this distinction. If the Royal Academy pursue the course they have adopted recently in the election of members, we shall forget their past sins, and leave the abuses to die off quietly with those who have profited by them.

Mr. GEDDES is the other Associate. He is a portrait-painter of great ability, but less known than he deserves to be.