FINE ARTS.
THE ROYAL ACADEMY.
The vacancy among the Royal Academicians caused by the death of Mr. Wyon was filled up on Tuesday the 10th by the election of Mr. Wll-
am Calder Marshall, the sculptor. If internal policy rendered it fitting to translate a sculptor from the Associate to the Academician body, the choice is a natural one ; for of the others none is of any long stand- ing; nor have we anything to say against the selection of a sculptor in the abstract. Were it so to happen that his elevation should rouse Mr. Marshall's energies, and lead him to return to those better intima,. lions of his earlier works, now overlaid by affected conventionalisms, the choice would be in all respects satisfactory ; but of this we must confine ourselves to expressing a wish. Mr. Richard Partridge was on the same evening elected Professor of Anatomy on the retirement of Mr. Green ; and Mr. Knight's Teachership of Perspective was converted into a Professorship.
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