28 JULY 1860, Page 21

Amongst the grants for the Civil Service estimates for public

works ap- pears the sum of 40001. for decoration of the Houses of Parliament, paid for the year to Messrs. Mediae, Ward, and Cope. The Royal Academy and most of the other exhibitions close today. In our notice of the proposition for reforming the Academy, by a mis- print it is stated that the proposition was "opposed," when it should have been "supported."