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Fine Arts.

SIR ROBERT PEEL has been acting in the character of a Minister of Fine Arts. The Premier has found time, among his multifarious duties, to visit the studios of several sculptors......

Publications Received,

From December 8th to December 15th. BOOKS. Memoirs of the Court of England, from the Revolution in 1688 to the Death of George IL By JOHN HENEAGE JESSE, Esq., Author of "......

At The Annual Distribution Of The Prizes To The Students

at the Royal Academy, on Saturday last, the President was very voluble and ener- getic on those sore subjects the rivalry of foreign schools and the strictures of the " minor......

Births, Marriages, And Deaths.

BIRTHS. On the 10th October. at Cawnpore, in the East ladies, the Lady of Captain EDWARD Daarrau., Fifty seventh Re g iment Bengal Native Itsfautry, of a daughter. On the 4th......