17 MAY 1845, page 19

Fine Arts.

SECOND NOTICE OP THE ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION. THE FIGURE DESIGNS. THE sure way to test the intrinsic merits of an exhibition of works of art is to return to it after the gloss......

The School Of Design.

The defects in the system of instruction pursued at the Government School of Design have been from time to time pointed out in this journal; and the justness of our strictures......

The " British Artists Of Suffolk Street.

A late letter from Hendon has received attention. Our correspondent niay bs assured that no change has taken place in the hand that wrote or the spirit that prompted the......

Military Gazette.

WAS - 01110E, May 16.—lst Dragoon Guards—Capt. J. Crofts, from the 7th Drag. Guards, to be Capt. vice Jackson, who exchanges. 7th Drag. Guards—Capt. G. W. C. Jackson, from the......

Commercial Gazette.

Tuesday, May 13. raxxtrestantra DVMOLYED. Chapman and Dean, Liverpool, hoop-benders—WhitwerUt and Idghtbovra, Black- burn, cheesemongers—Hancock and Co. Bath,......

Birth&

On the 6th May, at Shirley House, Hants, the Lady of G. P. Leyoester, Eel.. Bengal Civil Service, of a daughter. On the 7th, In Abercromby Place, Edinburgh, Lady Dalrymple......