of the following extracts from the circular ad- application for space confers no right whatever on the The following additional arrangements have been made: SPAIN. F.R.A.S..................... Bradley, John........................................... ........ The following gentlemen have been appointed Com- Don Pascuel Madoz, Don Jose Caveda, Don Augusto Brownfield, Wm. Browning, Thomas......... The Park, Nottingham. 61, King William-street, E.C. {Northgate Mount, Hudders- { 47, St. Martin's-lane, W.C. Chatterly house, Staffordshire. 6, Whitehall, S.W. Hanley {26, Newman-street, Oxford 26, Farringdon-street, E.C. {4, E.C. and Wellfield, Streatham. The Green, Richmond, S.W. {3, Watling street, B.C., and Upper Homerton, N.E. 17, Red-cross-square, E.C. Nottingham. 50, New Bond-street, W. The Grove, Lee, Kent Royal College of Surgeons, {HOW.C. Collett, Charles Cox, Wm. Thos. Southampton. London Coffee House, Ludgate hill, E.C. Bread-street-hill, E.C. London-fields, Hackney, N.E, 5, Hare-court, Temple, E.C. (13, Leonard-place, Kensing { ton, W. Oval-road, N.W. Regent's-park, 121, Drury-lane, W.C. 160, New Bond-street, W. Shortwood-lodge, near Bristol Elm-cottage, Lee road, S.E. {23 Sheffield terrace, Camp den-hill, W. 90, Cannon-street, E.C. Gordon place, WC., and Coal Exchange, E.C. Spondon Hall, near Derby. 17, Gracechurch-street, E.C. 7, Phillimore-gardens, Ken {sington, W. The Hall, Berkhampstead. 58, Holborn-hill, E.Ċ. Vallentin, James Waggett, John Walker, Sir Edwd. S. ston-square, S.W. Shearn-lodge, Walthamstow, Vallance, H. Wellington. {3, St. George's-road, Eccle-as early as 1828. In 1841 he invented the Annular Cylinder Arrangement, which was applied with success. He contributed much to the Stanley - terrace, Kensington-improvement of the packets employed in the park, W. Channel, and simplified the arrangements for Berry-hill, Mansfield, Notts. driving screw propellers, and his plan was adopted by the Admiralty. He patented a method of feathering the screw propeller, which is said to have been perfectly successful. His name must now be added to the list of scientific engineers lost to this country, eminent for his. professional ability, estimable for his private worth. Walsh, David H. Wardell, Wm. Watson, Peter Watts, Robt. ........ Webb, Chas. Locock....... Webb, George (Messrs. Williams, Dr. Llewellyn. { Pembroke-house, Pembroke- 6, Hanover-terrace, Notting-hill, W. S.W. W.C. 16, Upper Woburn - place, W. W. 5, Earl's-terrace, Kensington, 17, Henrietta-street, Caven1 dish-square, W. The late Sir William Cubitt, whose death occurred but recently, claims some notice at our hands, for although he was not a member of the Society, it will be remembered that he was invested by the Royal Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 with absolute power to arrange with Messrs. Fox and Henderson all the details. connected with the building for that Exhibition, and to superintend its construction, a duty which it need hardly be said he most ably discharged. The service thus rendered was recognized by Her Majesty, who conferred upon him the honour of knighthood. He was early distinguished for his knowledge of mechanical engineering, in cester-road, N.W. 38, Rathbone-place, W. which branch he introduced some ingenious im246, Boro' High-street, S.E., provements, among which are the improved and Lynton-lodge, Clap-windmill sails now almost universally adopted. ham-park, S. He attained much eminence as a civil engineer, and amongst his principal works may be mentioned the South-Eastern and Great Northern railways; the gigantic floating landing stages at Liverpool, and the iron bridge at Rochester. Wilson, Robert Porter 31, Threadneedle-street, E.C. (18, Ludowick-terrace, Glou 35, King-street, E.C.; and The CHAIRMAN delivered the following ADDRESS. I owe to the favourable opinion of the Council the distinction of appearing before you as their chairman at the opening of a third Session, and I shall endeavour to deserve the confidence of my colleagues by labouring with zeal and constancy to promote the designs of the Society. In my former addresses from this chair I had to bring under the notice of the Society the great losses it had sustained in the removal by death of many of its members, eminent in science or art, whose labours and skill had contributed in a remarkable manner to the progress of the Arts, the extension of Manufactures and Commerce, and the growth of our national greatness. My duty to night is of a less mournful character, and I have only to direct your attention to the death of one of our members, Mr. Joseph Maudslay, the distinguished mechanical engineer, which occurred in the present year. He was born on the 17th September, 1801, and (originally intended for a ship-builder) the subject of naval architecture was one in which he always took great interest. He was among the first to perceive the advantages of direct-acting engines for marine purposes, and this principle was applied by him A picture, painted by Nasmyth, of the Suspension-bridge across the Tweed, constructed on the principles laid down by the late Sir Samuel Brown, has been bequeathed to the Society by his widow, Lady Brown, and it is satisfactory to the Council to record this proof of the esteem with which the Society was regarded by one who largely applied the science of mechanics to the practical business of life, and who, although he did not originate suspension bridges, yet, by the introduction of what I believe is still known as the bar link, greatly extended the use of chains made of bar iron, as well in the manufacture of iron cables for ships, as in the construction of suspension bridges and landing piers. The bar link was employed for the Chain Pier at Brighton. The International Exhibition of works of industry and art, to be holden in the ensuing year, largely engaged the attention of the Council before and during the last Session. A narrative of their proceedings, in relation to the Exhibition, previous to the opening of the last Session, was contained in the address then delivered. The correspondence of the Council with the Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, {2, Park-street, Westminster, Richardson, T. Shepherd {Clapham-house, Litlington, Manchester. Martin, Peter, J. P.......{Lancashire. Masset, Alfred Moyse ₤13, Sanford-place, 53, Bolsover-street, W. Richards, Wm. 16, River-street, Myddletonsquare, E.C. Rider, Samuel C. Ringland, William Roberts, Daniel Roberts, Henry Mayhew, Chas. Fredk.... {Bucklersbury, E.C. 10, Barge Yard - chambers, 11, Alwyne-road, Canonbury, N. 35, 37, and 38, Great Marl{boro'-street, W. 9, Highbury-grove, N. ......... { park, Hornsey-road, N. 36, Wood-st., Cheapside, E.C. 16, Northampton-place, Old Kent-road, S.E. Arlington-street, North-road, N. 32, New The Grove, Petworth, Sussex. Nutley, Dublin. Newcastle-on-Tyne, 2, Royal Banbury. 20, Hatton-garden. {1, Angel-court, Throgmorton Rumbold, William Henry The Grange, Tunbridge Wells. {6, Great Collewe-street, West- Ryan, James, J. junr. 9A, King Edward-street, Lam- 22, Bush-lane, Cannon-street, 16, Belgrave-square, S.W. ..... Schlesinger, Julius........{ Shirreff, Geo. W. {Edge-Jane, Stretford, Man-Shoy, orga 127, High Holborn, W.C. 25, Maida-hill West, W. 3, Ladbroke-grdns., Kensing- .... ........... Smith, David................................. 116, Long-acre, W.Č. Yorkshire. Bradford, 8, Cambridge-square, W. 4, Bank-chambers, E.C. 2, Compton-road, Canonbury, Barton-villa, Malton. 11, Vere-st., Oxford-st., W. 11, New North-street, Red {Lion-square, W.C. Gt. Baddow-house, Chelms- Stenhouse, John, LL.D., 17, Rodney-street, Penton {6, Woburn-place, Russell-sq., Toogood, Henry... 4, Old Burlington-street, W. Prothero, Francis Egerton, } The Inner Temple, E.C. ... ...... Tredinnick, Richard {Moorgate-st.Chambers, Moor- Tysoe, John { 2,Eaton-place, S.W. ......... Unna, Ferdinand. Utterton, Rev. Jno. Sutton (Archdeacon of Surrey), {Higham Lodge, Waltham stow, N.E. 34, Southampton-bdgs., W.C. Vernon-lodge, Addison-road, Farnham, Surrey. 3, St. George's-road, Eccle- Berry-hill, Mansfield, Notts. as early as 1828. In 1841 he invented the 'Annular Cylinder Arrangement, which was applied with success. He contributed much to the Stanley - terrace, Kensington-improvement of the packets employed in the park, W. Channel, and simplified the arrangements for driving screw propellers, and his plan was adopted by the Admiralty. He patented a method of feathering the screw propeller, which is said to have been perfectly successful. His name must now be added to the list of scientific engineers lost to this country, eminent for his professional ability, estimable for his privateworth. { road, Clifton, Bristol. Abbotsfield, Chester. 6, W.C. W. 33, Fenchurch-street, E.C., S.W. W.C. 16, Upper Woburn - place, 9, Leonard-place, Kensington, W. W. 5, Earl's-terrace, Kensington, The late Sir William Cubitt, whose death occurred but recently, claims some notice at our hands, for although he was not a member of the Society, it will be remembered that he was invested by the Royal Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 with absolute power to arrange with Messrs. Fox and Henderson all the details. connected with the building for that Exhibition, and to superintend its construction, a duty which it need hardly be said he most ably discharged. The service thus rendered was recognized by Her Majesty, who conferred upon him the honour of knighthood. He was early distinguished for his knowledge of mechanical engineering, in 38, Rathbone-place, W. which branch he introduced some ingenious im-246, Boro' High-street, S.E., provements, among which are the improved and Lynton-lodge, Clap-windmill sails now almost universally adopted. ham-park, S. He attained much eminence as a civil engineer, and amongst his principal works may be mentioned the South-Eastern and Great Northern railways; the gigantic floating landing stages at Liverpool, and the iron bridge at Rochester. 35, King-street, E.C.; and The CHAIRMAN delivered the following ADDRESS. I owe to the favourable opinion of the Council the distinction of appearing before you as their chairman at the opening of a third Session, and I shall endeavour to deserve the confidence of my colleagues by labouring with zeal and constancy to promote the designs of the Society. In my former addresses from this chair I had to bring under the notice of the Society the great losses it had sustained in the removal by death of many of its members, eminent in science or art, whose labours and skill had contributed in a remarkable manner to the progress of the Arts, the extension of Manufactures and Commerce, and the growth of our national greatness. My duty to night is of a less mournful character, and I have only to direct your attention to the death of one of our members, Mr. Joseph Mandalay, the distinguished mechanical engineer, which occurred in the present year. He was born on the 17th September, 1801, and (originally intended for a ship-builder) the subject of naval architecture was one in which he always took great interest. He was among the first to perceive the advantages of direct-acting engines for marine purposes, and this principle was applied by him A picture, painted by Nasmyth, of the Suspension-bridge across the Tweed, constructed on the principles laid down by the late Sir Samuel Brown, has been bequeathed to the Society by his widow, Lady Brown, and it is satisfactory to the Council to record this proof of the esteem with which the Society was regarded by one who largely applied the science of mechanics to the practical business of life, and who, although he did not originate suspension bridges, yet, by the introduction of what I believe is still known as the bar link, greatly extended the use of chains made of bar iron, as well in the manufacture of iron cables for ships, as in the construction of suspension bridges and landing piers. The bar link was employed for the Chain Pier at Brighton. The International Exhibition of works of industry and art, to be holden in the ensuing year, largely engaged the attention of the Council before and during the last Session. A narrative of their proceedings, in relation to the Exhibition, previous to the opening of the last Session, was contained in the address then delivered. The correspondence of the Council with the Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, and with the Trustees for conducting the Exhi- works, £50,000, as will, in the judgment of the bition of 1862, embraced several important ques- Commissioners and Trustees, be requisite to tions, including the site of the building, the render the architectural character of that portion provision of the necessary funds for the under- of the building suitable for the objects for which it taking, the incorporation of the Trustees by the is to be employed by this Society. authority of the Crown, and their relations with the Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851. That correspondence having been brought to a satisfactory conclusion, the acceptance of their trust was signified by the following letter from the Trustees : Various meetings with the Trustees and their solicitor, and also with the Counsel and Solicitor of the Bank of England, were attended by your chairman and secretary, with the view of adjusting the conditions of the Charter of Incorporation, as well as the Guarantee Deed; and the forms of both instruments having been settled in a satisfactory manner, a petition to the Crown for a Charter was presented by the Society. The Charter, having received the approval of the law officers of the Crown, was sealed on the 14th February last, and printed in the Society's Journal of the 22nd February, and its chief provisions may be thus described : London, November 22nd, 1860. SIR, We have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of yesterday, enclosing the copy of a communication from Her Majesty's Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 to the Council of the Society of Arts, in which the Commissioners express their general approval of the object which the Society has in view in organising the Exhibition of 1862, and their willingness to render such support and assistance to the undertaking as may be consistent with their position as a chartered body, and with the powers conferred upon them by their Charter of Incorporation. Under these circumstances we have to request that will intimate to the Council of the Society of Arts our willingness to accept the Trust which the Council and the Guarantors have in so flattering a manner expressed a wish to repose in us, on the understanding that the Council will forthwith take measures for giving legal effect to the of "The Commissioners for the Exhibition Guarantee, and for obtaining a Charter of Incorporation satisfactory to us. We have the honour to be, P. Le Neve Foster, Esq., you When the Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 agreed, at the request of the Council, to provide a site for the Exhibition of 1862 rent-free, and to grant to the Society a lease for 99 years of the permanent portion of the buildings, they stipulated that such buildings should not cover more than an acre of ground, nor cost less than £50,000. In the month of January last the Council were informed by the Trustees that, with a due regard to the interests of the Exhibition, they would not be justified in expending more than £20,000 on the part of the site intended to be leased to the Society, especially as the average cost per acre of the whole Exhibition building was estimated not to reach £12,000, and they requested the Council to ask the Commissioners to be satisfied with an expenditure of £20,000 upon that portion of the building. In accordance with the request of the Trustees, which was transmitted by the Council to the Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, their assent was signified to the proposition of the Trustees, upon condition that they should hereafter expend, out of surplus funds which may arise from the Exhibition, so much money, not exceeding, with the original cost of the Earl Granville, K.G., the Marquis of Chandos (now Duke of Buckingham), Thomas Baring, M.P., Charles Wentworth Dilke, the younger, and Thomas Fairbairn, the Trustees named by the Society, are incorporated by the name of 1862," and are entrusted with the following amongst other powers, namely, to obtain a site from the Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, on a portion of their estate at Kensington Gore, and expend a sum not exceeding £50,000 on buildings of a permanent character; to render an account of their receipts and payments for audit; and to certify whether the undertaking has been attended with gain or loss. And if, irrespective of the value of the permanent buildings, there shall have been a loss, and the Society shall consent to bear such loss, the Commissioners are to secure to the Society a lease of the permanent buildings, erected on the site reserved for the Society; but if the Society shall not require such lease, the Commissioners are to sell the permanent buildings; and in case a gain should attend the undertaking, without resorting to a sale of such permanent buildings, they are to be left standing for the Society. The Commissioners, if desired by the Society, shall pay the Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 a sum not exceeding £10,000, for reserving 16 acres, or thereabouts, of their land as a site for an Exhibition of the products of industry and art, to be held in the year 1872. And in case a less sum than £50,000 shall have been laid out on the buildings intended for the Society, the Commissioners shall expend, out of their surplus funds, in the completion of such buildings, in a manner suitable for the objects for which they are to be employed, so much of the unexpended portion of the sum of £50,000 as in the judgment of the Commissioners for 1862, jointly with that of the Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, may be requisite. |