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able to the genius and liberality of the sculptor. The t zbleau which he has formed, pleases by its masterly grouping and telligible representation. In the centre, the principal rure, the key-note of the whole, is a to -I,ssal impersonation of Commerce, ten feet in height, being, of course, the prominent point of reference for all the others. Commerce, in this classical personification, wears a mural crown, and is accompanied by accesso ries allusive to wealth and enterprize—as a cornucopia, beehive, &c. ; in her left hand she holds the charter el the Exchange, while her right is connected with part of a ship ; and the supporting pedestal consists of two dolphins and a shell. On the right hand of the figure of Commerce stands a group of three British merchants, habitod in civic robes, as Lord Mayor, Alderman, and Common Councilman. Next to them are two Asiatics, natives of our Indian possessions, the one a libido°, the other a Mahomedan, each readily distinguishable in person as well as costume. Next is a Greek, carrying a jar; he is associated with the others by seeming to move towards them, while he is also in relation with the remaining figures, by his attention being turned towards them. The two remaining im personations on this side are an Armenian and a Turk ; the former, the banker and the scholar of the East. is occupied with a scroll; and the latter, the Osmanli mer chant, may he supposed to be busied with his daily ac counts. He closes the series of figures on the right, the extreme angle of the tympanum being filled with an anchor and other nautical emblems. " The first group presented on the left of Commerce shows two British merchants, robed similarly to those on the right; and to whom a Persian is showing some woven fabric. To him immediately succeed a Chinese, a sailor of the Levant, and a negro, felle*.ved by an unmistakable British sailor, cording a bale of cotton. The remaining figure is a supercargo or factory agent, or some other commercial functionary; and this angle of the tympanum is filled with jars, packages, &c. " flaying described the external appearance of the new Exchange, it only rernans to notice the interior. Here we find an open court, something like the cortili of the Italian palaces. The ground floor consists of Doric columns and rusticated arches ; over them is a series of lonic columns, with arches and windows surmounted by a highly ornamented pierced parapet, The effect of this court is very light, magnificent, and ornamental, but still consistent with its uses and purposes. The key-stones of the arches of the superior story are decorated with the arms of all the nations of the world, in the order determined at the Con gress of Vienna. The arms of England are in the centre of the eastern side. This area is open, which is the result of the determination, not of the architect, nor of the Gresham Committee, but of the merchants of Lon don. In the first instance, and before any steps were taken, the leading members of that body were applied to on this subject, and the decision of a very large majority was in favour of an uncovered area. " The ambulatory, or merchants' walk, is very spacious and well sheltered. The ceiling is divided by beams and panelling, highly painted and decorated in encaustic. In th e centre of each panel , on the four sides, the arms of the nations are repeated, emblazoned in their proper colours; and in the four angles are the arms of Edward the Confessor, Edward 111., Elizabeth, and Charles In the south-east angle is a statue of Queen Elizabeth, by Watson; and in the south-west a marble statue of Charles IL, which formerly stood in the centre of the Old Exchange, and which escaped the fire unscathed. " In explanation of the above, it will not be unim portant here to mention, that Edward the Confessor granted the first and most important charters to the City, and in Edward M.'s time the City of Lond began to assume its commercial importance. The arms of both these kinds occur constantly in the ancient de corations of Guildhall. Those of Elizabeth and Charles 11. are introduced with their statues, for reasons too obvious to need explanation. " In eight small circular panels in the ambulatory are introduced the arms of the three Mayors, viz., Pirie, Humphery, and Magnay ; and also the three Masters of the Mercers' Company—Poole, Sutton, and Watney, who have respectively held office during the erection of the building. The arms of the Chairman of the Gresham Committee, Mr. B. L. Jones ; and of the architect, Mr. Tito, complete the heraldic embellishments. The ambu latory is paved with Yorkshire stone, marked out into panels by margins and lines of black stone called Castle hill, with squares of red Aberdeen granite at the inter aectii ars. " The open area is paved with a tesselated pavement of the most elegant and varied patterns, after the best Roman examples. The tessera, of which this pave ment is composed, are burnt to a great hardness, and Having cast iron channels to carry off the water, will always yield a dry and clean surface. " Such is the edifice now raised on the ruins of the lateßoyal Exchange. As already mentioned, a buildingof such magnitude was never carried up in stone within a period so ; a building which, whether consi dered in reference to its obvious utility, or its beauty as a piece of architecture, reflects infinite honour on the talent and unwearing diligence which could begin and carry to completion so worthy an ornament to the greatest city in the world." THE NEW ROYAL EXCHANGE. (From the Times.) The visit of her Majesty, to open the New Royal Exchange, renders it incumbent upon us to take the present opportunity of offering a few descriptive and critical remarks upon that building ; more especially as the subject has never been anticipated by us in any previous examination of the structure from its com mencement. A notice of the progress of such a work, from time to time, is all that can be expected from the press until its completion ; it is then only that the in telligent observer can, in most instances, form a just opinion of the merits of a public building, either on the ground of its adaptation to its avowed purposes, or of its vigour and coherency as a production of de corative art. Exceptions there are to this remark, it is true; and we should find no difficulty in naming some living architect, eminent, it may be, for the extent of his practice, whose mode of procedure is so unvarying that a critical opinion may as safely be pronounced upon the first day of one of his under ' takings as upon the last. But this facility of decision on the part of the spectator must necessarily be in the inverse ratio to the possession of genius on the side of the architect, who, if animated by any feeling higher than the talent of the mechanic, will be soli citous that his design shall, if possible, be undergoing improvement up to the very day of completion. On the opposite principle of judgment, we should have been led to entertain a very erroneous notion of the character of Mr. Tite's Exchange, had we de rived our impressions solely from the first hints of the design which found circulation, and from which we con tinue a to find engravings everywhere offered for sale to discerning public, as exhibiting the very image of a structure essentially differing from and superior to such q representation. We pceneed, therefore, to the proper authority fer information---the building as it stands ; and shall best illustrate its comliarities by noticing, in succession, its site, its accommodation, and its decoration. The site is remarkable for i ts commanding im portance in one aspect, the western, and for its irregu larity on the other three sides, having, as i s we ll known, a wedge-like form, produced by the con vergseice of Cornhill and Threadneedle-street towards the Mansion-house The munificence of Parliament having facilitated the purchase of the isolated pro perty to the west of the late Exchange, an oppor tunity was obtained for turning the most important façade of the new structure in that direction, instead of placing it to the south, as formerly. Fly th;s me ans the space unintercepted by buildings ill al. y-ance from the centre of the present portico beeenes ex tended to the unusual length of between 500 and 600 feet. On the other hand, the large and still in creased amount of accommodation required in the new Exchange, together with the necessity for keeping that accommodation within an easily accessible elevl tion from the great thoroughfares, rendered it impe rative that all the available ground on the north and swath boundary lines should be occupied with build. ing, in spite of the irregularity and . want of paral lelism to which we have just referred. We pass on, then, to examine what is the nature of that accommodation which principally governs the extent and distribution of the building under our no tice. In the structure first raised by Sir Thomas Gresham only two objects seemed to have been pro vided for—the daily meeting of the merchants, an I the reception of the shopkeepers ; the upper part of t h e building having been, as it seems, arranged very much after the manner of a bazaar. Its successor, the late Royal Exchange, rebuilt after the great fire, ultimately received some new and important bodies of otcapants, in lieu of the upstairs shopkeepers of the former establishment. F irst in order of time, came the association th at originated i n Lloyd's Coffee-bouif'; their introduction was followed by that of the Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation , and this again by the provision for the Gresham ov G College, ment for on the pur e - chase of its establishment by ern th use of the Excise. In rebuilding the Exchange o nce snore, the Gresham Committee ha ve made provisiee, not only for an increase in the extent of accommoda tion to the shops, but for the receptio n of an additional company, that of the London Assurance ; while they have assigned the Gresham College to a separate en tice, and provided a suite'of rooms, hitherto unallotted, Ai the situation at first devoted to that body. Tine principal departments of the present building consist, therefore, of the following portions, as to number and order : - - The Merchants' Quadrangle. Lloyx j . The Royal Exchange Assurance. The London Assurance. The unappropriated offices. The offices and shops r But, before we can makeprivate parties. situation and extent of these portions clear to the reader, to give him an outline of the general plan o f th e struc ture.ill Setting the portico outcd notice for th e ma g inent, the remaining mass of bud produces a figure about 272 feet in length from ea with a frontage of 118 feet at the west e s t t ui t° and of west, 176 feet at the opposite extremity , the northana south siJes being equabland connected with theleaster n face, by Liege quadrant corners. The portico gives a further extensio to the west of about 28 feet in depth;ky_a length or frontage of 90 feet. Nearly in the centre of this eptire mass is the Merchants' Quad rangle, occupying a'space o f 167 feet from east to west by 111 feet across, these dimensions being in- ' elusive of the covered arcade or ambulatory all round, which is about 26 feet wide, leaving an open centre in the proportion of a double square. In the interval remaining to the east of the Merchants' Quadrangle occurs another little court, some 60 feet in length from north to south, and 19 feet in width. It is only necessary to add to this general description of what is technically " the plan," that there is an entrance to the quadrangle from the centre of each of the four fronts of the building; that the centre of the portico is recessed to a depth equal to its projection ;and that the entrance from the east front occupies the base of the tower. We may, however, mention further, by anticipation, that the height of the building embraces a basement story, ground floor, mezzanine, one pair or principal floor, and, in many cases, a two-pair story. Returning, then, to the distribution of the ground floor, we have all its western portion, between the quadrangle and the portico, occupied by the Royal Exchange Assurance, with an entrance within the portico on each side. The London Assurance en gages a small portion or space on the south or Corn hill side for an entrance; while the establishment of Lloyd's has its approach by the small eastern court, before referred to, between the quadrangle and the tower. Almost the whole remaining space on the ground story, both in the three street frontages and in the eastern court, is devoted to the shops and pri vate offices, some thirty-seven in number, which, accordingly, form the characteristic external features of the lower portion of the building. It is on the one-pair or principal floor, that the three great public establishments have their chief accommodation. Two thirds of the space to the north and east of the qua drangle are occupied by Lloyd's rooms. Thence, from the south-east corner, past the centre of the Cornhill front westward, extend the rooms of the London Assurance. The Royal Exchange Assur ance continues the range to the south-west extremity, and then northward past the centre of the west front, where the unappropriated offices complete the circuit by the occupation of the north-west corner. It would be tedious and unnecessary to particularise the rooms in each department ; a sufficient notion of their ex tent may be gathered from the following comparison of surface. We believe that we shall not be found far from the truth, if we estimate the whole covered superficies upon this story at 31,000 feet. Out of this total a rough allotment will give to Lloyd's London Assurance Royal Exchange Asssurance 5,700 Unappropriated offices 3,900 32,000 The only rooms that appear to demand a more de tailed notice are the important suite devoted to the business of Lloyd's, which, however, will more pro perly engage the attention in the course of the exa mination which we proceed to institute into the architectural composition and decoration of the structure. _ To consider the Royal Exchange, then, a 3 a work of art, we presume that the west front, the principal, though smallest of the four—furnishes the governing lines to the rest of the external design from the pro portions of its portico. The order employed is Corinthian, fifty feet in height, that is, forty-one feet for the column, and the remainder for its superin cumbent entablature. This order is continuous round the entire building, being elevated upon a granite stylobate or pedestal, varying in height from four to eight feet, according to the fall of the ground ; and it is also surrounded generally by an attic and balus trade about ten feet in height. To this mention of the order and its proportions we will just add, that in all matters of detail preference appears to have been given to the Italian school of design, that reigned universally in this country at the beginning of the last century. But, to return to the west facade, we have a portico of eight columns in width, and two in projection, leaving a narrow blank wing in the back ground on each side. The front rank of eight columns is backed by a line of four, so placed as to give an internal space to the centre and sides in the proportion of three to two ; the centre, a; we have before intimated, is also deeply recessed. To avoid a multiplicity of small windows for lighting the various apartments behind the portico, that object is attained by means of two large and boldly arched Venetian windows of lonic detail ; and between them, in the central division, is an archway of corresponding outline, which gives ac cess to an inner vestibule communicating at once with the quadrangle. These three arches are finished with well-executed keystone shields and foliage, exhibiting in the centre the merchant's mark of Sir Thomas Gresham, and, over the windows, the bearings of the old Merchant Adventurers, and the Merchants of the Staple of Calais. The distribution of space in the portico affords an opportunity for carrying over it a vaulted ceiling in three compartments, enriched with panelling and flowers. Of the pediment, which con tains a display of' sculpture by Mr. Westmacott, we shall speak hereafter, in noticing the accessories to the general design : and shall only add to this des cription of the portico that, as it occupies the lowest position in the declivity of the site, it is approached with effect by a flight of nine steps, well flanked by the advancing stylobate at each end. The abuse of such an architectural appliance as that of the Greco-Roman portico is so much more common than its felicitous use, that we do not wonder that professional men of high genius forego its application altogether, rather than have recourse to it in an un favourable position and aspect, or under circumstances where it would be unsuited to internal arrangements. Wren's porticoes of this descriptions are extremely rare, and so are those of the late Sir John Soane. We have already in London porticoes usque ad nauseam, crammed with little openings at the back, telling all the same story of a house built within the shell of a temple. On the other hand, those architects whose taste has led them to avoid this incongruity and trifling have produced by the reverse an effect that may be classical, if that be any recommendation, but which is too frequently sombre and destitute of animation, manifestly unsuited to the dull atmosphere of Britain, and especially so to the genius of commer cial London. It is a great relief, therefore, to meet with a specimen that does not excite our indignation at the repetition of the " everlasting portico;" and that relief we certainly enjoy in the inspection of the west front of the Royal Exchange. The situation it occupies is one so temptingly commanding that though we might have recommended the trial of some more novel combination, we can excuse the architect's pre ference for a portico, since his choice has been con ducted to so happy a result. The composition under notice has the merit of character; it is manifestly the portico to an important secular building, and not to a church, much less to a pagan temple. It has, in an eminent degree, the advantage of artistical " breadth," and possesses a play of outline and force of shadow unequalled in any other example in the metropolis, the west front of St. Paul's excepted. The arrange ment of its plan bears some resemblance to that of the Inman Pantheon ; while the niches or reces,es in the latter offer, to the sticklers fur precedent, some lines of authority for the introduction of the Venetian windows of the Exchang, , . As to these windows, we may just observe, that while their outlines eminently help the effect of liveliness in this portico, they are so designed as distinctly to express their multiform duty, though combined in such a way as to preserve per fect unity. The management of the portico ceilings, which in the Pantheon are of bald timber, is here so conducted, by the vaulting we have described, as to complete the expression of the internal design, to en hance the effect of loftiness and general magnitude, and to meet the eye of the passer-by with a succes sion of pleasing forms that would have been lCkst under any of the older modes of arrangement. It is not superfluous to add, that the slope of the pediment, or roof-line of the portico, approaches more nearly to the outline of beauty for such subjects than in most cases to which we can refer. This may be felt by any one who looks at the two extreme instances in Trafalgar-square; the one pediment gaping for more than its allowance of the royal arms—the other in - capable, from its flatness, of receiving any sculptured device worthy of attention. Resuming our description, it only remains to be stated, respecting the west front, that the narrow compartments beyond the portico on the north and south are occupied by solid rustication in the lower part, above which, in each case, is a parcel containing a flowered wreath and mantle, charged with the royal cypher; this again is surmounted by a festoon, and the crowning attic exhibits a device formed with the proctorial insignia. But it is time that we look at the other fronts of the building. Throughout the south façade the main order is continued by pilastres, divided the whole length into thirteen equal portions, the pilastres being doubled at the extremities of the front. In each of these thirteen divisions is a rusticated arch of due proportions, the rustic arrangement, with its sur mounting mouldings, occupying about two-thirds of the available height beneath the general entablature. The arch we speak of contains ordinarily a shop, with its mezzanine story above; in addition to which, each shop has a room in the basement, furnished with all appropriate accommodation. Above the rusticated shop arches appear the windows of the principal story, deeply sunk, and surrounded by enriched architraves, with boldly-carved keystones and panelings. Of the thirteen compartments into which this front is divi ded, the central one, as the entrance, and that on each side of it, are deeply recessed within the main order ; in each is a.sereen arch carried upon corbels, and decorated with a bold shield having rich fes toons of flowers attached. These shields are charged,Te respectively with the arms of Sir Thomas the d h e a x m t e 1.1,7 tahnedceonftrteh,ethloiserocfertpse Company ofLond n onon o the sinist er . In the spaces above are are three windows, taining each a window, ' wh o ose e d boldly composed with sc a in a very prominent relief, piers, carrying en and finished above standing an elaborate earvea stan rls n sings I T advanced in a stone balcony, THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 28, 1844, and pedimented top, that occupies the head of the great recessed arch. Above this window, in the crown of each arch, is a keystone, forming a handsome cartouche-shield, charged with the arms of one of the states with which we have commercial intercourse. This is surmounted by the entablature of the order, the cornice of which is of unusually bold projection and detail ; and from this rises the attic, which, with its broken outline of piers and open panelling of play ful design, terminates the composition. This descrip tion embraces one vertical compartment of the general design; to complete the circuit, it must be understood that on each side of the length of the court there are seven of these compartments with two small ones, and at each end of the court three such compartments with two small ones. These smaller compartments, being two at each corner of the quadrangle, have each a rusticated double arch below, and, variously, a window or niche above, surmounted, successively, with a carved festoon and a panel containing a wreath of oak and laurel. An ornamented group of chimneys ter minates the attic over each of these corners. We consider the composition of this court emi nently successful. It is more imaginative than any of the external design ; the combination of forms is grateful even to the uninitiated eye, while the subdi vision and character of detail are calculated to en- havce its apparent magnitude. We are only uncer tain whether we should not have prolapsed a greater width of proportion—whether that of three to five, for instance, would not have been preferable to the present of one or two. But, we must complete our description of the sur rounding ambulatory, by observing that its ceiling is formed on a principle somewhat analogous to that developed in the wooden ceilings to some of our churches of the later Gothic period. Every pier of the arcade has a band or beam crossing over to its neighbour against the opposite wall, which beam is curved down to its springing at each end, and carried by a corbel or console. In the opposite, or longitu dinal direction, these beams are intersected by two others, so as to form in each division of the ambula tory one large panel between two narrow ones. Pen dants of varied are foliage applied at all points where these beams or bands intersect each other. A similar arrangement is recognised in the pavement, which re peats in party-coloured stone the architectural lines of the ceiling. It is on the ceiling and walls of this ambulatory that the extent of the so-called encaustic painting, of which we have heard, has been executed by, and under the direction of, M. Sang, the artist of Munich. Some notices of the day have proved a verbal description to be of so little use in elucidating mere matters of colour and pictorial device, that we shall abstain from anything more than a very general notice of M. Sang's performance. His object has been to obtain colour by the Raffaellesque style of decorative design, and in this he has admirably succeeded, displaying a most inventive fancy, great elegance of outline, large re sources for the enrichment of purely architectural members, a perfect knowledge of the harmony and balance f colours, and extreme beauty of execution. Under the advice of the architect, he has maintained the expression of the edifice by the various national heraldic subjects introduced into the leading com partments of the ceiling, while the somewhat minute character of his detail increases the expansiveness of the general architectural effect. Notwithstanding its frequently-questioned appropriateness, we are glad to see this class of decoration finding its way into the mart of merchandise; even there the loiterer may now become impregnated with some of that zeal for art, which shall ultimately vindicate us from the alleged tastelessness of the mere nation boutiquibv. Not that we speak of this mode of embellishment, for a moment, in the same tone that we should adopt towards the highest school of pictorial composition ; but it is still a department well calculated not only to please but to improve the common taste, and quicken the perception of beauty in general. It is, moreover, a department to which English skill has been very little directed : while on the Continent, and especially under the auspices of the King of Bavaria, it has for years been cultivated with great assiduity and success. Hence the difficulty in the present in stance, where expedition seems to have been a pri mary object, of decorating such a large extent of surface without some assistance from those accus tomed to the same work abroad. Had the Gresham Committee been prepared to authorise the execution of a series of paintings of a far higher order, in the historical and descriptive departments, so far as these might have been applicable, it is matter of evidence that English talent would have been more than ade quate to every exigency ; it is from the novelty and peculiarity of the work alone that any necessity arises for extraneous assistance. We have hitherto omitted to state, that the north and south approaches to the quadrangle, as well as the entrance under the tower, have also had their cielings painted by M. Sang, in fresco ; the eastern entrance is particularly successful. We must also mention, before leaving the ambulatory and its decorations, that its north-east and south-east extremities contain niches, which are tenanted respectively by the statue of Queen Elizabeth, by Mr. Watson, and of Charles 11., by Gibbons ; the latter being the identical occupant of the central place in the former Exchange. These statues, of course, refer to the buildings for the same purpose erected in the reigns of the Sovereigns they represent. In closing our account of the quadrangle, we have only to observe that its open area is floored with tessellated pavement, under the care of Mr. Singer. Its design consists, generally, of a large fret and ac companiments, forming a broad external border, after which the elongated form within is subdivided by other bands of ornament into a square between two oblongs ; each of these figures has then a lozenge inscribed within it, entwined with a circle at each of the angles. The space left in the centre of the larger figure is intended to afford the site for Mr. Lough's statue of her Majesty; the centres of the smaller lozenge are occupied by a semi-arabesque flower. The general design is by no means characterised by the exuberant fancy of some of the Roman remains ; but its effect of colour is rich and good, harmonising well with the tout ensemble of M. Sang's adjacent performance. We have only to hope that the dust of traffic may not totally obscure, nor expo sure to the elements quickly destroy, Mr. Singer's production ; as the experiment which he has here made is one which we would willingly see repeated, and with success, wherever a favourable opportunity may present itself. We are sorry that, after going the round of the building, we find that we must be very brief in the consideration of the remaining accessory, that of sculpture. Mr. Westmacott's production, which occupies the tympanum of the pediment, seems to us a display of individual figures, civic, commercial, and foreign, rather than a composition, those figures being well executed, but minute withal. The whole is meagre as to descriptive interest ; and the isolated as well as emblematical character of the presiding figure of Commerce, amidst sixteen occupied realities, leaves it open to the charge of that want of significancy urged by the author of a jeu d'esprit which appeared in the Times about a month since. The general effect, however, is rich, the relief powerful, and the principal lines in harmony with and subordinate to those of the architecture. We object to the motto from Scripture, as being a mere sculptural subterfuge, and especially out of keeping with the Latin inscription beneath. Toe department of architectural sculpture, such as that of devices, draperies, flower-carving, and the like, has, we are given to understand, been committed to Mr. Westmacott. The golden days of Grinling Gibbons are gone, without leaving to us his worthy representative. Greatly is it to be lamented that our present architects are not more solicitous to revive the ancient school of carving, and reject the trumpery and meretricious finery of plaster and composition, which affords to every pretender a means of display as equi vocal in taste as it is cheap in execution. The mis chief of all this is, that it substitutes the mecoanical for the imaginative, the perpetual repetition of one idea for the renewed creations of individual genius. As ordinary spectators we never walk round the in side or outside of St. Paul's without wishing that all the members of the architectural profession could be made to feel this fact as deeply as we do. In the Exchange, however, there appear many steps taken in the right direction ; and we hope to see the same track followed with increasing success by all future practitioners who value their art for anything more than its commission. Before closing our remarks, we must notice Lloyd's rooms, which are the only apartments of any public interest. They occupy, as before stated, the b n t u o ud r i l t ed h ai - nn e ga a t a e n r n p and areo solidity,rtain of the arranged approached Idedi nbpyeraians easy s ! t s pa atiarl stages, a se s s t : o b r o y of the but taine xphiii ' biting little effort at display. From this we enter the archway leading to what is, specifically, the lobby, a lofty apartment, equal to a square of about 35 feet, but of irregular form on the north side. From the irregular portion, however, a symmetrical space is cut off by the intervention of a columned arcade of three openings. This lobby communicates to the west with the commercial-room, to the south with the subscribers or underwriters'-room and its suite, and to the east with the captains'-room. The com mercial-room is affected in plan by the general obliquity of the site, but is treated in such a way as almost entirely to disguise that fact. Its extreme length is about 92 feet; its average width 40, and height 30. It is divided into five compartments in length by means of broad enriched piers on each side ; these compartments answering to the same number of windows, which derive light from the upper part of the merchants' court. Each corner of the room is a qua drant, in the centre of which stands an lonic column, elevated on a pedestal, and giving support to an ad vancing angle of the entablature, which is continued round the room considerably enriched. From this springs a cove to meet the plafond of the ceiling, across which all the prevailing lines of the vertical ' architecture are continued, and from which, by the five principal compartments, light is liberally intro duced through elegant horizontal glazing. But the principal of Lloyd's apartments, for size and symme try, is the subscribers'- room which looks into the quadrangle at its eastern end, and is an oblong of 98 feet in length by 40 in width. It is divided in length into six compartments, by members very simi lar in effect to those in the room last described, though their detail is totally different. Like that, it has its ceiling commenced with a cove-like arrangement, but pierced in each compartment into a half-groin, ' through the top of which light is introduced by an ornamentally glazed hexagon. The chief supply of light, however, is obtained reflectively, down the centre 1 of the room, each of the six compartments of the ceiling being there elevated into a dome, with a window be neath it, springing on each side. The effect of this mode of lighting is less brilliant, perhaps, than of that in the commercial-room, but it is beautifully diffusive and gentle, while abundant in its supply. The de corative detail in this room is very considerable, but far from overpowering : we observe in it the frequent repetition of the heraldic bearings adopted by the establishment of Lloyd's. Leaving this room by an archway on the south east, we enter the reading-room, an apartment 40 feet long by 25 wide, lighted by a lantern and fitted at mid-height with a gallery on each long side, ap proached by a double staircase on the east. The de corations of this room are not so elaborate as to detain us for a description : and we turn, therefore, by the north, successively through the secretary's-room, its anti-chamber under the tower, a clerk's office, and the kitchen of Lloyd's, which suite completes the circuit of the eastern court, and brings us to the captains'- room. More need not be said of this apartment than that it is a cheerful combination of three rooms in one, connected by wide archways, and occupying the north-east angle of the building; from this we are led out again upon the great lobby first noticed, and from which we retreat without thinking it necessary to carry the reader through a series of various other and less accessible apartments of no public interest. Here, then, we conclude our review of this impor tant structure, and in doing so we shall not pay the architect or his co-operators the adulation with which the crowd are too apt to laud every new building of magnitude when clean from the mason's hands, as a superb edifice, magnificent pile, and whatever else the use of equally discriminative terms can make it. Be it enough that we offer the expression of our opinion that the building has merit sufficient to secure for it the approbation of futurity, which is the highest ob• led a true artist aims to secure. That we may not leave our account incomplete, we subjoin the names of those gentlemen who have been immediately and statedly engaged in superintending the building, or conducting its decorative departments, not omitting to recognise at the outset the services of Mr. Richard Lambert Jones, as the Chairman of the controlling Gresham Committee : Mr. William Tite, architect. Mr. Ebenezer Trotman, assistant. Messrs. G. and R. Webb, builders of the founda tions. Mr. Thomas Jackson, builder of the superstruc ture. Messrs. Westmacott, Relines, Carew, Joseph, Lough, and Watson, sculptors. Mr. C. H. Smith, architectural carver. M. Frederick Sang, decorator in fresco and encaus tic painting. Mr. A. Singer, maker of tessellated pavement. Mr. E. J. Dent, clockmaker. Messrs. Mears and Son, bellfounders. In conclusion, we derive satisfaction from a belief that the general state of professional and even of pub lic taste, as well as the recently increased facilities for building, are in favour of great advances in architec tural excellence. Within less than an interval of 20 years, we find that an edifice, not far differing in size from the General Post-office, and displaying incom parably more studied composition and elaborated de tail, can be raised at about half the cost which that structure demanded. We wish all success to art and its professors, and hope that, for the national credit, its interests may never be dissociated from the favour of those influential men who shall hereafter assemble in the new Royal Exchange, the centre of the cow coerce of the world. (From the Observer.) On Saturday a Court of Aldermen was held at Guild hall, when, after a good deal of discussion, the Cour agreed to the following order of procession, which wil leave Guildhall punctually at eleven o'clock;— ORDER OF PROCESSION OF THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD MAYOR AND THE CORPORATION OP LONDON FROM GUILDHALL TO TEMPLE-BAR, TO RECEIVE HER MA JESTY, ON MONDAY, THE 28TH Or OCT, 1844. Police Officers to clear the way. City Marshalman. City Trumpeters. Navigation Watermen, bearing colours. • The Captain of the Thames Navigation Barge. The Principal Assistant Water Bailiff. Water Bailiff's Watermen, with colours. Junior City Marshal on horseback. The Lord Mayor's Beadle, City Watermen in state liveries, with colours. The Lord Mayor's Barge Master in his state dress. Lord Mayor's Banner. Senior City Marshal on horseback. The Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR, in his state car riage, drawn by six horses, attended by the Sword-bearer and Common Crier. Aldermen who have passed the Chair, in their Scarlet Gowns, in their carriages. Aldermen who have not passed the Chair, in Scarlei Gowns, in their carriages. The Sheriffs in their state carriages. Members of the Court of Common Council in carriages Police Constables. Upon the arrival of the procession at Temple Bar, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and those Members who are to ride in procession, will be received at the banking-h o use of Child and Co., where thoy will remain until her Ma jesty's approach. ORDER OF PROCESSION FROM TEMPLE-BAR, ON RECEIVING HER MAJESTY IN MER PROGRESS TO THE NEW EXCHANGE. p o li„. o fficers on horseback. Carriages of the Members of the Court of Common Council. The State-carriages of the Sheriffs. Carriages of the Aldermen. The above portion of the procession will prece3e the 'detachment of Life Guards conducting the members of the Royal Family, and her Majesty's immediate attendants. The Junior City Marshal on horseback. , Members of the Court of Common Council, in their Mazarine Gowns, on horseback, each with an attendant. Henry Muggeridge, Esq. William Gresham, Esq. Samuel S. Edkins, Esq. W. J. Frodesham, Esq. James Bayley, Esq. Wm James Ander ' ton Esq. Thomas Q. Finnis, Esq. . Collingwood, Edward Godson, Esq. Joshua G. Bedford, Esq. Walter A. Peacock, Esq. Richard Dixon, Esq. The Senior City Marshal on horseback. The Sheriffs, in their Scarlet Gowns and Chains, on horseback, each attended by a Sergeant and a Groom. Thomas Sidney, Esq. William Hunter, Esq. Aldermen in their Scarlet Gowns (those past the Chair in their chains) on horseback, each attended by a Beadle and a Groom. Thomas Farneomb, John A. Hooper, Esq. Sir George Carroll, Bart. John Johnson, Esq. Thomas Wood, Esti. Sir Peter Laurie, hut. Matthias Prime Lucas, Esq. C. Farebrother, Esq. Sir John Key, Bart. Sir C. S. llunter, Bar ........ . Right Hon. MICHAEL GIBBS, Lord Mayor elect. . The Common Crier, on The Sword-bearer on horse horseback, S. Bcddome, back, Charles W. flick, Esq., carrying the Esq., with the . City Mace. Cap of Maintenance. Three The LORD MAYOR, Three Footmen The Right lion. Wm. Magnay, Footmen in in a crimson velvet robe, and in State a collar — SS., on horseback, bearing ' State Liveries. the City Sword of State, Liveries. immediately before HER MAJESTY. The Royal Procession will here fall in. On Saturday the Gresham Committee sat from twelve o'clock until a late hour. completing the necessary pre liminaries for the reception of her Majesty and the Prince Consort. Mr. Jones, the chairman, presided, and among the more active members were Sir Chapman Marshall, Alderman Humpherv, and Mr. R. Taylor. All arrangements were finally and s atisfactorily completed for putting the civic orders and the entire machinery of the occasion into active operation and correct execution for the events of this day. On Friday letters were received by the Gresham Committee from Sir Robert Peel, Sir James Graham, and the Duke of Wellington, for ti ckets of admission, which were immediately sent to the m, and this led to the suspension of all further tickets b ein g issued, so as to provide against any exigence in the event of other ca binet ministers making applicatio ns for the same. For the last three or four day s, the Gresham Com mittee have continued their sitti n g s at Mercers ' Hall up to three and four o'clock in t he mornin g , and a very warm discussion has taken place u p on the q ues tion of the members of the corporation a pp earin g in court dresses instead of their ordinary robes. Letters were received from the houses of Messrs. Baring, H an k ey, wereand others,to compelleddeclining t the invitations court sent dresses. to The them stormy i f they discussion which followed the reading of these co/limn_ nications ended in a resolution being agreed upo n , t h at those who were anxious to appear in court dresses i g l l- t do so, but that it should be left entirely to their m on option instead of laying down any regulation. On Saturday the Earl of Jersey, master of the h orse, drove up to the Exchange for the purpose of going over it. The hanquetting room appropriated to the entertain ment of the Queen, was completed on Saturday evening. The tesselated pavement of the merchants' area has been cleansed, and boards have been put down in front of the grand entrance, which are to be covered with scarlet cloth. _ The ringers practised at intervals on Saturday the tunes of " Rule Britannia" and the national anthem. The various workmen continued their labours throughout Saturday night and Sunday, and the hoard ing was removed shortly after midnight. MANSION HOUSE. During the afternoon of Friday and on Saturday morning, strong representations were made to the SPIRIT of thB PUBLIC JOURNALS. ! POLICE INTELLIGENCE. FLOM THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY. GLOBE.—We find that Mr. George Bankes has been directing the attention of the Dorsetshire magis trates to Sir J. Graham's Bill for paying clerks of the peace and of petty sessions by salaries, instead of fees, and for regulating the fees in courts of criminal justice, in language showing a very unnecessary alarm for the interests of the fee-receivers :--" Public attention had been excited by the gretit impropriety of charging accused persons with fees on ac quittal. The nature of the question had been in some degree mistaken, for it had been supposed that all parties accused were liable to these charges. Now, that was entirely a mistake, because in charges cf felony no fees of that description were charged. It was, however, by no means just that parties who had been falsely accused (and they had a right to pre sume this of persons who had been acquitted) should be subject to any penalty. But the clerks of the peace ought not to be deprived of the emoluments which their predecessors had enjoyed; and consequently a difficulty had occurred in the way of putting a stop to a practice which had been reprobated by the magis trates of that bench so long as he could remember. It was very necessary that such a Bill should he intro duced, and he had no doubt it would pass ; but it was also necessary that they should look over it with considerable care, because it was not just that they should deprive clerks of the peace of their fair and proper remuneration." The children of Zeruiah are sure to take good care of themselves ; and however natural it may be for a Tory county Member to anticipate their wishes and over act zeal in their behalf, we should think better of him if he withheld all encouragement of a jobbing opposition, too sure anyhow to arise, to so good an object as that of Sir J. Graham's Bill. These fees, of which Mr. Bankes pretends so much fear that clerks of the peace may be unjustly deprived—fees taken from defendants in misdemeanours—are illegal fees; pro hibited clerks of the peace are prohibited from taking them by the 55th George 111. ; and their illegality has been affirmed by Sir James Graham, on the autho rity of the Law Officers of the Crown, on Mr. Escott calling his attention to such fees being still demand( Ct by many clerks of the peace. "it was not just that they should deprive clerks of the peace of their fair and proper remuneration !"—This fair and proper re muneration being fees which are taken in violation of law —as, if they wore not illegally taken, they would exist in violation of the plainest principles of justice — from men acquitted on charges of misdemeanour, or discharged for non-appearance of a prosecutor. Out, we say, Mr. Bankes, upon such affectation of justice! flat fees so indefensible, should continue to be exacted by many clerks of the peace, contrary to law, is only one of many instances of the necessity for a more effective supervision of the amateur adminis trators of criminal justice at Quarter Sessions. A Parliamentary return has been obtained by Mr. Escott (whose persevering exertions to abate this disgraceful practice deserve all praise) of "Fees taken or demanded from defendants in misdemeanours by the Clerks of Arraign and Clerks of the Peace in England and Wales, at the last Assizes and two last Quarter Sessions respectively." Put aside the illegality of these fees ; and that they should be wrung, legally or illegally, from poor men as the price of regaining their liberty after acquittal on a false charge, is enough to make Englishmen blush for their country in which such practices are permitted to exist. The same return shows an amount of upwards of 1101. received by such fees in the two last sessions in Sotnersetshire. We rejoice to see that Mr. Escott, assisted by Mr. Laisouchere, has prevailed on his brother magistrates at Taunton, at the sessions just concluded, to prohibit the clerk of the peace from continuing any longer to take these fees; and we trust other counties will follow this example. STANDARD.—We have long been of opinion that one of the most urgent of necessary reforms is, the improvement of the residences of the poor in large towns. In hamlets and villages, and de tached cottages, there is, perhaps, little occasion for the presence of the reformer; there the youth grows up, and the man lives in the society of his family, generally the best of moral schools ; but to transfer this advantage to great towns, or to provide a substitute for it, is a problem not yet solved, though its solution, besides being neccessary to the happiness of the poor, must exercise an important influence upon society, through all it gradations ; we, therefore, hail with satisfaction every fair experiment that is made in a matter of so much weight, for it is the domestic character makes the man, and the home shapes that domestic character. Never did we, however, read of such an experi ment with so much delight as the report of the proceedings to establish " a sailor's home" at Liverpool. We know not with whom the ad mirable proposition 'originated, but whoever has the honour of being its author, that good and great man, the Rev. Hugh M'Neile, has not only insured the success of the scheme at Liverpool, but rendered cer tain the establishment of a sailors' home in every principal seaport. Let Mr. M'Neile's address be read by any man of Christian or human feeling, and the reverend advocate of truth and humanity has se cured a convert. (S AT URDAY .) _ • LAMB ET H- STREET. Messrs. Johnson and Lee, the proprietors of the Royal Pavillion Theatre, Whitechapel road, attended before Mr. Norton to answer the complaint of Mr. John Sculthorp, colour merchant, of Brick-bill -lane, Upper Thames-street, City. The magistrate was occupied for a considerable time, and until nearly six o'clock, in hearing the par' ties pro and con., but the brief facts of the case were these :—On the night of Thursday week, the benefit of Mons. Plege, the celebrated French tight -ro p e dancer, who had been engaged for some time before at the Pavilion Theatre, was announced to take place at that house, and by way of astonishing the natives, as well as inducing additional attraction, the bills, in addition to the performances, set forth that Mona. Plege was to walk from the Mile-end gate to the theatre upon stilts sixteen feet •high. 'The even ing being exceedingly gloomy and dark, the go' sieur on stilts was preceded by a blue light which threw forth extraordinary brilliancy, and brought to gether an immense concourse of persons. During the performance of this feat Mr. Sculthorp wa s driving down the Whitechapel-road in a phaeton ac companied by four friends, and his horse upon the • approach of the blue light became perfectably .„ un manageable, upset the vehicle, and every person in °' was more or less injured, one gentleman so much s e that he is obliged still to keep his bed. The horsT the harness, and vehicle, were also very much injur e " , and upon Mr. Sculthorp making an application to Messrs. Johnson and Lee, whom he considered liable for the amount of damage-11/. odd—he conceived those gentlemen had not met him in that spirit which as men of the world they ought, and ultimately be appealed to Mr. Norton to afford him some redress for the injury he had sustained. Messrs. Johnson and Lee denied their liability, °°, the ground that the accident occurred alone throug h the carrying of the blue light by a person over who'l l they had no control whatever. Mr. Sculthorpe assured the magistrates that there were other bills of the performance on the night 10 question, in which the stilt-walking was made a pm" minent feature. Besides, the lessees of the theat re took two-thirds of the receipts of the theatre on the night in question, and the Frenchman only re ceivea one-third, so that there was no doubt upon his min d as to their liability to pay the whole of his damag e ' or at all event, two-thirds of it. Mr. Lee admitted that himself and his partner were aware that Mons. Plege was about to walk on stilts from the Mile-end-gate to the theatre, but Wi t ' respect to the bills alluded to they knew nothing about them. The bill exhibited to his worship vis s , that alone authorised by them. Mr. NORTON thought the exhibition in so public 9 thoroughfare highly dangerous, and he wa s some" what surprised that the police should have allowed it' It was his opinion, under the circumstances, tbsC Messrs. Johnson and Lee were liable for the arnon° of damage, and therefore recommended an amicable arrangement with the complainant, who he' throughout, acted with much kindness and forbearan ce ' Mr. Sculthorp said, as he understood the French' man had only received a third of 261. for his benei: ltf he would reduce his demand to six guineas. Messrs. Johnson and Lee thought the payment of such a demand would form a dangerous preceaet and it was ultimately arranged that the case show stand over, and a summons was issued for the apPe er ‘ ante of Mons. Plege on a future day. IRELAND. FEDERALISM, DUBLIN, OCT. 26.—A meeting of Liberals, includige several Protestant and Presbyterian gentlemen who bs / :, been opposed to the repeal move men t, i s t o b e held 05 day in Belfast, to consider a prop osa l f or comrne nciog e r society for the promotion o f a F e d era l P ar li am ent 1° Ireland. THE O'CONNELL TRIBUTE. The newspapers contain the a n n ouncemen t that "t he national collectiou for the O'Connell Tribute of the P r i g sent memorable year 1844, will b e ma d e sirnultaneo ° 4 6 , on Sunday, Nov. 17, in all the p ar i s h es o f I re l an d." ;of followinn , is the address put f orwar d b y t h e trustees, s the Tribute, Sir John Power, Bart., and Mr. Cornell ° M'Loghlin : " Fellow-countrymen—The period of the year bto again arrived when the Irish people are called upo°, l , o offer the tribute of their de vo t e d atta c h n y en t to I S, greatest man of his age and country. Ha stands befr / them in a new position—more th an ov.ir commal 3c4 ,` their admiration—more than ever ent itl e d to t h e ir g r "' titude. " Hitherto they have honoured him as the foremosts; sertor of their rights and liberties, whose purill„ /l e ll never tainted, and whose coura ge never qua i le d . Thry'Le the labours of a life, applied with matcl:itess persevern, to their service, they have honoure,l him as the sue ce s o ful advocate of the Di s se n t ers o f E ng l an d— as t h e grey deliverer of the Catholics o f I re l an d— as t h e power fal e , champion of the oppresses.', of every creed and They have honoured hi.ln as the unpurchaseable patrof.; who spurned the di gn iti es , emo l uments, an d ease o f t 4 highest offices attainable by a Catholic, that he Mig" continue to toil for unhappy millions. " One thing was yet wanting. " O'Connell had struggled for Ireland—he ha ° ° ,,, t quered for Ireland—it rema i ne d th at he s h ou ld st l " - for Ireland. $ " He has crowned the servic e s an d sacr ifi ces o f ha' of century, and consummated his titl e to t h e t en d u riug to fection of Irishmen, by testifying from a prison, in his year 1844, his unshaken fidelity to his country, and t ° cherished principle of her legislative indepe n dence. " Once again he is victorious, and victorious for land. Amidst the acclamations of all honest and ei O f lightened men he has t r i um ph e d over c hi cane, and and tyranny, which would h ave b eaten d own the i; 9O tional spirit and de s t ro y e d th e nat i onal hope. Ne vindicated in his own pers , 3n the dearest constito°,,,,, privileges of the people, and made it impossible for u tis t t vernments hereafter to perpetrate injustice, and er liberty, under the abused forms of law. let el " The claim upon Ireland's gratitude, thus comP 00 4 she is eager to acknowledge, not only freely sbe equitably, hut enthusiastically and gt->nerously- to feels that it is even more her interet than her &ti tl e sustain her indomitable leader ; who, uniting n og children, concent ra ti ng h er energ i es, and marsh° bey her moral power, h as ren d ere d her terrible t°,o enemies, and secured an ear l y tr i umph to her r ighte d cause." MR. O'CONNELL IN DARRYNANE• „ The Kerry Examiner contains the following r e 01 " O'Connell during th e l as t wee k en j oyed the pleasuwer hunting with his beagles, notwithstanding that the be it, ther was occasi o nally un f avoura bl e. Hovvever, o fo was no lack of sport—the D a r r y nane p ac k, w hich is i te superior description, have seldom returned froto r t be hunt without th e company of five or six hares aft e . ed , day. Severs:4 gentlemen —some from India, Yv ail is, Germaiky—visited Darrynane within the last, few, 56 or, where they w ere rece i ve d without distinction of Od e creed, with that true Irish hospitality so ',iharacter is Ireland's champion." M. Van de Weyer, the Belgia n Minister, trail° business on Saturday at the ;,Foreign -office. Lady Peel arrived in Whitehall-gardens on day from Brighton BIRT. On the 15 th;.•:,st., at West Parle HS y Rectors', Dorset, the 1 of the R es% Henry J. Buller, of a son, the On the 24th inst., at Ilighelere Parsonage, i-lants, L" or Gl' the Rev. 11.11`Donalil Caunter, of a daug h ter. w ife - On the 24th inst., at Effingham-hill, Sauey, the Captain William E. Rawlinson, o f a son . el 13eit On the 16th inst., at Napl es , the lady of Colon of a son. 1011.1' On the 22d inst., the wif e of th e R Ev. Henry Robert 1,10,; Vicar of Carew, Pembrokeshire, of a son. tiO P On the 24th inst., at the Lord Chief Baron's, at Lady Pollock, of a son. On the 25th inst., at Fulham, the wife of /ark '- Esq., of a son. On the 25th inst., at Kentish-town Mr,. S am uel 5 5116151 of a daughter. On the 25th inst., at Pall-mall, Wilbrahara of a son, ------ 111.4 RRIFIj On the 23d inst., at St. PaoV's Chapel, Edinburg,r ll, f o gitt i Newcombe Maltby, Esq., of . ..he Madras Civil Service , L ,-, o loo ° 'Toward, second daugtcer of the lateLL i eutenant,t -t, James Michael, Hon... East India Company's Service. i sf,A;; On the 23d inst., a t Oakingharn, C. H. White, E s l' u gh t of Oriel College, Oxf or d, t o L ou i sa B oak, your Test of the late Bartholomew Browne, Esq., of Oa , :,ingba rn. , On the 24th inst., a t Sutton Veney, Bengal Artillery, to Fanny, daughter of the Rev. - % 1 D. Thring, D.D., Rector of Button Veney, a nd sP" Fisherton Delamere, Wilt s , V gr E 0 On the 24th inst., a t Mi tc h am Church, S urr eP Tibbey, F,sq . of Balham, to Mary Ann, daughter of 6 Moore, Eso., of Mitcham, Surrey. r 9.1. *0. On the 24th inst., at St. Mary's, Paddington, A dele i r Edward Gray, M.A., Brasenose College, Oxtbrd, Hyde de.par Geraldine, daughter of Sir Herbert Compton, of r gardens hes t" ole the , On the 24th inst., at St. Leonard's Church, C t Sarah Caroline, eldest daughter of Mr. D. Holt, of th e , s tree to Frederick Edward Lestourgeen, of Aldersgate yr, London. bcO e ' to On the 24th inst., at Christ Church St. Marvle o ,j, ~ ,wo ;fames Boyd, of Cunningham-place, St. John s j i, v ge Eliza, second daughter of Mr. Edward Barnard, °' street, St. Martin's-le-Grand. o f DIED. Oft- id ( On the 17th i ns t . , a t Cheltenham, Mary .A.',ne, ' m Captain Greensill, R.N. i 51. ert On the 20th i nst., at D ea l , H enr i etta Fi t .h, aged --,. IN ,h On the 22d i ns t . , H arr i et, t h e secon d ,/a „ ghte r o. ` ~,s Skipper, of Norfolk- street, Park-lane, 'A v d e _ park. woods lvo On the 22d inst., at Circus Cott:4 ) . e, S t. John's -Wo- d i Sarah Johnston. ~,,,0-0 , On the 23d inst., at Ne....1-thumberland-stree t , , f a te W Barbara C. C. Collinson t coungest daughter of the d, 65 Job a Collinson, Vicar o f ki rkliarle, N ort h u mberlan Jon On the 23d inst., a t th e Vicarage, Stoke, Hen ry Lope Pearson, Esq., l a t e C o ll ector of Excise of Rochester._ of On tha 23d inst., a t Yarm, Mary, the wife of 31a..V„ityo, On the 24th inst., S usanna , w if e of Mr. Richard . 1 %. , ...., Crouchend, Hernsey. 'qrs. fii9. On the 23d inst., at Hornsev-row, Islington , dr ip beth Maltby, relict of thte U. :tialtby, Esq. tli° ' ii) On the ilth inst., tTi a- "dgl Charlot,teeo,oletr,r of the Rev. Baden Pf2, - ,veil Savilian Professor of 6 , e et, the Universit7 i- titi , s t. Oxford. thl t .. 1 2. - e 24th inst., Thomas Holding, Esq., of S° p .; o f dreenwich. - illit" - 7 - ---7 -' --"'"- 'O--_ 11:4 London : Printed and Published by MUKDO of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The e up. Of o3l col git/ Strand, in the Product of the Savcy, in the Middlesex, Monday, October 28, 1844. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (Before Mr. Justice MAULE and Baron ROLFE.) On Saturday, James Carruthers, who was on Friday convicted of sending certain threatening letters to Messrs. Coutts and Co., the bankers, with the intent to extort money from them, was brought up for judgment, when Mr. Justice Maule sentenced him to be imprisoned for twelve calendar months. John Henderson, who pleaded guilty on Friday to two indictments, charging him with forgery on his master, the proprietor of Morley's Hotel, was also brought up for judgment, and sentenced to two years' imprisonment on each indictment. Abraham Myers was indicted for feloniously cut ting and maiming Robert Clayard, a livery-stable keeper, with intent to kill and murder him. There were other counts in the indictment, charging the prisoner's intent to be to do the prosecutor some grievous bodily harm. Mr. CUARNOCK stated the case on the part of the prosecution, and afterwards called several witnesses, from whose evidence it appeared that on the 24th of September the prosecutor went into the Crown public-house, in Cranbourne-passage, and that the prisoner entered shortly afterwards; that a quar rel took place between them, and the prosecutor, having applied an offensive epithet to the prisoner, they proceeded from words to blows, and during the struggle that ensued the prisoner forced his thumb into the prosecutor's mouth, and also attempted with one of his fingers to gouge out the prosecutor's eve, They were, however, separated by some rtf the people in the house, and the prisoner afterwards retired into the parlour ; the prosecutor followed, and they re mained there for nearly an hour without anything fur ther taking place between them. At the expiration of that time, however, the prisoner went out for a few minutes, and on his return the prosecutor said to him, " Aby, let's have no more RnilTlOSity," and offered to shake hands with him. The prisoner, apparently with the intention of accepting this offer, took hold of the prosecutor's right hand with his left hand, and then suddenly drawing a butcher's knife from his pocket, said, " I'll have your heart's blood," and in stantly stabbed the prosecutor with it in hi s b reas t. The knife very fortunately struck against the prose cutor's ribs, or he must have been killed instantly. The prisoner then made a second stab at the prose cutor, but the latter naught hold of the knife with his hand, but in so doing was severely wounded, and his thumb nearly cut otT. The prisoner then threw down the knife and ran away, but was immediately pur sued and taken into custody. The knife was produced. It was a large-sized butcher's knife, with a very sharp point. Mr. CLARKSON made a long address to the jury on behalf of the prisoner, in which he said he could not attempt to justify his conduct, but urged in extenua tion the very great provocation he had received. Mr. Baron ROLFE having summed up the evidence, the jury returned a verdict of guilty o f ascAu l t i ng the prosecutor with intent to do him so to grievous bodily harm. The Learned JUDGE, in passing sentence, said tl,o crime of the prisoner was very much aggravated by the circumstance of; his temper having had time to cool after the provocation which he had received, and his afterwards going out and deliberately providing himself with a knife, with which the wound on the prosecutor was inflicted. The ease was one that called for severe punishment, and therefore the sen tence of the Court on the prisoner was, that he be transported for fifteen years. Herbert Holmes and Wm. Newman were indicted for feloniously cutting and maiming Bayley, the captain of the ship Cuba, on the high seas, and within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty. It appeared that the vessel in question was off the coast of Savanilla, on the 31st of July last, engaged in taking in her cargo, when the cook got very drunk, and interfered with the crew in such a way as to prevent them performing their duty; at length the captain ordered the cook to be tied hand and foot and put under a sail which was on the deck. The prisoners declared that their shipmate should not be treated in such a manner, and Holmes drew a knife, with which he attempted to hAmstring the captain, and although he failed In his object, he inflicted a severe wouna in the calf of his leg. The jury found Holmes Guilty, and Acquitted the other prisoner. Mr, Justice MAVLE sentenced Holmes to be trans ported for fifteen years. This trial terminated the session, and the Coutt was adjourned to Saturday, the 2d of November, ( n which day the Learned Judges will meet and Er range the days for holding the sessions of the Con*i• for the ensuing year. Lord Boston An d e-. _ Uotel nn V-1 • arrived at Farranee's _ 4. sulay afternoon. Lord Mayor by several members of eminent banking firms in the City, that if the strong code of police re gulations which had been posted about the streets were to be carried into effect on Monday, it would be impossible for them to conduct their business on that day. The Lord Mayor assured the gentlemen who waited upon him that he had not himself seen the re gulations referred to, although by some strange blunder they were headed " Magnay, Mayor." Ilia Lordship, however, promised to be present at the Court of Aldermen, which had been called expressly for the purpose of agreeing upon the resolutions, when he assured them their wishes should be complied with in every possible way. The Lord Mayor afterwards directed the City So licitor to confer with Mr. Roberts, the Chair man of the Committee of Bankers, and the members of the several firms which would be princi pally affected by the regulations, and the resolutions for closing the Poultry and Mansion- house-street, as subsequently adopted by the Court of Aldermen, was agreed to with the approbation of the bankers, who have received, for the accommodation of their clerks, pass tickets, which will admit them to pass the bar riers to the clearing house, and to and from their respective establishments at any hour of the day. At the request of the bankers a strong additional force has been placed at the clearing house, to enable them to pass and repass with safety, facility, and expedition—a procedure rendered absolutely ne cessary by the fact that the bankers have agreed to assemble at half-past eight in the morning, and to compress within the short space of two hours and a half the immense masa of monetary transactions which in ordinary days extend themselves over a surface of eight hours. Notwithstanding the ex cellent arrangements which have been made by the police commissioner for facilitating the intercommu nication of the bankers and their clerks during the time their establishments will be open for the trans action of business, the Lord Mayor has directed the City Solicitor to remain at the Mansion-house during the whole of the morning for the purpose of affording any facilities that may be required. It should be understood that the free passage of pedestrians, during any part of the day, is not in the least degree inter fered with, except along the length and breadth of the Exchange and the Poultry, the pavement of which has been railed off to prevent accidents, the street being scarcely sufficient to allow her Majesty's state carriage and her attendants to pass without danger to foot passengers. This space, which it was originally proposed should be left entirely vacant, will be filled with the Livery Companies of the City, in their Livery gowns or other badges of their company ; an arrange ment which will add greatly to the effect of the proces sion. The whole of Cheapside, St. Paul's-churchyard, Ludgate-hill, Fleet-street, as well as the Strand, and the other streets at the west-end of the town through which the procession will pass, being of greater width, will be open indiscriminately to the public. If these ar rangements had been fully explained in an intelligible order from the Lord Mayor, the dissatisfaction which has been so generally expressed would not have been experienced. All police regulations tending to re strain the free use of any privilege which the public have been accustomed to exercise are, in a free coun- try, calculated to excite feelings of dissatisfaction with the multitude. The final paragraph in the resolutions of the Court of Aldermen shows a disposition to as similate itself to the spirit of the times, and to re concile the public to what must otherwise appear an interference with their accustomed rights. ADDRESSES TO HER MAJESTY FROM THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. On Saturday the Rev. Herbert Kynaston, M.A., High Master of St. Paul's School, had an interview with Sir James Graham, the Home Secretary, the scholars having petitioned her Majesty to be allowed to address her by their captain on her route to the Royal Exchange, and a correspondence having recently taken place be tween the Head Master and Sir James Graham, the Rev. Gentleman was informed that her Majesty, although un willing to be stopped in her progress to receive the address in person, would, nevertheless, allow it to be presented through the medium of the Home Secretary. This custom is in accordance with the precedent of Queen Elizabeth, who, in 1588, as we find from Holen shed's Chronicles, stopped in front of St. Paul's School, and was addressed by the captain in a Latin oration and a copy of verses (recorded by that historian) on her way to Westminster Abbey, on the occasion of her coro nation. Similar addresses from Christ's Hospital and Mer chant Tailors' School have been submitted to her Ma jesty, and graciously accepted. THE NEW ROYAL EXCHANGE. A NATIONAL SONG—By Mits. CRAWFORD. When Commerce rose. in ages past, To fill the world with light, And feudal days were fleeting fast, Like shadows of the night ; Then her wings she gave To the ocean wave, For she loves at will to roam, With the fresh'ning breeze, O'er the bounding seas ; But in England she found her home. 'Twas then that Gresham's master-mind— Name still to commerce dear ! Her rising glories proudly shrin'd, And fixed her palace here : And from this proud spot (Be it ne'er forgot !) She rose to life and light ; And her sails unfurl'd To the wond'ring world, In the pride of her new-born might. Then Britain's thunders shook the earth, And sea's remotest shore ; The palm of honour, truth, and worth, Her merchant princes bore ; And they long shall bear, And as proudly wear, As in the by-gone days ; For the bright renown Of her laurell'd crown Is entwin'd with the civic bays. Amid the battle's thunder crash When England brav'd the foe— 'Mid volum'd smoke and lightning-flash 'Twas commerce nerv'd the blow ; She the pow'r and pride Of the earth defied, Alike on land and main, . When her bolts she hurl'd At a hostile world. May we ne'er see the like again ! Now daring commerce spreads at will Her sails on ev'ry wind; The march of armies now stand still, To wait the march of mind; Now in labour's hive, Loom and spindle thrive, As golden commerce smiles; And the lib'ral arts, That refine our hearts, Are the boast of the British isles. Eliza's glories all revive In young Victoria's reign ; And Gresham's stainless laurels live, To bud and bloom again ; As in those proud days, We to commerce raise Once more the stately pile, And the world's resort Is the regal court, That she holds in her own loved isle. Now, long may Britain's thunder sleep, And bright her laurels shine ! Long may her merchant princes keep Their court in this proud shrine ; Here may freedom's light Wing its glorious flight Across the boundless main ; And the good old cause, Of the throne and laws, Be the pride of Victoria's reign COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR SUNDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert walked in the grounds adjacent to the Castle yesterday forenoon. Afterwards his Royal Mgt nest went out shooting in the royal preserves, attended by Colonel Bouverie and the Hon. Captain Duncombe. Her Majesty and the Prince promenaded in the afternoon in the Slopes and Home Park. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal were taken A r their m trning air• ings yesterday The Right Hon. Sir James Graham left the Castle for London yesterday. Her Royal - .Highness the D achess of Kent left Frogmore house, for St. James's, yesterday morning. This morning the Prince of Walt s, the Princess Royal, and the Pi incess Alice, took equ , strian exer cise on their ponies in ,the grounds adjoining the Castle. Her Majesty and Prince Albert and the Court, and a portion of the royal domestic household, attended Divine Service this morning in the private chapel of the Castle. The Hon. and Rev. Charley Leslie Courtcnay offieated. The Queen and Prince Albert and the Court left the Castle soon after half-past fise o'clock for town, prcceeding to the Slough station of the Great Western Railway. Her Majesty and the Prince arrived at Bucking ham Palace from the Paddington terminus at a quarter before seven o'clock. Her Royal Highness the Duchess - of Kent, attended by Lady Charlotte Dundas and Sir George Couper, an ived at her residence, Clarence House, St. James's, honoured Drury-lane Theatre in a carriage and four, at half-past three o'clock on Saturday afternoon, from Frogmore Lodge, Windsor. with Her her ßo presence Highness Yesterday morning 'She Duchess of K en t a tt en d e d Divine service in tile Chapel Roy a l, S t . J ames ' s. Lady Charlotte Dundas in evening. Highness. Sir James Graham arrived in town on Saturday morning, from a visit to the Queen, at Windsor Castle. The Right Ron. Baronet had afterwards an interview with Sir Robert 'Neil t