The Express.
London, England, 1862-03-31 00:00:00

RARE AMERICAN LITERATURE.

Additional.

and visitors as it will be on some of the light days
of the exhibition, and the refreshment contractors
are hourly losing money by this backwardness on
the part of the builders. The commissioners are
also losing head-money from the same cause ; and
if it were not so, the work as contracted for ought
long ago to have been finished.
The plan of the refreshment area gives the British
half of the building to the French contractors, and
the foreign half of the building to the English con-
tractors. Of course visitorscan go tothe side they easy
like beat, but this is the topographical arrangement.
Mesas. Moorish and Oa, the English contractors,
pay a larger head-money than the French contraeters
(Messrs. Veillard and Co.), because they preferred
to pay a smaller
.premium. Mr. Samuel Gurney,
M.P., as chairman of the Drinking Fountains
Association, has given Mr. Morriah two handsome
marble drinking fountains, and has promised him
another if he can find gime to erect it in the build-
ing. The money valued the ale meat is to both eon-
tractors is twenty-seven thousand sterling.
sterling.
The removal of the dome wag • has shown
the character of Mr. Crams deocaslaolut, and on
the whole they may be need very ellestive.
We gave the exact details of the colounns scene
weeks ago, and we have now only to add the inscrip-.

iii-e.Q74-4:jiglitellip tild'Uoll4
missioners ; but as the Bible and the most brake-
siie purist in Beglist literature hate bean the two
chief sources drawn upon, it is difficult to believe
that the critics bare not been mistaken in their
authors. It is hardly fair to abuse Mr. Fairbairn
for what the late William Cowper wrote, and to
treat as original compositions what are merely
quotations.
Round the western dome is the following inscripl
tiou from the First Book of Chronicles :
Tua at Domino maim* swath', et poteatia, et &kaki
stque victoria ; et tibi lass : maces 'slim gem in ccelo mat,
et In terra tax sant, tonal Domino regnam.
Round the east dome the inscription is :
O Lord, both riches and hoarier came of thee, and thou!
r.lll!::irta:i3uvesthr...,itietion thin: hand is power sad Mfght ;;
Peet •

At the west end of the nave is :
Gloria in eireadids Deo et la teen pax ;
and at the east nil of the nave is :
The earthiathe Lccd's and the fulness thereof.
At the south-west end of the western transept is
Deus In terram reePerlS, et imlievit inam bosh 'Nth*
And at thoi north-weeeend
Domini est terra et plenitndo ejus.
At the north-east end of the eastern transept is
the following line from Cowper :
Alternately-the nations learn and teach.
And at the south-east end is another line fetes'
the same poet :
Each climate needs what other climes produce.

ARTISTS' GENERAL BENITOLINT
INSTITUTION.

The forty•seventh ani;iversary festival of: this
seekety was held on Saturday, at, the Freemen.' 'Tema.
This institution her for its object the providing relief for
dbleheed meritorious artiste, whether subscribe! to ,the
shads or sot, inset and dines oiestituting the .&e to
.ils aid.. It was eilablished intbnfear 1014, and shin that
time relief has hen
aSsi, ge 2,000 meow, either
artists, their widows c! Oaths awn thus sallaided.
amounts to KM& In is earn of I,lloi. was.
distributed among 72 daillehnis. incept the Ate
merits of this inhalation thse the admisietra-
Aies at ,//p funtis.
is ne hh Una
i l
received
circnei amp
weLt
have rehired tie* Melt efialeinfloi
ikeesilyes beech* hutdheises fie h. Oh die
self air
by the-fact eseperey
gathered at the ensivehery foe yeas was aseehiled en
occasion amounting to nearly 200, it tangoed entirely of
gentlemen coonsebed with art and literature, se hew
her of the arksteasay of rank or wealth in the
literal hose of the term being present. That he ice
accrued to the charity by this circumstance is premed by
another fact, mody,that the subecriptions, which isioanted
to nearly 7004 one of the largest, if not the hugest
which has beei revived at an annual festival. Mr. so
DICKPINS was the chsirman of the evening, mad was sup-
ported by Sir Cliedes Eastlake, P.R.A., Sir Edwin lend.
seerßA., Been Marochetti, Mean,. Stanfield, RA.,
David Roberts,R.A., Cheswick, R.A., Frith, R.A., Elmore,
R.A., Feed, Boxall, Hardwire., Horsley, LIMIO, Avalon,
O'Neill, Holman Haat, Millais, Bates, Solomon, Hurl-
▪ Frederick Taylor, Christie, Cockerel', Thomas Land-
seer, H. Wyndham Philips (bostorary secretary), W. H.
se M; to.