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and the expeneekera week's imprisonment ; and, in addition,
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Doves, 13.—Thirteen stacks of corn, Re., in the
vicinity of Dover, belonging to Mr. Going, were yesterday
totally consumed. It is reported some children playing with
heifer matches set fire to some dry grass. The flames com-
municated with one of the stacks. Every effert to arrest the
progress of the fire was futile. It burnt from three to eight
o'clock.
SHAMEFUL ASSAULT BY A POLICEMAN.—The county
magistrates at Rochester were engaged on Ftiday for some
hours in Om disposal of cases connected with Chatham races,
and amongst them was one in which some tradesmen of
London charged Tyler, a police officer of Brampton, with a
violent assault. It appeared that a lady had had her pocket
picked, and amongst the crowd were Mr. Joseph Porteh,
cheeeemonger, of Whitefriars, London, Mr. David Portcb,
his brother, and a w ine-merchant, of Rathbone-place,Oxford-
street, and Francisco Roderigo, a Spaniard, an acluaintance.
Mr. Joseph Portch, seeing the female who had been robbed
of her purse alone, asked if she was unprotecte I, when Tyler
coming up, told the complainants that he knew them to be a
set of Peotonville thieves, and David Porta, he said, he
knew to be the greatest thief amongst them. After a time
the complainant met Tyler again in comz-any with another
man, to whom be pointed them out. Mr. Joseph Porteh
asked him what he meant by such conduct, and told him
they were respectable tradesmen ham London ; to which he
replied that he knew as much of them as they did of them-
selves, and pulling out his staff struck him first a blow in the
stomach, and then on the head, from the effects of which he
was deluged in blood, and reeled almost in a state of insen-
sibility into the arms of Roderigo, who also received a blow
from the staff, which rendered him unoonsciout of what was
paring, and in the midst of this affair he was robbed of
1. 14e. and his bat, and his coat was torn to pieces. The
magistrates, after deliberating on the case, told Tyler that
they regretted the position in which he had plead himself
by his conduct, and they still more regretted that they felt
bound to convict. Feeling, however, that Mr. Porteh had
no other motive in bringing the charge against him than the
pablic good, they would deal leniently with him ; he was
therefore adjudged to pay a fine of 6s. and 17s. costs for the
assault on Mr. Joseph Porteh; Is. fine and 12.. coats in the
cue of Mr. David Portch ; and the third charge was with-
drawn, the defendant having thrown himself on the merciful
consideration of the court.
THE LATE BUROLARIRS IN WEST KENT.-011 Friday,
Burgess, Duggan, and Smith, were brought before the
county magistrates at Rochester, for final examination, on
which occasion Alderman Lucas attended to watch the pro-
ceedings on behalf of ono of his labourer., whose cottage had
been broken open and robbed, at Canon-heath, Wateringbury,
where the thieves used a gate as a ladder to reach the
window by which they entered, and where a dog, left
to guard the premises, seems to have been drugged, as
when found he was in a state of stupor and appeared
to be dying. After a lengthened investigation Duggan
laving proved an alibi, he was discharged, and
Burgess and the female Smith were committed on two
charges of burglary for trial at the next Quarter Sessions at
Maidstone. Burger was then arraigned on another charge,
that of having broken open the church at Sevenoaks, on the
Bth of August last, and stolen two salvers, a table cloth, and
napkin. The prisoner, when apprehended at Gravesend,
confessed haring committed this robbery, in company with a
man who had nem been transported, and as he considered
himself in a fair way of sharing the same fate he undertook
to point out to the officers where the salvers were concealed.
For this purpose he was taken to the spot, and on the read
between Shoreham and Otford he dragged them out from
their place of concealment under a thick hedge by the road-
side. For this offence he stands committed for trial at the
assize'.

SURREY.
EAST SU/MET REOIaTIIATION.-8. C. C. Fish, Esq.,
and I. Deedea, Esq., are the banisters app, inted to revise the
lists of voters for the eastern division of the county of
Honey, and will hold courts for that purpose at the under-
mentioned places on the days named :—Wednesday, Sept.
28rd, snd Friday, the 240, at the Court House, Croydon;
Monday, 28'h, and Tuesday, 29th, at the Court House,
Xingston ; Wednesday, 30th, and Thursday, Oct. let, at the
French Horn and Half Moon, Wandsworth ; Monday, 6th,
and Tuesday, 6th. at the Vestry Hall, Camberwell ; Wed-
ndsy, 7th, era Thursday, Bth, at the Horns Tavern, Ken-
:l:l2-00010n ; Monday, 12th, Tuesday, 13th, and Wed-
;llll4th, at the Workhouse Committee-room, Russell-
street, Bermondsey.

lint farts.
THE BUDRUN NIARELE9.—We are happy to an-
nounce that the Budrun Marbles, secured to us by the active
and praiseworthy exertions of Sir Stratford Canning, have
arrived from Asia Minor, and are now saf ly deposited in
the British Museum. The pieces of friese of which this most
interesting collection consists have been removed from the
walls of the Turkish fort into which they were built ; and
where they have, from time to time, been noticed by Euro-
pean travellers—though no very critical account of them has
ever been published. Budrun, as is well known, occupies the '
ate of the ancient Halicathassus ; and it has, with great
probability, been supposed that these sculptures formed part
et the celebrated mausoleum erected, in that city, by
Artemisia, Queen of Caria, to the memory of her
husband, Mansolus, n.e. 350—and have, like the frieze
of the Temple of Victory, at Athen.. been used by the
Turks as the building materials of a fort erected on the site
of this monument. If this opinion be correct, these sculp-
tures have an historical value scarcely leas than those of the
Parthenon : for we learn from ancient writers that the
frieze of the Mausoleum was the work of four of the most
celebrated artists of the day,—Bryaxis, Leochares, Stops,
Timotheos,—or, according to Vitruvius, Praxiteles. The
Budrun Marbles would thus represent the style of a period
in the history of Greek sculpture, of which, from the want
of dated monuments, our knowledge is most uncertain,—the
century preceding the reign of Alexander the Great, and
distinguished in the history of art as the Praxitelian
period. We will describe these sculptures as tar as
a first hasty examination will enable us. The subject,
like that of the Pbygalian and ILyclan friezes, is a battle
with Amazons. At the first glance, we are struck by the
masterly composition of the groups, the knowledge and skill
which distinguish the Athenian school. As the eye dwells
longer and compares more critically, we perceive certain
peculiarities distinguishing the style from that of the older
Greek friezes with which we are acquainted. With no trace
of the careless, barbaric ignorance so apparent in the
Lycisn friezes, with more elaborate and skilful execution
than the Phygelian, these sculptures still want the sim-
plicity, repose, and unconscious beauty of the art of
Phidiaa. Though the general composition is finely con-
ceived, the design and treatment are not without man-
nerism. The true proportions of the figures, when
compared with those of the Elgin sculptures, appear unna-
turally elongated ; and the graceful flow of the draperies
is singularly contrasted with the poverty and meagreness
of some of the anatomical details and the constraint
of the attitudes. We are at once reminded of Pliny's de-
scription of the new style introduced by Lysippus ;--who, in
order to give greater height t 3 his fizures, substituted a
greater dryness of treatment for the squareness and full
muscular development of the earlier school. With this
change in the type commenced that general decadence in
Art which may be traced step by step in the coins of the
Seleucidm, and other successors of Alexander; and which,
from the evidence of the Budrun marbles, according to their
presumed date, must have been already introduced B.C. 3:io.
This is rather an earlier epoch than that from which the decline
of sculpture is usually dated : and it must be confessed that the
Budrun friezes when compered with the reliefs of the choragic
monument of Lysierates, a contemporary work, and other
sculptures considered to be of the same period, exhibit far
more strikingly the characteristics of decadence ; and might,
in the absence of all historical data, be assigned with great
probability to the century after the death of Alexander,
B.C. 329. We will not, however, here anticipate a discussion
involving the historical research and critical knowledge of
art which will be required to solve the question whether the
Budrun Marbles can be identified with the friezes of the
Mausoleum. The surface of the sculpture is tolerably pre-
„...served—the marble not of very fine quality.—Atheneum.