The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-19 00:00:00

BEATH Or MR. COCKERELL, R.A.

We regret to announce the death of Mr. Charles Robert
Cockerell, Royal Academician, and Emeritus Professor of
Architecture in the Royal Academy. He died on Thurs-
day last, in the 76th year of his age. In his early life M.
Cockerell spent many years of careful study among the
existing remains of classic architecture in Asia Minor,
Sicily, Rome, Pompeii, and elsewhere. In 1811-12, the
ruins of the Temples of Jupiter, in aEgena, and of Apollo
at Bassm, near Phrygaleia, in Arcadia, were excavated by
Mr. Cockerell, in company with Baron Haller and others,
An account of those excavations he published in 1860. The
collection of remains from the former edifice is in the
Museum at Munich, that of the latter in the British
Museum. Subsequently, "restorations" of far-famed build-
ings of antiquity, as they may once have existed, of the
Capitol and Forum of Itome, of the Parthenon, &c., often
employed Mr. Cockerell's talents as an architectural
draughtsman. In 1829 he was elected an associate of the
Royal Academy, and in 1836 he obtained the honour of a
Royal Academician. In 1840 he succeeded Wilkins, as
Professor of Architecture, a post he continued to fill with
great success ; his lectures supporting that reputation for
learning and ability which he has always enjoyed. In 1841
he was elected one of the eight associis chanjers of the
Academy of the „Institute of France, and in 1843,
one of the ten " members of merit" of the Academy
of St. Luke's, at Rome. In 1845 he was created
an honorary D.C.L. of the University of Oxford,
and in 1348 he was the first to receive the gold medal of the
Institute of British Architecture. He was also a member
of the academies of Munich, Berlin, and Berne. Mr.
Cockerell was always firm in his adherence to classic archi-
tecture as the style to be imitated in the 19th century in
this country, and was long an opponent of that general
revival of Gothic art, which has of late obtained more and
more the ascendancy. He has, however, more than once
designed in Gothic, having vigorously applied himself to
the study of mediaeval architecture, and was an active mem-
ber of the Archaeological Institute. To its " transactions
he contributed many valuable essays in illustration of
English antiquities—" The Iconography of Wells Cathe-
dral," "The Architectural Life of William of Wykehaw,"
" The Sculpture of Lincoln Cathedral," and others. The
principal works executed by Mr. Cockerell are—the Philo-
sophical Institute at Bristol, the Gothic College at Lam-
peter, the Gothic speech-room and chapel at Harrow, the
Taylor and Randolph Buildings at Oxford, the new Public
Library at Oxford, the Sun Fire Office, the Royal Ex-
change, and Hanover district Chapel in Regent-street. He
is also responsible for most of the various additions and im-
provements made during the last quarter of a century to
the Bank of England, to which he was standing architect.
To Mr. Cockerell also is due the merit of the recent restora-
tion of St. Paul's Cathedral.

REFINED BUT CARELESS CRUELTY !—There are
infinite varieties, even in the amenities of society,
which do not attain their full perfection and piquancy un-
less flavoured with a delicate elemental tinge of cruelty—
cruelty iced down to that exquisite form of courage which
is essential to social ease—and a certain devil-may-cansh-
ness, tempered by tact, experience, and good sense, which
is comparable only to the careless ease and' grace with
which accomplished cricketers perform the manifold evo•
lutions of fielding. With what abandoned grace
Smith
flings that ball which may break dear Jones's knuckles or
his nose Smith does not wish to break his best friend's
nose, or knock his manly eye out, but that which steels him
against the infinitesimal chance of doing the one or the
other is an infinitesimal icicle of cruelty, which makes him
in sufficiently careless to grace his litheness and adorn
his agility, and no more. So it is in society, and its myriad
combinations of chances. Without a certain amount of the
courage of cruelty, toned down to indifference, it would be
impossible to say anything for fear of potentially wounding
somebody. Each man, as he treads, unconsciously treads
upon a thousand invisible feelings, which die beneath his
heedless tramp. But we all move on, for all that, under
the irresistible pressure of a necessity which produces the
courage of a cruelty both useful and delightful in the end.
GAROTTING IN FRANCE.—Garotting seems to
have found its way into the French provinces.
Three evenings since, at Laloubere, near Tarbes (Hautes-
pStellee) as the wife of a cattle-dealer, named Dulac, was
Preoariuo.' her
fro,„ bet.. husband's supper, some person seized her
it .0 ti ad, put a handkerchief round her neck, and drew
low tee: that she fainted—in fact, garotted her. The fel-
11,e at
eettrattaacked the house and found 10f., with which
tiOn of the thielfle woman was unable to give any deEcrip-