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London, England, 1837-06-26 00:00:00

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case, the Magistrates had dettrrnined o Mr. Pariter,
to ,llow an opportenity for a full investigation.
"-r. CLARKSON trusted the Magistrates would indulge him
in a few words. He never in his life knew of a case of an ac-
cused person being remanded when no evidence Iva expeeted
to he forthcoming, and where the pret?ciltOr declared., "
have no charge to prefer, and if I had knoWn at first What,
now kmorv., I should herer have preferred any vfCcusation." Hb
diti hope, if the Magistrates had n'ot irrevocably detdrmincti on
a rem.:ml, that they would reidonSider their judgment.
The room Was ehgain ordered to be cleared, but was reopened
in a few minutTs, when the CHAIRMAN announced the decision
of the Magistrates to be that they could not do otherwise than
remand the prisoner.

Mr. ParkCr was accordingly transferred into the Custody of
Fisher, the b;gh constable, who received a warrant for convey-
ing him to the c:.unty

THE MONEY MARKET.

SATURDAY.—The importation of cotton during the last
week at Liverpool amounted, in fifty-four vessels, to between
80,000 and 90,000 bags, chiefly American, a quantity un-
usually large, and, it is believed, never exceeded, consigned
principally to English merchants, in part liquidation of the
claims of British creditors upon the Americans. Can any
thing be more d•-monstrative of the good faith of the mer-
chants of the United States than this circumstance, or give
stronger proof of their anxiety to relieve their correspondents
here? Thsides the strenuous efforts the Americans are
malc:ng to meet their obligations in this country, as evidenced
in the large weekly importations of various produce into
Liverpool and other ports of the United Kingdom, they
are continually remitting specie in considerable amounts,
obtained under most disadvantageous and ruinous terms,
to sustain their credit in England, a mode of payment,
be it remembered, that no one has a right to ex-
act from a country which did - not contract its debt in that
medium.

To any one conversant nith mercantile affairs, it must
be quite obvious that it would be just as impracticable for
any country to which 20,000,0001. or 30,000,0001. of tner-
chandize were expected by England, to remit for the same
in specie, as it would be for the Bank of England to meet
its outstanding liabilities in the current coin of the realm
or bullion. Such an amount must be disbursed in the
same medium in which the debt was contracted, that is
merchandise, or by the barter of the staple produce of
that country for the manufactures of this ; hence the
propriety of the Americans suspending cash payments
during a panic like the one which has recently occurred,
there being in no country specie corresponding in amount
with its internal and foreign obligations. Is it not, then,
most unjust and unmerciful—contrary to all usage and
in all probability to express agreement—to call upon the
American merchants, as it were at a moment's notice, to
liquidate their accounts, when perhaps the bulk of the
manufactvrcs have only just been exported from this
county, to bo sold in America at a credit, perhaps, of
three, six, or nine months, and the proceeds returned in
cotton or other produce of the United States ? The custom
generally with foreign merchants is to open an account with
an English house, the latter agreeing to give a running
average credit of 5,000/., some more, some leas ; which ba-
lance is rarely reduced, as upon the strength of such credit
the foreign merchant gives credit to others, so that it is
quite impossible for him to pay off the balance of his stand-
ing credit until lie has disposed of his manufuctures, and got
his returns.

It seldoms happens that English merchants are indebted
to foreign ; but, on the contrary, nine-tenths of the latter
with whom the English have dealings are indebted to them,
arising out of the superabundant wealth of our mercantile
community. Thus the vast trade of this country, by giving
extraordinary credits all over the world, is the primary cause
of the money panics which take place when any portion of
the machinery is unexpectedly deranged and must ever be
so while the legal tender of the great commercial countries
is of such a limited nature.

Mr. Shaw and Mr. Melville Wilson, two of the partners
of the firm of Messrs. Thomas Wilson and Co., in com-
pliance with a request made by their creditors at a private
meeting, will leave London on Monday, we believe, for
the United States, with a vices of collecting the debts of the
house as speedily as _possible. It has been our unvarying
opinion, and we have little doubt the result will justify our
expectations, that the Americans will strai❑ every nerve to
meet their engagements most honourably ; and should there
be exceptions it will rather be the effect of accident than
design, caused by the extraordinary depression in the value
of their property—a circumstance which they could neither
anticipate nor control. Mr. Melville Wilson, who has only
recently returned from New York, after having examined
minutely into the affairs of firms indebted to his house, is
fully convinced that time alone is required to realize every-
thing. In many cases where he called for payment, even
where houses had suspended operations, he was shown
goods and property to six, seven, and eight times the
amount of the debt, and was offered his choice of every-
thing ; but of course nothing could be realised during a
period of commercial panic, and he was compelled to give a
further extension of credit. The position of the houses in
this country which have been obliged to yield to the severity
of the times is almost similar ; they have plenty of assets,
although not immediately available, and therefore the Bank
Directors are only doing an act of justice to the British
merchants generally by exerting themselves to the utmost,
even at some risk, to relieve the present pressure brought
about chiefly by themselves and the monied interests con-
tracting their discounts and throwing American paper into
discredit. The decision of the Bank, moreover, in refer-
ence to those firms in the American trade which stopped
payment and threw so many houses into difficulties, was
no doubt actuated. by erroneous views. They looked
upon the question as one of insolvency, instead of one
of time. The Roaeoc packet arrived most inopportunely
with intelligence of the suspension of business on the
part of many establishments in New York which were
indebted to those requiring assistance in England. The
Bank instantly took alarm, would not listen to the
true state of things, and decided fatally. Three of
the largest houses connected with the American trade
stopped the following day, commerce was paralyzed, and
honourable, upright men, wl:o only a short time before
were regarded as persons of wealth, were compelled to call
a meeting of their creditors and place their accounts before
them. In regard to Messrs. Brown and Co., of Liverpool,
the Bank looked upon the matter in the proper light, as a
question of time, and ultimately came to a resolution, if
sincerely acted upon, extremely favourable for that estab-
lishment. The cases of ell, however, were so similar, that
this recent decision occasioned the former to be considered
partial 1 and a requisition has been consequently signed by
many of the leading and most intelligent men in the City
requesting the I3arik to reconsider their first resolution, and
we feel convineed, at we have often stated before, that they
would give. universal satisfaction by enabling the firms in
question to resume business, while it would give vigour to
every branch of trade and be a powerful stimnlus to the
merchants of the United States.—lllorninj Chronicle.
SATIIIMAY EVENING.—It has been received as satisfac-
tory intelligence from Manchester that " the cotton spin-
ners are now perfectly satisfied with the relative prices of
cotton and yarns, and that some who were working three
days a week have in consequence been working six days in
this week,' This is hailed as the first symptom of return-
lug confidence, and a better state of things both in England
and the United States ; and it is certain that an increase
of activity.in the cotton trade will do much, though it will
not do the whole that is required. For this branch of ma-
nufacture we have several great markets, hut the great_
pressure for some time to come as regards the other branches
of the, national industry will be upon Birmingham and Shef-
field, and those places which depend chiefly upon the United
States for a market.—Times.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Hastings will re-
main at their residence in Lower Grosvenor-street till August.
LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.--It IS
now arranged that the first twenty miles of the London and
Birmingham railway will open in the first week of July. Pas-
sengers will start from Euston-grove, and those with merchan-
dise from Camden-town. When the works of the London
Grand Junctio n Railway are completed, the city terminus will
he at Skinner-street,. Snow-hill, in the very heart of London.
There will then be an uninterrupted chain of railway commu-
nication from the city of London to the port of Liverpool.
The branch of Euston-grove will be the west-end terminus to
the whole.

We have high gratification in announcing that
the Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint the Mar-
chioness of Lansdowne to a distinguished situation, which
will place her Ladyship at the head of our Sovereign's house-
hold, We understand that the Marchioness of Tavistock and
the Countess Minto are to be the ladies of the bed-chamber
to the Queen.—Sunday paper.
SUFFERINGS OF TIIE CREW OF TIIE WHALERS.

—We are glad to learn that William Gray, belonging to Dun-
dee, the seamen taken off the Advice whale ship, and landed
at Port Glasgow from the ship Grace, is recovering rapidly
from the effects of scurvy and general debility, although he is
still unable to walk without assistance. He gives a painful
and melancholy account of the sufferings of the crew. In the
first place, being placed on short allowance of food from the
time the Alivice got beset in the ice, and then from the ravages
of that horrid disease (scurvy) attacking them in the mouth,
accompaw,ed with dreadful swelling in the legs, and, latterly,
from the incessant application of the pumps, to keep the vessel
from getting water-logged. The seams of the Advice, it ap-
pears, were opened by the frost to a great extent, and inside
the ice was three and four inches thick all round the vessel,
which, by the air getting heated by the breaths of the men
huddled. 'oelow, began to melt, and several feet of water were
constant ly in the hold. Captain Davidson, of the Thomas,
was par ticularly active in cheering and aiding the men at the
pumps. which were, from the state of the vessel, kept con-
t4,ritly going for along period. Ten or twelve of the crew
divt,l before the ship left the ice, and afterwards, Grey observes,
that I, he men died like rotten sheep, seemingly without feel-
ing th ^ pangs of death. • They were in a listless state, and
just sloe,
)ed int de,:th.— Glasgow Chronicle.

IRELAND.

nuntAN, JUNK
Toe ELrerten,.—Oreat attllilly is ditpltird 111 all perties
in Making preparations for the doming electral struggle.
Out there are few perior,h, even liejon'ging to the tot-y party,
who dd not adibiEi that the iatilt a the t:.:locLidos t,7lliC tl
aCeestion of numbers and strength to the Reformers. No
doubt, the advocates of justice to Ireland will be returned ge-
nerally throughout the country. The people will send only
such MN: to Parliament as will there cc operate with O'Connell
in scoring Alunitipal 114ornii and these tither measures of
social amelioration Which, Whilst the Lords have blindly ob-
Strutted) the Aielbotlerie Administration have mat-Ally arid
Stisenuously urged. We see by the Driblin Evening Post that
efforts will be made by the corruptionists in Wicklow, Newry,
and other places. Those also who incline to regard the
prospects of the enemy as being brighter, than we are per-
suaded they can reasonably be considered, fear that the Ju lgcs'
decision, enunciated by Mr. Justice Crampton on the fran-
chise, by limiting its exercise, will operate unfavourably upon
the Liberal cause. For ourselves, we participate not in this
or any other apprehension upon the subject of the elections.
The spirit of the people—the well-directed energies of the
" bondsmen," who arc determined to be free, we are convinced
will achieve a decided and glorious victory at the ensuing
elect ions.
TIIR LORD LIT.UTEN A NT. —Their Excellencies the Lord
Lieutenant and the Countess of Mulgrave embarked at
Kingstown, shortly after nine o'clock this morning, on board
her Majesty's steamer, the Lightning, for Holyhead, on their
way to London. Their Excellencies were accompanied by
Lieutenant-Colonel Yorke and the Hon. Capt. Liddell. The
object of his Excellency's visit is to resign into the hands of
her Majesty, according to custom, the seals of 11'3 high office,
and his commission of Governor-General of Ireland.

At three o'clock this day a Privy Council is to assemble at
the Ca,tle, when the Lord Chancellor, Sir Edward Blakency,
the Lieutenant-General Commanding the Forces, and the
Lord Chief Justice Bushe, will be sworn in as Lords Justices
His Excellency's absence is not expected to exceed a very
few weeks.

The intelligence of the King's heath has filled all hearts
here with deep regret. A melancholy interest is manifested
to learn all the details connected with the melancholy event.
The public papers contain little else but matter connected with
the loss of our late excellent, honest, true-hearted old King.

GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR

THE WEEK.

(From the Gardeners' Gazelle.)

BIZET ROOM—Thin them out to proper distances ; clear
it from weeds.

ONIONS, arc beginning to swell a good deal, and many will
be found too close, though carefully hoed out. Draw out
these for bunching or present use ; at all events, draw them
out, if you throw them away afterwards.
POT HERDS.—PIant out . young thyme, savory, marjorum,
&c., watch for a good opportunity after rain. Slips or Cut-
tings of all herbs will do well if put out after a wet day, and
in shady borders.
CuAanooNs.--Plant out, either in' deep trenches, or in a
hole like a basin. It is. the stalks that arc eaten, and they
must be earthed up like celery.
WATERING, WEEDING, &c., must be constantly looked to.

FRUIT TREES on walls must be examined ; take off all ill-
grown useless shoots, leave none but sach as can be well laid
in and trained.

WALL FRUIT.—Look over and thin properly.
FRUIT TREES, such as vier° planted in Spring must be
looked to, the earth kept close about the stems, and plenty of
water given.
VINES out of doors must be cleared from all useless shoots ;
nail all strong shoots with fruit or without, take off weak bar-
ren shoots.

STRAWBERRIES.—Girt plenty of water, and keep clear from
weeds. As soon as the runners are strong enough nursery
plantations may be made of the strongest and best; let them
grow till September, they will be infinitely better than plants
from the old beds, or runners which may hare struck root and
grown on the old plants.
FLORIST'S FLOWRRS in general require a little care; pre-
venting the attacks of vermin is an important point. Auri-
culas are making growth, and require occasional water ;
Tulips can take no harm. The Ranunculuses ought to be
constantly shaded and watered, but the blooms must not be
wetted; Anemones much the same treatment ; Pinks, Picco-
tees, and Carnations must be tied up, and as the buds advance
they must be thinned; none of them should have more than
one or two buds on a stem.

PLANTS out of bloom require the same treatment as last
.month; those in the houses may require shading from the
extreme heat.

DAHLIA4.—Tie up as they grow; remember our former
injunctions about watering. Plant out seedlings.

The University of Athens was opened by King
Otho on the 15th of May with much pomp, but not one student
had presented himself for admission.
In allusio❑ to the correspondence between Mr.
Mostyn and Sir S. Glynne, which we published last week,
the Carnarvon Herald says—" The plain moral of it is, that
the Tory proposes to the Whig, in the first place, that he shall
treat the elective franchise as a property of the soil, and barter
it away ns he would the cattle on his estate ; and in the next
place, that he shall exhibit himself in the contemptible posi-
tion—worse than that of the apostate who so unblushingly
makes the proposition—of a double-dealer and trader in poli-
tics—that he shall be a Whig in the county, and a Tory in the
boroughs I And the bait held out is, to purchase the neutra-
lity of Sir S. Glynne in the county !' The alternative menaced
is, that if he will not consent to exhibit himself in this degrad-
ing spectacle, lie will encounter an opposition in the county.
The reply of Mr. Mostyn is as much the opposite of the letter
to him, and exhibits him in as honourable contrast to his me-
nacer, as his most high-minded friend could wish."
The hay harvest has commenced in this neighbour-
hood, and the crops are likely to be good and abundant. The
blossom on the fruit trees is rapidly "setting," and there is
every prospect of an abundant produce.—Halifax Express.
On Sunday last, eight of the prisoners lodged in
the Preston House of Correction for trial at the Assizes
(one only of whom was re-captured) made their escape from
the gaol.

STINGS OF CONSCIENCE.—A respectably dressed
middle-aged man, who gave his name John Alcock, on Mon-
day, was brought before the Bench by Inspector Douglas, to
whom he surrendered himself on Sunday morning. When
called upon to state his reasons for doing so, he said he had
been valet for nearly thirteen months to Mr. Frederick Pear-
son, of Conduit-street, London; that he a short time since
absconded from his employment and went to Birmingham,
taking with him three five-pound notes, the property of his
master, which he had stolen from his desk. He had not he
said given himself up from want but from remorse of conscience,
and he Wished his master to be made acquainted with the cir-
cumstance. He also stated that he was a native of Norwich,
and formerly lived with Sir Joseph Leffen. After the man
had withdrawn, Douglas said he had written to the gentleman
named above, and that Alcock had informed him that he left
London to follow a young woman to Birmingham, but when
ho arrived there he heard she had returned to London, and
upon ascertaining that to be a fact, he became careless and
squandered the money.— Worcester Journal.
A remarkable effect of the tremendous storm which
we had on Friday last was witnessed at Leigh, near this city,
where a farmer had just expended 301. in manuring his land ;
the whole of which manure, with a crop of turnips, was trans-
forced by the storm to his neighbour's estate.— Worcester
Journal.

A day or two ago, Mr. Bebell, foreman in Mr.
Hunt's ship-building yard in this port, while preparing timber
for the vessel now on the stocks, discovered in the centre of
an elm tree, a bird's nest, containing five eggs. The tree was
two feet eight inches in diameter, and there was not the
slightest aperture from where the nest, was to the surface; so
that it must evidently have been built when the tree was quite
young, and which, in the process of growth, had enclosed the
nest and its contents, where probably they had remained un-
disturbed for upwards of half a century. The moss and hair of
which it was composed had quite a fresh appearance, but un-
fortunately the neatness of its shape was discomposed by the
process of extraction, and the saw broke most or all of the
eggs ; they were quite dry, containing nothing but a white
powder. The nest and eggs arc supposed to be those of a tom-
tit. They arc now in the possession of Mr. Bebell, at the
yard, where they may be inspected by the curious. In the
samo yard, a few years ago, a live toad was found under pre-
cisely similar circumstances in the heart of an oak tree, but the
saw of the workmen passing through tho reptile, killed it.
Gloucester Journal.

Yesterday those prescribed alterations in the Liturgy
which have been specified in the Gazette of Friday last were
put into practice in the churches and chapels situate in Lon-
don and its environs. The pulpits were in most places hung
with black, and festoons of crape of the same colour were sus-
pended from the pillars.
A gentleman sent a lad with a letter to the Balti-
more post-office, and money to pay the postage. When he re-
turned, he said, " I guess I did the thing- slick; I see'd a good
many folks putting letters into the post-office through a hole,
so I watched my chance, and got mine in for nothing."
On Monday last upwards of 670 young persons were
confirmed at the cathedral at Peterborough, by the Lord
Bishop of Carlisle, for the Bishop of Peterborough, who still
continues indisposed. His Lordship afterwards proceeded to
Oundle, where upwards of 500 young persons were confirmed.
COVENT-GARDEN MARKET on Saturday morning
was again admirably supplied with a superabundance of
choice vegetables, and fresh strawberries, grown in the open
air, in quantity, and at very reduced prices ; cabbages and
lettuces, each of enormous size ; greens, rhubarb, spinach,
cauliflowers, piled very high in the huge waggons of the mar.
ket gardeners, took their different stands before midnight, and
by four o'clock the splendid square which enloses this well-
conducted market was entirely filled with buyers and sellers;
peas, quite fresh, plentiful and cheap ; asparagus very reason-
able indeed. The new potatoes grown in frames were plenti-
ful and large ; French beans very fine, and diminished in price,
because of the increased supply; cucumbers very lengthy in-
deed, and cheap ; currants and gooseberries in measureless
supply ; cherries, peaches, nectarines, apricots, plums, and
pines in perfection, avery fair supply of each. That portion
of the garden appropriated to flowers was beautifully varigated.
On Friday last a meeting was called at the church
at Wisbeach, to lay a rate ; a large company attended, and a
deal of argu?nent took place; at length a rate of four-pence in
the pound was moved and seconded, and an amendment was
proposed, that the meeting adjourn till that day four months.
The amendment was carried.--Stamford Mercury.

PoiNTs OP ArtCHITL,ci,TURAL
SUBLI.III'FY IN LONDON.

" Them rer. thuuderings, and liglitoings, and voices."—
Puck of Reetialion§
111,2g4Jlen College, Cambridge, A. 1, 1 aat
„ .
rift' I,iitely for some time in London, giting
evidence before a Lumrnittce t'f the of f;ornmons on the
proposed improvements of the navigation dt 111 e Fss'llArinott and
the Fergus; the hitter the river of my native Clare.
While I was in that mighty metropolis, I revived with my
tiame a proputal originally pali...thed anonymously in a letter
td the editor of the Times, for the erection of a natlfrial monu-
ment to fleit-foiii i,orth* of Fmglantli anti of his memory, It
nits from this College t wrote ihy Gfiil4l letter to the editor,
who is himself a highly-distinguished gr;:duatetlf &Jr tTniitersi:y.
.

Being now herC; again, after long-absence, for a day or two
before my return to Ireland, I do not think I can do any thing
more in snison with the feelings with Ivhieh, retired from poli-
tical turmoil, I once more repose within my college walls, than
writing a few paffes to cAll your attention to two magnificent
earnbintvions tube found in London. Of each of these. St. Paul's
Cathedral is the basis—each is unique in its way—there is
nothing like either of them to be found anywhere else in the
world : one has been always known, but the other does not ap-
pear to have been observed by any one else but myself—at
least the public attention does not appear to have been called
to it by any one before.
Suppose yourself to stand at the eastern extremity of the
quay at Bankside, near the new London-bridge, and looking
up the Thames, you will observe the groat circular tower and
dome of St. Paul's Cathedral appearing directly over the
centre arch of the Southwark cast-iron bridge.
Thus you have the very greatest arch in the world, and the
second dome in the world, at one view, in exquisitely pic-
turesque combination—and in exquisite proportion to each
other, too ; each is enormous, and so, therefore, they are both
together in unison in their vastness. It is a truly sublime ar-
chitectural combination.

Is there anything equal to it at Rome? No ; on the very
contrary, it was by contrasting it with a view in Rome, that I
was first astounded by its transcendent grandeur.
I had often stood upon the side of the Tiber, to view the
dome of the Vatican over the bridge of St. Angelo. But in
this view there was no harmony ; because the bridge bore no
proportion to the stupendous Vatican. There was no har-
mony here : but in London the harmony is exquisite, between
the mighty bridge over the waters of the river, and the mighty
dome, that " upheaves its vastness" " buried in air." The
two come together .in magical combination—in consequence,
first, of their relative positions; and, secondly, of the gorgeous
perfection of their proportion to each other in their enormous
dimensions.

Lord Byron says in "lde Harold," and there never was
anything more true:—
" There is a pleasure in the pathless woods;
There is a rapture on the lonely shore ;
There is society where none intrudes
By the deep sea, and music ROAR."
. . .

. -
About St. Paul's there is a twofold sublimity—as an object
of vision—and it is doubly sublime as a musical instrument. I
do not call it so in quaintness, for with Lord Byron's autho-
rity, which I have just quoted, I think the form of expression
a good one.
In the Tempcst Shakspeare, too, the thunder is called
" that deep and dreadful organ-pipe ;" another precedent in
my favour, and peculiarly apposite to my purpose :
" Methought the billows spoke and told me of it,
The winds did sing it to me, and the thunder,
THAT DEEP AND DREADFUL. ORGAN•PIPE, pronounced
The name of ."

Who that has a perception of the sublime in the works of
art or of nature, has been ever in the great circular gallery in
St. Paul's—" the whispering gallery"—and while he gazed above
to the summit of the dome, and across the enormous diameter of
the yawning, abyss beneath the gallery, and viewed the se-
pulchres and monuments of " the mighty dead" in the gulf
beneath him, and after listening to the solemn preludizing of
the mystic sounds that swept around him—like the voices of
spirits of another world—then looked down the chasm, and,
while doing so, heard the awful sounds produced by such
simple means put in action at the opposite side of the gallery
—the repercussive roar, like the reverberation of a thunder's
peal—who that has seen and heard all this, unless he is pre-
pared to deny that there is music in the roar of ocean, can
deny that the church of St. Paul's is a deep and solemn in-
strument of music, the most sublime I

Such sounds were never heard within any other building in
the world.

The view from the gallery of the Vatican is superior to the
view from the gallery of the metropolitan church of London ;
but in this case the sight alone is astounded, but in St. Paul's
the soul is taken by an irresistible spell that overwhelms it, and
makes it captive by the sentiment of sublimity through two
senses together—the hearing and the vision.
Go alone, in the gloom of a winter's evening, into the gal-
lery of St. Peter's, and the effect is no more to be forgotten
than the view down the crater of Vesuvius, as I have seen it
from the verge, when looking down from amidst sulphureous
smoke,. into the lava flood that was boiling in its abyss-breast
of flame : the deep silence of St. Peter's at such a moment
as I have described, is sublime to the very last extremity ; but
St. Paul's, like Vesuvius, can give awful sounds as well as
awful scenery.
I have for some time intended to embody these conceptions
in an article for publication ; and something very lately sug-
gested itself to me, which induces me to add it, as it perhaps
may not be entirely uninteresting to artists, particularly to
those who devote themselves to architecture.

It occurred to me that I could, in the following manner, get
something like general Teel of such a building as that which I
have proposed for a national, monument to Newton in my let-
ters to the Editor of the Times.

I cut out from one of my pictures the view of the proposed
building, but preserved the outline with the utmost accuracy.
Then going in the gloom of the evening, in what in Scotland
would be called " the gloaming," that the angular parts might
not obtrude themselves too strongly, and so to a certain extent
cause a failure of my purpose, .if too distinctly defined, I held
up the paper before me from which I had cut out the picture,
in such a manner, that, standing in Cheapside, the base of my
design appeared to coincide with the base of St. Paul's (a sort
of crude coincidence, of course, in consequence of the angle at
the transept), and that the highest point of my designed build-
ing should, at the same time, appear to coincide with a point
of the great tower of the Cathedral, about 200 feet high—the
height of the building which I propose to have erected.
Thus you will perceive that I made use of the mighty pile
already in existence, in a manner somewhat analogous to that
in which a sculptor uses a block of marble in order to hew out
his form ; for, .by the process I have described, I not only, per-
fectly, as it were, hewed out from the church the form I wanted
to view, but also got before me the dimensions of my proposed
building, delineated perfectly to my vision, when I looked
through the paper from which (as I have said before, accu-
rately preserv►ng the outline) I had cut out my design.
Perhaps these few observations may not be entirely uninte-
resting to those who take an interest ►n architectural combi-
nations, and the general harmonies of nature.
In a description I wrote of Cadiz, that magically beautiful
city, where, after the fall of Paphos, Lord Byron says Venus
deigned to fix her shrine, there is the following passage :
" Some years ago, when I was in Rome, I frequently passed
whole hours together in roaming round the Coliseum, and
through its arena and arches and galleries, by which I formed
to myself a series, to infinity, of beautiful combinations. When
I spoke of this amusement to my friend Gabrielli, who is a
musician as well as painter, I, laughingly, called it playing a
melody on the Coliseum—and a number of such melodies
might well be played in Cadiz."
Yes, there arc melodies of this kind in Cadiz of magic fasci-
nation ; and I have quoted the passage about melody, as bear-
ing something of analogy to part of what I have been writing
now, viz., harmonies of nature. " The Lady," in Milton's
Comas, invokes Echo—

_
" Sweet Echo ! sweetest nymph that dvvell'st unseen
Within thy airy cell," &c.
And describes her as giving " a resounding grace to all
Heaven's harmonies."

Now, if echo ever gave, in this world, a harmony worthy of
Heaven, it was when her voice was first heard in the appalling
and thunder-peal-like repercussion in the Church of St. Paul's—
when her voice, from within it er airy cell, was as if the " seven
thunders, described in the book of Revelations, had " uttered
their voices."

No—not from the time when God himself sanctified with
his presence the ark of the covenant within the tabernacle,
sitting on the mercy-scat between the cherubim ; in Horeb, or
iloronahn, or by the brook of Cedron, or Siloa, or in Zoar, or
on Mount Hermon, or on Sion-hill—was there ever a place
consecrated to his worship so awfully solemn and sublime, as
that thunder-pealing temple, the vast Cathedral of St. Paul !
Could anything increase the sublimity I have vainly made an
attempt to describe ? Yes, if those sounds were to be pro-
duced in the dreary depth of winter midnight—while the only
illumination for a person in the gallery should be from the
flashing of lurid lightnings in tile firmament, from time to time
showing the interior for a moment, and then again as suddenly
leaving it in darkness.
I have the honour to be, my dear Sir,

Ever most ;ineerely yours,
THOMAS STEELE,
A Member of the Senate of this University.

ARCHITECTURAL SUBLIMITY IN WALES.

Theyfollowing eloquent tribute to the merits of Me. Tel-
ford's great work, the Menai Bridge, appeared some years ago
in the Dedication to Mr. T. Steele's " Practical Suggestions
on the Improvement of the Shannon :"—" On the evening
when I took my scat as an associate member of the Institu-
tion of Civil Engineers, I signed in your presence a declara-
tion that I would always, to the utmost of my power, endea-
vour to promote the objects for which the Society had been
founded; and I now, without at all identifying you with my
politics, beg permission to dedicate to you the following pages,
and at the same time when I make an humble effort to fulfil
my pledge to the Institution, I may, as an Irishman, have
the gratification of publicly expressing my sense of the benefit
you have conferred on my country, by increasing to the ex-
tent that you have increased it, the rapidity of the communi-
cation between Ireland and England. In the progress of your
work, Sir, for drawing the two countries by so many hours
nearer to eadi other than they were before, you hare not only
formed one of the most magnificent roads in the world over
the mountains of Wales, but you have suspended in the mid-
way air—not over a river, but over a portion of the mighty
deep itself—a monument to your genius, harmonising with the
objects around, beneath, and on high ; for, like the ridge of
the Cambrian mountains, the ocean-tide, and the firmament of
Heaven,

This new wondrous Pontalice unhoped.'
The bridge over the billows of the Menai is sublime."
It is not, we believe, generally known that Mr. Telford was
a poet as well as engineer.

(BURT CiltuULAl.

The PAC c,f Argyll, Lord Steward of the Household,nS
had an audience cf the Queen, on Saturday at Kensingto7
Palace, to present the Address from the Eouse of Lords.:,.
Sir Mihail; Fremantle, Treasurer of the flousehohirlowth,
Col. Cavendibb, Equerry in Waiting, were is attendancerxV
the oceaaion.
Divine Service was performed yesterday bJore the Qn-' leen-
and her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent by the-Dean
of Cite:ger.
At the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday, the funeral
anthem, " Lord, let me know mine end" (Green), was perl,
formed ; Sir George Smart presiding at the organ. ilicei
Sanctus and Commandments were composed by the Earl of
Wilton, and his Lordship presided at the organ. The '1
mon witg preached by the Sub-Dean.
The Duke of Mn.,sex visited the King of Hanover on Sa•V
turday. In the evening his Majesty dined with the Princess 4
hr
Augusta and the Duchess of Gloucester, at Glouceste-0
bowie, At ten o'clock the King, having taken leave of i
Royal Sister.l, left town, attended by Col. Hattori, in hill
of the Duchess of Gloucester's carriages, for Deptford,'N
where his Majesty embarked in a government steam-packet"
fur the Continent.
The remains of the late King will, it is expected, lie u) ..,
state in the Waterloo-chamber on Friday the 7th and Sa-„.
turday the Bth of July.
The Princess Augusta and the Duchess of Gloucester6,F4 11
took an airing together yesterday to Kew.
The furniture belonging to the Queen Dowager lir s been R:
removed from her Majesty's late residence in town to Bushy-I
park.
The Earl of Durham, his late Majesty's Ambassador E -
traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Emperor'nf
All the Russias, arrived in town on Saturday. Earl Grey
..
visited his Lordship yesterday.
The Marquis of Lansdowne was sufficiently recovereal
from his recent accident to attend a Cabinet Council held,
at. the official residence of Viscount Melbourne in Downing'
street on Saturday afternoon. The Council was attendedh
by the Lord Chancellor, Viscount Duncannon, Lord John
Russell, Viscount Palmerston, Lord Glenelg, the Chancellor',
of the Exchequer, Earl of Minto, Sir John Hobhouse, Lord Y.,
Holland, Mr. Poulett Thomson, and Viscount Howick.
The Council sat two hours.
The Russian and French Ambassadors transacted busi-
ness on Saturday at the Foreign-office.
Sir Charles Grey had an interview with Lord Glenelg on '..
Saturday, at the Colonial-office.
Lord Worsley and Mr. Barrow had interviews with Vis-
count Melbourne on Saturday, in Downing-street. t.
Messrs. Wood and Thornton, the Chairman and Deputy _
Chairman of Stamps and Taxes, had an interview with thei
Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday, in Downing-street..
Lords Lyndhurst and Brougham, Mr. Justice Bosanquet,
and the Chief Judge in Bankruptcy, sat on Saturday in the
Privy Council Chamber, and resumed Shuttleworth's peti-
tion for an extension of Wright's patent (in penmaking.)
The case occupied the greater part of the sitting, and was
adjourned. The Hon. Wm. Bathurst was the Clerk of the
Council in Waiting.

We are informed by a correspondent that Lord
Duncannon and Sir B. C. Stephenson have given instructions
for many additional hands to be employed in preparing the new
palace for the residence of the Queen, her Majosty having ex-
pressed her wish that it may be ready early in July.
The King of Hanover came from his residence at
Kew on Friday to Kensington Palace, where his Majesty visitedl
the Duke of Sussex, and afterwards went to his residence in
St. James's Palace.

His late Majesty died in the same apartment in
which George the Fourth breathed his last. About two hours
previously to the death of the King it was theught necessary to
remove his Majesty from one chamber to another, in the hope
that a change of air might assist respiration. The room into
which his Majesty was carried happened, by mere accident, to
be that in which George the Fourth expired, and there Wit'
Liam the Fourth died also.
BOARD OF TRADE, JUNE 24.—Sir J. Hall and
a numerous Deputation from the City of London had an inter-1
view with the President this day. Lord Wallace also had,nn
interview. Mr. Shutt, M. P., had an interview.

THE EARL OF DURHAM.—This distinguished.
Nobleman landed, on his return from Russia, on Saturday, at
Woolwich, from the Firebrand steamer. His Lordship, Wej
are happy to state, is in excellent health. His luggage was
disembarked at Hungerford Wharf from one of her Majesty 'n
naval craft, yesterday morning at 5 o'clock. Several waggons
were immediately put in requisition.
When the Master of the Horse waited upon the
Queen, to know her pleasure as to the arrangement of the
royal carriages, &c., on the day of her proclamation, her Ma.
jes•y is said to have replied, with great naivete and simplicity,;
.. Why, my Lord Albemarle, this is a subject which you arc'
so well acquainted with, and I know nothing, that I can
only beg the favour of you to do whatever is right upon the'
occasion."

Sir James Flower, Bart., has been giving dinned
parties this season at his mansion in Russell-square, on a scale
of great magnificence. The service of gold and the plateau'
were formerly the property of the late Duke of York, and thel
plates in the dessert service are said to have cost three guineasi
each. _ I

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Marlborough House, Pall-mall, the residence of the
Queen Do ager, was thronged du ing the whole of Fridai:
afternoon with the Nobility and Gentry and foreigners of dis-1
tinction leaving their names for her Majesty.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury enter-
tained the Earl of Aberdeen, Sir Henry Hardinge, and a dis-
tinguished party at dinner Friday evening, at their mansion in
Arlington-street.
We are authorised to state that, in consequence of
the numerous solicitations which have been made to him,
Capt. Scobell has consented to offer himself as a Candidate
for this City at the ensuing election.—Bath _Herald.
We understand that Mr. Thomas Moore is engaged
at Paris making researches in the " Bibliotheque du Roi" for
the third volume of his " History of Ireland." He has been
successful in discovering some very interesting documents con-
nected with the period when Irishmen were compelled to seek
for military honours in a foreign land.
The solemnization of the marriage of Miss Paken-
ham, the daughter of the Hon. General Pakenham, with Si','
Edmund Hayes, Bart., M. P., is postponed until this day week,;;;
in consequence of the serious casualty that happened on Wed- s
ncsday last to the Gallant General. To the inquiries blade at '
Mivart's Hotel Saturday as to the condition of the Hon. Ge-'
neral and his son the answers given were—" That both the,
General and his son had passed a good night and were much
better." •
~
The closing of shops and houses on the presentli:
melancholy occasion is, if possible, even more general in the
environs ti,en in the metropolis. In the parish of HackneY
there is but one sinp which is not partially closed, whilst:,
rom the closed shutters and blinds at private houses it would?,
appear to a strange', as if death, aided by a devastating pot
tileece, had visited eveej• habitation. It is stated by several:,
shopkeepers that the demand .for mournings is less than dote,
on the demise of George the Foe-'the on account of the re-
cent great mortality from the influenza, .hy which parties arc;
already supplied.
DRURY-LANE.—An English version of Benin' =I,
Norma was produced at Drury- Lane on Saturday eveniniA
The scene is laid after the time of Caesars invasion, in fiau '4
where Norma (Mde. Schroeder), a Druidical Priesteo44'
breaks her vestal vow in favour of Pollio (Mr. Wilson), wll°
is Roman Pro-Consul there. When two children have re':
suited from their secret marriage, Pollio finds his heart eaPa"
cious enough for the enthronement of another Queen, Ada ,
'
gisa (Miss Betts), another vestal too I Rather unfortunate',
in the selection of a confidante she tells her love to Normallo
but Norma alone is the mighty Priestess, who can, and doe!!.
free her from her holy vow. Not until then does the lover 't
name transpire—he enters, and they unite in the expression °_.
much becoming abhorrence at his treachery, which conclude'
the first act. In the second the scene is opened by Nortnia:..4
about to avenge herself by slaying ker children, but 5 f
adopts the more magnanimous resolve of self.slaughtcr, °.
confiding them to Adalgisa, and of urging her to seek 14)1°s
and live with him as a husband, all of which the lady very Pr V:
perly declines, to intercede with him on behalf of Norma. ile reel
however, unrelenting ; Adalgisa returns in tears, Pollio ;1! es..Z,
suing to bear her " e'en from the sacred circle." Upon hear1.n,,,';,.2
this result, Norma is aroused to vengeance, and, by stri'.igt:.t
thrice on the sacred shield of the temple, summonses 130,01/-01
Bards, and Warriors to " War, carnage, and extirpation.' .ifai.
this moment Pollio, pursuing his design upon Adalgisa, iS "i° d
covered in the very circle devoted to the virgins." His bl010:‘,1
must atone, and Norma declares, in vengeance, her hand shoto..
shed it. She offers, howcvcr, to spare his life on one on hic,i
tion—that of flying from Adalgisa. He braves her fury, 5,
I
then threatens the murder of their children, and gloats :e.
fancy on the pangs of his soul when he shall behold the 9a Foe
to which she dooms Adalgisa, shining around her vietim_e_e4
the latter purpose the Druids are summoned to bear Pwri er,s)
denounce that Gaulish Priestess, who, for I vile strane‘or4
broke her vestal vow. Whilst Pollio implores mere)? 'I e,i,.
Adalgisa, the chorus demand the name, and Pollio feels tie . I
love—the faith—he has lost when she exclaims " 'tis Noerna_,ei,
They are re-united under the veil of darkness, and led to trios
flaming pile. Meagre as arc these materials, the operas'
_s,',l;
1
Norma abounds in fine musical expressions, and the situa.i nef.,
marred as they are by the syllables, arc highly productive
~
passion. We never heard Miis Betts to greater 'Ova_ !Zs,.
than in the arduous part of Adalgisa. The Clotilda of Pp1_1_,,,,,
1
Poole was very well. Mr. Wilson was a satisfactoryireei itivid.,
scntative of Pollio, the hero and lover. Mr. Giubl, eateerp
great justice to the part of Ororeso, the arch-Druid arta , he
of Norma. The opera was well received, and is likely to we.
the concluding effort of the Drury-lane season. inn-
Yesterday morning as John Hulforcol, Esq.,
tleman of independent property, residing in Great
street, Fitzroy-square, was attending the Unitarian
c_Uanli !riol,
together with his wife and family, he uttered an e.x I_. !,,,,j,,,
of pain, and, falling down in his pew, suddenly expireelrus..,
melancholy and awful circumstance took place at the p'eson
the cotnus!
tion of the second lesson, and so great was
sereiceie
thereby produced that it was with great difficul theeviave the:4
could be afterwards proceeded with. All efforts to_ ea. is 0114
unfortunate gentleman proved unavailing, and, WI, t .
191 i i!!:31 Coltett.
c!rOlniroA'
more lamentable, Mrs. H. is in danger, through the
stance, of losing her senses.