The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-11 00:00:00

Public Works and Buildings,

The estimates to be voted for public works and
buildings have been issued. As usual, the expen-
diture for furniture and repairs of furniture appears
high ; no less than £6,464 is charged as so expended
at the South Kensington Museum in the last year
for which the accounts are made up. The repairs
and furniture of the British Embassy house at Pera,
which cost £1,500 in each of the last two years, are
to cost £3,234 this year. Among the items for
works at home is one of £6,000 for lions to be exe-
cuted and placed on the pedestals of the Nelson
Column. A sum of £BO is to be applied in con-
structing an electric telegraph from the Speaker's
house to his stables. For works within the Houses
of Parliament four votes are to be taken. The first
is a further vote of £1,300 towards £9,000 to be
applied to wall-painting by Mr. J. R. Herbert
in
the Peers' robing-room, the subjects to be Scrip-
tural illustrations of justice on earth, and its de-
velopment in law and judgment. The subject on
which the artist is now occupied is " Moses bring-
ing down the Tables of the Law to the Israelites.
Another vote is '£1,600 to complete the payment
for the last two of 12 marble statues of British Saro-t
vereigns for the Royal Gallery, and to make peal
payment for two more, when the models of
gro
same
£6ob, for payments
about to be begun, shall have been6oap
are further votes, amounting to
Ward, for wall-
to Mr. C. W. Cope and Mr.he
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of that great contest
C. ou;nions'y corridors odm: roeoi There,
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as
paintings for the Peers' and
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the meeting with in 168 of the Long
which commenced
the subjects are
Sir W. J. Hooker reports9'
thirahtethy
Parliament and terminated
Kew Gardens
last year.. . vi
el
rluy.strnietati
nearly
ley
the
num-
ber of visitors in 1862 was 550,132, the largest
number in any year, and 70,062 more than
in 1861
__an increase mainly due to the
influx of foreigners
for the International Exhibition.
The largest atten-
dance on any one day was on Sunday, the 24th of
August, when 18,1.20
persons were in the gardens,
but proper arrangements having been made there
was no crowding. 267,935 persons attended on
Sundays, and 282, 197 on week days. The cases of
improper conduct were fewer than ever. In no
previous year have the donations to the scientific
department been so numerous and valuable. They
have been chiefly derived from the International
Exhibition ; almost the whole of the vegetable pro-
ducts of our more important dependencies have been
transferred to the Royal Gardens, and in many in-
stances the collections were made and sent with a
special view to this destination. It is impossible to
exaggerate their general value. The past year was
also distinguished by the completion of the grand
centre of the winter garden, 212 ft. long by 137
broad. The introduction into India and our tropi-
cal colonies of trees yielding quinine is proceeding
most successfully ; in the Neilgherries aloneth there
are are now above 117,000 cinchona plants in cultiva-
tion. and

ejrouFruranalca:dhse:
The receipts of the theatres, concert-rooms,
other places of public amusement in Paris during the mo
olt
nth
eio,asnlefs '.')thfOen2'elW3lofptnre.
of March was 1,941,320 fr,, being a decrease
sigovnuestldmy:bnysiaf6iedsot; women of paris,
the previous month.
tesnicotnaire:7the vote
The OpinioneNationale announces that a petition
in favour of Poland,
—" The women of the departments, moved by that e
has just been sent to the Emperor. The same
ov
wereror
wa mr
i ptil netiaporunetPttrhheaPaetqattj
would have for Poland as many votes as he had for his ovni
election.'

THE ATR E-R OYA L, DRURY-LANE.-
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Edmund Falconer.
THIS EVENING, April 11, for the:3s2d time in London,
PEEP O'DAY. Mes'rs. Henry Lorraine, Walter Lacy, C.
Verner, Addison, J. Graham. G. Spencer, T. Nevilie, 4143. ;
Misses Cleveland. Clara Weston, M. Hudson, Szc.
To conclude with MAGIC TOYS. Valentine, Miss Lydia
Thompson.