The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-03 00:00:00

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THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY 3, 1863,

No. 22,157.

E IN TERNATIONAL FINANCIAL
TSOCIETY Litnited) are Prepared io Receive Snbscrip
tons for the issue at par of Capital Stuck, in the Hudson's
Bay ompany.
Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1670.
The Stock will be issucd in certificates of £2oeich, and the
instalments will be payable as folluws
(to be returned in the
:
£1 being 5 per cent. on application
event of no allotment being made).

Now ready, Illustrated by Millais, 58., bound,
CHEAP EDITION of " MISTRESS AND
MAID," by the Author of "JOHN HALIFAX, GEN-
TLE vt AN," forming the New Volume of " Hurst and
Blackett's Standard Library of Popular Modern Works."
"A good, wholesome book, gracefully written, and as
pleasant to read as it is instructive."—Athenaeum.
"A charming tale, charmingly told."— Herald.
Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

ably adapted to take advantage of circumstances.
This sagacious lady profited by the alarm caused by
a man throwing himself over a bridge to effect her
brother's escape from the bailiffs, and to declare
that he had committed suicide to escape his merci-
less creditor. The sums of money which she con-
trived to extort from the unfortunate bill broker
en this ground, before the imposture was discovered,
were more profitable to herself and her coadjutor,
than pleasant to the giver. The fifth part of
" Royal Favourites" tells the oft told tale of the
weakness and improvidence of our first Stuart
King. An animated description of Accot, an
account of a Night at St, Bernard's, and a brief but
Interesting paper on the various unsucessful
searches for the source of the Nile, are among the
remaining contents,

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20 „ on allotment
25 „ on Ist September, 1863.
25 „ on 2d November, 1863.
25 „ on Ist January, 1864.

Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols.,
RESPECTABLE SINNERS.
By AIRS. BROTHERTON.
" 'Respectable Sinners' is very clew- r ; the title is a happy
one—the style is bright and lively. It is a valuable, enter-
taining book."— Athenaeum.
"A very attractive novel. The story is very naturally and
charmingly told."—Sun.
Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

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With an option of prepayment in full on al'otment, or on
either of the days fixed for payment of the instalments, under
discount, at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum.
The Capital of the Hudson's Bay Company has been. duly
fixed at £2,000,000, of which amount the International F man-
cial Soelety(Limited) have obtained and are prepared to offer
to the public £1,931,000.
The subs •ribers will be entitled to an interest, correspond-
ing to the amount of their subscription, in-
-1 The Assets (exclusive of Nos. 2 and 3) of the Hudson's
Bay Company, recently and specially valued by competent
valuers at £1,023,f,69.
2. The Landed Territory of the Company, held under their
Charter, and which extends over an estimated area 4.f more
than 1,400,000 square miles, or upwards of t 96 0001 tioo.
3. A Cash Balance of £370,000.
The present net income, available for dividend amongst
Stockholders of the Company, secures a minimum interest
exceeding 4 per cent. on the above £2,000,020 Stock.
The Directors of the Hudson's Bay Company are as under :
The Right Honourable Sir Edmund Head, Bart., K.C.B.
(late Governor-Genera of C-in ada), Governor.
Curtis Miranda Lampson, Esq. (C. M. Lampson and Co.),
Deputy mernor.
Eden olville Esq, Hudson's Bay Haus e, Fenchurch-street.
George ',rill, Esq., M P. Headley Park, Surrey.
Daniel bleinertzhagen, Esq. (B`. Huth and Co.).
James Stewart H..dgson, Esq. (Finlay, Hodg,son, and Co.).
John Henry William Schroder, Esq. (J. A. SchrUder and

7ARKIEL and HIS CRITICS, JUDICIAL and
LITERARY.—A SPECIAL and EARLY EDITION
of ZADKIEL'S ALMANAC for 56.1 will be Published, con-
taining a TRIUMPHANT REPLY.
G. Berger, London. Price 6d.

11 C. JONES'S HUNDRED LECTURES.-
• The Creation and the Deluge, Colenzo and Cumming,
Astronomy and Philosophy, Athenian and English Laws
compared, the Poets, Drama, Mythology, Elocution, and
Oratory.
W. H. Allen and Co., Waterloo-Place.

MR. CHURCH'S New Picture, the, ICEBERGS,
painted from studies made in the Northern Seas in
the summer of 1859.—German Gallery, 168, Ne a Bond-street,
W. Admission, is.

P A
E&tab RI S.-GRAND HOTEL DU LOUVRE.
lished In 1855. —S ituated in the most Central part
of Paris, Rue de Rivoli and Place du Palais Royal —Six hun-
dred Bedrooms at from 3 to 20fr--,0 Sitting-rooms at from
4 to 20fr.— a richly decorated Dining Saloon—Table d'llote
at six o'clock—Public Coffee and Dining Rooms Choice
Wines—Dinners served a la carte both in the.dining-rooms
and the private' apartments— Reading and Conversation.
Saloon. ; also Saloons for Musical, Wedding, and other par-
ties all Newspapers and serial Publications received—
Divans, Coffee, Smoking, and Billiard Rooms—numerous
Bath-rooms—Carriages on the premises—first-class Private
Equipages at command—Omnibuses running to all the rail-
Way stions—Postal Letter-box—Telegra day and
night—Pathotographic studio—a staff of 6ery pantsh-office speaking all
Languages.

Co.). .
Richard Potter, Esq., Standish House, Gloucestershire.
The Hudson's Bay Company were incorporated under a
Royal Charter granted by King Charles 11. in 1670 by the
name of "The Governor and Company of Adventurero of
England trading Into Hudson's Bay," and, by the Charter,
a vast tract of territory was vested in the Company, together
with the sole right of trade and commerce, and all " mines
royal," as well then discovered as not discovered,- within the
said territory
The operations of the Company, which, with slight excep-
tione, have been hitherto exclusively of a trading character,
have been prosecuted from the date of the charter to the pre-
sent day.
It has become evident that the time has arrived when those
operations must be extended, and the immense resources of
the Company's territory, lying as it does between Canada
and British Colombia, should be developed in _accordance
with the industrial spirit of the age, and the rapid advance-
ment which colonisation has made in the countries adjacent
to the Hudson Bay territories.
Tile average net annual. profits of the Company (after set-.
ting aside 40 per cent of them as remuneration to the factors
' and se vents at the Company's posts and stations) for the 10
years ending the 31st May, 1852, amount to £Bl,OOO, or up-
wards of 4 per cent on the present nominal capital of
£2,01,0,000: A portion only of this income has been distributed
as dividend, while the remainder is represented i
the
he assets
and balanc s. The assets of the Company, in which
Subscribers will be entitled to an interest corresponding to
the amount •ot their subscriptions, will consist of goods in
the interior, on shipboard, and other stock in trade, includ-
ing ship Bing business, premises, and other buildings n oes-
sary for carrying on the fur trade, in addition to which there
will be funds immediately available for the proposed ex-
tended operations of the Company, derived partly from tro he
cash balance of the Hudson s tray Company, and partly fm
th - new issue of Stock, and amounting in the whole to a sum
not less than £70,000. •
The Company's territory embraces an estimat
acres, of
ed area of
more than 1,400,000 square miles. or 896,000,ti00 of
which a large area, on the southern frontier, is well adapted
for European colonisation. The soil of this portion of the
territory is fertile, producing in abundance wheat and other
he
cereal crops, and is capable of sustaining a numerous
pulation. It contains 1,400 miles of n vigable lakes and
rivers, running for the greater part east and west, which
constitute an important feature in plans for establishing the
means of communication between the Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans, across the continent of British North America,as well
as for immediate settlement in the intervening country. The
territory is, moreover, rich in mineral wealth, including coal,
lead, anti iron.
In addition to its chartered territory, the Company possess
the following valuable landed property-. Several plots of land
in British Columbia, occupying most favourable sites at the
mouths of rivers, the titles ,0 which have been confirmed by
her Majesty's Government; farms. building sites in Van-
couver's Island ; and in Canada, ten square miles at Lacloche,
on Lake Huron, and tracts of land at fourteen other p' aces.
The trading operations of the Company are chiefly carried
on in the fur bearing and-northern portion of the territory.
where the climate is too severe for European colonisation.
These trading operations will be actively continued and, as
far as pAsible, extended, whilst the management will be
judiciously economised.
Consistently with these objects,-the outl3ing estates and
valuable arms will be reatisen where the land is not required
for the use of the Company—the southern district wit] be
opened to European colonisation, under a liberal and syste-
matic scheme of land settiem. nt. Possessing a staff of factors
and ufficers who are distributed in small centres of civilisation
over the territory, the Company can, without creating new
and costly establishments inaugurate the new policy of colo-
nisation, and at the same time dispose of mining grants.
With the view of providing the means of to egraphic and
postal communication between Canada and British Columbia,
across the Company's territo y, and thereby of connecting
the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by an exclusively British
route, negotiations have been pending for some time past be-
tween certain parties and her Majesty's Government and the
representatives of the Government of Canada, and prelimi-
nary arrangements for the accomplishment of these objects
have been made through her Majesty's Government (subject
to the final sanction of the Colonies), based upon a five per
cent. guarantee from the Government of Canada, British.
Columbia, and Vancouver Island. In further aid of these Im-
perial objects, her Majesty's Government have signified their
intention to maker, grants of land to the extent of about
1,000,00 acres, in portions of the Crown territory traversed
by the proposed telegraphic line.
One of the first objects of the Company will be to examine
the facilities and consider the best means for carrying out
this most important work, and there can be little doubt that
it will be puccessfully executed either by the Hudson's Bay
Company itself, or with their aid and sanction.
For this, as well as for the other proposed objects. Mr. Ed-
ward Watkin, who is now in Canada, will be mi
comsiiioned,
with other gentlemen sit.cially qualified for the duty, to
visit the Red It ver and southern districts, to consult the
Officers of the Company there, and to report as to the best
and safest means of giving effect to the contemplated opera-
tions. - - • -
Applications for allotments of Certificates of Stock of £2O
each, to be made to -the International Finan. ial Society
(Limited), at their Offices, 54, Old Broad-street, E.C.
A preference in allotment w 11 be given to parties hitherto
holders of Stock in the Hudson's Bay Company, and to the
Shareholders of the International Financial Society (Limited)
No application will be received after Wednesday, Bth July,
at twelve o'clock.

T " OXFOR D,
6, OXFORD STREET.
Will be performed Selections from the following Operas :
LA CIRCASSIENNE, MARTHA, and

MASANIELLO.

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Supported by Miss Russell, Miss Townley, Miss Ellison,
Messrs. Albert, Green,
band, Kimberley, and
W. Evans, with full and chorus.
Conducted by Mr. Jonghmans.
Drew Dean's Flute Solos
Master Sanders, the Juvenile Vocalist.
UNSWORTH, the modern Demosthenes.
Eugene, W. Randall, J. Hutchenson, and the marvellous
ARTHUR and BERTRAND.
The HALL hRs been newly Decorated and' Ventilated, and
is now one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis.

CANTERBURY HALL AND
FINE ARTS GALLERY.
NOTICE.— ENTIRE CHANGE OF ENTERTAINMENT.
The Last Two Weeks of the Marvellous ARTHUR and
BERTRAND, the Two Fren h Clowns.
ARTHUR LLOYD'S burlesque Drama, arranged expressly
for him.

SAM COLLINS, with new Songs.
UNSWORTH, the celebrated Stump Orator.
EUGENE, and TAYLOR.

GRAND SELECTIONS
CANTAfromTAS. OPERAS, GLEES, and
Principal .Artistes—Miss Russell, Miss Townley ; Mr. Green,
signor Bernardi, and Signor Tivoli.

Conductor, Mr. Jonghmans.
Admission—Hall, ed. ; stalls and balcony, la.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. New
Musical Invention, the GRAND PIANO ORCHESTRE,
mbining, a full Band of 24 Inst uments, will be Performed
oon by_ the Inventor, Herr SCH LHENBACH, EVERY
AFTER 00N, between the hours of Three and Five o'clock.
Admission—Sixpence and One Shilling.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE.—Continued
success of the marvellous RISARELIS.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. The
FAIRY FOUNTAIN EVERY EVENING, at Half-
past Ten o'clock.

IPI OYAL ALH AM BRA P A LACR—The
ji.lo MAORI WARRIORS.—Unprecedented Attraction—
The Maori Chi fs, who arrived from Australia on board the
Dover on the 22d June, will give a
TION ofCastle VARIOUS SCENES of NATIVEREPRESENTA-
LIFE on SA-
TURDAY NEXT. The MaoriWarDance—The Maori Game
- Launching the War Canoe—Maori Wrestling—The Maori
Double War Dance, &c., &x. Commencing at Half-past Nine
o'clock.

ARGYLL ROOM S.-JULLIEN'S
PROMENADE CONCERTS.
NOTICE.—During the Week the Selections will be—" Der
Frieschutz "—" Forza del Destine. "—" II Trovatore "
" Don Giovanni," &c.
LEVY, the great wonder on the Cornet-a-Piston, plays
from half-past Nine to Twelve.
Admission, is.

BUDSON'S BAY COMPANY.
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR ALLOTMENT OF
STOCK.
To the Directors of the International Financial Society
(Limited).
Gentlemen,-4 request you to allot me Certificates
of .£2O each of the Stock in the "Company of Adventurers
Eneland tradinc into Hudson's Bay,' and I hereby agree to
become a member of the C. mpany, subject to its rules and
regulations, and to accept such Stock, or an less amount
that may be allotted to me.
I am. Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
Name in full
Address in full
Date
N.B. If the applicant has hitherto been a holder of Bud-
son's Bay Stock, or is a proprietor of shares in the Intel n
tional Financial Society (Limited), the fact should be stated,
together with a memorandum of the amount of the holding.

MR. T. CARRICK begs to announce to his
Artist Friends and the Public, that his Photographio
istabishment, 32, Regent-street, Piccadilly-circus, is now
in full operation.
Cartes de Visite, 10 for Us. 6d; 21 for £l. Miniatures on
Ivory, Marble, and the Photographic base in his former
styles.

GEORGE ROBSON invites public attention to
his Superfine West of England Woaden BLACK
CL TIIS, for Beaufort and Frock Coats, £2 15s. to £3 3s. ;
the Ne v Neutral Colour Scotch Angola Travelling and
Tourist Suits, £2 10s. to £ 18s. ; the new Summer Trousers,
165. to 215.; the Baden Waistcoats, 1:s.
Excellence wi h Economy.
GEORGE HOBSON, 57, LOMBARD-STREET.

ESTABLISHED 1533.
1110WDEN'S RATED GINGER BEER, in
JEJI glass or stone bottles, warranted to keep good twelve
months. Lemonade, Soda-water, rotass, Seltzer, and every
description of Mineral Waters.—Manui actory, No. 3, White
Hart-street, Drury-lane, W.C.

DEAFNESS.—The SOUND MAGNIFIER
ll INVISIBLE VOICE CONDUCTOR, a newly in-
vented instrument for severe eases of deafness. It fits into
the ear, not perceptih•e, removes singing- noises in the head,
and enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church arid at
public assemblies.—S. and B. SOLOMONS, 39, Albemarle-
street, Piccadilly.

SEA.—FELLOWS and CO., Shipbrokers, 127.
Fenchurch-street, E.C., require MIDSHIPMEN and
FOUR First-class APPRENTICES in an A 1 clipper India-
mall, 1,50 q tons. Premium moderate, returned in wages.
Also stout Lads, without premium, for other ships. Wages
£35.

S".—VAC kNMES for MIDSHIPMEN and
APPRENTICES in a first-class London shippincr firm.
Premium moderate. Al- o apprentices without premium.—
Apply to SIMAIONDS and Co., 38, St. Mary-at-hill, East-
cheap, E.C. Third ufficers and Stewards wanted.

STEAM FIRE-ENGINES.

The trials of the three different machines were
continued throughout the whole of yesterday at the
gardens of the Crystal Palace. The tests were on
this occasion most severe, and devised to put the
strength and durability of each machine to the most
arduous proof. For this purpose each engine had
to work by itself for two hours without stopping,
drawing its supply of water up into the engine from
a depth of 18ft., and delivering it through a hose no
less than 400 ft. long, the hose being laid from the
lower basin of the fountains up the steep incline
along the bed of the cascades into the water temples
at the top. To raise its feed-water up from a depth
of 18ft., and afterwards deliver it up a very steep
hill through a 400 ft. length of hcse, requires the
most powerful and perfect engines, and of course
only these of the large size. were used. The wea-
ther was very unfavourable for the trial, especially
in the early part ef the day, when the high wind
scattered a great deal of the water as it came from
the hose. engine of Messrs. Shand and Mason,
which was tried first, was exposed to great disad-
vantage from this cause, from 10 to 15 per cent. of
the quantity of its jet being blown away before it
could pass through the aperture of the target in the
water temple. The American engine was unable
to go through this ordeal, not being able to keep
up steam enough for the great force required to
raise and propel the water. Two other American
engines, however, winch are to be tried to-day, will,
it is said, be able to accomplish the feat easily, one
of them especially being very powerful, simple, and
well put together. On the whole, the honours of
yesterday decidedly remained with Mr. Merry wea-
ther, his powerful three hose engine accimplishing
its two hours' task with great ease, notwithstanding
that the hose burst twice under the very great pres-
sure of the water. Several ether engines have to
be tried in a similar manner today, when it is
hoped to bring the trials to a conclusion. The gene-
ral results of this competition, and the names of the
successful competitors, will not, however, be made
known until the committee make their report in a
few days.

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LONDON SOCIETY.—" A London Story," as it is
styled, is the first thing to greet the reader in the
July number of this lively serial. It is entitled
"The First Time I Saw Her," and is original and
interesting enough to provoke the reader's curiosity
as to the sequel. " The Derby Day under an
Umbrella" is an animated sketch of the busy scenes
on Epsom Downs under rather unfavourable cir-
cumstances. "Dickens's Dogs" is the name of a
pleasantly written paper, which styles the popular
novelist " the Landseer of fiction," in testimony to
his pen-and-ink portraits of Bull's-eye, Boxer, Tip
Merrylegs, and a host of other remarkable canine
characters. It is curious how often we notice that
great sketchers of men are equally successful in
depicting the qualities of the lower creatures. The
utthersal sympathy and quick insight which make
the writer a master of his art enable him to dra w
with equal fidelity those varying characteristics of
inferior creatures only perceptible to those whom
they love and confide in. An essay on powder
making is worth reading. It is headed " Among
the Powder," and describes an expedition to a pow-
der mill, and the various processes witnessed in the
course of it. The lovers of exciting narratives will
find a " new sensation" in " The Doctor's Fortune."
We leave them to discover the extraordinary crisis
that brought fame and fortune to the humble sur-
geon of Ilallowleigh, and turned his dangerous
rival into his powerful auxiliary. A paper on
" Holiday Walking Tours" concludes a pleasant
number, in which the illustrations are of the usual
high order.

THE NEW REVIEW.—This new competitor for
popular favour continues to run its race with vigour,
and deals boldly with the gravest and most pressing
questions of the day, as well as giving us articles—
literary, social, or discursive—after the manner of
the quarterly reviews. It manifests undoubted
ability, and its writings are the work of no unprac-
tised hands, tot of combatants who have fought in
the arena of political conflict, and have familiarised
themselves with every aspect of the problems and
perplexities of the age. Its tendencies are decidedly
conservative, but it is not by any means a party
publication. It ranges, if not from grave to gay,
from ancient to modern, from a discourse on the
relative advantages of single and married life to a
view of the prospects of Poland, from reflections on
the antiquity of man to Irish facts and figures of
the present day. One of the most singular and inte-
resting features in the general contents is the intro-
duction of several pages, with facsimiles of the
autographs of celebrities of different times. As a
whole, The New Review may be considered to have
taken a high place among its associates and rivals.

THE NATIONAL.—We find in this part the com-
panion picture to the plate in the last number,
representing the different degrees of plainness when
accompanied with expression and intellect, and with-
out those embellishers of the human countenance.
Captain Mayne Reid continues his story of " The
White Gauntlet" at some length, and the two other
tales that are going on in the magazine proceed
with interest. The scene of one of them is laid in
America, just at the outbreak of the war, so we shall
probably have some of the stirring scenes of the
opening of the conflict introduced. "The Discovery
of the North-west Passage" and " Dress and the
Dressed" are two among the subjects discussed, and
due honour is paid to David Wingate and Jonn
Harris in a paper on our Wayside Poets.

GOOD WORDS.—" Good Words" has long pos-
sessed, in a rare and fortunate degree, the art of
making high principle and unshrinking morality
interesting; of offering some entertainment for all
readers, as well as grave thought and kindly sug-
gestions. Much is due to its entire absence of pro-
fession, dogmatism, and bitterness ; at any rate the
result is as pleasant to the reader as it is reported
to be satisfactory to the publisher. The number
before us contains the continuation of Dr. Guthrie's
papers on the Parables, and of Dr. Caird's "Essays
for Sunday Reading." It has a story by Sarah
Tytler, an essay by A.K.H.8., a sketch by Madame
de Gasparin, a scientific paper by Sir John Herschel,
and a poem by Isa Craig. There are other contri-
butions as well, including some by the able and
accomplished editor, but those we have already
enumerated are sufficient to establish the claim of
" Good Words" on the attention of most readers.

THE ECLECTIC REVIEW.—This serial certainly
bears out its title in the character of its contents,
for we meet in this number with essays on " A
Modern Quaker Apostle," Stephen Grellet, Adam
Ochlenschlager, and the Abb€ Lacordaire, and these
not in any party or sectarian spirit, but with the
recognition of virtue and genius in every form. Mr.
Laiseet's recent work receives a careful criticism,
suited for deep thinkers, and "Our Book Club"
notices some recent works. The chief interest of
the number, however, centres in its biographical
papers.

THE ODDFELLOWS.—The Manchester Unity of
Oddfellows is no inconsiderable or insignificant
body, and the magazine, especially since it has
passed into the able hands of its present editor, is
well worth reading. The quantity and variety of
the contents can hardly fail to please,while many of
the articles are of a high order. Eliza Cook con-
tributes a wise and witty prose sketch on the
dangers of three little words—" Bye-and-bye," and
an original poem, " The Infinite," teaching, as of
old, a lofty moral from the simple things around us.
" Summer Time," " The Salts in the Sea," " The
Culture of the Mental Faculties," " Music as a
Means of Culture" are among the graver contents,
while song, sketch, and story enliven and vary the
pages. All information connected with the pro-
ceedings of the Oddfellows is duly chronicled
among which intelligence we find a copy of their
address to the Prince of Wales on a late auspicious
occasion, and his Royal Highness's reply, We can
assure our readers that they will find this northern
magazine not unworthy of notice, even among the
crowd of metropolitan serials.

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designs as it should deem best suited.
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purposes for Which a national museumWif ' .. n__! .4,4 e,
After a lengthened debate the former altei*aaVv
unconditionally rejected. The chief grow* wail S
which the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when.
moving the resolution for the purchase and adapta-
tion of the Exhibition Building of last year, based
the Government proposal were these : to purchase
the present structure would be cheaper than to
build an entirely new one ; and to secure possession
of an existing building would enable the nation
forthwith to dispose of and arrange collections which
otherwise must remain for a much longer time hidden
from the public view. The opposition to the purchase
of the building rested upon equally broad grounds.
The economy of buying it was denied, because from
the nature of its construction the expenditure de-
manded for keeping it. in repair would be infinitely
greater than that necessitated by a different descrip-
tion of building; and although it was admitted that
the erection of an entirely new structure would in-
volve a greater delay, still it was alleged that the
present one was entirely unadapted for the purposes
to which it was sought to be applied. The main ob-
jection, however, to the Government proposal was
based upon the irredeemable and irremovable ugli-
ness of the late Exhibition Biiii:ir g. On this point
indeed there could be little diErute ; but in a metro-
polis abounding with public buildirgs the immense
majority of which possess no claim to architectural
beauty, her Majesty's Government doubtless con-
sidered it was a hypercritical objection to cavil at
one more being added to the number which might
fail to secure the approval of architectural connois-
seurs. The objections of the opponents of the scheme
were in fact unanswerable.lt was perfectly useless
for the Chancellor of the Exc to exhibit co-
loured designs to the house, and endeavour to satisfy
it that, if the opportunity was afforded,
secured by
a very re-
spectable-looking building would be
country as a national museum. In the course of his
speech Mr. Gladstone was obliged to refer to the
domes, and in doing so avoided a disquisition upon
their merits, whether useful or ornamental, by say-
ing that it was the intention of the Government to
postpone the consideration of what should bo done
with them." to the future." The House-of Commens
evidently thought that what might be said of the
domes might equally be said of the building which
they surmounted. No part of the scheme was it
prepared to adopt, and no portion of the building
was it ready to purchase and redecorate.
of i Parlia-
ment will not give £BO,OOO for the mass ron„
glass, and bricks which constitute the late Exhk
ibi-
tion Building. so the contractors may set to wor as
soon as thelease to reduce it to its component
parts, and find some other purchaser for them than
,he British public.

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word. We grieve to say we anticipate no such result.
The buildings which formed the subject of last
night's discussion will be carted away ; and there
will remain as we understand the buildings included
in the purchase of the site—that is, the garden
front, excepting the centre, which belongs to the
Horticultural Society. Denuded of the nave and
the northern courts, these refreshment rooms will
present anything but a graceful exterior to the
Cromwell-road. That exterior is all that the occu-
pants of the ,houses in Cromwell-road will see from
their drawing-rooms for many a long year to come.
Before long a lofty hooding, with „Posters be-
ware !" at regular intervals, will surround the
doomed site. Inside will be mounis, holes, brick-
bats, weeds, unburied animals, and cistaway hu-
man raiment. Could that power which opened the
eyes of Ease to the airy warfare over Troy do the
like for us, we should see all the schools and all the
styles, instituter, archeologists, engineers, fighting
for the ground. The Society of Arts, the South
Kensington Musenm, would be seen in mortal con-
flict with the outside world of Art and Science and
the public instincts of utility and economy. pe-
bate after debate, commission after commission,
will stir the endless question, till the topic becomes
as familiar as the noise of street traffic and the cry
of the costermonger. Ten years hence, when many
of us have passed from the scene, and the rest of us
are not quite so keen after historical portraits, ma-
jolica ware, and patent steam engines as perhaps
we have been, the site will remain a howling wil-
derness. It will be as the site for the Fleet
Prison has remained for a quarter of a cen-
tury, as theemiste ground on. the south side of
Downing-street has remained for half a century,
and as many other sites have remained for longer
or shorter periods. Could we hope that something
will at last be done, we cannot venture to hope that
it will give us what we want, or satisfy the taste
of the day, or even give us peace. In virtue of our
own position, we cannot throw ourselves into this
or that school with the enthusiasm which is not
only allowable but even very graceful in some other
quarters. Though disposed to prefer stone, and not
insensible to the charms of red brick, we cannot for-
get that no nation of antiquity scrupled to use stucco,
and that even the temples of Paestum were stuccoed
and coloured. Though we like to see a building
stand well, with a good open area before it, yet we
can only regard that as a rare fortune, not as an
absolute necessity. Though we should like to see
these 17 acres raised almost any number of feet
above the level of Brompton, yet we remember how
many great edifices we have walked down into, and
that the requisite elevations here insisted on would
cost several hundred thousand pounds. Though
we must confess to the usual craving for eternal
structures, yet we have seen many works of the
giants pulled down, and others come to grief.
Hungerfoid-market was a most classic and most
costly structure, but it has just been carted away.
The Pantheon at Paris exhausted one quarry for its
foundation, and another for its superstructure ; but
the latter has crushed the former, and half the
windows have had to be filled with masonry. The
south front of the British Museum is an eternal
structure and an eternal nuisance. Waterloo-bridge
is an eternal structure and has ruined the proprie-
tors. We are glad to find our opinion as to the
capable character of the exterior corroborated by
some eminent architects. The building is unfinished,
and there is an old and true saying about the class of
people who ought not to be allowed to see an un-
finished work. Every large building is sure to
present difficulties, for the plain reason that all our
theories of ornamentation are derived from a smaller
scale. If we will have a Flavian amphitheatre, or
an aqueduct forty miles long, or a Basilica to hold
ten thousand people, or any other huge thing, we
must have immense repetitions and accumulations,
orders piled one upon another, and " the Pantheon
mounted on the Temple of Peace." Wherever there
is exaggeration. as there must be in many cases, the
effort is sure to exceed the limits of taste and sense.
The national Museum of France is Versailles, where
the greatest mass of architecture and the most am-
bitious flights of genius have produced she smallest
possible result. But we are told we may spare our
pity and husband our regrets, for that the truth is the
House of Commons has set its face against the
whole thing." It will stop the movement of art,
which, with some pardonable indiscretions and
some less pardonable foibles, has done so much for
us lately. That we hardly believe. We have not
yet come to such a pass that the richest aristocracy
in the world, which pays the highest prices for pic-
tures, makes the most costly collections, and in-
dulges in the most magnificent houses and furni-
ture, should begin to grudge the public its compa-
ratively cheap enjoyment of collections belonging
to all. That we do not believe. But it is a con-
clusion that the public will be driven to if they see
the Legislature more eager to shut up and pull
down than to open and raise. There is much to be
said for last night's decision, but not if it rests there.
POST —The House of Commons has refused, by
an overwhelming majority, to sanction the purchase
of the International Exhibition Building at South
Kensington. On the division, the numbers were
one hundred and twenty-one in favour of the Go-
vernment proposal, and two hundred and eighty-
seven against it. In the propriety of this decision
a still greater majority of the public will coincide.
Indeed, we doubt if ever a scheme was suggested
which was received with more universal disfavour
than that which last night was so decisively re-
jected by the Lower House of Parliament. A few
public organs supported it, and, as will be seen,
upwards of one hundred members of the Legisla-
ture sanctioned it with their formal approval; but
we venture to say that .very few of our readers can
call to mind one of their acquaintance who ex-
pressed himself in favour of the adaptation of the
temporary shed at Brompton to the purposes of a
museum which was to satisfy the wants of future
generations. Literally speaking, almost every one
who took the trouble of considering its merits was
opposed to the project. Nor is it surprising. The
International Exhibition Building was raised under
a contract by which the builders were bound to
remove it at the end of a year. As prudent men,
they very properly avoided all useless expenditure
in endeavouring to invest with solidity or
strength a building which it was intended should
bear the wear and tear of a few months. It was
not drained, because, for the purposes of an Ex-
hibition, drainage was unnecessary. The walls,
wherever bricks and mortar were employed, were
made of just sufficient strength to support a certai t
number of iron girders and a glass roof vv
The
crumbling to pieces before the end of a year.
ofrtotef,ma-s
flooring was—well, even for the purposes
porary exhibition—shockingly ball, and,thestructed
our readers can doubtless recollect, was
free admis-
on some recondite principle which gave however
sion to every falling shower. Irrespective,otioonial e
moat
in t_hi.s.c-itoy
of its faults of construction, the Intern
ightly
Exhi-
bition Building was certainly th
f
Public
,were asked
the many unsightly edifices to
and its environs. And yet Witbaeasll these
both physical and aesthetic, the
to purchase it at a high prie®,
Paysfopresiaes, as a first
a 'Tauter of a
instalment of the outlay necessradys
of putting it in a
upwa
tolerable state of repair,
only has the existing
million of money. This proposal has been rejected,
as it deserved to be; and 110
erp._
generation reason to be thankful
Perpetuate to its
representa-
tives for refusing to Captain Fowke's
maiden effort at house-building, but posterity may
in time to come bless the lucky chance which has
saved it from the annoyance and the cost of keeping
in a state of
repair a tumble-down shed plastered
over with stucco.
We have endeavoured on pre-
vious occasions to place before the public the real
issue involved in
the adaptation of the International
Exhibition Building to the
P-
urposes of a national
museum. Of the necessity of possessing some
building within which
not merely to collect but to
arrange the
varied treasures of science and art
which the nation i-
awlmhiocshta every s from year to year accumulating,
one is satisfied, and the large majority
fortnight since in the House of Commons de-
cidedmi purchasing seventeen acres of land as a site
for such a building fairly represented the opinion of
the people upon this point. The museum in Blooms-
IT is confessedly too small for the purposes to
which it is at present applied. A very consider-
able portion of its contents might, so far as the
public are concerned, just as well be at the Anti-
podes. The only question that ever was raised on
the subject of a change in the existing order of
things regarded the site of the building, which was
universally admitted to be absolutely indispensable.
Some suggested the enlargement of the existing
structure in Great Russell-street ; others advocated
the erection of an independent building ; some pro-
posed a central situation, whilst others, on econo-
mical grounds, expressed themselves contented with
a suburban site. All disputes on these matters
were however determined by the vote of the House
of Commons appropriating the sum of £120,000 for
the purchase of the grounds on which at present
stands the Exhibition Building of last year. Last
evening the issue was confined to the simple ques-
tion whether the country would avail itself of the
building at present covering the ground which it
the
owners purchased, or wbether it would compel
owners to remove it, and then set about
Nob I
lug an entirely new building according to

Naval and Military Intelligence.
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THE NAVY.
Capt. R. S. Hewlett, C. 8., Superintendent of the
Royal Naval College, Portsmouth, and command-
ing her Majesty's ship Excellent, yesterday, for
the last time during his present period of command
at Portsmouth, superintended the trials of armour
plates at the practice range in Porehester-creek.
The plates on trial consisted of one from Messrs.
John Brown and Co., of Sheffield, for the iron-
cased ship Ocean, 15ft. in length by 3ft. 3in- in
width and 4sin. in thickness, and one 41-in. plate
6ft. by 4, made under the steam hammer in Ports-
mouth Dockyard from a special quality of iron,
stated to be foreign, supplied by Messrs. Walton,
Sons, and Yates, of London. This last plate was
virtually destroyed by the first shot, and utterly so
by the second. The plate furnished by Messrs.
Brown, for the Ocean, underwent a very severe
testing byl3 shots (nine of which were edge blows,
in three instances overlapping each other), very
successfully, and fully maintained the reputation of
its manufacturers. To-morrow Captain Hewlett
will be succeeded in his duties as Superintendent
of the Royal Naval College and Captain of her
Majesty's ship Excellent, by Captain Astley, C. 8.,
and will carry with him into his temporary retire-
ment general respect and esteem.
The Warrior, 40, iron frigate, Capt. Hon. A. A.
Cochrane, C. 8., in No. 10 Dock at Portsmouth, is
having a portion other bottom covered with Brown's
patent vitreous sheathing as an experiment. The
ship will be undocked about the 11th inst.
Yesterday Vice-Admiral Sir George Robert Lam-
bert, K.C.8., hoisted his flag, red at the fore, on
board Her Majesty's ship Cumberland, guard-ship
of the steam reserve at Sheerness, as Cominander-
in-Chief at the Nore, vice Sir W. J. Hope John-
stone, K.C.8., whose term of cffice has expired.
The flag of Vice-Admiral Johnstone was hauled
down at sunset from the Formidable (flagship), and
the flag of the new Vice-Admiral was removed to
the Formidable.
The Alert, 17, screw steam sloop, 751 tons, 100
horse-power, Commauder Henry C. Magendie, and
the Columbine, 4, screw steam sloop, 669 tons, 150
horse-power, Commander Thomas L. H. Ward,
arrived at Sheerness yesterday to be refitted, after
which these vessels will proceed to the North for
the protection of the Scotch fisheries.
The Sphinx, 6, paddle, Commander Jones, arrived
at Spithead yesterday morning from China with the
crew of the despatch vessel Beagle (recently con-
demned in China) on board, and a few naval and
military invalids. She sailed from St. Helena on
the 11th of May, and called in at Fayal on the 24th
of June. Before she could let go her anchor, the
Sphinx was signalled to proceed round to the south
side of the Isle of Wight to the assistance of a small
be dismantled and paid
passenger steamer on shore there. In the afternoon
she returned to Spithead, and to-day will
.sail for
Woolwich, where she will
Navyts •
the b y
Hon. C.
out of commission.
The names of the following officers have been rem
order of
mthoevtdorfdrosmofththeel
istofbe Royal
eu
Admiralty
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D. R. H. Tracy, N•D. F. Liliington, C. G. Harvey,
A. a Cadogan ;
and the Hon. Masters E. J. Mait-
land and T. Oyler ; Sub-Lieuts. E. S. Watson, the
Eiphinstone, and W. E. Garnett ; Chief
Engineernu Green ; Assist.-Surg. S. H. Kn eggs ;
Assist.-paymasters E. Weymouth and Mr, 5,
whit taker,
The following appointments were made at the Admiralty
yesterday afternoon
yieut. J. C. H. Facey, to the Russell.
Commander R. 0. Leach, to the • , Liverpool.
Lieut. R.
Ca
y, to the Majestic.
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