The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-20 00:00:00

Death of the Hon. W. G. Grey.

Yesterday morning information was receive,-
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the unexpected death of the Hon. William Georg
Grey, the British Chargé d'Affaires at Paris, )01°'
after an illness of only a few hours, died at th
British Embassy at Paris at 1 o'clock yesterday
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morning. The event was so sudden and 501,..61";
looked for that it has cast a deep gloom
over
whole of the members of the family. During
conge of the Earl Cowley the Hon. Mr. Grey Oa
been acting as Charge d'Affaires. He was seized
with symptoms of cholera on Monday naornii
which increased in intensity, and shortly after,.,.
o'clock yesterday morning Admiral the lion. Pl'
Fredk. Grey, K.C.8., and General the lion. Charles
Grey received a telegram from Paris announnill
the sad news that their brother had expired at t%
hour stated. The lamented gentleman was
the
youngest of the large family of the late Earl Grey
(the eminent statesman), by his wife, the /01:1"
Mary Elizabeth, daughter of William Brabagain'
first Lord Ponsonby. •He was born Feb. 15, 1811
He entered the diplomatic service in the autumn ?
1844, being appointed attache at Hanover, and in
October in the same year was attached to the em' in
1847, at Vienna, where he became a paid attache
1847, and afterwards first paid attaché in 184:,...9.
He was transferred to Paris in Feb., 1852; and 4,
Sept., 1853, was appointed Secretary of Legation d'"
Stockholm, where he occasionally, in the absence
of the Minister, acted as Charge d'Affaires. i!
as
December, 1858, he removed to Berlin, but vr
only there a few months, for in July of the succeed'
ing year he was appointed secretary to the British
Embassy at Paris, in which post he has since n';1)/1.:,
tinned. The deceased gentleman was hig
esteemed by those with whom he had official inte.:`,
course, as well as by those socially acquainted vina'
him. General the Hon. Charles Grey, who /rile
only on Monday returned from attending, at
request of the Queen, the funeral of the late,
of the Belgians,. left town last evening for rl:ea
The late Hon. William George Grey was raarri,
in 1858. to Madlle. Stedingk, only daughter of ter
Count Stedingk, of Sweden, one of the bedchalnbni
women to her Royal Highness the Princess
-
Wales.

Royal Institute of British Architects•-

At the meeting of the fellows and associates fo
the Institute of British Architects on Monday elrells;
ing—Mr. Beresford-Hope in the chair—a paPer:so
read by Mr. Gambier, of Paris, recentl
ain
y dote"
honorary fellow, on the application of p3g,,to
architecture. In treating the subject he took
consideration the associated arts of painting, scfSt
ture, and architecture, and endeavoured to pointi;o
some principles-of combination by which they 131. of
be advantageously brought to bear in the erectle-fer
works of the most perfect beauty. He tees is
granted that, at the periods when the fine cos
were in the highest state of perfection, colourere,
generally applied in sculpture and in architect
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but he contended that as colour is almost insar'3ol
imparted by nature to living objects, it is lieeeas,,, of
to employ it artificially to give the appearanc-to
life, and that without it sculptured figures TO
look cold and dead. A considerable portion e'tho
paper was occupied with the consideration of to,
subject. He advocated the colouring of sts best
not only because it was the practice of theliog,
sculptors of Greece, but as being essential to oto
out the beauty of the figure, and he deniedribeit
there is any sensuous feeling produced by it. 'ere'
abstract beauty of form, he observed, is only aect
ciable by very few, while colour adds to the ea by
without detracting from the admiration eanLetiov
well-disposed light and shade. He made ad's
sad
tion, however, between colouring and paiutillg'oel
strongly objected to any painting of a selliP a a
figure by which the lights and shadows produceo the
the chisel are interfered with. In consideriel'aiot.
decoration of the interior of buildings Oil Priata
ings, Mr. Gambier denounced as most inaPPr°Pt olr
the representation of sky, or clouds, or distanh the
jects, which are altogether inconsistent voilte
character of a solid enclosed building ; and ,„s• t, °°,
forced the necessity of discipline in the ar ei
that the coloured decorations might be substeode'i
to the objects of the structure they were illveicP
to adorn. He strongly censured the Purl of s
taste that leaves the stone walls in the inters'
building bare, and the barbarous practice e' stora'
ing off the original whitewash in modern re,lerecif
% ibo
tions; for such covering, when tinted, he eon
tends to harmonise the whole and to beiglatedas
architectural effect. Mr. Gambier describe
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compared the encaustic and fresco paint'D'he pra-'
ancients, and recommended the revival of ta
for,
tice of using wax as a medium for colours andcols
varnishing when colours are applied to arellltiovac
decoration. Mr. Gambier read his paPer
dour t.
earnestness, with great variety of tone an Aloa
and it was received with much applause tbrelatioaP
Professor DONALDSON made some obser,,,,, cos'
°- too
respecting the colouring of statues, Iv
carried
ol°
sidered a great improvement when not
that :0°
far, and he considered it most desirable
001 ed
the extent to which the colouring should be to
definite principles should be established to deters
be onb' fio%
Mr. KERR, on the other hand, said 010'
to be of the old school, which rejected toe
ti
of sculpture as unsuitable and improper: seeouio
Mr. Digby Wyatt, Mr. Padraore, 31.ned la tir,
the president, and other gentlemen j°l
iven to a
discussion, and thanks having been g ajour
Gambier, who briefly replied,
till the 15th of January, the rneetipg a