The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-22 00:00:00

ESTIMATE.

I estimate the cost of this edifice, as thus described, in-
cluding the sculpture, at the sum of 1.13,8001.
INCOME.
I have estimated with great care the income to be de-
rived from the various shops, offices, and public establish-
ments proposed in the several floors of the building, by
comparing dimensions and other circumstances with the
previous lettings, and by the actual value derived
from my own experience ; awl I am of opinion
that the total net annual value, if let on lease,
would amount to the sum of 8,718/. per annum. In
addition to this, if the space allotted to Lloyd's Corn-
ffiercial Room on the north side, and th.lt to the London
Assurance on the south side, were arranged as offices, each
set having two rooms, one over the other, as suggested in
an early part of this statement, though the estimate would
be increased 3,000/ , I have no doubt this annual income
might be raised to die extent of 8001. per annum, making
a total income of 9,500/. per annum.
In concluding these remarks, the Committee will allow
me to convey to them my grateful thanks for the exten-
sion of time they granted me (unasked on my pat t) front
the 17th to the 27th ; but, owing to the delay in obtain-
ing the requisite instructions from the several offices,
I cannot but feel that all the time I have
had has, notwithstanding, been much too little to
do justice to this subject. If, therefore, any errors or
discrepancies should be discovered in these drawings, the
Committee will please to attribute them to this cause.
In the drawings themselves I have carefully laboured to
follow out the instructions, under which I undertook this
competition:
The views aro strictly confined to the points of view
prescribed : in the colouring of the views themselves,
and in the drawing of the adjoining buildings, I have
laboured to be accurate, and to give as nearly as I
could the actual effect of this edifice if it were cot,
structed. I cannot but feel that a more elaborate style of
architecture would have 15..?-en productive of more pic-
turesque effects, aid it would have been easy to have pro-
duced them; but I have ventured to conic to the con-
clusion, that nothing but plain grandeur and elegant sim-
plicity is consistent, either with the means at the disposal
of the Committee, the purposes and uses of this building,
or its situation in the very heart of the city of London.
Whether I have succeeded in realising my conceptions,
it will be for the Committee to determine ; and I now re-
sign my task into their hands, relying upon their kind and
candid consideration of the subject.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM TUE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe.)
" Wanted—one or two conscience-struck Members !" A
moderate want; and not new. While Mr. Hume set forth, a
modern Diogenes, to seek " one or two conscience- struck Mem-
bers," and explores with his lantern the lobbies of the House of
Commons, and the Carlton and Rcfor.n Clubs, we too would
beg of Members who can afford it, to keep a conscience.
There is so much talk of political purity. and religious instruc-
tion, on the Opposition side, that plain people begin to enter-
tain serious apprehensions. Tory anxiety for our rights and
our morals affects us with awkward sensations, like those ex-
perienced by the King of 1. illiput's subjects on his proclama-
tions of mercy. To be serious ;we tell our Tory opponents,
as we have told them before, and got no thanks for it--
they are pushing their present tactics of aggression too
far. Non pogredi est regredi, has beeen said lately on our
side. Non regredi est progredi, appears the axiom of
Opposition : and, for fear we should be progressing forward,
they are determined to make us " advance backwards." Now
this is an irrational attempt, even on their own princi-
ples. High Church, and close Aristocracy, have been
driven from the helm of state. Their policy could not show
its face latterly, even while their friends held power ; and they
only kept power, for some years, by passing the measures cl
their opponents. How can they now expect to regain
it, by again putting forward what is most positive and
dogmatical, and most unpopular, in their own principles ?

( From the Courier.)
We refer, not with the exultation which the Whig Minis-
terialists have evinced when they have obtained a small majo-
rity, to the debate of last night on the important measure
introduced by Lord Stanley. Until that time we had no con-
ception that the morality of the House of Commons was at so low
an ebb—that out of a House of six hundred Members, upwards of
two hundred and ninety voted against the destruction of a system
of swindling and perjury to which the whole history of the world
affords no parallel. However, so it is ; and the fact is now
placed upon indelible record that. there are men occupying the
more responsible stations of lite, who have not scrupled to affirm
by a solemn act that the disgraceful and utterly indefensible
system of Irish registration is too excellent to be examined in a
Committee of their House.
(From the Standard.)
The contest which has occupied the HOUSO of Commons
since Monday, terminated last night in a division, when the
House decided upon going into Committee by a majority of
301 to 298—the Members present being, with tellers and
Speaker, 601—as full a House, we believe, as has been collected
duringinany years. This punctual attendance proves the import-.