The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-02 00:00:00

THE BRITTON TESTIMONIAL.

We stated some time ago that, at the suggestion of
Mr. Britton, the amount subscribed was to be expended
in obtaining (by competition) and printing, an essay on
the study of archte,.;logical literature. This, however,
being strongly objected to, was afterwards abandoned.
La the e'Siiirse of a correspondence on the subject, Mr.
Da''. son Turner suggested, that instead of an a• chpe.ilo-
gical essay, it should be a full history of Mr. Brition's
lift., as exemplified by his works. In a letter to Mr.
Britton, he remarked :

" In such an essay you would speak of the events of
your life : of your friends and patrons, now most of
them dead ; of the artists you emplayed ; of the emi-
nent persons you were brought in the way of, and of
the difficulties, pleasures, and annt•yanccs that attended,
soothed, and embittered your career ; and
youanecdotes.
would
intersperse the narrative with a thousandm
You may thus make a charming b
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good in your generation by the example you would
held out."
The committee concurring in this view. Mr. Britton
undertock to devote
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his le
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tile preparation
f
subscrip-
tions
such a work, and expendd heamount
itshe
accompanied planting an
byn embellishment.
a
engraved portrait of the
author by Mr. C. E. Wagstaff, from a beautiful picture ex-
pressly executed for the purpose by Mr. John Wood,
it will in
and
a selection of the engravings which have illustrated
d
Mr. Britton's works will be appended, in order
to elucidate the general style of their embel-
lishments. It will bo printed in royal octavo; and a
few copies in demy quarto will be prepared for the
subscribers of 31. and upwards. Copies in imperial
quarto will be presented to distinguished individuals,
and to the national libraries of England, France, Prussia,
&C.—The Builder

A letter from Guadeloupe, of the 23d ult.. says
" The earth is again beginning to quake. On the 17th, at
about two in the morning, we had two short but very sharp
shocks; if they had lasted a little longer, we should have had
another Bth of February. They were the strongest shocks
we have had since that catastrophe. Every body was much
alarmed. The walls of the prison are cracked, and those of
the barracks are injured. On the 19th there were some
slight shocks, but no injury was done.
The Hon. Mrs. Southwell, of Bellevue Villa, Bath-
wick Hill, who died on the 16th inst, has, by her will, left the
following liberal bequests :—To the Bath United Hospital,
200 L; to the Hospital and Infirmary, Bath, 200/. ; to the
Monmouth-street Society, 2001. ; to the Bath Local Com-
mitttee of the National Benevolent Institution, 501. ; to the
Strangers' Friend Society in Bath, 50/. • and to the Charit-
able Society, for the relief of Lying-in Women in Bath, 50/.
Bath Paper
We have received a communication from Earl
De Grey, in which he states that "neither Mr. Gladstone, nor
any friend on his behalf, had made any application to him,
or as far as he knows to any elector of the borough of
Ripon," and, therefore, it is not correct that he had
refused to allow him to sit for that place. The terms in
which Earl De Grey has thought proper to convey this
intimation are such that we cannot give publicity to
letter.—Chronicle. ;,,i,,,n to the
A NEW VENTILATOR.—Dr. Aldis, PhY.---,-
depier"4, lower
vitiated and to the Surrey Dispensarv,
tions of the lower
vitiated state of the air in the h
la.atboirtjifor windows, cheap
classes, has contrived a new
ventsierviceable. At this rand
of simple, which promises to
lte)e
to 0
k d pen the windows, and
the usually
fi
DurbaxeurnEkoDuke
OF RICHMOND ON tiionn consists of a
of the year the poor eaml..twil, ,th., without producing per-
the object is to bring "
Tie: infraquulees, the outer face
eept
smallib Ipea
neeu
or rf a
gn ti
ares . i
openings; these communicate with a.
of which either
perforated
fot
rhaet e tawwo i
tuprightsmall
curved in
the frame, cur hvfoulotivatotirn
side.—The Builder.
holes on the under
asserted in the House of Lords, on Monday
i iwsidihldenisnootiEnfagteitr)i
POOR RATES. The
evening, that the pool rate pressed so heavy on the farmers,
that •• one of his tenants alone paid more in poor rate than
the whole of the League put together h" About three years
ago, we know that the Messrs. Marshall of this
in Holheck alone. Which of the Duke of Richmond's te-
nants, we wonder, pays as much as the twentieth part of
this araoluit in annual poor rate ?—Lieds Times.