The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-31 00:00:00

PUBLIC STATUES.

(From the Morning Advertiser.)
A spirited, life-like equestrian statue of 'William the
Conqueror was erected, some ten (lays past, in the
Champs Elys.ees, from which it was removed last
week to its final destination at Falaise, the birthplace
of the Norman bastard, who worsted our good old
v%o on
itehhe
emxicsizadbsl
to
Saxon King Harold. This statue was a noble,
sedusofsoarneirroenflepctuioknes,
vigorous composition, bursting with life and aim
bt irOnn' bronze d
caricaturecau
much amusement to the foreiners on their way to
the Exhibition, and the wretched b •
ewigged statue
of George the Fourth,
which is a fitting pendant to
the
meagrewrewaters abtched dumboutTr-w 't ni ers, which squirt their
-s. W can
we not have statues such
asafalgar thosequare of William the
Conqueror, which is going to adorn an abscure town
in Normandy ; or such an Amazon as Kiss has
planted at Berlin ; or the Godefroi de Bouillon at
Brussels ; or such a monument as the triumphal arch
at the Barriere de l'Etoile ; or such foundations as
excited the admiration and wonder of the world in
the Place Louis Quinze ? Why should we tacitly
allow foreigners to forestal us in these matters ? Our
Duke was surely as great a manes Napoleon, and is
deserving of a statue and triumphal arch of
../Estriplfx—for, as the peace of the world was pro-
duced by his mighty genius, he might have looked
around him at the varied produce in the Great Ex.
hibition, and have said with Sir Christopher Wren,
"Si monumentum requiris, eircumspice." But the
British people should not be content with such
- ore-
posterous absurdities as those which n , =
now uesecrate
their public places ; and even if hero-vv 1 '
have ceased, good taste must yet survive
up shall

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[ADVERTISEMENT.]—Affections of the Liver and
Kidneys at Sydney, New South Wales.--Eztract of a letter
from l‘lr. J. K. Ile den of Sydney, dated Sept. 30, 1847 :
To Professor Holloway. Sir,-1 have the pleasure to inform
you that Stuart A. Donaldson, Esq. an eminent merchant and
aiculturist, also a merchant of this town, purchased of me
141. worth of your medicines to forward to his sheep stations in
New England, in consequence of the extraordinary cure per-
formed in ten days on one of his overseers of an affection of
the liver and kidneys, after tke best medical advice, tried for
months, had failed. (Signe. ) J. K. Heyden.
all Druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment,
Strand, London.
of Stamford
EXTRAORDINARY SPORT..—The Earl
undermentioned
and 'Warrington and friends killed
ethestaun 1d2443,
fibrdshire, this
game on his Lordship's estate at Ellyn] 'partridges, 3 hares,
season :--Sept. 11. Lord Stamford 10
rails; W. Gruzebrook, Eeq.,
Stamford 168
5 hares, 2 rabbits, and 2 land_e‘. 115 partridges,
and fi rabbits. Sept. 19. Lord Stl2a
51 partridges, and 4 hares. Sept. H. W. Foley, E,q., 105
partridges, 3 hares. and 8 bb'
rabbits. Oct. 27. Lord Stamford
9
partridges, 1 hare, and
1 pheasant.
and
105 partridges, 3 rabbits,
AT OPORTo.—Notice was
3n.lf o Stamford
Lord
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mails, therefore, would be 14--ded
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