The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-26 00:00:00

II ER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, Oct. 21•
The Queen went out in the morning with
Princess 13(2atrice, and her Majesty drove out iu
the afternoon with Princess Christian.

THE CROWN PRINCESS OF PRUSSIA.

The Laependance anuouuces from Ostend,
that in consequence of the sudden indisposition of
the Crown Princess of Prussia, the intended visit
to England which she was about to make with her
Royal husband has been necessarily abandoned.

The Prince of Wales, accompanied by Count
Gleichen, honoured the Strand Theatre with Lis
presence last evening.
Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess
Christian of Schleswig-Holstein aro expected to arrive at
Windsor this morning from tho royal family circle At
Balmoral.

The Marchioness (Dowager) of Waterford Will
leave Charles-street, St. James's, ou Monday next for Cur-
ragLunore, county Waterford.

London Orphan Asylum Compatition•

(From the Builder of to-day.)

_
The managers of this important charity have ob-
tained a large piece of land close to the Watford
Station on the London and North-Western Rail-
way, and are about to erect buildings on it to
accommodate 400 boys and 200 girls, with facilities
for extension when needed. It consists of about 36
acres, 20 for the institution and 16 fot protection/
so to speak, on which latter houses will probably be
built. A limited competition haring been decided on,
designs have been sent in by Messrs. Belcher, G. S.
Clarke, John Collier, Henry Dawson, F. R. Peck, E.
C. Robins, Thos. Henry Watson, and F. Williams--
eight architects, who have sent nine sets of drawings.
The grounds ou which Mr. F. Williams was invited
to the competition are not obvious, as he is evi-
dently a tyro, and has sent a design which may
at once be put on one side. The committee offer
three premiums, £250, £l5O, and £lOO, and their
desire is, of course, understood to be to employ the
author of the design selected as No. 1 to carry it
into execution as architect, or with such modifica-
tions as may be found desirable. The sum named
for expenditure i 5£65,000. The designs are com-
modiously exhibited in a large room in Old Jewry ;
all the competitors have adopted Gothic as the
style (one, Mr. Collier, sending an alternative de-
sign in a modern dwelling-house style), and we
may add, that the majority of the designs are set
forth with most creditable artistic skill.

Competitors were informed, if we understand
rightly, that each 50 boys were to have an estab-
lishment of their own,—day-room, matron's room,
offices, dormitories, and so forth. Schoolrooms,
large dining-room, swimming-bath, the adminis-
trative department, chapel, and infirmary were
amongst the other chief requirements, and the way
in which these are provided by the several compe-
titors, the amount of light and air given, the modes
of approach, means of supervision, &c., when
judged of by the various officers of the establish-
ment, will of course materially influence the selec-
tion. Beyond convenience and commodiousness,
however, the committee must see that they obtain a
building which shall be worthy of the charity and
fitly mark its nobleness.
Mr. Dawson has produced what seems a veil
good plan : all the rooms are well open to air and
sun.

Mr. Watson's design presents a more important
pile of buildings externally, with an estimate of
£65,350, the adoption of 9. third storey aiding to
cheapen.

Mr. Peck places six of his boys' homes on the
ground-floor and two above. He gives handsome
elevations, including a lofty campanile, of red brick
and freestone dressings, with tastefully adorned
chapel, and estimates the cost at £55,000. The
cause of its less cost as compared with some of the
which have many cubic feet of build-
other designs,
ing less, is not immediately obvious.
Mr. Robins has adopted the pavilion system, and
with much skill, each home for girls as well as boys
radiating from a connecting corridor. Whatever
advantage this arrngement might have upon the
boys' side, it would probably be found less work-
able for the girls, where the same amount of sepa-
ration is not desired. The elevations look business-
like, and.the cost is put down at £71,000. The
design deserves full coasideration, and will doubt-
less have it. Ths living-rooms are on the ground
floor.

Mr. G. S. Clarke, by showing where other build-
ings are to be erected within the quadrangle in the
event of greater accommodation being required, has
rendered his plan unattractive. Indeed, without
these the ground seems to us too closely covered.
A number of small courts in a building of this
character, and in the country, are scarcely defen-
sible. The elevations are artistical and effective, if
we except the centre portion, which has too much
the character of modern German Gothic, with thin
buttresses and pinnacles running up the face of it,
to please us quite. The.cost as the design stands,
the designer says, would be more than the com-
mittee name, £65,000 ; but, if the building be re-
duced to their requirements, it could be done for
the money.

Messrs: Belcher give some handsome elevations,
partly faced with stone, and name £67,500 as the
cost of tho building they would like to erect.
Mr. Collier, in his design, follows more the old
almshouse type than the other competitors hay()
done, and puts down for it £62,000. His alterna-
tive design, three stories in height, and very mono-
tonous, he estimates at £57,000.

The committee, we are told, have already given
long consideration to the drawings, and haV
amongst them an architect, Mr. Geo. Pownall•
lhere is every reason, therefore, to expect, remon-
bering, too, the importance they must:attach to ob-
taining the best possible building for their purpose,
that justice will be done to the competitors.

MARKETS—(This Day.)

CO VENT GARDEN.

Apples, 4s to 8s ; walnuts, lOs to 15s per bushel ; flag
is to 3s ; pears, 2s to 3s per dozen ; filberts, is ; grapes
is Gd to 3s ; tine apples, 2s Gil to 4s per lb ; lemons, 60 03
lOs ; oranges, Gs to 8s per 100; artichokes, 2s to 4s ; beet,.
is to 2s ; cabbages, is 3d to 2s ; cauliflowers, 8s to CS ,
parsnips, 9d to is ; tomatoes, 2s to 3s per dozen ; carrots,
Gd to 8d ; leeks, 2d to 4d ; turnips, 4d to Gd per bunch I
celery, is to is Gd; horseradish, 3s to 5s per bundle ; endive,
is 6d to 2s ; lettuces, is to is Gd per score ; onions, 4s to
5s ; spinach, 2s to 3s per bushel ; potatoes, 80s to 130 s pet
ton.

POULTRY.
Turkeys, 4s to 9s; geese 5s Gd to is Gd ; ducks, 2s 3d to
2s 9d ; tame rabbits, is toils 9d wild ditto is to is 34
pheasants, 4s to .5s ; partridges, is to is 9d ; hares, 2s ba
to 4s ; grouse, 2s to 3s ; snipes, is 3d; teal, 8d to Is ; 11/41:„
ducks, 2s Gd ; plover, 6d ; Surrey fowls (per couples) 78 r
I_Os ; Surrey chickens, 5s to is ; barn door fowls, 38 Gd 1",1
as 6LI ; English eggs, 108 per 100; French ditto, 8s; fr°
butter, is to is 3d per lb.

NEWPORT.
Beef
3 0 to 4 4 Veal 3 0 to 4 g
Mutton
Per 81bs by tho carcase.
wtirrEcHA.PEL.
Beef
Veal
Mutton 3oto 4 4( Pork
. .33 08 toto 44 °8

Per 81b by iho carcass.
lIIDES AND SKINS.
Market !Tidos, 561 b to (341 b, 3d to 3;d; 641 b to 7211), 3:1
to 31-d ; 7211) to 801 b, Bid to 4d; 801 b to 881 b, 41 to ;
881 b to 951 b, 4id to 5d ; :nib to 1011 b, od to 5Ft; 104Ib t°
1121 b, 5d to 41; liorso 'lidos, 98 Gd to 105 Gd. Culfskil
light, 2s 03 to 45 0d; full, 7s Od. Shoopskins, p"11°0
58 03 to 78 03 ; half-brads, 4s 0.1 to 4s 6d ; duwas, Ss
to Os 9d.

lIAY.
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SMITHFIELD.—Meadow.hay, 55s to 85s; clover, 603 t°
105 s ; awl straw, 35s to 42s per load. A good suppiP
CUMBERLAND. —Meadow hay, 55s to 87s Gd ; clover, 6°
to 85;; and straw, 33s to 40s per load. A fair trade.
WIIITECRAPEL.—Meadow hay, 55s to 87s 6d ; clover, 60'4
to 110 s; and straw, 33s to 42s per load. Demand moderate.

COAL
Price per To._ __ ____ _.___.
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West Tanfiold l4 0 North Pelton Gas .... `"-- j
22
Walls End Gosforth 20 3 Tees
Caradoe 2l 6
h, East Hartlept.ol ...... ‘, 2.2 0
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West Hartley
Haswell
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