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London, England, 1835-08-19 00:00:00

THE NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.

NOTICE TO ARCHITECTS INTENDING TO FURNISH DESIGNS.
Office of Woods, &c., August 18.
The Commissioners of his Majesty's Woods, &c., hereby inform
such Architects as intend to furnish designs for the New Houses of
Parliament, of the following particulars, arising out of questions
which have been addressed to the Commissioners from various quar-
ters, since the notice which appeared in the London Gazettes of
the 21st, 24th, and 28th of July last :-
1. As to the present temporary Houses of Parliament and the
new temporary House of Lords about to be erected.
A new temporary House of Lords is to be erected on the plot
marked A, on a plan hereafter referred to, and the present tempo-
rary House is thereupon to be vacated, it will then be required that
one or both of the temporary Houses of Parliament and Offices be
retained for use until the new permanent Houses and Offices can
be so far completed for occupation as to admit of those temporary
buildings being vacated.
11. As to the ground coloured yellow on the lithograph plan, it is
not intended that Architects should be prevented availing them-
selves of the ground coloured yellow, should they deem it advisable
so to do. .

111. —As to the employment of the ground next to New Palace-
yard, eastward of the part coloured yellow, the arrangement of this
ground is discretional with the Architects, as to building upon it
or not.
IV. As to the space coloured brown on the lithographic plan.
If the Architect should require to carry out his new buildings over
any portion of the space coloured brown, southward of Parliament-
place, he may consider the passage EQ called, and the landing at the
water edge to which it leads, as removable to the southward of them,
but the occupation of any portion of that space is to be considered
optional.
V. As to the three perspective views.
It is compulsory upon Architects to send in three views:
Inquiries have also been addressed to the Commissioners of Woods,
&c., as to the following points, relating to the interior arrange-
ments of the old House of Lords

VI. As to the space below the bar.
VII. As to the space occupied by the Throne.
VIII. As to the number of rows of benches on each side of the
House, and the space between the front rows.
The plan hereinbefore referred to will contain the arrangements
of the ground floors, both of the old House of Lords and old House
of Commons.
A copy of this plan will be delivered at this Office, free of ex-
pense, to any person who has been supplied with the lithograph
plan of the sites of the Houses of Parliament, &c., on the applicant
giving satisfactory proof that such lithograph plan has been so
supplied to him, on and after the 24th August lust., between the
hours of two and four.

WHITEHALL, AUGUST 15.

The King, taking into his Royal consideration that, upon the
decease of Charles Earl of Shrewsbury, the said title and dignity
devolved upon his nephew and heir, John now Earl of Shrewsbury,
as eldest son of John Joseph Talbot, late of Grafton-hall, in the
county of Worcester, Esq., deceased, who was at the time of his
death next brother and heir presumptive to the said Earldom, but
that, according to the ordinary rules of honour, the brothers and
sisters of the said John Earl of Shrewsbury cannot enjoy that place
and precedence which would have been due to them in case their
said father, John Joseph Talbot, had survived the said Charles Earl
of Shrewsbury, and thereby succeeded to the said title and dignity,
his Maiesty has been graciously pleased to ordain and declare
that George Henry Talbot, Esq. ; Harriet, wife of John Searle, of
York-place, in the parish of Marylebone, in the county of Middle-
sex, Esq. ; Charlotte, the wife of Michael James Robert Earl of
Roscommon, in that part of the United Kingdom called Ireland ;
and Susan Margaret Talbot, spinster, the brother and sisters of the
said John Earl of Shrewsbury, shall henceforth have, hold, and en-
joy the same titles, place, pre-eminence, and precedence as if their
said late father John Joseph Talbot, had succeeded to the said title
and dignity of Earl of Shrewsbury.