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CRYSTAL PALACE. - TO-MORROW. -
MR. and MRS. SIMS REEVES, Mdlle. ARTOT,
Signor BELLETTI, Mr. BALFE.
Mr. REEVES will sing the three following popular
piecees

speedy terminatien, and that the caster builders
may not want a mediator when it i " too late."—l
am, &c.,

T. MARSH NELS(N, Architect.
6, Whitehall, August 17.

" Sound an alarm."
" Come into the Garden, Maud."
" Good bye, Sweetheart."
• • MRS. SIMS REEVES will sing " Comin' through the rye,"
and with Mr. Sims Reeves in the Duet " Da quel di."

Should the strike of the builders continue it can-
not fail to exercise some influence in reducing the
demand for capital, owing to the lumber of costly
works that will remain in suspens and the conse-
quent, diminution in the consumption of timber,
iron, stone, and other materials, bith of foreign and
home production. The primary effect, of course,
must be to favour the importatior of bullion, since
our debts to 'foreign countries wil be less in pro-
portion as we restrict our .ordet for timber and
articles of that description, while the falling off in
our consumption of iron and othe home goods will
leave us a larger quantity of suet goods to send to
distant markets. This, however,will be but tem-
porary. Ultimately a totally opjosite result must
ensue in all such cases, since evry delay in the
construction of manufactories, iNarehonses, offices,
docks, bridges, and public undetakings that pro-
mote the exercise of our productve abilities must
check our progress as compared with other coun-
tries, and interfere with our pomers of exportation.
An increased
.pressure on the matey market would
then be experienced from the necessity of paying
balancos in specie, and the mol who have now
thrown themselves out of worn would find•under
those circumstances that the demand for their
services had proportionably dircinished.—TimEs.

CRYSTAL PALACE. - TO-MORROW. -
After the Concert of Mr. Sims Reeves, the Band of the
Royal Marine Light Infantry will perform for the first time
a selection from Meyerbeer's new opera, "Dinorah."

McCOLLUM'S GREAT ANGLO - SAXON
CIRCUS, ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE,—The
greatest array of equestrian talent ever combined into one
company—Star riders, male and female—Star clowns—highly
trained steeds—sagacious ponies—magnificent dresses and
appointments—delightful music. Two performances daily,
commencing at 3 and 8 p.m.

THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS,
High Holborn, RE-OPENED for the SEASON.—This
establishment,. pre-eminently distinguished for the elegance
and matchless beauty of its decorntions, combined with the
perfection of its management, is OPEN EVERY EVENING.
Great alterations and improvements have been made during
the recess; and nothing has been left undone that could en-
hance the beauty of the place, or increase the comfort ofthe
visitors. Doors open at half-past 8; overture at 9; closing
at 12 punctually. Admission is.

THE LONDON.—The attention of Gentlemen
is especially drawn to the advantages offered in these
elegant and spacious Saloons, which fulfil all the require-
ments of a West-end club of the most aristocratic and exclu-
sive character.
L'on trouve da.ns la Salle de Lecture non senlement lea
meilleurs journeaux Anglais,mais aussi Allemand, Francais,
et Beige.

F. SAWYER, Proprietor, 191, Fleet-street

THE NAVY,

THE LONDON.—S A W Y E R'S famous
LONDON DINNER, consisting of two soups, two
fish, two entrees,joints, two sweets, cheese, and salad, at a
fixed charge of 2s. 6d. (attendance, 3d.), is served from Two
till Eight in the spacious Saloon.
In the Coffee-room, Dinnera from the joint, with vegetables,
cheese, and salad, Is. 6d. (attendance ad.), and soup, fish, en-
trees, &0., a la carte, are served from One till Nine o'clock.
Ladies' Private Rooms and Dining saloons. Spacious and
well-ventilated Wine, Coffee, and Smoking- Saloon.
An extensive and carefully selected stock of Rhenish, Mo-
selle, and other Wines, imported expressly for the London
Dinner. Open on Sundays from Four till Nine.
F. SAWYER, Proprietor, 191, Fleet-street.

A full Board of Admiralty, consisting of the
Duke of Somerset, First Lord ; the• Hon. Sir Richard
S. Dundas, K.C.8., First Naval , Lord ; Rear-Ad-
miral Lord Clarence E. Paget, C. 8., .Secretary;
Rear-Admiral Sir Baldwin W. Walker, Bart.,
',K.C.13., Surveyor of the Navy ; and Capt. Frederick,
accompanied by Lieut.-Col-mei •Godfrey Thomas
Green, E.1.C.5., Director of Engineering and Archi-
tecttiral Works, commenced their official inspection
of Woolwich Dockyard yesterday morning. Their
lordships arrived at half-past 10, and were received
by Commodore the Hon. James R. Drummond,
C.B , Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, and Superin-
tendent of the Dockyard, attended by the principal
officers of the establishment—namely, Mr. Thomas
and Mr. Hall, R.N. masters in charge of the re-
ceiving ship Fisgard, in full uniform ; Mr. Charles
Atherton and Mr. David Partridge, chief and as-
sistant engineers of the factory ; Mr. David Turner
and Mr. Thornton, master and assistant-master
shipwrights; Mr. Piers, storekeeper; Mr, Edwin
Bernays, assistant civil engineer; Mr. Laslett,
timber conveyancer,; Mr. Mallalieu, superintendent
of the local division of the police force, &c., the
whole of whom accompanied their lordships in their
circuit through the operative establishments of the
yard. A gudrd of honour, bearing the colours of
the regiment (supplied by Colonel Stransham, com-
mandant of the Royal Marines) in command of
Capt. Tribe, performed the customary honours on
their lordships' arrival, and a body of 50 police-
constables, stationed at the main guard, presented
arms. They first proceeded to the commodore's
offices and revised the estimates proposed for the
expenditure of the ensuing year, and inspected Mr.
Ward's patent apparatus for the Ocean Marine
Telegraph, as well as the operation of his signal
flags, which were especially hoisted on board the
Fisgard, and were visible from the Commodore's
windows. One of the flags had become twisted
and entangled in the rigging, and some slight
difficulty was experienced in distinguishing the
signal with the naked eye. It was thereupon
decided by their lordships, at the Commodore's
proposal, that as the system is eminently superior
to our own, their advantages shall be further tested
at-Sea on board the ships of the Royal squadron.
Their lordships afterwards proceeded towards the
eastern extremity of the yard, inspecting the ships
under construction and ordered a temporary exten-
sion (over the present thoroughfare) of the two
sheds under which the Barossa and Repulse are
now progressing. After visiting the sawmills,
ooat-house, &c., they passed along the line of
wharf, inspecting the works in that direction and
remarking with satisfaction on the activity dis-
played, every building slip being occupied with
ships in a forward state of progress. Arrived at
the outor fitting basin, their lordships entered on
hoard the magnificent screw steam frigate Ariadne,
which stretches across the whole length of the
basin. They likewise went on board the Mutine,
which vessel, like the Ariadne, has recently ar-
rived at Woolwich from Deptford to be fitted for
'service. The inspection of the above-named por-
tion of the establishment had already occupied
three hours, when it was suggested that the visit
-'+/-1.14-"lrri-undr;flis- P eriartment should be Pout-
was there ore espatched to me ivo.y..
Barracks to the effect that the inspection of the
corps would not take place that day. The troops
who had been mustered in the barrack-square for
the occasion were consequently withdrawn. Their
lordships continued their tour, minutely examining
the ships in dock, and finally passed through the
Factory Department, which closed the inspection.
They afterwards adjourned to the residence of the
Commodore-Superintendent, and partook of lun-
cheon. No muster of the men, as on former occa-
sions, took place yesterday ; consequently the usual
boon of a half-holiday, invariably granted on simi-
lar occasions, was not accorded. By their lord-
ships' special desire no visitors were admitted to
the yard during the period of their visit, which
occupied four hours.
Letters from Castellamare, near Naples, mention
that the English fleet, consisting of 5 liners under
Vice-Admiral Fanshawe, was about to leave that
anchorage on the 11th of August for Baja and
Palermo. A few days previous acts of mutiny had
been committed by a number of the crew (not in-
cluding officers or petty officers) of her Majesty's
ship Marlborough, bearing the Admiral's flag, com-
manded by Levi Frederick H. Kerr, when solid
shot were not merely rolled about the decks, but
actually cast at one of the mates and some of the
warrant officers, and it was not before the dis-
affected were turned up and addressed by the gal-
lant Admiral in person that tranquillity was re-
stored. He ordered ti,em to their respective messes,
to put in writing their grievances, and wo are in-
formed that so many and various are the alleged
matters of complaint that scarcely half a dozen had
a uniform character. Some complained of inter-
rupted rest, others of unnecessary cliity, and most
—taking their cue no doubt from their fellows in
the Hero and the Liffey, whose misdeeds seem to
have been passed over too lightly—refusal of leave.
Some of the ringleaders have been put in irons, and
will probably be tried by court-martial at Baja.
The Euryalus had left for Palermo. The Argus had
arrived at Messina from Andona, where the squa-
dron, under Rear-Admiral Mundy, from Alexan-
dria, was looked for probably en route to join Ad-
miral Fanshawe at Palermo. The Cadmus has
arrived at Leghorn to relieve the Terrible. The
London was cruising off Malta on the 13th August,
on which day the Liffey, from England, out thir-
teen days from Gibraltar, had not yet arrived. A
marine on board the Hibernia has been tried by
court-martial for an unnatural crime, and con-
demned to death.
The Jmnerieuse, 51, screw, Capt. R. B. Maguire,
left Spithead yesterday under steam, by the west
channel, for Portland.
The new screw steam frigate Forte, 51 guns, in
the fitting basin, Sheerness, has been masted ; she
is ordered to be hastened in her fitment as much as
possible.
The Arrogant, 47, screw frigate, at present sta-
tioned in Southampton Water as steam coastguard
ship, is ordered to proceed round to Portsmouth,
and fit out as senior officer's ship on the Coast of
Africa, Capt. W. Edmonstone being transferred to
her from the Pearl ; Capt. Borlase, C. 8., of the
Dauntless, taking the Pearl. It is also stated that
the Dauntless will become steam coastguard ship
in Southampton Water. The Arrogant is a remark-
ably fine and roomy frigate, and was the first or-
dered to be built for auxiliary steam power. She
was constructed from the designs of Mr. Fincitam,
late Master Shipwright of Portsmouth Dockyard,
by the advice of Mr. Sidney Herbert, in 1844, when
Secretary to the Admiralty. Her horse-power of
engines is 360 (nominal), .
The Mersey, 40, screw, Capt. Caldwell, C. 8., got
under weigh at Spithead yesterday, and proceeded
to the trial ground in Stokes' Bay, to test her altered
screw according to arrangement ; but after making
several runs at the " mile," the trial was deferred
until this morning, owing to an insufficient supply
of steam. Shortly after the Mersey. had again
brought up at Spithead Rear-Admiral the Hon. F.
Pelham, C. 8., one of the Lords of the Admiralty,
paid a visit to the Mersey, having been conveyed
to Spithead in the Fire Queen paddle steam tender,
Master Commander Paul.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—Lieut, G. R. Fitzgerald,
to the Asia; Henry R. Harris, master, to the
Cyclops; B. W. Ley, mate, to the Emerald; and
W. E. McGrath, second master, confirmed, to the
Cuxava.

THE COMMERCIAL DINING ESTA-
BLISHMENT, 73, Cheapside.—This Establishment
is now RE-OPENED, under the management of Msr.
B. Glover, from the London, Fleet-street. Dinner off
the • Joint, in the Coffee-room, with Vegetables, Bread
and Cheese, &c., ad libitum, is. 6d. The Commercial
Dinner of Soup, Fish, Entrées, Joints, Sweets, and Cheese,
ad libitum, 2s. 6d, Ladies' Dining-room, with Female At-
tendant. Smoking Saloon, The best of everything at
prices to suit the temper of the times. Open on Sundays
from 4 till 8.

THE ROYAL STATION HOTEL, Paragon
street, Hull, requires only to be visited to be pronounced
one of the most splendid hotels in England. The situation is
open and healthful, a few minutes' walk from all the public
buildings and places of business, and being connected with
the Railway Station, affords railway passengers arriving or
departing by every train day or night, the advantage of being
on the spot, and having their wants and wishes immediately
attended to.
The public should know that under the present manage-
ment they will find every comfort and convenience at the
same charges they are paving at the minor hotels. It has
accommodation for upwards of one hundred and fifty visitors,
is fitted up with every luxury an hotel can command, and is
so arranged for the advantage of every class of-visitor, that
Beds can be had from ls. to 2s. ; Private Rooms, from 2s. to
4s. ; Breakfasts, from is. fid. to 2s. ; Dinners, from 2s. ; and
all other charges of that moderate character which will give
satisfaction to every class of visitor who may pay the hotel a
visit.
The hotel contains Gentlemen and Ladies' Coffee Rooms ;
a special Room set apart for Commercial Gentlemen ; fourteen
Private suites of Rooms ; large spacious Rooms for Dinner
Parties, Public Meetings, &c., &c. ; two first-class Refresh-
ment Rooms ; two Smoke Rooms ; Bath and Billiard Rooms.

A Night Porter in attendance.
EDWIN TAYLOR.

Proprietor of the Royal Station.Kotel, Hull, and Crescent

Hotel, Filer

• _
N.B.—TAYLOR'S CRESCENT HOTEL, fronting the sea
for Families and Gentlemen. It has accommodation for up -
wards of one hundred and fifty visitors. Table D'Hfite at
five o'clock. Omnibuses and Cabs from the hotel meet all the
trains. Good stabling and coach-houses. Moderate terms.

ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library,
and Dining-room, consisting of a new and elegant
assortment of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obe-
lisks, Inkstands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paperweights, dm.,
In Italian Alabaster, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Paperweights,
&c.
Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine-
ralogist to her Majesty, 149, Strand, London, W.C.
Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of SHELLS,
MINERALS, and FOSSILS, which will greatly facilitate the
interesting study of MINERALOGY, CONCHOLOGY, and
GEOLOGY, at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 100 guineas each.
PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE-
RALOGY is given by Mr. TENNANT, at 149, Strand.

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THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EITt,VING, AUGUST 19, 1859.

THE ARMY.

The following general order to the army has just
been issued :

" His Royal Highness the Gen. Commanding-in-Chief,
deeming it expedient that officers and soldiers of infantry
should be instructed in the great gun exercise, desires that
General officers commanding districts and stations will make
the necessary arrangements in concert with the command-
ing officers of artillery in forts and garrisons for carrying
out that measure wherever practicable.
" By command,
" G. A. WETHERALL, Adjt.-Gen."

In accordance with the above order a certain num-
ber of the officers and troops belonging to the in-
fantry depots at Chatham have been placed at the dis-
posal of the master gunner of the garrison, and also
the superintendent of. the Royal Engineer Depart-
ment, for the purpose of being made thoroughly
efficient in gunnery and engineering previously to
embarking for service in India and the colonies.

NEW FOREIGN OFFICE.

PRICE 4D• STAMPED, SD.

when a new system arose ; which included a new
system of art, and necessarily the branches of art
called Italian Architecture. That system, modified
considerably, still exists in England; that art, mo-
dified also considerably, is its true exponent or ac-
companiment. He considered that the band of
ladies and gentlemen, enthusiastic or rather ro-
mantic, who urged the recurrence to Gothic art,
had exhibited in some of their vagaries a little ab-
sence of common sense. If they urged that it was
to Gothic art alone that they wished to return,
Lord Palmerston, who had seen many examples of
the temptation to imitate other Gothicism which
indulgence in that line of amusement had created,
would know better than to accept the apology.
'inc proper style for our public buildings is the
style of the present day, not that of a
past age ; and if his noble auditor would be
guided by amateurs, a Gothic Foreign-office might
arise ; but if he would take the opinion
of men educated to decide upon such subjects, there
could be no doubt that his lordship would build
in the modern European fashion.
Lord PALMERSTON was glad to receive the as-
surance that trained nien of science and judgment
approved the course which he had felt it his duty
to pursue. He could excuse the mania in some
quarters for building Gothic habitations in the
country by recollecting that those might be
prompted by the vicinity of the Elizabethan manor-
house, which itself was the successor of the Gothic
castle. But in regard to those building Gothic
habitations in towns, he felt that there were people
who had notions which were perfectly out of date.
A public office was, in fact, the habitation of the
chief and his staff during the day, and he (Lord
Palmerston) knew of no style so suitable to an
English habitation as the horizontal, or classic, or
Italian, or whatever name its branches might have
gained. A public building ought to be handsome
externally, while convenient in the interior; and
the style which he preferred undeniably gave
buildings which combined those qualities. He
believed that in the erection of a handsome build-
ing the style that-he preferred allowed a reasonable
economy to be observed internally; the contrary,
with regard to Gothic, had been plltetkalli taught
him at Westminster and elsewhere. He 'felt that
he had only to repeat the statement made on a pre-
vious occasion, viz., that he had so strong an objec-
tion to the Gothic style for, the present purpose
that he should think it his duty, in office or other-
wise to protest against the erection of a building dif-
ferent from that which he saw gave him such grounds
for selection ; he could say, in short, that his mind
was determined not to have Gothic, but Italian.
He might feel satified with his conviction that Mr.
Tite's sentiments were correst as to the comparative
cost of the opposed styles.
Mr. WATSON mentioned the heavy expenditure
by Mr. Russell, in Park-lane, the only Gothic
dwelling-house in that part of London.
Lord PALMERSTON then referred to the cost of the
present State Paper-office, which, i t appeared, must
be pulled down to show Mr. Scotts park front, and
which it was stated was stated was £40,000. He
also entered into conversation with the deputation
as to the congruity, styles, condition, &e., of the
buildings existing in the locality of the Foreign•
office.
Mr. Henry Bayley Garling, of No. 11, King's-
road, Gray's-inn, and Messrs. Bankes and Barry,
as chief prizemen in the late competition, were
introduced to his lordship's notice, and
Mr. TITE having thanked his lordship for his
reception of the deputation and the stand he had
made to carry out their views, the deputation with-
drew.

A • deputation of architects waited on Lord Pal-
merston by appointment on Wednesday. The
gentlemen present were Messrs. Banks, Barry,
Bell, Broderick (Leeds), Clifton, Cockerell, Profes-
sor Donaldson, Falkener, C. Fowler, jun., H. B.
Garling, l'Ansoo, Kerr, Lamb, Low, Mee, J. W.
Papworth, Scoles, Smirke, A.R.A., Thomson, and
Watson, with communications of assent to the pro-
posed step from Messrs. Ashpitel, Bellamy, Coles,
Davies, Hesketh, Owen Penrose, Walters (Man-
chester), and many others.
The deputation was introduced by Mr. TITE,
M.P., who observed in limine that he wished it to
be known that the present movement and deputa-
tion had not in any way originated with himself
or his hon. friend, Mr. Coningham. He then
begged his lordship's attention to the gentle-
men above named, who represented the views
of 200 out of 230 architects of this and other
countries who had responded to the ap-
peal of the former Government for competition
designs. Before leaving them to speak for the m-
selves he felt at liberty to remark that if the archi-
tects who had been. summoned by Sir B. Hall as
Chief Commissioner of Works and Public Buildings
before the conditions of competition were drawn
out had been consulted as to the choice of a style,
then indubitably a Gothic style would not have
been adopted ; that the ground of nationality put
forward for the Gothic adopted by Mr. Scott was
fallacious ; inasmuch as its principal features were
to be found in the Lombard-Gothic of the early
part of the 13th century, combined with the cha-
racter of the town-halls of Belgium of a much
later period, and that if the present case were
given as an opportunity for an experiment on a new
Gothic style, he should consider it as a most inju-
dicious step. He succinctly repeated the chief
topics of objection to the Gothic style for the pre-
sent purpose, such as expense, congruity, light, &c.,
which he had already made public. Having laid
before his lordship official plans of the site, and
having explained the actual condition of the loca-
lity with reference to the expense of the demolition
of some of the present buildings (of which, as he
observed, no sufficient explanation could be given
in the House of Commons without constant and
impracticable reference to such plans), Mr. Tite
noticed the necessity for character and expression
in a public building ; that the destination of an
edifice should appear as much as possible upon its
face—that a prison should look like a prison, and
a palace like a palace. Mr. Tite gave considerable
praise to Somerset-house as originally designed
by Sir W. Chambers, and as lately par-
tially completely by Mr. Pennethorn. He
concluded with the expression of his confidence
in Mr. Scott's ability, if that gentleman thought it
compatible with his position in the profession. to
relinquish the style in which he had obtained so
high a reputation, and of the desire of himself and
deputation as not intending to make any remark
that should be personal to that gentleman, who was
known to almost every one of them.
Mr. SMIRKE, A.R.A., was happy to be the
medium of expressing the views of the deputation,
and not having been a competitor he had no griev-
ance personally on the corapetitiorrquestion to be
redressed. He was anxious to assist in resisting
the efforts of certain dilettanti to push the adoption,
not only in public structures, but on all occasions,
of a style that might be not unsuitable for clerical
purposes and, though more rarely, for domestic
edifices. Fortified in his view of the style to be
preferred, by the practice of the architects at Ber-
lin, Munich, Paris, and Vienna, Mr. Smirke was
glad to find so many architects ready to make
known their satisfaction that Lord Palmerston, by
his determination, had undertaken to prevent the
insertion at the Foreign-office of the thin end of a
edge that would necessarily make way for a mass
of Gothic buildings_ not only where the new offices
rcumv eu ; in snort, - _l4 ones: had to h.
finally to end at Charing-cross, at least.
Professor DONALDSON felt that the deputation
might also express some of the indignation felt by
a majority of the competitors and of non-competing
architects at the real result of the competition.
Not that they were dissatisfied with the decision of
the judges who, it would be remembered by his lord-
ship, had agreed with their professional advisers in
placing designs that were not Gothic at the head of
the lists of premiums. He condemned the exertions
which were made to reverse the effect of those de-
cisions by some of the dilettanti to whom Mr. Smirke
had alluded, and which were rendered nugatory by
the committee (of the House of Commons) conse-
quently appointed, as the committee came to no
conclusion. He also laid considerable blame on the
Chief Commissioner of Works, &c., as having
attacked the integrity of the system of competition,
which ought to be founded on the principle that the
award of the execution should, wherever possible,
follow that of the prize. The Professor eulogised
the architects who had decorated, not only the
Western portions of the metropolis, but also the
city, and who, by their works, had those been re-
stricted to the designs exhibited at Westminster
during the competition, evidenced the fitness of
their minds to form an authoritative opinion upon
the subject under consideration. He considered
that where a Gothic style had been employed in
London for buildings intended for business the
style had been made to serve as a sort of advertise-
ment; but those were very few, and he urged that
if retrogression was to be the mot d'ordre from the
public to the architect, then there was no reason
shown why that backward step should only reach
to the Gothic period. He felt that the choice of a
Gothic style for the Palace at Westminster might
be defended upon tradition, and begged his
Lordship to remember, that the New Foreign-office,
if in contiguity with anything, was in close
proximity to a number of buildings that were not
Gothic, and to one of the gems of European archi-
tecture, the Banqueting House.
Mr. CONINGHAM, M.P., who had been invited to
express his opinion, concurred in the remarks that
had been made, which he thought were confirmed
by the private edifices of the present time. He re-
garded the Gothic fashion as a retrogression like
pre-Raphaelitism, and hoped that its abettors, find-
ing that taste was a question for each individual
mind, would be enabled to follow the path already
trodden by Gothe and Beckford, who commenced
their career of amateurs with a lavish adulation of
Gothic, and ended it as admirers of a totally dif-
ferent style. Referring to the intention of erecting
a new Indian-office, the speaker concluded by ex-
pressing his anxiety that, while adopting the gene-
ral feature of Italian architects, monotony and uni-
formity should be avoided at Whitehcll and West-
minster instead of a variety of eccentricities that
are fashion, not taste.
Mr. E. B. LAMB begged to add that it was gene-
rally held as a matter of fact that our art ought to
keep itself in advance of the materials of which it
avails itself. It was equally a matter of fact that
the Gothic style had had a point of excellence, for
its time, beyond which it had done nothing. On the
contrary, since the time of Henry. VIII., the Italian
or neo-classic style, had been changing itself so as
to accommodate the diversity of climates and the
invention of new materials or the improvement of
old ones. All these, as they had hitherto been treated,
were so many difficulties in the way of the restora-
tion of a really Gothic school of advanced art. He also
insisted that every public building,at the least, should
exhibit, in the style employed, one which should
not be deprived of any of its leading characteristics.
Agreeing with Mr. Tite on the subject of lighting
in the opposing styles, he sketched the outcry that
would be made if the Palace of Westminster were
to be enlivened by the removal of the divisions to
its windows, and by similar steps that might
render that building as useful as it were in ano-
ther style.
Mr. KERR felt that the laziness of saying that
there is no accounting for tastes was not now pos-
sible in matters of architecture ; and that style was
not an accidental arbitrary fashion to be tied up
with red tape, but was a parcel of the intellect ;
general design, inclusive of architecture, had
hitherto exhibited the people of its period and
place ; this was true of Gothic work in its own
day ; but it was also trite of the 15th century,

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

HERTFORD.
Yesterday the nomination of candidates to
supply the vacancy in the representation of Hert-
ford, caused by the Eight Hon. W. F. Cowper ac-
cepting the office of Vice-President of the Board of
Trade, took place in front of the Town-hall, in the
presence of Mr. Henry Squire, the Mayor (a mem-
ber of the Society of Friends), and a large con-
course of the principal inhabitants, together with a
number of the neighbouring gentry and their fami-
lies. Mr. Cowper has, of course, presented him-
self to the constituency for re-election, but he has
been unexpectedly and stoutly opposed, in the
Conservative interest, by Mr. Robert Dimsdale, a
gentleman of property residing at Essenden, in the
immediate vicinity, and an extremely close contest
being waged between the two. The pretensions of
Mr. Dimsdale are said to receive countenance from
the Marquis of Salisbury, who has considerable
property in tho borough, though, of course, a noble-
man stands aloof from an election contest; and the
near relationship of Mr. Cowper to the Premier,
and the right hon. gentleman's own share in oust-
ing Lord Derby from office, are presumed to be the
nrovoked an opposition but
who accepts an °thee unaer tno
in this case assumes the appearance of an act or
political revenge. Lord Raynham, M.P., Mr.'
Lysley, M.P., Mr. Abel Smith, M.P-, and Mr. St.
Aubyn were among the gentlemen on the hustings
or in close proximity to them ; and the Baroness
Dimsdale, three of the daughters of Lord Cowper,
Lady Elizabeth St. Aubyn, Lady Audrey Towns-
hend, and Mrs. R. Dimsdale witnessed the cere-
mony from the windows in the vicinity.
Mr. B. YOUNG, a brewer in Hertford, and Mr.
CRAWLEY, a coachmaker, nominated Mr. Cowper;
and Mr. Dimsdale was introduced to the electors by
Mr. CURTIS, a solicitor, and Mr. T. SMITH, an

architect.
Mr. COWPER then stood forward to address the
electors, and was greeted with cheers. He said
ordinarily at contested elections there was some
great question of stirring interest, something that
quickened the pulsations of the country, on which
a public man might venture to express his senti-
ments before a constituency ; but the present occa-
sion was wholly different, for we had arrived at a
time when Parliament had been dissolved, when,
to borrow a military phrase, political parties had
gone into winter quarters for six months, and when
a little skirmish in the town of Hertford was not
likely to have any great effect on the general cam-
paign. (A laugh.) He felt a difficulty to know
on what topic to address them. They did not ex-
pect that he should tell them anything of the policy
of the Government which he had lately joined.
Having immediately on coming into office to take
the necessary steps and to call on the House of
Commons to vote the requisite supplies for putting
our shores in a state of defence calculated to resist
any hostile invasion, they had not time or oppor-
tunity to propound any scheme of general policy.
For himself he might say he had taken office under
the conviction that the present Government would
carry to a successful result those principles of which
he had ever been a ,consistent supporter. (Cheers.)
Born and bred in a family which had always main-
tained Whig principles ever since the Whig party
had existed—(cheers)—he had invariably advocated
those principles from conviction during his whole
public life. Those principles involved the recog-
nition and extension of civil and religious freedom,
based the public good on individual rights and
on individual conscience, and aimed not at favour-
ing any one class at the expense of another,
but of combining all in one general harmonious
union with the view to secure the public wel-
fare. (Cheers.) The repeal of the corn laws,
the extension of free trade, the abolition of all
disabilities affecting Dissenters, and efforts made
for improving the moral and educational con-
dition of the working classes, were the trophies
to which the party with whom he had constantly
acted could point. (Cheers.) In the Rresent day
we had no great struggle for political rights; that
battle had been well fought and. well won—(cheers)
—but we had the great task before us of diffusing
comfort, intelligence, and hiness more widely
app
among all classes the empire. He had done what
lay in his power to assist Lord Shaftesbury and
men like him in the efforts they had made to apply
the true principles of political legislation to the re-
duction of labour where it was excessive, to the
improvement of the dwellings of the labouring
classes, and to the augmentation of the means and
facilities for education. The question of Parlia-
mentary reform was no doubt still pending. (Hear,
hear.)
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to afford a guarantee for its proper exercise ; and
now that education had been diffused mote widely,
and that comfort and independence had reached a
lower grade than in 1832, he was of opinion that
the franchise ought to be lowered so as to meet the
happier state of things which had since supervened.
The gentleman who preceded him had complained
that, although he (Mr. Cowper) had supported
liberal measures, there was one liberal measure he
had not supported, and that was Lord Der?y's
Reform Bill. (A laugh.) He was not surprised
that a gentleman, by conviction a Tory of the
imperfect
nolod_
school, should have such a verynotion
consider
a liberal measure. He (Mr. Cowper did not
lower the
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liberal as toe oy an important i
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tended for by Mr. Locke King tho An&, e, •
which the Conservative party had ..
out of office. (A laugh.) [A Voic - .)
the bribery?"] Why, talking of brig:tlClifei• if
the case of Berwick, where the pri tc `red -
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of Mr. Disraeli got into such difficulty all,* n J
dined to face the petition presented egainsrlTis rtz`
turn. It was true he was not unseated, by an elec-
tion committee, for he did not care to confront one,
but he vacated his seat by accepting the Chiltern
Hundreds, and so got over the difficulty.
(Laughter and uproar.) Did his friend in the
crowd want another case P If so, the're was that of
Dr. Michell, recently member for Bodmin. He was
not turned out on an election petition, for he wes
too shrewd to go into the committee room ; but it
was generally rumoured that there were acts of
bribery in that case so manifest that people in the
secret were not surprised that Dr. Michell, instead
of undergoing the ordeal of a Parliamentary in-
quiry, though it more prudent to accept the
Stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds, and to
allow his opponent to bp returned at a fresh elec-
tion unopposed. (A laugh.) Again, there was the
case of a gentleman who was proved to have com-
mitted bribery—he meant the member for Hull.
(Shouts of " No, no !" and uproar.) He begged
pardon ; it was his agent who was proved to have
done so. (Renewed uproar.) All that lie (Mr.
Cowper) knew of the matter was that the committee
had unseated Mr. Hoare, and he would withdte w
the expression which had given offence. The right
hon. gentleman proceeded to say that the reform
he was desirous of seeing carried should
be based on the principles xecognised in
the measure of 1832—namely, the extension of
the franchise and the abolition of rotten boroughs.
After a passing reference to the independence
and public spirit with which the electors of
Hertford, as a body, had exercised their political
privilege and resisted landlord influence, which he
denounced in indignant terms—adding that his
family had held house property in the borough for
many years, and he defied any man to say that any
one of them had ever attempted to coerce or in the
slightest degree interfere with an elector in the
exercise of his franchise—he said he wanted to
know why, on the present occasion, he had been
met with this opposition from Mr. Dimsdale ? It
was generally thought to be an unfair thing to op-
pose the re-election of a man who had accepted an
office under the Crown, unless for some definite
reason, such as that of having failed to fulfil pro-
mises previously made to his constituents, and so
incurring their disapprobation. He knew that on
tile formation of Lord Derby's Government the rule
of- b -rous forbearance was adhered to by the
Liberal 4 .rty. (No, no.) In proof of that he cited
the course parsued with reference to Sir E. B.
Lytton on that occasion, when the seat of that dis-
tinguished member of the Conservative party for
Hertfordshire was supposed to be somewhat in jeo-
pardy. Mr. Dimsdale in his address to the consti-
tuency said we had reached a peculiar conjuncture.
He (Mr. Cowper) thought in some respects it was
very peculiar—(a laugh) ; but he did not quite see
the peculiarity in the light which Mr. Dimsdalo
did. (A laugh.) He found fault with him (Mr.
Cowper) for having voted in favour of the motion of
a want of confidence in Lord Derby; but did not he
(Mr. Cowper) tell them from the hustings at the gene-
ral election he would oppose Lord Derby, and would
it have been honest in him to have done other-
wise ? (Cheers.) He suggested that Mr. Dimsdale,
in urging his desire to suppart Lord Derby and his
Government as the motive for contesting the repre-
sentation of Hertford on this occasion, was a day
behind the fair. The right hon. gentleman con-
tinued at some length and in a playful spirit to
criticise the-printed address of his opponent, and to
vindicate the present Government from the charge
of being constituted of heterogeneous elements, con-
tending that the Whig party from the earliest
times had ever been made up of those elements, and
that therein lay its strength and vitality. He con-
cluded by expressing his conviction that the result
of the poll would be to place him again in the proud
position of their representative.
Mr. DIMSDALE next addressed the meeting, but
amid frequent interruptions from the crowd below.
He said he had entertained for a considerable period
the expectation of representing Hertford in Parlia-
ment, closely connected as he was with the town,
and taking a deep interest in its welfare. He de-
nied that there was aught unfair in his coming
forward on this occasion to contest the representa-
tion, seeing that it was a principle of the constitu-
tion that when a gentleman accepted an office under
the Crown he was bound to appeal to his constitu-
ents to see whether or no they would endorse his
appointment. (Cheers.) He opposed Mr. Cowper
on this occasion because he disapproved the part
be took in ejecting Lord Derby from office, and
that on grounds which he (Mr. Dimsdale)
thought factious. Adverting to the question
of Parliamentary reform, he said the bill pro-
posed by Lord Derby's Government was the
only one since that of 1852 which had gone so
far as the motion for a second rending. He con-
mented upon the extraordinary number of Liberal
members who had been unseated for bribery on
petition as the best practical answer to the thou-
sand absurd tales about the fabulous sums of money
spent by the Carlton Club for purposes of corrup-
tion during the last general election, with which
the public were familiar evceiv6l.2...ewl• to the
nf TRUntOut .-opreSellted by
two Conservatives, as an indication of the reaction
now going on in the country in favour of Conserva-
tive principles. He expressed himself in favour of
a L 6 franchise in boroughs, as a means of admit-
ting the elite of the -working classes to the privi-
lege of voting, and of the abolition of the paper
duty, which stood in the way of their enlighten-
ment. Speaking of church-rates, he held that if
Parliament did not speedily bring that long-vexed
question to a settlement, the church-rates would
repeal themselves. He would have Churchmen pay
the rates, and let the Dissenters qo free—(a laugh)
—but he would exclude the Dissenters from all
share in the management of parochial affairs. He
concluded by saying he had embarked in this con-
test from no unfriendly feeling to Mr. Cowper, but
on public grounds, and he appealed to the consti-
tuency for their suffrages freely in the great
interests of political justice and political truth.
(Cheers).
The MAYOR then took a show of hands, which
he decided to be in favour of Mr. Dimsdale ; and, a
poll having been demanded on behalf of Mr. Cow-
per, it was arranged to commence this (Friday)
morning at the customary hour.

HULL.
A vacancy has been caused in the representation
of this borough by the unseating of Mr. J. Hoare
(Conservative) by a select committee of the House
of Commons. There are two candidates in the
field—Mr. Harvey Lewis (Liberal), who was the
unsuccessful candidate at the last election, and Mr.
J. Somcs (Conservative). The contest is expected
to be a severe one. The nomination will take place
to-day, and the polling to-morrow.