The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-11 00:00:00

STATUE OF 11.4VELOCK.

The statue of the late Sir HenrY,Havelock erected
in Trafalgar-square was uncovered yesterday. The
artist, Mr. Behnes, has a deservedly high reputa-
tion ; but those who have formed their estimate of
his powers from such a work as the statue of Sir
William Follett—one of the finest in Westminster
Abbey, and combining in a remarkable degree
perfect naturalness with the dignity peculiar to
sculpture, will be forced to confess that even he is
not destined to take away from the noblest site in
Europe the reproach of being the chosen home of
exquisite dulness and stilted mediocrity. His repre-
sentation of Havelock is one of those uninteresting.
statues with which London is crowded, and of
which we have nothing to say except that we never
look at them twice, never think of thire, never care
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dustry— they have all some good points ; but
generally, if they excite any positive feeling in our
minds, it is a wish that some happy chalice may
relieve us of the greater part of our street statuary.
The worst fault of the Havelock statue is its un-
gainliness. The legs are too short for the body„
and the figure, raised upon a huge pedestal, seems
to any who takes a near view of it very topheavy.
Poor in itself it adds to the poverty of Trafalgar-
square. We have now begun to give this place
the look of a cemetery. We have been shutting
up our graveyards and smoothing them over, and
it would seem as if the authorities wished to make
up the loss by providing counterfeit of liensal-
green in the heart of the metropolis, In connexion
with the statue of Havelock Mr. Behnes has
given us, not, indeed, the usual broken column of
the burying-grounds, but the next thing to it—a
tree cut down. Surely, there is some way of put-
ting a stop to these exhibitions of bad taste and
feeble imagination ? But one hope remains—
namely, that Behnes will not fail in the inscription.
The incessant blundering which has been perpe-
trated in the inscriptions upon the Guards' Memo-
rial compels us to put in a word in favour of good
English upon all such monuments. On the Guards'
Memorial we observe that the inscription finally
resolved upon is, " To the memory of 2,162 officers
and men, &e.," from which it may be inferred
either that the men were all officers, or that the
officers were not men. This, too, after all the
criticisms to which the previous inscriptions were
subjected I-2imes.

THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK ON" ESSAYS AND
.REVIEW&"

_
His Grace the Archbishop of York has made the
following reply to an address which has been trans-
mitted to him by a large body of his clergy :
" At a season when some of our brethren in the
ministry have been engaged, to our great sorrow
and surprise, in a work calculated to undermine
the foundations of the Christian faith, it is a great
satisfaction to me to receive the assurance of your
unabated attachment to the doctrine and discipline
of our Church, and the renewal of your promise to
endeavour to banish all erroneous and strange doc-
trines contrary to God's Holy Word. That your
moral sense should have been shocked at such a.
spectacle as the attempt to disseminate principles
subversive of our belief in the Divine origin of
Christianity and the inspiration of the Bible, by
those who hold places of trust and influence in the.
Church of England, is most natural, and in these,
your feelings, I entirely participate. You will not
wonder, then, that when I.discovered in the volume
of Essays and .Revisies arguments which were wont
to be the weapons of the avowed adversaries of our
religion used, and their use countenanced by clergy-
men of our Church, when I read the denial of the in-
spiration of Holy Scripture, of the credibility.of
the miracles, and of the existence of the
prophecies
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of the Messiah's coming, in its pages ; when I met
with the declaration that the Bible is to be sub-
jected to each man's reason and conscience as its
supreme interpreter, so that it can no long
rule of faith and the guide of conscience; and lastly,
when I found in it a fresh claim of right to sign the
Articles and assent to the Liturgy under a non.
natural interpretation of them, I should have consi-
dered
den duty to concur in the declaration lately signed.
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that it please our
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pected assault upon the truths of revelation, and
such will certainly be its issue as regards•onrselves
if it lead each of us once more to prove the founda-
tions on which our faith rests, and to cleave with
firmer hold than ever to the substance of c air belief ;
if it urge us to preach the doctrines of thy a everlast-
ing Gospel with increased fervour and demotion, for
the sake of that adorable Saviour, on whom this
volume would leave the stigma of claiming to have
worked miracles which He never wronght, and of
being the subject of prophecies which.never, foretold
His advent."