The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-11 00:00:00

LAW AND POLXC3II.

At Guildhall, two fine-looking lads, brothers, named
George and John Axtell, were charged before Sir John
Key, with breaking into the chambers of Messrs. Harvey
and Co., merchants, Barnard's Inn, and stealing about
301. worth of apparel, the property of William E. Harvey,
clerk, residing there. Sir J. Key regretted to see two
lads, respectable in appearance, in the felons' clock ; but,
for the ends of justice and the protection of the public, it
would be his duty to commit them for trial.
William Timberlake, alias Cooper, and George Jack-
son, alias Contison, were charged on re examination, at
Union Hall, with stealing twelve sovereigns, six silver
spoons, and several articles of jewellery, the property of
Edward Brundell, 24, Agnes-street, Waterloo-road. The
circumstances attending the robbery have been already
fully described. One of them was also charged with
forgery. The prisoners reserved their defence for an-
other trbunal. Mr. Traill said it was his intention to
commit the prisoners for trial on the two charges of rob-
bery. With respect to the charge of forgery, as the
case was not complete, he should order the prisoners to
be brought up again on Friday.
At Lambeth-street, Mr. Norton was engaged for some
hours in hearing charges preferred against one class of
watermen plying at Alderman-stairs, Lower East Smith-
field, by others of the same craft, of violation of the
Act of Parliament by which their calling is regulated.
The Watermen's Act provides, in order to prevent ac-
cidents, and protect the passengers, that not more than
two boats shall at any one time pull within a certain
distance of a steamer on her mooring in the river, and
then close to the gangway. Latterly, however, on the
approach of the Dublin and Cork steamers off Alderman-
stairs, they are immediately surrounded by a number of
boats, and the confusion thus occasioned is attended
with the greatest possible danger. The charge of
plying out of their proper turn was satisfac-
torily proved against the defendants, who ex-
pressed contrition for what they had done, and promised
not to violate the law for the future, upon which Mr.
Norton inflicted a mitigated penalty of 10s., declaring
at the same time that for all future offences he would
impose a penalty of 54

.COVET-WASZIONAMLE.

The Duke and Duchess of Somerset entertained a
select circle at dinner at Wimbledon I:: ark on Monday.
The following were among the distinguished individuals
present :—The Prince and Princess Doria Pamphili, the
Earl and Countess of Shrews!bury, the Duchess of Inver-
ness, Lady Davy, the Earl of Belfast, Lord and Lady
Cottenham, Lady and Miss Hall, M. de Koudriaffsky,
Count Gregory de Koudriaffsky, Count Dmitry de Nes-
selrode. M. and Madame Oury attended, and performed
a selection of favourite music in the evening.
A dinner was given in Londonderry on Friday to Sir
Robert and Lady Sale, when upwards of 180 sat down.
The mayor, William Haslett, Esq., occupied the chair,
and was supported by a number of the clergy and gentry
of the county. A ♦ariety of toasts were given and re-
sponded to, and the entertainment passed off with much
eclat.

The Duchess of Inverness is staying with the Duke
and Duchess of Somerset, at their villa at Wimbledon
Park. Prince and Princess Doria Pamphili Landi and
the Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury have also arrived
on a visit to the Noble Duke and Duchess.
The Countess of Beauchamp has been lately a visitor
at Worthing, where the Earl's sister, the Countess of
Longford and family, are sojourning, and some other
families are still remaining there for bathing.
The Duke of Sutherland gave a ball to his tenantry at
Dunrobin Castle on Wednesday, in a pavilion, erected
for the occasion near the castle. The attendance was
numerous, amounting to about 300, including the Duke,
the Marquis of Stafford, Lord and Lady Blantyre.
Dancing was kept up till four in the morning. A quad-
rille band, from Inverness, was engaged, and the Duke's
piper poured forth his spirit-stirring strains.
Madame La Comtesse Fluhault (Baroness Keith)
the Lady of the Minister of the King of the French at
the Austrian Cotirt, accompanied by the Misses Flahault,
have arrived at Mivart's Hotel, from Vienna.
Prince and Princess Doria Pamphili and family,
have also arrived at Mivart's Hotel, from Alton Towers,
accompanied by the Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury.

lIICISCELLANnous.
It has been determined that the Royal Exchange sha..
be thrown open to the public between the 12th and the
17th of next month, the day to be appointed by her
Majesty.
It is said that the trade between Liverpool and the
Mediterranean never was so brisk as at the present time.
One of the first acts of Mr. O'Connell, after leaving
the Richmond Penitentiary, was to forward his own sub-
scription of 51. to the Duncombe Testimonial, the regu-
lations of that prison having prevented him from doing
so earlier.

The repeal rent for the last week amounted to 575
is. 6d.

The majority of the Marquis of Chandos was celebrated
at Stowe on Tuesday with great rejoicings. Among
other parties present on the occasion was the Lord Chan-
cellor with his lady and daughter.
A dinner was given at Belfast on Thursday to Robert
Burns, the eldest son of the Scottish poet. When his
health was proposed he said he was not without a strong
tie to the Green Isle. His sister was the widow of an
Irish gentleman, who, when alive, resided at New Ross,
and his second brother, Colonel Burns, was the widower
of an Irish lady. _

On Tuesday- the Precursor, a fine steam-vessel, Capt.
Harris, which has been purchased by the Peninsular
and Oriental Steam Company, at an enormous expense,
left Southampton to assume her station in the East
Indies. She was built by a Glasgow Company, which
did not proceed in their enterprise, and had been in the
market at 100,0001., but was purchased by the Peninsu-
lar and Oriental Company for 45,0001., without repairs.
She is 800 tons burden, and carries engines of 550-horse
power. Her destination is Calcutta and Ceylon, from
the former of which places she is intended to carry the
Government mails to Suez.

ARRIVAL Or THE ROYAL CHILDREN IN BRIGHTON

—A special train, consisting of her Majesty's carriage,
between two other first-class carriages, and a couple of
carriage trucks, bearing two of the Queen's private car-
riages, arrived at the Brighton terminus yesterday
afternoon at a quarter to six o'clock. The engine
was driven by Mr. Cubitt, and Mr. Crowley, one of the
Directors of th• London and Brighton Railway (who
with Captain Kelly, the chairman, and Mr. Ottley, the
secretary, had received the royal party at New Cross),
accompanied the train to Brighton. Arrangements had
been made for the reception of the royal party, a part of
the platform being carpeted. Six of her Majesty's horses
were in waiting, and in about five minutes these were
attached to the royal carriages, and the Prince of Wales
and his royal brother and sister, together with Lady
Lyttelton, left the terminus, and entered the Palace gates
at five minutes to six o'clock.
CHINESE PROVERBS.—I he tombs open every mo-
ment, and close for ever.—lt is from what people say,
that we judge of the value of their silence.—Memory
rather counterfeits wit than supplies it; a thousand re-
collections are not worth one thought.—With money the
dead can be made to speak; without it even the dumb
will not be silent.—Whoever seeks nothing but how to
do men good, can never be deceived by them.—Captain
Pidding's Chinese Olio.

THIRD REPORT OF THE
MISSIONERS ON THE FINE ClAO
WITH APPENDIX.

We resume our extracts from this important &elle/.
silents. With the terms of the papers Nos. 1,2, andi
the Appendix (a list of the contents of which Append
we gave in a former paper), our readers are 0re1...a
too well acquainted to make it expedient here...o4i
peat them ; but No. 4 is a " Letter from the -to
Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., respecting &
Monuments to Men distinguished for Civil Service*
addressed to Mr. Eastlake the Secretary to the col;
mission, and dated " Whitehall, August 17, 184
This letter does appear to us to contain the gerTio
all the absurd blunderings and inconsequences
have hitherto marked the progress of the two
Houses, and their decorative embellishments. I'o,
also eminently characteristic of Sir Robert's eg°l3sot
e
By his own showing it was the wish of Parliarejeo
that he should do one thing. He takes it u 0
himself to do another ; and Mr. Barry—distract
it seems to us between his homage to some not iLe'ri
fortunate suggestions on the part of Prince
(to which we have already referred), and this patron of
ing expression of the wishes of the Premier—does
substantively carry out either object; but exPatigite
's,
in the attempt, into the costly and ill-judged exeres
te
cence of the new Queen's Gallery. Sir Robert c 0
mences his letter to Mr. Eastlake thus—
" Dear Sir,—A proposal was recently made ia,tittes
House of Commons that the Commissioners shoul°o
empowered by her Majesty to inquire into the best aie'oe
of doing honour by public monuments, in sculptnrer
painting, to be erected at the public charge to the Pi're
mory of men entitled to the gratitude of their CO
by eminent civil, literary, or scientific services." es
A very intelligible proposal, surely; a propess'so,
which (one would have thought) any body of
uninformed or uninspired by that royal afflatus tll;
constitutes A, B, and C into "a Commission on "fit.
Fine Arts," might very well deliberate and repo
er
But Sir Robert, like some pedagogue fearful of ace
taxing the powers of his promising pupils, red cos
and alters the " theme" which the House of Coranl
would have set them, and recasts it after his °oto
diluted and wordy manner, thus—
" I was unwilling to devolve on the Commissioners;
general inquiry of this nature, not immediately eeir
nected with the original object for which the Coan,
sion was appointed; but I willingly undertook to releil
mend to her Majesty to give to the Commissioners be
authority to consider whether there is any portion of
of
edifice intended for the accommodation of the Houseseas
Parliament, or of the buildings connected with that be
five, which could with advantage and proprietf to
allotted to the reception of monuments such as theriea
which I have above adverted, and to report their try
to her Majesty, not only with regard to the partlqote
site of such monuments, but, inithe event of an apprerest
site in connexion with the New Houses of rarlia°3o
being recommended by the Commissioners, with regal
to the principles generally which should govern thFbej
lection of the names to be honoured by so distingele ef
a record of national gratitude, and to the best sets&
combining the public acknowledgment of eminent sei-
with encouragement to the arts in this country." tios
Now, the reader will not fail to bear in millisdoose
the one object common to the proposal of the Irtisa
of Commons, and Sir Robert Peel's recommelleaots,
to her Majesty, was the erection of monUelesesa
either in sculpture or painting, to the honour of t.eeo
men whose services to.the country had entitled tiles
to such a manifestation of the national gratitude.
tosTi,
Barry, who was clearly referred to only for infer o af
tion, and his opinions as to the capacity and Meenos,
location possessed by his buildings for such stti;jo,
&c., in his "Report" to Mr. Eastlake addressesh
sel to other and very different matters ;—on whie I'o4
contend, it was never meant he should be consulted,
The consequence of this mistake, on Mr. Barris roe,
is to commit him to the expression of much nells:sts
and suggestions at utter variance with all good 'sir
and propriety. He is also betrayed into sell off,
marks on the highest branch of the poetry °f bad
which it had been much better fur his reputation of
he kept to himself. There was no necessity, stole
rate, for his announcing them to all the world. ivies
first instance of Mr. Barry's supererogatory 11°
to the Commissioners occurs in this passage
" I may, however, mention that, in addition tOO.
statues of royal and military personages, which Ire, tss
mended to be placed in the niches forming part of
or
architectural decoration of the several halls, those of e.ojo
ment men of this country, who have at various Peeriort,
distinguished themselves in the advancement of
pot
science, and literature, but whose services ilsv,asse•
hitherto been specially recorded by any public se*"
ledgment, might form part of the series." of
Of what possible value can these eclectic noliloe
Mr. Barry's, as to the parties to be " singled out bere
all the world" for the posthumous distinction
coi
contemplated, be, to a Commission numbering esse
its members men so profoundly read in al. toe
branches of learning and tradition connected with
history and institutions of this country, as
Lyndhurst and Lansdowne, Aberdeen, J. 1111„j01,
Melbourne and Palmerston ; as Hallam and Mace'tse
Knight and Rogers ? Far more seemly and te).,
purpose is the professional statement which folloe's ;0.
" The following is an enumeration of the nicheLPi
vided for such purposes in the several parts of the iierif
ing:—ln Westminster Hall, 12; in the Victoria Ge"ras,
106; in the Queen's Porch, 4; in the House Of 69;
18; in St. Stephen's Hall, 12; in the Central IslaS.:l is
making altogether 220 niches, averaging seven fee
height."
But perhaps Mr. Barry's taste for " scu'P stet
was of so elevated and classical, and pure a ebslli-sed
that it is well to have elicited from his informed u•
critical judgment some hints for the judicious etikol
tion and arrangement of this portion of the 0;0' el'
records to be raised to the memory of our greabheroie
We think, involuntarily, of heroic ages and :hie"
statuary; of the divine, but simple forms, iota
Grecian art chiselled from the unconscious rect;tierl
immortal legacies, to be bequeathed by the insiof the
of antique genius to the passionate reverence be
remotest posterity. Alas ! Mr. Barry seems °To ill
imagined himself in Sir Robert's crowded 01°00
Whitehall-gardens among the gilded castes of 111.44
Parisian foundry. He would debauch our rf,l4
by
taste, nourished as that has been for years r -ffild
such wholesome nutriment as the contemplation °I. the
simple forms of the Theseus and the Illyssust
draped compositions of Phidias and LyslPl3°,s
extant in the virgin purity of their original 111,
by the vile and barbarous accessories of the deco
ages of Greek and Roman greatness. ab°efOl
tion, be it remembered, was one of the most sill-fade!
indications of debased genius in the most cleg'rso9fr
and brutalised ages of the lower empire, and thevibets
superstitious darkness of the Greek Church/ sce
coloured stones were used to repair the disanPeSrthe
of architectural design, and the vestments °footle°
Virgin and the Saints were profusely gilded, to
wjiieb
that indolent and lifeless worship of the senses, ble t 9,1
was no longer genuine or pure enough to be js
fix its contemplations on less obtrusive sylnw"
celestial piety and innocence. le an!
" Those in the Victoria Gallery, Queen's rerfsaer
sf•
House of Lords, might be of bronze gilt, but illuft;stle'
avoid false lights and effects, the gilding should be
or unburnished.
to,t)
" In other parts of the building above adverted .0 Of,
statues might be of coloured marbles, in harmonY
prevailing tone and colour of the architectural decors
nose
And then, again, as to the drawing-room Ifortiii
tionalities" (as General Fladdick has it in „ se tires
Chuzzlewit"); if Mr. Barry imperatively ins' s' 00'
glitter and the gilding of the statues that are wool
into contact with the well-bred company asse feet;
within the walls; the others, which are to be Per
out of doors or any where—about and all °Ye OA,
u
building—these statues " of the lower classes'„ailcie:
were, he remits in the nakedness of their "tites
bronze to the pelting of the elements, with elsr ad'
compunction as if h were giving them orders l"
mission into a poor-law union-house.
ssatlCi
" The statues should invariably be of bronl. 0,
count of the imperishable nature of that mater
y, 000'
on the exterior of the building might be left to Oe the
here t
sal colour of the metal, but in the interior, wheel
light will be much subdued, I would recomuleleldgolds
they should be coated with matted or unburnisud
as being best calculated to render the statue
test
tive, and allow of its being seen to the grey
vantage."
4,001 e
But Mr. Barry recollects that he has got an
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nibus" confided to him ; and in the most lsusilleotoso'
manner he thus determines to consult the "acesTbes/
dation" of his metal and marble passengers. `too t's
do appear to be in-siders.) They are, actuallYtops for
be subject, like drivers and cabmen, to regale'
their standing !" tjo°
" The principle which he would adopt for the irtieiist
of the monuments generally, is that of confining 11 tler
e 9
such portions of the building only as might,
without inconvenience, be open to the pubSlooo ,s 0
proper and efficient control, and such regnie'
might be deemed expedient. This principle, idaeif
amount of accommodation that could be Pecw- is ills'
public monuments, as well as their arrangement, gees ts.
trated in the accompanying plan ; by which it s Se;
that Westminster Hall might contain 58 stet 4; tb
Stephen's Hall, 16; the Central or Octagon Ilerill'olet
Corridors leading to the Houses of Lords and ,-/%35 co'
20; and the Public Corridors and Waiting-0° in 0.1:
nected with the Committee-rooms, 69; making of
accommodation for 187 statues. The Crgred and
Stephen's Chapel, which is proposed to be restorer
to which convenient access will be made from Weffoeo,
Hall, which would also afford accommodation for
14 monuments."
cliwe
He thus proceeds to recapitulate his plan and tll°
sition. The reader cannot fail to be struck 2:1.0e!
insignificant, nay paltry, proportions of 2%siogl.oes/
(see preceding paragraph) for statues, averagtossait
about seven feet high ! The fact is this adaP on'
the edifice can have formed no pitlS a OA
art of the eleSll6o after
ginally contemplated by Mr. Barry.
prop
to and it is clear the means have no p
to the end. Now, for 'Westminster Abbey
to ore:
" The cloister of the chapel, which is sls,a,se crypt'
stored, and will be connected with the hall ane L" Alice':
might afford accommodation for thirteen statues, SS,OOO,
externally ; and a surface of wall for mural