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London, England, 1857-05-02 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, ti yen o'Clock.

TATTERSALtT—(This Evening.)

CHESTER CUP.
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7to 1 agst Leamit gton (taken)
9to 1 agst Dulcamara (taken)
12 to 1 agst Mincepie (offered)
14 tl 1 agst Riseber.
15 to 1 apt Van Dunck (taktb)
100 to 6 agst Gemrna di Vergy
20 to 1 ag4 ty Hilton (taken and offered)
25 to 1 agst Zig Ztg (taken)
33 to 1 agst Pantomime (taken)
40 to 1 agst Early Bird (taken)

DERBY.
12 to 1 asst MD. (take 14 tl 1)

NEW GOVERNMENT OFFICES.

(This Day.)

According to previous announcement, this
afternoon afforded us the opportunity (exclusively
granted, by the way, to the representatives of
the People and the representatives of the Press),
the wi icome and. agreeable opportanity of attend-
ing the Private View of this very remarkable
competition. A considerable portion of West-
minster Hall we observed to have been screened
oft, for the display of several hundreds of original
plans and designs—all of them, without exception,
being minutely detailed, and some few among
their number wonderfully comprehensive. In
the absence of any catalogue, one's memory,
together with a few hastily pencilled notes, con-
stitute our only availab 'ctablit of reference. It
is, nevertheless, a mater of little difficulty,
we conceive—even thus, after one cursory
examination of the pronosed very diversified,
plans here collected together—to discriminate in
the throng of Exhibitors (nearly 200 in the ag-
gregate), those who may be regarded as in every
respect the most noteworthy.
The ambition of each is, of courss, to approxi-
mate as nearly as possible to the ulterior in-
tentions of the Government. Those intentions
being directed, in the first instance, to the con-
centration in Wostminister of all the various
departments of the Administration. Besides
aiming—mais cela va sans dire—at the some-
what incongruous union of economy (not parsi-
mony, observe, but economy) and magni-
ficence. To the end ill t the now scat-
tered Offices of Government shall at length
be clustered in one harmonious pile, or collec-
tion of architectural fabrics, in the vicinity of
the Old Abbey and of the New Palace at West-
, minster —the Exhibitors have cut siely "set their
wits to work" to some purpese—giving us the
different projected. buildings, in what Bus calls
somewhere "various stages of affectionate group-
ing." A bird's eye view of London, hard by the
entrance, cheers us with a fancied glimpse of the
capital as it may be—as please Heaven it wilt be
in the fullness of tine—with—The Thames Em-
banked ! The Bridges now suffering stricture by
toll-bars opened to public traffic—such as those of
Southwark, Waterloo, and B,ttersea ! Other
Bridges opened—such as one at Lambeth and the
new Gothic one at Westminster ! And, radiating
from the great London-bridge It silway Station
divers " short cuts" conducting us, as the
crow flies, to Blackfriars, the Strand, and
Westminster! Harmoniously combining with
which scheme of the renovated Metropolis
come these not easily
enumerable projects
for the concentration of the new offices of the Go-
vernment. Projects collecting together the War
Office and the Home Office—the Foreign Depart-
ment and the Colonial Department ; contrasting
the office of Woods with the office of Works—the
Charity Commission with the Ecclesiasticrl Com-
mission ! Balancing the Office of the Exchequer
with the Office of Emigration t- The Privy
Council being brought cheek by jowl with the
Paymaster-General ! And the Beard of Cintrol
side by side with the Poor Law Guardians !
Bringing, moreover, into close contiguity the Board
- of Trade and the Civil Service Co:mission !
And establishing a more intimate do of
propinquity than ever between the Admi-
ralty and the Horse-Guards ! With a view
to the carrying out of such bold designs architec-
turally—lo I and behold, we have Vacs ornate
schemes of these ingenious and adventurous ex-
hibitors. A few of the most noticable amongst
them can alone at this moment be particularised.
Some even pf these being remarkable rather as
imitators than as originators. No. 20, for (x-
-ample, " Corona" giving to view a facsde of an
edifice marvellously resembling that of the Bank
in Dublin, the Old Parliament House of Ireland.
No. 6, "Bramante" being strangely suggestive of
a colossal railway station—a sort of a stupendous
edifice to mark thst grandest Terminus G.;
of all " The World's End," wherever it is ! No.
34, " Well Considered," looking for all the world
- marvellously like St. Paul's Cathedral on the top
- of Somerset House ! And No. 81,

"ideas,
Pacis eras, medias que
retaining a strong family likeness to—the Portico
of the Church in Regent-street, between a couple
of towers, like the Clock Turret at thellorse Guards!
This last-mentioned being a "hint" for the Foreign
Office. There is in No. 141, however, a comprehen-
sive scheme of the whole of the Government offices
collectively—an elaborate design, labelled " Nec
Temere, nee timid° "—squared but gorgeous, and
" realised" to the mind's eye by the adroitly
casual introduction of her Majesty's State car-
riage, escorted by Guards and Beefeaters !
Another gorgeous project of a different kind—
pinnacled and decorated with fountains and
statuary—is No. 112—"-Omicron." There
is a species of a sublime carrying out, upon a
gigantic scale, of the Carlton Club House,
in No. 94, oddly entitled " Utilitas"—
having Tuileries roofs and Gothic towers,
and statuary intermixed, and upon the summit of
the loftiest tower a Figure of Fame, sounding the
trumpet of Clio among the Clouds ! More strictly
Tuileries-like in effect,
‘is No. 34, " au bon droit"
—and at once Gothic and moresque is No. 35,
mottoed " Thou hest covered my head in
the day of battle."
_Another and a strictly gothic
structure is the one designed by " Suaviter-For-
titer," (No. 54)*having an effect really and truly
• very magnificent. May wisdom guide the taste
of those entrusted with the selection—and in that
guidance may there be no thought of a false-
economy. Above all, may the most appropriate
motto of the entire collection be one very fami-
liar to the nation—Pa/mam qui meruit ferat—
the one inscribed upon the escutcheon of Lord
NELSON at the suggestion of Lord GRANVILLE.

I3URGLARY IN FLEET-STREET.—Yesterday morning, a
robbery was committed on the premises of Messrs. Wills
and Wilson, naval and military tailors, 129, Fleet-street.
It appears that on the conehr-ion of the day's business
the shop, which is separated from the other part of the
house, was strongly secured and the keys taken away.
When the shopman yesterday morning proceeded to take
dow the shutters, he found the place in the utmost (lis-
p order. Feeling alarmed, he ran to tide poi:oe station,
which is but three doors off, and called Inspector Thet-
ford and Detective Green to the spot. Directly Green
entered the shop, his attention was directed to the side
door in Shoe-lane, when be found the entrance had bee❑
effected there. The robbery showing gross neglect on
the part of the police, has caused a certain unquiet feel-
ing amongst the tradesmen in the locality.