The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-13 00:00:00

COLOURING the INTERIOR of he GREAT

GLASS CASE.

I would (says a correspondent of the Builder) here
humbly suggest to the attention of the Commissioners a
mode of colouring the interior of the great building, and
which would at least have the claim of novelty and ease
of execution. The system I propose is shortly this. To
paint the whole of the iron-supporting columns in pure
white throughout the building; and then each aisle
throughout its whole length one uniform colour, com-
mencing in the centre avenue with yellow (yellow being
the central and brightest colour of the spectrum); the
aisles or avenues on the one side being then in orange,
red, and purple, and those on the other side green, blue,
and violet; thus seven of the aisles, including the central
avenue, would make up together the colours of the solar
spectrum, and be arranged in the same order—this sys-
tem being of course continued throughout the building
to the lateral walls. The next thing would be to blend
them together as in the spectrum. . . This would, in
the long perspective, and consequent distance and air,
produce, I cannot hut think, an almost magical effect;
and all the colours being in the distance seen together,
the harmony, at least, would be perfect,—this arrange-
ment being the same us in nature. It could, too, be ex•
ecuted by ordinary workmen, and as rapidly:as if painted
one uniform tint; but its complete success—and it could
not be otherwise than successful—would much depend
upon the artist's choice of colours, as the colours should
not be crude. The effect of this mode of colouring the
great building would be to a spectator, near and imme-
diately around him, that of a room or hall whose general
hue or purple, with spaces or halls
immediately is
ediaYteeilly°‘' o
round,vigreen,
rore2ge, ortblue, or red, but it would
be in the tar distance that the wonder of the thing would
be found, as the air and distance would blend all the
colours into one perfect and harmonious whole, and the
vast numbers of spectators, and the piles of wealth would
appear as
if covered with a rainbow. This, upon re-
flection, with be found to be (if any decorative colour at
all is used) the cheapest end most expeditious mode con-
ceivable of accomplishing it.

Parliament will meet for the dispatch of business
on Tuesday, the 4th of February, 1851.

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ANOTIIER CONVIIIT TO THE CIIERCLI OF ROME.-
it is with feelings of the deepest regret we announce that
E. R. P. Bastard, Eq., of Kitley, was received into the
Church of Rome on Saturday week.—Exeter Paper.

SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—A most lamentable occur-
rence took place at Bristol on Wednesday afternoon last, by
which three men unfortunately lost their lives. It appears
that a number of men were crossing Marydyke Ferry, in that
harbour in a boat, after their dinner, to resume their work,
when about half-way across one of the deceased (Robert)
suddenly rose from his seat, and in doing so caused the boat
to lurch so much that she filled, and the whole were preci-
pitated into the water. Boats put off to their rescue, but
three poor fellows were drowned. Their names were John
Probert, William Roberts, and Robert Mills ; they have all
left wives and large families.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—Aa a meeting of
the council of this institution ,yesterday afternoon, the fol-
lowing members of the college were admitted fellows, having
undergone the necessary examinations on the 3cl and sth
inst. : Messrs. William Rutherford Aucram, Talparaiso,
South America, diploma dated October 11, 1839; John Ors-
born, Bitterne, near Southampton, January 10, 1840; and
James Robert Lane, Grosvenor-place, May 1847.
MID-LOTHIAN PROTECTIONIST SOCIETY.--.We un-
derstand that at the meeting of the Mid-Lothian Protectionist
Society held at Dalkeith last Thursday, it was agreed to defer
proceedings till some future period, and that, in the mean-
time, a canvass should be carried on for the return of a cer-
tain baronet near Dalkeith, as member for the county. This
baronet, it is understood, is to advocate a fixed duty on corn
" as a source of revenue" in place of the present income-tax
and " other burdens affecting land."— Scotsman.
THE IMPERIAL BANK OP ENGLAND.----Yesterday
another inquiry, which occupied from ten o'clock till four,
took place before his Honour Master Farrer, upon the liabi-
lity of the third class of contributories in this company, con-
sisting of those who, on shares being allotted, paid ls. per
share, and took up their scrip. Mr. Pryor conducted the
case for Mr. Soulby, the official manager; and Mr. Glasse,
Mr. Little, Mr. Hare, and others appeared as counsel for the
various persons summoned to appear. The day was occupied
in the discussion of the general question as to whether,
owing to the variations that had taken place in the form and
constitution of the company, a large number of the share-
holders could be made liable, they having, it was contended,
joined the original undertaking under a totally different state
of things to that which existed under the deed of settlement
executed under a subsequent constitution of the company,
and which constitution was the only one had in view by the
Court of Chancery in decreeing that the company should he
wound u 9. His Honour said that he would read over all the
evidence and weigh all the arguments that had been adduced
before him, but Ins present impression was that he could
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hardly place these persons on the list as liable as contracting
parties in respect of the particular company the Court had
referred to bins to wind up. •

PAnts.—About six weeks ago great sensation was
caused in the English circles of this city by the melancholy
suicide of a young lady of highly respectable family, who
had recently arrived with a married sister arid her sister's
husband tutu Dieppe. She had, it seems, gone to the house
of an English physician, with whom, though much her
senior, she had been on terms of intimacy. In consequence
of something which took place between them, she swallowed
a dose of opium which she had brought with her in a phial.
She, however, was able to walk home, and the poison, it
seemed, was not likely to have any dangerous effect; but the
next morning she sent out for another larger dose, and this
caused her death in a few hours ighton Gazette.
SCHOOL FOR THE INDIGENT BLIND.--A general
meeting of the subs•eribers and patrons of this charity took
place yesterday at the London Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill, the
Eight.liOn. Lord Radstock in the chair. It appeared from
the'statements,jao before the meeting that this institution
had answered. the most -sang,ttine-expectations of its friends
both in the encouragement which it had received from the
public and in the results which had been produced.
On Saturday, an old woman named Elizabeth
Draper, aged 82, resident at Donington, Lincolnshire, who
was an habitual opium eater, poisoned herself with an acci-
dental overdeae..