The Sun.
London, England, 1828-09-16 00:00:00

money to redeem his goods. Here is an in-
stance of misery among English fseenien, to
which slaves in the West Indies experience. no-
thing equal ; for the latter have, at all events,
enough to eat and drink, nor do we believe that
twenty-three of them are lodged together in
such a room as this pauper describes himself to
have been thrust into, along with his wife and five
children, affbrding the latter the humane accom-
modation of the bare bricks.—MorningHera/d.
The sum contemplated by the originators of
the King's College, as necessary for the com-
mencement of the building, was one hundred
thousand pounds. When we laid the report of
the general meeting before our readers we warned
the provisional committee that they could not
too speedily look round for a site, because, in a
very few months, the sum required would cer-
tainly be obtained. The amount .of h •su scrip-
tions and of shares now exceeds one hundred
thousand pounds, and, as we anticipated, the
committee not having so strong, faith in the
loyalty and good feeling of the public as we had,
are not yet prepared with the recommendation
which the subscribers anxiously expect at their
hands. We do not blame them with much se-
verity. Not much tune has been lost, and the
necessity of doing that well which is to be done
once for all, is obvious. We have repeatedly
pointed out a site which had every thing to re-
commend it but one. The Regent's Park is in
every respect the grandest that could well be
chosen ; it is airy, healthy, and there is ample
space. No proposal which has yet been ru-
moured can for a moment come in competition
with it. The absurdity of seeking amidst the
dirt and canaille of the Borough, a place wherein
to found a school, which is to rank among
its pupils many hundreds of the most influen-
tial of the next generation of public men, as
it ranks among its patrons many hundreds of
the noble, the wealthy, and the wise of
this, was sufficiently apparent, Hardly less
absurd was the report spread abroad a few
days ago, and eagerly and ridiculously caught
up by some of our contemporaries, and as
ridiculously disclaimed the next day, that
the Committee intended to recommend Finsbury-
square as the spot. We did not think it worth
while to take any notice of these reports, nor do
we now do so, Lut for the purpose of recom-
mending a site which we had not hitherto ad-
verted to, and which has not, so far as our
knowledge extends, been brought before the
Committee or the public. We,,,said that the
Regent's Park had one disadvantage—it is re-
mote, not only from the respectable part of the
population of London, but from all the pow! -
lotion of any kind. • This is a great disadvantage,
and one to which we did not shut our eyes when
we, on more occasions than one, pressed it on
the Committee's attention. The site which we
shall now mention, and on the_ advantages of
which we do not mean to enlarge, because, we
shall have opportunities of returning to them, is
free from that objection. Every one who has
passed up the river, or who has passed over that
splendid monument of the late Mr. Rennie's
genius, Waterloo-bridge, must have looked with
an eye of regret on the botched and imperfect
spectacle exhibited by Somerset-house. To
complete such a building, the finest, notwiths
standing some glaring defeets, that the capital
hosts of, would be a work well worthy of i
reign in which so many .splendid improvement's
have been made, and so many more splendid im-
provements begun, and, in no way could it be
completed so satisfactorily as by converting a
disagreeable blank into an edifice yet more noble
in its object than iri its combination with the
pile of which it would form the most interesting
portion. In a word, we would build the long
desiderated wing .of Somerset-house, and appro-
priate it to the use of the King's College. There
is all that can be desired in such a site---ample-
ness :of space—easiness of access—and a posi-
tion neither too distant from the city, nor from
the court end of the town. -Though in the
heart of London, the gates once closed, the
student would be 'as silently retired as if he were
straying on the banks of the Isis. There is
besides a strict :appropriateness in placing an
institution, under the immediate patronage of
the King, within the same walls as the most im-
portant and most national of our government
offices, that which takes its most- fonunonlY re-
ceived name, from the wooden walls a om
England. Nor. is a school a new feature in
Somerset-house, where the principles of paint-
ing and sculpture have been for so many years
exhibited in their purest and most perfect results.
There is another position—on the right side of
Waterloo-bridge--which would equally serve the
purpose of the intended erection--we mean the
line between the Adelphi and Lancaster-place----
which might be converted, by a series of arches,
as recommended in Colonel Trench's plan, into
one of the most magnificent terraces in Europe.
But looking to the completion of Somerset-
house as more easily somPassedifGovernment
should consent to the measure, and we hardly
think they will refuse—and as possessing in its
t hink
public character a stronger ree co m
m t enditatsufficient
a ion than
ny private building does_
merely to mention time other site. as one to
hwhich
recourse, in case of necessity, might be
Neu/ Times.