The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-11 00:00:00

PUBLIC BUILDING S

'MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, QUA UTER Tr) l'ilhEE.
in the Liverpool Market yesterday a large husin.!ss was done
in Cotton, and prices were firmly supported. Sales, 5,000
bales on speculation, and altogether 8,000 bales.—The sales in
the Share Market were only moderate. Easte:n Counties
10 3-16; Grand Junction, 232; Birmingham, 237 ; South
East-in, 353 ; Do. New, 3511; Paris and Lyons, 31. 4s. 6d. ;
Do. and Orleans, 314.
There were no' .arrivals in the City of importance, either
from the British colonies or from the Coatinen', to•day.
It would appear from the Report made yesterday of the af-
fairs of the Louden Joint Stock Bank, that the concern, not-
viithstanding the low rate of interest that has ruled for so long a
time past, is working well. A dividend at the rate of 6 per
cent was declared. As this Report appears in another column
'of The Sun, it is not necessary to advert to its contents
here, further than to observe that the system of
Joint-Stock Banking is fostered in the City of London,
mligre all the denunciations of the supporters of the p"ivate
banking interests, when it was first introduced to the metro-
Wis by the London and Westminster Bank manager, Mr.
Gilbart.
Arneng the indications of an augmentation to the
trade
of the port of London, it may be north no-
' liee, that both in the St. Katherine's and the London
"neks, additional berths and warehouses fur shipping and goods
' !rein course of formation. There is a good demand for Bri-
' ",h manufactures for exportation, and the number of ships
• taking in cargoes in the River Thames shows a very consider-
- able increase on the list at this time last year.
The private advices received this morning from Belgium
,state that the manufacturers of that country were becoming
' overstocked with fabrics suitable for exportation, the go-a-head
rmeiple of production being too general. It is to be appre-
' elided that the same results will be exhibited among our own
nna:kufacturers (a revival of trade having occurred), unless due
'oration be observed.
The Commissioners for the Reduction of the Debt made their
• purchases in Consols, this morning, at 97, taking very nearly
elle same amount as they did yesterday, but of Exchequer Bills
leY have net yet taken any into their hands. The market for
lb °ek has worn this morning a more buoyant appearance
In it did yesterday. Consols for Money have advanced
fro
I, n -96% to 97, and for the Account to 97, but prices
~,'° new again lower. A move in advance has taken place
~.._ the New Three-and-a-Half per Cents., which have
-107, „fled 102, and the Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents.
of •;. ii• The. purchase yesterday, on account of an Irish bank,
i '9 1,000/. in these Securities has certainly added much to
z, e6l 'lllness of prices, and to increase a feeling adverse to the
peeprocretnetd. reduction of the interest of those Stocks to three
it 27a. Bank Stock has remained at 1864; and India Stock
e .8° .large -a remitta-ce as 72,000 dollars baying been re-
aj)l'ied.' by tf.e Clyde, West India steamer, has very consider-
AI Y'enbans7ed the hopes and expectations of the holders of
fiirean I/ ands. It is in fact a most satisfactory feature to
,1 ~ that ,'Chili and Mexico show a strong determination to
Ay aid tht credit now. True it is that many years have passed
iskie,,ei the interest upon the debts of each were not
iiii;',se but as soon as possible these States have commenced
" Ai,.. lating2 Would that the " repudiating " States of the
extr,"de,l Republic" would follow so good, and honest an
toorbPe- The price of Mexican Bonds has been very firm this
Thr,,,-Etng at `..i2a- to 32a ; Spanish Bonds are heavy ; the
111617, 'Per Cents. at 217/8. and the Actives at 21/. But a
re; .vhange has taken place in Dutch Stock. Brazil Bonds
Ai' ft at 751.
.. -,-
Dires. ‘nrther call of 101. a share is quoted in the Great
slur rn Railway Shares, and the premium is now 314 per
ta, t.e" The Half-Shares nave receded to 184 premium.
tereit.`rat Counties are a shade lower than the day before yes-
st,kelYs notwithstanding the Report of the Directors is favour-
pi.,,,: The London and Birmingham Shales are at 136
tai -,,-„.'l tin. Manchester and Leeds Shares are worth 30 pre-
trial.'" The French Railways command a good sale. Aus-
-14 P. Bank Shares are at a I premium. Colonial Bank at
It'll count ; and Union of London at 4 premium per share.
41 TISI-1 FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
,„ (From the Official List.)
-,,l'allk Stock
'° per Cent. Reduced Annuities 97a4
'3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities
:.;,3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities . lo23iTh
,e, ir 34 per Cent. Annuities
nnia Bonds, 1,000
i_ Ditto under 1,000
'1;011sels for Opening
India Stock
'l4eher4uer Bills, 14d. 16d.
10001.
•5004
li Ditto Small
co,
ncIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Itrazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
, Alexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent... ..... .. 32,1
.., Ditto for the Account ....... 32aa
kussian Bonds; 1822, 5 per Cent.
Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent.
Ditto for the Account
..,_bitto Passive Bonds ..- 5%
uttto Three per Cent. -
, , z Ditto for the Account 3oa
I),tach 2% per Cent
Ditto for the Account .. 544
L,lntlcEseh 5 per Cent. ...
—ft OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
gis.- . a A ILWAYS Paid. Per Share.
..to„
, •
b:ltham and Derby ... 100 -
tilt i`tn Eighths ... 14 314 ... to
reit) k
ta,s gunta and Gloucester 100 ...... 64 ...... to 634
h tors Counties
p,ttrotNw Registered
Or nigh and Glasgow 50
_eat vrestarn
Alit 75 1064 to
ifttn. t° 4 Shares
and Selb
'Antilo Y 50 ...... 56
uOLi and Brighton .... 50
to 11 and Birmingham Nit.
and
.1.1 " South Western4l% 74% to
L-.4'" and Croydon... **"'
knew ( Trunk)... 131 141.- to
x,_
e. ter and Carlisle
I:tit:it, heater ar.sd Leeds .70 :99 ..... to 100
Northern"La Co inties ......
....•
100
itiisarpid_?4odrr I Ee
aun st e.
0r1ean5......... .. . . BB
45 53% to
-late n and Dover
1r Ditto Scrip 50
25
1,0.. r \ltitrs.4l';ii,t.l.;.ro * Branch*** ******** ** . 25
irnr,utli and Norwich
to
24 174...... to
Jolterl3
4ustr4l
al ' 81"1(
""s.
Nobtr 1a ........................... 40
atoloniaaillsi a (New)
10...
............
....... 25
4104 of London ...........
10 ...... 104.-- to
awAv
.`CHESTEA STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 10.—The
are Market has been very quiet to-day, with a general
tt;invvlird tendency in prices.—Sheffield and Manches-
-14i541 ; Paris and Lyons, 3 3.16 ; Eastern Counties,
tftu lli Dublin and Drogheda, 54 to 54i ; Manches-
nd Itirmingharn, 37-i to 381-.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
_ (FROII OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
1341 t, OLD-'IINS OUT.—How often have we been told
it '341 gentlemen and elderly ladies, that a long and. se-
at wetter always followed a quantity of wild berries-
-3.4"it a large crop of haws was a bitter sight for the poor,.
Ithe who ever saw them so plentiful as this season, one of
Belliildtst r:verkeuwn. Our woods and lawns are em
sl
1,0 e..., "1 with white thorn trees ; our hedges are corn-
-1147, °f them and privet, and now, in the middle of 4a-
-111.3., they are covered with haws and privet-berries.
tea 41"(10.. s are nas in May, and wild and
I'll flowers are asas gprleentiful. To see an apple tree
Eteaillii2ll!. of season is unnatural,-e a freak of nature on a
remark le, but it is of too trifling a nature to require a
all t. When compared with a whole country-. Were
„Il het,Lrees in only one orchard to break blossom at
leer4l4s it would be worth mentioning, but it would
aalitlaku42 bo equal to the unusual appearance of the fields
`getr„„`"ens at pre sent. The thermometer is at 57, and
the 'tee 30.10.
iskpLe Marquis and Marchioness of Sligo and family are
Itileiled to leave Cones about the 16th inst., for la o. 2,
Stielr,ld-strret. His Lordship's health has been much
,41(1 deb -,,,t4 by his residence in the Isle of Wight. He
"titer,";"t Linw twice every day. his Lordship proposes
414' to Cowes for the summer in May next.
fr t,
to —,'" REPEAL OF THE UNION.
leit:i:tlAM DUDLEY, ESQ., ALEXANDRIA, WEXFORD:
fk_Peil,",,tin' Iquite differ from you in opini,in respecting
ki "'"oll Id n believe is worth one rush to Ireland.
nowtnll ,_,,hangs.n oof that nature which would be useful, vvolld
11.7,!w0 in7,7di ate Parliaments in Ireland, seven in England,
tiniette_. ocotland, for the purpose of relieving the Imperial
4.. Iviti;t fr°ln the trumpery masses of subordinate legisla-
:hilleis „‘lllich Parliament is overwhelmed. Ireland is,
1,-41 titryevously oppressed, but certainly. not one jot more
*4°4l 2 "d• The fault, I fear, lies more in the people
,oti is than in their governors. What Ireland really
1',,,0ei 1,4,1° have her currency trebled in amount, and. issuing
I,..7htitegottsand centres, in loans and accommodations, to
b 441 2./.°„ri..rj,iltnilies, having the will to borrow it, in sums of
-" 'Li twilit sof 1,0001. or 2,0001. each. The er-
-4,, anent!tieh oft`
nth : would be found safe and profitable, in
keill hi•;-•_
'had
.industry,ms as soon as such increased issues
it prieeev.l! d time 53 produce what are called " remune-
(S4lete Minister I would not only open the flood-gates
r 447, eCoti°lloY.. from 'a
.thousand
.centr.es in Ireland, but I
Itnigibe to literally give away five millions sterling in. food,
wt.' 411.,,(1 furniture, to a million of the poorest families in
bsitoi,' I 145 gift alo e would ef itself produce an extra con-
Atekttri-;lnd Productil, of perhaps 20 or 40 millions of the
oflife in Ireland in the first year.
tiera.
I am, dear Sir, your's truly,
14 111te, 20th Nov., 1841. T. A f TWOOD.
)11.0ct ~,,,,, -----
li-7 406,- 4 or ARTS —Last evening, the members of
1"r• lio-el Met for the irst time during the present season,
,3', readet' IT.P., F• R S presiding. Mr. Wishaw, the sec!e-
olehhllee4,PaernPeri On R. S.,
of the new street-sweeping
lobgt7leCitY authorities s•
lliee-- Aleiestre „4Oyd under contract with the Commissioners
and Forests in Regent-street, and also
their mechanical apparatus,_
'leek r with the efficient 'yescfni: Sr peration. Mr. Cochrane,
tot:livettllsl:
Lord
wpAaoolyasry
Arttin ellt of the Praetieil of
etion for Improved Street-
N:'4lElid before the meeting a plan for employing all the
ocorfat. he metropolis by means of regularly clean-
it 0, e street of
subjleiett to . which he had drawn the attention
edgftwo other papers, on the
*o(34_ Of a newly invent:rfiaremescoa e and a proposed system of
trial line sof-which now exists at Vauxhall),
ytid.d the busineis of the evening.
41)14 :)ccic OF Bonn The illustrious Prince,
kir„ rrival fr EAUX.—
pr.-otivello°
wri'd °lll all provincial tour, continues to find nu-
dellis fdo eat with addresses from various parts of France.
ft 'll 0 w i n ,
qttritenedee are amongst the latest presentations :—Charles
di; F; cu de Mirabeau, Vicomte le Miraboenaue,
„..e,c, Fr. Bendel du Faouedic, brancis Idl_ d 1
ZiaeetZtededeba7ir,eograrzes, de Cadoudal, Battur, Comte Erin,
Vicomte Charles de la Rochefoucauld,
Itl Th6edeasY, Marquis de I3ellenave, Henri de Catheh-
Muret, Baron Arnous-Riviere, Marquis de Pile,
11,04' de
44'144 de
tom azelles, V.
11;i)erto, Vicomte de (iaiyneron, Vicomte de Geres,
de rde LapariPes, Le Rebours,. Comte de Lapanouse, Conne
°.ose, Odillon Belard, Baron Belaunay, Comte
Ve ja_ itomte de Chazelles, Comte de la Laurencie,
444. En es de Reviers de Maul, Comte de la Haye St.
11‘10VP. la
et., sl-, of Faversh.
.11,11.. ""T" i EDFSTRIkNISM —On Monday Mr. E.
tialr,R fro ten
lei piles within the 'undertook for a trifling wager to walk
te
four, wearing a pair of dredging boots,
4 apparent ease pounds. . He. accomp is
Lath to
gbe hs
tea to the disappointment
o.e t six minutes within the givenh time,.n
4/14141,4e4e° of theaPitillanvoraenbl
;,ree,a-ers of the pede-t 'll'7, of many present, who d
17,stkacite. 0ef,1!.1,e weather, , and. lini-
-4,,a Gctzctec h odd,a,,etis him.—
,;; -'111.11:4! -, i
l'illt:he first .. 1": e ' s' I'•' ' ' • ---- il,-, ' „ , ;', .V!
t.. 0 'la. Yof Hilary Term the Law and Equity Courts
4 polled in We Bell with the usual formalities.
erkird ~, ,
es ast nights

N LONDON.

There is an evil deslitly it ,ipendinw,:over the
fate of all pub;ic buildings ; to d works of art in
London. Vexatious as this fu c t. is to all who take
an interest in the embellishm el it and grandeur of
the finest metropolis in Euro p 2, it is no less cer-
tainly true. There is no wan :of high intellec-

tual perception and classical taste, of vigorous
conception and beautiful ada, citation in the de-
signs contributed by our fetid inn artists for edi-
fices, statues, pillars, bridges,- -(whatever be the

species of public work to be la ndertaken)—when
the execution of the affair i s opened ostensibly
to public competitioft. Th. tl re is, notoriously,
where the expense of the wm :isto be provided
for by a municipal tax, a pa aa )chial or a district
rate, or a vote of the House o Commons, no lack
of money and means for its construction in the
first style and with the bes• ; materials of work-
manship. Let those who Ofeet, with some of
our Continental neighbours, ior on the authority
of the dogmatic WINCKELM. 117 N, to question the
genius and capacity of the Ei hglish for the higher
and more imaginative efforts •of art, candidly re-
view the late exhibition of th e Cartoons in West-
minster Hall for a complet e refutation of this
superficial and arrogant not ie n. For, with re-
gard to these designs for fresc 33 paintings, it may
be truly said that British g ?nius, in a school
entirely new to its efforts, has leaped, at a single
bound, into the maturity of power and expres-
sion. But, with all these ele nents of excellence
existing among us in abunda xrce, it does happen
that, in nine cases out of ten, ti it 'ir effect is marred
or missed, diminished or ohs a ured in combina-
tion. The most beautiful and best adapted ele-
vations and designs for an excba tnge, or a church,
are brought under public new. tice, and stamped
with the approbation of the if iighest authority,
which that public will recog a ise ; but, in the
course of a few months, the act u al structure, as it
begins to rise above the surrou- a ding horde, very
plainly indicates to the interes tc d spectator that
some other plan had been sele c, ted, and is being
carried out under some otht :r influence more
potential than the principle of Ipmest election, or
the marked sanction of the pub' Lit !. Favouritism no-
toriously prevails in the mock c ou ncilsofmunicipal
and other committees to whom tl ie administration
of these matters is generally' remitted, on the
assumption that they will ha impartially and
indifferently dealt with. But it is more difficult
to account fbr the persever'LL ,g incompetency
with which the chances of ex'ai biting a pre-emi-
nent advance in what we shall+. .call national art,
are, year after year, either disr ;•arded or thrown
away, carelessly unheeded, or at ore scandalously
rejected when offered. Of al 0. the branches of
national art, there is none in v rihich it more con
cerns the splendour of the cz3 .pital, the scientific
reputation of the country, a ticl the improving
taste of the people, that th ,e most attainable
approval to excellence shout id be secured, than
in the architectural producti ons and the sculp-
ture we speak of. Of all the departments of
public duty there is none whit' b is so grossly neg-
lected by that section of the I Executive to which
it is more immediately confide
Westminster-bridge requir es few remarks.
No party seems to know what is doing, or
what is to be done. The Government, or
the Bridge Commissioners, have come to no
decision hitherto, but prefer leaving the
carts, omnibuses, coaches, waggons, and foot-
passengers to join issue -with the de-
nounced arches, on a sort of ." benefit of sur-
vivorship" principle; or, perhaps, it is intended

that, if the traffic and passengers continue to pass
and re-pass, without tumbling through, the
bridge, by its Commissioners, may bring an
action of damages for defamation against Mr.
BARRY; and, on the other hand, if casualties of

the kind apprehended shall some fine morning
happen, Mr. BARRY shall be at liberty to remove
the ruins of the old, and throw over a new
bridge; the latter to be of pointed arches and
inferior span, "as prayed." There might be a
sort of objection to this future " give-and-take"
arrangement, barring the jeopardy, and perhaps
sacrifice, of some score of biped and two score
of quadruped lives, which it may possibly entail,
in the interval, were it not that there is already
much too general a disposition :in certain quarters
to act upon it.

It appears that the new frontage in the British
Museum, which is to replace the old French
quadrangle, next Russell-street, is very rapidly
proceeding with. Have any guarantees been
taken for our having an elevation worthy of the
design, the contents, and the character of the mag-
nificent collection and library contained within
the walls of the main building'! Was the design
opened to public competition ? Has there been
any such encouraging excitement attempted with
the almost dormant genius of our modern
school of architectural design 'as has been
recently practised with such. happy results in
respect of our youngest school of historical
art? We fear that the sort of freehold or
fee-simple which SMIRKE has acquired—some-
how or other—in all the past reparations, addi-
tions, and erections in the general building of
the Museum, have extended to this new façade.
Really, to judge from the club-houses, and

theatres, and other edifices, with the Greek
quoderisms of which Sir ROBERT has long made
us so familiar, we feel great despondency about
the effect of any new " works" of his. The
finest efforts of a genius, which do not exceed
the servile appropriation of a Doric portico, how-
ever good the antique example, and the most

timid and monotonous adaptation of thermal
fronts and basilican walls to the purposes of
modern public buildings, whatever their own
uses and objects, are altogether below the cha-
racter, the energy, and the grandeur of the
people upon whom—for some reason or other—
their efforts are year atter year iiiflioted.
It has been shown, by a Report to the. House
of Commons, how it was gravely debated and re-
commended in Select Committees that the ma-
jestic preparation of the " Nelson Pillar" should
be reduced to so modest and inoffensive a scale
as not to crush into a merited, but absolute im-
perceptibility, the wretched perpetration mis-
called the " National" Gallery. The absurdi-
ties consequent on the irreconcilable pretensions
of a façade which is at once protected and
hidden, broken and devoured by its own vaunted
portico—(a major absorbed by a minor)—and of
a column whose faultless proportions of shaft
and capital, as they appeared on the original
elevation, would render but more evident and
ridiculous the already dwarfed outlines of
WILKINS'S fatally accomplished design (its
tawdry ugliness was even then, alas! permanent
in monumental masonry), these things might
have taught parties entrusted with the manage-
ment of such matters the wisdom of well con-
sidering their plans, and the aspect and effects
of the works, before proceeding to the final
business of setting and building them up. But
what has been the result ? After a world of
preparation, and many flourishes of trumpets,—
and statistics carefully collected of the number
of sailors who could, at this day, be brought toge-
ther, survivors of the fight of Trafalgar,— coquet-
tings with the GoVernor of Greenwich Hospital,
about giving leave to these veteran tars to assist
at the raising of NELSON'S statue, and at a
dinner to be given at its summit, at the feet of
the Admiral,—the statue is raised one afternoon
impromptu ; the veterans, after being numbered,
are never called for. But the colossal image of the
great hero has been placed on its pedestal, an effect
of mechanical power, achieved with consummate
skill and promptitude. By slow degrees, the
hoarding has descended, first from around the
cocked hat, afterwards from around the limbs,
finally from the feet and surface of the figure :
when, lo ! some seven or eight weeks having
helped them to the conclusion, the managers
discover that the coil of cable on which one side
of the figure is supported has too massed and
rock-like an appearance. Up go the boards
again, to favour the secresy of the statuary's
mystic chiselliug, for rctifedyiuts, of this defect;
the inauguration, which was to. h,avc itikett
place on the anniversary of the Trafalgar fight
in October last, bids fair tQ.be postponed to
_QcO7