The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-28 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

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Saturday' the King t;
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and Queen of the French received
a vtr,, large
party Neuill
La •
Patric contradicts the reports that prevailed at Paris
°TI Saturday of the dangerous illness of M. Jacques Lafitte. It
aPpears he is indisposed, but not seriously ill.
,il;(:areietif‘o.er,n7t, that on Saturday the Minister of Ma-
dispatches from Admiral Dupetit Thouars, of
!hie': the members of the Opposition, it is said, will demand
‘r,'',lllllltinication before the interpolations of which they have
given notice are commenced croLevetrtneir%fro....l Leghorn of thei 20th repeat that as the Papal
rit could not be induced to make any change. in. its
thina. or institutions, a crisis, sooner or later, was inevitable.
rilov,nients among the Austrian troops, on the line of
e PO, had occasioned uneasiness, but they were purely
,%-;eComniereio of Cadiz announces that a force of 5,000
00 Moors, provided with artillery, bad approached the
the s°f Ceuta. It thus appears that the Moors will act on
„offensive before the slow Spaniards get into motion.
th,ehelitafic:edrida Gazette contains a Royal decree, granting to
hV.Cuntess de 13elascoain, the widow of General Leon, and
In the pension of 45,000 reels per annum.
LAW .11,ND POLICE.,
but_ Court of Common Pleas an order was made on the
111708i:1:
ti:stse.,l3.„trxhii.ensv‘•ick to pay
correct. Mr. Valiance, his attorney,
ect and fut-irount of his bill, the same having been exa-
xtensiv.. t, bridge Petty Sessions, Mr. David Bassett, an
4ver4 corn-chandler and miller, was fined 40s. on six
the t-0 cuarges of having refused as one of the constables of
c4ittlu.irseiZ.wrraltaeh execute
,sipiegtaoily various distress warrants for
issued by one of the magistrates. of the
attioa°a* After a long hearing he was fined in the full
front tit, 16/.
r, --as objction to execute the warrants arose
adviee:acintious scruples. The defendant, contrary to the
sill,nolll3 solicitor, immediately paid the money, saying
a"a the Bench would prefer having the money to his
Jtobertlial;Deal against their decision.
Wharf, 131' e'on Paddon, a clerk employed at St. Andrewm's:
hezziern ackfriars, was charged at the Guildhall with e _
Prisonereilt. The prosecutor is a cement manufacturer ~ the
11104;„ was his leda-er-clerk, and he occasionally received
the Cashieriirught to the counting-house when his master and
overt
happened to be absent. It was his duty to hand
Lis "e stuns on the smut.. day. The prisoner said nothing
Jane ji:ucta and was remanded.
tbaja 'ayes, charwoman, was charged at Clerkenwellby
boltcs Wainwright of .No.lo, Kirby-street, St. Andrew's,'
other p'nro' with having stolen two scarfs, two gold studs, and
clonal Percy, The prisoner was employed as. an
falls'o.ccad-
tigPiei'eon" and in consequence of articles being missed
'AI L upon her. On being questioned she admitted
Ans°teti the art • •ies. She was remanded.
tra",,4llg Irishmanicapplied at Marlborough-street Office,
aoatinst the Duke of Leinster. He said,. he
`4llarl °f Geoggthe Fourth, and brother to the Princess
diaom.otte.
On i was proved that his intellects were
ttilL„reci, and n 1.31,a
n istrate directed that he should be
Pr°Per care of
kiss n e 0 ra,/t.T --rAfTRIO AT AD E.
led nrdett Coutts, accompanied by Miss Mer edith, has
1156 th at
.-tkix-la-Chapelle, where she intends to remain
ttreet. Middle of next month, and then return to Stratton-
Ou s„
their '`urday last, Mr, and Mrs. Long received at dinner at
)4, reßia„_r. an .
'lottiael,;"„e in Hill-street, the Bishop of London and Mrs.
tam , Sir Philip and Lady Durham, Hon.
,Mr.l3
t *",e.
ar-
%Upward h the evening Mrs. Long gave a soiree musicale
',ternb "200 of her friends.
. `lke of Norfolk is expected to leave town the week
aar.,,`t, for Worthin, to take the command of his yeo-
ane r°rPs, which assembles'
at that place on the 13th of
Theor,eight days' irainine•
lithe ItoL,a,l of Morle.,; has accepted the commodoreship of
i" Wester, Yacht Club. at Plymouth, where
annualy regatta is" fixed to take place on the 16th and
C
Aren u_e and Duchess of Leeds are expected to leave the
iestyTiclion Rotel the week after next, on a visit to his Ma
-
l'teted te ttlg' of Holland, at the Hague, where they are ex
Th reinain about a month.
fl)".llYQ,Aarelt i3hun of (Dr. Whateley), with part of his
W Arnold on a visit to Mrs. Arnold, widow of the late
eatmor ~ of Rugby, at Fox Howe, near Ambleside, in
The I, eland -
kb- • -arl of
..I,lletaod, L!),,nts,dadle
,arrivrencilnagt Lowther Castle, in West-
last, where his Lordship
t',4484 to
ruensid6eufo.rirsoarL
ntrme. It appears that his Lordship
ekrlisl4 (1711) inter •-t •11 the success of the Lancaster and
Ziatat Ailaaa"i'vaV! acsconisiderable leng.th of thhline of which
Nana t his estates, both in Cumberlalid and %Vest-
a etl11(
ilitt .
el all, and the officers of the 2d Life Guards ; Co-
and the officers of the Scots Fusilier Guards ;
4.13et..e
‘Qiunien,tAi7:pand the officers of the 17th Lancers ;
t
race ball on Frhidaa7 s ea'enenergtleidt the office of stewards
° the al AtiscELLattneouS.
veirvtkagr- 'fi,iational Gallery no less than 16,350 persons, of
tLettia,,e.s of society, were visitors yester.day, and although
he 4rts "'ere attired in humble garbs, either their love of
i; or attachment. to good order, induced them and all
441:ia:trszivteorib.shavewith the most perfect decorum, and the
titi -tdie"" produced. was the immense influx of
gt ad :•? parasols, occasioned by the showery weather,
,The dttlonul trouble to the hall-keepers.
20" sbiloatititiber of persons who visited. the British Museum
t the usual average at holiday times, viz., from
orthY 5r4.0. There was nothing new in the collection
ttoovertr' lae6i4l°ttlice ; the principal points_ of attraction, how •
is set the original copy of Magna Charts, and those
rh'ltart for zoological subjects and Egyptian antiquid-
-4111;1 People were remarkably well-conducted an
144-414:0441rstibicdy of the A division of police was on duty.
the I)Yetkriavot the e.ighth. Concert of Ancient Music took
114,„. akt 0, morhing
theEarpresence
%so,
df
bla-rrolis vambridge,
ode ase assemblePrincePri,irelanncde a very
has
subscribers.
tioh,venAti!on frometloief wt-hoerksof. Handel, Haydn, Winter,
tic..rara nerubini, Gluck, Righini, Bzc including a selec-
t sea° *,eethoven's " Ode to Joy," and grand finale to
On Ntr/(1 act of D • ,
riph.'‘c.echt, Giovanni
he ,!cal the anniversary meeting of the Royal Geo-
Port'resiCelety was held at t office, 3, Waterloo-place.
bti b trt, It. J. Murchison, Esq., 1.R.5., presided, sup-
Sir Bishop of Norwich, Lord Colchester, War-
the
Hamilton, M.P., Sir John Renfnie,
th
,aelt, Re T
kk• atrt, v• . Raiford, Sc. After some remarks rom
kty an, the report for the past year was read. The
1,444.2 w consisted of 670 members, exclusive of 61 foreign
aLltletv aud con.
• t Albert esponding members. His Royal Highness
4,t had accepted the office of ice-Patron of the
ett„7o,
gielv• reparations are now being made for the
TheatreAnti-
tho-.4 e Bazaar, which is to be held in Covtent-t
et
ekbib.tion Will ,in the month of July. It is expected a
IMessed be one of the most splendid of the kind
thie country.
Soul,
11„ 11 LANCASHIRE ELECTION.
4144,.;icit STATE OF THE POLL.
,4trejvi th,47IIOIt:_,AIOND. AT Moiueueo.—The election c„
Noteiletilipeciacylilg With great spirit on both sides, and the
since nine o'clock, when the polling com-
-11 IZtleh e4v° been unusually crowded with people in a state
k to,,Nt4citement. The district of Manchester contains
.
lle,"ll4lletitt Ph s, 14nd 4,593 voters, of which the township of
k'thei 41°4 as 1,385, and of the remaining townships about
tilte2 Itßrie fi Purely manufacturing, and 33 either alto-
hi.h.'„,.4etitri,,4 tura' or partially agricultural and partiully
Con Ong Places. The manufacturing townships sho-
a° about 2,800 voters out of the 4,593.
STArr NEWTON, MONDAY, 9 rat.
F OF TIIE POLL—FIRST DAY.
~eWtßrown. Eutwisle.
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419 778
• ,0.04 ............
"utry ... ............
402 613
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qlcilical'ef3ter
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1,464 1,357
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325 216
l'ie 41e .. 546 367
-',1;!r180'.!I
tlig,th'ra ............ 251 564
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Itr, 5,364 5,702
hentt ,13rowies ,"Majority for Entwisle, 338.
'ltivralq.rs ornmittee here have issued a placard stating
e, 4,360° be —for Mr. Brown, 4,436 ; and for Mr.

kr. Ch,

leave England for
ll tv,--,; "klies biehens is about to
tNltla to re residence abroad. We believe
vis 11) telnain principally at Genoa.
COLLEGZ.-
7,,L5c,: °Z. NINCE ALBERT TO
ETONRoyaI Highness Prince
he in-
?SIT
will leave
'y
EVENING.—His
to-morrow morn-t
-1.1 1)3..--`2eavo the p d* ‘gton terminus.
of the Great
t ten o'clock,
at a quarter-pas
rote,\Vgtin; lii:.',. laity' train, dinui the state carriage
i the sio‘fw. Company,
g His
17,,Waitit„„ to Station, where
and suite to Windsor.
Castle,
,-7,Yel lir i'•° coavey the Prince
time at the
Eton
ail Pro -""`tiless, after remaining a short
and four to
the Royal carriages
,olte-ceed in one of the Royal carriages a.
1/4 re, o' here the Pr' ic rill arr i before noon.
es will be
Provost and the
tlektOY*l Ilkiness ••11111() received by tin!
tlito4 M,,aster ? am
afterl ,e
n usual ceremonial
has
Prince will
ive short 3
the
Pr 4
„Rao
,iu the
zt e
flourishing
c't the-' L° the Nflagran-le o h'll to witness the
of
thee tia4,
on itsoullit at
tSaillt,-title
ensign.
At the conclusion
hness will
f the College,
take his itlielniple'eted that his
• Royal Hig .
ti_
e time an
qp' 8 gel)arture direct for town. It was at on ,
the Prince
(,en ect that the Ki Saxonyt' would accompany
that his Ma-
itst,". to the xr g ,to•ni o btrt -s now expected
the
Queen
ti NI not arri;eeinn'Enu 1.
Id
upon a visit to
tief,
_*„111
England
o....e_dnesi.a3.•
p blic-office,
1;11 Tju;NQ POREIGN ColN.—At the -u- Nether-
ode e*'l4.)' last, Air. May Consul-General of the
ffistrates
fer ' acconipn. ed b r 'd a lied to the crrer,
of
',ties Wiirr,rit ' 3 irien , pp. „ Mr. Ta e
fi rtian ' to search the premises of
Weaman-street.
-litho '''w, and Vessrs Calle and Co., of • ,
of Dutch
No, Of arrant ben-g: ex"ecutedY a large quantit3
found
and
0h,".e.,,",,,i,t finished state, and also some dies,
were
the menu-
recter.'e;' tO the chief station. It is stated t
an
otfeee '' 1‘ ere not aware that they were , committing showing
ti. e, and off
len. boo,. ere,' every facility to Mr.
they
parties from
Ivliout 's, ainl giving up the names of .
are 101. for
ver.ykt4l)!e3 received the orders. The penaltieshat course
Atli he 21,1; but it has not vet been determined w
./k.""incil•---Birniingfi.am Gazette.
yes-
t Nay 7,'7.1. PTeu INcENDIARIsm AT KESoRAV-•
_n
i telli-
ence o'f',;°P43'), about four o'clock in the afternoono,
R.
.N.
'llEtwe F "NI at. Kesgrave th propert f K
iintne-
`44l);4l,‘4cl-, of ,rave
Hall Breechedlpswich, and ffiee en-
kinei- the Suffolk Fire-office and d the Amicable Fire-0
engines
1,44 _
twerz dispatelied towards the spot. Before the engi s
that
the Pi, oceeded far, however, the conductors were informed
to 8, b t ,
act _ 4 ( 1.1•(1. '1 he fire, it appe
~
e to show
werewelus, which there is the clearest evidence
Harriett
bet 4 ton fire in the open day by an incendiary. .
i'stle,
find 10,1•.,fif Alartleshani, passing tit the time, heard a w 11-
to-
ward
leing toward the Heath, saw the incendiary stop
which
Et fire L.,l_ bins aud a•,plv something to them. After_
lebeerrse and On liter 41Ving the alarm, the man, not a
ear-
hae% ,r' tut and
describes him one of gentlemanly a"
offender
Imr,' 411 Past Tli • • , Probability of the
z itetee,ed.
.eie is et ery
A ]titter' her.
-Ipstelelt Express.
I'leru, front Leipsie I\4ay 16, says '7" Dr.of
the 7,:t1e., an etuhtent eterinarv.surge,mandarector _
1',311.0-„tri,nar3i School. at Rosen-dial has just died here of
'lern r"'"ia, arttr `)-I hours of frightful suffering. M.
Ivi, tilling had nevi r been bitten by any animal affected
4 ',lir ltaduess, but about three 'ears back he dissected
le 4'k whieh h d
3
nligth or _ a it
mad. This fact proves what.a
Hie h time the rabi t ' may rewain latent in
uriagui b a e le virus o y.

?NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.

We have, from time to time, felt it to be. our duty
to direct attention to the negligent and very unsatis-
factory manner in which the supervision of public
works and edifices in this country is gener:illy con
ducted. What adds, not a little, to the vexation which
the fact is calculated to excite, is, that this evil co-
exists with an immoderate staff of paid individual
servants of the Crown, and more than one highly
salaried board, especially charged with the duty of
preventing that waste of public money, that dishonour
to the national taste, and that injurious result to the
national interests, which`, ensue from such unsatisfac-
tory and negligent superintendence. For example :
how many of our public edifices have perished by fire,
owing to faults of original construction, or subsequent
additions which have had an evident tendency to create
or enhance the liability to combustion ; and in these
cases, how universal has been the absence of that ordi-
nary degree of precaution which would have assured
the public against the loss consequent on such cala-
mities ! In how many cases have sea-walls, and dock-
yard foundations, and piers, after being erected at an
immense expense, suddenly given way, entailing, as
in the case of the present Custom-house, for example,
an expense of reparation absolutely frightful—for
want of some competent and diligent investigation,
preliminarily instituted and certified by some ofificers
of responsible authority. How many opportunities
for noble manifestations of that British genius and
talent, which open competition would have been
sure to have elicited, have been, and daily are, sacri-'
ficed to the species of official favouritism which gives
to Sir R. SMIRLE, for instance, the fee simple or mo-
nopoly of all architectural employment in the design
and construction of new buildings like those in pro-
gress at the British Museum ? These are bad cases
enough; but they are really less sickening, to our
taste, than those constant, and almost inevitable,
failures which appear to attend upon all the acts and
perpetrations of that self-constituted dilletanti whoM
the credulity of Parliament selects for "Committees
of Taste." Committees of Taste, indeed ! Enough,
that we are indebted to them for such disgraceful
puerilities as our Law Courts at Westminster, the
Painted Chamber and the late " new buildings" of the
old House of L,ords ; the Corinthian façade of the
Council-office and Board of Trade, which ought to
have been in a line (but are not) with the eastern
extremity of Downing. street ! All of them, if we
mistake not, inventions of Sir JOON SOANE,
happily for art, in a condition to " sin no more !"
Had their commissi,ms extended so far, we doubt
not that they would have given their verdict in favour
of the preposterous portico at the Admiralty ; of the
selection of the accepted, instead of one of the rejected
designs for the Royal Exchange; awl of the superiority
of design and elevation to WILKINS'S National Gallery
over INIGo JONES'S Banquetting Hall. We are sorry
to find, on a more careful perusal of the Report of the
Lords' Committee, appointed a Select Committee to
inquire into the building of the Houses of Parliament,
and to report to the House" (brought from the Lords
13th instant, and ordered by the House of Commons
to be printed), that the offences of " Committees of
Taste" are not yet mere matters of tradition, but are
still rife and in active operation.

The " Lords' Committee" reports this resolution,
" That it appears from the evidence of CHARLES
BARRY, Esq., that during the progress of the building
of the Houses of Parliament, certain departures have
taken place from the original plans approved of by the
Committees of the two Houses of Parliament, and
ordered to be carried into execution under the direc-
tion of the Boards of Treasury and Works, which
alterations have been made by Mr. BARRY without
any authority from either of those Boards ; to which
circumstance they think it right to call the particular
attention of the House." This resolution really
appears to us amply called for, by the amount
and effect of Mr. BARRY'S own answers to the
Lords' Committee. It seems to us that Mr. BARRY
has not only been guilty of singular rashness and in-
discretion in venturing upon so extensive a field of
alterations as he has adopted, however he may try to
excuse himself on the ground that " they are only
matters of detail," but that he has shown a certain
want of feeling for the dignity of his own art, and too
great a facility in listening to suggestions about the
adaptation of his very beautiful designs to the last
new project for ventilation and smoke dispersion and
heat diffusion—and to the fresco-painting fancies of the
last " Commission of Fine Arts," which is billetted,

like a company of observation, on the growth of "The
New Palace at Westminster." Undoubtedly, warm
and well-aired rooms and freedom from smoke are
very agreeable properties in any structure,—
but they are but accessories after all.
It is of more consequence to give an air of
grandeur, majesty, and state, in conformity with
the best examples which the middle ages have left us
of its mingled palatial and ecclesiastical architecture,
to such a building as the sumptuous edifice in ques-
tion should be, than to accommodate its original
plan to the theory of Dr. REID'S scheme of ventila-
tion, by such an excrescence as the " Victoria Gallery,"
objected to with so much force in the evidence of
Lord SUDELEY (one of the most accomplished and
experienced authorities on such a question in the
three kingdoms) ; or by the removal of the QUEEN'S
Robing-room, immediately behind the House in the
original design, a distance of 140 feet from it, to re-
move " the source of regret" to his Royal Highness
Prince ALBERT, " that by the original arrangement
there was a great want of large spaces for fresco
paintings." We should be sorry to convey any unfair
impression on these two points. We, therefore, quote
some passages with regard to them.
First, as to the ventilation plan, Lord SUDELEY
complains to the Isords' Committee of the wholesale
alteration of the plan he, as one of the Commissioners
had approved, by the introduction of a new Gallery, the
roof of which being run up to the height of the main
roof, will effectually destroy the very plan which
Mr. BARRY had originally proposed of keeping his
gallery down, at a much lower elevation, in order to
admit of light and air freely circulating through the
interior parts of the edifice :
" I now come to the Victoria Gallery itself. I object
to the Victoria Gallery on several accounts. There was
a gallery, but that was of very different character ; that
was literally a gallery ; whereas I contend that this is
neither one thing nor the other. It is too short for a
gallery in proportion to its width, and it is too long for
a hall. Therefore, as a matter of taste, I object to its
proportions. But that is not the only objection. It de-
prives Ike Queen of her robing-room immediately ad-
joining the House of Lords. Another very important
point is, that in consequence of this gallery there will
be a continuous roof from the House of Lords to Little
Abingdon-street. The roof will be from 90 to 100 feet
in height, contrary to Mr. Barry's own principle, as
stated in his prospectus or paper which lie delivered
with his plan ; for he there observes that he has carried
up the Houses of .Parliament greatly above all the rest
of the buildings, for the benefit of air and light. Now
I need not observe to your Lordships, that both the light
is obstructed and the air is impeded by this arrangement.
Besides, we shall be deprived at one end of the House of
Lords of the power of lighting it, if it should be re-
quired. Then, as I before observed, the Queen is de-
prived of her robing-room immediately behind the
House of Lords ; the very situation in which Mr. Barry
himself, by his former plan, recommends that it should be
placed, but which has since been altered. In fact, as it
appears to me, everything has been sacrificed to this
Victoria Gallery."
Mr. BARRY, after showing that the plan he is now
working on is—not that which the Commissioners
had originally settled, but—that which Committees of
both Houses had subsequently settled and assented to,
states that—
" Whereas in the plan selected by the Commissioners
the river front is 780 feet in length, the average depth ef
the building from east to west is 270 feet, and the area
covered is five and a half acres : in the plan approved by
Parliament the length of the river front is 880 feet, the
average depth of the building from east to west is 335
feet, and the area covered is seven and a half acres."
And thus, in a written paper given in by him, he
alludes to this new erection of the Victoria Gal-

lery :
With regard to the latter cla*s of alterations, I beg
to observe, that, in the first place, I was required to make
the necessary arrangements for the new system adopted
by Parliament for warming and ventilating the entire
building, which alone have caused many serious and im-
portant changes."
And again :
" Are the Committee-to understand you that the Vic-
toria Gallery has been carried up to as great a height as
the House of Lords itself merely for the sake of venti•
lation ?—No ; not merely on that account. That is
only one of the reasons which has induced we to carry
it up to that height."
In these and other passages the pka for the altera-
tion is mainly founded, therefore, on the necessity for
coaxing the original design into compatibility with
Dr. REID'S monster flues.
Next, as to the coquetting with the same design,
which has been practised on behalf of the frescoes.

Let question and answer—as in all other cases of
owii talc :
" HoW comes it that you never made these inquiries
respecting the importance of having the robing-room in
a particular place until the plans were so far advanced
that you could nut place it there without an incon-
venience ?—I beg to state that the inquiry was made in
time, as the plans are not so far advanced but that the
change may be made with the greatest facility. I had
the honour the other day of going over the whole build-
ing with Prince Albert, and it was a source of regret
with his Royal Highness that there was a great want of
large spaces for fresco paintings. On my pointing out,
however, to his Royal Highness, that an opportunity
might be afforded of obtaining large spaces in the pro-
posed robing room at the throne end of the house, he
was pleased to express his satisfaction at the change."
Again :

" nave you made, up to the present moment, any
alteration in consequence of communication with the
Commission of Fine Arts? —I have proposed an altera-
tion, in consequence of a regret expressed by the Com-
missioners of Fine Arts, that there was not sufficiently
large spaces for paintings; namely, that a change should
be made in the design of the Victoria-hall or gallery to
afford the large spaces for pictures which are wi,hed for."

It is abundantly clear from the previous quotation,
that this plural " Commission " extends not beyond the
limits of Prince ALBERT. Now, with all our own love of
art, which is ardent and sincere, we think the following
remark of Lord SUDELEY is conclusive as to the mis-
take committed in sacrificing essentials of the original
selected design to the accommodation for fresco paint-
ings. It is like preparing to convert the great Legis-
lative Chamber of the Empire into one vast Pala-
lorama ! Lord SUDELEY flap, in answer to Q. 89—
" If the buildings of the Houses of Parliament are
meant for the tine arts, I think then that Mr. Barry's
observation may be perfectly right; but I consider the
Houses-of Parliament as built for no such object; that
the fine arts ought to be called in to embellish the Houses
of Parliament, and that no necessary architectural
arrangement shall be sacrificed for their display."
We think more highly of the good taste of his Lord-
ship than we sympathise with the regret of his
Royal Highness, which Mr. BARRY was so prompt to
remove. Among the papers appended to the Report,
touching the alterations in consequence introduced by
Mr. BARRY into his design, we have perused with won-
der the conceded application of the Commissioners of
Police, to have separate accommodations and cham-
bers provided in the new Houses, for the police con-
stables, forthwith, " in lieu of the sort of temporary
barrack in Palace-yard, in which they have been
hitherto lodged." The surveyors of the Board of
Works call the architect's attention to the propriety
of making provision for ample permanent accommo-

cation for the police in the new general outlay," and
in p. 30, Mr. BARRY, in his paper, says, that

he had been called on, among other altera-
tions, "to provide accommodation for the
A division of police." And this is actually
being provided! What next, in Gov's name, will
the gentle public be called upon to do for these mock
Praetorians ? The thing is too ridiculous. Can
they not be contracted for in the manner in
which arrangements for all other constables are
usually made ? Send them to the " Brown Bear,"
or the " White Lion," but don't give them
dormitories in the Palace of Westminster !
We do not see, however, that any estimate is yet given
in for the expense of warm baths and a billiard-room

—for the same destination ; but we see that Mr.
BARRY ranks the accommodation to be provided for
a Librarian of the House of Lords next in order and
consequence to that which is to be provided fur some
A policemen !
Upon the whole we do not understand how Mr.
BARRY can bring himself to call the remarkable de-
partures he has made, on his own- responsibility, from
the original plans, from the plans settled by the two
Houses of Parliament, and the occasional instructions
given to him by the Woods and Forests, " mere
matters of detail." Does he think them to be
such? Lord WHARNCLIFFE is entitled to much
commendation for bringing the whole matter be-
fore the House of Lords ; and it is to be hoped that
such a system of uncertain accountability, and un-
tangible control, as are described in Mr. BARRY'S
answer to question No. 85, will be got rid of with
the least possible delay :-
4"rhen you left it with the intention that alterations
should be made in the plan; but to whose approval were
those alterations to be subjected?—l knew not that they
were subjected to any one's approval in particular.
That rested with the Government. But the examination
of the Commissioners before the Committee of the House
of Commons will show we expected many to be made."