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Oifk, Aeghitegtural Chapteb.
to architects and engineers—beiiig the annual conversazione of the new Institution of Civil Engineers , when the members of that profession , and many of the leaders in the world of art and science , were invited to be the guests of the president , Mr . Joseph Locke , M . P . We noticed there many Brethren of distinction . The walls displayed various works of art , while-, in the theatre was arranged a large collection of drawings and models . Several
of these referred to mechanical subjects ; but "besides illustrations of several inventions applicable to "building , there were many models and drawings of viaducts and bridges , some relating to the mechanical details of structure , but others exhibiting elevations and designs . Among them was the proposed railway bridge for the new terminus at the Belgrave Dock , which forms a contrast with the lately opened Chelsea bridge not altogether pleasing . *
The Society of Arts closed its session on this clay week , and so we shall get no subject of comment from that till next session . It closed the session worthily with a tribute to a distinguished member whose death has been a loss to the nation ; though , as was said in the discussion , England has many men as good as he . Mr . Digby Wyatt was entrusted with the task of pronouncing the eiilogium on the late Herbert Minton as a promoter of the ceramic arts . The attendance of members was not so
great as it might have been , which many of them have good reason to regret , for the discourse of Mr . Wyatt well deserved the praise for eloquence awarded to it ; while an exhibition of the trophies of Minton ' s skill and enterprize adorned the theatre of the building , and was looked on wdth admiration and almost astonishment , for these noble vases and choice products of ceramic art were not the picked specimens of a school or of an age , but of tire single exertions of one factory and one man . Thus Herbert Minton received as it were funeral honours from the
society , as Barry , whose pictures looked clown from the walls upon the scene , once received . The discourse of Mr . Wyatt abounded with , architectural illustrations well worthy of attention , which we may perhaps bring before the notice of our readers . The effect o £ city improvements has been to give architects some noble chances in rebuilding the halls of the city companies , and these have not been misapplied . The Fishmongers , Goldsmiths , Salters , Clothworkers , Merchant Taylors , Haberdashers , Armourers and Braziers , Weavers , and Wax Chandlers are among those who have improved their abodes ; and at this time the Clothworkers' Hall , in Mineing-lane , is being rebuilt , and
the Merchant Taylors' Hall , in Thread needle-street , has been beautified . Mr . Edward P Anson has been charged with the latter work , and he has effected some great improvements . This hall , which lies back between Thrcadneedle-strcet , Bishopsgate-strect , and Cornhill , is little known by the public , and vet it is one of the finest and largest halls in the city , so canacious that when the great hall of the London Tavern is found too
small for a grand bancjuet the proprietors of the London Tavern obtain tho use of the company ' s hall , Prom the circumstance of its situation in contact with the London Tavern this is one of the few city halls in which livery dinners are now held , for a communication has been opened with the London Tavern , so that not a cold collation but a bancjuet at Apician
temperature can be supplied from the tavern kitchen to serve four hundred guests . As the Fishmongers' Hall , by some chance has become the city temple of Whiggism , so lias the Merchant Taylors' Hall been devoted to the worship of Toryism , and within its walls are found in strange company , Wellington , ' Pitt , Eldon , and the poor Duke of York . By the reconstruction of the property in the Tlireadneedle-street facade the
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Oifk, Aeghitegtural Chapteb.
to architects and engineers—beiiig the annual conversazione of the new Institution of Civil Engineers , when the members of that profession , and many of the leaders in the world of art and science , were invited to be the guests of the president , Mr . Joseph Locke , M . P . We noticed there many Brethren of distinction . The walls displayed various works of art , while-, in the theatre was arranged a large collection of drawings and models . Several
of these referred to mechanical subjects ; but "besides illustrations of several inventions applicable to "building , there were many models and drawings of viaducts and bridges , some relating to the mechanical details of structure , but others exhibiting elevations and designs . Among them was the proposed railway bridge for the new terminus at the Belgrave Dock , which forms a contrast with the lately opened Chelsea bridge not altogether pleasing . *
The Society of Arts closed its session on this clay week , and so we shall get no subject of comment from that till next session . It closed the session worthily with a tribute to a distinguished member whose death has been a loss to the nation ; though , as was said in the discussion , England has many men as good as he . Mr . Digby Wyatt was entrusted with the task of pronouncing the eiilogium on the late Herbert Minton as a promoter of the ceramic arts . The attendance of members was not so
great as it might have been , which many of them have good reason to regret , for the discourse of Mr . Wyatt well deserved the praise for eloquence awarded to it ; while an exhibition of the trophies of Minton ' s skill and enterprize adorned the theatre of the building , and was looked on wdth admiration and almost astonishment , for these noble vases and choice products of ceramic art were not the picked specimens of a school or of an age , but of tire single exertions of one factory and one man . Thus Herbert Minton received as it were funeral honours from the
society , as Barry , whose pictures looked clown from the walls upon the scene , once received . The discourse of Mr . Wyatt abounded with , architectural illustrations well worthy of attention , which we may perhaps bring before the notice of our readers . The effect o £ city improvements has been to give architects some noble chances in rebuilding the halls of the city companies , and these have not been misapplied . The Fishmongers , Goldsmiths , Salters , Clothworkers , Merchant Taylors , Haberdashers , Armourers and Braziers , Weavers , and Wax Chandlers are among those who have improved their abodes ; and at this time the Clothworkers' Hall , in Mineing-lane , is being rebuilt , and
the Merchant Taylors' Hall , in Thread needle-street , has been beautified . Mr . Edward P Anson has been charged with the latter work , and he has effected some great improvements . This hall , which lies back between Thrcadneedle-strcet , Bishopsgate-strect , and Cornhill , is little known by the public , and vet it is one of the finest and largest halls in the city , so canacious that when the great hall of the London Tavern is found too
small for a grand bancjuet the proprietors of the London Tavern obtain tho use of the company ' s hall , Prom the circumstance of its situation in contact with the London Tavern this is one of the few city halls in which livery dinners are now held , for a communication has been opened with the London Tavern , so that not a cold collation but a bancjuet at Apician
temperature can be supplied from the tavern kitchen to serve four hundred guests . As the Fishmongers' Hall , by some chance has become the city temple of Whiggism , so lias the Merchant Taylors' Hall been devoted to the worship of Toryism , and within its walls are found in strange company , Wellington , ' Pitt , Eldon , and the poor Duke of York . By the reconstruction of the property in the Tlireadneedle-street facade the