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Our Architectural Cha.Pteb.
The iron and wooden house trade is springing up again , as there is some demand for the new towns on the golden c oast of the northwest of America . The chief supply is however in the hands of the Californians and Chinese . Ih India there ^ Matheran , Muttah ^ Catnpbellpo now , are being recOiistrMted . There is good scope for architects , anda ^ bo ^ e all for th ^ ro ^ tgh clerks of the works , and contractors and siib-uontraetors , and if they do not like the heat Of the pkiii $ , they can keep to the cool afcd healthful Mils till they are ready to venture into the lower cities . _ The JLmMr fcewsp & per , which M & become the organ of Indiaji progress , giv £ & information on this head , which Will be found useful to inteUdiiig emigrants ;
John Bell , the sculptor , hM seht us his letters on the Wellington Monument in the JkMdimg Wm $ . He shows clearly enough that great neglect has characterized the governmeUt iii its arrangements ; that the expenditure of £ 11 , 000 on the High Dutch funeral car , was a Mistake : that the choice of a site for the monument was made rashly ; wi v . ui
ij * jiw « i * ivv , -n ^ u ' - v w ** w ^ . vv ^ ^* . ~~ : — -- " --., - • -- % J y and that the splendid sarcophagus sliould not be separated from the monument . He requires that the Nelson sarcophagus should be removed from under the dome , and that the Manjuis Cornwallis shall be removed from rivalry with Nelson . Bell wishes to bring
Wellington and Kelson face to face . This seems the arrangement best calculated to preserve the moral impression . Wilkins ' s pepper-boxes on the National Gallery , which were very classic in his day , are evidently doomed , even if his building stands . Wilkins has been much abused unjustly . He had a narrow site given to him , and the government destroyed his ground-floor by cutting through one passage to the barracks and another to the workhouse .
A real Greek building is required for Athens , under the name of a National Museuhi , for the adaptation of a spurious civilization to the oriental scoundrels who , under the name of Greeks , bask in the protection of England , and who in England and India , and throughout the world , are the spies and satellites ofthe Russians . The style of the proposed building will necessarily be restricted to Ionic or Doric , and another monument will be added to a city , outside of whose walls the Klepht roams at large and cuts off ears and noses , and subjects his
victims to barbaric tortures . Dr . Bariies is having another battle about the Thames . From his flagship , the Dreadnought , he assails Bazalgette and his co-operators , ancl maintains that the Thames is not a channel of disease . In his report to the Shoreditch vestry , for whose district he is medical officer , he has given the result of his observations on the Thames , as senior physician of the Dreadnought , and these constitute a mass of valuable matter , deserving of separate publication .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Our Architectural Cha.Pteb.
The iron and wooden house trade is springing up again , as there is some demand for the new towns on the golden c oast of the northwest of America . The chief supply is however in the hands of the Californians and Chinese . Ih India there ^ Matheran , Muttah ^ Catnpbellpo now , are being recOiistrMted . There is good scope for architects , anda ^ bo ^ e all for th ^ ro ^ tgh clerks of the works , and contractors and siib-uontraetors , and if they do not like the heat Of the pkiii $ , they can keep to the cool afcd healthful Mils till they are ready to venture into the lower cities . _ The JLmMr fcewsp & per , which M & become the organ of Indiaji progress , giv £ & information on this head , which Will be found useful to inteUdiiig emigrants ;
John Bell , the sculptor , hM seht us his letters on the Wellington Monument in the JkMdimg Wm $ . He shows clearly enough that great neglect has characterized the governmeUt iii its arrangements ; that the expenditure of £ 11 , 000 on the High Dutch funeral car , was a Mistake : that the choice of a site for the monument was made rashly ; wi v . ui
ij * jiw « i * ivv , -n ^ u ' - v w ** w ^ . vv ^ ^* . ~~ : — -- " --., - • -- % J y and that the splendid sarcophagus sliould not be separated from the monument . He requires that the Nelson sarcophagus should be removed from under the dome , and that the Manjuis Cornwallis shall be removed from rivalry with Nelson . Bell wishes to bring
Wellington and Kelson face to face . This seems the arrangement best calculated to preserve the moral impression . Wilkins ' s pepper-boxes on the National Gallery , which were very classic in his day , are evidently doomed , even if his building stands . Wilkins has been much abused unjustly . He had a narrow site given to him , and the government destroyed his ground-floor by cutting through one passage to the barracks and another to the workhouse .
A real Greek building is required for Athens , under the name of a National Museuhi , for the adaptation of a spurious civilization to the oriental scoundrels who , under the name of Greeks , bask in the protection of England , and who in England and India , and throughout the world , are the spies and satellites ofthe Russians . The style of the proposed building will necessarily be restricted to Ionic or Doric , and another monument will be added to a city , outside of whose walls the Klepht roams at large and cuts off ears and noses , and subjects his
victims to barbaric tortures . Dr . Bariies is having another battle about the Thames . From his flagship , the Dreadnought , he assails Bazalgette and his co-operators , ancl maintains that the Thames is not a channel of disease . In his report to the Shoreditch vestry , for whose district he is medical officer , he has given the result of his observations on the Thames , as senior physician of the Dreadnought , and these constitute a mass of valuable matter , deserving of separate publication .