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the Leeds Mechanics' Institute , which had some artistic interest , for there was a clever speech by Lord Carlisle , always fenciful , often ori ~ oinal . The short speech of Mr . Monckton Milnes , was , however , evidently not unprepared , and was justly considered to claim especial attention . Slightly pre-Eaffaelite , Mr . Hilnes ' s observations were
nevertheless sound , and by their objection to vague criticism m art , and by enforcing that correct design is an essential basis of art , they will do much good . There was an aptness and winningness in the illustrations which Ruskin might envy ; and happily the audience were not afraid , as they would have been if Ruskin had been the speaker , that some logical trap had been set to catch their souls .
We are sorry that a tunnelling machine , from which much was expected , has met with a disappointnient . The directors of the "Worcester and Hereford Railway , having a . long . , tunnel to cut through the Malvern Hills , of which above half a mile consists of syenite , made an arrangement to employ Penryce ' s tunnelling machine . Syenite is one of the hardest rocks in this country , and the miner can
make but slow way against it . The parties who had undertaken to make the machine having met with diificulties , could not complete it , and the tunnel has proceeded by hand labour . The Americans have tried some boring machines with occasional expense . The great experiment is , however , in the large tunnel of the Sardinian railway at Mont Cenis , with a very large boring machine .
The architects returning from abroad are beginning to think of the forthcoming Architectural Exhibition , which is not likely to be wanting in spirit ,
A Stratagem . —The singular stratagem by -which Sark was recovered is well worthy of being recorded here . Sir Walter Raleigh , who was governor of Jersy about fifty years after the event , gives the following account of the capture : — " The island of Sark , contiguous to Guernsey , having been surprised and taken by the French , could never have been recovered by strong hand , having cattle and corn upon the place to feed as many men as were required for its defence , and being so inaccessible that it might be held , against tlie Grand Turk himself ; yet
by the ingenuity of a gentleman of the Netherlands , it was regained . He anchored in the harbour with one ship , and pretending that the merchant who had freighted it had died on board , besought permission of the French to bury him in consecrated ground , and in the chapel of the isknd , offering them a present of such commodities as he had on board . This request was granted on condition of the Flemings wot landing armed with any weapon , not so much as even a pocket-knife . All this was assented to . Whereupon a coffin , not containing a dead body , but swords
targets , and arquebusses , was put into the boat . The French received the mourners on their landing , and searched every one of them so narrowly that they could not have concealed a penknife . The coffin was drawn up the rocks with great difficulty . Some of the French , meanwhile , took the boat of the Flemings , and rowed to their ship to receive the promised commodities ; but as soon as they
got on board they were seized and bound . The Flemings on land , after having carried the coffin into " the chapel , shut the door , and taking out the weapons , fell upon the French , who ran down to the beach , calling upon their companions on board the vessel to return to their assistance ; but when the boat landed it was filled with Flemings , who , uniting with their countrymen , effected the complete capture of the island , —Daily ' s « Gfiannel Islands :
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Oxjb Arghitsctural Chapter.
the Leeds Mechanics' Institute , which had some artistic interest , for there was a clever speech by Lord Carlisle , always fenciful , often ori ~ oinal . The short speech of Mr . Monckton Milnes , was , however , evidently not unprepared , and was justly considered to claim especial attention . Slightly pre-Eaffaelite , Mr . Hilnes ' s observations were
nevertheless sound , and by their objection to vague criticism m art , and by enforcing that correct design is an essential basis of art , they will do much good . There was an aptness and winningness in the illustrations which Ruskin might envy ; and happily the audience were not afraid , as they would have been if Ruskin had been the speaker , that some logical trap had been set to catch their souls .
We are sorry that a tunnelling machine , from which much was expected , has met with a disappointnient . The directors of the "Worcester and Hereford Railway , having a . long . , tunnel to cut through the Malvern Hills , of which above half a mile consists of syenite , made an arrangement to employ Penryce ' s tunnelling machine . Syenite is one of the hardest rocks in this country , and the miner can
make but slow way against it . The parties who had undertaken to make the machine having met with diificulties , could not complete it , and the tunnel has proceeded by hand labour . The Americans have tried some boring machines with occasional expense . The great experiment is , however , in the large tunnel of the Sardinian railway at Mont Cenis , with a very large boring machine .
The architects returning from abroad are beginning to think of the forthcoming Architectural Exhibition , which is not likely to be wanting in spirit ,
A Stratagem . —The singular stratagem by -which Sark was recovered is well worthy of being recorded here . Sir Walter Raleigh , who was governor of Jersy about fifty years after the event , gives the following account of the capture : — " The island of Sark , contiguous to Guernsey , having been surprised and taken by the French , could never have been recovered by strong hand , having cattle and corn upon the place to feed as many men as were required for its defence , and being so inaccessible that it might be held , against tlie Grand Turk himself ; yet
by the ingenuity of a gentleman of the Netherlands , it was regained . He anchored in the harbour with one ship , and pretending that the merchant who had freighted it had died on board , besought permission of the French to bury him in consecrated ground , and in the chapel of the isknd , offering them a present of such commodities as he had on board . This request was granted on condition of the Flemings wot landing armed with any weapon , not so much as even a pocket-knife . All this was assented to . Whereupon a coffin , not containing a dead body , but swords
targets , and arquebusses , was put into the boat . The French received the mourners on their landing , and searched every one of them so narrowly that they could not have concealed a penknife . The coffin was drawn up the rocks with great difficulty . Some of the French , meanwhile , took the boat of the Flemings , and rowed to their ship to receive the promised commodities ; but as soon as they
got on board they were seized and bound . The Flemings on land , after having carried the coffin into " the chapel , shut the door , and taking out the weapons , fell upon the French , who ran down to the beach , calling upon their companions on board the vessel to return to their assistance ; but when the boat landed it was filled with Flemings , who , uniting with their countrymen , effected the complete capture of the island , —Daily ' s « Gfiannel Islands :