Memorial To Bro. Sir Charles Barry.

In accordance with the last paragraph in the above letter , the present meeting of subscribers to the Barry Memorial Fund has been called . - It remains only to state , before leaving the matter generally to their consideration , that the subscription up to the present time amounts to £ 974 4 s ., of which £ 601 7 s ., as appears by the bankers ' book on the table , have been paid into the Trustee ' s account at Messrs . Drummonds' ; and , secondly , that if nominated to serve

upon a working committee , for the further prosecution of the subject we have all at heart , the following gentlemen will be prepared to serve .- —The Hon . AV . Cooper , Sir Charles Eastlako , WTite , Esq ., T . L . Donaldson , Esq ., Owen Jones , Esq ., T . Hayter Lewis , Esq ., Arthur Hunt , Esq ., J . Gibson , Esq ., David Eoherts , Esq ., T . II . AVyatt , Esq ., G . Godwin , Esq ., ancl Charles Lucas , Esq . From some to whom application has been made , no answers have been received , but it is not considered that there is reason to

apprehend disinclination on the part of any of the gentlemen who have been invited to serve on the Committee . Iu addition to the list of subscriptions , the sum of £ 50 has been placed in the hands of the Hon . Secretary , Mr . Nelson , by a very strenuous supporter of the memorial , to defray the expenses of printing , advertising , ancl incidental disbursements ; of this sum , £ 13 remains unexpended . ")

M . DIGBT AVYATT , TT „ , . CHAEI . ES C . KHOT , j Hon - Secretaries . Rooms of the Royal Society of British Architects , 9 , Conduit-street , August 6 , 1861 . A otcs of thanks to the Institute for the use of the meetingroom , and to the Chairman for presiding , concluded the business of the meetins .

Cavour An Engineer.

CAVOUR AN ENGINEER .

The late Count Camillo Benso di Cavour , the Italian statesman , began life as a military engineer . The current number of the Quarterlg , in a valuable memoir of him , says : — " Like most young men of rank , Camillo was sent to the military academy . The army was then almost the only career open to a youth of noble birth . The civil service of the State was despised , and fow in his position could be prepared for it by a suitable

education . He soon distinguished himself by his diligence ancl ability , and was chosen as a royal page , then the next step to successful entrance into patrician life . His position at the Court seems to have been irksome to him . He took little pains to conceal his distaste for it , and was soon dismissed from his duties . Returning with renewed energies to his studies , chiefly directed by the celebrated astronomer Plana , he completed his military education at eighteen , leaving the Academy with the rank of Lieutenant of

Engineers , and the reputation of an able mathematician and one of the most industrious pupils of the institution . He was soon employed as an engineer , although only nineteen years old , in important works . In a letter , dated the 9 th March , 1829 , he writes , — 'I have passed the whole winter in the Apennines , to make the plan of a new fort , the object of which would be to close the road between Nice ancl Genoa . ' !—a singular entry into life of the statesman who , thirty years later , was called upon to transfer the frontiers of his country to this very line of defence . From Genoa ,

fie was sent to finish some works at L'Esseillon , —a fort perched upon precipitous heights , ancl commanding the pass of the Mont Cenis into Ital y . He writes with a keen enjoyment of tho grand mountain scenery which surrounds it . He had formed an early friendship with the late Mr . William Brockedon . That distinguished Alpine traveller had heen the first to describe those beautiful passes and valleys , now the favourite resort of the English tourist , which lead from the spotless summits and stern grandeur of the

Swiss Alps , through almost imperceptible gradations of gloomy pine-forests , shady chesnut-groves , smiling vine-yards , and conventcrowned hills , into the sunny plains of Italy . He had sent his magnificent work on The Passes of the Alps to the young Count . To no one could the gift have been more grateful . He was proud of his glorious native valleys , and jealous of their reputation . In the letter we have just quoted , the first of a series of great interest

addressed to his English friend , he writes : — ' Having , with the exception of the Stelvio , explored all the passes you so well describe , I have seen , ivith the liveliest pleasure , that , doing full justice to the picturesque beauties of our valleys , you give so charming a description of them . The Piedmontese , who have hitherto been sacrificed on this score to the Swiss , should be grateful to you for what you have clone for them . You sustain their cause in tho most triumphant manner , by making known to all Europe the singularl y picturesque scenery of Mount Geneve , and the magnificent valley of Aosta , which are in no way inferior

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to the most beautiful parts of Switzerland . We shall be indebted to you as one of the first amongst strangers who , divesting himself of those accepted prejudices which assigned to Helvetia alone all the beauties of the Alps , has rendered complete and signal justice to a country which so well deserves to be known . ' "

The George Street "Model." *

THE GEORGE STREET "MODEL . " *

"Better go to a 'Model , '" was the advising of Will Shakley to Simon Flustrum , the latter of whom had that evening arrived in London by way of the Caledonian Eoad . " What 1 " said Flustrum , " what 1 " And this from my friend Shakley ! What ! do you think I have turned wholly to thieving since we were last together in the country , ancl so am only worthy now of being lodged in such a big and strong house as I saw this afternoon just before my getting into London—the 'Model Prison '

, , as they told me it was ?" " Oh , Flustrum ! Flustrum ! " rejoined Will , with an evident sore feeling , " I had no such meaning , but meant one of those places called ' models' welch have been bnilt up by the gentry for us poor folk , ancl in which you single men strangers , on arriving in town , may have better and cheaper lodgings than are to be commonly had in private houses . " ' " Your hand , Will , for that explanation , " was the pleased reply

of Simon . " And where are any of these models to he found ?" " One close by , — -just close by , " said Will ; " and where I put up myself for a while just before I got married . This street we are in now is called Crown Street : at its top is St . Giles ' s Church ; and a little way from the church is George Street , and in that street is the ' model ; ' and a pretty good one , too , it is , as I know from experience . But come , I will show you the way to it ; and let us go at oncefor it generallfills very welland by any delay a chance

, y , might be lost in finding an opening . " This short statement , then , will suffice to indicate one of the many ways by which these single men's Model Lodging Houses get filled from time to time ; ancl that they are usually so well filled the return recently made at the annual meeting of the society wherewith this one of . George Street is connected is proof ; the number of inmates then given being ninety-nine , which is within a very few in number of all the heels there obtainable .

I , myself , the writer of this account , came to find a passing harbourage in this George-street " model , " and , therefore , to learn so much about the place , it is not necessary here to tell : enough to let it be known that the statements now to be made will be strictly

faithful , inconsequence of this intimacy with the place ; or such as they only truly can see who make use of their own eyes , though taking care the while that no blinding " glamour" creates any falsification of the mental vision . AVill the reader , then , gentle or ungentle , come along for a short time in my company , on this special undertaking ? The street—George-street—itself has no very inviting appearance on the whole , it being narrow , and the houses , looking along

the left side , as one enters from Broad-street , St . Giles' , of but a so-so kind ; while , on the right hand , is a pretty conspicuous range of side-wall belonging to a Ragged School ; then comes the sturdylike " Model ; " next the back parts of a French Protestant church , ancl the Rev . Mr , Brock's chapel , both whose admission portals are in Bloomsbury-street ; while above the rears of these two buildings is the blank side of one ofthe large business houses which have their shops and front windows in New Oxford-street .

The situation , then , of our " model" is pretty favourable as a Avorking man's lodging ; so much of the bustling , if not of the brilliant , being seen and carried on in the surrounding neighbourhood ; Dudley-street , on the south , exhibiting , among its abundant Irishry , a galooe of all sorts of old shoes , old garments , ancl almost everything else old , even to the single old halfpenny ballad of former times ; while northward is the superb Oxford-street ; and , still more direct north , the long , spacious , and constantly thronged

Tottenham Court-road—the sideways with their pedestrianism , ancl the centre with its hurry of 'bus and cab . Nestling , therefore , in perfect quietness in the George-street mentioned , where never the wheel of a 'bus is seen to run , and rarely that of a cab ( for sometimes , indeed , a cab-brought lodger will come to this George-street , with travelling-trunk , travellinghat , & c ); nestling here , some hundred men , aged , middle-aged , and down to mere youthfulnesstake then- nihtlslumbersand

, gy , if they so please , their daily meals—breakfast , dinner , tea ancl supper ; a large and strange gathering to be found within the roofage of one building ; and it is neither hospital nor barracks , but where each ancl all enjoy the utmost freedom ; and more , perhaps , in some particulars , than could be conceded in the private house .