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in the fraternity . Up to the time of his death he ivas an active member of Albion Lodge , No . 570 , E . E . ; Treasurer of Carleton Chapter , No . 47 , S . B . ; chief of the Lodge of Eoyal Ark Mariners , anel of the Council of Knights of the Eed Cross , S . R . ; a member of St . John's Encampment of Knights Templar , S . E-., of ivhich he was one of the founders , and over ivhich he presided for a number of years ; a member of' the Council of High Priests , I . E . ; ancl

Treasurer of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Neiv Brunswick , E . If . Yesterday the mortal remains of the deceased ivere borne to their last earthly resting place by the Masonic fraternity , comprising members of Leinster , Carleton Union , Union of Portland , St . John's , Hihernia , ancl Albion Lodges the members of Hihernia and Carleton Chapters , and a goodly number of gallant Knights , connected ivith St . John ' s Encampment , in their regalia of sombre hue .

The Prov . G . M ., Bro . Alexander Balloch , honoured the memory of the departed Brother by accompanying the procession to the grave clothed in his splendid official garb . The procession was under the guidance of Bro . B . L . Peters , AV . M . of Albion Lodge , AA'I IO likewise officiated in the truly solemn and sublime funeral ceremonies peculiar to the fraternity at the grave ; and so impressive AA'as the stle in which he performed the servicethat very

y , few ivho were present coulcl check the falling tear . In addition to the Masonic fraternity ( ivho proceeded the corpse ) a large concourse of our most influential citizens ivere in attendance . A portion of the impressive funeral service of the Church of England ivas read by the ltev . George Armstrong , in St . John ' s Church , where the coffin was deposited during its rehearsal , ancl the remainder at the grave .

Architecture And Archæloogy.

ARCHITECTURE AND ARCH ? LOOGY .

THE FUTURE FOE ARCHITECTS . LOXD 03 T AXD PAIIIS . Is bis annual notification that tho architectural courses at the University College , London , will commence on Tuesday , the 23 rd instant , Professor Donaldson makes the following observations , which we commend to general attention : —•

"In taeMoniteur , of the 2 oth of August last , there appeared a very striking review of the works executed at Paris by the Emperor Louis Napoleon , since his accession to the throne of France in 1852 . This enumeration embraces tlie operations of the Imperial Government and of the Municipality of Paris ; it records lines of streets and boulevarts pierced through the centre of the city ; the doubling of its superficial area by the addition of a suburban zone ; the completion of the stupendous palace of the Louvre ; the erection of

churches , schools , district courts of justice , six barracks , marketplaces , fountains , theatres , squares , hospitals , eight bridges , making tAA'enty-tAvo AA'hich span the Seine—ivhile ive have at most eight for all London , ivith its immense population and collossal commerce . AVhole quarters of Paris have been pulled eloivn to produce direct thoroughfares from east to ivest , from north to south , and to afford access to the" centres of commerce , improving also the public health . —the results of a determined concentrated will for tho public good

, " This presents a humiliating picture to us ivhen Ave compare this statement with the torpid operations of our Government ancl our Municipal Corporation , even although Ave call to mind that many of the works above enumerated are in this country carried out by individual or associated private enterprise . Our Administration requires offices for the Indian Department , and takes refuge in

part of an hotel , built as a speculation by a company . And so insuperable appear to be the obstructions ancl difficulties which attend the realisation of our public lA'orks , however , imperative , that the absolute needof AVar ancl Foreign Offices , for the due administration of the business connected with those departments , urgent as it may be , is made to yield to personal interests , and to a battle of parties and styles ; and years may intervene before the want is supplied . Even our City Corporationimportant as the works have

, been which they have carried out , can with unaccountable shortsightedness , cover with a huge warehouseavacaiitplotivhich afforded the finest vieiv of our metropolitan cathedral and facilitated direct communication ivith various parts of the City ivhere most required . " Still London , although far behind in the Governmental activity to promote improvements and to direct , as in Paris , the public taste for monumental lendor and magnificencehas advancedthrough

sp , , private enterprise , in the style of its commercial and domestic buildings more than any other metropolis . AVe see clubs , banks , insurance offices , and like institutions , offer erections honourable to the present school of art , evidencing great progress in professional skill and taste . ^ ^ " There is a noble future for the rising generation of architects . Thedevelopement of the British Empire has been incalculable : the

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population has doubled Avithin a short period : its commerce knows no limit . England , ancl even London , of 1860 , compared with England or London of 1800 , are as giants to pigmies . A like extension of Government establishments , to insure a ready and economic administration of the public business , must take place ; ancl necessity will compel our Government to satisfy these requirements , ivhich foreign administrations would seize ivith

eagerness , to adorn a sovereign ' s reign , or reflect honour on a ministry that ivould undertake them . Our Ministers and Parliament cannot continue to hesitate , ivhen our great commercial cities and provincial toAvns show' Avhat energy ancl taste for architecture may effect . " It is then for the young architects anel builders to fit themselves for coming opportunities . The war of styles may still continue : ourusages and taste may become modified . There ivillbereqiuredfresh .

combinations and appliances . Science must progress as ivell as Art ; and construction must advance with like energy . There is a wide field open , ancl who shall be equal to the struggle for the occasion , for reputation , for success ? Those only ivho acquire beforehand the elements of sound professional knowledge , —AVIIO make themselves acquainted AA'ith . the finest productions of tho ablest and most refined minds of past ages , —ivho devote a zealous earnestness to the study of the subject , —AVIIO are determined to excel and to rank

among the great architects and builders who have ciidoived their country with noble works , anel to take place with our Inigo Jones , our AVren ancl his master-mason Strong , our Vanbriigh , our Chambers , of the past ; with our Barry ancl Cubitt of recent times . "

Round Churches.

ROUND CHURCHES .

( Continued from page 267 . ) But it is time that I should say something of the Church of tho Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem , which , though by no moans the lirsfc of round churches , as I have already shown , was yet tho great progenitor of nearly all the round churches of the Middle Ages , and certainly of all our English ones . Mr . Poole ' s paper has already forestalled me in much which

I might say , and into all the controversies on tho authenticity of the site I am glad that I am spared from entering . It is enough , for an architectural view , that the pilgrims of the Holy Land , from the fourth century downwards , found a round church , or at least a circular enclosure , built over the reputed tomb of our Lord , aud that tho Crusaders of the Middle Ages , after that earlier cliurcli had been destroyed ,

still saw a church of the same form , though with many anomalous additions , raised over tho same holy sjiot . It was in fond remembrance of that form , so strange to our insular precedents , that individual knights or religious societies built those memorial round churches , four only of ivhich aro left us to the present day . The Holy Sepulchre itself , in its present state , is a small chapel of about 2 ( 3 feet long by 18 feet broad in tho centre of the rotunda-, which is itself about 67 feet in diameter , and at the west end of the building . Beyond , to the east ( not

to complicate a very intricate plan with minor details ) , is the choir , presbytery , and apso . These arc of much later plan than tho original design ; and of the walls and architectural details very little indeed remains of the older work . A fire , ivhich occurred in 1808 , destroyed the greater part of the old landmarks , and what has since been built is in the very worst taste ( and one could not go lower ) of Russian

ecclesiastic architecture . The number of piers in the rotunda is eighteen ( probably twelve existed in the original rotunda of Constantino ) , and the walls are divided in the usual manner , as your own church onco was , into three stories—ground floor , trilbrium , and clerestory . Qnaresmius , who wrote , I think , in the seventeeth century , describes the wall of the triforium panelled with sacred subjects in mosaic on a gilt

ground , consisting of the prophets Ezekiel , Daniel , and Hosca—tho Emperor Constantine , and , on the north , side , the twelve apostles . I mention this as indicating the character of decoration which might be added if our rotunda woro ever thoroughly restored . The roof was conical , formed of cedar beams , and the top of tho cone AA'as truncated by a circular aperture , open to the sky , which , as in the

example of the Pantheon , appears to have been its only opening for the admission , of light . Being placed upon a hill of most irregular surface , so great a difference of level existed between the outer soil and the floor of the rotunda ,