decorative pinnacles, than as assuming the consequence which Mr. Ferrey has given to his turrets. We should like to see his authority for their size as well as form. To towers similar to these, may be traced the origin of that beautiful structure, the Spire, which began in a simple pyramid upon a buttress, and ended in the splendour of Chichester and Salisbury. Mr. Ferrey also gives consequence by a finish to the elegant Norman staircase, still existing at the transept.

No. 953, and 963. Exterior and Interior of a design for a Church, submitted to the Commitee for erecting a Church at Herne Bay. A. B. Clayton. The parts want union, the steeple is at one corner, the transepts are rooms affixed to the main building, and the tracery of the windows flamboyant, and fantastic. The arches of the interior are stilted upon high and naked piers. The idea of three arches at the altar appears to be derived from the neighbouring ruin at Reculver.

In old designs, whether of pointed or Italian architecture, the four cruciform piles of building meeting in the centre, appear like so many buttresses to the lantern tower, or cupola, arising from their point of intersection; in modern designs, this harmony is overlooked or disregarded. If transepts are used, they disfigure the building, rather than appear as an essential portion of it; this remark will apply not only to this design, but to most modern structures which are cruciform in plan; for instance, the new Catholic church now erecting at Lisson Grove. 958. East View of Cossey Hall, Norfolk, the seat of the Right Hon. Lord Stafford. J. C. Buckler. We always meet our friend Buckler with great satisfaction; his designs shrink not from the scrutinizing eye of the antiquary or the artist. The material is red brick, worked and moulded into architectural forms and ornaments. The groups of picturesque chimnies, the bow windows, the various breaks in the face of the wall as well as in the horizontal lines of the elevation, display the result of a refined taste, and an accurate knowledge of the principles of design, as well as the detail of our ancient buildings. Lord Stafford is happy in the choice of his architect; the liberality and good taste which raised this splendid mansion, has not been marred with idle conceits or flimsy inventions: in Cossey bis Lordship may survey a building which has nothing in its appearance to indicate that it was not built by one of his ancestors, under the reigns of the Tudors.

No. 872. Model of the New Church now building at Great Marlow, Bucks. C. Inwood. This is one of those structures GENT. MAG. VOL. IL

which resemble the great majority of the new churches. The design is what is generally termed gothic. It has no aisles, or chancel; and consists of an oblong body with a slated roof, in the meeting-house style, having an addition at the principal front, shewing a portico of three arches, above which is a square tower and spire. The essential parts of the design are so generalized, that it would serve equally well for the Grecian, or any other style which the architect might please to adopt; the spire would require a little alteration, the windows less, the arcade in front might easily become a portico, and thus with the help of compo, a new design in an essentially different mode of architecture would easily be formed; how different is this to our ancient churches, which display a stubbornness which the most inveterate improver cannot entirely overcome. While we are upon this head, we cannot help mentioning

1014. Interior view of the New Western Synagogue, by H. E. Kendall. Although in common with ourselves, religious prejudice excludes the aid of the sister art of sculpture in the embellishment of their temples, the Jewish nation do not appear to reject a display of architectural decoration. In this temple or tabernacle, a great proportion of ornament is shewn, and the whole is far above the puritanic interiors of the generality of our churches. The Sanctuary is fronted by a composition of four Corinthian columns disposed in pairs, formed (in imitation we presume) of lapis lazuli, with gold caps and bases; between this screen hangs the rich crimson curtain, screening the interior from profane gaze: the light falls upon the whole from the roof, and is admitted through a dome. There is no finery in the composition, but the whole bears the stamp of a religious building, fitted up with a due regard to the solemnity of the service to which it is destined.

Mr. Coffingham exhibits several views for additions to a noble Mansion, designed with his usual good taste and sound judg

ment.

We have omitted to notice many beautiful drawings of existing objects of architecture from want of space; but we cannot close without expressing our regret, that so little room in the Academy is allotted to this branch of the fine arts, and that even that circumscribed space is intruded upon by subjects foreign to the science of architecture.

A large Collection of Original Sketches, Drawings, and Studies, and some finished Pictures, of the late T. STOTHARD, Esq. R. A. was sold, by auction by Messrs.

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The

CHRISTIE and Co., June 17-19. drawings occupied the first two days of the sale,and produced 5687. 11s. 6d. The paintings on the third day, brought 13681. 78. Od. Total 19361. 18s. 6d. The following were the paintings that brought above 201. The Bolero 221. 11s.; A sketch from Boccacio, 221. 1s.; Nymphs binding Cupid, a landscape, 321. 11s.; San's Souci, 31. 10s.; Youth and Age 21.; A Sketch for the subject of Intemperance, painted upon the walls of the staircase at Burleigh 907. 6s.; The Children in the Wood, 221. 11s. 6d; A Fete Champêtre, from Boccacio, 33. 11s. : Titania sleeping 201. 9s. 6d. Venus, Cupid, and the Graces, 28s. 7s.; Calypso with Cupid and Nymphs, 461. 4s.; The Vintage 361. 10s.: O'Donohou, with Nymphs, 217.; A Nymph leading a Bacchanalian Procession, 321. 11s.; The Crucifixion 261. 5s.; Shakspeare's Characters, 801. 17s.; A beautiful Drawing of the same subject, but containing more Characters, sold for 321, 11s.; They were bought by Mr. Pickering for the same gentleman. Among the drawings which brought the highest prices were several elegant designs for plate, executed for his late Majesty by Messrs. Rundell and Bridge.

Mr. URBAN,

June 24.

I attended last week the sale of the exquisite works of the late venerable Stothard.

I had ever appreciated his genius for the imitative art, but never until these days of sale, when his works were (so to speak) simultaneously displayed, did it burst upon me in the full blaze of its glory. Nothing in nature seems to have escaped him, and her influence guided his hand.

"How lovely, how commanding!" Whether he sketched the vale studded with cottages and backed by cloud-capt mountains, the roaring cataract or tufted woods, the wild animals of the desert, the flowers and herbs of the field, or the varied combinations of the human form, all was observation, truth, and power. Grace and ease were in every line.

Such purity reigned in his female figures, especially in those clothed with flowing draperies, that, on beholding them we felt something of the idea of Heaven brought before our eyes.

He had the delicacy of Titian, and occasionally the grandeur of Rubens. He embodied the humour of Chaucer and the fairy creations of Shakspeare. He shrunk not from the task of illustrating the works of that great master mind which "Exhausted worlds

And then imagined new !"— his imagination compassed every thing in real and poetic creation, and he had the

power to express on the canvas what he imagined.

Respectable as the prices were which his pictures fetched at this sale, considering the state of the times, I felt how poor was the remuneration which money could afford for the highest gift of heavennatural genius.

The whole proceeds of the sale of the sketches and paintings which had remained behind in this great man's study, the result of a large portion of a life industriously spent in the exercise of his art, was not more than 1900. for upwards of one hundred oil paintings, and more than a thousand sketches! Well may the Psalmist "When the breath say, of man goeth forth, he shall turn again to his earth, and then all his thoughts perish." But the goodness of God will not suffer gifts emanating from himself like these to perish everlastingly. It is, I trust, no presumptuous hope to conceive, that by His mercy in Christ Jesus, the spirit of this great Painter, loosed from the infirmities and afflictions of this mortal stage, has put on immortality in those everlasting regions of purity and bliss, of which his imagination seemed to have given him a foretaste on earth. A. J. K.

George Jones, esq. R. A. is appointed Librarian to the Royal Academy of Arts, in the room of Mr. Stothard.

BONINGTON'S WORKS.

At the recent sale, by Messrs. Christie and Manson, of drawings and paintings by the late Mr. Bonington, the following prices were given for some of the watercolour pictures. A Knight and Pages, 37 guineas; Interior of a Church, 31gs.; River Scene, 33gs.; Landscape with Waggon, 68gs.; and two very little bits, 24gs. and 20gs.

The oil sketches were twenty-one in number; of which those which obtained the best prices; A Sea Shore, 34gs.; View on the Seine, 50gs.; Canal at Venice, 39gs.; and Henry III. of France, 100. The last picture, during the life of Bonington, was exhibited both at the Royal Academy and the British Gallery, without finding a purchaser at forty guineas, the price affixed by the Artist.

MR. HUSKISSON'S MONUMENT. At Liverpool, the mausoleum which is intended to cover the mortal remains of Mr. Huskisson, is now in a forward state. It will be formed of fine masonry, in a circular shape; and ten columns, resting on a rusticated basement, will support the dome, the lights being thrown in from the upper part of the building. The statue is under the able hand of Mr. J. Gibson, of Liverpool, now resident at

Rome. The model is finished, and is seven feet six inches in height.

HAYDON'S REFORM BANQUET.

Mr. Haydon's painting of the Reform Banquet at Guildhall, July 11, 1832, which is now exhibited in St. James's street, contains upwards of 100 portraits, all of which have been sat for. The time chosen is whilst the dessert is on the table, and Earl Grey is returning thanks. The Premier's figure is thus the principal object, and as every eye is naturally turned towards the speaker, from either side, the portraits are displayed without any apparent artifice or effort. Something like a foreground is obtained by standing figures of attendants in the lower part of the hall. The men in armour on the side from whence the view is supposed to have been taken, lend likewise their aid in giving a depth to the picture.

CAST OF NAPOLEON'S HEAD.

A posthumous cast from the head of the great Napoleon has recently been exhibited at Colnaghi's, in Cockspur-street, from a mask taken by Dr. Antomarchi, at St. Helena. There is a cold and slightly sad placidity in its expression. In its formation above the brow it may at first sight disappoint, as it has not the breadth and squareness which characterise the Buonaparte busts, and the cheek bones stand out beyond its line: but the difference may be owing to the great attenuation of muscle which is observable in every part of the countenance. The formation is, however, remarkably fine; more oval than flat on top, and of strong individual rather than general characteristic. It is said that the first cast from it ordered in France was by Louis-Philippe, and the first in England by Prince Talleyrand.

New Works announced for Publication.

A Supplement to the Life, Diary, and Correspondence of Sir William Dugdale. Left prepared for publication by the late lamented editor of that work, Wm. Hamper, Esq. F.S.A.

Auto-biography and Letters of ARTHUR COURTENAY.

The Ionian Anthology, Literary and Philosophical Journal in Greek, Italian, and English, published quarterly at Corfu and received regularly in London.

A Treatise on Primary Geology; being an Examination, both Practical and Theoretical, of the Older Formations. H. S. BOASE, M.D. Secretary of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall.

By

Dacre, a Novel. Edited by the COUNTESS OF MORLEY.

The Odes of Aristophanes. Notes by H. P. COOKESLEY.

With

Bibliotheca Selecta. A Guide to the Formation of a Select Library of the best books in the different Branches of Science and Literature. By W. T. LOWNDES, editor of the Bibliographer's Manual.

Researches of the Rev. E. SMITH and Rev. H. G. O. DWIGHT in Armenia. Tales of Woman's Trials. By Mrs. S. C. HALL.

ROYAL SOCIETY.

May 29. J. W. Lubbock, esq. V.P. The reading of Mr. Cooper's paper on the colorific rays which enter into the

composition of white light, was concluded, and the following papers were also read: a letter on the gases discharged from the volcanic shoal in the Mediterranean, by Dr. John Davy, in reply to Dr. Daubeny; On the laws that regulate the motion of steam vessels, by Peter Barlow, esq.; On the construction and application of negative achromatic lenses, (as brought to great perfection by George Dollond, esq. F.R.S.) by the same gentleman; and part of, Remarks on the mode in which the Equilibrium of Fluids is usually treated, by James Ivory, esq.

June 5. F. Baily, esq. V.P.-Mr. Ivory's paper was concluded, and the eighth series of Mr. Faraday's researches on Electricity was commenced.

Several Fellows were elected, including the Marquis of Breadalbane and Lord Teignmouth, the Rt. Hon. Sir George Rose, and the Hon. George Elliot, Capt. R.N. Sec. to the Admiralty, the Rev. Robert Murphy, Dr. Witt, Richard Twining, esq. and the Rev. W. F. Hope.

June 12. B. C. Brodie, esq. V.P.

The following papers were read: 1. On the Arcs of certain Parabolic Curves, by Henry Fox Talbot, esq. M.P. F.R.S. 2. Experimental Researches on Electricity, Eighth Series, by Michael Faraday, esq. D. C.L. F. R.S. &c.

June 19. F. Baily, esq. V.P.-Mr. Faraday's paper was concluded; and papers were read, On the Teredo Navalis and Limnoria Terebrans, by Mr. Thompson, Sec. to the Nat. Hist. Soc. Belfast;

On the Sphinx Ligustica, by Mr. Newport; and on the Torpedo, by J. Davy, esq. The Society adjourned to Nov. 20.

GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

May 21. Read, "On the Sienitic, Porphyritic, and Trap Rocks in Shropshire, Montgomeryshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Radnorshire, and Caermarthenshire, and on the formations in contact with them, and on the proofs which they afford in support of Necker's theory of the Connexion of Metallic Veins with Igneous Rocks, by R. I. Murchison, esq. V.P.

June 4. Read, "Dr. Turner "On the action of Steam on Glass.". Mr. Taylor, "On the strata penetrated in sinking a well, at Diss, in Norfolk."-Sir Philip Egerton, "On the Bone Caves of the Hartz and Franconia."—Mr. Wetherell," On the fossils found in sinking a well on the south side of Hampstead Heath."

The Society adjourned to Nov. 5th.

THE LITERARY FUND.

June 7. The forty-fifth anniversary, of this Society, was observed in Freemasons' Hall, by a company of about a hundred and twenty persons; the President, the Duke of Somerset, in the chair.

The standing toast of "Success to the Literary Fund" being given, Mr. Stebbing, as the organ of the registrars, kindly undertook to describe its claims to public patronage, which he did in a very able and feeling manner. The Earl of Mulgrave proposed the health of the noble chairman, and promised hereafter to avail himself of his office of Vice-President in promoting the success of the Institution to the utmost of his power. The Prince of Canino being toasted, with striking emphasis and energy rose and said:"Aux principes politiques, trésor sacré de la Constitution Britannique! au domicile inviolable du citoyen! au jury indépendant! à la prèsse libre! au droit imprescriptible d'association! Puissent ces libertés précieuses, qui font votre bonheur, devenir communes à la France, qui depuis quarante ans combat pour les obtenir! Puisse movement intellectuel qui agite l'Europe être partout constamment dirigé, comme chez vous, par le sentiment religieux et par l'inviolable respect de la propriété. Puissent ainsi tous les peuples devenir aussi libres que le peuple hospitalier de la Vielle AngleMr. Emmerson Tennant, in a neat speech, gave M. Tricoupi, the Greek minister, who returned thanks in good English, noticing that he had been with Byron at his last hour. Mr. Lockhart, and the literature of Scotland; Mr. Hook, and the novelists; Mr. Pickersgill, and

terre!"

the Royal Academy; Dr. Russell, and the Clergy; were severally given, and elicited appropriate thanks. About ten o'clock his Grace retired, and Mr. Hook being loudly called for, took the chair, and kept up the social enjoyment of the company till towards midnight. In the course of his presidency he called up Capt. Marryatt, R. N., Mr. John Murray, Lieut. Holman, the blind traveller, the Rev. Mr. Gleig, and others; following the course, always so agreeable at such meetings, of framing the toasts so as to have some person present connected with them who should speak in return. Above 2001. was collected in the room, and the subscriptions altogether amounted to about 5001.

INSTALLATION OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON AS CHANCELLOR OF OXFORD.

The company began to arrive in Oxford on Saturday June 7, and in the evening Christ Church Meadow was filled, when the last boat race for the season took place on the Isis. In the evening of Sunday the Meadow and the Wide Walk had a very gay appearance, from the concourse of fashionable strangers.

From an early hour on Monday morning, carriages poured in from all parts of the country with scarcely any intermission. Ten minutes before four in the afternoon, the Chancellor entered Oxford in his open travelling carriage, preceded by troops of mounted gownsmen and townsmen, but, by his express desire, was unattended by any procession. At the door of University College, of which the Vice-chancellor is the Master, he alighted, amidst loud and continued cheers from the crowds of gownsmen in the Highstreet, and the windows of the different houses full of elegantly dressed ladies. The Duke of Cumberland reached town an hour earlier, and took up his residence at Mr. Canon Jelf's. At seven o'clock, his Royal Highness honoured the Vicechancellor with his company at dinner in the lodgings of University College, to meet the Chancellor, Lord Eldon (the High Steward), and a small party. Prince Lieven, the Duchess de Dino, and a long list of noble visitors occupied the hotels.

June 10. A little before eleven o'clock a long procession, with the Duke in his robes of office, set out from University College, and proceeded to the Theatre. The splendour of the dresses (among which the noblemen's, richly laced with gold bars, and the habits of the heads of houses, being scarlet with gold sleeves, and several military officers, were highly conspicuous,) made it a very gay scene. As soon as the visitors entered the The

atre, there was a prospect almost too dazzling to be looked upon. The rising semicircle of the theatre was reserved for the noblemen and the doctors, and immediately behind them were placed the ladies of peers and members of their families, of whom no less than sixty were present. The gallery facing this semicircle was reserved entirely for ladies.

After the undergraduates had filled the gallery, an unanimous cry arose among them for three cheers for the Duke of Wellington. They were given with much hearty vociferation, and again another cheer for the Chancellor of the University. The name of Dyer, one of the proctors, was then hissed, as were those of Earl Grey and the Lord Chancellor. An undergraduate exclaiming "The Bishops," the cheering was universal, deafening, and almost appalling. Lord Wynford entered the theatre about this time, and was received with applause; so, too, was Lord Lyndhurst. The next arrival of importance was that of the Duke of Cumberland, dressed as colonel of the 15th Hussars, when a cheer was proposed and given for the Chancellor of the University of Dublin.

Soon after 11 o'clock, Dr. Crotch announced upon the organ the approach of the Chancellor: in his train came the Marquis of Londonderry, Lord Montagu, Lord Apsley, Lord Hill, Lord Mahon, Sir G. Murray, Sir H. Hardinge, Sir T. Acland, Sir R. Inglis, Mr. Estcourt, Sir Charles Wetherell, and the heads of houses. There were eleven members of the episcopal bench present, including the Archbishops of Canterbury, York, and Armagh; the Bishops of Oxford, Worcester, Exeter, Gloucester, Llandaff, and Barbadoes.

When the cheering had subsided, the Chancellor opened the business of the convocation in a short Latin speech, by stating that it was convened to confer the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, upon the following individuals:-Baron Dedel, the Dutch Minister; the Count Matusewic, the late Russian Minister; the Duke of Buccleuch, K. T.; the Duke of Newcastle, K. G.; the Marquis of Salisbury; the Marquis of Bute; the Earls of Winchelsea, Warwick, K.T., Delawarr, Rosslyn, G. C. B., Wilton, Brownlow, Falmouth; Lords Fitzroy Somerset, K. C. B, Granville Somerset, Francis Egerton, Viscount Strangford, G. C.B., Lord Burghersh, the Right Hon. Sir John Vaughan, knt. Judge of the Common Pleas, Sir James Allan Park, knt. Judge of the Common Pleas, and Sir James Scarlett, knt. King's Counsel.

Dr. Phillimore then delivered the cus

tomary oration in Latin, and the degrees were conferred seriatim.

After the new-made doctors had all taken their seats, the Public Orator proceeded to the Creweian Oration. After this oration followed the Latin Poem, which gained the Chancellor's Prize this year, and which was recited by its author, Mr. Arthur Kensington, a scholar of Trinity College; the subject_of it was, "Cicero ab exilio redux Romam ingreditur;" and Mr. J. Anstice, B. A., late Student of Christ Church, and now the Professor of Classical Literature in King's College, London, recited his English Essay, which also gained a Chancellor's Prize-" The Influence of the Roman Conquests upon Literature and the Arts in Rome." At two o'clock the Theatre was nearly cleared of its visitors. The Duke was attended back as he came to the Theatre, to University College; and afterwards his Grace made various calls at the Colleges.

Dr. Crotch's new Oratorio," The Captivity of Judah,"commenced at the earlyhour of half-past four in the afternoon, no artificial light being permitted to be used in the Theatre. It was extremely well attended. During this afternoon's performance, the Duke of Wellington came into the theatre, and remained there for a short time. His Grace appeared in his plain academic dress. The Vice-chancellor entertained a party of 120 to dinner in the Hall of the University College; and the principal female nobility dined at the Angel, where the Duke attended in the evening the drawing-room of the Countess Brownlow. Every college had its own grand entertainment.

June 11. The weather being unpropitious, there was no procession from University College, but about 11 o'clock the Duke rode in his state carriage to the Clarendon Rooms, adjoining the Theatre, where his Grace and the different noblemen and doctors robed.

The appearance of the Theatre was not very different from that which it exhibited yesterday. Circumstances, however, rendered one alteration necessary; instead of the gallery in front of the semicircle being filled with ladies, it was to-day filled with the various performers who were to take part in the installation ode. There was still room left in the side gallery for several of the fair visitants. The upper gallery, which was occupied yesterday by the bachelors of arts and senior undergraduates, was to-day occupied by the junior undergraduates, who were still more uproarious than their predecessors of yesterday. In the Duke's train were the new-made doctors, all in their scarlet robes and hoods. The Chancellor opened