THE NEW HOUSES OF lcARIJAATENT. .
seventy sets out of the ninety -s even 'have been received for exhi- bitiOn ; as many as fifteen sets y et remain unclaimed at the office of In the mean time, the discussion as to the expediency of another
of the subordin Legiateslature ones, arll . A th ine the chie immf Government inity. Offices,Seve and ramanl ofy
e them are but temporarily located, it is true, and in most incon-
venient buildings : but Sir JOHN SOANE's plan for including them Nation.
building of the Parliament Houses : and no corner of the town cries out
cougbfares through the town, the throng of carriage's would cause con- considering that this is a PEEL-chosen Parliament, is an object enterable inconvenience, during the sitting of Parliament.' On the not to be despised. But this is a very trifling object compared score of 'unhealthiness, we suspect the objection is exaggerated, if not
unfounded. The comparatively few buildings in the immediate neigh.. with some others. It is a great object, to crown the Tory triumph boarhood must lessen the quantity of smoke ; while the contiguity over O'CONNELL, by making them, who have deprived . him of of the Park and the River insures a free ventilation, and as pure air as the first seat in Ireland, the instruments of his obtaining the first can be had in London. The site is low, but the soil is gravelly: seat in England. If there were still a vacancy at Glasgow, he and good drainage would prevent damp : moreover, the new buildings might easily have had the first seat in Scotland. Besides, could ought be raised on arches if needful. The vaults where GUY Faux the Reformers—the real Unionists—have a better opportunity of .atowed his powder could not have been very damp, even in November. proving their sincerity, than by making O'CONNELL the Represen- if Buckingham Palace were so healthily and pleasantly situated, we tative of a great English constituency. By doing so, they would ebould not dad the King objecting to live in it. As regards the new deeply mortify and annoy the Conservatives—the true Repeaters edifice eclipsing the Hall and Abbey, this can only be the case in so —and so prove the hypocrisy of those mere preachers of " Union, . far as they are seen from the river, which is the precise point of view from which i.."'Ith appear to the least advantage—their roofs being the complete union." Yes ; let us, the Reformers, take this very im- mostprominent features. The façade of the river front of the in- portant step towards rendering the Union real and complete. - tended structure wil be—or should be—of such a beautiful design as Imagine the shout of joy that will be raised by the excitable and far to surpass the effee of the. Hall and Abbey seen from this direr- demonstrative Irish millions, when they hear that their Liberator, - tion, even were all the ini..1"nIng buildings removed. We never cross turned out of Parliament by their Tory oppressors, has been Westminster Bridge without. fancying what a splendid addition to the elected by the first constituency of England. And will not some
A plan has been proposed by M. .
W.Ekt.e, the architectural book- a sulefeed,. when it'. -view from it the new buildings will present. : the very site is enough honest English prejudice against Irishmen b to inspire any architect capable of 2opreelating such an opportunity. is seen that one whose name begins with 0' can effectivelj' rePre- seller, for publishing the whole of the De."tna and Plans. It is made electors of Westminster, by sending O'CONNELL to Parliament, in and well deserves the at- liberal spirit yet with a view to economy, will teach an important lesson to those who are still bent on main-
tention designs of the
tennon of the architects. Certainly the most ren:. taming religious distinctions in civil matters—the CUMBERLANDS competition, if not all, should be published, for the honour a. nd rre4it and SrANLEvs—the firebrands whose "religion," as they call it, of the architectural talent of England. It would be ti national me- is wholly political—the malignant hypocrites who, for the sake of monal, and acceptable to foreigners as well as to our ccienternfih
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