25 JANUARY 1845, Page 18

FINE ARTS.

THE King of the French has presented the Government School of Design at Somerset House with a complete set of casts from the famous bronze gates to the Baptistery at Florence ; of which Michael Angelo, alluding to the bas reliefs by Ghiberti that adorn them, said, " They were worthy to be the gates of Paradise." The valuable gift was wholly unexpected. Un- fortunately, there is no room lofty enough to set the gates up in, so that the lesson of their grand proportions will be lost to the students.