. A Hundred Years Ago .
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' How tó TURN our Time Winos.The Conservatives are destined to enjoy- w-monopelY of popular odium no longer. The Whig Ministry have made vigorous -efforts during the last few weeks to deprive them of its exclusive possession. In these efforts they. have succeeded so well, that if the Tories were only true to them- (:elves in the House of Lords, they might throw out the Irish Church' Reform Bill, and compel the. Ministry to resign (as in that event they are distinctly pledged to do), without the least risk or difficulty. There' would not be the slightest danger Of the Ministers being , carried back to their places on the shoulders, the People this time. . . . . The Whigs appear-to be the same incurable simpletons they were in the time of Sheridan ; they still persist in building up.wanii: to knock their nwn heeds against. Theinost insidious and malicious of their Conservhtive 'enemies could not have contrived to inveigle, then: into. a more desperate position than that which they now occupy.. A speedy retreat can alone afford them the leaat hope of deliverance. For how do they stand with Parliament and the Nation ?
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• TILE NEM NATIONAL GALLERY VerPUB ST. M.ARTIN'S 'CHURCH.— One of the principal objects of the improvements at Charing Cross was to throw open a direct front view of the noble portico of St. Martin's Church. This will be frustrated by the intended position of the new National: Gallery ; fOr the lino of its front will intersect the -view of the church from Pall Mall, so as to screen three-fourths of it. It might as well—perhaps better—be shut out altogether. . . . . The public have just right to complain of the secrecy with Which designs for public buildings are kept. The nation never knows what it has been paying for, until the bantling of the,archi- tect's brain grows up before its eyes -in naked. leauty—or deformity, for too often it proves an abortion or a monster. Not only plans and :elevations, but a model of the intended building, should be submitted to public view.
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