Mr. Welby Pugin has brought a very serious charge against
the late Sir C. Barry. He says that the Houses of Parliament, which made Sir Charles's fortune, were not designed by him, but by the late Mr. Pugin, who sold his plans to the rival architect for 400/. He would have competed himself, but was under the impression— quite correct, we suspect—that as a Catholic he would have no chance whatever of success. The drawings covered nearly every portion of the building ; Sir Charles was unable, when he got
them, to carry them out without further assistance, and yet for twenty years he lived on.the credit of another man's work. Mr. Barry, Sir Charles's sou, will of course reply to this Statement, which appeared in the Pail Mall Gazette of Thursday under Mr. Pugin's signature, and which is supported by some memoranda of the late Mr. Pugin ; but meanwhile the story looks decidedly an ugly one. Cannot Mr. Pugin recover the cheque by which his father was probably paid ?
