The New York Cathedral, now in course of erection, is
twenty feet wider and 30 feet higher than York Minster: the nave is three feet wider and nearly forty feet higher than St. Paul's, Loudon. It will be the handsom- est ecclesiastical edifice in the States.
Mr. Bell, the sculptor, who is also at work on the Guards' memorial, will before the end of the year have set up the proposed bronze monument, made from guns taken at Sebastopol, to the memory of the officers and men of the Royal Artillery who fell in the Crimea. The site is in front of the Artil- lery barracks, Woolwich.
The national trophy commemorative of Wallace, at Stirling, is to be modelled after a design by Mr. N. Paton. A lion bends over a prostrate figure, whose body terminates in the coil of a serpent, the right hand grasp- ing a broken sword, and the left a broken chain, of which a portion hangs from the neck of the lion.
Mr. Redgrave, at the inaugural meeting of the Brighton School of Prac- tical Art, assured the auditory that there were now between 70,000 and 80,000 pupils connected with the London School, being 30,000 more than in the previous year.
The Builder reports unfavourably of the majority of the designs for Mr. Spurgeon's chapel, to be erected opposite the Elephant and Castle, Newing-
ton, " their merit being, to the editor's regret, in such slight proportion to the requirements." The design was wanted for a chapel to contain 4000 persons, 3000 seated and 1000 standing : besides a basement floor to con- r- tain school-rooms for boys and girls, and a lecture hall for 800 persona. IL, There were to be six vestries, a baptistry, and other conveniences. The Handel commemoration is to improve the aspect and furnishing of the great orchestra at the Crystal Palace, and the centre transept will be covered with a decorated velariurn after the fashion of the Romanamphitheatres. An allegorical painting, of which the general ides, says the Builder, has been
sketched out by Mr. D. Roberts, R.A., will take the place of the bed-tick that encloses the tropical department at present. A capacious museum for the display of the productions of India is to be
provided in the New Indian Offices, where the late Dr. Forbes Roy la- bours will he worthily displayed.
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