A correspondent who shares use vexation at the obtrusive bad
taste of the Challis Statue project, points out some contrasts in the amounts subscribed to that compulsory fund and to the voluntary Newton fund, Lord John Russell, who thinks the project to confer on Mr. Challis a pa. raritical immortality by the statue of Prince Albert worth a contri. bution of 501., rates the commemoration of Newton at only just one-tenth. Sir Charles Eastlake is probably determined by ass. siderations of art, and justly, in deeming the Prince as a model for sculpture worth 61. 178. more than Newton, to whom the President of the Royal Academy only renders 3/. 3s. The Earl of Reese gives for the Challis statue 501. ; to the Newton, 0. Is it that the President of the Royal Society has solved the nebula of Newton's fame, and superseded that crude inquirer ? Our correspondent suggests that the Newton Committee should publish their list and extracts from the Challis list in juxtapositioius a device which might morally give the Newton fund the advantage of a compulsory character.
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