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It would be absolute neglect not to touch upon the illnature in and Out of the House, that has attended the selection of Mr, G. Scott as the architect of the Forei:pi Office; an artist of whom the present age may be honestly proud. Witness the Metropolis, Ely, and Hamburg, as well as several English shires. Lord Palmerston threw off a string of objections, "ugliness, incongruity, unsuitableness, expense," &c., &e. Mr. Ruskin answered by a reference to the memories of the first window at White- hall, and an appeal in behalf of symbolizing the British constitution. " Habitans in Sieco," the cleverest of them all, while avowing the adaptibilities which he had experienced from Mr. Scott, smote Mr. Tite and his temple of Plutus by the Bank ; the Member for Brighton per- sisted in his hostility to the " Roof " style, as is his wont, with a little unfairness and prejudice, and the public, aloof from partisanship, simply asks for the best man.
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