27 OCTOBER 1860, Page 20

A monument to Shakspere, at Melbourne, has been very liberally

sub- scribed for and the committee have come to the decision to be guided by English taste in the selection of a design. The authorities representative of our taste who have been proposed are Mr. Carlyle, Mr. Ruskin, and Sir Charles Eastlake. The duty of giving the casting vote between opinions so firmly held and so forcibly expressed as we imagine they would be in such a committee of taste, must prove to be rather an oner- ous one. Six of the most eminent English sculptors, and all the artists of Victoria, are invited to compete.