. We have received a circular, bearing a number of
the first names in rank and influence, for a proposal to " promote the execution in bronze of Baron Marochetti's colossal statue of Richard Cceur de Lion, and its erection on some conspicuous site in the Metropolis, as a memorial of the Great Exhibition of 1851"; for the furtherance of which object a meet- ing ie. convened for next Saturday at Willis's Rooms. The design is both rational and feasible. No fear in the-case of a work whose splendid merits are. already public, that this should be, as such designs have.too frequently-been, the mere pretext for a job in favour of some particular artist ; or that we should find foisted upon us another of those stone or metal, monsters the pprebrium of London.. As to site, the first that oc- curs-Wits as both favourable and appropriate is the statue's old site in Hyde Park; but others may deserve to be considered also. .
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