In the show-room of Messrs. Garrard, goldsmiths to the Crown,
in the llaymarket and Penton Street, may be seen for a few days the prize given by the Emperor of Russia for the Ascot Races; with the Queen's cup, and the Goodwood cup; all executed by Mr. Cotterill. The subject of the Emperor's cup is Hippolytus,-his horses terrified by the marine monsters whom Neptune sent for his destruction. The grouping of the figures-the marine monsters towering above-is symmetrical and ingenious; the horses are spirited and lifelike; the human figure is graceful. But the sculptor has forgotten that when a figure is bent back, as the Hippolytus is, the flexor muscles of the abdomen and their auxiliaries are thrown into violent action; convulsive would be the contraction of the fibres at the insertion about the sternum, and the extensors of the thigh would also lose the sleek roundness which his figure displays. The subjects of the other de- signs are, a Spanish bull-fight and a Sioux bison-hunt; excellent in ar- rangement and spirited in execution, especially the last.
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