A correspondent of the Builder sensibly enough suggests that the
Chief Commissioner of Works should order a model of Mr. Scott's revised design for the New Foreign Office to be made for public inspection as well as the working drawings, &c., already promised. Few but professional men can give due attention to plans and elevations, and even perspectives fail suffi- ciently to define the character of the parts as well as of the entire buildings.
Bell's memorial to the Guards who fell in the Crimean War, which will be erected at the bottom of Waterloo Place, standing seventeen feet high, represents three guardsmen, one in the uniform of each regiment. over which rises a female figure of Mercy. The pedestral is already prepared.
The Marquis of Downshire has given a commission to Mr. Doherty for a copy in marble of his exquisite figure of Erin. It may be remembered that we called attention to this gentleman's power only a short time back, and to record this recognition of it is particularly gratifying to us, believing, as we do, that a bright path is opened to an artist who only needed to be known to be appreciated.
The Art-Journal informs us that several of the Directors and shareholders of the great Westminster Hotel Company have determined on erecting in the entrance hall of their building a statue of Carton, to commemorate his name, and the site of the house associated with his memory.
Sir Henry Dryden has promised his valuable collection of local antiqui- ties to the townspeople of Northampton, if a suitable and prominent museum is established in the town.
On the ground at the south-west corner of Monson Street, Lincoln, ad- joining the north gable of the Roman House in the suburbs of Wigford, a further discovery of remains of inscribed stones, funeral vessels, &c., two or three unbroken cinerary urns and a jug called an " uroeus," defines on this side a very spacious burial-ground for the southern or lower division of Roman Lincoln. By the coarse character of the fabrics exhumed, the urns appear to be those used by the plebeian order containing the deposit of all that could be collected from the quenched embers of the funeral pile.
The cathedral at Madras is to receive twenty-three painted windows frow the establishment of Messrs. Laver and Barraud who have commendably ex- ecuted their work. Cartoons for the three picture windows, represent the Baptism of Christ, the Saviour appearing to Mary in the garden, and a por- trait of the Redeemer. They are lull of character, and rich in colour, and the difficulty of adapting windows, usually of a Gothic character, to a ro- manesque temple has been successfully accomplished.
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