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principle , though applicable to erecting arches between stone piers , as at the Birmingham Railway-station , was not feasible " where no lateral resistance could be allowed " . It came down twice with terrible destruction of life arid property , and the transept was built eventually by a scaffold of timber raised from the ground , and made complete throughout its whole length ; a work of immense expense , which of course the other kind of contrivance would have saved . The object of the contractors -was , however , most bitterly thwarted , for what with the failure of their plan , and the pensions to widowsj they must have lost at least 10 , 000 / . by the economical attempt . * The nave is much improved by the pairs of columns which have been advanced out of line at intervals of * every 72 feet ; they give distance , and vary the interior . But there was an alteration pi'oposed during the erection of the nave , and before the flooring was begun , designed and recommended by the Fine Art directors , Messrs . Jones and Wyatt , which , had it been carried out , would have made the nave far more beautiful and imposing than it is now . This- was to let the floor be almost level with , the ground throughout the whole length of the nave , and on each side a grand terrace on the present level , which would have been same fifteen , feet from the ground , with- flights of steps from below leading into the courts , the whole ornamented with statues and vases . The facades of the courts-would have gained ^ Jn height , what they now want so much ; and that crowding of objects on a ^ evel ^ whi ch is now the source of so much , indistinctness and confusion , wtmld have been avoided . We should have been able then to take a picturesque and a comfortable viewi which now cannot be got . The lower part might have been most advantageously allotted to the refreshment and trading speculations , and made very ornamental by arcades and recesses of various Ends ;¦ iifiis w . ouM have been much better than the present underground placfeflj which are disagreeable , especially iov good dinners . The slope of the groundis well taken advantage of by Sfi * J . Paxtori in making ; his tunnel , which is not jv tunnel at all , but a covered way . It runs along the garden front of the building , occupying the space between the floor and the natural level 1 of the ground . Here are the ftirnaces and the feeding boilers tothe fifty miles of pipes that are to make the climate tropical , but which lrovenot yet been jmt to the test . Another new feature is -the open gallery along the garden front , which makes a most agreeable promenade in sight of the garden , the holiday groups , and the lovely landscape . The wings which flank each side of the terrace , and the two lofty and slender towers which used to stand at each end
of the Palace , are both new features connected with the fountains , which are rather a sore point just now—people will persist 5 n putting troublesom e questions about them . And , as if everything connected with the fountains was to be unlucky , these structures have fallen beneath a fatal lack of engineering skill . The towers , after reaching their intended height of 250 feet to the terror of the neighbourhood , and the serious affliction of an old gentleman of property who happened to live under the shadow of one , suddenly began to disappear . Brunei was observed at an early hour one mominw taking a sight afc these ambitious structures , and this was quite enough for them . It is said , however , they may rise again with renewed strength in time for the fountains . The great tank raised at the end of the wingts also condemned as unsafe . These mistakes are awkward as well as expensive "; they show the want of an engineering head ; and it is mortifying to us , the first mechanics in the world , to see such puttings up and puffings down agaiu going on , where all the skill and the science and the taste of the country is supposed to be concentrated . The decoration , both of the old and new Crystal Palace , has been done by Mr . Owen Jones , an authority in such matters , and one of the few architects who have devoted themselves so completely to the study of the principles upon which colours should be employed in decorating or assisting the beauties of architecture . Of Mr . Owen Jones ' s peculiar views of the positive or primary colours , red , blue , and yellow , we have not to speak ; it will ha remembered that many experiments were made before the colouring of the first Crystal Palace was ventured upon ; it was felt to be a difficult subject . Some were for painting it all one bright tint ; others all one dull or neutral tint ; others for bronzing it all over . Mr . Jones was disposed to cover it with proper balancing proportions of red , blue , and yellow , in their simple purity ; the experiment would have been a most interesting one , and it is possible that if the right proportions could * be hit upon , the effect of the whole might be harmonious , and not so "loud , " as it was at once declared it would be . However , moderation , we won't say timidity , prevailed , and the positives were toned down into blue diluted with white , and yellow ¦ weakened in the same way ; the red was pronounced altogether too terrible , hut it is curious to see how it was found necessary to throw in an immense quantity of this colour in trimmings and flags , till the general effect of . the interior was declared to be charming , and so it was . One principle is certainly established , and that is that blue of about the same tint as the sky , is the most applicable for the upper part of such immense buildings , its effect at Sydenham is unquestionably good . The same may in a great measure be said of the white which is largely employed in stripes and diagonal patterns on the spandrils of the interior of the towers , thotigh yeflow inight be acceptable here , as it seems to need warmth . The red columns are the great novelty at the New Palace , they have been much debated . If the place had been , intended only as a conservatory of plants -with statues , they would have been exactly the thing , the contrast of the green of the plants would have been very grateful and effective , and unquestionably the parts wiiich are the evident supporting members , should be coloured with some solid looking and decided colour , but there is this to be said ' against them , and it really seems important : —that they obstruct the view and interfere with the decoration of the architectural courts , the brilliant effect of which is certainly prevented by these bright red columns coming first to the eye . The Alhambra can stand against them , "but the Byzantine and Medieval facades are dulled considex'ably by them .
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• m ... . . | n ¦ - ^ ¦¦¦| || ,.. . . . . — _ . ... ¦ ... ^ FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE . Tuesday , September 12 . BANKRUPTS . — Hewitt Wig& and BcrtoN Smith , Cfresham-streefc West , City , commission agents — Behvt . J ^ lekee , S 57 . Albanyrroad , Camberwell , Surrey , builder—Ajtn Maria . Bpwaeds and Thomas Coopeb , Birmingham , ironmongers—Geoege Sampson , Lincoln , draper . SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS . —Lieutenant Alexander lHA . cpHEESO 3 ir ( deceased ) , Kingussie , Inverncss-shiro" William D'qvds , Glasgow , sailcloth manufacturer—Thomas Lov Ajmcxh , Perthshire , b * kcr . Friday ,, September 15 . BANKRUPTCY ANNULtBD . —Pa . tuick I \ untEix and John GHiffBiTHB ; Brought on , Manchester , builders . BANKRUPTS . —Thomas TCotjn < jmajj , Hoxton , linendr aper — John THonaridBY , Bolton-le-Moor , drysalter—Dajid Scott , Southporb . pork-butolier— "Wixliam Tjbomab , Bridge-street , Blackfriws , commission agent—John Oul-M 5 N JPenbojud , Chelsea , oiL and coloumnan— Ant * Majbxa Bdwauds and Thomas Coofeb , Coventry , Warwick ( and not of Birmingham , as horctoforo advertised ) ironmongers —Stbihem- Harkis , Kingstpn-upoTx-Thamos , Surrey ,, ironmonger— Hokatio Coxxier the younger , Slad Mill , jPainsvrick , blanket manufacturer — Ebeitezeb Wixmawb , St . David's , druggist—William Beailbfoud , Nottingham * smallwaro dealer — William Koldrook , Nottingham Joiner—Thomas Pakkbb , Soutliport , Lancaster , hotel keeper—Joseph William Hail . Cardiff , dealer in agricultural implements—Tkomab Hutohings , Axminstor . Devon-nnraery and seedsman . BCQTOH . SEQUES'PaATIONS—AirirH MAOiiAim-r or Bxbwakt ,, Edinburgh—Milieu and Co ., merchants , Glaagow .
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¦ ¦ i ¦ i i i iiii iii iii i i iiii GOfltPAKATIVE BIEASUKE OF Tfie Old Crystal Palace . The New Crystal palace , feet . feet .. Nave—Length , 1848 Nave—Length ... ... ... ... 1608 Width ... ... 72 Width ,. ... 72 Height ... 68 Height -. ... ... ... 104 . Transepts—Length of Great ... 384 Width of do 120 Tbawbbpx—Width 72 Height ofdo . from floor 168 Height . ~ 104 Garden level ... ... 208 Length of small ... 336 Width ofdo . ... ... 72 Height ofdo 104 Totai ; capacity ( "Floor ... ... 772 , 784 ( Superficial ) ( Galleries ... 217 , 100 TcxcAi , capacity— ( Superficial ) " ) Floor and Galleries , including > 843 , 656 989 , 884 Wings and Railway Colonnade . )
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EIBTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIROPHSSPIERS , —Septemberle atldySt-Giles ' s-strcot , Oxford > Mrs . •^ iS ^ t - —Soptoiab pr 8 , atOvortmry-court . Worcesternt ^ rfinnJ ^ X Catharine Berkeley ; a ' daugbior . <* AB » INER . ~ Sopton » 3 ) or 7 > , ¦ Dartmouth-liouso , BlaoK-&Vm ' a wl £° /^» ll kynodooh Gardiner , 11 . A ,, Military Secretary at Gibraltar i a Bon . GRAHAK . —jSeptomber 10 , at Maiden Bradley , Wilts , Lady Hormlono Graham : « daughter . SOUl / EOtf . —September 9 . at Bonn . Pruaaia , tho wife of John 1 ' prriano Houlton , Ban .,, of 3 f ariolgh Otwtlo , Someroot : a daughter . MONrDBO&B . —Soptombor 7 , at KtMnburgh , the Duohoua of MontroBo ; n daughter . MARRIAGJSS . ABTLBY—HUSSKT . L . —Soptombor 7 , at All Soul ' s Church , Xtangnam-placo , by tilio Lord Jiiahop of RocIiGHter , 'Francis J ^ BtrnnKo Astloy , ICuq ., of Burgh-hull , Norfolk , brother of * ° 2 r on 5 ? n « tlnBH , to ItoHaliiiu Aliolii , yoiuifcost danghtttr of tho lato Sir ttotoert FrnnWnnd ftusaeli , linrt ., of foBha & " ° ' mOi ° S 0 hw l u « r J )» 00 Urti ' - Uuolt "
DAWSON—LEESON- —September 5 , at Monckstown Church , near Dublin , George Massy Dawson , Esq ., of Ballinacourte , ' County Tippcrary , to Grace Elizabeth , second daughter of Sir William Jiceson , Corrig House , Kinj ? stowa . METHWElSr—SERGI'SON . —Soptomber 12 , at Slaugham . in tho county of Sussex , by the Lord Bishop of Chichestor , tho Hon . St . John Paul Methucn , brother of Lord Methuon , of Corsham Court , Wilts , to Anno , oldest daughter of tho Rev . W . Sergison , rector of Slaugham , in tho above county . DEATHS . DICK . —September 13 , at Southampton , John Dick , Esq ., Admiral of the Blue , aged seventy-six . ELODON . —Soptambor 13 , at his residence , Shirley-nark . Croydou , the Earlof Eldon . tflTZWITiMAM . —September 11 , at her residence , Richmond Lodge . Putney , after a short illness , Fanny Elizabeth Fitzwiliiam , of tho Haymwkot Theatre aged flfcytwo . NAiPLHEON . —Soptonaber 11 , a « od forty-five , Henry Geors Naploton , Esq ., Captain of tho Eighth RcBimout of M . N . I ., and Governor of Hereford County Gaol . PBRiRY—September 7 , at Putney , Flora Fanny , oldest douwhto * of Sir EiBkiito Perry , aged oighteop ., TREVBLYAN . —August 21 , at Yarna , from an attaok of cholera , in nine hours , Colonel' Trovolyan , of tho second battalion , of thoOoldscreaiu Guards .
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Crnmnmkl Mate . MOKET B 1 AKKET AND CITY INTELLIGENCE . Friday Evening , September 15 , 1854 . Tins sottlomont of tho epneral sharo and stock account for the mt * dl <) of the month camo off to-day . Tho improved pricosof Railway Shaw ; es notwltlistanding ita being a Bull account , has been well held , although oKCooahigly heavy Contain was paid for continuations of some < atook . Tner « ° "Jf ' f ^ lllistance , was paid to * carrying over Midlands $ 8 Po / confe . ^ oods ; * per cent . Birmingham : and 3-ld nor dt a ^ 5 k * T W" Scrlp whl 0 >» lml * « " shows a dispoflttion to x-occdo , boinp ( juotcct this day at 4 J , ft pm . Vho < Gmwol account was sottlvd l «» t Wodnos « lay , beara obt « lul i . . a 5 * £ ? r continuation of stock , tho waiUiK-up m-ico fh ^^ ' ^ T «»« « * W ? , , ? "I ** dliy ^ Joo" » i , " co' " ok ? A ! ^ ^ ?' , "?^ 0011 " ' , ? "'"? M »« morning at Tho Mining Marfcot is almost deserted , tlio auotations hfw aSS ! 3 l ! lS'A" " i " ^ CT * Much bu *»«« yho « v « r ! hC . « n . i ,,, ? V rinB i tho P ""* ncoount in » wn . ry h { iotoh and roi ^ tt t ' ? IA H } tiir own - *» vIijb nearly on the WcdnoBday -when aharos woro contlnuod to the SS Jth ° r " ? W 1 t » o » n * lo nowH from the BiSfc arrive with regard to Bobivatopo ) , combined with the
successful gathering of the harvest in all parts , we way not only look for the maintenance of present value of securities , but realise even still higher quotations . Shares closodJ as follows : Caledonians , 60 i , 07 i Eastern , 12 , 12 }; Great Northern , 89 , 90 ; Great Soutiiom and Western ( Ireland ) . 92 . 94 : Great western , 1 % 74 J ; Lancashire and yorkshife , 78 'f , 74 . }; London and Blaokwall , 8 fi , 85 -, London and' Bfighton , 108 , 105 j London and North-western , 104 i , 1015 ; London and South-Western , 83 , 80 ; Midlands , 72 * , 721 ; North Uritish , 324 , 833 ; North-Eastern ( Berwick ) , 774 . 7 S | ; North-Westcrn , Ci , 74 ; Oxford , Worcester , and wolveriiainpton , 34 ' , 3 S ; Scotch Central , 97 , 90 ; South-Bastern , OBJ , 00 i ; Vale of Ncath . , 19 ; Watorford and Kilkenny , ii , * l Watorford and Limerick , ai , 20 ; Antwerp and Rotterdam , 6 } , 7 ; Eastern France , 82 , 32 *; Great Central Franco , i . 4 , pm : ; Great Luxembourg , Constituted , 2 J , 5 ; Ditto , Obligations , 24 , 3 J ; Naraur and Liege ( without interest ) , 7 , 74 ; Northern Franco , 34 ;* , 34 f ); Paris and Lyons , 182 , 3 HA . pm . ; Paris a , nd Orleans , 48 , 50 ; Paris and . Rouen , 37 , 81 M Rouon and Havre , 23 , 235 ; Sambio and Menso , 8 , 84 ; Went Flnndern , ;! 5 , 4 ; Zealand , Xd , 17 ; Agua- Frla , $ , i \ St . ltio Del Roy . 20 , 28 ; Santisigodo Cuba , 4-J , 5 ; "United Mexican * * iJ , 34 ; Australian Agricultural , 42 , 4 A \ Peninsular and Oriental , 63 j Crystal Palace , 3 d , i ; Von Dioraon ' s Land , lai-lflfc .
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BRITISH FUNDS FOR , THE PAST WEEK . ( OLoaiira PmoEB . )
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 16, 1854, page 886, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2056/page/22/
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