tional remarks on each structure, also facts and observations relating to the Temple church, and monuments, prefaced by introductory considerations on the rise and progress of early English architecture, by Charles Clarke, Esq. F. S. A. One hundred and twenty-two copper plates form this series of views of the ecclesiastical architecture of London and its suburbs, by J. Coney, G. Shepherd, &c. Engraved by J. Skelton, W. Angus, J. Wise, &c.; the whole intended for a more full illustration of the topography and history of the metropolis; and as a suitable accompaniment to Dugdale's Monasticon, or the Vetusta Monumenta, published by the Antiquarian Society, for either of which appropriate sizes are printed

off.

The editor of this work (The Annals) has just published a practical treatise on the law of dilapidations, for the use of architects, surveyors, lawyers, proprietors of houses

&c.

Mr. DAWE, during his tour through Germany, stopped at Weimar, and painted the venerable poet Göethe. The picture is shortly expected in London, for the purpose of being engraved. Mr. Dawe has commenced his gallery of heroes for the Emperor of Russia, at Petersburgh.

Mr. RAIMBACH has finished his etching from Wilkie's Blindman's-buff, in a most superior manner. It bids fair to be one of his best works.

SIR HUMPHRY DAVY has been elected a Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, at Paris, in the room of the late Mr. Watt.

Mr. SHARPE has nearly finished three or four cabinet pictures of comic subjects, for the ensuing exhibition of the British Institution, and is proceeding rapidly with his large commission of Drury lane Green room.

Mr. DEVIS is painting a large equestrian portrait of his present Majesty, for the new town-hall of Hereford. The horse is painted from nature, at Astley's Amphitheatre, from the beautiful cream coloured charger that was bred for his Majesty's use. Mr. Devis deserves praise for thus studying nature in his works.

Present from the King of Prussia to the Duke of Wellington. The finest service of China ever imported into this kingdom, arrived from Hamburgh, a short time since, as a present from his Majesty of Prussia to our illustrious Wellington. On Thursday last, the 9th of December, the same was escorted to Apsley House by a party of officers belonging to the Customs, attended by three Prussian officers. Tuesday a proportion of these glittering ornaments were set up in the great banquetting room, for the inspection of the Duke and his friends. In the centre of a most superb plateau, enriched with exquisite or-molu, appeared a triumphal column (an obelisk), containing an inscription, giving a slight outline of the gallant hero's achievements-magnificent vases, pedestals and figures, dishes, tureens, ice pails, plates: each piece represents the Duke mounted on his white charger. Every article is superbly gilt with massy gold, intermixed with garter blue, white, and red colours. Every plate is different, containing figures, landscapes, or public edifices in Spain, Portugal &c. Flags and other military insignia, appear in appropriate situations. The paintings are matchless, being the combined work of the artists of almost every country.

Lord ALLOWAY has given a piece of ground, between the new and old bridges at Ayr, on which is to be erected a handsome monument to the inemory of Burns, the Scottish poet.

Mr. EDWIN LANDSEER will have an exquisite picture in

the next exhibition at the British Institution, the best

he has painted, and by far the most interesting subject. It is two Mount St. Gothard mastiffs, which are trained by the Monks, discovering a poor traveller half buried in the snow. The eager expression of one of the dogs with his glistening eye, and licking with his warm tongue the frozen hand of the poor sufferer, is very fine indeed; while the expression and action of the man himself, with his cold frozen flesh, are also excellent. The subject is very touching, and we have not the slightest doubt of its making a great impression.

Mr. WILKIE has nearly finished the king of Bavaria's picture. The subject is, the Opening of the Will. The impudent triumph of one party, and the angry disappointment of the other, is very fine. We think his Majesty and the Court of Munich, will have some idea of British genius when they witness this picture. Wilkie is rather, to be sure, a knock-me-down argument against the theories of Winckelman and Du Bos, about latitude, as he comes, we believe, from a latitude where Winckelman and Du Bos would have as readily conceived a race of negroes to exist, as a man of genius in art. We are almost afraid to speak of Mr. Haydon's picture, having so often anticipated its conclusion, and so often, from unforeseen causes, been disappointed; but if his eyes and health continue, in the strength they have for the last ten months, it will be finished, and exhibited in the Spring. All the figures are finished, and the back ground is on the point of conclusion. He has taken Bullock's large room in the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, and hopes to bring it out in April.

Chevalier Professor BREDA, first history painter in Sweden, an artist of great merit, died a short time ago, in the 59th year of his age.

Mr. SOANE is announced to give a course of lectures on Architecture at the Royal Institution, in addition to his usual course at the Royal Academy.

The Dilettante club room, at the Thatched House Tavern, has recently undergone a complete renovation. The portraits of the original members of the society, chef d'œuvres of the great master Sir Joshua Reynolds, have all been cleaned, and their rich frames regilt; and the walls being covered with a deep crimson embossed paper, are now much better calculated to shew the portraits to advantage, than the former blue colouring. The draperies and general furniture of the room have also been completely modernized, and the tout ensemble has a very rich and splendid effect.

Sir Thomas Lawrence, Messrs. Turner, Jackson and Chantrey, were lately at Rome, pursuing their commissions. The latter was taken by banditti, and kept till their banker had announced to them the receipt of the money (£100.), which he paid by a check on his own banker at Rome, had been paid. They are all but Mr. Turner, we believe, on their way home.

The Flemish way of making drying Oil.

One pound of litharge to two quarts of linseed oil; one quarter of a pound of white lead powder, one gill of water, mixed together and boiled, one quarter or half an hour, over a slow fire. When boiled, set it in the sun, with a glass over it, for three or four days; it must then be completely poured off, and is fit for use. The Morning Post has contradicted the detailed account of an intended new Palace for the Prince Regent, which appeared in its columns on Wednesday last; being "well assured," says the editor, that it is" in most particulars very erroneous, if not completely unfounded." We copied this article into our paper of Thursday, says the Morning Chronicle, more as a curious specimen of reports sometimes propagated, than as one to which it was possible to give any faith. Seven millions for a Palace! A thousand idle stories, which the ignorant believe, as Dr. Johnson once remarked, fade

away when the computist takes them within his grasp. This sum, the vastness of which seems to have excited no astonishment in the mind of the unsuspecting editor, would actually build a city of the first magnitude, a city of seven thousand houses, and capable of containing fifty-six thousand inhabitants! That the building of a new palace has been, and is still in contemplation, we entirely believe, and, moreover, are of opinion that such a thing is necessary,-that it would prove highly beneficial, and, when dispassionately considered, satisfactory to the country at large, and that the present is the moment for carrying the intention into effect, provided it were designed upon a reasonable scale, and that a considerable portion of the funds necassary for the purpose could be supplied by the sale of Crown Lands, now laying waste in the most central and eagerly-sought part of the metropolis. The erection of an edifice, suitable to the rank and dignity of a Sovereign of these kingdoms, would afford employinent to thousands of persons subsisting at present, in a great measure, upon parochial aid; it would not only revive the drooping and almost broken spirit of our artisans, and give activity to many important branches of our manufactures, for it is to be presumed that every article employed would be fabricated at home, but it would be a means of exhibiting in the most inviting and favourable point of view, to those Foreigners who visit the British court, the various productions of fine and mechanical arts, from the proud creations of the sculptor, down to the humble labours of the spinner.-It would contain, if judiciously planned, a gallery, in which should be assembled the valuable but scattered collections of paintings by the greatest masters, now shut up in Windsor Castle, Hampton Court, Kew, Buckingham and Carlton Houses, &c. which should be liberally opened to students, and also, under prudent limitations, to the