believe, not be accessible to the public. It is interesting as preserving the design of the very last dying effort of English mediaval art. Another very curious fragment, one end of the "Painted Chamber," consisting of three windows of the palace of William Rufus, is apparently doomed to destruction, if not already down.

In the provinces, this year has been fertile in market buildings on a large scale. Among these, that at Bolton does much credit to its architect, Mr. G. Robinson. The exterior will be seen by our engraving to be very original-and expressive of its purpose, without inappropriate ornament (if we except, perhaps, the Corinthian order). Internally, the whole area is covered, chiefly with roofs of iron and glass, the arrangement of which, to cover effectually a space of 290 feet by 219, called for much novelty of contrivance. Two roofs higher than the rest intersect like a cross in the centre, on which is a wooden lantern tower, and the smaller turrets seen near the four angles are for ventilation.

The Wolverhampton Market, by the same architect, is a very similar building, on a smaller scale, and with an open area in the centre, surrounded by a triple aisle of iron pillars and roofs, the centre one glazed. The outer wall has blank arcades, an Italian Doric composition for the chief entrance, and a very neat pyramidising clock-tower over it.

The new Abattoir, Edinburgh, is chiefly noticeable as the first introduction of a very desirable public improvement hitherto confined to the Continent. It contains twelve blocks of building, each consisting of a range of cattle sheds, each shed communicating with its own slaughtering-booth beyond. The whole is enclosed, and entered through a mask of Egyptian architecture. The arrangements for cleanliness and ventilation are said to be most complete.

The additional London City Prison, Holloway, is as our engraving will show, a most striking piece of architectural scenery; but no description, and nothing short of a model, or whole set of views, could convey an idea of its extreme whimsicality and phantom-like aspect of unreality, which is probably without a parallel except on the stage or some of Martin's visionary backgrounds. Certes, nothing so like a dream has ever been translated into sober prosaic stone and mortar, at least in this sober land; and we think that Prison City instead of City Prison would have been a fitter name for this fairy fortalice, in which gate rising beyond gate, and tower above tower, bristling with battlement and portcullis, "jetty, frieze, and coign of vantage," and all the apparatus of feudal war, present surely the ne plus ultra of architectural disguise and petrified scenepainting. This immense pile (of which our view shows only the immediate accessories to the entrance) embraces six radiating wings, and cells for nearly 500 prisoners. There is no noticeable variation on the arrangements of the Model Prison, Pentonville. The expense will be about 100,000l. The roofs are mostly flat and covered with asphalte; the exterior brick, except the parts visible from the south or entrance front, which are of Kentish rag, with Caen stone dressings (almost equalling the rag-stone in superficial quantity), and so intermixed that they may be said to alternate almost in vertical stripes. The same degree of castellated decoration is continued nearly without abatement round all the fronts.

1850.

X.-CHRONICLE OF OCCURRENCES.

From October 1850 to November 1851.

Oct. 16. Massacre of the Christians at Aleppo.

Nov. 2. The Frankfurt Diet commands the immediate suspension of hostilities in Schleswig-Holstein under pain of the armed intervention of the German Confederation.-Peace concluded between the Haytians and Dominicans.

4. Lord J. Russell addresses a letter to the Bishop of Durham on the subject of the establishment of a Roman Catholic Hierarchy in England.

6. Death of Count Brandenburg, Prime Minister of Prussia.-Cape Town papers received this day containing royal letters patent to Sir H. Smith, for the establishment of the local legislature, consisting of the governor, a legislative council, and a House of Assembly.

7. The King of Prussia issues a decree calling out the whole Prussian army-223,000 infantry; 38,000 cavalry; 29,000 artillery, with 1,080 field pieces.

8. The inclosure of the Norfolk Estuary commenced near Lynn.

9. An Austrian force of 30,000 men with 72 field-pieces advance into Hesse Cassel on march for Schleswig-Holstein. The Prussian troops in Hesse retire upon and occupy the military road through that electorate. The Bavarian troops occupy Fulda.

11. The French Legislative Assembly opens its second session.

14. The Prussian troops withdraw from the grand-duchy of Baden. 16. A decree of the President of the French Republic calls out to active service an additional 40,000 men, in consequence of the threatening state of Germany.

18. The Roman Catholic clergy of the arch-diocese of Dublin meet on the requisition of Archbishop Murray, and agree to an address of congratulation to the English Catholics on the restoration of the Hierarchy. -The ports of San-Salvador blockaded by the British fleet.

21. The King of Prussia opens the Chambers with a speech in which he declares the failure of his attempt to form a constitution that should answer the wants of the German nation.

22. A meeting of the clergy of the established Church held at Oxford, under the presidency of the Bishop of Oxford, to protest against the Roman Catholic Hierarchy.

25. Meeting held in Guildhall, London, to protest against the establishment of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy.

26. General Von Radowitz, late war-minister to the King of Prussia, arrives at Windsor, on a visit to the Queen of England.

28. The Peace Congress holds a session in Birmingham.-The Prince Von Schwarzenberg, the Baron Von Manteuffel, and Baron Mayendorf, the Russian Ambassador, meet in conference at Olmütz, to arrange the disputes between Austria and Prussia respecting Hesse and Holstein.

30. Advices from Cape Town announce the resignation (Sept. 21) of the elective members of the Legislative Council; the appointment of a committee (Sept. 23) for drawing up a constitution for the Colony; and the unanimous adoption of this constitution (Oct. 2), and of an address to the Queen, which was to be presented to her Majesty by Sir Andries Stockenstrom and Mr. Fairbairn, who were sent to England to enforce the claims of the Colony.

Dec. 2. President Fillmore's first message delivered to the American Congress.

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3. A committee of the Prussian Parliament condemns by 18 to 4 the arrangements made with Austria, at Olmütz. The King next day prorogues the Parliament till Jan. 3.

4. Cardinal Wiseman enthroned as Archbishop of Westminster in St. George's Cathedral, Southwark.

5. The Prussian troops commence their retreat from Cassel.-A public meeting of lay members of the Church of England held in Freemasons' Hall, London, to protest against the establishment of a Roman Catholic Hierarchy in England.

10. Death of General Bem, at Aleppo, in his 55th year.—A great banquet in the Hotel de Ville, Paris, to celebrate the second anniversary of the election of President Bonaparte.-The King of Prussia issues a decree suspending the measures in progress for the organization of the different army corps, and directing the gradual reduction of the troops to the ordinary number.-A similar order issued by the Emperor of Austria, at Vienna.-Herr Von Hassenpflug, minister of Hesse, issues a decree ordering the collection of the taxes that had been refused by the Chambers, under pain of fine and imprisonment.-Addresses from the City of London and the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge presented to the Queen, at Windsor, on the subject of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy. 12. Frightful ravages by cholera in Jamaica.

15. Date of the farewell address of Sir C. J. Napier to the Indian army; it appeared in the morning papers of Feb. 3, 1851.

23. A congress of the plenipotentiaries of the German States opened in Dresden with a speech from Prince Von Schwarzenberg, prime minister of Austria.

26. Interview between the Governor-General of India and the Maharajah Gholaub Singh, at Vizierabad.

27. The Elector of Hesse returns to his capital, escorted by AustroBavarian troops.

28. The Prince Von Schwarzenberg leaves Dresden for Berlin on a visit to the King of Prussia.-Gold coin, whether Belgian or foreign, ceases to have legal currency in Belgium from this date.

31. Sir H. Smith, governor of the Cape of Good Hope, issues a proclamation from King William's Town, establishing martial law in that colony, and ordering all colonists between the ages of 15 and 20 to rise en masse to defend the frontier against the Caffres. Sir Harry had a very narrow escape the previous day from Fort Cox, whither he had been to conciliate the tribes of British Caffraria. The Caffres defeated the troops in several places, and committed many murderous forays upon the military villages.

Jan. 2, 1851. A public meeting held in the London Tavern, London, at which resolutions were passed for the repeal of the tax upon paper, and also of the newspaper stamp and of the advertisement duties.

4. Resignation of the French ministry.-The Dublin Warder of this day publishes an address from the prelates of the Established Church in Ireland to the Archbishop of Canterbury, remonstrating with his grace on their being passed over as a component part of the Church of England in the memorial of the English bishops to the Queen on the subject of the restoration of the Roman Catholic Hierarchy.

5. An Austrian garrison enters Rastadt.-The Senate of Hamburg decrees the expulsion of the Hungarian refugees in that town.

6. Austrian troops under General Legeditsch enter Hanover on march for Holstein.

7. A meeting of the Islington Parochial Reform Association, held in the White Conduit House, Pentonville, London, to agitate for the repeal of the Window Tax. Numerous meetings were held in various places for the same object about this time.

8. The town council of Leeds adopts a resolution and petition, to the effect that Parliament ought not "to sanction any interference with the rights and liberties of the Roman Catholics of England."

9. The Federal Government of the United States of Honduras, SanSalvador, and Nicaragua organised. Leon is appointed the capital of the Federal Government.-A conference held at Kiel, between two Commissioners of the German Confederation, and the Stadtholders of SchleswigHolstein.

10. Resignation of General Narvaez, prime minister of Spain.-The Paris Moniteur of this date contains the official list of a new French ministry; and also a decree depriving General Changarnier of the Command-in-Chief of the National Guards of the Seine, and of all the troops stationed in the first military division. The new ministers were defeated the same evening on a minor point by 330 against 253.

11. The Stadtholders of Schleswig-Holstein issue a proclamation ordering a cessation of hostilities, and placing the rights of the country under the protection of the Germanic Confederation.

12. (Jan. 1, Old Style.) On this day the customs line between Poland and Russia is abolished, so that Russia immediately touches the German border. Along the whole of this border at every half-mile distance there is a military station; sentinels are continually pacing from one station to another; and patrols of cavalry keep up a supervision upon the sentinels, who, if they permit any one to cross the frontier on their beat unchallenged, are liable to be flogged.-Death of the Duke of Newcastle, at Clumber : he was born Jan. 30, 1785.

14. A meeting of the clergy and laity of the Established Church held in Freemasons' Hall, Great Queen Street, London, to address the crown for the Revival of Convocation.

17. The Austrian troops cross the Elbe at Artlenburg, and enter the Duchy of Lauenburg.

18. The French Legislative Assembly vote a want of confidence in the new ministry by 417 against 278.-The King of Prussia celebrates the 150th anniversary of the monarchy by a grand banquet.

19. Insurrectionary movements of the socialists in the Bernese Oberland, where they seized upon Interlaken, but were expelled next day by the conservatives and the cantonal troops.

20. Advices from St. Petersburg mention an imperial decree, prohibiting the exportation of silver in bullion or coin by sea from Russia.-A memorial numerously signed presented to the Lord Mayor of London, for the promotion of the establishment of Tribunals of Commerce.

21. The town council of Dublin unanimously adopt an address to the Crown and petitions to Parliament against the abolition of the Irish Vice-royalty.-Defeat of the united forces of San Salvador and Honduras by the troops of Guatemala under General Carrera after a contest of six hours' duration at San-José, in Central America.

23. A numerous and influential meeting of the National Public School Association held in Manchester; the rival scheme of the Rev. Mr. Richson was contrasted with the plan of the Association. Mr. Cobden, M.P., and Mr. M. Gibson, M.P., were the leading speakers.

24. President Bonaparte's message read in the French Legislative