PATENT REFORM. 274-284 Address on the Functions of the Science and Art Department, by Henry Memorandum on measures to be adopted for preventing excess over the original estimates of the cost of public buildings General method of executing buildings at the South Kensington Mu- Address at the Ecole Centrale d'Architecture at Paris, by Henry Cole 301-304 Letter by H. Cole to the " 'Times" on Public Architecture Public Galleries and Irresponsible Boards, an article in the "Edinburgh 309-322 DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART. ADDRESSES AT DISTRIBUTIONS OF PRIZES. National Culture and Recreation, Antidotes to Vice, an address delivered R. HUME, by the introduction of a Motion during a late Session of Parliament, attempted preparatory measures for procuring a building suitably spacious and commodious, as a place of assembling for the Commons Representatives. To defend the present structure as rendering sufficient accommodation, was impossible, and indisputable evidence proved its excessive unfitness, and especially during discussions of much public interest. Yet the Motion was negatived on several idle pretexts. Any removal was designated by that term of most indefinite import-unconstitutional; and it was argued that the affectionate regard universally entertained towards St. Stephen's Chapel, as a spot consecrated by historical associations, and hallowed by ancient parliamentary usage, would be thereby uprooted. Constitutional,' as thus applied, may be interpreted to signify accordant with ancient precedent. Waiving all other reasons, therefore, the present object will be to establish how entirely unconstitutional are successive parliamentary meetings in the same locality, and the present duration of Parliaments, when compared with those of past times;and from collateral evidence to show, that even the size of the |