adapted for the purposes to which the building is appropriated.

In this institution 700 boys and 300 girls are maintained and educated. The boys, who are clothed in red jackets and blue breeches, stockings, and caps, are taught the military exercise, reading, writing, and arithmetic : when of proper age, those who prefer a military life are provided for in the army, and the others are apprenticed to handicraft trades.

The girls wear red gowns, blue petticoats, white aprons, and straw bonnets. They are instructed in the same branches of knowledge as the boys, besides which they are taught all sorts of needlework, and employed in the various household occupations, in order to qualify them to become useful domestic servants.

Each of the regiments of the line contributes annually one day's pay towards the sup

port of this excellent institution, and parliament supplies the deficiency.

THE NATIONAL GALLERY.

IN March 1824, government purchased from the executors of the late Mr. Angerstein, for the sum of 57,000l. nearly the whole of the magnificent pictures which he had collected, in order to form with them the foundation of a national gallery of art, the want of which had long been a subject of reproach to the country. It included some of the finest works of the most celebrated masters, to which several of first-rate excellence have since been added by purchase; and it has been greatly increased by the valuable donations

of Sir George Beaumont, the Rev. Holwell Carr, and the British Institution.

This splendid collection still occupies the house formerly inhabited by Mr. Angerstein in Pall Mall, till the completion of the gallery now erecting for it, for which parliament has voted the sum of 50,000l. The entire building, of which it is to compose a part, and the designs of which are furnished by Mr. Wilkins, will stand on the site of the old King's Mews, near Charing Cross, and form the north side of the intended square, to be called Trafalgar Square. The front will extend 461 feet, with a depth of only 55, on account of the contiguity of the barracks and St. Martin's workhouse in the rear. It will consist of a centre and two wings. In the ground-floor of the west wing the public records are to be deposited; and the upper floor is destined for the

reception of the pictures forming the National Gallery, which will be divided into four rooms, each fifty feet in length, with smaller rooms for cabinet pictures and for the use of the keeper. The east wing, of similar proportions and arrangement, will be appropriated to the use of the Royal Academy; the ground-floor will be occupied by the casts. from the antique, the council-room, and the keeper's apartments; and the exhibition rooms will be on the first-floor. The centre of the edifice will contain a hall, vestibules, and staircases leading to the two wings, and be adorned externally with a grand portico formed of the columns removed from Carlton House. The exterior of the whole building will be of stone. Two archways running through it will communicate with the barracks and Castle Street.

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THE ADELPHI.

AMONG the most conspicuous objects that border the north bank of the Thames, between Westminster and Waterloo Bridges, is the line of buildings called the Adelphi Terrace. With the other streets, known by the general name of the Adelphi, it occupies the site of what was anciently Durham Place, where stood the town residence of the Bishops of Durham. Henry VIII. became possessed of this palace by exchange; and here, in 1540, was held a magnificent entertainment given by the challengers of England, who had caused proclamation to be made in France, Flanders, Scotland, and Spain, that a great and triumphant justing would be holden at Westminster for all comers: all the combatants, how