DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



sweetly in Hungarian. They all lauged, and 

 translated it for me. It was: " When you go 

 back to your country over the waters, tell Kos- 

 suth that none of us will ever forget him — and 

 say that the Hungarian peasant women sent him 

 a God's blessing, and bade him come back soon 

 and save his dear Hungarian Fatherland!" 



It appears she believed Kossuth was in Ame- 

 rica, and it shows one instance, of what I every- 



where noticed, the intense love of the peasantry 

 for him, their benefactor and orator. After much 

 lively conversation we broke up, too late, great- 

 ly to my relief, for the three other hospitable 

 tables which were awaiting us — and I went to 

 my friend's for the night, not a little interested 

 in these, my first experiences of Hungarian 

 country life. C. L. — New- York Independ- 

 ent. 



^mmili J(M\m. 



Church in the Romanesque Style. — [See 

 Frontispiece.] — Next to the Gothic style, the 

 Romanesque (or Lombard,) appears better 

 adapted than any other to religious edifices. 

 Though there is, in its lines, less of religious as- 

 piration than in the Gothic, yet it is also equally 

 removed from thelevelplaneof reason which we 

 find in the Greek architecture. There is much, 

 both of beauty and balance, in the curved 

 lines of its arches, and it admits the spire almost 

 as naturally as the Gothic style. Besides this, so 

 far as association is worth anything, it has clear- 

 ly the advantage of the Gothic style — since the 

 earliest christian churches were all round arch- 

 ed, or Romanesque. 



This engraving is a portrait of an Independ- 

 ent Chapel, at Boston, England, designed by 

 Mr. Stephen Lewis, and may afford some hints 

 to the committee ; of some of our religious so- 

 cieties, looking al '■'i for ideas. It is different 

 from most churche ', in having a spacious base- 

 ment room on the g. >c id floor, sufficiently ele- 

 vated to be abundantly ghted and ventilated — 

 in short, as healthful an>. agreeable as a school- 

 house above ground. This school accommo- 

 dates 400 boys and girls. The exterior length 

 of the chapel is 62 feet, the width 37 feet 6 in- 

 ches; the internal length 56 feet 8 inches, the 

 width 32 feet ; the hight of side walls from 

 pavement, 31 feet; the height of gables 46 feet; 

 the tower height, 62 feet; the spire and vane 48 

 feet— or total 110 feet. 



This church is built wholly of brick — the 

 mouldings of doors, windows, &c., of moulded 

 brick. The cost was £1,300, (about $6,500.) 

 As moulded brick are now admirably made in 

 this country, (some fine buildings in this style 

 been erected with them at Providence, 

 this mode of building is worthy the at- 



tention of those who desire to unite economy 

 with good eSect. 



The Mildest Climate in the Northern 

 States. — A visit to Newport, Rhode-Island, 

 this season, and a close examination of some of 

 the grounds and gardens there, has convinced 

 us that the popular estimation in which the cli- 

 mate of Newport is held , is based upon sound 

 reasons, and is no popular prejudice. Though 

 Newport is part of the sea-coast range of New- 

 England, its climate is mild and agreeable, to a 

 degree known nowhere else in any of the mid- 

 dle or eastern states. This has not been well 

 explained, but it is probably owing to an elbow 

 of the gulf stream which bends inwards at this 

 point of our coast, and ameliorates the climate 

 for some miles in its neighborhood. 



As absolute proof of the mildness of the win- 

 ters, we may state that in the garden of Mr. 

 Alfred Smith, (the sylvan museum of the 

 island,) we saw in the most flourishing condi- 

 tion, the Evergreen Cypresses of the south of 

 Europe, the Gold Dust tree (^ucuba japonica.) 

 the Arbutus Unedo, the Portugal Laurel, the 

 English Laurel, and the Chili Pine, {Arauca- 

 ria.) Not one of these plants will stand the 

 winter well without any covering elsewhere, (so 

 far as we know,) north of Baltimore. At New- 

 port they appear to grow with the freshness and 

 the depth of verdure, that marks them in Eng- 

 land — the finest climate for evergreens ; and to 

 carry out the resemblance of Ne^^'port to the 

 best parts of England, we may mention also, 

 that the Isabella and Catawba grape scarcely 

 ever ripen in Newport, there not being a suffi- 

 ciency of hot sunny days there — while the lawns 

 at Newport for the same reason, preserve 

 softness and depth of verdure which wi 



