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than sufficiently strong, and likely to 
stand as long as the materials last; 
and that he has fixed several upon a 
similar principle, which have been 
standing several years in the most 
perfect manner.” Mr. Donkin, civil 
engineer, and chairman of the com- 
mittee of mechanics, at the Society of 
Arts, “calculated the strength of the 
roofs, and found them capable of sup- 
porting above one hundred tons, 
though required to sustain only about 
eighteen tons.” ‘The ingenious Mr. 
Bramah declares ‘the roofs to be 
folly adequate, and that he thinks Mr. 
usby has made them stronger than 
necessary.” Mr. Millington, civil en- 
gineer, and professor of mechanics in 
the Royal Institution, “conceives 
them amply sufficient, and that Mr. 
Busby need be under no fear of their 
giving way;” he adds that, “if any 
thing, they are stronger than neces- 
sary.’ Mr, Galloway, of .Holborn, 
says, ‘ the roofs have no material de- 
{ect but their being, in his estimation, 
unnecessarily strong; that he is 
making three larger and slighter roofs, 
and has no doubt of their being abun- 
dantly strong.” Mr, Walker, architect 
and engineer to Vauxhall-bridge, 
“‘has no doubt of Mr. Busby’s roofs be- 
ing sufliciently strong.” Mr. Brunel, 
inventor of the celebrated block- 
machine, has no hesitation in stating, 
that “the strength of Mr. Busby’s 
roofs is more than adequate to their 
intended uses:” and Mr. Tredgold, 
architect, and author of the best Eng- 
lish treatise on Carpentry, Roofs, and 
Jron Framing, says, “Mr, Busby’s 
roofs are periectly secure.” 
Written testimonials to the above 
effect were tendered by Mr. Bushy 
fo Mr. Archdeacon Wollaston and 
Colonel Stephenson, the two commis- 
sioners who acied inthis business; but 
these testimonials were not accepted, 
nor was Mr. Busby even permitted to 
read them in the presence of the com- 
missioners, although it might have been 
reasonably expected they would have 
rejoiced to find hiya so fully capable of 
defending his professional reputation, 
and of preving himself worthy of the 
favour of the Board, and of his con- 
stituents in the country. Not so: of- 
fence was, on the contrary, taken at 
Mr, Busby’s indisposition to yield, in 
silence, to the unqualified dictum of 
their friends Messrs. Nash and 
Smirke, and he was ultimately de- 
prived of two valuable appointments 
On the Variations in different 
[Oct. 1, 
at the instance of the conmimissioners 
above mentioned. 
A correspondence subsequently 
took.place between Mr. Busby, and 
Messrs. Nash and Smirke, in which 
the high professional character of Mr. 
Busby’s testimonials was admitted by 
those gentlemen, and also that the 
opinion of Messrs. Nash and Smirke 
(whose own works have occasionally 
failed) “might have been wrong ;” 
yet, notwithstanding, did they, and the 
church commissioners, inconsistently 
and ungencrously refuse to concur 
with Mr. Bushy in any measures 
whatever having a tendency to bring 
the question at issue to a fair and 
honourable decision. 
The result of this extraordinary bu- 
siness is, that Mr. Busby, in conse- 
quence of being deprived of two va- 
Iuable appointments, has been sub- 
jected to a pecuniary and professional 
loss, amounting in the aggregate to 
15001. He has, however, published a 
full statement of the case, with the en- 
tire correspondence, giving facts and 
documents, but wisely abstaining from 
comments; and, I am_ happy to find 
the universal voice of the professors of 
the liberal arts has declared itself de- 
cidedly in his favour. “Z. 
— oe F 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
N my family the other day a cir- 
cumstance took place which led to 
some observations that I have taken 
the trouble to put to paper; and, if 
you think them worthy of insertion.in 
your excellent Magazine, they may 
excite others to take up the subject; 
and, the attention of the pablic being 
drawn to what appears to me to be of 
great public importance, our Bibles 
may be printed with at least as much 
correctness as the editions of other 
books, in which accuracy appears to 
be more studied. One of my servants, 
in reading a verse in the Bible, said 
your, and was corrected by her neigh- 
bour, who said ow. On consulting 
their respective bibles, one had your, 
the other ow, in that verse. Mine hap- 
pened to have ow, and our was kept by 
us as the true reading in that passage. 
The next day the servant said to me: 
“Sir, Lalways thought that very great 
care was taken in the printing of our 
Bibles, and,that they were placedunder 
the inspection of proper persons. How 
are we poor people to judge which is 
the right, and which is the wrong, 
Bible? 
