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Bloomsbury-square. Westmacott 

 is the artist, and it is in his best 

 style. The work consists simply 

 of a statue of Mr. Fox, of co- 

 lossal dimensions, be'ng to a scale 

 of nine feet in height, executed 

 in bruDze, and elevated upon a 

 pedestal of granite, surmotinting 

 a spacious base formed of several 

 steps or gradations. The whole 

 is about 17 feet in height. Dig- 

 nity and repose appear to have 

 been the leading objects o*^' the 

 artist's ideas : he has adopted a 

 sitting position, and habited the 

 statue in the consular robe, the 

 ample folds of which passing over 

 the body, and falling from the 

 seat, give breadth and effect to 

 the whole : the right arm is ex- 

 tended, the hand su])porting 

 Magna Charta ; the left is in re- 

 pose : the head is inclined rather 

 forward, expressive of attention, 

 firmness, and complacency : the 

 likeness of Mr. Fox is perfect 

 and striking. The inscription, 

 which is in letters of bronze, is, 

 '•' Charles James Fox, erected 

 MDCCCXVI." This statue, and 

 the statue of the late Duke of 

 Bedford, by the same artist, at 

 the other extremity of Bedford- 

 place, form two grand and beau- 

 tiful ornaments of the metro- 

 polis. 

 ! In Glasgow, one of the curio- 



sities shown to strangers, and 

 one of the greatest curiosities in 

 Britain, is a cow-house, set up 

 on his own plan by a Mr. Bu- 

 channan, an old but a very skil- 

 ful and successful master weaver. 

 In this cow-house are kept con- 

 stantly about 300 cows in the 

 neatest, most clean, and healthy 

 order. The house (one room) is 

 a square building, the roof sup- 

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ported in the centre by iron pil- 

 lars. The floor is boarded, washed 

 clean and sanded. Small long 

 stages, about a foot above the 

 flooi', are erected, each contain- 

 ing perhaps twenty cows. These 

 stages are just as wide as the cow 

 is long, and behind the cow is a 

 trough to carry away what falls 

 from it. They are kejit two and 

 two together, are fed regularly 

 with grass of some kind, and 

 watered ; women attend upon 

 them and groom them as men do 

 horses , but during the nine months 

 they are in milk they never 

 change their situation. They live 

 upon about six square feet each : 

 yet their skins are always sleek 

 and silky, they are i'at and beau- 

 tiful. The moment they become 

 dry they are sold to the butcher, 

 for whom they aie highly fit. The 

 owner has a man or two travell- 

 ing about the country purchasing 

 new ones, coining into milk ; the 

 owner, too, keeps a farm, which 

 the cows' manure enables him to 

 dress well. In this way the busi- 

 ness goes on like clock-work, it 

 being but secondary to his weav- 

 ing trade, and has gone on for 

 eight years, — no bustle, no con- 

 fusion ; and he sells his grass 

 milk for half the price the Lon- 

 doners sell their nauseous mix- 

 ture, though land is dearer around 

 Glasgow than around London. 



'22. A barbarous munler with 

 robbery was perpetrated on this 

 night, near Vauxhall-bridge, in 

 the vicinity of Liverpool. A per- 

 son who was returning home 

 from the country saw the flash, 

 and heard the report of a pistol ; 

 but imagining it to proceed from 

 some person amusing himself, it 

 did not greatly arrest his atten- 



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