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rate bodies — "The wardens each to have a key and a chest with 

 three locks, and each to keep a key." I hope some one who has had 

 a seat at the board will supply the information, as also the form of 

 each printed paper used in each department — say engineer's depart- 

 ment, printed forms for return of number of men, specification of rails, 

 and general specification for works, number of yards done on each 

 contract, return for each subdivision of the line, and schedule of 

 prices, and tickets of return for materials received, and letter heads. 

 In superintendent of line, a pass book for free riding on the service of 

 the company, memorandum of coaching department, code of signals, 

 instructions and duties of guards, general regulations for police, su- 

 perintendent, inspectors, constables, switchmen and gatekeepers; in- 

 structions for the use of signal flags. Police department, return of train 

 before or after time, number of engine, name of driver, uumber and 

 description of carriages, trucks, wagons, horse boxes, and inspectors' 

 remarks, and occurrences at :he different stations, viz., number of 

 coaches of 1st, 2nd, or 3rd class, and carriage trucks, vans, wagons, 

 and mails leaving each station and left behind ; also, a return of the 

 name of upper guard, whether delayed by passengers or water, with 

 the time of arrival, when due and despatched from each station. 

 There are also a return of absentees, whose wages are suspended, 

 viz., number of column, name, quality, where stationed, and cause of 

 absence, and amount of wages. In addition to the above related de- 

 partments, there are the printed time tables, and the ticket system ; of 

 colours for the different classes, and whether going east, west, north, 

 to notice the returns or accounts rendered by police, when a line is 

 south, or on the up or down trains. 



In conclusion, the mention of defalcations must not be omitted 

 that have taken place in the staff of the companies, which have 

 amounted to upwards of six cases, and those invariably in the secre- 

 tary's department; and in no one case am I aware that they have 

 been brought to trial. The engineers generally come in for the 

 greatest share of odium when works are unsuccessful, but I think the 

 blame ought to be divided between the solicitor, secretary, and other 

 officers, or the committee, which is indefinite enough. The engineer 

 is of necessity obliged to be somewhat acquainted with his business, 

 as influence and patronage will not so exclusively prevail as in other 

 departments. I have known a line of railway where a quondam di- 

 rector slid into the office of superintendent, with £500 a-year; he was 

 originally a druggist, having a seat at the board, which the sub-en- 

 gineer had not; he was enabled to coerce him to do his duty, with no 

 extra pay, he. was a fluent speaker, and often saved the directors 

 from attack ; he could not, however, retain his ground, and both he 

 and the body of directors acted shabbily to their employees, and ille- 

 gally to their employers, the unfortunate shareholders. I may go on 

 for some time longer, but am afraid of the editorial pruning hook; so 

 for the present, conclude. 



St. jinn's, Newcastle-on-Tyne. O. T. 



REVIEWS. 



COMPANION TO THE ALMANAC, FOR 1S43. 



On returning to this publication, we might dispense with prefatory 

 remark ; nevertheless, we have one to make by way of suggestion to 

 its publishers, viz., that as they must now afford materials enough 

 for the purpose, were all the architectural chapters from the com- 

 mencement of the series collected together and reprinted, with such 

 alterations and additions as might be found requisite, they would 

 form a very useful and convenient volume — one that would to a cer- 

 tain extent serve as a Pocket Companion and Architectural Guide to 

 the Tourist. As a sequence to this suggestion, we will venture 

 another to publishers abroad, which is, that an "Aimuaire" of new 

 buildings, &c, for France and Germany — one for each country — is a 

 desideratum. 



Messrs. Wyatt and Brandon here make their debut in the " Com- 

 panion," with some £clat; there being three different buildings by 

 them, and one of them very superior for a building of the kind, al- 

 though — perhaps it would be nearer the truth to say because — it is in 

 that picturesque style the Lombardie, against which, however, the 

 Camden Society folks object, because, forsooth, it is not sufficiently 

 "Christian" for their strait laced notions, upon matters that are 

 purely conventional, and have nothing whatever to do with genuine 

 religion. To object — otherwise than as taste is concerned, against 

 the abandonment of the usages observed by our Roman Catholic 

 builders, is surely ultra-squeamishness, after we have abandoned 

 Romanism itself, with its idle pomposity and all its trumpery. Pu- 



Ground Plan if Wilton Church. 



References.— A, Campanile, 17 feet square, 100 high, or extreme 

 height about 120. B, Cloister. C C C, Entrances. D D, Staircases 

 to Children's Gallery. E, Nave, 72 by 24 feet and 54 high. F F, 

 Ailes. G, Vestry. H, Chancel. I I, Ailes to ditto. Extreme length, 

 externally, 156 feet ; internally, 127. Breadth, internally, 56 feet. 



seyism and Camdenism seem to have of late completely turned some 

 people's brains. Instead of entering into frivolous, hair-splitting ob- 

 jections, we are well content with Wilton Church, on its own archi- 

 tectural merits, which are no ordinary ones ; for while the exterior is 

 strikingly picturesque in composition and design, the interior will, 

 when completed, be quite a model of its kind — simple, yet beautiful 

 and varied in its plan, and tasteful in its decorations ; and not only 

 with much to produce effect, but with nothing to counteract it, for 

 there will be no galleries — at least no side galleries — which always 

 give a sort of play-house look to a church; and which, even if ca- 

 pable of being so treated, never are made architectural in appear- 

 ance, but always so as to cut up and encumber. Still, it must be 

 confessed, that galleries accord very well with Professor Hosking's 

 principle, that in churches "the largest number of persons must be 

 brought within the smallest space!" — it is a wonder he did not add, 

 " and at the cheapest rate." The three apses at the altar end of 

 Wilton Church will be filled with stained glass, and for the further 

 decoration of those recesses, which contribute so much to effect, it is 

 in contemplation to paint their ceilings or semi-domes in fresco, but 

 whether with subjects, or merely ornamental compositions as in the 

 Temple Church, is not staled. Even the strait-laced " Ecclesiologist," 

 though it protests against " the introduction of a foreign style in 

 church architecture," as an evil that ought to be put a stop to at once, 

 allows that Wilton Church is at least " good of its sort." Almost the 

 only other church with regard to which the Companion enters into 

 description, is the one now building by Mr. Poynter, in Broadway, 

 Westminster, in the style of the later period of early English. Its 

 internal dimensions are about 95 In- 51 feet, exclusive of a spacious 

 apsis at the east end; but as there are, unfortunately, to be gal 1 ' 

 we fear we must not anticipate any great excellence of architectural 



