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So much then for our metal market and its square, 
squat tower ; more might be said about it ; for as a new 
departure it naturally courts much criticism, but in 
dismissing it we may with reason regret that so favour- 
able an opportunity has been lost of erecting on a most 
commanding site a building of much more architectural 
merit. It seems a pity too, that the plan of the structure 
was not so arranged as to allow the great tower (for the 
sake of the clock at least) to face directly or look down 
the Brickdam, allowing if necessary, an entrance to the 
stelling under or through a constructed archway. 
We have seen our stucco Public Buildings, and our un- 
painted metal market. We come now to a building quite of 
a different stamp, style and material, the new Law Courts, 
close upon completion. The first appearance of this 
grand and truly handsome building, suggests the thought 
that it is rather out of place in our tropical clime ; the 
steep pitched roofs and the general treatment of the 
design makes us think of dull cold climates, where snow 
abounds and where high roofs are constructed to prevent 
its lazy lodgement, and where chimnies and chimney 
breasts, are necessarily looked for or expected to be seen. 
Again, a stranger in studying the building, would imagine 
that two architects at different times had been employed 
upon the work ; the one starting on classic lines, the 
other finishing on mediaeval ones, for the round and 
elliptic arches of the basement, here and there filled in 
with rather questionably designed iron work are hardly 
in keeping with the quaint superstructure. 
The upper structure is much in the style of the an- 
cient timber-framed buildings erected in England in the 
time of Henry viii., and especially in Elizabeth's 
