steps should be taken, with as little delay as possible, for carrying the measure into execution, so far as it respects the South side of the park, and the alteration of the ground comprised in it.

“My Lords perceive, that by this plan the whole of the space in St. James’s Park, now laid out in grass, and from which the public are excluded, will be thrown open (with the exception of the parts to be planted) for the use of persons on foot.”

The magnificent range of buildings intended to occupy the site of Carlton-house and gardens, and to extend from Spring Garden, Charing Cross on the east, to the Ordnance office, in Pall Mall, on the west, is already commenced in the last mentioned quarter.  The substructure is a terrace, (containing the domestic offices,) of about 53 feet wide—­its architecture of the Paestum Doric order surmounted by a balustrade.  The order of the superstructure is Corinthian.  In the centre of the range will be a fountain formed of the eight columns of the portico of Carlton-house, with eight additional columns on the same model.  The basement story of all the houses is to be supplied with water by the overflow of this fountain and jets.

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Our third Engraving represents the Grand Lodge Entrance to the New Palace, and resembles the arch in the front of the palace.  The frieze of this gateway or arch, which is said to possess great merit, is still in the course of execution.  Altogether this structure may be expected to form an approach of suitable splendour to the royal domain, whilst it bids fair to rank among the most interesting of the modern architectural embellishments of the metropolis.

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Such is an outline of the improvements now in progress in St. James’s Park and its vicinity.  The palace may have fallen short of some expectations, but with all its imperfections, it will, when completed, be a pile of immense magnitude, with much of the grandeur and magnificence appertaining to regal splendour.  His majesty will reside there when in his capital, and it is not an indifferent trait to observe, that it will not be altogether strange to his eyes; for every mantle and movable piece of Carlton palace, which can be used in the palace in St. James’s Park, has been, or is about to be, removed thither.  Meanwhile, the recreation of the people is not unstudied in the new arrangements of the park; indeed, it appears to be with their illustrious originator a primary consideration, as will be seen on reference to the treasury minute.  Hence all loyal and grateful subjects may join in the song of olden time: 

  God prosper long our noble king,
  Our lives and safeties all.

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Arcana of Science.

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CAPTAIN PARRY’S EXPEDITION.

(Abridged from the Literary Gazette.)