The interior is not yet completed, but, by the courtesy of the architect we have obtained a view of its unfinished state.  The principal apartments are the Parliament Chamber on the first, and the Library on the second floor.  The Chamber adjoins the Hall, and is intended for a withdrawing-room, whither the Templars of our times, after dining in the Hall, may repair to exercise the argumentum ad Bacculinum in term time.  The dimensions of this room are in height about 13 feet; length 37 feet; and width about 27 feet.  Above is the Library, which is indeed a magnificent room.  The height is about 20 feet; length 39 feet; and width in the centre about 37 feet.  The fine window, of which we spoke in our description of the exterior, is not yet glazed; its height is 17 feet, and width 14 feet; and the mullions, &c. are very rich.  The remainder of the buildings will be occupied by ante-rooms, and chambers for barristers.  The whole will be fire-proof, the floors being divided by plate-iron archings upon cast-iron bearings.

The Inner Temple Hall is a fine room, though comparatively small.  It is ornamented with the portraits of William III. and Mary, and the Judges Coke and Littleton; it is also embellished with a picture of Pegasus, painted by Sir James Thornhill.  The Middle Temple has likewise a Hall, which is spacious and fine:  here were given many of the feasts of old times, before mentioned.  It contains a fine picture of Charles I. on horseback, by Vandyke, and portraits of Charles ii.  Queen Anne, George I. and George ii.

There is a host of pleasing associations connected with the Temple, if we only instance the seasonable doings there at Christmas—­as breakfasting in the hall “with brawn, mustard, and malmsey;” and at dinner, “a fair and large Bore’s head upon a silver platter with minstralsaye.”

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SPRING TIDES.

(For the Mirror.)

At page 310 of the present volume of your miscellany, your correspondent Vyvyan states that the tide rises at Chepstow more than 60 feet, and that a mark in the rocks below the bridge there denotes its having risen to the height of 70 feet, which is, perhaps (Vyvyan states), the greatest altitude of the tides in the world.  At Windsor, seated on the east bank of the Avon river, which falls into the Basin of Mines, at the head of the Bay of Fundy, the spring tides regularly rise 70 feet and upwards; and at Truro, at the eastern extremity of the Bay of Fundy, the spring tides rise to an altitude of 100 feet.  There are some parts of the west coast of North America also where the tides rise to a very high altitude; but I do not at this moment remember the particulars.  My attention having thus been directed to the Bay of Fundy, it induces me to inform you, that an inland water communication, at a minimum depth of eight feet, and proportionate expanse, is now forming from Halifax, Nova Scotia, by the Shubenacadie river, falling into the Bay of Fundy, near the abovementioned town of Truro.