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Up the street and down the street There's nothing for me: But after the house topa...

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ture which gains in monumental grandeur by the grheious curves of the wind moved treck

Turner painted the burning of the Houses of Parliament in 1834, This .អពដ of monotony--of and lived to woo the new building spiritual" imprisonment is bound that commemorate the folly of the to increase in London, as it has Gothic grival. Nevertheless, ssen grown in New York with the dein perspective at sundown, they and humanising of Architecture, which their towers form an imposing has been called the Cinderella of mass. the Arts, writes Mr. James Cless in the London. Morning l'ast.

CRIMINAL SESSIONS

PIRACY TRIAL TO OPEN

This month's Criminal Sessions will open at the Supreme Court at 10 o'clock to day, there being ve Cars on the calendar, including a charge of murder arising from the recent affray at the Mental Hos pital, in which an inmate was alleged to have caused the death of another man

The opening, case before the Chief Justice (Sir Joseph Kemp) is this trial of Chan Sam on an indictment to the effect that on January 29, 1997, on the high mag, of Fan Lau Point, Ian Tau Island, with Fan Hing Yeung and others. unknown, he assaulted, and put in fear of their lives Ng Lai and others in an un force and violence, the ship, tackie, named fishing boat, and stole, with and clothing of the mariners un board.

Seaward the skylines of the river show the picturesque irregularity If wo accept this designation it that charms one almost everywhere would aren that Cinderella as in London, Stand on Hungerford quarrelled with her fairy godmother Bridge and look round from the and, after having been divorced, stricken beauty of Waterloo Bridge from her Prince in Reno, she and the dignity of Somerset How married a Wall Street Boss" and to the majestic dome of St. Paul's turned New York into city (like a vast nest for the hatching. of tombstones, or soul-less shafts of "thought). Beyond it, and en

Before the Puione Judge (r. for the never-ending up and down, the right, spires and tower and menco of Wong Ping and Woug Justice Lindsoll) the trial will coar traffic of clevators, the space he masts and cranes, shooting apa, who are indicted for taking tween the top and bottom being against the sky in disorder, make detaining Yeung Yun Kao, a child. hway, decoying, enticing away or sort of purgatory from which sceny of the most fascinating under 14 years of age, with inient there is no escape-except by aero description, especially at the dawn to deprive the father, Young Wai, plane.

of his child's custody. of a summer morning.

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London as yet is not quito M bad as that. But after the war the Americanising (and Germanising) of our architecture began in the principal parts of the Metropolis, and today the unsightly buildinge that have arisen everywhere are most depressing.

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Kidnapping Charge.

To-morrow's Cases.

Both Courts will again wit lo- morrow, when Willian Bowen will be before the Chief Justice on a charge of murdering Lam Yu Yak. This ease relates to the recent

A second case is scheduled to Below St. Paul's, English perver esme before Mr. Justice Lindsell, sity, self-confidence, and energy are

the accused being Wong Ho, who illustrated in designs that please is that; with another person

is charged on two counts. The first the eye in the "Custom" House and known, on July 6, 1981, he assault the graceful simplicity of the ed Pun Wo with intent to rob him. turrets of the White Tower, and cused, on the night of July 5-6, 103, The second count alleged that ne oftend our aesthetic senses in the

was found in 27, North Street, with ultra-baroquq excrescences of the intent to steal the property of Fun Port of London Authority and the Even in pre-war times the hap-utilitarian Gothic of the Tower. hazard planning and designing of Bridge towars."- modern Leadon created many eye- Bores in individual buildings and is inexhaustible. Beauty is to lis This city of violent contrasts in concentrated groups, especially found unexpectedly in, grim. for in areas where the Arts are located, bidding places. Retrace our step For instance, the National Gallery along noisy. malodorous Lower spoils the appearance of Trafalgar Thames Street and suddenly, up a Square. With the fine example of narrow lane, you will see the St. Martin-in-the-Fields to inspire loveliest spire in London surmount. him, it might have been thought ing the tower of St. Dunstan-in-the- that Wilking would have designed East, and farther west Wren's something moro distinguished thin genius his written other poems in the aquat building with the in-stone against the sky, such as Et significant dame and "pepperbes" Magnus the Martyr, the Monument turrets, which make ignoble what and St. Martin's Lydgate Hill, ought to have been a splendid sky-in front of the epic magnificence

of the Cathedral.

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The Natural History Muscum in more consistent, but its heavy towers and those of the Imperial Institute might look more impres Hi against a stormy sky with light and shade playing simultane ously on their ponderous forms, As for the skylines of the Royal College of Music, one would never dream that gracious sounds were ever heard within its walls, and the boutureen-like bulk of the Albert Hall does not idggest the inspiring song of a Melba or Caruso,

The Artillery War Memorial, which General Gourand charac terised as the most magnificent he had seen, brought a new impressive ness to the skylines of London. Visualised from the entrance to St. George's Hospital it forms with the Wellington Arch and Quadriga, a splendid' example of street architec

After crossing the Cirens THARS into Tudor Street, and "up "the second turning on the right the lyric grecs of the tower of St. Bride's will delight your eyea London's ancient story also is effectively traced in the Templo. while Fleet Street, if it has, alas Jost the homely charm of old-world skylines, still looks eastward to one of the noblest vistas in Europe- the dome and towers of St. Paul's Cathedral.

episode at the Mental Hospital when Lam, an inmate, is alleged to have run amok and been killed by Bowen, another inmate. Mr. A. M. L. Soares, instructed by Mr. A. el Arculli, has been assigned by the Crown to defend.

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Wren's art did not stop at Temple Bar, which was removed long ago.

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WANTED" IN

MACAO

ALLEGED MURDERER IN DOCK.

Stabbed to Death. After a time, the mister of the house shouted robbers" and it was then that, one of the robbers, presumed to be the man in the dock; stabbed him. Mr. Fitzroy explain. ed that whether the man did or di not himself stab the master did not

EXTRADITION PROCEEDINGS. matter for ne fur as the English law. was concerned, if a murder was committed by a party of which the defendant, why a member, ho was equally guilty.

Extradition proceedings were com- menced at Central Magistracy he Hore Mr. W. Schofield yesterday in

a case in which a Chinese, named. Chan Yer Wu is wanted by the Portuguese authorities at Macao for alleged robbery and murder.

Mr. H. Somerset. Fitzroy, repre senting the Crown, stated that the principal witnesses in the proceed. ings were delayed by the typhoon The man is asked for by the Macao authorities for murder and a war rant signed by a judge and bearing a seal has been received.

What the Portuguese Government that the mna had committed an has to show, said Mr. Fitzroy, was offence which is an offence in their law. Assassination, was one of the first articles on which, a person could be extradited. The man who was stabbed died later and it was not till June this your that the fugitive was seen here when s pro visional warrant was applied for and he was arrested by Inspector. Fallon in Yaumati

Stolen Property Found. He was then occupying a cock loft in a house and it would be proved, It is alleged against, the man that said Mr. Fitzroy, that after a search on Chinese New Year's Day (Feb; niece of jade was found. This Jade had been made of this cockloft, 4 17) he and two or three others want would be identified by a witness to to a house in Macao and there told be called as one which was actually the immates that he had come to stolen at the time the murder ws

committed. search for opium. They went first to the ground floor and siked where

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Mr Fitroy then went into th legal aspect of the application by the master of the house was: They out that all his Worship aceded was the Macan authorities and pointed eventually found him upstairs and to be satisfied that a prima facie brought him down, afterwards"ran- case had hien made out against the↑ sacking the house. The master, his in the dock

wife, concubine and servante were all tied up.

After formal evidence of arrest had been given, the hearing was ádjourned until Thursday,

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