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oi the columns. Opposr the entrance The Senatos

 are ranged around on two circular grndatons. Tn columns of smaller proportions than those of the

 other Hall. and support Gallery surrounding the apartment, surmounted with a handsome baus- trade The ceiling corresponding with the figure of the room, is circular and slightly concave.

 The Rotunda which is just finished, down to the Gallery floor presents one of the most Ieautfn, chaste and delicate specimens of Grecian arch- lecture to be found in country. Sixt,en feet from the floor of the Gallery belt of Gredan fret work surrounds the apartment, forming a Iase on which rests eight Cornthan Piasters. supporting their entablatures formed of Stucco.

 From the top of the cornce springs the Dome divided into plain sunken compartments who's, cha racterizng beauty is thelr extreme simplicity The view upward is terminated by the small dome of the Lanthorn, ,ornamented wth handsome centre piece In the finish of this apartment it is impossible to point out what could have been added or what omitted, to have heightened the effect of the composition as a whole Every thing appears appropriate and in its proper place: the ornaments. though rich, are yet chaste and delicate, filling but not overlooking the eye; among them the foliage of the Corinthian Capitals are beyond description fich and beautiful and look as natural as the Acanthus plant on the tomb of the Athenian maiden, from which Callima chus first took his idea of the order

 Upon the whole this superb edifce is the pride of our State and justly exriios tho wondel and admra- ton of all srangers and for beauty and bodness of outline in its general design for correct and ele gance and richness of finish, as well as for conve- nience and economy of space in its internal arrange ment, we think we may safely say, challenge com parison with any building of similar character in the Union; and, not the least of its recommendations, such has been the economy of expenditure observ- ed in its erection it has cost less than any building of equal magnitude in the country