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Afterwards being made exactly round, they are burnished, and polished with the open hand.

A beautiful example of Mr. Eginton's art claimed our notice before we left Birmingham. It adorns the chapel of St. Paul, and contains the leading features of that apostle's conversion, oc- cupying a large Venetian window, eighteen feet high and seventeen wide. This consists of three divisions; the first exhibits Paul in his ignorance persecuting the church, directing those cruelties which he afterwards so bitterly deplored; thegroupe is superlatively fine. In the next we see the con- version of the apostle, whilst journeying to Da- mascus, our Saviour and attending angels in the clouds, Saul just raised from the ground, some of his companions still prostrate, and the Roman sol- diers retreating in terror and dismay. The last division oi" this interesting piece discovers St. Paul kneeling under the hand of Ananias, receiving his sight, the influence of the Holy Ghost, and the heavenly mission to preach the Gospel of Christ. The whole is beautifully and spiritedly designed; the execution transcends all praise.

/viter so many gratifying sights at Birmingham, v. e were content tu pass seventeen miles, (the dis- ' between that place and Kcnelworth) without

murmuring at the uniformity of a level road, or

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