However, the caterers for public enjoyment must consult tho taste and fancy of almost every pur chaser. Signor di Colombo makes a very pleasant cicerone, and explains the various figures and objects of art with all the courtesy peoullar to hit countrymen. ; The Lyttblton Mole. Fearing that the progress of this work might have been interfered with by tho late storms, and par ticularly by the high wind and sea of Mon day, we paid a visit to the spot yesterday for the purpose of enquiry. In the opinion of Mr, Jones, tho overseer of the works, no damage whatever has been done, nor a single stone moved from its place. So far as could : be seen, and the time happened to be low water at a spring tide, the retaining walls on both sides and the face aro perfectly whole, | in spite of the heavy sea which broke straight upon the mole during the storm, In one or ] two places the effect of the water is just I visible by the washing off of the fine dressing on the surface at the extreme edges, and the < pile created by the "tip" in front has been

flattened out belowthc surface of the water. It is .most likely, therefore, that the wash fromjtho works, if any, ig confined to the lighter particles which may have been thrown outiat the face just before the storm, The method adopted of advancing the work in lengths of 15 or 20 feet each, with a rough wallof enormous stones between two, tends to the preservation of the whole, The material used is entirely stono, the hill from which it is drawn containing no clay what- The stone is in almost every variety, breaking out in'places in enormous blocks, somotimes cubical and sometimes spheroidal and in others in smaller pieces—oblong, spar-spangled, flat, globular, or amorphous down to the flno porphyritic gravel-like Btone which serves as a Btrong surface dress ing. 