The Law Courts are still un built, though the site for them was almost all cleared seven and a half years ago. I believe the plan s are not even settledupon yet. The law's delay s are notorious, but the delay in building these Law Courts threatens to be atill more scandalous. The empty space, bordered by a huge hoarding covered wifcli bills of every size and hue, is aa eyesore that would not be tolerated for seven years anywhere else than in London. Opposite the Houses of Parliament, on. the Surrey side of the river, are the new buildings of St Thomas's Hospital. If I recollect rightly, there are seven, of them, and although separate from each other, they are made to form one harmonious whole. This range of buildings is several hundred yards in length, and forms both a pleasing and a strik ing object. Burlington House has beeu rebuilt, and is a handsome edifice, though hidden away. It is now the special domicile of the Royal Academy, and when that body's exhibition of pictures is on view, the spacious court-yard in front is crowded with carriages and studded with flunkeys. The Colosseum, in Regent's Park, after remaining closed for a number of years, is doomed to disappear, and its place to be taken by handsome mansions. The finest of all the new buildings in London, however, are those of tho South Kensington Museum, and the late International Exhibition adjoining it. The Museum is now a grand edifice, much more worthy of the splendid collection.it contains than was the rambling shed that formerly did duty for this purpose, and was as dark, dingy, and draughty as it is possible for such a building to bo. The Exhibition buildings enclose the Horticultural Society's gardens, and are nearly a quarter of a mile in length. When it is a gala day in the gardens, the scene, as viewed from one of the balconies of the Exhibition, is one of the most brilliant to be seen anywhere. I have in a former communication given you some account of the contents of the Exhibition, and so need not go into the matter here. The Exhibition is now permanently closed, as it ,was found to be a lo&itig concern, and the building is to be utilised for museum purposes. 