CHARLES BULLER.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 670, 3 January 1852, Page 4

CHARLES BULLER.

All who are connected with New Zealand will learn with satisfaction that a monument to this distinguished and too early-lost statesman has been erected in Westminster Abbey. The inscription, from the pen of Mr. Monckton Milnes, is as foil ows :— tm/I a ™' dst ! he memorials of maturer greatness. Record?} 1 ! e ?L pn . vale affection and public honour ’ ta U nts ’ Vlrtues > and early death of Rig h t Honourable Charles BullerA. d in t t n^ d l penden ?. nieml) e r “f Parliament, Unit/Ab?^ harg . lm P ortaut offices of State, With ‘ d ! th de , e P eBt human sympathies With philosophic views of government and And pursued the noblest political and social objects Abovq. party spirit and without an enemy. ’ His character, was distinguished by sincerity and resoWhik m d e vVo?M ty and cl . earness of comprehension; That 5n so . He was born August, 1800. h! 18-18

The Examiner announces the erection of the monument ii: the following terms : — “It will be interesting to ihe many friends and admirers of the much lamented Charles Buller to know that a monument to his memory, subscribed for by the most eminent men in the State of all opinions and parties, is now placed in the north transept of Westminster Abbey. It is a marble bust, with tablet and inscription. In the likeness (which otherwise is excellent) we miss something of the refinement of expression which we remember in life. Perhaps the features are a little too old and massive. But the sculptor has so happily caught (and, we understand, from posthumous records) the good humour as well as intellect which distinguished the original, that the work must be regarded as a remarkable proof of the ability and taste of Mr. Weekes. It is placed immediately on the left of that fine specimen of the genius of his master Chantrey—the statue of Francis Horner—commemorating a career as full of noble performance and nobler promise, closed as prematurely, as deeply and widely deplored. The inscription on the tablet, recording with eloquent discrimination and feeling the character and virtues of Charles Buller, is from the pen of his attached friend, Mr. Monckton Milnes.”— New Zealand Journal, July 26.