ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITION.

Under this head we shall give notices of pending competitions, and shall feel obliged by our friends forwarding us the accounts of what may fall in their way of this character. We shall also be happy to give engravings of the selected designs; and think that, by such publicity, the present very defective system of decision may be amended. Publicity is sometimes a remedy when more direct measures have failed.

Kingston Union.—Designs for an Infirmary.—To be sent in by the 6th of March.

New Church, Torquay.—11th March.

Almshouses, Spalding.—6th March.

Almshouses, Ringwood.—1st March.

County Asylum, Oxford.—10th March.

NOTICES OF CONTRACTS.

The following contracts are advertised in different papers, and we have kept a register of the particulars of each at the office, which may be referred to on application. In the continuation of this plan, which we flatter ourselves will be of service to our readers, material assistance will be rendered by the forwarding of papers from our country friends, or by any other means of notification, of which they may choose to avail themselves.