THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. No. 325.] SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1828. [Price 2_d_. ALL-SOULS' CHURCH, LANGHAM-PLACE. Vol. XII. F ALL-SOULS' CHURCH, LANGHAM PLACE. "Whoever walks through London streets," Said Momus to the son of Saturn, "Each day new edifices meets, Of queer proportion, queerer pattern: If thou, O cloud-compelling god, Wilt aid me with thy special grace, I, too, will wield my motley hod, And build a church in Langham-place." "Agreed," the Thunderer cries; "go plant Thine edifice, I care not how ill; Take notice, earth. I hereby grant _Carte blanche_ of mortar, stone, and trowel. Go Hermes, Hercules, and Mars, Fraught with these bills on Henry Hase, Drop with yon jester from the stars, And build a church in Langham-place." _London Lyrics-New Monthly Mag._ Among all our specimens of contemporary church-building, none has excited more animadversion than _All-Souls'_, Langham-place, erected in 1822-1825, from the designs of Mr. Nash. Its general effect is extraordinary and objectionable; but, unfortunately for what merit it really possesses, many of its assailants have so far disregarded the just principles of taste and criticism, as to go laboriously out of their way to be profanely witty on its defects. Song and satire, raillery and ridicule, pun and pasquinade, and even the coarseness of caricature, have thus been let off at this specimen of NASH-_ional_ architecture; whilst their authors have wittingly kept out any redeeming graces which could be found in its architectural details.