THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. No. 379.] SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1829. [PRICE 2d. * * * * * MILAN CATHEDRAL [Illustration: MILAN CATHEDRAL.] "Show the motley-minded gentleman in;"--the old friend with a new face, or, in plain words, THE MIRROR _in a new type_. Tasteful reader, examine the symmetry, the sharp cut and finish of this our new fount of type, and tell us whether it accords not with the beauty, pungency, and polish of the notings and selections of this our first sheet. For some days this type has been glittering in the printing-office boxes, like nestling fire-flies, and these pages at first resembled so many pools or tanks of molten metal, or the windows of a fine old mansion--Hatfield House for instance,--lit up by the refulgent rays of a rising sun. The sight "inspires us, and fires us;" and we count upon _new_ letter bringing us _new_ friends, and thus commence our Fourteenth Volume with _new_ hopes and invigorating prospects. But what subject can be more appropriate for such a commencement, than so splendid a triumph of art as MILAN CATHEDRAL; situate almost in the centre, and occupying part of the great square of the city. It is of Gothic architecture, and its materials are white marble. In magnitude this edifice yields to few in the universe. Inferior only to the Vatican, it equals in length, and in breadth surpasses, the cathedral of Florence and St. Paul's; in the interior elevation it yields to both; in exterior it exceeds both; in fretwork, carving, and statues, it goes beyond all churches in the world, St. Peter's itself not excepted. Its double aisles, its clustered pillars, its lofty arches; the lustre of its walls; its numberless niches all filled with marble figures, give it an appearance novel even in Italy, and singularly majestic. The admirer of English Gothic will observe one peculiarity, which is, that in the cathedral of Milan there is no screen, and that the chancel is entirely open, and separated from the nave only by its elevation.