TABLE OF MORTALITY AND BIRTHS IN THE DISTRICTS OF LONDON. (From the Returns issued by the Registrar-General.) QUANTITIES and AVERAGE PRICES of BRITISH CORN, &c., Sold in Mark-lane during the week ending Tuesday, Dec. 22, from the Returns to the Inspector by the Corn Factors. Qrs. 8. d. s. d. 106 34 9 34 33 7 870 ... 41 2 Oats 0 0 Rye 8. d. .40 6 Oats.. .33 5 Rye Wheat.. PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW AT SMITHFIELD, DEC. 24. Hay, 31. Os. to 47. 10s. — Straw, 17. 6s. to 1l. 10s. — Clover, 47. Os. to 5l. 10s. NEW METROPOLITAN CATTLE-MARKET. Best Wall's-end, per ton, 19s. Od. to 20s. Od. Other sorts, 14s. 9d. to 168. Od. Total. 136 METEOROLOGICAL DIARY, BY H. GOULD, late W. CARY, 181, STRAND. From Nov. 21, to Dec. 23, inclusive. Stock and Share Broker, 19, Change Alley, London, E.C. PRINTED BY MESSRS. JOHN HENRY AND JANES PARKER. Gentleman's Magazine AND HISTORICAL REVIEW. ̋ FEBRUARY, 1864. CONTENTS. MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.- Professor Nilsson's Work on "The Primitive Inhabitants of the North"-Genealogical Queries-Holy Ghost Chapel, Basingstoke -Errata Notes on the Architecture of Ireland.—II. Discovery of a Celtic Kitchen-refuse-heap at Normanby in Cleveland Professor Worsaae and his Reviewer Monumental Inscriptions of Barbadoes and Jamaica PAGE .... 138 141 162 168 180 182 ANTIQUARIAN AND LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.-Archmological Institute, 190; British Archæological Association, 195; Royal Institute of British Architects, 196; Numismatic Society, 198; Bath Literary and Philosophical Association, 199; Exeter Diocesan Architectural Society, 201; Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archæological Society, 204; Leicestershire Architectural and Archæological Society, 207; London, Middlesex, and Surrey Archæological Societies, 209; Society of Antiquaries, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 212; Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 215; Yorkshire Philosophical Society. The Correct Name of the Gallo-Roman Town hitherto called "Landunum," in the Côte d'Or Discovery of a Roman Altar in France CORRESPONDENCE OF SYLVANUS URBAN.-St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, 219; HISTORICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS REVIEWS, AND LITERARY NOTICES.- MONTHLY INTELLIGENCE APPOINTMENTS, PREFERMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS BIRTHS MARRIAGES 216 218 218 237 239 240 OBITUARY.-Sir T. G. Skipwith, Bart., 248; Admiral Sir J. H. Plumridge, K.C.B.— CLERGY DECEASED DEATHS ARRANGED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER Registrar-General's Return of Mortality and Births in the Metropolis-Markets, 271; BY SYLVANUS URBAN, GENT. 258 260 262 272 NOTICE. SYLVANUS URBAN requests his Friends to observe that Reports, Correspondence, Books for Review, announcements of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, &c., received after the 20th instant, cannot be attended to until the following Month. PROFESSOR NILSSON'S WORK ON "THE PRIMITIVE INHABITANTS OF THE NORTH." SIR,-Referring to the Minor Correspondence in the GENT. MAG. for December, 1863, which contains the reclamation of Professor Nilsson in relation to the notice in GENT. MAG. (March, 1863) of his essay on the Bronze period in Scandinavia, I have been induced to look at the article complained of, after an attentive perusal of the Professor's essay in the German translation. The impression left upon my mind is, that not Professor Nilsson only, but also your readers, have cause to regret the summary way in which his essay has been dealt with by your Reviewer. It is in reality a work of the deepest interest, containing an immense amount of curious and most minutely circumstantial evidence of the close connection of Phoenician colonists-bringing with them their customs, worship, instruments of bronze, &c.-with ancient Scandinavia. It would be impossible in a short compass to detail, even in the most general way, the particulars and nature of this evidence; but the simple fact of the existence at a period, say three to four hundred years before Christ, of bronze implements for war, for worship, and for domestic use, in a country that produces no tin, and little if any copper, is in itself enough to prove that they must have been derived from a foreign source. Let me assure your readers that those who can have access in any way to the Professor's essay will find it a storehouse of most curious and valuable ma terials. It is much to be wished that it should be made public in English, say by some of our Antiquarian or Ethnological Associations. I am, &c., Jan. 16, 1864. AN ETHNOLOGIST. GENEALOGICAL QUERIES. SIR,-Can you obtain for me any information respecting the descendants (if any) of 1. Geoffrey Markham, of Astwood, co. Wigorn. (The Visitation of Northamptonshire, 1618, mentions his grandson Jerome Markham, of Kelmarsh, co. Ebor., who had "two sonnes;" I cannot trace them further.) 2. Descendants of Abraham Markham, of Allington and Newboe Abbey, Lincolnshire. 3. Who was Marie Franço'se Markham, a nun in the English Benedictine Convent, at Pontoise? Any information respecting families of Markham, descending from Sir John Markham, Chief Justice temp: Richard II., (except the immediate line of Markhams, of Becca, dating from Archbishop Markham), will be most acceptable. There is a history of the Markham family published, but it is neither very complete nor correct. I should also be glad of information as to the Rev. Francis Markham, M.A., Rector of Great Creton (or Creaton), in the Hundred of Guilsborough, Northamptonshire. He was Rector 16271661. Who was his father? Was the Rev. Charles Markham, Rector of Shankton, Northamptonshire, 1767, his descendant ?--I am, &c. M. P. Jan. 13, 1864. HOLY GHOST CHAPEL, BASINGSTOKE. SIR, The ruins of this chapel are quite familiar to travellers on the SouthWestern Railway; but it is not generally known that it was occupied so recently as 1743, for in that year the "Rev. Mr. Samuel Deggon was presented to the place of Presbyter in the chapel of the Holy Ghost, near Basingstoke."-GENT. MAG., xiii. p. 444. I am, &c., MACKENZIE E. C. WALCOTT, M.A., F.S.A. |