TABLE OF MORTALITY AND BIRTHS IN THE DISTRICTS OF LONDON. (From the Returns issued by the Registrar-General.) 739 189 16 923 1897 1071 1081 2153 251 255 52 1501 1018 995 2013 765 210 237 232 63 1523 1039 933 1972 QUANTITIES and AVERAGE PRICES of BRITISH CORN, &c., Sold in Mark-lane during the week ending Tuesday, April 19, from the Returns to the Inspector by the Corn Factors. PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW AT SMITHFIELD, APRIL 21. Hay, 31. Os. to 4l. 158. - Straw, 11. 4s. to 1l. 158. - Clover, 4l. Os. to 5l. 158. Best Wall's-end, per ton, 19s. 6d. to 20s. 6d. Other sorts, 15s. 6d. to 18s. 6d. 680 METEOROLOGICAL DIARY, BY H. GOULD, late W. CARY, 181, STRAND. From March 24 to April 23, inclusive. Stock and Share Broker, 19, Change Alley, London, E.C. PRINTED BY MESSRS, JOHN HENRY AND JAMES PARKER. Some Remarks on Collecting Miscellaneous Papers and Autographs Examination of a large Houe on the Skelton Moors in Cleveland ANTIQUARIAN AND LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. - Society of Antiquaries of London, 742; British Archæological Association, 745; Royal Institute of British Architects, 748; Numismatic Society, 750; Cork Cuvierian Society, 752; Glasgow Archæological Society, 755; Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archæological Society, 763; Society of Antiquaries of Scotland...... CORRESPONDENCE OF SYLVANUS URBAN.-Lambeth Degrees, 770; Lambeth Degrees, 772; The Question of "Seven Churches" in Ireland, 774; Arms of De Clare, 775; Coats of Arms on the Public Buildings of Stamford, 776; The Churchyard of Danby, Yorkshire-Deans of Peculiars, 779; A Pedigree of the Family of Marshall of Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, and Essex, shewing their HISTORICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS REVIEWS, AND LITERARY NOTICES.- Latham's Dictionary of the English Language-Elvin's Anecdotes of Heraldry, 785; Irving's Life and Letters of Washington Irving - The Bibliographer's Manual, Part X., 786; The Articles of the Christian Faith-Marriott's Adelphi of Terence M. l'Abbé Cochet's Reports - Peacock's Inventories of Church Goods OBITUARY-The Bishop of Peterborough, 796; Dr. Carlyon, 797; William Rothery, 800; Mr. Henry Clay, of Moulton, 801; Rev. Dr. Malan, of Geneva DEATHS ARRANGED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER Registrar-General's Return of Mortality and Births in the Metropolis-Markets, 815; Meteorological Diary-Daily Price of Stocks BY SYLVANUS URBAN, GENT. MINOR CORRESPONDENCE. 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. DRYDEN. SIB,-In an old MS. volume preserved among the Sessions Records of Westminster, I find the following entries relative to Dryden, which may be worth noting. In a list of the Roman Catholics in Westminster, Sept., 1689, his household is thus enumerated: John Dryden, Gerrard-st., housekeeper. John Dryden. Maria Massam, sert. And again in a list of "The Names of such Persons which are certified by the Justices of the Quarter Sessions, who have refused, and of those who have taken the oaths of fidelity and obedience," the following entry occurs : "John Dryden, of the Parish of St. Anne, West., Gent., refused the oaths 1st year Will. and Mary, for which he paid 40s. to St. Anne's poor." I am, &c. F. SOMNER MERRYWEATHER. Ventnor, I. W. THE THACKWELL PEDIGREE. SIR, I have carefully perused the article entitled "The Pedigree of the Thackwell Family," in the last number of the GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. I find it strictly accurate in its details except in one instance; the Rev. William H. Thackwell, M.A., eldest son of the late JOHN LESLIE FOSTER, M.P. THIS gentleman, mentioned in the GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE (March, 1864, p. 403, col. 2), was not Speaker of the Irish House of Commons; that post was filled by his uncle, the Right Hon. John Foster, afterwards Lord Oriel. After serving as a Baron of the Exchequer, he became a Justice of the Common Pleas in Ireland, which rank he held at the time of his death. See GENT. MAG., vol. xviii. p. 424.-We are, &c. C. H. and THOMPSON COOPER. "NOTES ON THE ARCHITEC TURE OF IRELAND." The indisposition of Mr. J. H. Parker, F.S.A., has occasioned an interruption in the publication of these papers, but it is trusted that the series will speedily be resumed. The Gentleman's Magazine AND HISTORICAL REVIEW. ART APPLIED TO INDUSTRY.-IV. BRASS AND IRON. Ir is so very seldom that we hear of antiquaries being of accord on any subject, that their agreements may generally be described as agreements to differ. There is, however, one point on which they are nearly unanimous, and that is the fact that bronze implements were in use long before those of iron. Now copper being a metal far too soft for the general uses of life, is alloyed in various manners to obtain the requisite degree of hardness, and to lessen the expense: this is done in various ways; but two are in greater use than the others. Thus, if tin be added to copper, the result is called bronze; if zinc, we obtain brass. The ancients employed for the most part the former alloy for the common objects of every-day life; we, on the contrary, make a much greater use of the latter, although to a much less extent than the Romans did of bronze, our iron serving us instead. It is almost impossible for us moderns to have any conception. of the vast number of statues which decorated an antique town. Did a man fill with credit any city office, or had he obtained. any privilege for his fellow citizens, immediately a statue was erected to him. In the present day we should present him with a piece of plate, say a tea-service, which would only be seen by his private friends. The ancients went on a better principle, what they gave their money for was seen by every one; and as statuaries were then quite as good as our modern sculptors, and as the costume was very much better, the result turned out very different from what we see done at present. In fact, almost the last insult you can offer a man in the nineteenth century is to erect his statue, and as one generally does not want to insult one's fellow-citizens, the statue is seldom GENT, MAG, 1864, VOL. I. 4 N |