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ter Blount, Bart. of Sodington, Worcestersh.

March 21. At Boulogne, Major Joseph Dacre Watson, of the Hon. East India Company's army.

March 23. At Altona, Christopher Ratcliffe Silvester, esq. of Hamburgh.

March 24. At Rue de Faubourg St. Honoré, Paris, aged 80, Michael O'Malley, esq.

March 25. At Genoa, the Hon. Lady Erskine, wife of his Excellency Lord Erskine, British Minister resident at Mu

nich. She was dau. of the late General Cadwallader, and married in 1800 Lord Erskine, then the Hon. David Montagų Erskine, by whom her ladyship leaves issue a family of eleven children.

March 30. At Paris, aged 69, Harriet, widow of Lieut.-Col. Robert Campbell, formerly Assistant-Quartermaster-Gen. of Guernsey.

April 5. At Brussels, aged 48, Harriet, wife of N. Fitzpatrick, esq. M.D. late of the Royal Art.

TABLE OF MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.
From the Returns issued by the Registrar General. (See p. 257.)
DEATHS REGISTERED from MAR. 4 to Mar. 25.

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60 and upwards_972,

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Average Deaths in four weeks 1838-9-40-1-2, Males 1844, Females 1768, total 3612. DEATHS REGISTERED from APRIL 1 to APRIL 15.

Under 15...... 1594

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60 and upwards 750
Age not specified 8

AVERAGE PRICE OF CORN, April 15.
Wheat. Barley. Oats. Rye. Beans. Peas.

S. d. S. d. S. d. S. d. S. d. S. d.
45 9 28 8 17 1 29 2 25 11 28 1

PRICE OF HOPS, March 26.

Sussex Pockets, 37. 12s. to 47. 88.-Kent Pockets, 51. Os. to 61. Os.

PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW AT SMITHFIELD, April 26.
Hay, 31. Os. to 4l. 10s.-Straw, 21. 13s. to 27. 14s.-Clover, 47. Os. to 5l. 10s.
SMITHFIELD, April 20. To sink the Offal per stone of 8lbs.
Head of Cattle at Market, April 20.
Beasts
513 Calves 193
Sheep........... 7,860 Pigs 315

Beef.............
Mutton..

..2s. 8d. to 3s.

4d.

..3s. Od. to 3s.

8d.

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Walls Ends, from 16s. 9d. to 20s. 9d. per ton. Other sorts from 15s. 6d. to 18s. 6d.

TALLOW, per cwt.-Town Tallow, 45s. Od.

Yellow Russia, 438. Od.

CANDLES, Os. per doz. Moulds, Os. Od.

PRICES OF SHARES.

At the Office of WOLFE, BROTHERS, Stock and Share Brokers,
23, Change Alley, Cornhill.

Ellesmere and Chester, 63.- -Grand Junction, 141.
Leeds and Liverpool, 620.

Regent's, 19.

Birmingham Canal, 193.Kennet and Avon, 124. -Rochdale, 54.- -London Dock Stock, 94. - St. Katharine's, 1074.- East and West India, 129. London and Birmingham Railway, 208. Great Western, 93. London and Southwestern, 65. Grand Junction Water Works, 73. West Middlesex, 112. Globe Insurance, 125. 414. Hope, 8.Chartered Gas, 64.-Imperial Gas, 75. 32. -London and Westminster Bank, 227.- Reversionary Interest, For Prices of all other Shares, enquire as above.

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GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.

JUNE, 1843.

BY SYLVANUS URBAN, GENT.

CONTENTS.

MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.-Irish Annalists-Anderida-Fasti Episcopatus
Anglicani-Nuremberg Counters-St. Christopher...

THE BIBLE IN SPAIN; by George Borrow, esq..

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DIARY OF A LOVER OF LITERATURE; by Thomas Green, esq. (conclusion)..
Errors in D'Aubigné's History of the Reformation-Zuinglius, Melancthon,
and Jurieu-Linacre-Oaths-the Marian Persecution-Miss Strickland's
'Queens"-Macaulay's "Essays"-Loyola and Luther-Dreams and Vi-
sions-Dr. Arnold's Lectures-Napoleon's Bulletins-Waterloo
Topographical and Architectural Notes of Tamworth Castle......
Ancient British Collar found in Lancashire (with an Engraving)
Bronze Centaur found near Sidmouth (with an Engraving)..
Notices of the Property Tax among the Ancient Romans..

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Rank achieved by Medical Men-Errors of the Biographie Universelle..
Proposed History of the Celtic Languages...

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Unequal Marriages-Venetian Manners-Eratosthenes styled Beta
The new and original editions of Thomson's Seasons
Animadversions on "The Ecclesiologist"

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Epitaph on Mr. George Ellis, at Sunning Hill, by Mr. Canning..
London Wall, its existing remains, and their threatened destruction.
The Wiltshire Topographical Society-Portrait of Aubrey
REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.

Gray's Sermons in Rome during Lent, 609; Lieutenant Eyre's Journal in
Affghanistan, and Lady Sale's Journal, 611; Potter's History of Charnwood
Forest, ib.; the Gardener and Practical Florist, 614; Wallis's Letters con-
cerning the Blessed Trinity, 615; Life and Labours of Dr. Adam Clarke,
618; Mrs. Sigourney's Pleasant Memories of Pleasant Lands, 619: Mis-
cellaneous Reviews

LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE.

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New Publications, 622.-University of Cambridge, 627.-Middlesex Hospital Medical School, ib.-Camden Society, ib.-Percy Society, 628.Shakespeare Society, 629.-Elfric Society, ib.-Literary Fund, 630.— Zoological Society, ib.-Horticultural Society, ib.-Art Union of London 630 ARCHITECTURE.-Cambridge Camden Society, 631; University of Oxford, Chester Cathedral, 632; Lincoln, ib.; New Chapel at Buckingham Palace......

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ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES.-Society of Antiquaries, 632; Numis-
matic Society, 634; Etruscan Ornaments, &c. 635; Antiquities found at
the Blackfriars, London, ib.; French Antiquarian Intelligence, 636; Coins
found at Winchester..
HISTORICAL CHRONICLE.-Proceedings in Parliament, 637; Foreign
News, 639; Domestic Occurrences

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Promotions and Preferments, 641; Births and Marriages
OBITUARY; with Memoirs of H.R.H. the Duke of Sussex; Earl of Hopetoun;
Lord Duffus; Rt. Hon. Sir John Newport; Gen. Sir T. Hilgrove Turner;
Major-Gen. Sir C. B. Vere; Lieut.-Gen. Glegg; Colonel Clements;
Richard Arkwright, esq.; Ralph Thicknesse, esq.; J. H. Allen, esq.;
Thomas Botfield, esq.; Rev. James Ward, D.D.; John Latham, M.D.;
Robert Southey esq. L.L.D.

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Table of Mortality in the Metropolis for April and May-Prices of Shares-
Markets, 671; Meteorological Diary-Stocks
Embellished with Engravings of a BRITISH COLLAR found in LANCASHIRE; a
BRONZE CENTAUR found near Sidmouth; Sepulchral Slabs found at the Black
Friars, London, &c.

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MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.

DOCTOR AQUILLA SMITH begs leave to inform R. T. (p. 450) respecting his queries relating to the Irish Annalists, that the Annals of Multifernan are printed from the original MS. in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, and that they will be published within a fortnight by the Irish Archæological Society. "The Annals of the Priory of St. John the Evangelist, of Kilkenny," are probably the same as those known now under the name of "Grace's Annals of Ireland," which are published by the Irish Archaeological Society. Grace was a Kilkenny man. Clynn's Annals are preparing for publication by the same Society. As to the Annals of Rosse and Clonmel, Dr. Smith regrets that he cannot give any information.

A. J. K. takes occasion to express the pleasure it has given him to find that his observations on the site of the ancient Anderida have been received with so much candour and courtesy by J. P. In reply to whose query, "How, when, and by whom the manor of Newenden, by the name of Andred, was given to the monks of Canterbury?" A. J. K. begs to refer him to Dr. Harris's History of Kent, who says, "that it was granted by King Offa to the Archbishop of Canter. bury, A.D. 791, ad pascua porcorum," and to Hasted, who corroborates the statement in these words, "The manor of Newenden was given by Offa King of Mercia, by the name of Andred, to the monks of Christ Church, in Canterbury, for the feed of their hogs, being in the vast wood or forest, called Andred on the Weald." Henry of Huntingdon, who wrote in the twelfth century, describes the spot where Anderida stood, as in an entirely desolate and ruined state, in which it had remained for many ages; a description by no means applicable to the town and stately castle of Arundel. Harris says, "Castle Toll, at Newenden, is a raised piece of land, containing about 18 or 20 acres, and situated on a point of land between the river Rother, and Haydon Sewer; it lies about one mile and a quarter E.N.E. from Newenden

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On the east side it has the remains of a deep ditch and bank, which seem to have gone quite round it." Hasted says, "The form of this entrenchment is square, with the corners a little rounded." Harris seems to think that the appellation Newenden applied to the present town arose out of the circumstance of its being built near the old Anderida, that it was called

Newen-dune, the new hill, in contradistinction to the other neighbouring eminence, which had been occupied by the Roman station. Relative to Arndred farm, A. J. K. can at present give no other account than that it appears on the face of the Ordnance map; Dr. Harris also mentions a spot called Anderdown, near Newenden, as retaining traces of the old name Anderida. Surely these circumstances are much stronger than any which can be found to fix Anderida at Arundel.

In reference to the suggestion of S.Y.S., (p. 450), the Rev. STEPHEN ISAACSON begs to state, that thirteen years ago be advertised, "Fasti Episcopatus Anglicani," embracing (after the manner of a Biographical Dictionary,) the Lives of all the Archbishops and Bishops from the time of Augustine, in which he proposed a brief memoir, a list of their several publications, and a condensed account of all they had done or contemplated in behalf of Christianity. In prosecution of this, no small labour, he had completed four or five sees, but the encouragement held out promising no adequate remuneration for his toil and incidental expenses, the work has been intermitted. The communication of S. Y. S., however, has partially revived his energy in the pursuit; and, should any of your correspondents feel disposed to further the project, he would not be unwilling to prosecute the task, having a considerable mass of undigested materials for such a work, and feeling himself, from the time and attention already bestowed upon the subject, in some degree, at least, qualified for it. -The same gentleman would be obliged for information respecting the alliances or collateral connection of the families of Redhead and Watkinson with that of the Sheffields, Dukes of Buckingham.

The small brass coin recently found near Walsall, of which an impression has been sent us by A FARMER, is one of the tokens issued by the traders of Nuremberg, which were formerly used in this country as counters in casting up reckonings of money.

A Correspondent from Newport Pagnell writes us, that about ten years ago a painting of St. Christopher, as well as one on a subject unknown, was discovered in the neighbouring parish church of Ra

venstone.

ERRATUM.-P. 501 b. line 7, for comdemning read commending. P. 546 b. line 40, for Oxford read Dublin.

GENTLEMAN'S

MAGAZINE.

The Bible in Spain. By George Borrow, Esq. 3 vols. 1843.

IF the Bible Society has many more gentlemen at its beck and command who at all resemble the present writer, let them be forthwith transplanted; send them forth, armed cap-a-pie, with their wallets and mail-bags stuffed with testaments and tracts, and their tongues clothed with many-languaged eloquence. We say, let them go forth in every land where ignorance, bigotry, and priestcraft prevail, from Pekin to Paramatta, and we will answer for their success. Certainly there never left our shores one more fitted for his holy crusade than the author of the singular narrative given in this book; never was a cooler head united to a firmer will and a braver heart. His loins were always girt for his Lord's service; he was ready to wander like Paul, or, if needs be, to suffer like Polycarp. He was the very individual man for the high ambassage he undertook. No fable issuing from a poetic brain exceeds the romantic wildness of some of his adventures. In spite of Cervantes, in spite of the squire, the licentiate, and the barber, Spain still is the land of chivalry, and he who touches its soil must share the congenial influence; but not an Englishman since the days of Lord Peterborough has been seen there like the present. It is no pale, quiet, serious-looking gentleman in a small white cravat and black cloth gaiters, and straight-combed hair, who could do the Society's work in such a land as this. It was not given to one of those who, with a patient much-enduring wife, and several goodly children, locate themselves on some four or five hundred acres of fertile land in the valleys of New Zealand; or to those who rejoice in the shovel-hat of the archdeacon, among the Caffres of the Cape, or the wilds of Australasia; no, it was reserved for one who knew thirty languages, though himself not thirty years old; who has traversed the arid plains of Hindostan, and the snowy steppes of Russia; who is seen by one traveller reposing in the valley of Cashmire, who is met by another in the bazaars of Stambul or Cairo, or beneath the walls of Novogorod; who has lived in the tents of the Bedouins, and in the halls of princes; who seems to possess the pass-word of all peoples and nations, and who unites the piety of a hermit to the spirit of a knight; who can translate the Scriptures not only into languages but into remote dialects; who can maintain an argument with the doughtiest champion and casuist of the Romish Church; and who can handle a horse-shoe with the best of the smiths amongst the Alpujarras of Granada. Oh! thou good old Sire, who sittest with thy half-shut unsuspecting eyes on thy Seven Hills of Rome! Thou venerable Pope of Rome, dwelling among thy goodly galleries, and garden lattices, and marble roofs; thou who seest the keys that hang on thy girdle growing rusty and eaten by time's tooth! for thee! for yonder sail now traversing the deep blue waters of Biscay brings a fearful freight to thy palsied empire! Good ancient father! he means to sift thee like wheat! He will filch from thee the finest diamond of thy crown! He will pull down to the dust the ancient turrets of thy pride; he will cleave thee in twain as it were a ripe pomegranate. He cares no more for thee than for the Turk or Prester John. He laughs at

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