a founder so powerful and so good, and at the same time, perhaps, be destined as a monument of grateful acknowledgment to that Supreme King who had elevated the earthly monarch to this point of splendour and glory, Edward, it appears, determined to ornament the chapel in a degree beyond that in which any building of modern times was ever embellished; he contemplated the painting, gilding, and enamelling of the entire interior: the ceiling splendidly coloured; the win. dows glowing with the richest tints of stained glass; the walls enriched with paintings, such as Athens or Pompeii might boast in their days of glory; and the floor paved with tiles beaming from the furnace with the purest hues, and marked with devices almost vieing with the art of the enameller. . The buildings of Athens were richly painted; the decoration which we have in our modern vanity fancied to be barbarous, was seen even upon the statues of Pericles: perhaps in the days of Edward, ere Athens had suffered from Venetian cannon and Turkish spoliation, were some parts where painted porticoes might remain in a sufficient degree of preservation to attest their former magnificence, and those arts fostered by Byzantine magnificence, and rivalled by the elaborate Mosaics, may have been brought by the active and enterprising Greek to our northern coasts; for certain is it, that such a style of decoration is so ill suited to the humid atmosphere of this country, that we can never suppose it to be a native invention. Rich, indeed, were all the works of this reign, as the splendid illuminations and the gorgeous brasses which have reached us, attest. They enable us to form an idea of the brightness of this period; but only the enthusiastic mind can picture the splendour of the Royal Chapel as completed by the third Edward, who for that purpose appears to have obtained the aid of painters from every quarter of his kingdom. The buildings for which the aid and sympathy of the public have been recently and powerfully excited, have been generally those which through age and neglect have been falling into decay, and the means of restoration could only be obtained by public subscription. In the present case, there is no necessity for the charity of the nation to be incroached upon; the expression of public opinion is all that is required, and it has in fact been pretty generally expressed-so generally, and so plainly, that it is to be hoped its voice will not be drowned in the clamours of interested opposition. Two architects of eminence have taken the lead in the controversy, Mr. Savage and Mr. Cottingham; they are said to stand alone. True it is, their opinion is opposed to those of the other professional gentlemen who have been called on to survey the structure: at the head of whom is Mr. Wilkins, the architect of the National Gallery. Without wishing to undervalue professional opinions, it is but too well understood that a great bias is always seen towards the side of destruction, whenever the existence of an ancient relic is called into question. Pull down and re-build, has always been the theme of modern architects, as many an old church can painfully testify. When we see two gentlemen venturing their professional reputation on the other side of the question, and courting inquiry into the truth or fallacy of their statements, it must be granted that their opinions deserve great attention, and they eventually will, in the estimation of the discerning and independent portion of the community, have and receive great weight. The expense of restoration is here no obstacle: Parliament, even in these days of economy, could never judge the small sum necessary to restore what now exists to its pristine architectural beauty, and even the strictest guardian of the public purse would scarcely divide the House on a vote for such a noble purpose. The engraving which accompanies this notice, differs from the thousand and one which have been published, as the artist Mr. R. W. Billings has shown the ruins in a novel and effective point of view. He has aimed at conveying to our readers a just idea not only of the magnitude of the ruins, but also of the character and beauty of the architecture, and has successfully achieved his object.* * In the foreground are shown the fireplaces, and other indications of the several little offices, smoking-rooms, and The preservation of the Chapel would be a credit and an honour to the nation, and the renovated structure, though like the Second Temple of Jerusalem, it should fall short of the glories of the former one, would be a monument of credit to an age in which so great a veneration for antiquity is so ardently professed. We confidently hope that every one who has it in his power to exert his influence in favour of this pile, will do so with firmness and enthusiasm; and we have little doubt that, with the new Houses of Legislature, the present age will have the satisfaction of beholding the RESTORED CHAPEL OF ST. STEPHEN. E. I. C. THAT our readers may possess the fullest information on the subject of the restoration of this venerable structure, we have subjoined the following extract from the professional opinion of Messrs. Cottingham and Savage: Sir "It appears from the report of Lord Duncannon's speech, in the House of Lords, of the 15th July, that Jeffery Wyattville and three other architects agree with us, that the building may be restored without any difficulty, and that it is not to be deemed in a dangerous state.' Secondly, our opinions were formed, not upon a survey of three months ago only, but upon repeated surveys shortly after the fire, and again about three months ago; and we have again, within the last week, repeatedly viewed the building, and we beg to say that our opinions remain unchanged; that we find no perceptible alteration in the building in the last three months; and that we see no cause to alter a single word in the letter referred to of the 28th March last; and, without going again over the whole of the matter, we beg to repeat that there is, in the remains of St. Stephen's Chapel, in proportion, as much and closets, which were squeezed in between the buttresses of the ancient Chapel. Dependant from an arch on the opposite side, twisted by the action of the fire into the form of loose ropes, are two of the iron bars by which the galleries of the House of Commons were suspended. In the distance is the river, surmounted by the trees and towers of Lambeth. It makes one shudder to observe how nearly the fire was communicated to the Hall, at the spot where this view was taken! the upper part of some wooden stairs leading from the wall of the Hall was actually burnt short off. to preserve, and as capable of preservation and restoration, as there was in Henry the Seventh's Chapel. "We also beg to say, that, in our opinions, the assertion of Mr. Wilkins that 'the remaining portion of the stone is nearly converted into lime' is a great mistake. The stone is in fact not a lime stone but a sand stone, from Caen, in Normandy; and, like most of building sand-stones, it contains a small portion of carbonate of lime, but not sufficient to cause it to fall to powder like limestone, which, after being burnt, on application of water, falls to powder, whereas a fragment of this building, from a part which had been exposed to the greatest heat, has been immersed in water for six hours, and came out ap parently even harder than when it was put in. It is well known that most of our building sand-stones are acted upon by the air of this climate, and that in the progress of ages the surface becomes pulverised; this was the case with the exterior of Henry the Seventh's Chapel, and the same may be seen at the Abbey, now under reparation; and the fire at St. Stephen's Chapel made but little additional injury to that surface, which already brought to a state requiring retime, neglect, and wilful mutilation had pair. "We beg to call the attention of those who have to decide upon this interesting question to these facts, and urge them to examine the building for themselves, and we are confident they will see enough to satisfy them that there is no danger whatever in allowing these beautiful and instructive remains to stand; and thus to compel, if possible, in the plans for the new Houses of Parliament, an exertion of architectural skill and taste that may combine with this pure and elegant example of our national architecture. "JAS. SAVAGE. L. N. COTTINGHAM." 99 Protest of Architects and Artists. "We, the undersigned, having heard that it is the intention to take down without delay the walls of this chapel, with a view to safety,' and being assured of its stability, and feeling strongly, as we do, its value as one of the most important and interesting of our national monuments, not only on account of its intrinsic and unique beauty as a work of art, but also on account of the many glorious and sacred recollections with which it is identified; its having re echoed the eloquence of a Pitt, a Fox, a Burke, a Sheridan, and a Chatham; its having swayed, in the most eventful period of our history, the destinies of Europe; its having been, in its high and palmy state,' the admiration of the most enlightened foreignerswitness Erasmus, and many others; its having been founded by the hero of Cressy and Poicters, and having been the temple in which his Queen Philippa and their gallant son, the Black Prince, offered up their thanksgivings for their triumphs over the enemies of their country; for these and other considerations, as artists and as Englishmen, we solemnly register this our public protest against the intended removal, as an unnecessary destruction of one of the noblest specimens of the arts MONUMENTAL EFFIGIES AT DENNINGTON, SUFFOLK. MR. URBAN, June 18. IN your number for November, 1832, is an interesting article by your valuable correspondent, Alfred John Kempe, esq. F.S.A., relative to the monumental effigies in Dennington Church, Suffolk, of William Phelip, Lord Bardolf, and his lady. Dugdale, in his Baronage, Vol. II. p. 213, states that this William Phelip was son to Sir John Phelip, of Donyngeton (Dennington) in com. Suffolk, knt. a valiant soldier under King Henry V. in his wars of France." Dr. Nash, in describing the monumental effigies at Kidderminster, of Matilda Lady Phelip, and her two husbands Walter Cooksey and Sir John Phelip, evidently considers the foregoing observations of Dugdale to be applicable to the last mentioned party. Mr. Gough, in his " Sepulchral Monuments," follows Dr. Nash in this particular: but I suspect they were mistaken. Sir John Phelip of Dennington, the valiant soldier alluded to by Dugdale, had, besides Sir William, another son, Sir John, and I will suppose that he also, for his bravery, deserved the same epithet which has been applied to his father. It was this Sir John the younger, who married the widow, Matilda Cooksey (formerly St. Pierre) and he had to his second wife Alicia Chaucer, who subsequently became the wife of William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, names quite familiar to those who have seen, or merely read of, the subjects of antiquarian interest at Ewelme in Oxfordshire. Quite in unison with this view of the case, are the following observations of lasted, extracted from his account of Deptford, or West Greenwich, in Kent. "In the 3rd year of Henry V. anno 1414," (say rather 1415,)" it was found by Inquisition (Rot. Esch.) that Sir John Phelip knight, and Alice his wife, held the reversion of this manor; and that Sir William Phelip, knight, was his brother and next heir. "William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, at the time of his death, May 2, in the 28th year of King Henry Vl. anno 1449, was seised of the manor of West Greenwich, leaving John, his son, seven years of age." I will add, in confirmation of the above, that the will of the last mentioned Sir John Phelip, partly in Latin and partly in French, was made at his house in London, on the 20th June, 1415, and was proved in the Prerogative Court, but not until 1418. In it are respectively named his late wife Matilda, the three children of the late Walter Cooksey; his (testator's,) brother Sir William Phelip; the manor of West Greenwich; his, (testator's) wife, Alicia; (the celebrated) Sir Thomas Erpingham; Andrew Botiller, testator's brother-inlaw; several of the Bresynghams, &c. It appears, upon reference to the 2nd Vol. of Bloomfield's Norfolk, that Sir Thomas Erpingham, who survived until 1428, married to his second wife, Joan, the beautiful daughter of Sir William Clopton, of Clopton in Suffolk, in right of whom Sir Thomas came into that estate, and by whom he had an only daughter, Julian, who became the wife of Sir John Phelip; that Sir John and his wife Julian died in the lifetime of Sir Thomas, and that the heir of the latter was "Sir William Phelip, knight, who married Joan, daughter and coheir of Thomas Lord Bardolf;" at a few pages further on, however, this Julian is called the daughter and heiress (not of Sir Thomas Erpingham, but) of Sir William Clopton; and I suspect that Bloomfield had not derived accu rate information as to the connexion between the Erpinghams and Phelips's; for the expressions "avunculus and mon oncle" are made use of by Sir John Phelip, in his said will, in reference to Sir Thomas Erpingham. J. B. G. BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE. The fifth Annual Meeting of this Association took place at Dublin, in the week, August 10-15. The principal officers, as appointed at the close of the Edinburgh Meeting last year, were:-President, Rev. Bartholomew Lloyd, D.D. Provost of Trinity College; Vice-Presidents, Lord Oxmantown, the Rev. William Whewell; Secretaries. W. Rowan Hamilton, Astronomer Royal of Ireland, and the Rev. Humphrey Lloyd, Professor of Natural Philosophy; Treasurer, T. Henry Orpen, M.D. The arrangements made by the reception committee were excellent, and they were greatly aided by the liberality of Sir John Tobin, who sent over his steamer, the William Penn, from Liverpool, with a large party on Friday, after which she returned to perform a similar service on Sunday. A deputation from Dublin received the passengers at Kingstown, whence a train of carriages, granted to the Association by the railway company, conveyed them to the city. On Friday and Saturday mornings the Examination Hall of Trinity College, which had been appointed as the place of general rendezvous, presented an animat. ing spectacle from the eagerness of candidates to learn whether they had gained admission, and the general anxiety to get a sight of eminent strangers. Sir John Ross, Sir John Franklin, Dr. Coulter, the recent explorer of Mexico, Dr. Dalton, Dr. Roget, Professors Babbage, Powell, Murchison, and many other eminent men, were among the crowd. Moore, the poet and historian of Ireland, was admitted by acclamation, without the usual formalities and fees. On Saturday evening the Royal College of Physicians invited most of the members that had arrived to a conversazione in their library and museum, at Sir Patrick Dunn's Hospital. On Sunday the William Penn brought the second party of members from Liverpool. On board were the munificent owner Sir John Tobin, his friend Mr. S. Turner, who had the conduct of the voyage, Captain Denham, who has discovered and laid down a new channel in the Mersey, of vast importance to the commerce of Liverpool, Professor Sedgwick, Dr. Daubeny, Mr. W. Smith, of Scarborough, the father of geological science, Colonel Dick, of New Orleans, Dr. Yelloly, D. Don, the botanists, &c. &c. Professor Sedgwick performed divine service and preached; and previously christened, in the new channel, Annesley Turner Denham, the infant son of Captain Denham. On Monday, at 11 o'clock, the several sections repaired to business, of which we shall notice the particulars hereafter. There was an ordinary at Morrison's great rooms, Dawson-street, at which upwards of 250 gentlemen were present, the Surgeon-general in the chair, supported by Lord Cole, Sir T. Brisbane, Sir J. Tobin, Mr. Moore, &c. Above two thousand persons afterwards assembled at the Rotunda, where the Lord Lieutenant, the Earl of Mulgrave, arrived soon after eight. last year, then addressed the meeting, and proposed Dr. Lloyd as his successor; who then delivered an address of considerable length, principally referring to the correspondence of the objects of Science with Divine Revelation. Professor Hamilton afterwards read the Annual Report, with remarks on some of the papers contained in the volume of last year's transactions. Sir Thomas Brisbane, the president of The reports of the Sections for that day were then read, and the meeting closed with a vote of thanks to Sir John Tobin for his convoy, proposed by Professor Sedgwick, and seconded by Mr. Mur. chison. On Tuesday, after the Sectional business was concluded, the members broceeded to a splendid dejeuner, given by the Zoological Society, in their grounds in the Phoenix Park. The Lord Lieutenant, the Duke of Leinster, and nearly all the distinguished men already named were present; and, the doors being open to the public, nearly 6,000 shillings were taken. In the evening, at the Rotunda, Dr. Lardner delivered a lecture of nearly two hours, on steam and locomotive engines. On Wednesday, at nine o'clock, the Royal College of Surgeons gave a breakfast to some three hundred; and at five o'clock about the same number sat down at the ordinary at Morrison's, the President in the chair. On the healths of the illustrious foreigners and Americans present being drank, thanks were severally returned by Dr. Peithman of Berlin, Professor Moll of Utrecht, Mons. Agassiz, and Col. Dick. At the Rotunda, after the Sectional reports, Professor Powell delivered a lecture on the Undulatory Theory of Light, and Professor Whewell gave some account of the recent tidal observations. On Thursday there was a public breakfast at the College of Physicians; the Lord Lieutenant gave a dinner to a select number of the most distinguished members; and about three hundred were conveyed by the Railway Company to the Salt Hall tavern at Kingston, where Mr. Napier, a gentleman of great landed property in co. Meath, presided. Mr. Vignoles, the engineer of the railway, on his health being drank, gave some particulars of the work. Capt. Portlock, the President of the Zoological Society, also took the chair in another room. The Rotunda and its gardens were open for an evening promenade and refreshments, but without any lecture. The morning of Friday was commenced with a dejeuner in the Botanic Garden, Glassnevin; and about twelve hundred persons partook of the entertainment, which was laid out in marquees. Those most interested in Botany proceeded thence on an excursion to Howth. Sir Thomas Brisbane presided at the ordinary at Morrison's, where Professor Hamilton delivered a very eloquent speech, Baron Barclay de Tolly return, ed thanks for the toast of the foreigners, and Mr. Baily for that of the English and Scotch. At the Rotunda, after the reports, Mr. Babbage offered some suggestions for ascertaining the age of peat mosses by the trees found in them; and Professor Sedgwick discoursed for an hour on Geology. We now proceed to describe the proceedings of the several Sections: SECTION A.-Mathematics and Physics. At the Philosophy School, Trinity College. Rev. D. Robinson, president; Sir T. Brisbane and Mr. Baily, vice-presidents; Professors Hamilton and Wheatstone, secretaries. Mr. Whewell read the first part of a report upon the Mathematical and Dynamical Theories of Electricity, Magnetism, and Heat;' on which remarks were made by Mr. Snow Harris and Professor Stevelly. Mr. Snow Harris read an interesting paper upon a new balance, adapted to measure most minute indications of force, and reduce them readily to weights; consisting essentially of a needle, reed, cylin der, or bar, suspended by two distant parallel and vertical fibres of silk. Professor Powell and Dr. Hudson each read a paper on the radiations of heat. Sir John Ross read a paper on the origin of the Aurora Borealis, the result of twenty-five years' reflection on the subject. Mr. Mallet described a very ingenious instrument on the principle of a magnet, formed instantly by electricity, and then again discontinued, for separating the iron. and brass and copper filings, that become mixed in manufactories. Tuesday.-Dr. Robinson, the Presi dent, read a letter from Col. Colby, accompanying a copy of the Ordnance Survey of the parish of Templemore and city of Londonderry, as specimens of the grand national work now in progress. Mr. Whewell resumed his valuable report; the subject of this part was Heat. Dr. Allman, Professor of Botany, next read a very interesting paper on a mathematical inquiry into the forms of the cells of plants. Mr. Snow Harris gave an interesting account of his views of electrical action and distribution, on which observations were made by Professors Whewell and Stevelly. Dr. Reid, of Edinburgh, read a very interesting paper upon Sound, particularly in relation to the precautions necessary to be attended to in the constructing of public buildings. Mr. Russell detailed the origin and progress of the series of experiments on the resistance experienced at various velocities by bodies moving through fluids at various |