TABLE OF MORTALITY AND BIRTHS IN THE DISTRICTS OF LONDON. (From the Returns issued by the Registrar-General.) Under 20 years of Age. Males. Females. Total. 23 30 13 685 177 178 171 35 1254 942 908 1850 QUANTITIES and AVERAGE PRICES of BRITISH CORN, &c., Sold in Mark-lane during the week ending Tuesday, Sept. 16, from the Returns to the Inspector by the Corn Factors. AGGREGATE AVERAGE OF LAST SIX WEEKS. 49 41 6 PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW AT SMITHFIELD, SEPT. 18. Hay, 17. 16s. to 5l. Os. Straw, 17. 16s. to 27. Os.- Clover, 31. 10s. to 5l. Os. NEW METROPOLITAN CATTLE-MARKET. To sink the Offal-per stone of 8lbs. Best Wall's-end, per ton, 17s. 6d. to 18s. Od. Other sorts, 14s. 9d. to 16s. 3d. 512 METEOROLOGICAL DIARY, BY H. GOULD, late W. CARY, 181, STRAND. From August 24, to September 23, inclusive. Stock and Share Broker, 19, Change Alley, London, E.C. PRINTED BY MESSES. JOHN HENRY AND JAMES PARKER. ANTIQUARIAN AND LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.-Archæological Institute, 563; Cambrian Archæological Association, 573; British Association for the Advance- ment of Science, 584; Bucks. Archæological and Architectural Society, 585; Cork Cuvierian Society, 586; Architectural and Archæological Society of Durham and Northumberland, 588; Society of Antiquaries, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 593; Somersetshire Archæological and Natural History Society..... CORRESPONDENCE OF SYLVANUS URBAN.-The Excavations at Wroxeter, 598; The Knowe of Saverough, 601; A Few hitherto unpublished Facts relating to John Field, "The Proto-Copernican of England," 604; Lyminge Church, 608; The St. Cuthbert's Gospel in the South Kensington Museum, 611; Domesday Book for the County Palatine of Chester, 612; Restorations, 613; Tessellated Pavement -Professor Stephens and the Maes-howe Inscriptions, 614; The King's House, at Worcester, 615; The Cotterels in the Isle of Sheppey THE NOTE-BOOK OF SYLVANUS URBAN HISTORICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS REVIEWS, AND LITERARY NOTICES.— The Numismatic Chronicle, No. VII.-An Historical Sketch of the Paper Money issued in Pennsylvania, 619; Domesday Book-The Church Builder, No. IV.— OBITUARY.-Viscount Harberton-Lord Sherborne-General Sir Thomas Willshire, Bart., G.C.B., 631; Marshal Count Castellane, 634; The Duchess de Dino, 635; Sir T. N. Redington, K.C.B.-George Eld, Esq., 636; The Rev. W. Monkhouse, B.D., F.S.A., 637; Mr. John Merridew, 639; John Francklin, Esq.- Professor Eugene O'Curry, 641; Richard Pearce, Esq., 642; Thomas Jefferson Hogg, Esq., MINOR CORRESPONDENCE. NOTICE. SYLVANUS URBAN requests bis 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. THE LATE JOHN MITCHELL KEMBLE. MR. URBAN,-My attention having been this day called to a letter signed F.S.A. which appeared in your "Minor Correspondence" for this month, stating that the remains of my friend J. M. Kemble have not yet been buried, but "lie shelved in a vault in a church" in Dublin, allow me to say that such is not the fact. Kemble's remains were never in a vault in a Dublin Church; they were buried in Mount Jerome Cemetery at the expense of Mr. Sartoris more than twelve months ago; and the monument to his memory which I undertook to erect is now more than half completed. I am, &c. W. R. WILDE. Dublin, Sept. 27, 1862. MONUMENTS OF DEACONS. MR. URBAN,-Having observed in the report of the proceedings of the Essex Archæological Society in your last Number (p. 462), that it is the opinion of the Rev. E. L. Cutts that the medieval brass-workers kept in stock ready-made figures of "priests, knights, deacons, &c.," I should be much indebted for the favour of reference to any such old English memorials of the latter order. Although I have examined the effigies and brasses in many cathedral and parochial churches, I have failed to recognise a monumental figure vested with the deacon's stole and dalmatic, or in the tunic of a sub-deacon. The theory of such wholesale manufacture of "priests, knights, deacons, &c.," induces me to hope that examples IN the memoir of Mr. Walter Nelson in our last Number (p. 503), a mistake was committed in attributing the existing liberal arrangements for literary searchers at the Public Record Office to the "late" Master of the Rolls. The error carried with it its own correction to those familiar with the subject, as it gave the year when the arrangements referred to were first made-a year in which the present Master of the Rolls occupied that office; but as it might mislead others, it is here noticed. P. 477, col. 2, the contracted word "Lincln" in the epitaph of Thomas Sympson is an error of transcription; it should read "Lincoln." Our Antiquarian Intelligence runs this month to such an extent as to compel us to defer several Reviews, Obitu aries, &c., which are in type. The Gentleman's Magazine AND HISTORICAL REVIEW. THE POLYCHROMY OF SWEDISH CHURCHES IN THE MIDDLE AGES a. BY W. BURGES, ESQ. (SECOND NOTICE.) In the former notice of M. Mandelgren's work, we saw a complete system of decoration applied to the chancel of the church at Bjeresjo, and to the entire building at Rhoda. The other plates, although presenting us with only fragmentary portions of the decorations, such as vaultings, &c., are yet exceedingly curious, not only for their iconography, but also as affording us valuable examples of the proper treatment of vaulted surfaces which contain not only the usual transverse wall and diagonal ribs, but what Professor Willis calls liernes and tiercerons. A vault divided in this manner is far more difficult to fill up with subjects than that which only presents us with the usual quadripartite arrangement; and as most of the polychromy has been destroyed in our own country, it is precisely examples of this sort which make the present book so valuable. But before proceeding to the illustrations of polychromy on groined surfaces, it will perhaps be as well to notice two fragments of decoration, both of which form pendants to the stories depicted at Rhoda. The first is the painting on the halfdome covering the apse of the chancel at Grenna. In the centre is a circle containing a figure of our Lord standing, with the inscription, EGO SUM ALPHA ET O-; in His hands He holds an immense circle, which hides the whole figure with the exception of the extremities: this circle is divided into three concentric divisions; in the outermost are placed the stars, the next is simply coloured red and shaded, while the innermost contains the world, represented by a hilly landscape with water a "Monuments Scandinaves du Moyen Age aux les Peintures et autres Ornaments qui les decorent. Dessinés et publiés par N. M. Mandelgren." (Paris.) GENT, MAG. VOL. CCXIII. 39 |