March 13. At Benares, aged 28, Lieut. and Adj. Colin Robertson Larkins, of the 20th Reg. of Bengal N. I. March 15. At Meerat, Eliza-Euphemia, wife of Lieut. Frederick Thornton Raikes, 62d Regiment, and second dau. of John Hamilton, esq. March 16. Near Darwar, Madras, Ensign John Edgar Leslie, 35th N. Inf. eldest son of Major-Gen. John Leslie, K.H. March 20. At Chittoor, Hannah, wife of Capt. Hull, of the Madras Fusiliers. At the house of his daughter Mrs. Bartlett, in Eendy Bagaun, aged 82, Deputy Commissary of Ordnance Thomas Howatson, esq. At Calcutta, aged 33, James Law, esq. late of the firm of Messrs. Law, Stirling, and Co. March 23. At Doomcole Factory, near Berhampore, Isabella-Hastings, wife of W. R. Logan, esq. April 3. At Calcutta, aged 29, John. Frazer, esq. Deputy Secretary to the Assam Company. April 17. At Salem, Madras, Emilia, second dau. of Capt. Mortlock, late of the Hon. Company's Service; and on the same day, near Darwar, of cholera, Lieut. John Mortlock, of the 35th Reg. N. I. son of the above Capt. Mortlock. April 21. At Madras, Lieut. W. Newbolt Hille, 6th Madras Cavalry. April 24. At Madras, Alexander Harcourt Jourdan, Ensign Madras Inf. only surviving son of Lieut.-Col. Jourdan. June 2. At sea, on his return from India, in the Queen East Indiaman, aged 36, Capt. Meyrick Jones, late of 3rd Light Dragoons, second son of late William Jones, esq. of Putney, and of Woodhall, Norfolk. ABROAD.-Jan... In New South Wales, Major Frederic Hovenden, formerly of 34th Regt. Jan. 29. At Perth, Western Australia, aged 39, William Habgood, esq. eldest son of Thomas Habgood, esq. of Kingstonon-Thames. March 24. At Para, in the Brazils, by the upsetting of a canoe, aged 31, Reginald Simpson Graham, esq. of Manchester, son of Reginald Graham, esq. late of Etterby, near Carlisle; also his wife, Dora-Ennis eldest dau, of the Rev. Henry Bellairs, Rector of Bedworth, near Coventry; and Dora Ennis, their only child, aged six years. April 9. At Toronto, James, eldest son of the late James Watson, esq. W.S. Edinburgh. April 27. At Gibraltar, aged 19, Lieut. Richard Hawkins, Carlyon, Royal Art. fourth son of Lieut.-Col. Carlyon, of Tregrehan, Cornwall, and of Greenway, Devon. His death was the result of an injury sustained when engaged at play in a racket court. May 4. At Hanover, the Princess Maria of Solms Braunfels, grand-dau. of the late Queen of Hanover. May 12. At Lisbon, aged 93, Margaret, widow of Francis Morrogh, esq. May 13. At New York, aged 35, Alexander Nash, esq. eldest son of the late Andrew John Nash, esq. of Cornhill, and of Hyde House, Edmonton. May 15, May 17. At Suresne, near Paris, Adm. May 23. At Naples, aged 19, William, youngest son of the late Alexander Brice, esq. of Euston sq. Lately. As Winterbach, in Germany, Mary, wife of Justinian Alston, esq. of Odell Castle, Beds. and dau. of the late Gen. Kerr, of Northampton. Aged 82, the Princess Louisa Henrietta, dau. of the late Prince Charles William, of Nassau Usingen, and aunt of the Duchess of Cambridge. Mr. Coleman, the inventor of the solian attachment, on his return from this country to America. In Paris, at an advanced age, Mr. Latour, the once fashionable piano-forte composer and teacher; he was pianist to the Prince Regent, afterwards George the Fourth, for many years. Mr. Armstrong, British vice-consul at Caen, of the rupture of a blood-vessel of the heart. June 9. At Paris, Diana-Louisa, youngest dau. of Alexander Macdonald, esq. Hyde Park. TABLE OF MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS. From the Returns issued by the Registrar General. DEATHS REGISTERED from MAY 24, to JUNE 21, 1845, (5 weeks.) Sussex Pockets, 61. 68. to 71. 78.-Kent Pockets, 61. 108. to 11. 48. PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW AT SMITHFIELD, June 20. Beef.. Mutton. Veal Pork........... ..3s. 4d. to 4s. 6d. ....3s. 8d. to 5s. Od. ..4s. 2d. to 58. 2d. ..48. Od. to 5s. Od. COAL MARKET, June 20. Walls Ends, from 15s. 6d. to 17s. 6d. per ton. Other sorts from 13s. 6d. to 21s. Od TALLOW, per cwt.-Town Tallow, 42s. Od. Yellow Russia, 42s. Od. CANDLES, 7s. Od. per doz. Moulds, 98. 6d. PRICES OF SHARES. At the Office of WOLFE, BROTHERS, Stock and Share Brokers, Birmingham Canal, 68.- Ellesmere and Chester, 60. -Grand Junction, 140 For Prices of all other Shares, enquire as above. METEOROLOGICAL DIARY, BY W. CARY, STRAND, From May 26, 1845, to June 25, 1815, both inclusive. Fahrenheit's Therm. Fahrenheit's Therm. 8 o'clock in. pts. Jun. 47 29, 63 rn. cldy. fair 11 64 76 fair, do. rain 12 81 do. do. do. 13 71 constant rn. 14 84 fine, cloudy 15 52 30, 16 fair, ditto 16 [The "Daily Price of Stocks" is unavoidably omitted this month, not having been received in time for publication.] London: J. B. Nichols and Son, Printers, 25, Parliament Street. 24 25 74 64 29, 86 cloudy, fair 63 33, 33 do. hvy. shrs. 52 30 rain, cly. fair 54 58 59 09 do. do. 54 29, 0 do. do. 60 30, 13 do. do. 67 56 29, 95 do. hvy, shrs. 96 fair 30, 09 fine, cloudy GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. AUGUST, 1845. BY SYLVANUS URBAN, GENT. CONTENTS. MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.-Woodward of Boteler's Marston-The Passing PAGE .......... 106 Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome-The French critics of English Literature- HUNTER'S NEW ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE LIFE, STUDIES, AND WRITINGS OF 107 119 122 124 Lady Mary Sidney and her Writings 129 .... 137 144 145 On the present state of the Roman Pavements at Bignor, Sussex The Assassination of George Duke of Buckingham, in 1628 (with a Plate). 148 165 Richard the Third, a Poem, by Sharon Turner, 153; Lectures on the Colossians, by the Bishop of Calcutta, 155; Klose's Memoirs of Prince Charles Stuart, 156; Mrs. Bray's Protestant, 157; Paley's Manual of Gothic Mouldings, 157; Weale's Quarterly Papers on Architecture, 159; Ellerton's Bridal of Salerno and other Poems, 162; Hind's Oratory, 163; Sermons by the Rev. D. Moore, 164; Miscellaneous Reviews.... LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. University of Cambridge-Winchester College, 167; The British Association for the Advancement of Science, 168; Royal Agricultural Society-Dinner to John Britton, Esq. F.S.A..... ARCHITECTURE.-Architectural Drawings at the Royal Academy, 172; Yorkshire Architectural Society, 174; Northampton Architectural Society 175 ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES.-Society of Antiquaries, 175; Archæological Association ...... ...... HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. - Parliamentary Proceedings, 182; Foreign Promotions and Preferments, 187; Births and Marriages CLERGY DECEASED DEATHS, arranged in Counties ..... ... 178 186 188 191-205 205 207 216 Registrar-General's Returns of Mortality in the Metropolis-Markets-Prices of Shares, 215; Meteorological Diary-Stocks.. Embellished with a Portrait of GEORGE VILLIERS, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM, when lying dead; a Portrait of JOHN FELTON his Assassin; a View of the House at PORTSMOUTH, the scene of the Assassination; and a Representation of a Dagger, its supposed Instrument, MINOR CORRESPONDENCE. VERAX has recently in his travels through Warwickshire visited Butler's (or Boteler's) Marston, in that county. The ancient manor place of the family of Woodward, in that village, is nearly a ruinous pile. Understanding that it has for some centuries been the estate of that ancient family, which is said to be extinct, our correspondent would be obliged by an account of that family, one of whom, Dr. Woodward, in 1727 founded a lecture ship on Geology at Cambridge, of which Professor Sedgwick is the present lecturer. F. would be glad to be informed when the custom of tolling the passing bell previously to the death of any one ceased generally? Mrs. B. of St. Alban's has very kindly pointed out a much fuller account than can be found elsewhere of the ceremony of "ladies taking their chamber," in the 4th volume of Miss Strickland's Queens of England, in the case of Elizabeth of York, queen of Henry the Seventh. On this subject see Gent. Mag. for July 1844, pp. 23, 247. E. F. has in his possession a small brass cross, on one side of which is a representation of the crucified Saviour, around his head rays of glory, above which are the usual letters INRI. On the other side is the Blessed Virgin, the hands crossed on her breast, around her head five stars, above which are the letters VIR IMM. On the arms of the cross, the dash intimating where the figure is, are VITAN————— PRESTA, under the feet IVR⚫MA. The VIR IMM he supposes to mean Virgo Immaculata. If any of our correspondents will favour him with the signification of the others he will be much obliged. J. P. remarks, "In the Additions and Emendations to Fosbroke's Encyclopædia of Antiquities, p. 925, (original edition,) is the following observation: P. 500. "CAMPS. Vegetius in making the Tertiata Castra one-third longer than the breadth, has probably misled the annotator on Hyginus; for General Roy by admeasurement found the breadth to be three-fourths of the length.' This observation of the learned author of the Encyclopædia is particularly unfortunate, and should be expunged, as it will be found, I believe, that the proportions of every plane figure whose length is one-third more than the breadth, are the same as when its breadth is three-fourths of the length. This erroneous impression of the author must have been discovered by others; but I think it ought to be publicly notified." In the Number of the Gent. Mag. for Sept. 1844 is a communication from J. P. (p. 247,) in which he inadvertently wrote ad quem instead of à quo. As this error is one which of course obscures, and as it were reverses, the meaning intended to be conveyed, he is very anxious that this notice of it should be inserted. May, p. 555. The late Dr. Heberden died in Cumberland Street, on the 19th Feb. aged 78: his body was interred in the vault of St. John's Church, Windsor. Particulars of his will were given in June, p. 669. The medical volume reviewed in our last number, page 58, is the work of Dr. Moore, not Dr. Moon. To the COUNTRY READER who regrets the discontinuing of our monthly list of New Publications," we can only reply that the change was not adopted without consideration, and that our decision was chiefly formed upon the circumstance that there are several lists published periodically, at a low price, or even gratuitously, by publishers and others, which afford that species of information. The space thus obtained in our pages is now filled with matter worthy of record, which is not presented in the same form any where else. THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. New Illustrations of the Life, Studies, and Writings of Shakspere. By the Rev. Joseph Hunter, F.S.A. 2 vols. AN ingenious gentleman has lately compared the commentators and critics on Shakspere to so many overgrown boys standing on heaps of stones, with a bust of Shakspere between them, pelting each other, while the visage of the poet is receiving sundry contusions and fractures from the erratic flight of the deadly missiles. Whether this picture is overcharged or altogether false, we do not say; but it is with pleasure we declare that Mr. Hunter is entirely free from any such imputation, "He bears no tokens of those sable streams, But sails far off among the swans of Thames," and his volumes are as much distinguished for the gentlemanly and temperate remarks he makes on those from whom he differs, as they are for the variety of learning they display, their antiquarian research, and their critical acumen. They form, indeed, as valuable an addition as has for some years been made to the body of Shakspere criticism, and are evidently the result of careful and continued labours, and of a long familiarity with the authentic principles of philology, without which it is as presumptuous to come into the field of criticism, as it would be for a warrior to enter the place of contest without any knowledge of the use of his weapons, and without being accustomed to his panoply of war. His historical and antiquarian dissertations are very curious, and abounding with information; and if, as will appear, we do not always agree with him in his conjectural criticisms, such diversity of opinion arises from the very nature of the subject, which cannot be defined by any strict limit, and only excludes that which is in the highest degree improbable and absurd. For instance, as we have really a very great value for him, and a high estimation of his services in literature, we are as grieved to see him still persist in venturing in his frail and favourite vessel in the wide and turbulent ocean of conjecture, and mistaking a crazy sugar butt for a good Thames wherry, as we are to see our friend Mr. Dyce fondly carrying about an unfledged seagull on his fist, which he wishes to pass off for a goodly jerfalcon.* These, however, are the occasional caprices of learned and *This alludes to Mr. Dyce's ingenious conjecture of "staniel" for "scamel" in the Tempest, on which we animadverted in our last article on Shakspere. Theobald conjectured stannel. We suggested from an old ornithological work "seagell." In Suffolk a distinction is made between the "seacob" and "seagull," one being smaller than the other. The species and variety of this bird, "the larus," is extraordinarily great. By-the-bye, we think it would have been better if Mr. Dyce in his valuable "Remarks' on the late editions had chosen another motto, instead of the one from Porson's Medea, 139, as it had been so lately used for the same purpose by Mr. Mitchell in his Aristophanes, and from the abundance of his classical stores, he might easily have selected one that had the brighter gloss of novelty. |