merates no fewer than twenty-seven engravings, and to these may still be added one more, with an impression of which a friend has recently obliged us. It may be thus described, The doctor smoking his pipe, an etching "from a pen-and-ink sketch by his esteemed friend, Rev. H. H. Arnold.” One of the rarest portraits of the collection, though one of the humblest in point of art, is that of Sir Thomas Leigh, an ancestor of the Lords Leigh of Stoneleigh, which is thus described: "There are two engraved portraits of Sir Thomas Leigh. The first is a unique print, an octavo woodcut, the first of a series of all the Lord Mayors of London during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. The set belonged to Sir John St. Aubyn, and was purchased at his sale in 1840, for the Honble. Thomas Grenville, for 291. 8s. It is now with his library in the British Museum. The second print is a copy of the preceding." It should be mentioned with reference to this set of Lord Mayors, of which it is very remarkable that only one copy should be preserved, that Granger remarks that some of the wood-blocks serve for several mayors, and that this circumstance brings in question the authenticity of their portraitures. Richardson made copies of two of them, Sir Thomas Leigh and Sir William Harper, who were the Lord Mayors of 1558 and 1561, and being so early in the series, which extends to the year 1601 (that is, within two years of the whole of Elizabeth's reign), it may be doubtful how far they are genuine. Pinacothecæ Historica Specimen. Auctore F. K., A.M. Bath, 12mo. pp. 70.— This is an elegant little work, consisting chiefly of characters of various illustrious individuals, in the form of inscriptions. We consider the production as creditable to the general taste and good scholarship of the author; on the other hand, to our eyes, certain minor blemishes present themselves, which may easily be effaced in a second edition. As a specimen of the author's skill and scholarship, we subjoin the annexed inscriptions, on Burke, and on Crabbe the poet : now is, and what it is doing there, will be glad to have it in his library. It is a history, critical and philological, of all the versions of the Sacred Scriptures in every language and dialect into which translations have been made; with specimen portions in their own characters, and ethnological maps, showing in what parts of the world the sons of men now hear the wonderful works of God in their own tongue wherein they were born. The German Language, with a Key: by Falck Lebahn.-There is a peculiarity in this grammar which strongly recommends it to us, lovers as we are of the good Teutonic English, and which must so far dispel the terrors of German that we think the learner will go over the first twenty or thirty pages of his lessons with a smile on his lips, if not with his voice almost bursting into laughter, to find German only a disguised English. Mr. Lebahn's plan is to make the learning of German especially easy to English pupils, who will very soon feel, under his teaching, that, from the likeness of German to their own tongue, they may learn a great deal of it with little labour; and Mr. Lebahn has so skilfully framed his exercises, that the earlier ones, while they are good German, are almost intelligible English; and the whole of them contain about 4,500 words, that differ but very little in the mouths of an Englishman and German. The exercises are formed upon a few clear, comprehensive rules, and are so naturally progressive that the learner will have acquired less or more available German wherever he may stop. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. ROYAL SOCIETY. Nov. 30. The anniversary meeting of the Royal Society took place at Somerset House, when there was one of the largest assemblages of the fellows of that learned body witnessed for many years past. The attendance was caused by the elections necessary on the retirement of the Marquess of Northampton, who has filled the presidential chair since Nov. 1838, when he succeeded his late Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex; and also the retirement of the respected Secretary, Dr. Peter Mark Roget, who has discharged the functions of that office for the period of twenty years. The Marquess of Northampton delivered a short and feeling address to the fellows, on his retirement from the proud position he had held since 1838. A unanimous vote of thanks was voted to his Lordship, and the Earl of Rosse was elected President without opposition. A handsome vote of thanks was passed to Dr. P. M. Roget. There was a contest for the vacancy occasioned by Dr. Roget's retirement, the candidates being Mr. Thomas Bell and Mr. William Robert Grove, M.A. and the result of the ballot was pronounced in favour of the former gentleman by a large number of balls. The following were elected as the officers and council of the society for the ensuing year :— :- President, the Earl of Rosse; Treasurer and VicePresident, Mr. George Rennie; Secretaries, Messrs. Samuel Hunter Christie and Thomas Bell; Foreign Secretary, Lieut.Colonel Edward Sabine, R.A.; Peter M. Roget, M.D. the Marquess of Northampton, George Biddell Airy, M.A. Sir James Clark, Bart. M.D., John P. Gassiot, esq. Thos. Graham, esq. M.A., Leonard Horner, esq. Sir R. H. Inglis, Bart. LL.D., J. G. Shaw Lefevre, esq. M.A., Sir Charles Lyell, M.A., William Allen Miller, M.D., Richard Owen, esq. John Phillips, esq. the Dean of Westminster, and Charles Wheatstone, esq. The Copley Medal was awarded to J. C. Adams, esq. for his investigations rela. tive to the disturbances of Uranus, and for his application of the inverse problem of perturbations thereto. One of the royal medals was awarded to Thomas Galloway, esq. for his paper, printed in the Philosophical Transactions, "On the Proper Motion of the Solar System: "the second to Charles James Hargreave, esq. for his paper, "On the Solution of Linear Differential Equations," published in the Philosophical Transactions. The Rumford Medal, and the dividend of GENT. MAG, VOL, XXXI. 777. 128. arising out of the Rumford bequest, were awarded to Mr. V. Regnault, of Paris, for his experiments to determine the laws and the numerical data which enter into the calculation of steam-engines. UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. Dec. 21. The prize for the Hulsean Essay has been adjudged to Henry Thomas Wroth, B.A. St. John's College. A premium of fifty guineas has been awarded to the Rev. Thomas Woodward, formerly of Trinity College, Dublin, and now curate of Fethard, in the diocese of Cashel, for the best essay on the following subject: "What evidence does Holy Scripture afford for the opinion that demoniacal possession ceased at the ascension of our blessed Lord and the Apostolic age, and how does our practical knowledge of human life correspond with the notices of Scripture on the point?" A prize of 1007. for the best "Essay on Juvenile Depravity" has been awarded to the Rev. H. Worsley, of Easton Rectory, Suffolk. Prince Metternich and M. Guizot were among the audience. The Prologue was delivered by the Captain, Mr. Smart. PROLOGUS IN PHORMIONEM, 1848. Ut olim Noster hanc edebat fabulam K Oportet; nec vos tam soletis acriter Ergo prodibit noster Phormio, ut solet, Ille immutatus, quanquam vix quidquam quidem Nos verò, pace non turbatâ, aut vix quidem, Ceterum Decembris inter hanc licentiain Sunt et hic memorandi bini præstantes viri, Fuit illi, quondam ut hanc reviseret domum, At tu, Alma Mater, effer altius caput, EPILOGUS IN PHORMIONEM, 1848. [G.]-Huc de re nostrâ est venturus Phormio; et [meo. Ессе Me quoque, quanquam haud est ex animo ista Atque eccum! salve. Procedit nostra secundis Res satis auspiciis? [P-1-At bene progreditur Ordine: Conventu Delegati coïerunt, Et spem de Chartâ maxumam habere jubent. Bellum exspectandum: tamen arma parata, ducemque Quemque suis fortem præpositum esse monent. [A knock at the door.] Quid faciam? [G.]-Metuis? [P.]-Minimè; at prudentia pars est * J. A. Cramer, D.D. Dean of Carlisle, and Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford. + Sir Henry Seton, one of the judges of the Supreme Court at Calcutta, Maxima virtutis: cuncta cavenda:-precor, Istuc per rimam speculeris, mî bone amice, Janua an objicibus tuta sit illa satis. [G.]-Ut vis-[looks through the keyhole]-Fæmina.-[P.]-Amica-aperi [enter Nausistrata as a female Chartist.] [P. continues.]-Nausistrata, lætor Te advenisse; tibi multa tuisque salus. Nobis progressum est benè vestrà ex parte vicissim Quidnam agitur? faciet quid muliebre genus? [N.]-Chartistarum ego sum muliebri à corpore missa dem; Ista proculdubio vestra est: si dextera desit, Aurea tandem ætas.-[G.]-Erea, si ulla fides Frontibus-[N.]-Este viri! [Exit N--Geta loquitur.] Ingenti fœmina mente! [P]-Ingenti verè-nobilis atque sagax. [G.]-Conjugiine unquam vinclo sit nexa jugali? [P.-Nexa est; verum illud sprevit, ut omne, jugum. [A knock at the door; enter a deputation of schoolboys.] Qui tamen hi veniunt? [Sch.]-Pueris sit Charta necesse est, : Ut senibus nobis hic siet Utopia! [P.]-At quid enim vultis? [Sch.]-Tibi sex numerabimus ista, Quæ per jura hominis poscere puncta placet. Omnibus imprimis pueris suffragia sunto, Ut statuant, quæ non quæque legenda sient. Deinceps Principibus merces hodierna luatur, Shottoniæ ut Matris visere tecta queant. [P.]-Quid tum postea? [Sch.]-Quid? rogitas ? tum singuli alumni Principe dignentur munere, sintque pares. Quartum est, quod verbum verbo Græca atque Latina G.-Qualia? pauca, precor, recita-vix omnia mense Ta sexto recites: nobiliora rogo. [P.]-Verùm ego non recitem tantùm: sunt nomina multum; Plus tamen est ipsos tete videre viros! Apparete igitur, celeberrima nomina; nostris "Apparete oculis, corda agitate metu!" Primum autem magnus Pugnosius ingrediatur; Ipse suum nomen scripsit; at hunc sequitur Vir dirus, præclarus, atrox, Snubnosius: illi Crux est facta manù; scribere non potuit: Hunc etiam major sequitur, Crooknosius ingens, Quem non ipse quidem vincere Naso queat. Tres fratres deinde illustres notique sequuntur, Nallus non Sancti gloria flosque Gili, Taggus, Raggus, Bobtailusque.-[G.]-Hic est mihi sextus Horridus, et post hunc septimus ingreditur; Deinde Octavus-ohe! satis est;-non plura videbo; Ta, bone vir, posthâc nomina sola legas! [P.Jack-Stipulus post hos sequitur, Cadusque Johannes; Priggius et-[G.]—quo non justior alter adest. [P.]-induperatorum celeberrimu sen! Periwig gus [G.]-Tonsorumque-[P.]-Illi linea facta—acies Hostiles sternet-[G.]-Barbam velut hebdoma dalem [P.-Deia sequitur turba ex inferiore gradu. [G. De armis-quænam ? qualia? ubi? [P.]- servantur in aulâ: Curatum est: at sunt plurima, pulchra, nova, Omninoque novi generis.—[G.]--Dirissima, credo-An datur ut possim pauca videre? [P.]-Datur; Ostendam [he brings out a coalscoop and spit]— videas-hác hastâ armatus in hostes Irrumpam medios, præcipitesque dabo In fluvium, in mortem: verum en tibi cassis Achilli Indutum his armis me similem esse putes. [Struts about Thrasonically.] [G.] Arma tremenda quidem! Dignissima scilicet ista; Que pannosa cohors nomine dicta fuit. [P]-Nonne novi generis? Non Windischgrätzius ipse, Non visis Jellachichius his fugiat? [Geta shakes his head.] Tan' metuis? [G.]-Minimè-verum, prudentia pars est Maxima virtutis-cuncta cavenda-quasi hoc, Suspendant Habeas Corpus. [P.]-Suspensa pri Démoliri ambo combusta Senacula flammis; Denique-[G.]-Combures Thamesin inde, reor. Vir bonus-at vereor ne virtus, ut solet, istæc "In nervum erumpat" denique. - [P.]-- Ne timeas Urbis Præfectus totâ comitante catervâ Ipso hoc si puncto temporis adveniat, Omnes uno ictu terrâ prosternere certum est, Omnes hisce meis-[G.]Nempe tuis verubus! [P.]-Quinétiam vertent acies Wellingtonianæ, Concursum simul est, terga inhonesta fugâ. Inque pedes sese Dux Ferrius ipse suique Conficient-[G.]-Istis sex dare puncta potes. [P.]-Jam nunc adveniant--ardet confligere pectus Jampridem-vincam pro populo-aut moriar. [Loud knocking at the doors.] Hei! crepuere fores-quisnam hic? Perii-tremo-sudo Occidi-eheu, miserum me! crepuêre iterum. Objicibus ruptis cedunt-perii-ilicet-actum est-Quò fugiam, celem, nescio-miles adest. [P. hides himself under a table, coalscoop and all.] [Enter Demipho, in Thraso's arms; Antipho and Phedria as Special Constables.] [Dem.]-Continuò irructe-arripite istum instan ter-ubi alter? Custoditum tu hunc fac benè-tuque domum Explora-haud procul est. [Ant. discovering Phormio.]-Inveni-heus tu, nebulo, eri; Eccum illum-atque ejus scilicet arma-veru. Telum, M'Hercle, immane! hasta hoc fortassesed illud Quid sit, quove usu me, fateor superat. [Kicking over the coalscoop.] [D.]—Ridiculum! res ipsa quidem stultissima tota, An pœnâ an risu dignior, addubito, Hi constringantur manicis, et carcere tuti [to the Specials.]--Detineantur--cras judicium dabitur. [Exeunt all but D.] [Demipho comes forward.] Heu miseros homines! quæ tanta amentia vestras Nullæ aliæ gentes usquam habuêre datam ? Dum regit imperium mite, fovetque simul? Felicem patriam! Te, te magis omnibus unam Clemens dignetur pace beare Deus; Dum rapiunt alias furiæ, maternaque corda Proh pudor; heu! soboli dant laceranda suæ. Te, precor, hâc sorte insigni per secula longa, Et crescente tuâ prosperitate frui. Hoc quoque, jam duplices tendens ad sidera palmas, Hoc votis supplex, hoc precibusque peto; Unâ quod dudum mente rogâsse reor : Cum Consorte sun vivat Victoria nostra; ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES. ARCHEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE. Nov. 3. The monthly meetings recommenced at Great George Street; the Marquess of Northampton, V.P. in the chair. Fifty-two new subscribing members were announced as having joined since the close of last session: including Viscount Massareene, Lord Monson, the Bishop of Lincoln, the Right Hon. C. Tennyson D'Eyn court, Sir J. Trollope, J. Neeld, esq. and a large accession at the Lincoln meeting. Five new life members were added to the lists. Lord Northampton addressed the members at the opening of another session; adverting to the increase of archæological investigation, the cordial welcome with which the Institute had been received at Lincoln, and the encouraging prospects before them at Salisbury. The library and collection of the Society had been augmented by numerous donors; and some antiquities of considerable interest had been added to the Museum, especially an assemblage of casts from Runic inscriptions, given by Mr. Dawes, the importance of which in connection with Anglo-Saxon times had been illustrated by Mr. Kemble. A variety of antiquities were laid before the meeting. Mr. R. Fox produced a remarkable torc-bracelet of gold, recently found in ploughing on his estates near Wendover, Bucks, and weighing more than four ounces. The workmanship is beautiful and peculiar; and Mr. Way, in an accompanying letter, gave it as his opinion that it is of Celtic manufacture. The peculiarity of the workmanship is that, besides the three gold strands of which the torque is composed, there is a fourth, and a finer, twisted strand, which follows the involutions of the others, just as our sailors at this day wind in smaller cord to fill up the interstices of the larger. No tumulus or site of ancient occupation exists near the place of discovery, which had been woodland, recently broken up. It had been conjectured that this relic might have been deposited at the time of the conflict between the Romans and the sons of the British king Cunobelin, which occurred not far from the spot. Mr. Fox announced his intention of presenting this valuable object to the collection of British antiquities in the British Museum. This liberal example would doubtless be followed by many important donations if the longdesired object of an assemblage of national antiquities scientifically arranged were carried into effect. Several other gold ornaments were submitted, by Dr. Mantell and Mr. Farrer. A collection of early-British and Roman remains was sent by Mr. Whincopp; and several notices of interest relating to those periods were received from the Rev. T. Rankin, Rev. W. Coppard, Mr. Hodges of Torquay, Mr. Kirtland, and other correspondents. The Dean of Westminster exhibited two fine sepulchral urns, recently brought to light in railway operations near the metropolis. A communication from Dr. Charlton, of Newcastle, illustrated by a series of fac-similes of sepulchral memorials in the counties of Durham and Northumberland, was followed by a discussion on the class of middle-age monuments, rarely inscribed, and exhibiting various symbols by which the quality or profession of the deceased was indicated. Lord Northampton and Mr. Westwood cited some memorials of this kind in South Wales. The tombs to which the notice of the Society had been called by Dr. Charlton, frequently bearing the symbol of a pair of shears, had been regarded as a proof of the establishment of the cloth manufacture in the northern counties at as early a period as the fourteenth century. This conjecture does not appear, however, to be substantiated; the shears indicating, according to Dr. Charlton's observations, the interment of a female. Some interesting specimens of Art attracted much notice: such as enamels, contributed by Mr. Trollope and the Rev. E. Jarvis; a choice example of working in metals-a processional cross of the fourteenth century, lately received from Spain, exhibited by Mr. Forrest; with a beautiful backgammon board of cinquecento style and most elaborate Italian marqueterie, and other examples of middle-age design deserving of attention. The Central Committee have secured the services of Mr. Henry Bowyer Lane as Secretary, in place of Mr. Hudson Turner; whose continued ill health has prevented for some time past his taking any active share in the proceedings. Dec. 1. The Dean of Westminster, V.P. in the chair. The donations included various ancient weapons of bronze and iron revovered from the bed of the Thames, near Westminster Bridge, presented by G. Vulliamy, esq. to the Museum, and a relic of a remarkable tenurecustom in Lincolnshire recently discontinued, namely, one of the gad-whips, (presented by J. Moore, esq.) used, according to ancient practice of unknown origin, on Palm Sunday, when a person on behalf of the lord of the manor of Broughton presented himself in the church of Castor, and after the second lesson was required to crack the whip three times over the head of the minister. The lands have passed into Mr. Moore's possession, and this strange custom has ceased. A memoir was read by Richard Westmacott, esq. relating to the recovery of some monumental statues which had been buried under the flooring in Gonalston Church, Notts, (as noticed in our last Magazine, p. 635.) Mr. Hudson Turner offered some remarks illustrative of a painting, from the collection of the Duke of Buccleuch, submitted for the inspection of the meeting by Mr. Farrer. It represents the descent of the Wingfield family, with small fulllength portraits of the chief personages, forming a work of middle-age art of a curious description. It was presented to his Grace's ancestor, the Duke of Montagu, by the antiquary Stukeley. Mr. Turner read, also, some extracts from records of the reign of Henry V. relating |