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Messrs. Nichols and Son are preparing for publication a Series of Views of the Church of St. Saviour, Southwark, the nave of which is now in ruins, and is about to be destroyed; which will be accompanied by an Historical and Architectural Description of the Church and Remains of the Priory from the pen of Mr. E. I. CARLOS, the author of several papers in the Gentleman's Magazine, on the Church and Lady Chapel.

Mr. CANSDELL has issued proposals for publishing by subscription a Series of Antiquarian Illustrations of "Faulkner's History of Chelsea," to consist of Views

of Churches, Chapels, Monuments, original portraits, ancient carvings, furniture, and domestic architecture.

Blackstone's Commentaries, by Coleridge a new edition, with Notes explanatory of all the Changes in the Law since the last edition; together with a Life of Blackstone, a Preliminary Essay, and a greatly-improved Index. By SAMUEL WARREN, esq. F.R.S. Barrister-at-Law.

The Cathedral Bell, a tragedy, in five acts. By JACOB JONES, Barrister-atLaw; author of "The Stepmother;" "Longinus, or the Fall of Palmyra ;" and "Spartacus, or the Roman Gladiator;" Tragedies in five acts.

UNIVERSITIES.

Oxford.-When Queen Adelaide visited the University, in Oct. 1835, and was inspecting the portraits of Founders and Benefactors in the Bodleian Gallery, her Majesty was graciously pleased to promise her own portrait and that of her august Consort as additions to that collection. Two splendid whole-length portraits, painted by Sir David Wilkie, have now arrived, and are placed in the Gallery. They are admirable likenesses, and that of his Majesty is rendered of peculiar interest, as the last picture for which our late Monarch sat previously to his death. In a late Convocation it was agreed to augment the stipends of the under librarians of the Bodleian 1007. per annum each, to be paid out of the University chest. The Rev. Henry Octavius Coxe, M.A. has been appointed one of the SubLibrarians, vice the Rev. Herbert Hill resigned.

Cambridge.-The Rev. William Hodgson, D.D. Master of St. Peter's College, has been elected Vice-Chancellor for the year ensuing.-The Seatonian Prize for the best English Poem upon a Theological subject, has been adjudged to the Rev. T. Hankinson, of Corpus Christi College. Subject - Ethiopia stretching out her hands unto God.-The following is the subject of the Norrisian Prize Essay for the present year :-The Divine origin of the Holy Scriptures may be inferred from their perfect adaptation to the circumstances of Human Nature.

Dublin.-The Board of Trinity College have established a Professorship of Biblical Greek, to which the Rev. G. Sidney Smith, one of the Fellows, has been ap pointed. This is auxiliary to the Divinity School, which of late years has made rapid improvement in the Dublin College. The course now extends through two years, one of which is devoted to the critical study of the Greek Testament, and the proficiency of the student is tested by

constant catechetical instruction and periodical examinations.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON.

The first Flaherty Scholarship has been awarded to Mr. Jacob Waley, jun. of Devonshire-place, as the best proficient in mathematics and natural philosophy. The examiners were Dr. Olinthus Gregory, Professor de Morgan, and Professor Sylvester. The scholarship is 501. a-year, to be held for four years. The Flaherty Scholarship for 1839 will be the object of competition for those who excel in clas. sics; and, in 1840, will be a second time awarded to the best proficient in mathematics and natural philosophy.

BIRMINGHAM FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOL. Notice has been conveyed to the parents of the scholars in King Edward's School to make their choice whether they desire their sons to continue in the Grammar School, or to enter the new School of "Modern Languages, the Arts and Sciences," which, it is expected, will be opened before the close of the year. In future, boys are to be admitted by the

Bailiff and Head Master, after examination, according to the rotation in which their names are inserted in the register of applications. The Governors are about to elect a Drawing and second Writing Master on the foundation.

"The catalogue of the Hull Subscription Library is one of the most valuable classed catalogues, for its size, which have been offered to the public. Mr. Clarke has been eminently successful in tracing out the real names of the authors or editors of anonymous and pseudonymous works; and the labour which he must have encountered in this part of his undertaking, can only be appreciated by those who have been obliged to spend many a weary hour in similar researches. The catalogue of the Hull Library is one of the very few modern catalogues which I constantly have at hand, at the British Museum, for reference; and rarely indeed am I disappointed when I have occasion to refer to it." The Hull Library now contains nearly 20,000 volumes.

SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES. Nov. 15. The first meeting for the session of this Society was held at its apartments in Somerset-house, W. R. Hamilton, esq. V. P. in the chair.

Robert Medcalf, esq. of Lincoln's Inn Fields, was elected Fellow. Among the presents, which were numerous, were the volumes recently issued by the State Paper Commission, and the medal struck by the Corporation of London to commemorate the Queen's visit to the City.

Mr. Crofton Croker exhibited a portrait of Montezuma, Emperor of Mexico, which was removed from the Hall of Columbus at St. Domingo on the revolutionary changes in 1820, and is supposed to be the work of a painter who accompanied the first Spanish adventurers to South America.

Mr. Davies Gilbert exhibited an impression of the ancient seal of St. Peter's church, Exeter.

Sir Henry Ellis read a paper, by M. Patrice Dillon, a gentleman attached to the French Record Commission, on that long discussed question, the nature and period of the death of King Richard II. M. Dillon has discovered amongst the MSS. of the Royal Library at Paris, two documents in the hand-writing of Jean

Criton, the author of the Metrical History of the Deposition of Richard II. which was edited by the Rev. John Webb, in the 20th volume of the Archæologia. The most important fact in respect of novelty disclosed by these documents is that Criton was sent by the French king into Scotland just before the marriage of King Richard's widow, to see the pseudoRichard; showing that Queen Isabella was not re-married until the French had made due inquiry regarding the pretender, in order to satisfy themselves of the fact of the Queen's widowhood. This instance, no doubt, strengthens the argument already urged by Mr. Amyot, Sir James Mackintosh, and others, from the fact of the re-marriage of Isabella during the existence of the Scottish pretender; but the worth of all such arguments is very much reduced by the discovery of Mr. Riddle, with which M. Dillon did not appear to be acquainted. That gentleman, instead of attempting to prove that the pretender was not Richard the Second, proceeded at once to show that he was Richard Warde of Trumpington, and, to the best of our recollection, he was perfectly successful. M. Dillon advocated the revival of the story that King Richard died a "bloody" death by the hands of

Sir Piers of Exton, as adopted by Shakspeare; but it did not appear that he did so on any new or substantial authority.

Nov. 22. Henry Hallam, esq. V.P. Mons. de la Fontenelle de Vaudoré, Conseiller a la Cour Royale de Poitiers, was elected a Foreign Member.

George Fred. Beltz, esq. F.S.A. communicated a copy of a very interesting paper, written by Sir Philip Sidney on the morning of his death. The original is preserved in the State Paper Office; and besides some lines in Latin from the hand of the languishing hero, which we believe are given in the Sidney Papers, contains also a letter, hitherto unpublished, written in Dutch by a medical attendant to his uncle, an eminent physician, stating, in pressing terms, how much his attendance was desired. Mr. Beltz recounted the particulars which have been preserved relative to Sir Philip Sidney's last illness, whilst he lay for twenty-four days suffering from the effects of his fatal wound received at Zutphen; and the whole formed a memoir of a highly interesting character.

ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE.

Nov. 8. The first meeting of the season was held, W. Tooke, esq. in the chair.-Mr. Hamilton read a letter addressed to Col. Leake, of great interest to the topography of Athens, and the right understanding of ancient writers, from a Mr. Ross, who has been some time resident there, and is an antiquary of great zeal and ability. Mr. Ross is of opinion that the so-called temple of Theseus was in reality a temple of Mars. He describes some recent discoveries on the outside of the old walls, which appear to decide the gate by which Pausanias entered from the Piræus; and also to determine other sites and buildings of Athens hitherto mistaken or unknown. In digging some foundations at the spot indicated, the excavators fell upon an edifice of large square blocks, approached by two (or perhaps three) steps. Near

were found two marble heads of a youth and a female, the latter with the ears pierced for ear-rings. Another head, and a female torso of colossal stature, were also found, though only one side of the temple was laid open. All these antiquities are deposited in the temple of Theseus, which has been converted into a museum. They are thought to be of the period of the Roman empire, and the newly discovered temple to be that of Eubulides (see Pausanias), with its thirteen statues of Minerva, Jupiter, the Muses, &c. If this be correct, Mr. Ross

suggests that it fixes the Pyraic gate, and gives a very different distribution of the great Athenian public buildings than has heretofore been supposed.

On breaking ground for a quarry at Wovershill, in the parish of Banwell, near Axbridge, Somerset, at about two feet depth, a burial-place was discovered, whence seven bodies have already been exhumed, some of them in excellent preservation. The coffins containing them were in good condition, and made of burnt clay, about three inches thick, and dovetailed together, something on the same principle as is now adopted by carpenters.

Some labourers while digging a hole in the Rope-walk, Lynn, for the erection of a post, lately discovered, just below the surface of earth, two stone coffins, containing bones. The place where they were found is contiguous to an old monastery.

SEPULCHRAL EFFIGY OF RICHARD 1.

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Some researches recently made in the cathedral of Rouen have led to the discovery, under the pavement of the sanctuary, of the effigy of Richard Cour-deLion, which used to ornament his tomb, and a box enclosing his heart. statue, which is in perfect preservation, is six feet and a half in length, and represents the king in a recumbent position, in a long robe, a crown on the head, and the feet resting upon a lion; the figure is in perfect preservation, with the exception of the nose, hands, and feet, which have evidently been broken for the purpose of flattening the figure to lay the present pavement over it. By the side of the tomb was found a large leaden case, with the inscription "Richard Courde-Lion, Duc de Normandie, Roi d'Angleterre." In the lid of the box a hole had been made, probably to search for money, as it is said the leaden case was once inclosed in a silver one, and that money was placed in it. Some rubbish,

as mortar, bits of stone, and wood, had got into the case by means of this hole, and with this was mingled a dark substance, supposed to be blood, which had issued from the heart after it was placed in the case. The lion heart is still perfect, but much shrunk in its dimensions; it was enveloped in a sort of taffety of a greenish colour. The heart at present remains at the palace of the Archbishop of Rouen, the case having been repaired and fastened up in the presence of the prefect and the principal authorities.

The effigy has been conveyed to a chapel behind the high altar, and will be placed upon a sarcophagus of black marble when the broken parts of the figure are restored, for which purpose an Italian artist is employed, who has very successfully restored the magnificent monument in the same chapel, familiar to all visitors of Rouen cathedral.

A rude representation of King Richard's effigy, and other corresponding effigies of his queen, Berengaria, and his elder brother King Henry junior, will be found engraved in Montfaucon, plate LXX. together with the more elaborate effigies at Fontevraud, which have since been so carefully drawn and engraved by C. A. Stothard. The tomb was once inclosed by a railing of silver, which was sold in the middle of the thirteenth century, in order to pay the ransom of St. Louis.

TOMBSTONE OF AGNES SOREL.

The tombstone that was once placed over the remains of the beautiful Agnes Sorel, mistress of Charles VII., in the Abbey of Jumièges, and had been long kept in a house at Rouen, has just been presented to the Museum of that city, by a gentleman into whose hands it recently fell by right of inheritance. It bears the following epitaph :

"Cy gyst noble damoiselle Agnès Seurelle, en son vivant dame de Beaulté de Roquefure, d'Issoudun et de Vernon sur Seine, piteuse entre toutes gens et qui largement donnait de ses biens aux églises et aux pauvres, laquelle trépassa le IX. jour de Fevrier de l'an de grace MCCCCXLIX. Priez Dieu pour l'ame d'elle. Amen."

ANTIQUITIES OF ROME.

At the meeting of the Archæological Academy, on the 17th May, the Secretary, Visconti, read an account of an interesting and important discovery made in a vineyard situated without the gate of Sta. Maria Maggiore, near the church of SS. Peter and Marcellinus, and the tomb of St. Helen. The proprietor was led, from some remains of antiquity, to examine a neglected building, in the floor of which he discovered an entrance to a subterranean gallery, which had been filled with soil falling through apertures made in the ceiling for the admission of air. He caused this passage to be cleared, and was amply rewarded by the discovery of a mosaic pavement, seventy-two palms in length, and five in breadth. From the close resemblance of the tombs to those in the catacombs, and principally from the emblems of the cross in the pavement, the learned secretary pronounced GENT. MAG. VOL. X.

it to be a branch of the ancient cemetery known by the name of St. Tibertius, SS. Peter and Marcellinus, and inter duas lauros. The gallery is of the same vaulted form as the other catacombs, but is higher and more spacious; along the sides, and in the transverse galleries which cross the main branch, are tombs, about seven feet in length, and two in height, hollowed in the wall, or in the form of altars, with arches over them. The mosaic pavement is of the most elegant and varied design, and, besides the figure of a dove bearing an olive branch, ornaments emblematic of the cross are repeated in different forms. It is supposed that the pavement was executed about the time of Constantine, and that a passage will shortly be discovered, connecting it with the well-known cemetery already mentioned."

A large basso-relievo has recently been found in the foundation of an ancient tower near the Porta Maggiore, which represents a Roman bakehouse, with all the operations of bread-baking. Galignani's Messenger also states, that the great aqueduct of Claudius is being cleared out with much activity.

ANCIENT CARTHAGE.

Sir Grenville Temple has employed himself for the last six months in making excavations on the classic soil of Carthage. On the site of the temple of Ganath, or Juno Coelestis, the great protecting divinity of Carthage, he found about 700 coins, and various objects of glass and earthenware. But the most remarkable, and least expected of his discoveries, is that of a villa, situated on the sea-shore, and buried fifteen feet under the ground. Eight rooms have been completely cleared, and their size and decorations prove that the house belonged to a wealthy personage. The walls are painted, and the floors beautifully paved with mosaic, in the same manner as those at Pompeii and Herculaneum, representing a great variety of subjects, such as marine deities, both male and female, different species of sea-fish, marine plants, a vessel with female figures dancing on the deck, and surrounded by admiring warriors; other portions representing lions, horses, leopards, tigers, deer, zebras, bears, gazelles, hares, ducks, herons, &c. Ten human skeletons were found in the different chambers. In another house are mosaics, representing gladiators contending in the arena with wild beasts, and over each man is written his name. In another part are seen horse races, and men breaking in young horses. Sir G. Temple will shortly publish a complete account of his important and extra.. ordinary discoveries.

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A company has also been formed at Paris for exploring the ruins of the same ancient city, and fifteen cases of antiquies have been brought to France.

ROMAN COINS FOUND NEAR

HUDDERSFIELD.

MR. URBAN,-In page 182, I furnished a brief account of certain discoveries of Roman remains in this neighbourhood, and more especially of a collection of Roman coins found near Thurstonland, a few miles from Huddersfield. In consequence of their subsequent dispersion in so many quarters, I was enabled to send the names only of a few of the emperors whose images they bore. I have since heard of several others; but, by the favour of Mr. Morehouse, an intelligent surgeon, living near Thurstonland, (whose antiquarian zeal led him to exert himself on this occasion,) I can now add the fruit of his labours. The list of coins I have received from him is as follows: Claudius Gothicus-Cl. TacitusVictorinus - Tetricus- Gallienus-Carinus-Carausius C. M. Aur. Probus -and the Empress Mammea Augusta. The discovery of so many coins of the Lower Empire, is a strong proof that this part of the kingdom was not abandoned by the Romans till a very late period.

The remains also of some funeral urns, of a very coarse construction, and one more complete than the rest, containing burnt bones, have been found at Deanhead near Huddersfield. As this part of the country is in the neighbourhood of the ancient Cambodunum, there is every reason to suppose that they are Roman urns ; and as it is asserted that similar dis coveries have been made near this spot, above forty years ago, there is yet a probability that a more diligent search may be rewarded by other more important discoveries. The township of Scammonden, where these urns were found, is spelt, in the most ancient documents, 66 Scameden," ," which appears to me to be nothing more than a continuation of the Roman name Camodunum, divested of its Latin termination, and with the addition of the letter S prefixed. Huddersfield.

J. K. W.

DISCOVERY OF ROMAN SKELETONS.

Some interesting discoveries have been recently made at Shooter's Hill, near Pangbourn, Berks, on the line of the Great Western Railway. Several human skeletons, in a high state of preservation,

have been disinterred, together with small sepulchral urns, of rude workmanship, but elegant and classical devices, and upwards of 40 Roman coins, of gold, silver, and brass, of the reigns of Domitian, Constantine, Julian the Apostate, Constantius, Gracianus, Licinius or Lupicinius the Pro-prætor (who was invested with regal authority), and several others. Spear-heads, battle-axes, and spurs of British and Roman manufacture, were also found; and some of the graves contained considerable masses of charcoal, without bones. The bones are well preserved, having lain in dry gravel, about four feet from the surface, immediately overlaying the chalk; and one of the skulls appears heavier and more consolidated than is natural.

BURIED CITY DISCOVERED IN PERU.

The Captain of an American vessel, named Ray, has lately discovered on the coast of Peru, in the environs of Garvey, province of Fruscillo, an ancient buried City of considerable extent. Following

the course of some excavations which he made, he found the walls of the edifices still standing, and many of them in a complete state of preservation. He infers

from the numbers and extent of them that the population of the city could not have been less than 3,000 souls. Numbers of skeletons and mummies in a perfect state of preservation were found among the private and sacred edifices, and a great number of domestic utensils, articles of furniture, coins, and curious antiquities. The earthquake by which it would appear the city was engulphed, appears to have surprised the inhabitants, like those of Pompeii, in the midst of their daily avocations, and many of them were found by Captain Ray singularly preserved, by the exclusion of atmospheric air, in the precise action or employment of the moment when overwhelmed. One man standing up as if in the act of escaping, was dressed in a light robe, in the folds of which coins were found, which have been sent to the scientific institution of Lima for

investigation. A female was also found sitting in a chair before a loom, which contained an unfinished piece of cottonstuff, which she was in the act of weaving. The cotton-stuff, which is of a gaudy pattern, but very neatly fabricated, is about eight inches in diameter, and appears to have been only half completed. A great number of antiquities and curiosities found in this American Herculaneum have been sent to the Museum of Lima.