At Bath, Selina-Ellen, wife of John Hinde Pelly, esq. Bombay Civil Service, dau. of Mrs. Richards, Mount Radford, Exeter.

At Surbiton, Kingston-upon-Thames, aged 85, Mrs. Tealing.

At the rectory, Waddesdon, Bucks, Emma, wife of the Rev. W. W. Walton.

Aged 20, William Wootton, esq. jun. of Magdalene Hall, Oxford, and son of Mr. Wootton, surgeon, Harrold, Beds.

Feb. 12. At Easingwold, aged 78, Mrs. Martha Atkinson. She has left the following charitable bequests. To the Wesleyan Chapel Trust of Easingwold, 150.; the Wesleyan Sabbath School, 19 guineas; Wesleyan Missions, 19 guineas; the Easingwold Tract Society, 57.; the Bible Society, 10.; the Church Sabbath School, 57.; and to the poor of Easingwold, 201.

At Filby House, Norfolk, Marianne, fourth dau. of the Rev. Wm. Belgrave, Preston Hall, Rutland. Aged 62, Saml. Blaxland, esq. of Devonshire-sq. At Bouthrop, Glouc. aged 89, Thomas Kerr, esq. formerly of the Stock Exchange.

At Brownings, Chigwell, Essex, aged 64, Joseph Mears, esq. an old inhabitant of Whitechapel-road. In Hamilton-terrace, St. John's-wood, AnnaSophia, wife of James Pope, esq. and only dau. of Frederick Russell Mills, esq. of Cunningham-pl.

At Hawkingdown House, Hindon, Wilts, aged 78, Stephen Welch, esq. late of Berwick St. Leonard. Feb. 13. At Cheshunt, aged 64, George Clayton Collyer, esq. surgeon.

At Lubbenham, Leic. aged 80, Thomas Nunneley, esq.

At Lichfield, aged 45, John Peter Petit, C.B. Lieut.-Col. Commanding H.M. 50th Regt.

Feb. 14. At Greenwich, aged 53, John Daniel Birkett, esq. late of St. Germain-en-Laye.

At Edinburgh, aged 43, Robert Blackwood, esq.

of the firm of Messrs. Blackwood and Sons, the eminent publishers. An infirm state of health had occasioned his retirement from active life during the last two years. He was by nature a man of high mind and fine feeling, and these qualities commended him to the most cultivated men, whose society he enjoyed. A better understanding, indeed, was never exemplified between author and publisher-on the part of the former unbounded confidence, affection, and esteem, on the part of the latter the utmost liberality, sagacity, and enterprise.

At Easton, near Winchester, aged 7, WilliamDurant, eldest son of the Rev. R. Durant Buttemer, Rector of Eastou.

In Brompton-crescent, aged 77, Harriett, widow of John Edmonds, esq. formerly of Conduit-street, and East-hill Lodge, Hastings.

In Bedford-row, aged 70, Luke Hopkinson, esq.

Aged 65, Charlotte, wife of Major Kelly, of Norman Cottage, Yaxley, Huntingdonshire.

At Tours, Maria-Augusta-Dorothea, widow of Sir Grenville Temple, the 9th Bart. She was the 2nd daughter of Sir Thomas Rumbold, Bart. by his second wife, Joanna, dau. of Dr. Edmund Law, Lord Bishop of Carlisle. She was married first to Lieut..-Colonel Frederick Manners, and in 1812 became the second wife of Sir Grenville Temple, who died at Florence in 1829.

Feb. 15. At Liverpool, William Ballingall, esq. At Tottenham, Middlesex, aged 71, Ann, wife of John Laundy, esq.

At Camberwell, aged 79, Sarah Morley, of Temple House, East Ham, Essex, relict of the late William Morley, esq.

In Upper Phillimore-pl. Kensington, aged 78, Charles Newman, esq. a member of the Saddlers' Company.

Week ending

Saturday,

15. H

Beef..

Mutton

Veal.

Pork.

28. 10d. to 48. 4d.

FEB. 20.

Other sorts, 118. Od. to 13s. Od. Yellow Russia, 378. Od.

With reference to the anecdote respecting George the Third's bidding for THE BEDFORD MISSAL, related in our last Magazine, p. 273, we have been favoured by Mr. Lilly the bookseller with the following copy of a MS. note by Horace Walpole which was inserted in the copy of Gough's Account of the Bedford Missal sold at Strawberry Hill:

"George the Third meant to purchase this Missal at the auction of the Duchess of Portland, and make a present of it to the College of Eton, as having belonged to the founder of the seminary, Henry the Sixth, and gave an unlimited commission to the learned Jacob Bryant to bid for it; but Mr. Bryant, hearing above 2007. bidden for it, thought that price too extravagant, and let it go to Mr. Edwards the bookseller, of whom the King would have repurchased it, but Mr. Edwards chose to keep it for himself."

MR. URBAN, Myattention having been drawn to a paragraph in the Gentleman's Magazine for January, stating that THE JELLALABAD MEDAL " as a work of art is unworthy to be named among the works of Wyon, or any artist better than a buttonmaker," I beg to state that the medal here referred to was done by an Indian engraver, and that Lord Ellenborough was so dissatisfied with it, and was so struck by a former war medal of my father's work, that his Lordship recommended to the East India Company that a new medal should be made by him, and the Indian one cancelled. This suggestion was adopted, and my father executed a most beautiful medal in lieu of the former one, which is that which is described by your Correspondent" Ball Cartridge." My father's medal may be described thus :- Obverse, portrait of her Majesty; inscription, "Victoria Vindex." Reverse, a figure of Victory flying over the fortress of Jellalabad; she has a flag in one hand, and a wreath in the other; inscription, Jellalabad, 7th April, 1842." Yours, &c. Royal Mint. LEONARD C. WYON. Mr. Northcote, in his Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds, mentions that in 1786 Sir Joshua purchased from a lady a MINIATURE OF OLIVER CROMWELL by Cooper, which was concealed in the lid of a snuff-box, and that he left by will the miniature to Mr. Burke, the son of the celebrated Edmund Burke, who survived his son. D. J. S. possesses the snuff-box, and inquires whether any of our readers can give him any information about the miniature.

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MR. URBAN.-At the dissolution of the monasteries, JOHN HALES, esq. Clerk

of the Hanaper, temp. Hen. VIII. had a large slice of the monastic lands at Coventry. He was a great benefactor to the city, by founding the free school, and possessed (inter alia) Coventry Grange, which merges in Whitmore Park, in the hamlet of Radford. The Grange anciently, I suppose, was of some importance, for these arms attach to it-Sa. on a fesse between three crescents or, an eagle displayed of the first. Crest, on a chapeau gu. turned up arg. a cock pheasant ppr. beaked and membered of the first. In 1586 John Hales built a splendid stone mansion (in the style of architecture which then prevailed) at Keresley, near Whitmore Park, called New House, which was taken down in 1778, and replaced by a brick structure bearing the same name. The Hales' for several generations and branches resided near Coventry; some at the White Friars Monastery, others at New House, Newland Hall, and Foleshill Hall. The arms of the Hales living at the latter mansion were, Gu. three broad arrows or, feathered and headed argent; a mullet surmounted of another in chief for difference; Crest, an arm embowed in armour ppr. garnished or, holding in the hand ppr. an arrow arg. headed gold, round the arm a scarf vert: Motto," Religioni... et Reipvb." -but I suspect a word is wanting between Religioni and et, for the oak carved chimneypiece from which the motto is copied is defective in the scroll under the arms, or rather at the bottom of the shield. These arms were borne by a Stephen Hales, and indicate a junior branch of the family there seated: probably he was a third son of a third son. None of the family are now resident or hold estates near Coventry, and I believe the Hales' are now seated in Kent.

If any of your Correspondents could supply the supposed missing word in the motto, and furnish the genealogy of this family, it would be most acceptable.

Yours, &c. F. S. A.

[Our Correspondent may be referred to a series of documents, relative to the possessions of the Hales family in Coventry, communicated by Mr. William Reader of that city to the Collectanea Topographica et Genealogica, and printed in Part VI. of that work, for June 1834, pp. 152-159; also to further papers published in June 1843, in The Topographer and Genealogist, Part II. pp. 120-132. A view of the mansion built at Keresley by John Hales, in 1586, is engraved in the second volume of Britton's Architectural Antiquities.EDIT.]

WE ask a German child, "What did your forefathers speak ?" "Old-German," is the reply." And what is your old mother-tongue?" we say to a Dane, or Norwegian, or Swede, or Frenchman, or Spaniard; "Old-Danish," "Old-Norse," "Old-Swedish," " OldFrench," "Old-Spanish," he answers. We ask our own child, "And what was the speech of your forefathers, my boy?" and he is taught to answer, Anglo-Saxon. Was ever anything more absurd, more barbarous, more untrue?

A love for and study of our noble mother-tongue is daily extending, both here and in America, and in the same proportion are people beginning to inquire where the term " Anglo-Saxon' came from, and what it really means.

We hope to show that it is a modern innovation, a practical blunder, and dangerously misleads us as to our own language and our own nationality.

From the fourth to the beginning of the seventh century, England was gradually wrested from its Keltic and Roman occupiers. At this period the north and heart of Europe was planted by one great race, the TEUTONIC, subdivided into North-Teutonic, Northern or Scandinavian, who possessed Sweden, Norway, and Denmark; the Middle-Teutonic, Nether-Saxon, Plat or Low-German tribes, who held Holstein,

Holland, Flanders, and North-Germany; and the South-Teutonic or HighGerman, of whose eldest dialects few remains exist, who were found in South or High-Germany, and whose written language, unfortunately-to a great degree in consequence of its being the dialect used by Luther-has nearly destroyed the much more harmonious, rich, and cultivated Low - German, which is now fast sinking into a barbarous patois, unfitted for works of a literary and lasting character.

But, as we are all aware, at the early epoch we have just pointed out, what we call centralisation, nationality, and regular kingdoms co-extensive with the modern denominations, were quite unknown. The European lands, especially in the north of Europe, were in the grasp of numerous tribes, clans, and folkships, all of more or less kindred origin, members of the same great Teutonic family (for of course we here exclude all mention of the Keltic and Slavic races), and offering marks of transition in each other from the highest north to the most southern Teutonic folk-wave. But they were for the most part wild and untutored; they regarded their colony as their country, and the out-march as the foe-land, and turned their iron weapons indiscriminately against each other or against the