thousand pounds. The stone was given by Lord Leigh, from his quarry near Gibbet Hill.

On the 26th the Bishop consecrated the district chapel of St. Paul's, Warwick.

July 25. The Lord Bishop of Oxford consecrated the new military church at Windsor. It is calculated to contain a congregation of 2000, and cost about 70007, 60007. of which has already been raised by voluntary contributions. An organ has been presented by James Jennings, Esq. of Windsor.

Aug. 7. The new church of St. Mark's, in Hull, which had been open for public service some months, was consecrated by the Lord Bishop of Ripon. The ceremony had the effect of constituting the district, including Sutton within the borough, and the heretofore extra-parochial ground of Garrison-side, into a new parish called the parish of St. Mark, Hull. The church was stated in the deed of consecration to contain 1200 sittings, half of which are declared therein to be free for ever. The church is a beautiful structure, especially in the interior. The architect was Mr Lockwood, of Hull.

Aug. 8. The church of St. John, Kensal Green, was consecrated by the Bishop of London. It is intended to supply the wants of the extreme ends of five parishes, viz. Chelsea (in which parish it is situated), Kensington, Paddington, Hammersmith, and Willesden. It stands on the north side of the Harrow-road, almost immediately opposite the principal entrance of the General Cemetery at Kensal-green, upon a quarter of an acre of ground, the gift of All Souls' College, Oxford. It is of Norman structure, after designs by Mr. H. E. Kendall, jun. architect. The church is in length 82 feet, and in width 44 feet, composed of yellow brick with flint; an open stained roof, the windows of stained glass, with a marigold window over the altarpiece. At the west end are two towers, each about 80 feet high, each tower being surmounted by five terminals of a cross. The west entrance consists also of a porch, forming an arch of singular beauty, decorated in the old Norman style, with dentals and dogstoothings. There is one gallery for the organ at the west end. The edifice is capable of containing about 500 persons, and the cost is estimated at about 3000l. of which sum 5007. has been furnished by the Church Building Society, and upwards of 600l. is still deficient.

Aug. 9. The Bishop of Worcester consecrated the church of the Holy Trinity at Trimpley, near Kidderminster (the sixth in the parish of Kidderminster). It is smaller than any church in KidderGENT. MAG. VOL. XXII.

minster or the neighbourhood, but is exceedingly neat. The site was presented by Mr. Joseph Chillingworth, and the cost of erection will be defrayed by public subscription. The pulpit, which is ascended by steps leading from the vestry, is of solid stone. The reading desk and font are also of the same material.

CHURCHES REPAIRED, &c.

York Minster.-The restoration of the nave of York Minster may now be pronounced as completed, and in a short time the whole will be thrown open to the public. The repairs of the north-west tower, in which the great clock bell will be placed, are likewise progressing. During the fire of 1829, the monument of Archbishop Hutton received considerable injury. The present high-sheriff (Timothy Hutton, esq.), being a descendant of that eminent divine, has determined to restore the monument to its original condition at his own expense.

St. David's Cathedral.-The Dean and Chapter of St. David's have ordered the pews in the nave of the cathedral church to be removed, and benches of oak substituted. Another chapel in the cathedral is now undergoing extensive repairs, and is being fitted up with great taste, for the performance of the Welsh service; this chapel is capable of accommodating about 300, and the whole of the sittings are entirely free. The English service is regularly performed in the choir, so that when the new chapel is completed, both services will be performed without the one interrupting the other.

St. Mary, Andover. This ancient church (some portion of which was of Anglo-Norman date), having become so dilapidated as to render further repair all most impracticable, a venerable clergyman (Dr. Goddard), connected with the town only by residence, has erected at his own expense a church nearly on the same site, commensurate with the population of the place. The body of the sacred edifice is now complete, and consists of a nave, aisles, and transept,-the whole of exceedingly lofty and graceful proportions, and presenting a splendid example of the early English style. The windows of the chancel are filled with coloured glass. The edifice is built of Caen stone and flint; the interior finished in a most chaste and beautiful manner-no gallery excrescences appearing to disturb the harmony of the slender shafts and pointed windows. It will accommodate about 1000 persons. No part of the tower is yet erected, but it will be constructed on the site of the remaining portion of the old church. Stained Glass. The church of St. 2 R

Chad's, Shrewsbury, has been further enriched by the munificence of the Rev. Richard Scott, B.D., with two additional windows of stained glass. The larger is in the gallery to the left of the principal

entrance, and represents the raising of Lazarus, from a design by one of the old masters. The window underneath, in the body of the church, represents Christ blessing little children.

BRITISH ARCHEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION.

A Programme of the first Annual Meeting of this Association, which is to take place at Canterbury, is now in circulation. General and Local Committees have been appointed, and four Sectional Committees, respectively named the Primeval, Medieval, Architectural, and Historical Sections.

The meetings will be held at the Town Hall, where the General Committee will assemble at 2 o'clock on Monday Sept. 9. The General Meeting will be opened at 3, and will be addressed by Lord Albert Conyngham, the President. At 8 p. m. there will be a Conversazione and reading of a Paper on the Barrows.

Tuesday, Sept. 10. Opening of Saxon Barrows in the Park of Lord Albert Conyngham at Bourne. In the evening at 8 p. m. the Primeval Section.

Wednesday, Sept. 11. Medieval Section at 12 o'clock. Architectural Section at 8 p. m. Conversazione.

Thursday, Sept. 12. Excursions to Richborough, and to Barfreston church.

Friday, Sept. 13. Historical Section at 11 a. m. Primeval Section at 3. Unrolling of an Egyptian Mummy by Mr. Pettigrew at 8.

Saturday, Sept. 14. General Meeting -Reports of Committees, &c. at 11 a. m. Coaches are prepared to convey members from the Ashford station of the Dover Railway; tables d'hôtes ordered; and the innkeepers put on their best behaviour. John Brent, esq. one of the Aldermen of Canterbury, has kindly undertaken to become the organ of the Local Committee, in answering the inquiries of strangers. Tickets (price One Guinea) are to be obtained of T. J. Pettigrew, esq. No. 8, Saville Row, the Treasurer, and of C. R. Smith, esq. 5, Liverpool Street, City, the Secretary. They include the privilege of introducing one lady.

ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH, BRISTOL.

As the workmen were proceeding with the alteration of the pews in this church, (see our June number, p. 636,) they brought to light on the 24th May another of the long-forgotten memorials of the dead, in the south wall of the church. The figure, which is that of a man, measures six feet two inches. It is in a re

cumbent position, with the hands joined in supplication. The head is uncovered, with the hair curled round it, so as to resemble a wig; he has a short peaked beard partly mutilated. The dress is a long gown, reaching to the feet, with an upright collar, and large full sleeves. A basilard is suspended in front by a belt passing over the shoulders. The feet rest on a much mutilated animal. From the recess being only eighteen inches in depth the right elbow was obliged to be imbedded in the wall. The arch of the recess is ornamented in a similar style to that in the north wall. The features of the face are in a good state of preservation. On the fillet in front of the edge of the slab on which the effigy lies, an illegible portion of an inscription remains, and which was continued on the other sides of the stone. This circumstance, together with the inadequate space in which the effigy is placed, strongly indicates removal from its original position.

A pipe has recently been inserted in Cardiff Castle wall, for the conveyance of water from the feeder to the castle itself. The wall through which the aperture has been made is no less than 13 feet 6 inches thick. The wall, though apparently decayed, was found one solid mass of closely wedged and almost impenetrable material, and so hard that it was the labour of several days to effect a breach.

A Roman armilla, or military bracelet, has been found by a labourer in a fen five miles from Cambridge. It has five coils, three inches in diameter each; is of the finest gold, and weighs between five and six ounces.

The sale by Messrs. Sotheby, of the princely collection of coins of the late Mr. Thomas, of Oxford-st. has concluded, and the sum realized is little short of 17,000l.

Some bas-reliefs of the hall of the ancestors of Moeris have lately arrived in Paris from Egypt, having been sent to the Royal Library from that country by a French traveller. They present about sixty portraits of the Pharaohs in dynastic order.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

July 30. The Lord Chancellor, on bringing up the report on the ROMAN CATHOLIC PENALTIES REPEAL Bill, stated that the Government were desirous that Lord Beaumont, the promoter of the bill, should postpone it, as they contemplated a general revision of our criminal code, which would embrace the objects contemplated by it. As its author, how. ever, was desirous of pressing it, he (the Lord Chancellor) felt himself pledged and bound to vote for it in the form to which he had reduced it. He admitted that it was an imperfect measure, but it was imperfect on the safe side. The noble and learned lord concluded by moving that the report be brought up.-The Bishop of London complained of the measure being pressed forward without its having received that mature deliberation, especially from the Bishops, which its importance demanded. He moved that the report be received that day three months. After some further discussion arose, the amendment was negatived without a division, and the report was received.

Aug. 6. On the order for going into Committee on the POOR LAW AMENDMENT Bill, the Bishop of Exeter moved its postponement for six months. motion was rejected by 17 to 1, and the Bill went through Committee.

This

Aug. 9. The House adjourned to the 2nd of September.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

July 26. The POOR LAW AMENDMENT Bill was read a third time, and passed.

July 30. The Earl of Lincoln obtained leave to bring in a Bill to empower Her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods, &c. to form a Terrace and Embankment, with convenient landing-places for the public, on the Middlesex shore of the river Thames, between Westminster and Black. friars bridges.-Mr. Wyse moved an Address praying for the establishment of Galleries for the reception of Casts of Sculpture and Architecture, Ancient and Christian. This, after a brief discussion in an empty house, was withdrawn. Aug. 5. Mr. Gladstone introduced, for future consideration, Bills, 1. for consolidating provisions usually inserted in

Acts for taking LANDS for public purposes; 2. for consolidating the usual provisions for making RAILWAYS; 3. for consolidating the usual provisions for constituting COMPANIES; 4. to amend the laws relating to the MERCHANT SEAMEN'S FUND. They were severally read the first time, and ordered to be printed.

Aug. 7. Sir James Graham introduced a Bill for the better regulation of MEDICAL PRACTICE throughout the United Kingdom, which was read the first time, and ordered to be printed.

In this measure Sir James's leading principle is, that quackery is not to be put down by penalty, but by such encouragements as may raise, generally, the character of the legitimate practitioner, and offer a distinction and a guarantee to the public. A Council of Health is to have a general controlling influence over the many medical bodies in the three kingdoms, and correct, by a uniform system of registration, the various licensing systems now in practice, and the exclusions and exceptions created by a number of discordant charters. Provisions are made for rendering the control of this new Presiding Board effectual to the securing of a competent degree of instruction on the part of the practitioner; and no person whom it has not registered will be qualified to hold any public medical or surgical office, naval, military, parochial, hospital, or otherwise; the certificate of no such person will be receivable in a court of law, nor will he be entitled to recover therein for professional attendance. Neither will any unregistered person have the right to claim any one of the exemptions, (such as that from being summoned upon juries,) which attach to the medical character. The general action of the Central Board will be, to raise the standard of general fitness, and secure for that of education, in the various licensing bodies, equalization and uniformity; and an important clause in the Bill regulates the age at which degrees shall be conferred. No positive enactment is directed against the irregular practitioner; but, with the mark of disability on him which this Bill creates, he is still free to cheat those who are determined to be cheated.

Aug. 8. Sir James Graham brought in, in like manner, for consideration be

fore next Session, a Bill to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Parochial Settlement, and the removal of the Poor; and a Bill to regulate the appointment and payment of Clerks and other officers

of the Courts of Petty and Quarter Sessions.

On the 9th of August the house adjourned to the 5th of September.

PRUSSIA.

On the 26th July, at the moment that the King of Prussia, on his journey to Erdmansdorff, in Silesia, went into his carriage, in which her Majesty was already seated, for the purpose of driving to the railway terminus, a madman fired both barrels of a double-barrelled pistol at him. One of the balls missed altogether, and the other, without wounding, only left a slight trace on the breast of his Majesty. Her Majesty the Queen escaped the imminent danger by just at the moment leaning forward, and in this way the ball, which otherwise inevitably would have hit the Queen, passed behind her. perpetrator has been identified by the name of Tscheck, formerly Burgomaster of Storkon; and states, as the motive of his crime, that several petitions for another appointment had been without effect. He has been committed for trial.

MOROCCO.

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In consequence of the reply of the Emperor of Morocco, to the French ultimatum, not having been deemed sufficiently explanatory, the Prince de Joinville, the French Admiral, commenced bombarding Tangier, on the morning of the 6th August, he then having the English Consul on board, In one hour the fire of the place was silenced, the batteries were dismantled, and the guns dismounted.

EGYPT.

Mehemet Ali, who is in his 75th year, on the 27th July left Alexandria, declaring that he renounced for ever Egypt and public affairs; and was going to Mecca. After a few days, however, he returned, apparently having altered his resolution. This sudden act of the Pacha is attributed to the distress he felt at the departure of his son, Hussein Bey, with several noble Egyptians, for education in France.

CIRCASSIA.

Shamel-Bey, the Circassian General, having defeated the Russians at Erbend, on the Caspian Sea, entered the town, after forcing the temporary fortifications, with a loss to the Russians of 2,000 men,

and made a rich booty in provisions and ammunition. The Russians have since been beaten with considerable loss near Gratigarsk, in the Upper Caucasus. The army, 100,000 strong, is greatly discouraged. Its head-quarters are at Stavropol, near Coubran, under the orders of Prince Michael and General Yermoloff.

BOKHARA.

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Positive intelligence has been received as the result of Dr. Wolff's mission to Bokhara. He writes that Colonel Stoddart and Captain Conolly (noticed in our Obituary for March 1843, but whose fate has since been considered uncertain) were both of them publicly executed in July 1842. The King stated that the first had been put to death-1. On account of his having treated Royalty with disrespect on different occasions. That he had turned Mussulman, and returned to the Christian faith.-3. That he had promised to get letters from England in four months, by which he would be acknowledged as ambassador from England, and fourteen months had elapsed without any answer being received, though the King had erected japar khans (post-houses) on his account. And with regard to Conolly, that he had been put to death for having induced the Khans of Khiva and Kokan to wage war against the King of Bokhara, &c.

Fears are now entertained for the safety of Dr. Wolff, as the King of Bokhara detains him to wait the result of a war in which the King is engaged.

UNITED STATES.

Another dreadful riot took place on Sunday, July 7, at Philadelphia, between the Native Americans" and the Irish Roman Catholics, and that city was once more placed at the mercy of a lawless mob. Conflicts took place between the military, who had been called in to quell the disturbances, and the populace, the latter of whom were armed, and possessed themselves of some pieces of artillery, which they used with effect against the regular forces. Several lives were lost in these desperate struggles, and a great number were wounded.

Joseph and Hiram Smith, the Mormon

prophets, were murdered in June last, at Carthage in Illinois, by a mob of 60 or 70 persons.

The American papers are filled with accounts of most disastrous floods on the great rivers of the Union-the Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas, and Red and White Rivers. Cotton plains have been covered, and the crops destroyed-cattle and houses almost innumerable swept away-families of human beings bave perished-and towns and villages have been inundated, to depths of ten and twenty feet. At St. Louis, on the Mississippi, the water rose three feet higher than in the great flood of 1785. The destruction of property has been immense.

TAHITI,

When M. D'Aubigny and the French authorities usurped the sovereignty, miscalled protection," of Queen Pomare's dominions, the Queen, having taken refuge on board an English vessel, issued a proclamation (which, however, was intercepted by the French), telling her subjects to be quiet, to "have great patience," and to trust to help from England. Some of her chiefs, who had driven their cattle away to the mountains, were seized and imprisoned-others, naturally fearing the same fate, fled. The property of these last was confiscated, and the districts in which they should be found to have taken refuge threatened with heavy fines. The Queen's house was seized by

the French Governor, and her female attendants, who had remained there, driven out houseless. After "evening gun fire," the French commander, M. D'Aubigny, informs the world, Europeans and natives must be within their houses, and must receive no one-unlimited power of entry and search is given to the police-all fires in native houses must be extinguished— boats, with all belonging to them, must have returned to their ships; and, upon infraction of these orders, houses will be pulled down-boats sunk or destroyed→ and persons, "European or native," arrested or shot, as may be convenient. In consequence of a French sentinel having been attacked on the night of the 2nd of March, by the natives, D'Aubigny, by way of reprisal, seized Mr. Pritchard, the late British consul, who had previously hauled down his flag. He was imprisoned several days, but at length was sent from the island, and is now arrived in England. The natives took refuge in the mountains ; and shortly afterwards a skirmish took place between them and the French, when several were killed and wounded. Late accounts, received from Paris, state that this affair has received a timely remedy. Captain Bruart, to whom Adm. Dupetit Thouars had delegated his authority, not approving of the informal arrest of Mr. Pritchard, has reprimanded M. D'Aubigny, and suspended him until the further pleasure of the French government is ascertained.

July 20. An extraordinary invention was put to the test off Brighton. Captain Warner, R.N. undertook to shew that no ship could chase another, furnished with his implements of warfare, without being herself destroyed. Multitudes went down from London to see the experiment, and it is supposed that 30,000 persons were assembled on the shores, including a number of official personages, and naval and military officers. The ship to be operated upon was the John o' Gaunt

a stout bark of 300 tons measurement, a perfectly seaworthy ship, presented to Captain Warner by Mr. Soames, shipowner, for the purpose of testing the invention. About a quarter to five the John o' Gaunt began to move towards the destined spot of operations, towed by the Sir William Wallace, steam-tug, in which was Captain Warner with his implements of destruction, and attended by a small Shoreham steam-tug, the Tees, to take off the crew of the John o' Gaunt previous

to her destruction. When the John o' Gaunt came abreast the battery, about a mile and a half from shore, a Unionjack, the signal agreed upon, was hoisted, to intimate to Captain Warner that he was now to destroy the ship. In a few minutes, however, the instrument of destruction seemed to strike the vessel amidships, for from that point a huge column of water, in which was intermingled some of the shingle of her ballast, shot up perpendicularly into the air, higher than her topmast; her mizen went by the board, her mainmast, a new one, was shot clean out of her like a rocket; she heeled over to port to an angle of 45 degrees, and her main hatchway being open, daylight was visible through her bottom timbers, and she seemed to part asunder as she went down, leaving nothing perceptible but the top of her foremast! The decks were not blown up, but remained entire when the ship sunk-a clear proof that the force, whatever it was, and from