June 19. At Sydney, Francis Kemble, esq. Aug. 2. On the voyage home from the At Boulogne-sur-Mer, aged 13, G. L. Gilbert Cooper, youngest son of the late Col. Gilbert Cooper, East India Co.'s Nat. Inf. Sept. 8. At Hofwyl, in Switzerland, George Taylor, esq. surgeon, Kingstonon-Thames. Sept. 14. At Zante, Deputy-Assistant Commissary-Gen. Tennent. Sept. 15. At Liege, Jessie, eldest dau. of the late John Wigstone, esq. of Trent Park, Middlesex. Sept. 19. At Vevey, Canton de Vaud, Switzerland, Nathan Dunn, esq. Proprietor of the Chinese Collection, now exhibiting near Hyde Park Corner, and late of Philadelphia. Sept. 20. At Paris, William Pemberton, esq. of Sussex-pl. Regent's-park, and Alderman's Walk, New Broad-st. At Valetta, Malta, on her return from Palestine, aged 26, Sophia, wife of Amedé Augustus Comti de Torri. Sept. 21. At Madeira, Lieut. James Gordon Caulfield, eldest son of MajorGen. Caulfield. Sept. 30. At Boulogne, aged 27, Jane, wife of Samuel Pratt, esq. of Bentinckterr. Regent's Park. TABLE OF MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS. Deaths Registered from September 28 to October 19, 1844, (4 weeks.) Sussex Pockets, 67. Os. to 77. 12s.-Kent Pockets, 71. Os. to 117. 15s. PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW AT SMITHFIELD, Oct. 20. Hay, 37. 10s. to 57. 8s.—Straw, 17. 8s. to 17. 12s.—Clover, 4l. 108. to 61. 68. SMITHFIELD, Oct. 25. To sink the Offal-per stone of 8lbs. .2s. 6d. to 4s. Od. Head of Cattle at Market, Oct. 21. .2s. 8d. to 4s. Od. Beasts 3849 Calves 97 .3s. 4d. to 4s. 4d. Sheepand Lambs 30,010 Pigs 348 .3s. Od. to 4s. Od. Beef......... Mutton.. .......... Pork......... COAL MARKET, Oct. 25. Walls Ends, from 16s. 6d. to 238. 9d. per ton. Other sorts from 15s. Od. to 19s. 6d. TALLOW, per cwt.-Town Tallow, 45s. Od. Yellow Russia, 43s. 6d. CANDLES, 7s. Od. per doz. Moulds, 9s. 6d. PRICES OF SHARES. At the Office of WOLFE, BROTHERS, Stock and Share Brokers, Birmingham Canal, 158. Ellesmere and Chester, 62.- -Grand Junction, 162 Kennet and Avon, 10. Leeds and Liverpool, 640.-Regent's, 25. Rochdale, 62.--London Dock Stock, 115.-St. Katharine's, 117.- East and West India, 137. London and Birmingham Railway, 214. Great Western, 71 pm.--London and Southwestern, 75.-Grand Junction Water. Works, 90. West Middlesex, 127. Globe Insurance, 141.- Guardian, 49. Hope, 7.Chartered Gas, 67.-Imperial Gas, 851. Phoenix -London and Westminster Bank, 264.- Reversionary Interest, 104. For Prices of all other Shares, enquire as above. Gas, 40. METEOROLOGICAL DIARY, BY W. CARY, STRAND, 1144 287 91 92 pm. 73 70 pm. J. J. ARNULL, English and Foreign Stock and Share Broker, 3, Bank Chambers, Lothbury. J. B. NICHOLS AND SON, PRINTERS, 25, PARLIAMENT-STREET. GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. DECEMBER, 1844. BY SYLVANUS URBAN, GENT. CONTENTS. MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.-Site of the manufactory of Faience-Roman relics at Kingston-Origin of Chelsea and Greenwich Hospitals-Stulp or StoopThe Ballad of Earl Oswald............... POEMS OF RURAL LIFE IN THE DORSET DIALECT: by W. Barnes.. On the Site of Anderida: by the Rev. Beale Post Mistaken Date at Fittleworth, Sussex, (with a Cut) .... Letter of Lord Sinclair, from Newcastle, in 1644 PAGE 562 563 577 582 583 584 ...ibid. ON ACADEMIES (concluded)-Agassis, Balfe, Handel, Herschel, Brunel, &c. The Prince of Wales's Plume-Badge of the Ostrich Feather-The Black Prince's Sale of the Duke of Sussex's Collection of Manuscripts RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW.-Stanyhurst's First Four Books of Virgil....... Letters of Mary Queen of Scots, edited by Miss Agnes Strickland, 609; Hewitt's FINE ARTS.-Historical Album-The Earliest Engraving, 628; Statue of ... .... HISTORICAL CHRONICLE.-Foreign News, 637-Domestic Occurrences Additions to Obituary Clergy Deceased DEATHS, arranged in Counties 594 598 599 603 621 627 ! 630 634 635 638 641 Registrar-General's Returns of Mortality in the Metropolis-Markets-Prices of Shares, 671; Meteorological Diary-Stocks.. Embellished with a View of BIDDULPH HALL, Staffordshire. MINOR CORRESPONDENCE. An Old Correspondent would be thankful to be informed where he will be likely to find any account of the establishment or existence of a manufactory of the earthenware commonly called Faience, in the island of Majorca. Tradition in Italy commonly asserts the fact, and places the manufactory in the 11th century; and the name, Majolica, seems to bear testimony to the truth of the tradition. J. P. suggests that the Roman weapons found near Kingston, and mentioned by Mr. Roots in his letters inserted in the 30th volume of the Archæologia, may have been the remains of some conflict between the Britons and the Romans, upon the latter's invasion under Claudius. Other weapons, &c. found near Kingston, have been referred, with great probability, to that period: and exuviæ of warfare have also been found in the neighbourhood of Coway Stakes-the most probable place of Cæsar's passage (See Manning and Bray). Moreover, we may presume that wherever Cæsar passed the Thames, he was not, after having so done, much resisted by the Britons; who, it would seem, were astonished at the daring courage shown by the Romans in crossing the river. E. B. P. begs to correct a little mistake in Mr. Parry's communication on Church Bells, page 486. In speaking of Nell Gwynne, Mr. P. says, "to her spontaneous and disinterested urging charity Owes Greenwich if not also Chelsea Hospital." It is supposed (but upon what authority I do not at the moment recollect,) that Chelsea Hospital owes its origin to the persuasive eloquence of Nell Gwynne. This supposition, I remember, formed the groundwork of a very interesting scene, perhaps the most effective one, in Jerrold's clever play of "Nell Gwynne," which was performed at Covent Garden, in Jannary, 1833, with a success that has not of late years attended our dramatic productions. Greenwich Hospital is certainly under no obligation to either Charles II. or Nell Gwynne. The former erected a small portion of the present edifice, with the design of building a palace-not a hospital. It is to William III. (at the instance of bis Queen, it is said,) that we are indebted for the completion of this noble building, and the still nobler purpose to which it is devoted. GULIELMUS is referred to our September number, p. 302, and our Oct. number, p. 409, or for fuller instructions to the Archæological Journal, No. III. for the method of rubbing impressions of sepulchral plates, or other sculptured surfaces. T. A. B. observes that Mr. Way, in his notice of a lease from the Earl of Bedford to Sir William Cecill, of a pasture in Covent Garden, informs us, "the obsolete term stulp is now retained only in the dialect of Norfolk ;" as quoted in November number, p. 505. It is, however, very generally used in North Lancashire and the adjoining parts of Westmorland, though pronounced stoop, and in the signification of a post for the support of a gate. As late as the beginning of last century I find it written stulp in title deeds of this district. Stolpe, in SuioGothic, is interpreted fulcrum. J. E. remarks that the same word is the common term for "a post " in the neighbourhood of Halifax, only it is pronounced as if it were written stoop. He remembers very well making use of the word ten years ago, to designate a post in Greenstreet, in Cambridge, when a friend, a native of Berkshire, who was walking with him, was at a loss to know what it meant, and he was obliged to explain. F. requests information on the following point:-The ballad of Earl Oswald is found in the third volume of Evans's Old Ballads, in the edition of 1784. It is in volume IV. in the edition of 1810.-Is this ballad taken from any old collection? If not, whence comes it? Is it by Mickle, who has had the credit of being author of several ballads in volumes III. and IV. of Evans's Collection? See Gent's. Mag. O. S., Vol. LXI. p. 628. It is true that Mickle has been vindicated from such a charge; and it has been stated that he had declared that he was not the author of those ballads. See Gent's. Mag. O. S. Vol. LXI. p. 801. F. inclines to think that he must have been the author of the above ballad: if so, his plagiarism is of a most barefaced character, as it is easy to perceive from whence he (Mickle), or whoever was the author of Earl Oswald, borrowed words and sentiments. GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. Poems of Rural Life, in the Dorset Dialect: with a Dissertation and Glossary. By William Barnes. WITH the same delight with which a botanist discovers a new flower of beauty and fragrance, and draws it from its solitary and unfrequented abode to be known and admired; or as the astronomer, amid the surrounding splendour of innumerable worlds, sees a new constellation of no inferior brilliancy, at once attracting his admiration and rewarding his labours; so we too have felt when unexpectedly we discovered under the rude covering of a primitive and provincial dialect, and in a remote part of a distant county, a vein of poetical feeling which in its kind we can scarcely think surpassed by any previous inspirations of the Muse who presides over the scenes of rural life. We know little of the author,* but, if we judge of him by his work, we can believe that, unknown to the learned, and unpatronized by the great, he has "warbled his native woodnotes wild," winning his way to the hearts of all who heard him, until the fame of his genius spread beyond the limits of the valleys which gave it birth, by the simple sweetness of his verse, the purity of the sentiments, the delicacy of the thoughts, and the elegance and propriety of the imagery. Such are the qualities that distinguish the noble and successful works of genius from the mere desires of the will, the efforts of the memory, or the common power of verbal imitation. We have heard that Mr. Barnes is a person possessing very large stores of self-acquired erudition; but the mention of these is beyond the scope of our present purpose; our business with him is as a poet, and we shall egregiously fail in the estimate we have made, if we do not, in the specimens we are about to produce, satisfy our readers, that in this small and single volume is a strain of poetry abounding in such natural and simple beauties, at once appealing to the understanding and affecting the heart, as would do honour to the greatest names in our poetic annals, such as Crabbe would have delighted to listen to, and even Burns himself would not have disdained to own. Poets, like all other persons, must have their thoughts strongly affected and acted on by the sympathies of their own times, and by the minds of their contemporaries; hence arises imitation, often insensibly acquired, and a kind of conventional manner of thought and expression. The poets of one age take their tone from Cowley or Donne,-of another from Pope or Addison, and the prevailing spirit of our own time is far too striking and prominent not to be felt by all within its reach; it is too remarkable to be overlooked, perhaps too powerful to be resisted, and in many respects too fascinating not to be willingly obeyed. But we are bound in fairness to say, that in Mr. Barnes's poems we can trace no footsteps of the submissive or sequacious follower of any poetic school or model, but that of true nature and passion. The poet's heart is at home, his scenery is all domestic, his circle of description of home-growth, confined to his own Although Mr. Barnes has been hitherto unknown to his Reviewer, he has long been a valuable contributor to this Magazine.-EDIT. |