the part of the Corporation of London, performed Crypt under the east end aisles of the Cathedral, this rent service by cutting through one fagot with are those of Sir Christopher Wren himself; Barry, a hatchet and another with a bill-hook. A second the painter; Sir Joshua Reynolds, Benjamin West, proclamation was then made, thus:-"Tenants and Opie, Fuseli, Turner, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Dean occupiers of a certain tenement, called 'The Forge,' Milman, Canon Melvill, Archdeacon Hale, Proin the parish of St. Clement Danes, in the county fessor Cockerell, Mylne, and Rennie. Indeed, so of Middlesex, come forth and do your service." many of our artists and architects lie here that the The City Solicitor then counted six horse-shoes and southern aisle has come to be called "Painter's 61 hob-nails, and upon announcing the number of Corner." Under the central dome, as our readers each was answered by the Queen's Remembrancer, are aware, lie the bodies of Nelson and Welling"Good numbers." This ceremony used to be per- ton-the latter in a magnificent sarcophagus made formed before the Cursitor Baron of the Exchequer, out of a single block of black Cornish porphyry, in open Court, until the abolition of that office in which was finished only six or seven years ago; 1856, and continued to be performed before the while the former rests in, or rather under, another Court until the passing of the Act 22 and 23 sarcophagus, which, though smaller in size, surVictoria, cap. 21. passes its neighbour in interest as having been originally prepared by Cardinal Wolsey for himself, and placed by him with that view in St. George's Chapel at Windsor. Not far from Wellington lies Sir Thomas Picton, whose body was removed hither a few years since from Bayswater; and near LETTERS OF ROBERT BURNS.-There are unpublished letters of Robert Burns among the correspondence of Miss Susan Ferrier, lately intimated as in preparation for the press. The new work will present a lively picture of literary life in Edinburgh. Miss Ferrier's best-known novel, "Marriage," was published in 1818, and was praised by Sir Walter Scott as containing some of the happiest illustrations of Scottish character. upon 380 feet; while the whole space of ground occupied by these piers and covered by the dome itself is nearly three-quarters of an acre. to Lord Nelson rest his brother admirals, Lords Northesk and Collingwood. A printed sheet relating to the Crypt, which was published in 1685, with the signature of the then clerk of the works, Mr. THE CRYPT OF ST. PAUL'S.-Although it is not foundations below the surface of the churchyard is John Tillison, shows that the general depth of the true of St. Paul's any more than of London, that its 22ft., and in many places even 35ft.; that the underground portions are quite as wonderful as those "fair, large, and stately vaults" beneath the church above ground, yet even the Crypt of St. Paul's con- are 18ft. 6in. high from the ground to the crown of tains much that is interesting; and our readers will the arch; that each of the great piers which susbe glad to know that it is already beginning to share tain the central dome stands upon 1,360 feet of in that process of renovation to which the rest of ground, superficial measure, and each lesser one the cathedral is being gradually subjected. The Dean and Chapter, indeed, have resolved to lighten the whole extent of it, and with that view they are steadily removing the heavy woodwork which nearly blocks up the small windows on a level with the ground outside, substituting for it thin but strong iron sashes, which allow the light to enter more freely. The dust and soot which have accumulated on the walls and window-sills, possibly for nearly two centuries, have also been to a great extent removed; and some idea may be formed of this when we say that about 50 tons of soot, dirt, and debris of plaster have already been carted away out of the basement of the sacred edifice. The walls, too, are being cleaned throughout, and the restoration of the monuments is being preceeded with, the greatest care being taken that nothing shall be mutilated or destroyed. Some of the fragments of monuments which survived the great fire and the hands of the workmen employed under Sir Chrtsiopher Wren have been repaired, re-arranged in something like order, and laid decently on slabs against the side walls. The pavement at present is decidedly the worst portion of the Crypt; but this will before long be taken up and relaid throughout on a uniform plan and pattern. Among the graves in the KEMBLE'S TOMB.-The tomb of John Philip Kemble, in the old cemetery on the Bern-road, Lausanne, is reported to be in a most disgraceful state, the inscription being illegible from the accumulation of dirt, &c. It has been calculated that £300 would suffice for all the improvements proposed, both in connection with the tomb and Lausanne Cathedral. CESAR'S CAMP AT WIMBLEDON.-The court of Common Council, on the motion of Mr. John T. Bedford, have resolved "that it be referred to a committee to consider the expediency of preserving Cæsar's Camp at Wimbledon as an open space for public recreation and enjoyment, and with directions to the committee to place themselves in communication with the proper authorities to ascertain upon what terms and conditions this may be accomplished, reporting to the Court from time to time." Mr. Bedford dwelt on the great historical interest which attached to the Camp, and on its being situated, moreover, in a position commanding charming views of a wide sweep of country all round. He was sorry to say that the Camp was in some danger of being appropriated to building purposes, unless some well-directed effort was made by a body like the Corporation to preserve it. IT is the intention of her Majesty's Commissioners to exhibit specimens of all kinds of tobaccopipes, tobacco-grinders, &c., made before 1800.Fournal of the Society of Arts. PROFESSOR G. STEPHENS, of Copenhagen, has now in hand, for the third volume of his "Runic Monuments of Scandinavia and England," copies of twenty-six freshly discovered Old Norse Runic monuments, all found in Scandinavia or England. ETON COLLEGE.-On the 6th of December the 431st anniversary of the " Founder's Day" was kept with due honour by the Provost and Fellows of Eton College. In the evening at 6 o'clock, a grand banquet was given in the ancient college - hall, covers eing laid for about ninety. The customary A QUARTO volume, containing the pedigrees of loyal toasts, as well as that of "In piam memo- the leading Lancashire families, is in the press, and riam," was drunk with enthusiasm. Eton College, will shortly be issued. It will be uniform with the described in olden times as the "College of the recently-published new edition of Baines's History Blessed Marie of Eton-beside-Wyndsore," was of the County. founded and endowed in 1441. MR. FERGUSON, of Carlisle, author of the DR. HUSENBETH has bequeathed his collection "Teutonic Name-System," and "The River-Names of missals, one of which is among the most splen- of Europe," has in the press a book on the did in England, to Lord Stafford. He has left a "Dialect of Cumberland, with a chapter on Placecopy of his work, "Emblems of the Saints," with Names." large MS. additions, ready for the press. The second edition of the work is now out of print. M. BARBET-DE-JOUY, ex-custodian of the Museum of Sovereigns in the Louvre, author of various archæological works, has just died in Paris, aged 61. MR. HENRY WARD, of the Manuscript Department in the British Museum, found some weeks ago, in one of the thirteenth century Harleian MR. EDWARD CHARLESWORTH, the well-known manuscripts, the probable original of Chaucer's geologist, has recently brought to light a remark"Prioress's Tale," of the Christian boy killed by a ably perfect impression of a lepidopterous wing Jew and brought to life again by the Virgin Mary. from the Stonesfield slate. Mr. Butler, of the Further search showed that the MS. was one of Zoological Department, British Museum, pronounces Gautier de Coincy's collection of translated Mira- it to be a butterfly of the sub-family Brassolina cles of the Virgin, and that the Abbé Poquet had (Fam. Nymphalide), and allied to the recent tropiprinted it in 1657 from a Soissons MS. of the four-cal American genera Caligo, Dasophtthalma, and teenth century, though without any notice of the Brossolis. This fossil is especially interesting from relation of the boy-miracle to Chaucer's Canter- its great antiquity, the oldest butterfly previously bury Tale. The only old Latin representative of described having been discovered in the cretaceous the story now known is contained in the "Forta- series; it belongs, notwithstanding, to the highest litium Fidei," written in 1459 and printed (among family of butterflies, and therefore throws back the other years) in 1525. Gautier de Coincy's poem date of the origin of this sub-order farther than had will be edited from the Harleian MS. for the ever been dreamed of by the most sanguine. Chaucer Society, which has already reprinted for its members the Latin text from the "Fortalitium Fidei." THE ROMAN EDITION of the Swiss Times reports that a discovery has just been made upon the Forum, which will not only interest all archæologiTHE fossil man discovered at Menton, in March cal students, but all classical scholars throughout last, is now attracting much attention in the Paris the world. It is the remains of the pedestal of the Jardin des Plantes, where it has been deposited. colossal equestrian bronze statue of Domitian, The Revue Scientifique de la France et de l'Etranger which, according to the well-known lines of Statius, has a paper by M. P. Broca on "The Troglodytes was situated in the middle of the Forum. of Vezère." During the meeting of the French MESSRS. BLACKWOOD have in the press a work Association for the Advancement of Science an entitled "Archæological Sketches in Scotland," excursion was made to Eyzies for the purpose of by Capt. T. P. White, R.E., of the Ordnance visiting the bone caverns, and examining the Survey. The volume deals with the ecclesiastical remaining evidences of the existence of this extinct antiquities of Kintyre, a district of the Western race of mankind. An act of vandalism was committed the other day at Rheinau, in the canton of Zurich. Some malefactors precipitated into the river the stone statue of St. John, which had for ages adorned the parapet of the bridge over the Rhine. Highlands rich in early relics; and it is contemplated by the author that the present volume shall form the first of a series embracing the pre-historic and medieval antiquities of this and some other districts, with the survey of which he has been officially connected. He will give a number of illustrations, of which the medieval crosses and IT is stated that a communication has been tomb-carvings, so distinctive of this locality, may received by Mr. Smith, of the British Museum, the be said to form the speciality. translator and transcriber of the records discovered THE house of Joan of Arc, at Domremy, which M. Viollet-Leduc has just visited, is about to be the object of some urgent repairs. on the Assyrian stones, from the proprietors of a morning paper, offering him carte blanche to proceed to the East for the purpose of prosecuting a other stones containing ancient Assyrian records search in those localities, in which it is probable may be discovered. It is understood that the offer of the British Museum, as in the event of his absence for a long period from his duties at the acceptance of it he will have to obtain leave of made to Mr. Smith will be laid before the trustees Ar the Hotel Drouot, Paris, one of the lots sold was a gold snuff-box, enriched with blue enamel and diamonds, and adorned with microscopic miniatures representing the ports of Bordeaux, Rochelle, Rochefort, Toulon, and Marseilles, by Lioux de Savagnac. This box, an historical bijou offered to Louis XV. by the city Museum. of Bordeaux, was sold for 12,000f. M. EMANUEL DEUTSCH, the writer of the arti THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY.-After ten years of as hard work as has been done in any library in the cle on the Talmud which attracted so much kingdom, Mr. H. O. Coxe is at last able to say that attention three years ago, has received leave of absence from the British Museum on account of that he found in the Bodleian when he took office every scrap of the vast mass of unarranged materials his health, for the winter, and has left England has now passed through his hands, been sorted, for Egypt. mounted, bound according to subject or place, and THE honorary secretary of the Glasgow St. is now ready for the index makers. Many volumes Andrew's Society (Mr. John Wight) announces of Oseney and other sealless charters (some very that the society will give prizes of £21 and early, being sales of villeins) are ready for use in £10 10s. respectively for the two best essays on volumes, while the charters with seals are all arthe "Jacobite Episode in Scottish History and ranged chronologically in separate drawers in its Relative Literature." cabinets, with descriptions and indexes. Besides THE Hunterian Club, Glasgow, has just issued the many volumes of catalogues already printed, its last books for its first year, 1871-2. They those of the Persian, Hebrew, Rawlinson, and other are four interesting poetical pieces of the satirist, collections, are being pushed on as fast as possible. Samuel Rowland. "Looke to it, for ile stabbe-Athenæum. ye," 1604; "Hells broke loose" (or "The Life We understand that a work entitled, "The Art and Death of John Leyden "), 1605; "The Treasures of the Lambeth Library," by S. W. KerNight Raven," 1620; and "Good Newes and shaw, M.A., will shortly be published by Mr. Bad Newes," 1622. Pickering. The book is to contain a complete THE new volume on the legends, traditions, &c., catalogue of the illuminated and illustrated MSS. of Lancashire, by the late Mr. Harland, of Man- in the Archi-episcopal Library, fully described and chester, and Mr. Wilkinson, of Burnley, to which catalogued under the different schools of art to we alluded some weeks ago as being ready for the which they belong, and is to be embellished by press, will be published shortly. A considerable eight elaborately-executed drawings on stone, by portion of it is devoted to the pageants, sports, and Mr. J. A. Burt, representing some of the most resuperstitions of the County Palatine, and it con- markable specimens of Anglo-Irish, early French, tains a reprint of a rare tract on the Lancashire witches.-Athenæum. English, and German art in the Lambeth collection. WE have to announce the death of Mr. Edwin SOME rare liturgical books of the reign of Queen Norris. The deceased, though at the advanced age Elizabeth were sold last month by Messrs. Puttick of sixty-seven, was active to the last; indeed, he and Simpson. The following were sold as one lot died in the midst of the work for which he had set for £101:-The Psalter, or Psalmes of David, entirely apart the last portion of his more than with the Morning and Evening Prayer, and other ordinary active life. It is this work also by which ordinarie service, with Kalender and Table of he will be best known to posterity, viz., the CuneiLessons, Lond., W. Serres, 1569-70,-Certaine form (Assyrian) Dictionary. Godly Prayers, Lond., W. Serres, 1570,- The OLD JUDICIAL CUSTOMS.-By long prescription, Epistles and Gospels, Lond., J. Awdeley, 1569,- if not by positive law, it is ruled that the commonThe firste parte of the Book of Psalmes, John Day, law Judges shall be taken only from among the 1569,-The residue of all David's Psalmes, in "Serjeants-at-Law;" and consequently every exmetre, imprinted at London, by John Daye, 1562, pectant Judge is first made a "Serjeant." The bound in one volume, 8vo., in the original stamped, degree of Serjeant-at-Law is one of the most ancient painted, and gilt covers. of the legal system; greatly surpassing in antiquity of Hull, in the diocese of Lincoln, signed August 19th, in the sixth year of Edward the Sixth, each of which bears this memorandum :- All the church goods is comytted to the keipyng of the seid presenters savyng one challyce, one vestment, one coope, one surplysse, we is comytted to the keipynge of the Curate for servyng of the church®.”” the dignity of "King's (or Queen's) Counsel," of by the quartering of the arms of that family, and which Lord Bacon is said to have been the first of its numerous alliances, in the panels of its incumbent ; although the latter now takes prece- highly-ornamented ceiling. dence of the former. There are some quaint MR. MACKENZIE E. C. WALCOTT writes to the customs still adhering to the " making of a Ser- Athenæum :-"As a matter of real antiquarian jeant." He is presented to the Lord Chancellor by interest, I may mention that I have found among some brother Barrister (styled his "Colt "), and he uncalendared papers of the Record Office, a list of kneels while the Chancellor attaches to the top of inventories of church goods for the entire deanery his wig the little round black patch that now does duty for "the coif," which is the special badge of the Serjeant. The new Serjeant presents a massive gold ring to the Chancellor, another to his "Colt," yet another to the Sovereign, one to each of the "Masters" of the Court of Common Pleas, and others to such private friends as he may "delight to honour." These rings used to be given also to all the Judges, but of late years the Judges have THE PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE.-Earl Granville refused to receive them; thus relieving the new has conferred a great boon upon the literary world dignitaries of a heavy tax, as the "Serjeant's ring" by giving free access to the Foreign State Papers is a massive and costly bit of jewellery. It is not in the Public Record Office to 1760 inclusive. generally known that the Chancellorship of the They have hitherto been open to inquirers only to Exchequer is, in strictness, a judicial office, and the 1688. It is very gratifying that the steps taken by Chancellor nominally the Chief Judge of the Court Lord Romilly since he has been Master of the of Exchequer; taking legal precedence next after Rolls to render the National Records more accesthe Lord High Chancellor, and before all the other sible have been thus responded to by the present Judges. On his appointment, he dons the judicial Secretary for Foreign Affairs. "gold-robe," and takes his seat in the Court, while some counsel makes a motion of course;" and when the High Sheriffs of counties are named (or "pricked") for the year, he again appears as one of the Judges presiding over that ceremony. The judicial functions of the modern Chancellors of the Exchequer go no further than this; but when Sir Robert Walpole held the office, he actually "sat," and gave the casting voice in a case in which the four Barons were equally divided! The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is, also, nominally, a judicial functionary; and, strange as it may appear, his legal precedence is next after that of him of the Exchequer, and his judicial rank is superior to that of all the really judicial dignitaries. THE CHARTERHOUSE. Within the past month there have disappeared the last remains of the old building in the Charterhouse known as "GownBoys," from the fact that it was devoted to the residence of the boys upon the College foundation, those boys having hitherto borne that name, though, together with the change of the school-site, the black dress which marked a "Gown Boy" has been discontinued, and possibly the name, too, will follow. The building had but few pretensions to architectural beauty, but it was interesting as having been the early home of many persons who afterwards rose to high distinction in Church and State. Together with the "Gown Boys' Hall" has disappeared also the adjoining apartment which formerly served as the chief school-room, but which bore tokens of having originally formed part of the town mansion of the Howards, Dukes of Norfolk, AUTOGRAPHS.-At a recent sale at the rooms of Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Hodge, in Wellington-street, the following curious lot was disposed of:-Autographs of Martin Luther, Philip Melancthon, Johannes thon, Johannes Bugenhagen, Caspar Cruciger, Justus Jonas, and George Maior. These interesting autographs are written on two sheets of vellum in folio." Each of the above early reformers has devoted a whole page to commentary on some verse of the Bible, and added his signature in full as well as the date "1543," except Justus Jonas, not dated, and Maior's, which is "1549." It is most probable that some student, before leaving the University of Wittenberg, obtained these autographs from his celebrated teacher as a memorial. The lot fetched £47, and was secured by Mr. Labussiere. A LARGE collection of books and manuscripts, comprising many rare and curious items illustrative of the history of North and South America from the earliest settlement up to the present time, has been dispersed by auction by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, of Leicester-square. THE "HISTORY OF TWO QUEENS."-The new work on which Mr. Hepworth Dixon is engaged is entitled "The History of Two Queens:-Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn." Mr. Dixon, during some extensive researches, has discovered, it is said, many hitherto unknown facts respecting his two heroines, which will throw much new light on their personal history, as well as the national history of the period in which they lived. THERE is preparing for publication a new work by Lord Russell, entitled "Essays on the Rise and Progress of the Christian Religion in the West of Europe, from the Reign of Tiberius to the End of the Council of Trent." To Correspondents. THE necessity for going to press early this month in consequence of the Christmas holidays, has prevented our availing ourselves of several valuable communications, which shall appear in our next. A list is in preparation of the contributors and correspondents already secured for LONG AGO, the first portion of which will probably appear in our February number. All literary communications, books for review, &c., to be addressed to the Editor of LONG AGO, 86, Fleet-street. Business letters, &c., to "The Proprietor,' at the same address. CHAMBERS'S JOURNAL. (FORTY-SECOND YEAR.) ON January 4th, 1873, will be commenced in No. 1 of the New Volume, an Original and Striking Tale, by the Author of "A Woman's Vengeance," entitled "MURPHY'S MASTER." Also the first part of an interesting story, entitled "SAVED BY HUMMING BIRDS." THE WEARDALE NICK-STICK. Just published, Price Is. 6d. boards, or 2s. 6d. cloth lettered. PART III., READY DECEMBER 21, 1872. (A repository of Chronology, History, Legends, FolkLore, Antiquities, Superstitions, Oddities, &c., appertaining to Weardale and Neighbourhood.) CONTENTS PART III. KING EDWARD IN WEARDALE. PARK AND FOREST ASSOCIATION. OUR OLDEST INHABITANTS. 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