out the high head-dresses and helmets of the Meetings of Societies. Collection of Coins," in which he introduced an unpublished warrant relating to this collection, dated at Newport by Charles, only three and a half months before his execution. Mr. Evans then read a paper, by Mr. Percy Gardner, on "Some interesting Greek Coins of Athens, Achaia, Sicyon, and Susiana." Stems. AN IMPORTANT discovery of fossil remains has been make at Gowrie Creek, Queensland. They are described by the Darling Downs Gazette as consisting of the head, fore-leg, and foot bones of an extinct species of gigantic mammalian animal, named by Professor Owen, in 1844, Diprotodon Australis. Many remains of this animal have been discovered in various parts of the Darling Downs district, and particularly at King's Creek and Gowrie. From these fossils Professor Owen has from time to time been enabled to proceed with the construction of a complete skeleton, but for many years past he has been unable to procure the foot bones now brought to light at Gowrie. He is indebted to Mr. G. B. King and a Toowoomba gentleman for the latter discovery. The whole series will be sent home by the next mail. THE Prussian Government is, it is said, likely to enter into a convention with the Government of Athens for the further excavation of Olympia, in the Peloponnesus. THE LAST OF AN OLD CITY CHURCH.-The Church of St. Antholin, Watling-street, is about to be removed, the parish being united henceforth, under the provisions of the Act of Parliament, with that of St. Mary Aldermary. The body of the church will be taken down forthwith, although, as in the case of the neighbouring parish of St. Mary Somerset, Upper Thames-street, the tower will be left standing, and be used as a receptacle for the monuments. The original Church of St. Antholin (a corruption, as it is supposed, of St. Antoninus) was built in the twelfth century, and rebuilt about A.D. 1400; again, to a great extent, in A.D. 1512; and again, of course, after the Great Fire, by Sir Christopher Wren. It contained, inter alia, several curious monuments and some epitaphs which are preserved in the pages of the antiquary Stow. NUMISMATIC SOCIETY.-October 16.-W. S. W. Vaux, Esq., F.R.S., President, in the chair, Receipt was acknowledged of several donations of books to the Library of the Society, and the special thanks of the meeting were voted to Mr. Richard Hoblyn, for his appropriate and valuable donation of the "Report and Evidence on the Mint, 1837." Three new members were elected. An impression of a silver penny of Conwulf, of the type of "Ruding," Plate vi. No. 14, and found at Hythe, was exhibited by Mr. H. B. Mackeson. Mr. C. Golding exhibited two MR. JAMES BURGESS, the learned editor of the Backtrian silver coins in fine preservation. Mr. Indian Antiquary, has been appointed ArcheologiJohn Evans, F.R.S., exhibited an unpublished cal Surveyor for Western India. gold coin of Tincommius, recently found on THE ultimate destination of the Schliemann colSelsey Bill, having on one side a head of Medusa, lection of articles discovered in the Troad is yet and on the other an inscription, TINC. C. B. He undetermined, the collection being left in the also showed another ancient British gold coin of archæological market by the refusal of the Hellenic Verica, reading COM. FI. Mr. Henry W. Hen-Government to accept it upon the conditions stipufrey read a paper on "King Charles the First's lated for by Dr. Schliemann. A JOURNAL of Bogota, New Granada, the America, announces a discovery so strange that confirmation is required before giving credence to it. Don Joaquim de Costa is reported to have found, on one of his estates, a monumental stone, erected by a small colony of Phoenicians from Sidonia, in the year IX. or X., of the reign of Hiram, contemporary of Solomon, about ten centuries before the Christian era. The block has an inscription of eight lines, written in fine characters, but without separation of words or punctuation. The translation is said to be that those men of the land of Canaan embarked from the port of Aziongaber (Boy-Akubal), and having sailed for twelve months from the country of Egypt (Africa), carried away by currents, had landed at Guayaquil, in Peru. The stone is said to bear the name of the voyagers. 1 scoundrel, and taking a sup of his parting wine-cup "smiled," and said, "Give the remainder to Jonathan Wild." Mr. William Thomas Purkiss, the present proprietor of the premises, has, at the request of several eminent archeologists, been prevailed upon to stay the work of demolition for a while, so that those who desire to see the veritable remains of the old Angel Inn as it stood when St. Giles really was in the fields--when old "Holbourne" was nothing but a country lane-and when the "fast coaches" of that time started from the Angel on their several days' journey to the north-may have an opportunity of looking upon, ere they are consigned to the rubbish-cart, the quaint old galleries at the back of the premises, and the remains of the ancient "tap" from which the most notable criminal of yore ordered his "parting cup," and drank perdition to all thief-catchers.-Licensed Victuallers' Gazette. THE FLAG OF FRANCE.-At the present time, when our neighbours across the Channel are busily discussing their future flag, it may be interesting to SINGULAR FIND.-The Patrie, of Geneva, says: recapitulate the changes that have taken place in the -"Great interest has been aroused at Nidau, Berne, national banner of France since the time of Charle- by a wonderful piece of good fortune. In the river magne, when the flag was blue, triple-tongued in Thiele has been fished up a chest four feet long, shape, and studded with six red roses. After a time, marked with the letters 'I. d. I.,' banded with iron, when the Carlovingian dynasty fell, this was replaced and full of gold pieces. The tale runs that, in by the scarlet Oriflamme, or the banner of the 1388, the Bernese let sink in the river, swollen by Abbey of St. Denis, which accordingly became the the rains, one of their vessels, which was being used principal standard of France, there being besides the at the siege of the castle, and in which craft was "royal" flag, i.e., an azure field studded with golden deposited the treasure in question. That occurred fleurs de lis, and under this latter many of the bat-at the period when Enguerrand IV., the last of the tles of the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth cen- Sires de Coucy, had received from Austria the turies were won and lost. Under Charles VII. the county of Nidau as an appanage. What remained blue ground was transformed into white. During of the Sire's property was ceded to the Orleans." the Revolution the City of Paris colours of red and A CURIOUS DISCOVERY.—It is reported that in blue served for a time, when upon the motion of the State of Ohio a strange discovery has just been Lafayette the "ancient monarchical" colour of white made. An old tree having been broken to pieces was added, and thus the present tricolour was by lightning, the fragments of a skeleton and a porformed. Lafayette, however, erred in making white tion of a portfolio were found among the debris. the "ancient" monarchical colour, for, as we have The portfolio contained an almost illegible document, already mentioned, before Charles VII. the ground which showed the remains were those of Captain of the royal standard was blue. Besides, it is Roger Vanderberg, a companion of Washington, curious to note that the Bastille was actually taken who, on a march against the Indians, was wounded under Royalist colours, as the tricolour was adopted and taken on the 3rd of November, 1761. Having by Charles V., Charles VII., and, indeed, the succeeded in escaping, he took refuge in a hollow Bourbons in general, for their liveries.-Graphic. tree, but, unfortunately, could not get out again. THE OLD ANGEL INN AT ST. GILES'S.-A He passed the last hours of his life in writing his memorial of ancient London is about to pass away journal, from which it appears he must have lived —a memorial which is as illustrious as the Tabard eleven days in his terrible imprisonment. Inn in Southwark-though that was famous for the DEATH OF MR. GEORGE ORMEROD. The grace of its poetical associations, and this notorious death is announced of a well-known antiquarian, from the odium of its infamy. We allude to the hos- Mr. George Ormerod, of Sedbury Park, Gloutelry which has long been known as the "half-way cestershire, F.R.S., F.S.A., D.C.L., &c., author house" on the road to Tyburn-the house at which of the "History of Cheshire." Mr. Ormerod was Jack Ketch and the criminal who was about to eighty-seven years of age. 66 expiate his offences on the scaffold were wont to A GIGANTIC painting in distemper of "St. Chrisstop on their way to the gallows, for a last glass." topher," has been found on the north wall of the Here Jack Sheppard halted, as has been recorded Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Hayes, Middlesex. by Harrison Ainsworth in his life of the celebrated-Graphic. OLD CITY CHURCHES.-Three more of the City five in the morning. Our early dramatists churches are to be destroyed, and we shall part from refer to this, and the preachers, as well as the them with regret. All Hallow's, Bread-street, with bells, "were proverbially loud and lengthy." A its beautifully-carved altar-piece, is of ancient foun- gallery was added in 1616, and each of the fiftydation, for Walter de Sonnebres was instituted to two divisions was filled with the "the arms of the living in 1284. In the reign of Henry VIII., the Kings, Queens, and Princes of this Kingdom, service at this church was "suspended" for a month beginning with Edward the Confessor and ending upon "the falling out of two priests in it, and one with the Badge and Symbol of Frederick, Count drawing blood of the other." They were both Palatine of the Rhine." In this church the comcommitted to prison, and on the 15th of October, missioners sent to Charles I. in 1640 from the being enjoined penance, went before a general pro- Church of Scotland used to preach, and "curiocession, bare-headed and bare-footed and bare- sity, faction, and humour attracted crowds from legged, before the children with beads and books in sunrise to sunset." The north window was their hands, from St. Paul's, through Cheapside, filled with pictures of one of the benefactorsCornhill, &c." This church was burnt down in Henry Collet, mercer and mayor, with his wife, the Great Fire, and subsequently rebuilt. In the their ten sons and ten daughters. The church old church the spirited Alderman Reed was was restored under the direction of Sir Christoburied, who refused to pay a so-called "benevo- pher Wren in 1682. A grammar school in this lence" levied by the same king. His contumacy parish, no longer existing, was once a rival to was punished by his being sent, with his men, that of St. Paul's. The boys interchanged to serve in the northern wars "at his own epithets of "Antony pigs" and "Paul's pigeons" charge." Taken prisoner by the Scotch, Reed (many of those birds being kept at St. Paul's), was glad to make peace with his sovereign and "and usually fell from words to blows, with their to purchase his ransom at a heavy price. In the satchets full of books, many times in great heaps, same church Milton was baptized, and the regis- so that they troubled the streets and passengers." ter still preserves the entry of the event. An old Sir Thomas More, Archbishop Heath, and Bishop bequest was made by one of the parishioners, of Whitgift, were among its pupils. The third of £1 yearly, "for a sermon, and ringing the bells the marked churches is St. Martin's, Outwich, or on every 25th of July, in memory of the defeat Oteswich, from the name of the family that of the Spanish Armada." Laurence Saunders, founded it, and made over the advowson, with the rector of the parish, suffered martyrdom "four messuages and 17 shops, with their appurunder Queen Mary in 1555. "There are," says tenances," to the Merchant Taylors' Company, a recent writer, "but few residents in the parish," for the use of the poor." This church is situated which is chiefly filled with warehouses, nearly at the east end of Threadneedle-street, "by the every one of which has a padlock on the door on Sunday. The congregation usually numbers nine." The second church is that of St. Antholine, properly St. Antony; not the Saint of Padua, nor Anthiolianus, the martyr of Auvergne, but Antony, the famed Egyptian abbot. The foundation is very ancient, for it was in the gift of the canons of St. Paul's in 1181. This St. Antony was said to be endued with a divine preservation against fire. He founded an order of "Eremites," who lived upon bread, wine, and salt only, and wore a black habit, lettered on the breast with "T" in blue. These monks departed from the example of their founder, and became importunate beggars. "If men give them nothing," complains an old writer, "they will presently threaten them with St. Antony's fire; so that many simple people, out of fear or blind zeal, every year used to bestow on them a fat pig or porker (which they have ordinarily painted on the pictures of St. Antony), whereby they might obtain their goodwill and prayers, and so be secure from their menaces." In 1559, early prayers, with a lecture, were established, "after Geneva fashion," and the bells began to ring at well with two buckets, now turned into a pump." The churchwardens' accounts contain curious notices of pre-Reformation customs, such as "Wyne of Relyks Sunday, Id.;" "Paschall on hallowed taper, tenebur candell, and cross candell, license to eat flesh," &c. The church contains a fine picture of the Resurrection by Rigaud. A distinguished parishioner, Thomas Staper, is here buried. His epitaph records that "he was the greatest merchant of his time; the chiefest actor in the discovery of the trades of Turkey and East India-painful, and ever ready in the affairs publick, and discreetly careful of his private-a liberal dealer in this world, and a devout aspirer after the world to come."-Globe. A LEGEND OF BOULOGNE.-According to a statement issued by the clergy of that city the devotion to our Lady of Boulogne dates from A.D. 636, when a vessel without sails or sailors, but surrounded by a halo of light, entered the harbour. On the vessel was a wooden statue of our Lady with her Divine Child in her arms, and the people at once believed that the vessel had come thither under Divine guidance from the East. The statue was therefore carried to the church, which soon became the scene of NOW PUBLISHING, SUPPLIED TO SUBSCRIBERS ONLY, FROM THE EARLIEST TO THE PRESENT TIME, HISTORY OF NEIGHBOURING PLACES, F.S.A. 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