Aug. 10. At Chunar, Ensign George U., son of the late Matthew Law, esq. At Agra, Lieut. Henry Brooks Walker, of the Bengal European regiment. Aug. 19. At Vellore, Capt. Hugh Pearson, R.N. of Myrecairny. He was wounded when serving as master's mate of the Barfleur 98 in an action with the Cadiz flotilla, July 3, 1797; obtained the rank of Lieut. 1799; and distinguished himself on several occasions, while serving as first of the Arethusa frigate, on the north coast of Spain, in 1809 and 1810. He was promoted to the command of the Curlew sloop in 1814. Aug. 21. At Bombay, Nicholas A. Goslin, esq. 2d Native Light Cavalry. WEST INDIES.-July 30. At the Mauritius, Major George Cuninghame, late of the Bengal Army, and for some years Especial Judge in that Island. Nov. 1. In Jamaica, Simon Taylor, esq. second son of the late John Taylor, esq. of Kirkton-hill, N. B. ABROAD.-July 18. At Ernstbrunn in Lower Austria, a day labourer named Damberger, at the extraordinary age of 130 years. He was born in 1708, at Zierotitz, in Moravia. He served in the time of Charles VI. under Prince Eugene of Savoy. He never married till he was 100 years old, and from July 1829 was a pensioner on the Emperor's privy purse. BILL OF MORTALITY, from Jan. 1 to Jan. 22, 1839. AVERAGE PRICE OF CORN, by which the Duty is regulated, Jan. 25. Farnham Pockets, 67. 10s. to 101. Os.-Kent Bags, 21. 10s. to 61. Os. PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW AT SMITHFIELD, Jan. 28. Hay, 41. Os. to 5l. 10s. Od.-Straw, 17. 18s. to 21. 2s.-Clover, 4l. 10s. to 67. Os. SMITHFIELD, Jan. 28. To sink the Offal-per stone of 8lbs. .38. 8d. to 4s. 8d. Head of Cattle at Market, Jan. 28. ..4s. 5d. to 5s. 2d. Beasts........ 2,841 Calves 85 ..5s. Sheep 23,720 Pigs 365 Beef............... Mutton Veal....... Pork......... 6d. to 6s. 4d. Od. to 6s. Od. COAL MARKET, Jan. 25. Walls Ends, from 198. 6d. to 23s. 9d. per ton. Other sorts from 18s. 6d. to 22s. Od. TALLOW, per cwt.-Town Tallow, 578. Od. Yellow Russia, 57s. Od. CANDLES, 98. Od. per doz. Moulds, 10s. 6d. PRICES OF SHARES. At the Office of WOLFE, BROTHERS, Stock and Share Brokers, 23, Change Alley, Cornhill. Grand Junction, Regent's, 164. Birmingham Canal, 219.- -Ellesmere and Chester, 79. 202.- Kennet and Avon, 28. Leeds and Liverpool, 700.Rochdale, 109.--London Dock Stock, 67.-St. Katharine's, 1104.India, 112. Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 204.--Grand Works, 69.- -West Middlesex, 104.- -Globe Insurance, 1444.Chartered Gas, 52}.Hope, 5. Imperial Gas, 484.244. Independent Gas, 484.-General United Gas, 30.pany, 26.-Reversionary Interest, 133. West Junction Water- ·Canada Land Com For Prices of all other Shares inquire as above. METEOROLOGICAL DIARY, BY W. CARY, STRAND. DAILY PRICE OF STOCKS, From December 28, 1838, to January 28, 1839, both inclusive. J. J. ARNULL, Stock Broker, 1, Bank Buildings, Cornhill, late RICHARDSON, GOODLUCK, and ARNULL. J. B. NICHOLS and son, 25, PARLIAMENT-STREET. The Publications of the State Papers Commission The Badge of Anthony Bastard of Burgundy, a Barbican (with Cuts) Derivation of the Gael, 265.-Structure of the Welsh Language RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW.-Works of the Trouvère Rutebuef Despatches of De la Mothe Fenelon from England temp. Eliz. 273.-Hippes- ley's Chapters on Early English Literature, 278.-Kinnaird's Fatalist, and other Poems, 279.-Hunter's Satires and Epistles of Horace, 280-Works of the Camden Society: the Plumpton Correspondence, 281.-Richardson's Architectural Remains of the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I. 287.- Beale's Natural History of the Sperm Whale, 289.-Davenport's History of the Bastille, 291.-Edgar's Variations of Popery, ib.-Anderson's Ser- New Publications, 293.-Royal Society, 294.-Geological Society, 296.— Institute of British Architects, ib.-Architectural Society ANTIQUARIAN INTELLIGENCE. -Society of Antiquaries, 298.-New- castle Antiquarian Society, 299.-Antiquities found at Chelsea, Winchester, HISTORICAL CHRONICLE.-Proceedings in Parliament, 302.-Foreign OBITUARY; with memoirs of The Duke of Buckingham; The Duchess- Countess of Sutherland; Earl of Norbury; Viscount Castlemaine; Field- Marshal Prince Wrede; General Hon. D. Leslie; Gen. Sir J. Hawker; Major-Gen. J. N. Smyth; Capt. Hon. W. Waldegrave; Capt. W. H. Byam; Capt. T. Coe; J. D. Latouche, esq.; John Mansfield, esq.; P. C. Labouchere, esq.; Rev. H. G. Rose; Dr. Hubbersty; Dr. MacMichael; James Brown, esq.; J. P. Wood, esq.; Thomas Stirling, esq.; James Lonsdale, esq.; John Vendramini, esq.; Rev. Thomas Falconer, M.D.; Embellished with a View of HURLEY CHURCH, Berkshire, and Representations ib. MINOR CORRESPONDENCE. In our last Number, p. 116, we inserted an anecdote respecting a physician order. ing ice-creams to be warmed, in which the name of Sir Henry Halford was introduced in a way which might be considered to throw ridicule on that distinguished physician. We now confidently contradict this silly story, convinced that the anecdote is not applicable to Sir Henry Halford, who, we have authority to state, was never guilty of so foolish a remark. MR. URBAN,-In the Minor Correspondence of your December Number, Mr. BRITTON has offered certain remarks on the projected "Bedfordshire Illustrations," advancing opinions from which, I apprehend, hundreds of competent judges would differ, and making several statements which, I am sure, he would find it difficult to substantiate. "A committee of noblemen and gentlemen of the county," as Mr. Britton very justly remarks, should aim at producing something above a few illustrative prints;" and so they do, and no doubt will succeed in accomplishing a higher object. But as for "laying the foundation, and raising part, if not the whole, of the superstructure of a substantial, respectable, and authentic county history, by sending round circulars with a request that answers may be returned with all possible dispatch;" employing an artist who can make correct and tasteful drawings of the churches," and so forth; and above all, as for "putting [the result] to press before the Christmas of 1839," as Mr. B. "ventures to predict" might be done: he may be well assured that nothing of the kind either will or should take place. The county history which would result from such a process would be precisely one of that class of works which disgrace our literature, and uselessly lumber our shelves, at the present day,-wretched substitutes for county histories, which do very well to harbour dust on a drawingroom table, but which are of no earthly use besides, which only serve to mislead the simple and perplex the sober inquirer. Mr. Britton offers to " advise the committee, when they are prepared to set about their task in earnest ;" but it remains to be seen whether the committee want advice; and it is no disparagement to Mr. Britton to remark, that advice on such a subject should be sought at the hands of some one of approved experience and ability in matters of antiquity, history, genealogy and heraldry. FORDIENSIS. BED An OLD COUNTY MAGISTRATE re quests to correct a mistake in our memoir of the late excellent Sir J. A. Park. In p. 210, it is stated "that he always felt extremely flattered that the Govern. ment considered him to be the fittest man to try eminent malefactors." This, it is evident, must be a most incorrect and unfounded assertion. Government cannot select a judge to try any case, however important, but by a special commision; and, with the exception of the special commissions in London in 1817 and 1820, at each of which the Chief Justice of the King's Bench presided, no special commission has been issued in England since 1816, and which was to try_the rioters in the Isle of Ely, the late Justices Dampier, K.B. and Burrough, C. P. presiding. Mr. Justice Park had scarcely ascended the Bench when that occurrence took place. With respect to the remarkable criminals enumerated, our correspondent states, of his own knowledge, that Sir J. A. Park had chosen the Home Winter Circuit in 1823 before Thurtell was even committed for trial. Corder was tried at Bury in 1828, before the late Chief Baron Alexander; and with respect to Fauntleroy and Greenacre, who were tried at the periodical sessions at the Old Bailey, every attorney's clerk in London is perfectly aware that the judges assist at those sessions in rotation, or, at any rate, by agreement among themselves, and not by any interference or direction of Go vernment. VIATOR remarks, "In the notes to Boswell's Life of Johnson (February), p. 131, an erroneous correction is contained of Mr. Croker's strange assertion, that Viscount Montagu was drowned in attempting to shoot the Falls of Schaffhausen. Lord Montagu was drowned at the rapids of Lauffenburg, on the frontier of the canton of Argau and the duchy of Baden, and not at Lauterbrun, which is in the canton of Berne, many leagues distant from the Rhine. The mistake arises from Mr. Croker having confounded the falls of Lauffen (by which name the falls of Schaffhausen are known in Switzerland) with the rapids of Lauffenburg. These rapids are descended frequently by boats, assisted by ropes; and on one occasion two English gentlemen shot them in a boat without assistance. In attempting the same feat, Lord Montagu lost his life. The falls of Lauffen or Schaffhausen are eighty feet in perpendicular height." P. 156, col. 1, in the letter on Celtic language, for Reinish read Finnish. THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. MUSIC AND FRIENDS, OR PLEASANT RECOLLECTIONS OF A DILETTANTE. BY WILLIAM GARDINER. 2 vols. 8vo. "IL est aisé," says a French author, "de Critiquer un auteur, mais il est difficile de l'apprecier," and certainly it would not be difficult for the malignity of criticism to detect in these volumes food appropriate to its taste; to animadvert on much that is trifling, and something that is inaccurate; to represent the vagueness of many of the statements, and the looseness of some of the criticisms: it would be easy to represent the author as discussing topics of which he has but slender knowledge, and giving his opinion of characters whose attainments and abilities he is unable to measure. It might be said, that sometimes he is trifling and sometimes tedious; that he is too various to fix attention, and perhaps too local in his anecdotes to arouse curiosity. But, notwithstanding these drawbacks, there is enough in Mr. Gardiner's volumes to amuse and even to instruct; there is a fund of good humour, and there is a simplicity of character which propitiate the reader: and if many of the persons whose portraits appear in these pages, are not of first-rate importance, or known beyond the pages of county history, we must remember that a skilful artist can make much of an inferior subject, and that the most trifling characters, like the Fleurist of La Bruyère, or the Paridel of Pope, can be rendered agreeable by the delicacy, the spirit, and the harmony of the colouring. "Quis est ille eloquens (says Quintilian), qui et humilia subtiliter, et mediocria temperatè potest dicere." The circle, however, of Mr. Gardiner's acquaintance sometimes extended to persons of eminence and attainment; and the few additional touches which he affords towards completing our knowledge of them, are not to be estimated absolutely, or by their own separate importance, but by the effect which this additional information produces on what is already known; by the important addition which a small increase makes on what is already accumulated, and the assistance it gives to the completion of the whole. It is true that not much is gained by the reader, when he learns that Mr. Gardiner, when a little boy, was put to bed to Mrs. Macauley; nor do we feel much interest in the fortunes of Mr. Lambert the pinguid, and Signor Borowlaski the minute; we are not forming collections relating to Mr. Barrington the pickpocket; nor are we meditating lives of Malibran or Paganini;-but as the scene changes, other personæ dramatis occasionally appear now and then a bishop, or doctor of divinity comes upon the stage ;-Dr. Parr stalks forward, and shakes the terrors of his wig; Mr. Hall glitters in the splendour of his Baptist eloquence; or Mr. Thomas Moore gives reasons for declining the senatorial honours reserved for him, by the electors of Bristol. The narrative is written in the lively and pleasing manner of conversational discourse; while the author stoops down to pick up here and there the flowers that had half escaped and fallen away from the grasp of his |