BILL OF MORTALITY, from Nov. 19 to Dec. 23, 1834. AVERAGE PRICE OF CORN, by which the Duty is regulated, Dec. 26. Farnham (seconds) Ol. Os. to Ol. Os. PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW, Dec. 27, Smithfield, Hay, 37. 15s. to 57. Os.-Straw, 17. 8s. to 17. 14s.-Clover, 47. 10s. to 57.5s. Walls Ends, from 18s. Od. to 22s. 9d. per ton. Other sorts from 15s. 6d. to 20s. Od. PRICES OF SHARES. At the Office of WOLFE, BROTHERS, Stock and Share Brokers, 23, Change Alley, Cornhill. Birmingham Canal, 237. Ellesmere and Chester, 86. -Grand Junction, 245.- Kennet and Avon, 224.- -Leeds and Liverpool, 530. Regent's, 17. -Rochdale, 122.--London Dock Stock, 541.- -St. Katharine's, 664. -West India, 97.- -Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 198.-Grand Junction Water Works, 58.West Middlesex, 79.- Globe Insurance, 151.- -Guardian, 33. Hope, 6.- -Chartered Gas Light, 50.- -Imperial Gas, 46.-Phoenix Gas, 35 -Independent Gas, 51. United General, 43. Canada Land Company, 41.-Reversionary Interest, 132. For Prices of all other Shares inquire as above. METEOROLOGICAL DIARY, BY W. CARY, STRAND. Old South Sea Annuities, Dec. 9, 894. J. J. ARNULL, Stock Broker, 1, Bank Buildings, Cornhill, late RICHARDSON, GOODLUCK, and ARNULL. J. B. NICHOLS AND SON, 25, PARLIAMENT STREET. THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. FEBRUARY, 1835. BY SYLVANUS URBAN, GENT. CONTENTS. PAGE MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.-Bishops' Fees, and Non-residence-Provincial Literary Societies-Mr. T. Thorpe, and Lye's Cadmon-S. Wesley, &c....... 114 HOWISON'S VIEWS OF BRITISH COLONIES IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE WORLD 115 DIARY OF A LOVER OF LITERATURE...... 127 RECORD COMMISSION, No. V.-Taxatio P. Nicholai IV. 133.-Nonarum Inquisitiones, 135.-Valor Ecclesiasticus, temp. Hen. VIII. 137.-Rotuli Scotia 142 Account of CHAPEL PLASTER, Wilts (with a Plate)... 143 Archery at Harrow School... 145 Cultivation of the Yew in England.... 147 Church of St. Edmund on the Bridge, Exeter (with an Engraving). 148 150 152, 154 155 157 .... 162 163 167 168 Notices of Sir Marmaduke Constable, and of the Tyrwhitt Family. Description of the Glyptotheca at Munich. On Municipal Corporations... Gilde of the Holy Cross at Stratford-on-Avon........ Domestic Expenses in Ireland, temp. Charles II... Autobiography of a Dissenting Minister, 169.-Last Days of Pompeii, 173.- ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES.-Society of Antiquaries, 197. - Ancient 198 204 HISTORICAL CHRONICLE.-Foreign News, 201.-Domestic Occurrences, OBITUARY; with Memoirs of Earl of Hardwicke; Sir W. Hicks, Bart.; Sir 205 219 CLERGY DECEASED, 217.-DEATHS, arranged in Counties.... Embellished with Views of CHAPEL PLASTER, Wilts, And the CHURCH of ST. EDMUND ON THE BRIDGE, Exeter. Mr. URBAN, MINOR CORRESPONDENCE. Exeter, Jan. 1. In the Review of Mr. Polwhele's Letter to the Bishop of Exeter, in your Number for the last month, there is a passage tending to throw obloquy on the Bishops, of which, as it is founded on an erroneous view of the fact, I am sure you will give a place to an explanation. The Reviewer, proceeding upon an assertion that the Bishop receives a fee of one guinea a year for allowing a license for non-residence, assigns that as one of the causes of non-residence; and thus, as one of those grievances which, in his view of the matter, stop the Wesleyans from joining the Church. It will not be difficult to remove an impression, if it should exist, so entirely unfounded. The simple truth is, that the Bishop receives no fee whatever of any kind, for any license of non-residence, or in any way way relating to the subject. It is true that a fee of ten shillings is paid to the secretary and registrar of the Bishop for all the business preceding the license, for the instrument itself, and for its registration and transmission to the party,-the Act has limited the remuneration to that sum; and as the license is usually granted for a period of not less than two years, the cost to the incumbent is five shillings a-year. * Now, to use the Reviewer's own language, if this is a grievance, I know not what may not be so called. Yours, &c. RALPH BARNES, Secretary to the Bp. of Exeter. In reply to Z. (p. 2), Mr. WOOLLCOMBE, President of the Plymouth Institution, " having long felt how desirable it would be to possess an accurate account of the numerous provincial Societies in England," readily embraces his invitation; but thinks Z. has not been sufficiently explanatory in his views; "for I do not understand whether he designs to have Mechanics' Institutes noticed; whether Societies confined to the establishment of Libraries are to be enumerated; and whether strictly professional Societies should be mentioned. In one case I should return, 1. The Plymouth Institution, established for the promotion of literary and scientific pursuits, by the delivery of lectures, the foundation of a library, museum, &c. and the occasional exhibition of paintings, drawings, specimens of sculpture, and other works * There is in some cases, but not in the case of the want of a fit house, a stamp duty also to be paid of one pound; but surely the Bishop or his officers are not responsible for that. of art. In a more extended view, I must add, 2. The Plymouth Public Library. 3. The Plymouth Mechanics' Institute. 4. The Law Library. 5. The Medical Library. Different views taken of this matter would lead to different conclusions. My wish would be to obtain a communication, annual at least, between the different Societies of Bristol, Manchester, Newcastle, Liverpool, &c. &c. for the investigation of scientific objects within districts." We shall be happy to receive from Mr. Woollcombe his report for the counties of Devon and Cornwall. In answer to the request of Mr. B. THORPE (Dec. p. 562), Mr. THOMAS THORPE, the Bookseller, explains that he "purchased the copy of Junius's edition of Cadmon of the publishers of Mr. Thorpe's edition a few days only before it appeared, and was shortly afterwards told by a gentleman that the notes were then of no value, as they had been inserted in the new edition; I am sure of it (added he), by many notes and passages I see here.' Recollecting from whence I obtained the volume, I felt convinced that I had been duped; and was much more so, on observing the striking resemblance between the two translations, particularly in two passages (pp. 162, 222), and of which Mr. Thorpe acknowledged his version was purely conjectural. It is certainly very probable that this resemblance may have been the effect of accident, as the versions of two good scholars would be far more likely to correspond than those of two bad ones; this, however, I leave to the decision of more competent judges, and should it appear to them that the resemblance has been accidental, it will afford me infinite pleasure, not only that it will give additional interest to Mr. Thorpe's translation, but that the unedited one by Lye and Manning, which I have since presented to the Society of Antiquaries, will be much more valuable and interesting in the hands of that learned body." In reference to our Memoir of Charles Wesley, esq. Dec. p. 655, we have the pleasure to state that his brother Samuel is still living. We were misled into a supposition of his death by the Dictionary of Musicians, 12mo, 1824. The communications of Plantagenet, J. H. &c. are received, and shall be inserted hereafter. M. D. next month. SCOPA is assured that his manuscripts are very acceptable, and we regret that room has not been found for one of them in our present Magazine. THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. VIEWS OF EUROPEAN COLONIES IN VARIOUS PARTS BY JOHN HOWISON. 2 vols. WE have been much interested with these volumes of Mr. Howison's, which display both practical knowledge and scientific research, and which are, moreover, written in a very animated and eloquent style. The subject is one of the greatest interest, most particularly to this country, whose colonies are to be found in every quarter of the globe, and with which her commercial prosperity, her civil well-being, and her political ascendancy are so intimately connected. In many opinions of our author relating to the most important interests of mankind, it is impossible for the Religionist to join; nor are we inclined to agree with him in his censorious and severe view, of the motives of those who take the lead in devising plans and forming associations for the amelioration and instruction of society; we are willing to believe that he is wrong in the estimate he forms of the habits and feelings of the higher classes and we think he too often loses the philosopher in the censor and satirist : but notwithstanding these defects, for its sound practical knowledge, its faithful representation, its extensive and curious observation, its interesting description, its sagacious views, and just inferences, we think this book of Mr. Howison's will approve itself to all enlightened and unprejudiced readers. We will give the purport of it in his own words. "His object (he says) is to communicate a vivid and accurate idea of those general impressions which our respective colonies, comprehended in it, is calculated to produce in the mind of a disinterested observer. All political, commercial, and statistical details, have been avoided, and nature and human life, conjoined with a few historical notices, are the subjects to which the author has exclusively devoted his pages. His idea has been to introduce the reader to a knowledge of each colony, by presenting to his view its features and character in that succession which would meet his eye and observation were he to visit it personally. division of the work comprises four similar and consistent parts. The first of these describes the ocean which must be Each traversed, in proceeding to the country whose designation it bears; the second gives a picture of the scenery and physical objects which are calculated first to strike the attention of a stranger arriving there; the third delineates the general character of the aboriginal inhabitants; and the fourth embraces the progress of European settlements in the colony, and the existing manners, condition, and habits of thought of its foreign residents. The author having travelled and resided in nearly all the colonies and settlements which he professes to describe, and also sailed upon their respective oceans, the facts and opinions contained in this work are derived as much from personal observation, as from the authority of others.” As it is obvious that we could not possibly find room, even in the most abridged compass, to follow Mr. Howison through his varied and extensive fields of observation, it remained for us, either to confine ourselves to one particular branch of his inquiry, or to extract miscellaneously from the work those facts and reasonings on various subjects which afford the most novelty of remark, and which command the most general interest; we |