Woodward added a drawing of the beautiful seal of Archbishop Arundel, affixed to a license for erecting a belfrey at Wymondham, in 1411. It represents the murder of Thomas a Becket. RECENT DISCOVERIES AT POMPEU. At Pompeii there has been lately opened the street leading from the Temple of Fortune to the Gate of Isis, passing nearly through the middle of the town. On reaching a central point from which streets diverge to the theatres and to the walls of the city, there was found an altar, placed before the protecting genius of the town, in the form of a serpent; the faces of the altar are ornamented with paintings, representing the priests offering libations and other sacrifices. On exploring two shops in the street of Fortune, there was discovered a pair of bronze scales, and a weight in the shape of a pear, a bronze dish with handles, a hatchet, and some small cylindrical objects made of bone and perforated, supposed to have been used either in some female works or for making calculations. A house has been discovered behind the grand Mosaic, comprising a vestibule, several sleepingrooms ornamented with simplicity, and a tabulum or host adorned with the most exquisite paintings on stucco. In this house were found a bronze shell of ele gant workmanship, an earthen lamp, black with smoke, vessels containing colours, and a wooden chest lined with iron, and surrounded by figures formed of brass nails. BRONZE CINERARY URN. At Bavai, near Valenciennes, by the side of the road to Avesnes, one of the seven old Roman roads that concentrated at Bavai, a very fine cinerary urn in bronze, between nine and ten inches high, including the cover, and eight inches in diameter, was lately discovered. It contained some portions of bones nearly reduced to dust, and has the following inscription:-" DIS M. Hirtius C. Anno VIICX." It is in fine preservation, and ornamented with basreliefs in the purest style and of superior workmanship. It probably was made to contain the ashes of one of the companions of Tiberius, who died at Bavai during the residence of that emperor there. ROMAN REMAINS AT KENT-STREET, SOUTHWARK, AND ST. CLEMENT'S-LANE, LONDON. In the burial-ground of the Dissenters' Chapel, in Deveril-street, New Doverroad, which is situated about 200 yards south-west of Kent-street, a part of the line of the ancient Watling-street, Roman urns, lacrymatories of glass, and other vessels, are found almost on every occasion when the ground is opened for a fresh interment. A very perfect and elegantly formed urn of grey pottery, eight inches high, seven inches in diameter at the top, and three at the bottom, containing calcined bones, evidently carefully separated from the embers of the funeral pile, has recently been discovered. Mr. Martin, an undertaker, who resides near the Chapel, has numerous articles of similar antiquity in his possession, found on the same spot, and among them several fragments of highly polished bronze mirrors, which have apparently been purposely broken at the interment of the ashes of the females to whom they had probably belonged. These remains decidedly mark the site of a Roman or Romano-British burial-ground. In the excavations for the houses in the new street from London-bridge to the Bank, Roman remains have not been wanting, though not so numerous as might have been expected; perhaps, from the circumstance that this place was included in the site of an open space, appropriated to a Roman forum, to which the Saxon East Cheap, or market, succeeded. The workmen have found several of the beads, of a semiopaque, porcelain-like substance, commonly called Druid beads; and at the corner of Clement's-lane, immediately contiguous to the Church, at the depth of seven feet, a Roman floor, formed of their favourite compost, tesseratum, or pounded tile and lime, might a few days since be observed; also fragments of walls, composed of rag stone and Roman brick; a well, neatly steined; and, at the same time, several coins of Vespasian, and much fractured Samian ware, were discovered. A fragment of the latter, in our Correspondent's possession, is ornamented with grotesque heads, representing Persona, or stage masks employed by the Roman actors. This adds another to the numerous instances of Christian churches in London standing on foundations of Roman buildings, and indicating that their sites had been pre occupied by Pagan temples; on which subject the reader may consult the Ecclesiastical History of the Venerable Bede, lib. i. cap. 30. A. J. K. Numerous Roman wells have been discovered in the recent excavations near East Cheap. The Romans evidently availed themselves of the fine springs with which the substrata of London abound. HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES. The Lady Chapel, St. Saviour's.- On Saturday, the 20th instant, a meeting of the Committee for the Restoration of the Lady Chapel took place in the Vestry Room of St. Saviour's Church. The Rev. Dr. Kenney reported, that, "pursuant to the undertaking of the Right Hon. and Venerable Lord Walsingham, Archdeacon of Surrey, expressed at the meeting of the Clergy at his Lordship's visitation at St. Saviour's Church on the 29th day of October last, he had immediately applied to the Lord Bishop of the Diocese for his approval of the proposed limited subscription of one guinea each, by the Clergy and such of the Parishioners in the several parishes of the diocese as would be inclined to contribute, towards a fund for the restoration of the nave of St. Saviour's Church, and the liquidation of the balance of expences for the Lady Chapel. That after lengthened correspondence, the Lord Bishop was pleased to appoint an interview in St. James'ssquare with the Rev. Dr. Kenney and Thomas Saunders, esq. F. S. A., on Wednesday, 17th Dec. instant, at which, after full consideration and explanation, his Lordship was kind enough to express his warmest approbation of the objects in view; and that, although he did not feel himself at liberty to issue any official circular on the subject, yet his good wishes for the measure might be mentioned, accompanied with his intention, if the subscription was followed up, and there should be ultimately a deficiency in the required amount, to subscribe 2007., in addition to his subscription of 3007., already given for the Lady Chapel." Thus much we have derived from our personal attendance on the proceedings of the Committee-and we have only to add our hearty wish that the public liberality may reimburse Mr. Saunders in a considerable sum of money (7007.) which is still due to him on account of the expenses incurred by him in the restoration of the Lady Chapel-of which he most generously and zealously adopted the responsibility-as also, that the dismantled, desecrated, and neglected nave will (ere it be too late) obtain similar exertions for its restoration. One half of the noblest Gothic church in the diocese of Winchester (save its Cathedral), and in the metropolitan district, is daily mouldering away by the barbarous removal of its roof, and exposure to the weather. Let those who venerate the taste of our ancestors, and respect the ancient altars of their country's Christianity, timely preserve this noble monument of both. From the Annual Report of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, just published, it appears that "a very considerable augmentation of its income, and a proportionate increase in the circulation of its publications, have taken place in the past year. Its income has amounted to the sum of 74,0007. 16s. 5d. being an increase upon the preceding year of more than 3,0001. The total number of its publications circulated during the past year has amounted to 2,152,073, being an increase of 72,000 upon the preceding year." This statement is exclusive of the books circulated by the Committee of General Literature and Education. The number of publications circulated by that committee alone in one year, including the Saturday Magazine, has amounted to 5,163,929. Of the Suturday Magazine, which was their earliest work, an increase of the amount of nearly fifteen thousand numbers in each week has taken place; and the average of the weekly circulation, including the Supplements, is now more than ninety-five thou sand The total number of copies sold in the past year, is four millions nine hundred and fifty-seven thousand, and eightyfour. The total number of the publications sold in the past year, exclusive of the Saturday Magazine, is two hundred and six thousand eight hundred and forty-five. The clergy of Exeter, in a late address, having called upon the public and the legislature "to attend to the deficiencies in the existing laws for the enforcement of clerical discipline," the Bishop of the diocese, Dr. Phillpotts, in reply, took the occasion to quote the speech of Lord John Russell, in order to deny the reported assertion of his lordship with respect to tithe commutation. "No such measure," says Dr. Phillpotts, "was presented to the bishops, nor had they authorized any statement of their intention to oppose such a measure." It was his own wish, he says, and the wish of the Bishops as a body, to assent to any equitable measure for the settlement of the tithe question, which the Government GAZETTE PROMOTIONS. Nov. 21. The Duke of Wellington, Earl of Rosslyn, Lord Ellenborough, Lord Maryborough, Right Hon. Sir John Beckett, Bart, and Joseph Planta, Esq. to be Commissioners for executing the office of Treasurer of the Exchequer. John Harrison Slater, of Shelswell, Oxford, Esq. in compliance with the will of his maternal uncle John Harrison, Esq. deceased, to take the name and quarter the arms of Harrison. Nov. 22. Royal Artillery, Brevet Major G. Cobbe to be Lieut.-Col. Nov. 26. Sir Fied. Madden, K.H. of the British Mu eum, to be a Gentleman of his Majesty's Privy Chamber in Ordinary. Nov. 28. Unattached-To be Majors, Captain J. J. Hamilton, Brevet-Major J. Henderson. Dec. 10. Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., to be Chancellor and Under Treasurer of his Majesty's Exchequer. Dec. 12. Scots Fusilier Guards, Gen. G. Duke of Gordon, G. C. B. to be Col.-1st Foot, Gen. T. Lord Lynedoch, G. C. B. to be Col.-4th Foot, Lieut-Gen. Hon. Sir C. Colville, G.C.B. to be Col.-74th Foot, Maj. Gen. Sir J. Campbell, K.C.B. to be Col. 4th Foot, M.-Gen. Sir J. Colborne, K.C.B. to be Col. Dec. 19. 28th Foot, Major Cudbert French, to be Lieut.-Col.; Capt. Gore Browne, to be Major. -Brevet Capt. Archibald Hook to be Major in the Army. THE NEW MINISTRY.-Dec. 16, 18, 23, & 26.Sir R. Peel, First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer; Lord Lyndhurst, Lord High Chancellor; Earl of Rosslyn, President of the Council; Lord Wharncliffe, Lord Privy Seal; the Duke of Wellington, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; Right Hon. H. Goulburn, Secretary for the Home Department; Earl of Aberdeen. Colonial Secretary; Right Hon. J. C. Herries, Secretary at War; Sir H. Hardinge, Secretary for Ireland; Earl de Grey, First Lord of the Admiralty; Lord Ellenborough, President of the Board of Control; Right Hon. A. Baring, Master of the Mint; Right Hon. Sir E. Knatchbull, Bart., Paymaster of the Forces; Right Hon. Sir G. Murray, Master-General of the Ordnance; Rt. Hon. C. W. W. Wynne, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Dec. 20. Lord Granville Somerset, Wm. Y. Peel, esq. and Joseph Plauta, esq. sworn of the Privy Council. Dec. 22. Earl de Grey, Vice-Adm. Sir G. Cockburn, G.C.B. Vice-Adm. Sir J. P. Beresford, K.C.B. Vice Adm. Sir C. Rowley, K.C.B. Lord Ashley, and Rt. Hon. M. FitzGerald, to be Commissioners of the Admiralty. Lt. Gen. Lord Robert Somerset, G.C.B. to be Master of the Ordnance; Rear-Adm. Sir E. Owen, K.C.B. Clerk of the Ordnance; F. R. Bonham, c54. Storekeeper; Alex. Perceval, esq. Treasurer. Viscount Lowther to be President of the Board of Trade and Treasurer of the Navy. Dec. 23. Lord Granville Somerset, to be first Commissioner of Woods, &c.-Lord Maryborough to be Postmaster-general. Dec. 26. Rt. Hon. Sir R. Peel, Rt. Hon. W. Y. Peel, Earl of Lincoln, Viscount Stormont, C. Ross, esq. W. E. Gladstone, esq. to be Commissioners of the Treasury. Right Hon. J. Sullivan, Sir A. C. Grant, and Mr. Planta, Commnissioners for the Affairs of India. Secretaries: Treasury, Sir G. Clerk, Bart. Sir T. F. Fremantle, Bart.; Admiralty, Rt. Hon. G. R. Dawson; Board of Control, W. M. Praed, esq. Under-Secretaries: Home, Lord Eliot; Foreign, Lord Mahon; Colonial, Hon. T. S. Wortley. Law Appointments: Sir J. Scarlett to be Lord Chief Baron; Mr. F. Pollock, Attorney general; Mr. Follett, Solicitor-general. Ireland: The Earl of Haddington, Lord Lieutenant; Sir E. Sugden, Lord Chancellor; Sergeant Pennefather, Attorney-general; Mr. Devousher Jackson, Solicitor-general. Rt. Hon. Sir J. Beckett, Judge-Advocate-general; Sir W. Rae, Lord Advocate of Scotland. Household: Duke of Dorset, Master of the Horse (and created G.C.H.); Earl of Jersey, Lord Chamberlain; Earl Roden, Lord Steward. To the Queeu: Earl Howe, Lord Chamberlain; Earl of Erroll, Master of the Horse. Dec. 24. Knighted, John Ross, esq. Capt. R.N., C.B. K. St. A. and K.S. Dec. 26. gd Foot, Lt. Gen. Rt. Hon. Sir Jas. Kempt, G.C.B. to be Colonel. 77th Foot, Maj.-Gen. Sir A. Campbell, Bart. G.C.B. to be Col. The Duke of Bucckugh to be a Knight of the 1835.] Promotions, &c.-Births and Marriages. Garter. The Earl of Hardwicke to be Lord NAVAL PROMOTIONS.-Commanders W. Hamley, James Townshend, James Clark Ross, and the Hon. Arthur Duncombe, to be Capts. ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. Rev. W. Barlow, a Preb. in Chester Cath., and Rev. T. Bolton, Aughton R. Lancashire. Rev. H. Cooper, Rye V. Sussex. Rev. R. Cooper, Christie Fritham R. Gloucester. Rev. J. Griffith, Llaneugrad R. Anglesey. Rev. W. J. Hamilton, Nettledon P. C. Bucks. Rev. J. Hooper, Albury R. Surrey. Rev. C. H. Hutton, Willoughby V. Warwickshire. Rev. P. Johnson, Syderstone R. Norfolk. Rev. F. Litchfield, Ryhail cum Essendine V. Rev. A. B. Mesham, Wooton R. Kent. Rev. Moore, R. G. Horkstow V. Lincolnshire. Rev. G. Pearse, Martham V. Norfolk. Rev. John Raine, Blythe V. Nottingham. CIVIL PREFERMENTS. Marquis of Camden to be Chancellor of Cam- The Duke of Northumberland to be High Steward Lord Stanley to be Lord Rector of Glasgow Uni- Rev. J. G. Griffith to be Head Master of Bridg- BIRTHS. Sept. 10. At the Cape of Good Hope, the lady Oct. 27. At St. Petersburg, the wife of the Nov. s. At Tatton-park, Chester, Lady Char- Lately. At St. Clare, Isle of Wight, the Hon. Mrs. Nevill Reid, a dau.--At Edinburgh, the "ife of Col. Pitman, a dau.--At Leigh-house, its, the lady of Sir T. Fellowes, a dau. 85 Dec. 6. At the Grammar Sc. Bromsgrove, the wife of the Rev. G. A. Jacob, a dau.-7. At Hammersmith, the wife of the Rev. E. Wickham, a son.-8. At Hatfield, the wife of the Rev. B. Peile, a dau.-11. At Wanth Rectory, the wife of the Rev. H. P. Hamilton. a dau.-The wife of Col. Delamain, a dau.-15. In Whiteball-place, Lady Culling Smith, a dau.-At Towcester, Lady Jane Ram, a dau. MARRIAGES. Sept. 23. At St. George's, Hanover-sq. by the Nov. 6. At Woolwich, H. Tyser, esq. M.D. of Lately. At Bristol, the Rev. W. J. Shattock, to Mary-Anne, second dau. of the late Capt. Gardner. Dec. 1. At St. George's, Hanover-sq. Major Dyce, of the Madras Army, to Jane Eliz. only dau. of Lieut.-Colonel Maclachlan.-2. At Lisbon, by proxy, Donna Matia, Queen of Portugal, to the Duke of Luchtenberg, son of Beauharlate Viceroy of Italy.-3. At Bath, nois, the Rev. Alfred Daniel, to Eliza-Anne, eldest W. Crutwell, esq.-At dau. of the late C. Malpas, the Rev. J. Macaulay, Vicar of Loppington, Shropshire, to Miss Large.. At St. Martin's, London, Mr. Henry Hunt, to Catherine Maria Ann Vince, dau. of the late Major Vince, of Clift Hail, Wilts.--At Prestbury, Wm. Cha. Townsend, esq. Barrister-at-Law, and Recorder of Macclesfield, to Fanny, dau. of R. Wood, esq. of Westbrook, and niece to the late Right Hon. Sir Chris. Robinson.At St. John's, Thanet, Licut. Wm. Royse, R. N. to Fanny, second dau. of Rear-Adm. Sir Thos. Harvey. At St. Mary's, Devon, S. S. Scriven, esq. of Weymouth, to Caroline, third dan. of the Re R Lancaster, Wornford Rectors, In OBITUARY. HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, K.G. Nov. 30. At Bagshot Park, in his 59th year, His Royal Highness Prince William-Frederick of Brunswick-Lunenburg, second Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, and Earl of Connaught (1764), K.G., G.C.B., G. C.H., a Field Marshal, Colonel of the 3d Foot Guards, Governor of Portsmouth, Ranger of Bagshot Park and Walk, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, Lord High Steward of Gloucester, a Privy Councillor, LL.D., F.R.S., F.S. A. &c. &c. His Royal Highness was born at the Theodole palace in the city of Rome, Jan. 15, 1776; the third child, and only son, of William-Henry Duke of Gloucester, third son of Frederick Prince of Wales, by Maria, daughter of the Hon. Sir Edward Walpole, K. B. and widow of James Earl of Waldegrave. His tutor was the Rev. Edward Walsby, D.D. Fellow of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge; and he completed his education at that university under the care of Dr. Beadon, afterwards Bishop of Bath and Wells. On quitting the college, he entered the army. His first commission was that of Captain in the first Foot Guards, with the rank of Colonel, dated 11th March 1789. In March 1794, his Royal Highness went to Flanders to join his company in the 1st battalion, and on the 16th April was appointed to the command of a brigade, consisting of the 14th, 37th, and 53d regiments. On the 17th he was employed in the column under Sir W. Erskine, who ordered his Royal Highness to attack the village of Vremont, in which he succeeded, and received the General's thanks in the field. His Royal Highness was immediately afterwards appointed to the command of the 115th regiment (3d May, 1794), and had a letter of service as Colonel on the Staff, and to do the duty of General Officer in the army, in which capacity he served the whole of the campaign. On Feb. 16, 1795, his Royal Highness received the rank of MajorGeneral; and Nov. 8, same year, he was appointed Colonel of the 6th regiment of foot. While Major-General, he was ap pointed (1799) to the command of a brigade comprising two battalions of the 5th and two of the 35th, forming a part of the Duke of York's army. On the 19th this brigade was attached to the column commanded by Lieut.-Gen. Dundas. In the course of the morning the whole of it was, by degrees, detached, ex cepting the 1st batt. 35th, with which, only 1816. In 1805, on the death of his father, Prince William succeeded to the title, and on the motion of Lord Henry Petty (the present Lord Lansdowne), who was then Chancellor of the Exchequer, his allowance was increased to 14,0007. a-year; and, greatly to his credit, his Royal Highness has always kept within the bounds of his income. In politics, until within these few years, the Duke generally voted with the Whigs; and while the Bill of Pains aud Penalties against Queen Caroline was pending, he uniformly acted in her Majesty's favour. His Royal Highness was elected Chan |