478 OBITUARY.-Bill of Mortality.--Markets. [May, aged 54, W. Hamper, esq. F.S.A. Of this May 1. Aged 54, at Maeslough Castle, distinguished antiquary, a memoir will ap- South Wales, Walter Wilkins, esq. pear in our next. May 4. At Brynhafod, Carmarthenshire, May 7. At Leamington Spa, Mr. in her 43d year, Mary wife of Edw. Bowles Henry Cobb, youngest son of Timotly Cobb, Symes, esq. and dau. of the late Mr. Waresq. banker, of Banbury, Oxfordshire. burton. April 27. Anne, wife of W. Welch Lea, ABROAD.--Oct. 18. At Allahbod, Lt.esq. of Beaudesert, near Henley, in Arden. Col. Hugh Wrottesley, of the Bengal Esta WestMORELAND.-April 18. At Eden blishment, brother to Sir John Wrottesley, Grove, near Appleby, aged 71, Richard bart. Tinkler, esq. Dec. 31, At the Cape of Good Hope, Wilts.-April 22. In his 78th year, Capt. Tho, Erasmus Ward, of the E. I. C.'s Tho. Waters, esq. of Boscombe, Wilts ship Eliza, April 24. In his 40th year, W. Oakes March. 24. At Malta, Anthony, eldest Blount, esq. of Lidiard House, Lieut. R. N. son of Anthony Surtees, esq. of Hainsterley only son of Sir Charles Burrell Blount. Hall, co. Durliam. April 26. At Salisbury, in her 91st year, March 27. At Elsinore, in Deomark, Frances, relict of the late W. Ghost, esq. in the 64th year of his age, of apoplexy, WORCESTER.- April 28. Aged 85, W. Thos. Ellah, esq. principal of the firm of Thompson, esq. of Henwick Hill, Worcester. Balfour, Ellah, Ramals, and Co. He was a York.-April 16. At Huddersfield, aged native of Market-Weighton, in Yorkshire. 78, Mr. Edw. Hirst, father of Mr. W. Hirst, At Jersey, aged 82, James Trimbey, esq. the celebrated cloth manufacturer of Leeds. of Lewisham, Kent, for nearly half a cen April 21. Aged 21, John Farsyde Wat- tury common-councilman of the City of son, esq. of Bilton Park, near Knares- London. borough. As an amateur performer on the April 14. At Paris, M. L'Abbé de Pomviolincello, Mr. W. was inferior only to the pieres, father of the Chamber of Deputies. celebrated Lindley. April In consequence of a fall in asAt Hyde Lodge, Elizabeth, wife of the cending one of the Egyptian Pyramids, aged Rev. C. Carr, Rector of Headbourne. 32, James Maze, esq. eldest son of Peter Wales.-April 28. At Bettws, Aber- Maze, Esq. of Rownham-lodge, co. Somergele, in her 84th year, Eliz. relict of the set, and partner in the House of Messrs. late Rev. John Fleming Stanley. Peter Maze and Sons, merchants, of Bristol. BILL OF MORTALITY, from April 20 to May 24, 1831. PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW, May 23. Smithfield, Hay 21. 10s. to 31. 155. Straw il. 145. to 11. 185. Clover 31. 15s. to 51. 10s. SMITHFIELD, May 23. To sink the Offal—per stone of 8lbs. Beef ...... ............. 2s. 4d. to 3s. 8d. | Lamb Os. od. to Os. Od. Mutton.................. 28. 6d. to 4s. od. Head of Cattle at Market . March 25 : Veal .... 3s. 8d. to 5s. Od. Beasts. 2,204 Calves 240 Pork.......... .................... 38. 4d. to 4s. 10d. Sheep and Lambs 20,380 Pigs 200 COAL MARKET, May 23, 258. Od. to 40s. Od. TALLOW, per cwt.-Town Tallow, 49s. 6d. Yellow Russia, 49s. Od. SOAP.-Yellow, 76s. Mottled 82s. Curd, 84s.60.-CANDLES,8s.6d. per doz. Moulds, 10ś. In the Price of HOPS there is little variation, 0 OOO 6 153 185 1 . 5 p.ct. 1831.] [479] PRICES OF SHARES, May 23, 1831, At the Office of WOLFE, BROTHERS, Stock & Share Brokers, 23, Change Alley, Cornhill. CANALS. Price. Div.p.awr. RAILWAYS. Price. Div.p.an. Ashby-de-la-Zouch £.80 0 L. 4 Forest of Dean €14 0£.2 10 Ashton and Oldham 98 5 0 0 Barnsley 217 0 5 0 Birmingh. (1-8th sh.) 250 0 12 10 WATER-WORKS. Breckoock & Abergav. 105 0 114 0 0 Chelmer & Blackwater 103 0 5 Graud Junction Coventry 49 2 10 795 0 50 40 0 Cromford 17 0 Manchester & Salford 44 Croydon 2 85 Derby 4 p.ct. 120 West Middlesex 685 3 Dudley 0 58 0 2 15 INSURANCES. Ellesmere and Chester 3 15 Albion Forth and Clyde 73 0 3 10 625 0 27 0 Alliance Glamorganshire 84 290 0 13 12 8 4 p.ct. Atlas Grand Junction 100 010 240 0 13 0 British Commercial Grand Surrey 54 54p.ct. 2 10 Graad Union County Fire 37 0 2 10 234 1 0 Eagle Grand Western 54 77 dis. O 5 Globe Grantham 138 7 0 195 0 10 0 Guardian Huddersfield 25% 1 0 0 10 Kennet and Avon . Hope Life 6s.6d. 255 1 5 Lancaster Imperial Fire 95 0 5 5 Ditto Life Leeds and Liverpool 9 0 8 395 0 20 Protector Fire. Leicester 1 9 1s.6d. 17 0 Provident Life Leic. and North'n 198 1 0 0 73 4 0 Rock Life Loughborough 3$ 0 3 205 0 Mersey and Irwell RI. Exchange (Stock) 1860 40 0 Monmouthshire MINES. 225 12 0 N.Walsham & Dilham Anglo Mexican 24 0 10 Neath Bolanos 830 175 0 0 18 0 Oxford Brazilian (iss. at 5 pm) 52 3 10 British Iron Peak Forest 65 75 3 Regeat's Colomb. (iss. at 5 pm) 161 0 12 6 89 dis. Rochdale Hibernian 5} dis. 4 0 Severn and Wye Irish Mining Comp? 4 0 Real Del Monte 31 0 11 United Mexican Staff. and Wor. 710 0 90 38 GAS LIGHTS. Stourbridge 220 0 12 0 Stratford-on-Avon Westminster Chartd. 35 54 0 1 5 3 0 Stroudwater Ditto, New 104 0 12 Swansea City : 191 0 10 0 Thames & Severn, Red Ditto, New 29 120 0 110 6 Ditto, Black Phenix . 25 110 Trent & Mersey (4 sh.) 630 British 6 p.ct. 3 dis. 250 315 84 p.ct. Warwick and Napton Birmingham 5 983 5 0 Wilts and Berks Birmingham&Stafford 4 0 Worc. and Birming. Brighton 3 40 Isle of Thanet. 2 dis. 18 0 London (Stock) 62 380 0 West India (Stock) 10 0 124 0 8 o do. Maidstone East India (Stock) 65 0 4 o do. Ratcliff Commercial (Stock) 3 p.ct. 75 0 4 o do. Rochdale Bristol 15 60 0 BRIDGES. 10 p.ct. Warwick 50 0 Hammersmith p.ct. 219 1 10 MISCELLANEOUS Southwark . Australian (Agricult') Do. New 78 per cent. 134 dis. I 15 Auction Mart Vauxhall 17 0 15 0 19 10 Waterloo Annuity, British 17 0 Bank, Irish Provincial 0 18 8 Carnat.Stock, 1 st class 911 0 19 0 0 16 4 Ditto, ad class 78 0 0 METEOROLOGICAL DIARY, BY W. CARY, STRAND, From April 26 to May 25, 1831, both inclusive. Fahrenheit's Therm. Fahrenheit’s Therm. 5 4 6 6 pm. 6 pm. 5 pm. 4 pm. 2 dis. par. 8 2 1 pm. 2 pm. 1 pm. i dis. par. 8 5 5 27 19678 1 dis. 28 1961 273 783 3864 86% 874 943 163 par. 29 1971 773 7783 864 861 87 941 164 1 dis. 30 78 1793 83 86% 883 77 95% 163 1 dis. 6 2 3 784 79$ 9 86% 86% 88% 85954 5 4 794 480 8 884 88 89 596 165 5 5 1994 79 804 188 89 894 3964 16* 6 20079808 884 88 89 964 164 7 200 79£ ; 803 888894 963 16% 207 2 9 2005 805 181 2 894 893907 97$ 16 ģ 10 201 824 14 82 34 90 91991 2 g 981 164 207 par 1 dis. 11199281 182$ 2 894 911903 984 16 par. 5 12 200 80% 1482 0894 894 90 98 16: par 1 pm. 913 8 13 199 818 1 82 891 894 91 3903 par 2 pm. 9 14 199 814 & 824 894 91 907 98% 16% 16- 825 17 82 33 89% 911 98% 17 par i pm. 17199 825 17 834 23 89% 89% 91% 98% 17 2054 18 1994 81$ $825 893 898 91 98% 167 par 1 pm. 19 1994 314 1825 1 894 891915 984 17 203 par 1 pm. 92 8 20 1984814 824 % 89% 90 913 983 203 21|1994 814 83 24 896813 17 par. 23 825 83 903 91 % 98% 24 1994 828 93} 91% 2$ 99% 17 204 New South Sea Annuities, April 29, 77%; May 10, 82}; 17, 828. late RICHARDSON, GOODLUCK, and Co. J. B, NICHOLS AND SON, 25, PARLIAMENT-STREET. 6 pm. 8 pm. 9 pm. 7 10 pm. 5 pm. 6 pm. 7 pm. 7 pm. 7 pm. 7 pm. 8 pm. 7 pm. 8 pm. 7 pm. 7 pm. 9 pm. 8 pm. 9 pm 6 pm. 7 pm. 1 pm. 8 6 6 8 9 8 8 5 THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. TE itti ......483 ...492 [PUBLISHED JULY 1, 1831.] London Gaz.-Times- Ledger Norwich, Oxf., Portsm..Pres. Morn. Chron. Post - Herald ton, Sherb., Shrewsb , SouthMorn. Advertiser--Courier amplon, Truro, Worcester 2... Globe... Standard --Sun.. Star Aylesbury, Bangor, Barnst., Brit Trav.. Record-Lit. Gaz Berwick, Blackb., Bridgew.. St. James's Chron.. Packet.. Carmar., b., Chesterf Even. Mail---English Chron. Devizes, Dorch., Doncaster, 8 Weekly Pa... 29 Sat. & Sun. Falmouth, Glouc., Halifax, Dublin 14-. Edinburgh 12 Henley, Hereford, LancasLiverpool 9-Manchester 7 ter, Leaming. Lewes, Linc. Exeter 6-Bath, Bristol, Slief Lichf. Macclesf. Newark, field, York, 4 --- Brighton, Newc. On-Tyne, Northamp.. Canterbury, Leeds, Hull, Reading, Rochest., Salish Leicester, Nottingh. 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Nichols and Son, Cicero's HEAD, 25, Parliament Street, Westminster; where all Letters to the Editor are requested to be sent, Post-PAID. gum.” ( 482 ) MINOR CORRESPONDENCE. Mr. J. F. Russell says—" I owe you my to explain this custom; which is, howerer, best acknowledgments for referring me to elegantly and clearly exemplified by Dr. the interesting account of some of my an- Adam Clarke, and confirmed by the Tarcestors in the 94th volume of your miscellany. There is one omission, however, in ARCHIPRESBYTER RURALIS, (who has been those biographical notices, which I should for some time eng ged in collecting matethank you to supply, by inserting the follow- rials in illustration of the office of rural Dean ing brief narrative of the Rev. John Mea. or Archipresbyter,) enquires whether a seal dows, brother of Sir Philip Meadows, K.B. of that ancient office exists in any of the Ambassador, &c. extracted from Palmer's public or private repositories of the kingNonconformist Memorial, vol. iii. p. 284-5. dom That the functionary in question had Owsden rectory, Suffolk. John Meadows, his sigillum auctenticum, on which was enM.A. of both Universities, and Fellow of graven the name of his office, there is no Christ's Coll. Cambridge. He was a person doubt. Indeed, by the 28th constitution of holy in all manner of conversation ; con- Cardinal Otho, it is expressly enjoined that stantly careful to please God, and preserve rural Deans and other officials should resign the peace of his conscience, always jealous their seals of office immediately on the expiof his own heart, and on every occasion wil- ration of the period of their tenancy, ling to try it. He served God while in his Mr. Madden, of the British Museum, public ministry with great labour and com- would feel obliged for any information refortable success. A diligent visitor and in- specting the Original Will of Queen Mary structor of his flock, and a practical and I. which, at the beginning of the last cenmoving preacher. He ever maintained a tury, was in the hands of Mr. Hale of Aldercatholic charity for all Protestants, and ley, Gloucestershire, (a son of Sir Matthew greatly bewailed the divisions of the Hale,) and appears since to have been niischurch, and the intemperate heats of all laid, or lost. persuasions. He held occasional commu- The Rev. J. GRAHAM says—"A friend nion with the Church of England, but of mine, James Prior, esq. of the Royal could not desert the duty of his office. Such Navy, the author of the Life of Burke, has was the integrity of his life, such was his undertaken the Biography of Oliver Goldhumility, gospel sincerity, and quiet de- smith, and requests information on the subportment; such bis moderation as to the ject. He has been already tolerably successcircumstantials of religion, and so well did he ful in Ireland, and is not without hope of refill all the relations in life, that his ene. covering some dormant documents in England mies could only object Nonconformity as his which may be of use to him." crime. He was really a pattern of true re- A BIBLIOGRAPHER inquires who the ligion; he preached freely, he lived exem- " Richard Cavendish' was, who is menplarily, he died comfortably in the 75th year tioned in a letter from William Capon to of his age, and was buried honourably.'- Cardinal Wolsey (inserted in Ellis's Original My esteemed uncle, John Fuller, esą. of Letters, 1st series, vol. 1), as having preDunmow, the hereditary proprietor of the sented a “bukk" to your Grace's colmanor of Witnesham, possesses a valuable lege” at Ipswich. He appears to have and interesting portrait in oil of the above been of Suffolk, and is called your Grace's clergyman, in which he is represented as a servant." youth of 16, in his academical dress, with M. U. will feel obliged for any notices of his hair flowing gracefully upon his shoul- Benjamin Parker, who, fruin 1744 to his ders." death in 1747, read Theological and PhiloL. remarks Templarius, on the Ad- sophical Lectures in London, having preministration of Oaths, having alluded to the viously published several treatises in these engagement of the servant of Abraham upon sciences. He is slightly mentioned by Hutbeiog sent into a distant country to fetch a ton, Hist. of Derby, and by Lysons, Mag. wife for his master's son, is referred to an Brit. Derbyshire. explanation of great delicacy and learning, M. U, is informed that there is no other respecting the mode of adjuration by put- engraved portrait extant of Rev. Stebbing ting his hand under the thigh of the pa- Shaw, the historian of Staffordshire, than triarch: not because “ the posterity of the a private plate drawn and etched by Thomas patriarchs are described as coming out of Donaldson ; an inferior artist, who was unthe thigh, and this ceremony therefore hav- der obligatious to Mr. Shaw. It bears ing some relation to the belief of the pro- scarcely any resemblance to the original. mise, to bless all the nations of the earth hy M.T. is informed that the MSS. from means of one that was to descend from Abra- which Mr. Shaw compiled his History of ham," as in Burder's Oriental Customs, Staffordshire were privately bought by the cited by your correspondent, p. 598, note, late Mr. Hamper, whose collections are now vol. c. pt. ii., but actually thus swearing hy preparing for sale by Mr. Evans. the sign of circumcision, typical of that pro• The communication of H. H. has never mise. Harmer and Barrington both failed been received. up |
