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Medicine.

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Classics.

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SOCIETY FOR THE PUBLICATION OF
ANCIENT WELSH MANUSCRIPTS.

The Society for the Publication of Ancient Welsh Manuscripts, founded at Abergavenny in 1837 (with which the Cymmrodorion Society, founded in London 1750, is now acting in conjunction) has in the press that valuable manuscript relating to Welsh history, called Llyfr Llandaf, or Liber Landavensis, of which a transcript has been made from the library of Jesus college, Oxford, and collated with another in the Hengwrt library. Its appearance has been delayed by the lamented decease of the late Rev. Professor Rees, B.D. who had undertaken the editorship; but it is now proceeding under the care of the Rev. W. J. Rees, M.A. of Cascob, Radnorshire. It will be accompanied by an English translation and notes, and several fac-similes of ancient MSS.

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY.

Nov. 27. A grace passed the Senate: To purchase of Count Munster, from the Woodwardian Fund, a collection of Geological Specimens, about 20,000 in number, at the price of £500.

Dec. 30. The Rev. W. Hodge Mill, D.D. of Trinity College, late Principal of the Bishop's College, Calcutta, was elected Hulsean Lecturer for the ensuing year; and the Hulsean Prize for the best dissertation on the Evidences of the Christian Religion was adjudged to Arthur Shelley Eddis, B.A. Scholar of Trinity College.

Norrisian Prize Essay.-The subject for the present year is, "The Holy Scriptures contain sufficiently all Doctrine required of necessity for eternal Salvation through faith in Jesus Christ."

The Rev. John Brown, M.A. of Aberdeen, has placed at the disposal of the President and Fellows of Queen's college, a prize of ten guineas to be awarded to such member of that Society, (who is not of sufficient standing for the degree of Master of Arts) as shall write the best English poem on the approaching Marriage of her Majesty.

ROYAL SOCIETY.

Dec. 5. Francis Baily, esq. V.P. in the chair. The meeting was wholly occupied by the reading of the minutes, including the Address of the President at the Anniversary meeting.

Dec. 12. Major Sabine, V.P.-G. L. Roupell, M.D. was elected a Fellow of the Society.-The following papers were read-1. "On the Nerves of the Gravid Uterus," by R. Lee, M.D.; 2. "Obser

vations made at the Cape of Good Hope, in the year 1838, with Bradley's Zenith Sector, for the verification of the Amplitude of the Abbé de la Caille's Arc of the Meridian," by T. Maclear, esq.

Dec. 19. Major Sabine in the chair. Henry Drummond, esq. of Albany Park, Surrey, was elected a Fellow.

A paper was read, entitled "An Account of Experiments made with the view of ascertaining the possibility of obtaining a Spark before the Circuit of the Voltaic Battery is completed," by J.P. Gassiot, esq. Jan. 9. J. W. Lubbock, esq. V.P. J. Whatman, jun. esq. was elected Fellow. A paper was read, on the construction and use of Single Achromatic Eye-pieces, and their superiority to the Double Eyepiece of Huyghens; by the Rev. J. B. Reade, M.A.; and the communication was received of Meteorological Observations made between Oct. 1837 and April 1839, at Alten, in Finmarken, by Mr. J.

H. Thomas, Chief Mining Agent at the Alten Copper-works.

ROYAL KENSINGTON LITERARY AND

SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION.

The Second Division of Lectures for the present season have been arranged as follows: Feb. 4 and 11, Southwood Smith, M.D. On Organization and Life; Feb. 18 and 25, and March 3, Edward Taylor, esq. Gresham Prof. of Music, On English Vocal Harmony; March 10, James Copland, M.D. F.R.S. On the influence of the Mental Emotions on Health; March 17, Dr. Cantor, On the comparative state of Education in Great Britain and Germany; March 24, R. J. Pollock, esq. On the Physiology of Speech; March 31, April 7 and 14, R. Addams, esq. On Frictional Electricity; April 28, May 5 and 12, T. Rymer Jones, esq. On Natural HistoryFishes, Reptiles, and Serpents.

SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES.

Jan. 9.

W. R. Hamilton, esq. V.P. Robert Porrett, esq. of the Tower of London, Deputy Storekeeper of her Majesty's Ordnance, was elected a Fellow of the Society, and Mons. F. Guizot, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, and a Member of the Chamber of Deputies of France, was elected a Foreign Member.

The reading was commenced of a paper by Mr. Archbold, "On some ancient Guns and Ammunition found buried in the sand and clay on the western shore of the island of Walney, Lancashire," a discovery of which some account was given in our last number, p. 78.

Jan. 16. W. R. Hamilton, esq. V.P. James Annesley, esq. late Surgeon of the General Hospital at Madras, was elected a Fellow of the Society.

Sir Hilgrove Turner, F.S.A. presented two drawings of cromlechs in Jersey.

Mr. Archbold's paper was concluded. Jan. 23. H. Hallam, esq. V.P. Francis Worship, esq. F.S.A. communicated two letters from Queen Elizabeth to Dr. Dale, her Ambassador in France, relating principally to the overture of marriage then addressed to her by the Duc d'Alençon; dated respectively on the 17th July 1573, and the 1st of Feb. following. The latter is very curious in some particulars, especially a part relating to the discontent that it was presumed might arise on the Queen's part on the view of her suitor's portraiture; and the discussion, pro et con, whether

the Duke should be allowed to visit England incognito, "in some disguised sort ;" if he did, he was to come in the train of some less conspicuous person than the Duc de Montmorenci. The Prince (then Duc d'Anjou) is commonly said to have paid a visit of this kind to the English court in 1580, the year before he passed a three months' sojourn there, which is fully noticed in Nichols's Progresses of Queen Elizabeth.

The first portion was read of a second letter from George Godwin, jun. esq. F.R.S. and S.A. containing Notes on some of the Ecclesiastical Buildings of Lower Normandy. The buildings noticed were the cathedral and church of St. Croix, at St. Loe, and the aqueduct at Coutances.

The Society adjourned (over the anniversary of King Charles's Martyrdom) to the 8th of February.

ROMAN BUILDINGS IN SOUTHWARK.

The numerous Roman antiquities which have been discovered in Southwark sufficiently attest its occupation by that people; but we believe that there is no record of the discovery of any Roman buildings in the Borough until now. The Governors of St. Thomas's Hospital having determined to proceed with the rebuilding of that edifice (the north wing of which has been lately rebuilt), have pulled down the south wing of the outer or western quadrangle, and on clearing the ground for the foundation of the new building, a Roman pavement of the

common red tesseræ, surrounded by walls of flint and rubble, with courses of Roman tiles, has been discovered, at a depth of twenty feet from the level of the High Street. The pavement measured about 20 feet by 12; the tessere were embedded on concrete, about 6 inches thick, under which was a layer of chips of stone. On removing the foundations of the walls they were found to rest on piles, the soil being sand. When we saw these remains great part of what was originally discovered had been destroyed; but we were informed that on the north side there were the jambs of a doorway, and on the west side a continuation of the buildings. Some of the tiles in the walls were red, and some of a bright yellow. Mr. Field, the architect, we are informed, is in possession of an earthenware lamp, which was discovered here. We look forward to a fuller account of these remains being given to the Society of Antiquaries by its zealous and intelligent member, Mr. C. R. Smith.

Not far from this spot, viz. in St. Saviour's churchyard, partly on the site of St. Saviour's Grammar School, and partly under an adjoining house, there is a tesselated pavement of a handsome pattern; and in the churchyard, nearly opposite to the school, we have seen a the bottom of a grave a narrow Roman pavement, of the common red tesseræ, running from north-east to south-west, apparently a footpath.

ROMAN ANTIQUITIES OF CIRENCESTER.

A man, named White, lately digging a pit in his garden in search of gravel, on the west side of Gloucester-street (formerly St. Lawrence-street) in Cirencester, discovered at a depth of five or six feet a perfect human skeleton, apparently that of a grown-up young woman, lying horizontally with its head towards the east. The scull was turned upon the right shoulder, and two nails, about two or three inches in length, were found driven into the place of the left ear. The teeth appeared perfect and complete. Many fragments of urns and other articles undoubtedly Roman, including coins, were discovered at the same time. The roots of a yew-tree, planted forty years ago near this spot, had extended over the skeleton. Some of the pottery bears very distinct ornamental patterns. A number of Roman coins were found in the commencement of the cutting of the Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway some time since, to the south of the town, and few places are more interesting to the antiquary than this ancient and important station of the Romans.

RUINS AT VESPA.

A recent discovery of much importance has been made by Monsignore Camillo Amici, Apostolic Delegate at Spoleto. The Delegate, in one of his last visits to the Governor of Norcia, ascended to the top of a high mountain, six miles distant from Norcia, and under which is the village of Biselli. The hills are called the hills of Biselli. In his researches the learned prelate discovered that there was a place called by the people Vespa, and immediately conceived a hope that some traces might still be found of the splendour of the Vespasian family, as related by Suetonius in the following passage: "Locus etiam nunc ad sextum milliarium a Nursia Spoletium euntibus in monte summo, appellatur Vespasiæ, ubi Vespasiorum complura monumenta extant, magnum indicium splendorum familiæ ac vetustatis." Lib. 8, cap. 1. In a small house on the point of land now called Vespa, he discovered a double row of stairs, all of white marble, and on the right of the stairs an arch, supported by pilasters of elegant architecture. Excavations are now being made, under strong hopes of fruitful and curious discoveries; for it is very probable, from the remote situation of the place, that the sepulchral monuments and buildings referred to by the historian may have escaped the devastation and destruction that have so generally awaited ancient works of art, when more exposed and accessible.

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GREEK MONUMENT.

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The British Museum has recently acquired, by purchase from the Rev. Mr. Arundale, a funeral monument executed in Asia Minor. It is in form of a stoa, or porch, and represents in the highest relief a youth who has apparently just issued from a bath: he is naked, standing with his peplon gracefully thrown upon his shoulder, and twisted round his left In his right hand he holds a' xytra, or strigil, and in his other some object of the toilet. On the upper part of the monument is inscribed ΤΡΥΦΩΝ ΕΥΤΥΧΟΥ "Tryphon, the son of Eutychus and the lacuna, according to the ordinary form of sepulchral monuments, has probably contained his birth-place. The name of Tryphon is familiar to archæologists during the epoch of the Seleucidæ, as an usurper so called possessed the Syrian crown for three years after the death of Antiochus the Sixth. A grammarian of Alexandria, of the reign of Augustus, and a slave, are known of the same name. The name of Eutychus also appears in the New Testament. The monument in question does not, in point of style, belong to the excellent character

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of work which characterised the second century previous to the Christian era, and more probably approaches the period of Augustus. It is of white marble, much

stained and corroded with exposure to the weather; and has, to all appearance, been attached by iron rivets, or stanchions, to its place of destination.—(Lit. Gaz.)

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"My Lords, and Gentlemen, "Since you were last assembled I have declared my intention of allying myself in marriage with the Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg and Gotha. I humbly implore that the divine blessing may prosper this union, and render it conducive to the interests of my people, as well as to my own domestic happiness; and it will be to me a source of the most lively satisfaction to find the resolution I have taken approved by my Parliament. The constant proofs which I have received of your attachment to my person and family persuade me that you will enable me to provide for such an establishment as may appear suitable to the rank of the Prince, and the dignity of the Crown.

"I continue to receive from foreign powers assurances of their unabated desire to maintain with me the most friendly relations.

"I rejoice that the civil war, which had so long disturbed and desolated the Northern Provinces of Spain, has been brought to an end, by an arrangement satisfactory to the Spanish government and to the people of those provinces; and 1 trust that, ere long, peace and tranquil. lity will be re-established throughout the rest of Spain.

"The affairs of the Levant have continued to occupy my most anxious attention. The concord which has prevailed amongst the five powers has prevented a renewal of hostilities in that quarter, and I hope that the same unanimity will bring these important and difficult matters to a final settlement, in such a manner as to uphold the integrity and independence of the Ottoman Empire, and to give additional security to the peace of Europe.

"I have not yet been enabled to reestablish my diplomatic relations with the Court of Teheran; but communications which I have lately received from the Persian government inspire me with the confident expectation that the differences which occasion a suspension of those rclations will soon be satisfactorily adjusted.

GENT, MAG. VOL. XIII.

"Events have happened in China which have occasioned an interruption of the commercial intercourse of my subjects with that country. I have given and shall continue to give the most serious attention to a matter so deeply affecting the interests of my subjects and the dignity of my Crown.

"I have great satisfaction in acquainting you that the military operations undertaken by the Governor General of India have been attended with complete success; and that in the expedition to the westward of the Indus the officers and

troops, both European and Native, have displayed the most distinguished skill and

valour.

"I have directed that further papers relating to the affairs of Canada should be laid before you, and I confide to your wisdom this important subject.

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I recommend to your early attention the state of the Municipal Corporations of Ireland.

"It is desirable that you should prosecute those measures relating to the Established Church which have been recommended by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners of England.

"Gentlemen of the House of Commons, "I have directed the estimates for the services of the year to be laid before you. They have been framed with every attention to economy, and, at the same time, with a due regard to the efficiency of those establishments which are rendered neces

sary by the extent and circumstances of the Empire. I have lost no time in carrying into effect the intentions of Parliament by the reduction of the duties on Postage; and I trust that the beneficial effects of this measure will be felt throughout all classes of the community.

"My Lords and Gentlemen,

"I learn with great sorrow that the commercial embarrassments which have taken place in this and other countries are subjecting many of the manufacturing districts to severe distress. I have to acquaint you, with deep concern, that the spirit of insubordination has, in some parts of the country, broken out into open violence, which was speedily re

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