The Gentleman's Magazine 1855-10: Vol 44

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THE GENTLEMAN’S MAGAZINE AND HISTORICAL REVIEW. OCTOBER, 1855. CONTENTS. MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.—Tradesmen’s Tokens of the Seventeenth Century—William Paterson, Founder of the Bank of England—Historical Notes on Parliament—Joseph Hume and the Duke of Kent—Will of the late Marquess of Thomond .....+seeesececececerecece Lives of the Queens of the House of Hanover ........cecsescccecceccecces Shakspere compared with Greek and Latin Writers ...... 20.0 ceseccceecsecs The Dutch Critics of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries—Lipsius—Grotius— Gruterus— Heinsius .... 0.000 cocs cocccccccc cece see vecccees seccee The Peerage of Ireland... .. 000 cecccece cc cccccccccs ce een cece cece cece cs Pope’s Arrangements with Mr. Benjamin Motte.....-.cesccsccsescccsereece The Death of Floris de Montmorency, Baron de Montigny........ ess. seseee Anglo-Saxon Antiquities, with a particular reference to the Faussett Collection (with Engravings)...0.0cecsceccee covccvcccsteeseeeecses csecescees The Romance of Fulke FitzWarine.......... cccees cececccees cocesece sees CORRESPONDENCE OF SYLVANUS URBAN.—The Growth of London—Superstitions of Worcestershire—The Library Catalogue of the British Museum—The Use of the Libraries at the British Museum—The Secretaries of Henry FitzRoy, Duke of Richmond—The Ancient Tin Traile of Britain .. .. 0002 cc0e 00 00.00600s 00000000 0000 0000 000s cece sceses cece NOTES OF THE MONTH.—Meeting of the British Association at Glasgow—Statistical Con- gress in Paris—Industrial Museum at Edinburgh—Public Libraries and Museums—The Charles Museum at Maidstone—Prizes of the French Institute—Literary Prizes in Bel- gium—Scientific Appointments—Mr. C. Reach Smith in the Isle of Wight—Library of Thomas Moore the Poet—Count Pultzky’s Carvings in Ivory—Antiquities from Kertch —Discoveries at Borcovicus on the Roman Wall—Merovingian Cemetery—Tombs of the Ancient Kings of Denmark—The Egyptian Calendar of Medinet Hafou—Meeting of Ger- man Archeologists at Ulm—Wellington Statue at the India House—Peel Statue at Bir- mingham—Foreign Works of Sculpture—Monument of the Rev. F. W. Robertson—Lectern of King’s College Chapel, Cambridge—Bequests of Mr. Wallace of Kelly to the Watt Institution at Greenock ..........++e00+ HISTORICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS REVIEWS.—The Abbé Cochet and M. Léon Fallue on Frankish Cemeteries, 397; Repertory of Deeds and Documents relating to Great Yar- mouth, 399; An Inquiry into the Credibility of the Early Roman History, by Sir G. C. Lewis, Bart. 400; Reynard the Fox, by T. J. Arnold, 402; The Nature and Condition of Spirits, by the Rev. E. W. Relton........cececcccccccceccccce seccccscescecssccesssece ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES.—British Archzological Association, 403; Cambrian Arche- ological Association, 412; Somersetshire Archeological and Natural History Society, 414; Wiltshire Archeological and Natural History Society, 415; Leicestershire Architectural and Archeological Society, 416; Essex Archeological Society, 417; Yorkshire Architec- tural Society, %.; Buckinghamshire Architectural and Archeological Society, 418; The Temple of the Great Sphinx .......secececececccecccccecesececevesscecsessessseees HISTORICAL CHRONICLE.—Foreign News ......cececesscececececccsceceeeeece Promotions, Preferments, and Births, 421; Marriages ......+eeeseerercececececeeecceeeecs OBITUARY; with Memoirs of The Duke of Somerset; The Duke of Manchester; Viscount Hereford ; Sir George R. Farmer, Bart.; Sir William A. Chatterton, Bart.; Sir John Power, Bart.; General Sir Richard Bourke, K.C.B.; General Sir George T. Napier, K.C.B.; Major-Gen. Sir Robert Nickle; Major-Gen. Sir A. W. Torens, K.C.B.; Capt. W. Hay, C.B.; General Gabriel Gordon; General Walter Tremenheere; Lieut.-General Conyers; Major-General Cornwall; General Pepe; Admiral Nachimoff; Hon. Abbott Lawrence; M. de Bielke; The Chevalier de Colquhoun; Edmund Wodehouse, Esq. ; Richard Greaves Townley, Esq.; Rev. John Fox, D.D.; Rev. W. S. Gilly, D.D.; Joseph Pee CR ECO Tee eee eee eee rere rere rer CERRGY DECHASED. . ooo. 00.0000 0000 0000 00.0000 00 0005 00 00 0000 000000 00 cc cecs once cece cece cece Duarus, arranged in Chronological Order ..... 22.00 s00000cc0sseccsscscccccccccccccssccceces Registrar-General’s Returns of Mortality in the Metropolis—Markets, 447; Meteorological Dlary— Dally Prices OF Steck so. 0c s0.00:0s.40:00:00.00 00.00:00:00:00:00:60 00 40:00:66.00:00 06 s0.000000.08 By SYLVANUS URBAN, Gent. 439 440 448