May 19. At Bonn, aged 45, Ernest von Schiller, a judge in the Prussian Court of Appeal, and the younger of the two sons of the great German Poet.

May 20. At Calais, aged 16, Matilda Vernon, eldest dau. of the Rev. C. F. Watkins, Vicar of Brixworth, Northamptonshire.

At Gibraltar, Susan, relict of Major C. W. Tonyn, formerly of the 48th Regt. son of Gen. Tonyn, and only surviving sister of the Rev. Dr. Rudge, Rector of Hawkchurch, Dorset.

May 22. At Halifax, Nova Scotia, aged 77, James Boutineau Francklin, esq. May 24. At Paris, Mary, wife of Henry Bonar, esq. At Nice, aged 41, Mrs. Sophia Charlotte Wentworth, formerly Mrs. Durham.

May 25. At Pau, in the Basses Pyrenees, aged 14, Isabella, youngest dau. of Pitman Jones, esq. of Heavitree. June.

At La Guayra, South America, aged 29, Henry, third son of the Rev. Dr. Warren, Incumbent of All Souls, Manchester.

June 2. At sea, off Port Royal, Jamaica, on board Her Majesty's ship Rover, Frank, youngest son of John Mortlock Lacon, esq. of Great Yarmouth, and grandson of the late Sir Edmund Lacon, Bart.

June 6. Drowned in Malta Harbour, aged 21, Lieut. J. Merrick Fowler, Adjt. 88th regt. fourth son of Capt. Fowler R. Merrick Fowler, of Walliscote House, near Reading.

At sea, on board the East India ship Windsor, of which he was a midshipman, aged 19, Robert Neave Dalrymple, son of Sir Charles Dalrymple, CommissaryGen. to the Forces.

June 8. At Boulogne, Agnes, wife of Capt. Charles Bedingfeld, brother of Sir Henry Bedingfeld, of Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk, Bart.

June 13. At Suez, aged 25, Algernon G. Brenchley, Cornet 4th Light Dragoons, third son of John Brenchley, esq. of Maidstone.

June 15. At the Cape of Good Hope, aged 44, Capt. Absolam Cole, of Poole.

June 19. At Vevey, in Switzerland, Richard Alexander Oswald, esq. of Auchincruive. He was returned as member for Ayrshire, to the first parliament elected under the Reform Bill.

June 20. At La Bastide, in the department of the Lot, M. Murat, brother to the former King of Naples. Being free from ambition, at the time his brother Joachim governed the kingdom of Naples, he accepted the modest functions of mayor of his village, which

he discharged till the hour of his death with zeal and probity.

June 26. Near Nantes, G. H. Jackson, esq. late of Glenmore, Waterford.

July.. At Gibraltar, Major BasilRobinson Heron, of the Royal Artillery. Major Heron served at Scylla, in Calabria, and in the expedition from Sicily in 1807. He was present at the capture of Martinique; at the sieges of Pigeon Island and Fort Bourbon in 1810; served in the Peninsula from May, 1812, to Aug. 1814, including the affair at Osme; battle of Vittoria, where he was wound. ed; both sieges of San Sebastian; passage of the Bidassoa, Nivelle, and Neve, &c. &c.

July 1. At Havre, aged 69, Mr. Gordon, sen. who for many years fulfilled the duties of British Consul at Havre. The office of Consul has been for some time held by Mr. G. Gordon, son of the deceased.

July 15. At Boulogne-sur-Mer, aged 23, Caroline-Louisa-Henrietta, second dau. of Francis Hartwell, esq.

At Tours, in France, George W. V. Villiers, esq. of Bath, and formerly of the Royal Regt. of Horse Guards Blue. He was in active service in the Peninsular War, and at Waterloo.

July 17. At Trieste,, aged 35, Edmund Knapp, esq. youngest and surviving son of the late Jerome-William Knapp, esq. of the Temple.

On board the Hon. Company's ship Edinburgh, Capt. W. B. Staff, 26th Regt. on his passage home from China.

July 26. At Paris, aged 44, Lady Mary-Anne-Jemima Brudenell Bruce, second dau. of the Marquess of Ailesbury. Her body was interred at that city, attended by her brothers Earl Bruce and Lord Ernest Bruce.

July 29. At Boulogne, aged 8, Thomas-Hardwicke, youngest child of the late Rev. Dr. Hewett, of Rotherhithe, Surrey, and of Ewhurst, Sussex.

Lately. At New Orleans, Canada, Capt. John Joynt, R.A. brother to Capt. Galbrath James Joynt, R.A. of the U.S. of America, and related to Mr. Andrew Joynt, surgeon.

At Mauritius, Col. Edward Draper, formerly Lieut.-Col. in the army, and latterly Treasurer and Paymaster-Gen. of the colony.

At New York, aged 42, Joseph, youngest son of the late Thomas Skaife, esq. of Littlethorp, Yorkshire.

At Tripoli, the wife of Col. Warrington, her Majesty's Consul-Gen.

At Rome, aged 50, the Hon. Jane Elizabeth, wife of J. Knight, esq. of

The Royal Arms.-CLERICUS is greatly obliged to those gentlemen who have brought forward much valuable information upon this subject. He thinks a fur. ther discovery remains to be made, to which chance, he trusts, may lead. There can be little doubt but that some order or injunction, civil or ecclesiastical, was issued about the time of the Reformation. The Sovereign's arms seem to have been simultaneously erected throughout the churches in England and Wales; and it is not easy to account for this upon any other supposition. Whether in Scotland and in Ireland, he has not been able to ascertain. In the grant mentioned, as entered into Archbishop Abbot's Register, it is said, "Whereas there ought to be had an especial care that all churches and chappells within this kingdom of England be beautifyed and adorned with godly sentences, and more especially with his MAJESTY'S ARMES," &c. Why ought there to be? This surely implies some legal necessity, and not merely an act of becoming loyalty only.-We may here add, in further illustration of this subject of Royal Arms, the following extract from the accounts of St. Margaret's, Westminster, recording the expenditure of a very large sum for painting up the arms of the Commonwealth, in several parts of the church: "1652. Item, paid to John Gomersall, for painting and guilding of the State's armes in several places of the church and vestry, as by his receipt appeareth, 301." Their destruction was less expensive: "1659. Item, to Henry Richards, joyner, for taking down the State's arms, 6d." It is obvious that the changes of Government furnish the reason why so few old representations of the Royal Arms remain; but our readers may be reminded of the remarkable instance of a pair of paintings of one period, that of James I., in Hoo Church, near Rochester. vol. xiii. p. 581.)

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Mr. J. SAVAGE, of Dorchester, requests us to mention that he has in his possession a few relics of the late Professor Porson, consisting of a handsome quart jug, out of which the Professor used to drink his Trinity College beer, and also one or two other articles, the Professor having lived with Mr. Savage the last two years of his life. The same gentleman has also a fine miniature portrait in the insignia of the Garter, of Prince James Stuart, son of James II., and commonly called "The Old Pretender," and on his tomb "King James III.," having been worn by a mem

ber of the clan Macdonald, of Keppock who were out in the '45 with the Young Pretender, and which Mr. Savage had from the collection of the late Dr. Angus Macdonald, of Taunton, who was himself one of the same clan.

We were doubtful whether any topographical or antiquarian writer had mentioned Paul's Stump, an inquiry respecting which has been recently prosecuted by some of our correspondents (pp. 114, 226); but a friend has referred us to a passing mention of it in Bagford's Letter to Hearne relating to the antiquities of London, from which it appears to have been a post resembling the pedestal of a statue. We still think it may have been the remains of an ancient cross. The passage is as follows: "This brings to my mind another ancient custom, that hath been omitted of late years. It seems that in former times the porters that ply'd at Bilinsgate used civilly to intreat and desire every man that passed that way to salute a post that stood there in a vacant place. If he refused to do this, they forthwith lay'd hold of him, and by main force bouped his against the post; but if he quietly submitted to kiss the same, and paid down 6d., then they gave him a name, and chose some one of the gang for his godfather. I believe this was done in memory of some old image that formerly stood there, perhaps of Belus or Belin. Somewhat of the like post, or rather stump, was near St. Paul's, and is at this day [Feb. 1, 1714-15] call'd St. Paul's Stump.' (Leland, Collectanea, 1774, vol. i. p. lxxvi.)-As for Bagford's story of the Billingsgate porters, there are parts of it evidently exaggerated, such as their presuming to seize on "every man that passed," and exacting so large a sum as sixpence even from those who were compliant to their arbitrary behests.

ERRATA.-P. 398, col. 2, Gererons for Gernons; p. 400, col. 2, Berguin for Berquin p. 402, col. 1, Archibald for Archbishop. In p. 414, at the conclusion of the description of the house recently found in a bog in co. Monaghan, a reference is made to a former discovery of the same kind; but, being from memory, it was not correctly stated. The former discovery was made in June 1833, in Drum. kelin Bog, in the parish of Inver, co. Donegal: it is represented and described by Capt. William Mudge, R.N. in the 26th volume of Archæologia, p. 361. P. 438, last paragraph, Mrs. Sharp is still living. P. 474, col. 1, 1. 42, for Robertus read Herbertus.