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PRICE, WITH INDEX, powerful orator that ever illustrated and ruled the senate of this empire" (London Quarterly Review); and the year following, February 1, 1779, a grave was opened in the South Cross for David Garrick, the celebrated actor, of whom Pope said, after seeing his Headache, fevers, small-pox, thirst, and skin Richard III., "that young man never had his equal as LAMPLOUGH'S PYRETIC SALINE TABLE OF CONTENTS. Some of the Honoured Dead at Westminster PAGE. WHY The College of Organists.-Removing Gilt from Metal 35 36 Some of the Honoured Dead at Westminster.-Kindly give the names of about a dozen famous men who have been honoured with burial in Westminster Abbey, and state the chief act or work of each that gained them that distinction.-DAKTULOS. THE Abbey's grey minster enshrines many noble and many ignoble dead. Very inconsiderable dust is contained within its now exclusive cordon, servants of low degree, obscure citizens, and some alien names. One entry arrested our attention in searching for material to reply to your question; it looked weird, mysterious, almost unnatural-" An infant found dead (buried) in the Dark Arch "- -a place of mean sepulture. There affections it cures in a very short time. To be obtained at 113, HOLBORN HILL, LONDON. an actor, and will never have a rival." In tragedy and comedy he was alike at home, and possessed a matchless versatility of genius for the exhibition of passion. Next in order of reputation and chronology, December “THEY HAVE STOOD THE TEST OF TIME." 20, 1784, comes the great lexicographer Dr. Samuel Johnson. His remains are among the most sacred of the relics of the Abbey's Chambers of Silence. As a ALBION SNELL'S EXACT WATCHES writer, few have done such essential service to his RELIABLE! are places of different degree in the burying quarters: 129, TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD, LONDON. life to the cause of slave emancipation, Thomas raults for monarchs, niches for heroes, spots for great authors, and a special corner for poets. What is known as the North Arch records no name of any account. WASHING-DAY REFORM. The first entry of note to be recorded is that of Isaac Causabou (so spelt in the register), interred in July, 1614, at the entrance to St. Benedict's Chapel. Dr. de Casaubon was an eminent scholar, and a Prebendary of Canterbury; see his "Life," by Mark Patterson, 1875. Among the poets are Edmund Spenser (1599), and Ben Jonson (1637). In August 4th, 1657, "Colonel Robert Blake, Admiral at Sea, was interred in King Henry VII.'s Chapel-the most famous naval commander of perhaps any age. He had a public funeral; but at the restoration his remains, with those of many other Cromwellian partizans, were removed by the Royalists, and thrown into a common pit in the churchyard. See Hepworth Dixon's "Life of Blake." A gentler sepulchre was that of Abraham Cowley, the poet, Aug. 3, 1667. He lies beside the monument to Chaucer. Dr. Johnson classes Cowley first among those he calls metaphysical poets. His anacreontics are his best. Monk (1670, Admiral and General); Dryden (1700, Poet); Addison (1710, Essayist); and Sir Isaac Newton (1726, Philosopher), are among the dead in Westminster. In the South Cross, September 25th, 1721, lies Matthew Prior, poet and courtier. In 1700 he was a short time! Secretary of State. His poems are easy, lively, and elegant. He also wrote a "History of His Next we note the great Duke of Marlborough, who was laid (1722) in the vault at the east end of King Henry VII.'s Chapel. Marlborough was one of the greatest of England's generals and diplomatists. He was interred with great pomp. The celebrated actress, Mrs. Anne Bracegirdle (The Oracle vi. 328), who flourished in the reigns of Charles. II. and James II., was buried in the east cloister, Sep. 18, 1748; and on April 10, 1759, the great musician, Handel, was laid to rest in the South Cross. In the centre of the North Cross, June 8, 1778, is the tomb of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, "the most Own Times." Is renowned as the gem of all Washing Machines, ments, or 13 per cent cash discount. Illustrated country, by fixing its language and regulating its individuality. He had a noble independence of mind, DURABLE!!! and would never stoop to any man, however exalted, or disguise his sentiments to flatter another. The tombs of William Pitt and Charles Fox (1806, statesmen), are in the Abbey; also those of Warren Hastings (the great pro-consul, 1818), George Canning (statesman, 1827). Richard Brinsley Sheridan, the brilliant Irish orator, dramatist, and actor, rests (July 13th, 1816) in the South Aisle; and in the North Cross (June 16th, 1870) sleeps another illustrious Irishman, statesman, and orator, Henry Grattan. In the North Transept (August 3rd, 1833) lies the philanthropist, William Wilberforce, who devoted his Campbell, the poet, was laid (July 3rd, 1844) in the South Cross; and there also, in the poets' corner too, is (January 9, 1860) Lord Macaulay, poet and historian. Sir James Outram, Bart., S.C.B., the great Indian General, rests in the nave. Lord Palmerston, the celebrated statesman and Prime Minister, in VILLA-WASHER !!! the North Transept, October 27, 1865. October 21, 1859, the great engineer, Robert Stevenson, M.P., was laid in the nave. George Peabody, the American and munificent benefactor to English charity, was on November 12, 1869, given temporary interment with full ceremonial in the Abbey. His remains were afterwards removed to his own country. In November, 1870, Charles Dickens was given honoured sepulture in the Abbey. His is the one grave there on which, at all seasons, fresh flowers are to be found. His novels are as much read at the present day as ever. On May, 19, 1871, Sir John Herschel, Bart., the celebrated astronomer, was added to the Abbey's roll of illustrous dead; and, in 1873, Lord Lytton, better known as Bulwer, orator, novelist, and dramatist. Then comes (April 18, 1874) David Livingstone, the distinguished explorer and beloved missionary. Sir Charles Lyell, geological writer, Sir William Sterndale Bennett, musician, and Bishop Connop Thirlwall, were all buried here in 1875. On 25th July, 1881, was buried the Very Rev. the Dean, Stanley, the loving and devoted chief of the grand old Abbey, to whom the historic pile was the object of the greatest interest in life, and to whose history of the Abbey (15/-) we refer you for further information. A few weeks ago the Abbey's gates opened to Charles Darwin, the eminent naturalist and scientist, whom, not so many years back, the Church, had it possessed the power it once had, would have excommunicated with bell, book, and candle; but "the thoughts of men must ripen with the progress of the suns. Charles Kingsley, poet, novelist, and preacher, but for his desire to sleep in Eversley churchyard, would rest here; so also would grand Thomas Carlyle. He lies by his rare wife among his native hills. There is neither need nor space to tell of kings and queens who lie here, or of the Abbey's very many empty tombs. 80, Finsbury Pavement, London, E.C. Chancery Lane. BIRKBECK BANK-Southampton Buildings, allowed on the minimum monthly balances when circumstances. The Bank also receives money on Deposit at notice. 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"NOTESCO," THE NEW LINIMENT, Is endorsed by the medical faculty and highly Has worked the most wonderful cures for 'NOTESCO," the New Liniment, is a splendid delirium passes away. washing the forehead with it, the patient in Small Pox. Wash the patient with it "NOTESCO," the New Liniment, for Rheu matic Gout. and Scalds. "NOTESCO," the New Liniment, for Burns and Sprains "NOTESCO," the new Liniment, for Black Eyes. "NOTESCO," the New Liniment, for Cuts. "NOTESCO," the New Liniment, stops Bleed ing. "NOTESCO," the New Liniment, cures Neu ralgia and Toothache. progress been done both in France and Belgium tended to THE following names are selected only from among British and Irish ex-Catholics (see page 18):Very Rev. Nicholas Beatty, D.D., Superior of the Convents in Drogheda, Athlone, &c. (1847); Rev. Michael Bogan, Priest, Diocese of Limerick; Rev. Fr. Brady, Priest, Diocese of Meath; Rev. Denis L. Brasbie, P.P., Diocese of Ardfert; Rev. Patrick Brennan, P.P., Diocese of Elphin; Very Rev. George Canon Case, D.D., M.R., M.A., Canon of Clifton, Missionary Rector of St. Peter's, Gloucester, &c. (1879); Rev. Patrick Caffrey, Diocese of Liverpool (1876); Rev. Terence Callery, Diocese of Meath; Rev. Pierce Conelly, Chaplain to the Earl of Shrewsbury (1850); Rev. Michael Crotty, sen., P.P., Diocese of Killala; Rev. W. Davock, Diocese of Dublin; Rev. Jas. A. Dwyer, P.P., Diocese of Tuan; Rev. Solomon Frost, Diocese of Limerick; Rev. Andrew Hopkins, P.P., Diocese of Kilmore; Rev. Henry T. Joyner, P. P., of Little Ilford, Essex, and formerly in charge of St. Mary's, Hounslow, Diocese of Westminster (1879); Rev. Thes. Graves Law, Brompton, Diocese of Westminster (1879); Rev. Ambrose Martin, Priest and Professor, Liverpool; Rev. Jos. D. Mulkerns, M.R., B.D., Missionary Rector of Wildness Dock, Lancashire; Rev. Jer. Murphy, P.P., Diocese of Cloyne; Rev. Fr. Oxley, Leicester, Diocese of Nottingham; Rev. Hy. Jas. Pare, Priest in charge of St. Helen's Mission at Ongar, Essex; Rev. Patrick Phelan, Priest (St. Mary, Moorfields), Diocese of Westminster (1877); Rev. Wm. W. Roberts, nephew of Cardinal Manning, Priest, Oblate of St. Charles, Borromeo, Bayswater, Diocese of Westminster (1879); Rev. Roderick Ryder, P.P., Diocese of Kilmacduagh and Kilfenora; Rev. Edw. W. Shanahan, Priest, Diocese of Salford, England; Rev. John Stanton, M.R., Missionary Rector of the Church of SS. Mary and Joseph, Poplar, Diocese of Westminter (1871); Rev. Joseph Wolff, D.D., Ph.D., Vicar of Isle-Brewers, near Langport, Somersetshire; and Rev. Charles Hy. Wharton, Chaplain in Worcester. Among those supposedly of a less priestly character are Jno. Edmund Cullen, student at Dublin, first cousin to Cardinal Cullen; Samuel Phillips Day, formerly of Youghall "NOTESCO," the New Liniment, in case of body, for they arose mainly through the exertions of Monastery; Sister Lucy (Ann Cullen), of the New Hall Convent, Chelmsford; Thaddeus O'Mahony, M. A., Professor of Irish, Trinity College, Dublin; Lord Galmoy, Wm. Leahy, M.A., John O'Regan, M. A.; Ask your Chemist for "NOTESCO," and take Patrick Delany, D.D., Professor of Oratory and no other. If not in Stock, ask him to get History; Alex. Hanlon, D.D., Wm. Whelan, D.D., Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin; Prof. Archer Butler (T.C.D.); Jno. Collins, Attorney; Daniel Price, la. 1d., 25. 9d., 48. 6d., 11., 228., 335. union between them and English Presbyterians has Foley, M.A., Professor of Irish, T.C.D.; James Gannon, Fellow T.C.D.; Captain Goetschy; Chas. J. Hemans, son of the Poetess; Peter B. Hussey, Barristerat-law; Thos. Luby, author of a "Treatise on Physical Astronomy, "&c., Fellow of T. C.D.; Francis McDonagh, Q.C.; M. O'Sullivan, some time Pre-Consulting Rooms and Depot Charles of Bala, himself a clergyman of the Church of England. They adopted, however, a system akin,in many respects, to Methodism, and thus were, and are, in name, and otherwise, associated with it. They were organised in 1743, and their doctrine is that of the Thirty-nine Articles "taken in a Calvinistic sense." In church government they are substantially Presbyterian, and a occasionally been urged. From its original home in Wales, this body spread, and it has now as many as 4,000 members in the United States. III. The Wesleyan Methodist New Connexion: This was the first real secession from the great body of Methodism, and arose in 1797, its leader being Alexander Kilham, who was bendary of Armagh ; Wm. Phelan, M.A., and 90, REGENT ST. QUADRANT, LONDON, W expelled from the Wesleyan Conference in 1796. Its E. Walford, M.A. (Balliol, Oxford). Edmund Salusbury Ffoulkes, B.D., resigned a fellowship and tutorship at Jesus College, Oxford, in 1855, on joining the Roman Catholic Church. He was then 36. He rejoined the Church of England in 1870. The late Duke of Norfolk for many years before his death used to worship in Dr. Cumming's Scotch Church in Crown Court. It would not be difficult to set about the construction of a list of eminent American seceders; the recent case of Count Campbello shows that seceders continue to swell the ranks of Protestantism even in high places; but we believe it will be more to the purpose to ask readers to reflect that there are, and have continued to be in existence for many years, a number of societies aiming at conversions to Protestantism, and that the mere continued existence of these societies is a guarantee that work is being done. There is, for example, the Grand Ligne Mission, in Canada, the results of which are quite considerable. So M. E. de Pressensé, at the recent annual meeting of the Foreign Aid Society, spoke of the present state of liberty in France as being favourable to the progress of Protestantism, and the accounts given of what had NOTESCO. This is a Liniment-with a spirit fact should be remembered when we consider raison d'être lay in a belief that the Conference was not sufficiently representative, and consequently it gives an equal share to ministers and laymen in administering the affairs of the Church: doctrinally it has no differ ence, we believe, from the parent body. According to a recent statement the number of its members was 33,563. IV. Band Room Methodists, and The United Free Gospel Churches, a body which arose in 1806 Its first members left the original body because they were censured for admitting persons to their society who were not members, and also for, to some extent, ignoring the class-meeting. They took their name from the fact that they met in a band-room" in Manchester, and we suppose they have still a local existence. One special point in their polity, is that they do not pay their ministers. V. Primitive Methodists, founded in 1810. The practice of holding was introduced at that time, and, being disapproved by the Conference, those who held them to be desirable, left and formed the new body. The story of the separation is a very interesting one, as representing the rise of a new enthusiasm, which grew as impatient of the bonds of Wesleyanism as Wesley. the majority of the so-called infants' soothing"camp meetings mains, to have the "Notesco" as fully known and وو anism had of those of Episcopacy. Hugh Bourne was the name of the leader in this movement, and the immediate cause of the severance was the refusal of the Conference to recognise a "class" formed of Bourne's converts, unless they disowned him. This body, which is now very large, numbering in England and Wales not fewer than 165,000 members, does not differ, save in some details of organisation, from the parent body. VI. A kindred association is that of the Bryanites, or Bible Christians. This body was founded by a lay preacher of the Wesleyans named O'Bryan, and one of its special features is the fact that females are permitted to preach in their ordinary services; but it may be added that in this it does not by any means stand alone, the Primitives also allowing female preachers. The home of this body is in Cornwall, and the west of England, but it has extended its influence very considerably, and now boasts a pretty large membership at home and abroad. In doctrine, the Bible Christians differ little from the Primitive Methodists. VII. The United Methodist Free Church, a large and important body, as its name imports, is a composite community, being formed from the union of several splits from the parent Methodist connexion. These were the Protestant Methodists, who made a breach in 1828 with the Leeds Wesleyans, because they disapproved of the introduction of instrumental music: then the "Wesleyan Methodist Association," which arose in 1835, and took its start from the opposition to the foundation of a theological seminary, and the the Reformers," the first of whom were expelled from the parent body for fraternising with the last-named, about the year 1849. The "United Methodist Free Church, which is formed of these, differs only in matters of kapractical detail from the great body of Wesleyans, its chief distinction being the larger place given to laymen in church administration, and the greater freedon Ce from control enjoyed by the circuits. t (To be continued.) The Workshop. Bemoving Gilt from Metal.-How am I to take off gold paint from a silvered surface-G. E. J. To separate gold from gilt copper or silver, apply a olution of borax, in water, to the gilt surface, with a fine brush, and sprinkle over it some fine powdered sulphur; make the piece red-hot, and quench it in water; and then the gold may be wiped off with a scratch-brush and recovered by testing with lead. Another plan of removing gilt from silver is to spread over it a paste, made of powdered sal ammoniac with qua fortis, and heat it till the mixture is nearly dry, hand then rub off the gold with a scratch-brush. If it is the substance commonly sold by stationers as gold paint" which you wish to remove, Messrs. Judson inform us that turpentine is the best thing to remove their gold paint, but that it may be troublesome to do 30, as it "sticks very tight." Tempering Gravers.-Will you please inform me the best and surest way of tempering gravers for engraving on copper, steel, and brass ; also the degree of hardness required 1—E. M. P. GRAVERS and tint tools when first received from the Temakers ed by the point breaking off short as metines is revealed as soon as it enters the wood. Temper the blade to a straw colour and then dip it in sweet oil or allow it to cool gradually. If removed from the iron while it is of a straw colour, it will have been softened no more than sufficient; but should it have acquired a purple tinge it will have been oftened too much, and instead of breaking at the point sa before, it will bend. The following is the colour and temperature required :-Pale straw, 430° Fah., for lancets, &c. ; clay yellow, 490° Fah., for chisels and phears. So says a well-known authority on the subject. From practical men the information has come to us that experience has taught them that the best way to temper a graver is this-Lay your graver in a piece of tabe and heat it to a blood red in a clean coke or charcoal fire; then by dipping the graver in water bring down the temperature until the graver is of a blue straw colour. ase say Whitening and Dyeing Bone. Please say how to remove the colour (red) from a set of bone chessmen. I want to dye them a diferent colour.-E. N. X. ASSUMING the colour to be a good red stain or dye, it fis impossible to extract it out of the bone, into which it deeply penetrates owing to the porousness and cellular construction of the bone. Not even the burning or carving the chessmen all over again will remove the stain If you wish to dye them a brown or black, or ADVERTISEMENTS. N. FOWLER, Phrenological Publisher, Imperial Buildings, Ludgate Circus, B.C. The Self-Instructor in Phrenology. 2s. Lectures On Man. By L. N. Fowler, 45. 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In this important district it is read by the nobility, gentry, agriculturists, and the trading community: thus presenting an excellent medium Education, Eraminations, etc. The College of Organists.-Would you inform me what course of study I should have to pursue to become an Associate of the College of Organists?-ORGANIST. CANDIDATES for the Associateship of the College of Organists will be required to shew proficiency in organplaying, sight-reading, harmony, counterpoint, composition, general knowledge of the organ, and general musical knowledge. To secure success in organ-playing the candidate must be able to perform (1) any original composition-not an arranged piece, however-with pedal obligato of his own selection, (2) a chantGregorian or Anglican-as though accompanying the "Venite," (3) two verses of a hymn tune-the first in a manner suitable for "giving-out,' " the second as an accompaniment for the choir. For sight-reading the organist must play at sight from a score a short example, selected by the examiner, in the bass, tenor, alto, and treble clefs. The harmony examination consists of two parts-paper work at the organ and paper work away from the organ. Work in the first part will consist of filling up a given figured bass at sight and transposing at sight a short musical piece part a given melody will be given for harmony: a given into any key the examiners may name. In the second bass must also be harmonized. The student of counterpoint will be required to add to a given subject (1) any number of parts in any species, and (2) the number of parts and species to be named by the examiners. The either tonal answer or exposition in four vocal parts. Fugal work will consist of a subject which is given for The candidate's neutral knowledge of the organ will be for giving publicity to announcements of every tested by questions requiring answer on (1) the general ful condensation of the general news of the week, combining the various stops, (3) thof registering and a complete of events of the chief causes of markets latest quotations of all the important casual derangement of mechanism frequently encoun W. C. and J. Penny, Proprietors, tered. Other questions relating to musical knowledge Frome, Somerset. THE SOUTH YORKSHIRE COAL AND IRON will be set; on form, on the orchestra, on musical is the best medium for advertising in one of the TRADES.-The Rotherham Advertiser history, and on harmony and other branches of musical most important mining and ironworking districts knowledge. Organists who have become associates enlarged in 1876 to 56 long columns. It is the may proceed to fellowship after an interval of not less only newspaper published in the Borough and than six months. They will be required to pass a more Union of Rotherham, and has a large circulation difficult examination in the subjects above detailed and, throughout South Yorkshire. Besides full and able reports of local news, and a careful summary by way of additional work, to extemporise at the of general and Parliamentary intelligence, editorials, and comments on important local instrument upon a given musical phrase, to harmonize selections, and the latest telegrams appear weekly sight, and to score a short theme for the full orchestra. matters, local Notes and Queries, literary on paper (but at the instrument) a given melody at IMPORTANT TO ADVERTISERS. EstabRENFREWSHIRE INDE It may be noted however that musical graduates of the Weco Bar head, Paisley, and Neilston Universities may present themselves as candidates for Weekly Journal. Is published every Friday of the country by Saturday morning or evening. and they are exempt from "Paper work away from the afternoon, and dispatched so as to reach all parts Fellowship, without previously becoming Associates Contains special, original, and authentic reports of local affairs, with a weekly summary of home the Organ." The following authors and works are and foreign news, paying great attention to Terms for advertising are moderate, and pub- Goss, Ouseley, and Stainer's "Harmony"; Cherubini, literature, with reviews of books, magazines, etc. recommended for the study of intending candidates :Ouseley, and Bridge's "Counterpoint"; J. Higg's "Primer on Fugue"; Hamilton's "Catechism on the Orchestra and Musical Ideas"; Prout's "Primer on Orchestration"; Hopkins, Hemstock, and Hiles "On the Organ"; Hawkins's " History of Music "; Hullah's "Modern Music"; and Ritter and Hunt's "Histories of Music." |