proper, though sportsmen have it that, where there is so much cover,' there is generally some 'game'and climbing under the broad brims of the hat, like clusters of clematis, for instance, under the wide eaves of a cottage: this brush-wood falling over the collar of the coat behind, and greasing it; and as soon as the gloves are off, and the hat removed, the fingers being drawn through this brush-wood to arrange it, bedaubed as it is with bears' grease, and fermented as that grease is by the heat of the head, and these mutton fists drawn through that 'booshy' brush-wood, are then advanced to shake hands with a hand as fair, and white, and soft, and beautiful, and feminine, as that which Carlo Dolci has given to his Madonna, at Blenheim, or as Chalon has painted in his portrait of, but no matter whom. Away, then, with these foreign fashions!"

Lord Brougham. - Shortly after his Lordship's appointment to the office of Lord High Chancellor, he visited, along with some other ministers of the cabinet of Earl Grey, one of the most extensive breweries in the metropolis, and had there, what is colloquially called, a "beef-steak dinner." After it was finished, a proposition was made, that they should inspect the works; and, in order that the party might understand the use of each and all of them, the foreman, a cautious but intelligent Scotchman, was desired to attend and explain it. They had scarcely got into the first room, before Lord Brougham, with a slight motion of the hand, put aside his Scotch cicerone, who was volunteering an explanation, and said, with his usual cool, good-natured nonchalance: "Young man, I will save you the trouble you are about to undertake; I understand all this perfectly well, and will explain it myself to my noble and distinguished friends." His Lordship then proceeded, without further preface, to explain to Earl Grey and the other members of this convivial party, every stage in the process of brewing; but, unfortunately, did not explain one of them right, even by accident. The Scotchman, who perceived, but was too prudent to expose, the ignorance of his countryman, was astounded at his unceasing volubility; and in speaking of it in a mixed company, where our informant was present, observed: "Gude faith, sirs, but it made ma hair staun on en to hear the Lord High Chancellor o' Great Britain tellin the Lord High Treasurer a lang tail aboot maut and the brewing o't, and nae word o' truth fra beginnin to en. It made a thinkin mon reflec what a terrible pass things must ha come till, when ae minister could jist tell, and anither minister jist believe, sic awfu' cantrips. Eh, sirs, nae barrel can be gude that that blatherin chiel has gat the brewin o'"-Times.

A Newspaper report conveys but a lamentably imperfect notion of a good speech; and, what is almost equally provoking, it makes a bad one appear more tolerable.-Lord Dudley's Letters.

Slave Trade Compensation.-Dr. Channing_eloquently observes: "Great Britain, loaded with an unprecedented debt, and with a grinding taxation, contracted a new debt of a hundred million dollars, to give freedom, not to the Englishmen, but to the degraded African. I know not that history records an act so disinterested, so sublime. In the progress of ages, England's naval triumphs will shrink into a more and more narrow space in the records of our race. This moral triumph, will fill a broader, brighter page."

Napoleon, it is calculated, in the course of his career, occasioned the sacrifice of three millions of the human race. The suppression of the Slave Trade would, in a very few years, save as many lives as he was permitted to destroy.-Buxton.

Decay of Art.-In all cases, the north and east sides of old buildings are found to be in a better state of preservation than the south and west sides, in consequence, doubtless, of the greater alterations of temperature to which they are exposed.-Mr. C. H. Smith.

Ariosto. The inspection of the MS. of Ariosto preserved at Ferrara greatly confirms the opinion of those who think that consummate excellence, united to the appearance of ease, is almost always the result of great labour. The corrections are innumerable. Several passages, where, as they now stand, the words and thoughts seem to flow along with the most graceful facility, and the rhyme to come unsought for, have been altered over and over, till scarce a line of the first draught has been allowed to remain. Another MS. of Ariosto is preserved at Ferrara. It is a letter to his farming servant in Tuscany. It is curious, from being full of grammatical errors and vulgarisms. He writes to his servant in the same dialect in which his servant would have written to him.-Earl Dudley's Letters.

The Profits of the African Slave Trade are immense on a cargo of the Venus, last year, the net profit was £36,000. Twice as many human beings are now victims of the Slave Trade as when Wilberforce and Clarkson entered upon their noble task. Mr. Buxton states that there are annually carriedinto captivity,

For the Christian Slave Trade 150,000
For the Mohammedan ............... 50,000

Making a total of 200,000 Altogether, one thousand human victims are daily required to feed this vast and devouring consumer of mankind.-Buxton.

Africa. Within a few weeks' voyage of the Thames, there is a people who worship the shark and the snake; and a prince who imagines the agency of an evil spirit in the common properties of the loadstone.-Laird.

Evidence.-Every man that will confess the truth, must own, that some of the things of which he feels most sure, are those of which he would be utterly unable to offer such a proof as another might not find very good reason to reject.-Lord Dudley's Letters.

Eggs. The value of eggs annually imported into London, Liverpool, and Glasgow, from France and Ireland alone, considerably exceeds a quarter of a million of money.

African Death-drum.-In the slave sacrifices in Africa, the death-drum is beaten at the moment when the fatal knife severs the head from the body, and the very sound causes a thrill of horror. The language of this drum is known by the natives whenever they are within hearing; so that they are as well aware of the moment when a sacrifice is made as though they were on the very spot. They think the drum says, 66 King, I have killed him." Tasso. At Ferrara is preserved an original MS. of Tasso-"not a canto of the Jerusalem-but a letter which it fills one with shame and grief to think that so great a man should ever have had occasion to write. It is dated from prison, and addressed to a friend, whom he desires to get five shirts washed for him; 'all of them,' he observes, 'also require mending.' He seems to have been in extreme poverty and distress. There is hardly a more signal disgrace to civilized society than the fate of this great man."-Earl Dudley's Letters.

The Nelson Testimonial has been contracted for by Messrs. Peto and Grissell, for £17,860, the lowest of six tenders, the highest of which reached £27,000.

Caoutchouc grows so plentifully in the neighbourhood of Sierra Leone, as to be easily obtained by making incisions into the tree, from which it flows, like cream, into calabashes tied underneath, and hardens in a few hours.

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TRINITY CHURCH, GRAY'S INN
ROAD.

THIS edifice, of pleasing design, if not conspicuous and important in regard to size, has lately been erected as a Chapel of Ease to the extensive and populous parish of St. Andrew, Holborn. The architect is Mr. James Pennithorne; the builder, Mr. W. Cubitt; the amount of the contract was £6,868; and the good work has emanated from Her Majesty's Commissioners for Building New Churches, whose pious labours in behalf of the Establishment entitle them to the universal gratitude of the community. There is scarcely a district in London, the provision in which was so inadequate to the spiritual wants of its population, as the parish of St. Andrew. Previous to the year 1832, its only church was that nearly at the summit of Holborn Hill; and the labour entailed the curates appointed to it was exceedingly great, in consequence, especially, of the number of free schools which they were required to visit each day, the distance of the principal burialground from the church, and the great extent of the parish. The first successful attempt to remedy this defect was in the erection of St. Peter's Church, Saffron Hill, a locality proverbial for the depraved state of a large portion of its inhabitants. This circumstance "led certain individuals to believe that the erection

upon

of an additional place of worship in the immediate neighbourhood of the worst part of the parish might prove beneficial, and through their exertions, aided mainly by the present pious and learned Bishop

of London,-than whom no one has more energetically and successfully laboured to increase facilities for devotion, and to dis. seminate the truths of Christianity, the liberty of Saffron Hill, Hatton Garden, and Ely Rents, was recognised as a distinct district, and the church called St. Peter's, Saffron Hill, was built."

This success encouraged the Commissioners to the erection of a second church in another part of the parish, namely, in Gray's Inn Road, immediately adjoining the principal burial-ground above mentioned. This church was commenced in the autumn of 1837, and the work proceeded with such rapidity that the external walls and roof were up before the following December. The structure is of white brick, with stone finishings. A flight of eight steps extends along the whole west end, or front, which has three doors; that

Godwin's Churches of London, vol. ii., which see for an Engraving and description of St. Peter's and St. Andrew's. The former is from the designs of Mr. C. Barry, architect of the New Houses of Parliament.

in the centre is loftier than the others, and slightly recessed within a large arch placed between two antæ, which, with their entablature, form a break, as centre to the composition, crowned by a pediment. The side doors are circular-headed, within square architraves, with both frieze and cornice. Above them the impost mouldings of the large arch are carried on as a string-course, about half way the entire height of the front; and in the space between this and the entablature is a small circular panel. These lateral divisions of the front are returned of the same breadth on the sides, without other difference in design, than the substitution of a similarly decorated window for the door in the lower part. The rest of the flank beyond this return has two series of windows, the uppermost of which are openings between antæ, carried up to the general entablature. Ábove the pedimented centre of the front is a square belfry; and each side projects so as to form a re-entering angle at the corners, with those adjoining it; has two pilasters, and is crowned by a small pediment. The belfry terminates in a kind of cupola roof, with a pinnacle and cross. The building contains 1,556 sittings, of which 864 are "free for ever;" and below are catacombs for about 1,000 bodies.

The very competent architectural critic in the Companion to the Almanac for 1839, whence the preceding details have been adapted, considers this church to have

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something rather happy and pleasing in its façade, which, though sparingly, is consistently, decorated, and marked by unity however, to be viewed en face, (as our and expression of design. It requires, artist has sketched it in the prefixed Engraving,) for the side elevations greatly disturb the effect of the front: it would, therefore, have been, though a very small alteration, a very great improvement, had the curved screen walls, which enclose the bronze railings, been carried up to the level of the string-course, in continuation of the impost of the arch, within which the centre door is placed; for, by that means, the lower windows of the side would have been effectually concealed."

OBSERVANDA.

law should speak the same language; but It is necessary that the orator and the when the law speaks one, and the orator another, it is right that you should give your support to the justice of the law, and not to the presumption of the speaker.Eschines.

To write, speak, meditate, or act, when we are not provided with facts to direct our thoughts, is to navigate a coast full of

measures,

not

I was no party man men, were the object of my concern.Wilberforce.

Every discovery opens a new field for the investigation of facts, and shews us the imperfection of our theories. It has justly been said, that the greater the circle of light, the greater the boundary of darkness by which it is surrounded.-Sir H. Davy.

Those who attempt to reason us out of our follies, begin at the wrong end, since the attempt naturally presupposes us capable of reason; but to be made capable of this, is one great point of the cure.Goldsmith.

"I know of no such thing as genius," said Hogarth to Gilbert Cooper; "genius is nothing but labour and diligence.'

Fortune comes to you in the only manner in which you would give her a hearty welcome; she is brought by Virtue, and attended by Honour.-Lyttelton to Chatham.

Folly consists in the drawing of false conclusions from just principles; by which it is distinguished from madness, which draws just conclusions from false principles.-Locke.

It is more from carelessness about truth, than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world.-Johnson.

He who is always his own counsellor will often have a fool for his client.Hunter.

It is the virtue of few words, to render plain that which thousands have obscured; as one glass will transmit a bright image of the sun, where hundreds produce but darkness and confusion.-Macculloch.

If good people would but make goodness agreeable, and smile, instead of frowning in their virtue, how many would they win to the good cause.-Usher.

He whose heart is not excited upon the spot which a martyr has sanctified by his

sufferings, or at the grave of one who has largely benefited mankind, must be more inferior to the multitude in his moral, than he can possibly be raised above them in his intellectual, nature.-Southey.

The sceptre is a more ancient symbol of royalty than the crown. Homer speaks nesis, of far “elder memory," of "sceptred kings;" and the book of Geas denoting a king of superior power. There is a very early form of delivering this ensign of authority preserved in the Saxon coronasucceeding reigns usually place it in the tion services; and the coins and seals of hands of our monarchs.-Taylor's Glory of Regality.

by the Lateran Council under Pope Julius Christianissimus, (most Christian,) was, XI., conferred on the Kings of England in the fifth year of Henry VIII., though previously used by Henry VII., and since only B. by the French King.

THE KING'S CHAMPION.

One of the most striking features of the chivalry of former ages, that has been continued to our own time, is the King's (or Queen's) Champion, an attendant officer at our coronations. The first account we have of a Champion appearing to assert the right of the monarch to the throne, was at the coronation of Richard II. (1377); the practice, however, is proved to be of much more remote origin; and William the Conqueror is generally supposed to have introduced it. Sir John Dymock claimed the honour at Richard's coronation, and exercised it as holding the manor of Scrivelsby, in Lincolnshire, in right of his wife, Margaret, daughter of Sir John Marmion. Before the second course, at the coronation dinner, Sir John rode* into Westminster Hall, attended by two esquires, pages, &c., and, by proclamation, through Garter King-at-arms, cast his gauntlet, and challenged to single and mortal combat whoever should dispute the King's right. This service has, from that time to our own, been performed by the Dymocks of Scrivelsby manor, worth about £1,200 per annum, by the tenure of the service.

A ludicrous circumstance occurred at the coronation of William and Mary. Charles Dymock, Esq., who then exercised his right, cast his gauntlet in the usual form, and the challenge was proclaimed, when an old woman, who had entered the Hall on crutches, took it up, and quitted the spot with extraordinary agility, leaving

The horse ridden by the Champion at the coronation of George III. is said to have been that on which George 11. was mounted at the battle of Dettingen.

her crutches, and a glove, with a challenge in it, to meet the Champion, next day, at Hyde Park. Accordingly, the old woman, or, as is generally supposed, a good swordsman in disguise, attended at the hour and place named; but the Champion did not make his appearance; nor is it recorded whether any measures were taken to discover who had passed so disloyal a joke. B.

THE EXCHEQUER RECORDS.

(From the Times.)

On Saturday, the 11th inst., there was a sale, at Mr. S. Leigh Sotheby's, of those selections from the public documents which had been previously sold by Government authority as waste paper, and to which transaction such frequent allusion has been made in the House of Lords. The sale excited considerable interest. Mere shreds of papers, it will be seen, brought large prices; proving the interest taken in the documents, and the propriety of consigning such records, if of use no longer to the Government, to some public institution, such as the State Paper Office, or the British Museum; where they might be consulted by really competent persons, instead of being somewhat wantonly destroyed, or ridiculously sold as waste. The title-page of the catalogue thus characterizes the collection brought to the hammer:-"Historical and public documents, attested by Royal and official autograph signatures, from the time of Henry VIII. to the commencement of George III., more particularly during the reign of Elizabeth and the eventful periods of Charles I., the Protectorate, Charles II., and William and Mary; consisting of historical documents, Privy-Seal loans, grants in aid, annuities, Exchequer and pension allowance payments; with the respective autograph signatures of acquittances; being of the most eminent and conspicuous statesmen, and other great men, of those days. Among the Royal signatures are those of Henry VIII., Elizabeth, Charles I., (as Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall,) Charles II., William III., Anne, George II, and III., both as guardian of the kingdom and king. Among the historical documents will be found," &c.

The following are some of the lots, with the prices obtained for them attached :—

(9.) 1. An Account due to Will. Davison, Esq., Her Majesty's agent in the Low Countries, for his posting charges to and from Brussels to Andwerpe, 1577.-2. His bill of charges for his wife's transportation and passage, with her family and carriages, from London to Andwerpe, in October, 1577.3. "The charges of the dynner made for the ArchDuke Mathias, and other noblemen of the Low Countries, at Andwerpe, fiveth of Dec., (1578,) by Will. Davison, Esq., Her Majesty's Agent theare,"

the latter imperfect. All these papers are signed by the Privy Council-W. Burghley, (Lord High Treasurer,) Fra. Walsingham, (Secretary of State,) Wa. Mildmay, with his autograph authority, "Let this be paid," W. Davison, (made Secretary of State after his return in 1579.) Secretary Davison had been employed by Queen Elizabeth, in 1575, to urge the Netherlanders to a peace, (Kennet, i. p. 454,) and with whom she made an offensive alliance against Philip II. Duke Mathias was Governor-General of the Low Countries in 1578. These national documents are well preserved, and become highly interesting to the historian, since neither Rapin nor Smollett mention the fact of Davison's second embassy in 1577.-£1. 18.

(27.) An Order of the Privy Council for the repayment to the Earl of Hertford, Lieutenant for the county of Somerset, the sum due to the county for the levying and clothing of troops, dated Whitehall, Nov. 3, 1616; signed T. Suffolke, Lenox, G. Cant. (George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury,) W. Knollys, (Viscount Wallingford,) L. Elie, (Lancelot Andrews, Bishop of Ely,) John Digby, (Baron Digby of Sherborne,) Thomas Lake, (one of the Principal Secretaries of State, 1616,) Fulke Greville, (Baron Brooke, of Beauchamp Court, Warwickshire,) Sir Ralph Winwood, (Secretary of State,) and Sir Julius Cæsar. Directed to "the Earl of Suffolke, Lord High Treasurer of England, and Sir Fulke Greville, Exchequer," in fine preservation.-£3. 15s. Chancellor and Under Treasurer of his Majesties

(28.) An Order in Council under the Privy Seale to repay Edmond Nicholson his disbursements for levy

ing and cloathing the quota of Troops embarked at Bristol for Ireland, dated from the Court at Richmond, Feb. 28, 1601; signed by the Earl of Nottingham; T. Buckhurst; Jo. Cant. (John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury); Tho. Egerton (Baron of Ellesmere, and Viscount Brackley, of Brackley, 1616); W. Knollys, J. Fortescue, J. Popham, and J. Herbert.-£1. 18.

(29.) The Order for the payment of a messenger for summoning various persons to appear at the Court of Exchequer, 1602, with the autograph signatures of T. Buckhurst, Edw. Coke, (the Queen's Attorney-General,) Tho. Fleming, (Solicitor-General,) and Vinc. Skinner.-2. An Order for the Expenses of a Yeoman of the Prince's wardrobe ; signed by Sir Ro. Carey, 1619.-63.

(30.) A Warrant, by virtue of the Privy Seal, for the payment of three thousand pounds to Sir John Fortescue, late Master of His Majesty's wardrobe, "for things necessarie for the coronation," (of James I.,) dated Whitehall, the 1st day of March, 1603, with the sign manual of the Privy CouncilEarl of Nottingham, Lenox, (Duke,) T. Buckhurst, (created Earl of Dorset,) T. Ellesmere, Canc., (Sir Th. Egerton, created Baron of Ellesmere, and Lord High Chancellor,) Suffolke, Gilb. Shresbury (Gilbert Talbot, Earl,) Devonshire, (Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy, created Earl, July, 1603,) H. Northampton, Robert Cecyll, J. Mar, (John 6th Earl,) Ē. Zouch, (Edward, Baron Zouch, died 1625,) Sir J. Popham, (Chief Justice,) J. Herbert (E. of Cumberland,) Geo. Clifford, (Earl, died 1605,) and Sir W. Knollys, controller.-£2. 6s.

(42.) Theobalds.-1. The Issue of £1,000 for the purchase of lands for enlarging Theobald's Park.2. An Order for payment of monies to Robert Lowen, for a copyhold estate, &c., taken into Theobald's Park, March 17, 1617, with autograph authority of Thom. Coventrye.-3. An Order of payment to Mr. Treswell, for work done in Theobald's Park, with the autograph of L. Cranfield, (Lionel Cranfield, Lord Cranfield, afterwards Earl of Middlesex,) and Robert Pye, dated 1622.-4. Estimate of repairs to be done at Theobald's, Woodstock, and Haveringe Park, 1634, and one other, signed Robt. Treswell. -£2. 23.

(48.) 1. The charges for the entertainment of Sir Peter Paul Rubens (the illustrious painter, Secretarie and Consellor of State to the King of Spain,