missions to this country: as St. Paul, Joseph of Arimathea, and St. Augustine and his followers. In the second tier are the angels, chanting Gloria in excelsis, and holding crowns spiritual and temporal, the rewards of those predications. In the third tier, to the south, subjects of the Old Testament, to the north of the New, -compositions of the highest merit and interest: two of them are cited by Flaxman as examples of pure and expressive art. In the fourth and fifth tiers is contained an historical series of the lords spiritual and temporal, saints, and martyrs, under whom the Church has flourished in this country: as King Ina, founder of the conventual church; Edward the elder, founder of the episcopal church of Wells; the Saxon, Danish, Norman, and Plantagenet dynasties, individually and most significantly represented: together with these are the founders of those dynasties, the remarkable daughters, and allies by marriage, of the royal families of England, with the leading characters and lords of the Church: as Archbishops Brithelmus, St. Dunstan, Bishop Asser, Grimbald, the Earl of Mercia, surrounding Alfred, &c. ; they form a complete illustration of William of Malmesbury, and the early historians of our country-' a calendar for unlearned men,' as well as for unlearned artists; for thus are many of them as beautiful as they are deeply interesting to Englishmen. In the sixth tier, there are 92 compositions of the Resurrection, startling in significance, and pathos, and expression, worthy of John of Pisa, or a In the se greater man, John Flaxman.

venth tier are the angels sounding the last trump, the four archangels conspicuous. In the eighth tier are the apostles, of colossal dimensions and admirable sculpture. In the ninth tier are the remains of the Saviour in judgment, with niches on either side, for the Virgin and St. John, as usual. This magnificent picture of the great doctrines of the Christian dispensation, and its peculiar relation to this country, hitherto sealed, was unravelled at no small expense of time and meditation (since there are no inscriptions or records of any kind), and indeed of colds and catarrhs, caught at Kill-Canon corner, in the months of November and December."

BRITISH URNS.

Several British sepulchral urns have lately been dug up on the lands of Mr. Roker, at Shackleford, near Peper Harow, in the county of Surrey. They are of inferior workmanship, and contained, as usual, a deposit of burnt bones, but nothing else remarkable was discovered.

FRENCH ANTIQUARIAN INTELLIGENCE. At Vaudreuil, in the Eure, some workmen have lately turned up a stone, said to be druidical, about 8 feet by 7, under which they found 25 or 30 skeletons, placed in rude graves, separated from each other by unhewn blocks of stone, and covered with slight strata of earth. Numerous funeral urns were also found among them. It appears that the men covered the hole up again with the same stone, which they had only removed in order to widen a road.

A few days afterwards, several of the public authorities of Louviers had the stone again removed, and found among the bodies a flint axe-head, fitted into a bone handle, which was rudely sculptured. This curious instrument, supposed to have been used in religious ceremonies, was in a fine state of preservation. A few paces to the east from this druidical tomb, is a druidical stone, 15 feet high, still erect; to the south of the first stone is a sort of cave, and at some small distance down the hill, is a third stone like the first, lying down, and supposed to cover a

tomb.

A series of Roman sepulchres has been recently discovered at Daspich, near Thionville, in a field abutting on the Roman road from Treves to Sirmium. Under the head of one of the skeletons were found 111 small bronze coins, but they were so much oxidized, that only three were able to be recognized: these proved to be coins of Constantine, Constantine Chlorus, and Maximianus.

The Royal Commission of Monuments in Belgium, has just done good service in preserving from destruction an ancient Mausoleum of the Dukes of Brabant, in the church of Tervueren, which the ignorant authorities of the place had made up their minds to demolish. In front of the high altar of the church stands a simple sarcophagus covering a vault, in which were found the bodies of the following personages :-Anthony Duke of Lothier, Brabant, and Limburg, who was killed at Azincourt in 1415; Jeanne de St. Pol, his wife; John IV. son and successor of the above, founder of the University of Louvain, ob. 1426; Philip, brother and heir to the above, ob. 1430. There is an inscription on the sarcophagus composed by the celebrated scholar, Lipsius.

The remains of a Roman city have been recently discovered near Hyères in the Var. The excavations, which were carried on for about 100 yards from the sea, have laid open an hypocaust of large dimensions, and several apartments with paint

ings on the walls. The colours of these paintings, though exceedingly vivid on being first laid open, soon faded from the action of the air. Several indications of the action of an earthquake are perceptible in these ruins, which are supposed to be those of Pomponiana, a station for Roman gallies, mentioned by Antoninus. Coins of Nero, Trajan, Marcus Agrippa, and some of the Lower Empire, have been found here.

A druidical monument has been lately observed at Languidic, near Quinipily, in Britany. It consists of three ranges of stones, like those at Carnac, of the class of Menhir. Their prevailing direction is from east to west, and each line is about 750 paces long. The northernmost line curves towards the south, for the first third of its extent; and the southernmost line is full of sinuosities, with a prevailing tendency to curve with its two extremities

towards the north. To an unexperienced observer, the monument might not at first sight be easily remarked, because most of the stones are thrown down, and those of one of the lines are built into a wall; but, when once observed, the nature of the monument cannot be mistaken. Each of the stones is about 10 feet by 3 ft. and 2 ft. they stand generally at 5 paces from each other, though at some places their distance is increased to 15 feet. The lines seem to be radii of an immense circle, since they approach each other at one extremity, are at 100 paces distance from each other, at 375 paces from the centre, and are at 300 paces from each other at the other extremity, which is on the circumference of the supposed circle. The surfaces of the stones are perfectly rough, and not even a name is assigned to the monument by the tradition of the country.

AFFGHANISTAN.

The British army has quitted Cabool, where Shah Poorah, one of the sons of Shah Soojah, was recognised as sovereign by the neighbouring chiefs. The Balla Hissar, at Cabool, was left entire, to serve as a place of security for the young sovereign; but the grand bazaar was destroyed, in consequence of its having been the scene of the indignities inflicted upon the corpse of Sir W. M'Naghten. Akhbar Khan fled to Balk. All the neighbouring fortresses were demolished before the departure of the British troops, which then commenced their homeward march in three divisions, the first under General Pollock, the second under General M'Caskill, and the third under General Nott. The first division effected their march through the Passes without loss; but the second was less successful, the mountaineers attacking it on the night of Nov. 3, near Ali- Musjid. Their object was to plunder the baggage, a portion of which fell into their hands. Two officers, Lieut. Christie, of the Artillery, and Ensign Nicholson, of the 30th Bengal Native Infantry, were killed, and about 100 Sepoys were killed or wounded, with some of the camp followers. Two guns also were taken, but one was retaken next morning, and the army continued its march to Peshawur. General Nott, with his division, arrived in safety on the 6th at Jumrood, in the Sikh territory. The GENT. MAG. VOL. XIX.

British troops were to march through the Sikh dominions, and to commence their route on the 10th of November. The Governor-General was at Mumehmajra on the 14th of November, on his way to Ferozepore, where fêtes were preparing in honour of the arrival of the army from Cabool. All the Affghan chiefs, with their families, were to be liberated on the passing of the Indus by the British; the navigation of this river is now fully opened.

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

Affairs on the frontier bear a very unpromising aspect. The Boers, who emigrated over the borders some years since, are in open rebellion, having declared their independence of the British government, as a branch of the Natal republic. The defeated farmers are also in a state of commotion.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

Dec. 7. Sarah Ann Chapman-Yapp, of Half Moon-street, and of the Brunswick Estate, Bath-road, Cheltenham, spinster, to discontinue the surname and arms of Yapp, and use her surname and arms of Chapman only.

Dec. 16. The Rev. Robert Nicholl, M.A of Dimsland's House, and of Nash, co. Glouc. and Elizabeth his wife, only surviving dau. and heir of Charles Loden Carne, esq. Capt. R.N. to take the name and arms of Carne instead of Nicholl.

Dec. 24. Major-Gen. Lord Saltoun, C.B., Major-Gen. Robert Bartley, 49th Foot, and Major-Gen. James H. Schoedde, 55th Foot, to be K.C.B.-To be Companions of the Bath: Col. Colin Campbell, 98th Foot; Col. P. E. Craigie, 55th Foot; Lieut.-Col. John Knowles, R. Art. ; Lieut.-Col. Jeremiah Cowper, 18th Foot; Lieut.Col. Wm. Johnstone, 26th Foot; Lieut.-Col. Charles Warren, 55th Foot; Lieut.-Col. G. A. Malcolm, 3d Light Drag.; Lieut. Col. D. L. Fawcett, 55th Foot; Lieut.-Col. J. B. Gough, 3d Light Drag.; Lieut.-Col. Norman Maclean, 55th Foot; Major John Grattan, 18th Foot; Major J. Hope Grant, 9th Light Dragoons; Major T. S. Reignolds, 49th Foot; Major Wm. Greenwood, R. Art; Major H. C. B. Daubeney, 55th Foot; Major Ferd. Whittingham, 26th Foot; Lieut.-Col. G. W. A. Lloyd, 68th Bengal N. Inf.; Lieut.-Col. R. W. Wilson, 65th Bengal N. Inf.; Lieut.-Col. F. S. Hawkins, 38th Bengal N. Inf.; Lieut.-Col. J. K. Luard, 2d Madras N. Inf.; Lieut.-Col. Fred. Blundell, Madras Art.; Lieut.-Col. C. W. Young, 44th Madras N. Inf.; Lieut.-Col. John Campbell, 41st Madras N. Inf.; Major Philip Anstruther, Madras Art.; Major Henry Moore, 34th Bengal N. Inf.; Major W. H. Simpson, 36th Madras N. Inf.; Major F. A. Read, 6th Madras N. Inf.; Major T. T. Pears, Madras Eng.; Major R. C. Moore, Madras Art.-Capt. Thomas Bouchier, R.N., C.B. to be a K.C.B.-To be Companions of the said Order :-Captains the Hon. F. W. Grey; Peter Richards; Sir J. E. Home, Bart.; Brevet Lieut.-Col. S. B. Ellis, R.M.; Captains Charles Richards; Henry Kollett; C. R. B. Watson; W. H. A. Morshead; Richard Collinson.-Major-Gen. John M'Caskill, 9th Foot, to be K.C.B.-To be Companions of the said Order:Col. Samuel Bolton, 31st Foot; Lieut.Col. Michael White, 3d Light Drag.; Lieut.Col. A. B. Taylor, 9th Foot; Lieut.-Col. Geo. Hibbert, 40th Foot; Lieut.-Col. Thomas Skinner, 31st Foot; Lieut.-Col. G. H. Lockwood, 3d Light Drag.; Major Franklin Lushington, 9th Foot; Major Ferd. White, 40th Foot.-Also the following officers of the Bengal Service to be Companions of the said Order :-Col. G. P. Wymer, 38th N, Inf.; Lieut.-Colonels C. F. Wild, 30th N. Inf.; John Tulloch, 60th N. Inf.; L. R. Stacey, 43d N. Inf.; G. W. Moseley, 64th N. Inf.; James M'Laren, 16th N. Inf.; A. F. Richmond, 33d N. Inf.; and C. R. W. Lane, 2nd N. Inf.; Majors W. J. Thompson, 12th N. Inf.; F. S. Sotheby, Art.; H. Delafosse, Art., G. R. Crommelin, 1st Cav.: C. D. Blair, 10th Cav.; Edw. Sanders, Eng.; J. H. Craigie, 20th N. Inf.; Joseph Ferris, 20th N. Inf.; W. Anderson, Art.; J. B. Backhouse, Art.; T.'H. Scott, 38th N. Inf.; Robert Leech, Bombay Eng.; Fred. Makeson, 14th Bengal N. Inf.Brevet, Capt. W. H. Cockburne, 95th Foot, to be Major.

Dec. 29. Sir Francis Hastings Doyle, Bart. of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-law, to be an Assistant Poor Law Commissioner for 30 days from the 2nd of January next, for inquiring specially into the employment of women and children in agriculture,

Dec. 30. 54th Foot, Capt. W. Y. Moore to be Major.-58th Foot, Major R. H. Wynyard to be Lieut.-Colonel.-Brevet, Capt. J. C. Green, of the 56th Foot, to be Major.-Staff, Lieut.Col. A. S. H. Mountain, 26th Foot, to be Deputy Adjutant-gen.

Jan. 2. Edward Davison, late of Tritlington, Northumberland, but now of Wheatfield-house, near Edinburgh, esq. and Isabella his wife, eldest daughter and coheir of George Tyzack, late of Hebron, Northumberland, deceased, to take the surname of Tyzack only, and bear the arms of Tyzack.

Jan. 5. Charles Winter, esq. to be one of her Majesty's Hon. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, vice Robinson.

Jan. 6. Lieut. R. J. Le Mesurier M'Clure to be Superintendent of Africans captured by her Majesty's ships of war, and liberated at the Havannah. William Walker, esq. to be Provost Marshal of the Island of Antigua.-17th Foot, Lieut.-Gen. Sir P. Maitland, K.C.B. from 76th Foot, to be Colonel.-76th Foot, Lieut.Gen. G. Middlemore, C.B. to be Colonel.

South Gloucester Militia, Robert Fitzhardinge Jenner, esq. to be Lieut.-Col.; Edward Weight, esq. to be Major.

Jan. 9. Royal Marines, Brevet Major D. Campbell to be Lieut.-Colonel.

Jan. 11. Charles Francis Robinson. esq. to be Coroner and Attorney in the Court of Queen's Bench.

Jan. 13. Scots Fusilier Guards, Lieut. and Capt. H. Bathurst to be Captain and Lieut.Colonel.

Jan. 14. Richard Thomas Staples, of Launton, co. Oxford, gent. eldest son of Moses Wm. Staples, of Norwood, Surrey, gent. by Anne, dau. of the Rev. Wm. F. Browne, D.D. of Launton, to take the name of Browne after Staples, and bear the arms of Browne in the first quarter.

Jan. 17. Brownlow Wynne Cumming, of Carthewin, co. Denbigh, esq. in compliance with the will of his kinsman Robt. Wm. Wynne, of Garthewin, esq. to take the name of Wynne only, and bear the arms in the first quarter.

Jan. 21. Knighted by patent, Captain Edward Belcher, of the Royal Navy.

Jan. 23. Edw. Somner Sedley, of Priddy's Head, near Gosport, esq. and Catharine his wife, one of the daughters of John Monkhouse, late of New Shoreham, by Jane eldest sister of Benj. Tillstone, of Moulescomb Place, Patcham, esq. to take the name of Tillstone after Sedley, and bear the arms of Tillstone, in the first quarter.

Jan. 24. George Frere, jun. esq. to be Commissioner, and Frederick Richard Surtees, esq. to be Arbitrator on the part of Her Majesty, and James Robert Mac Leay, esq. to be Secretary or Registrar, to the Mixed British and Portuguese Commission, to be established at the Cape of Good Hope, under the Treaty concluded at Lisbon, on the 3d of July, 1842, between Great Britain and Portugal, for the suppression of the slave trade.-David Turnbull, esq. to be Commissioner, and James Fitzjames, esq. to be Arbitrator on the part of Her Majesty, and Sydney John James, esq. to be Secretary or Registrar, to the Mixed British and Portuguese Commission, to be established at Jamaica, under the same Treaty.

Jan. 25. The Right Hon. Sir C. T. Metcalfe, Bart. G.C.B. to be Captain General and Governor in Chief of Her Majesty's provinces of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, and of the island of Prince Edward; and Governor General of all Her Majesty's provinces in North America, and of the island of Prince Edward.

Jan. 26. Robert Viscount Melville, K.T.; Robert-Montgomerie Lord Belhaven; Henry Home Drummond, esq.; James Campbell, of Craigie, esq.; Edward Twisleton, esq.; the Rev. Doctor Patrick Macfarlan, Minister of Greenock; and the Rev. James Robertson, Minister of Ellon, co. Aberdeen, to be Commissioners for inquiring into the practical operation of the Poor Laws in Scotland.-William Smith, Esq. Advocate, to be Secretary to the Commission.

Jan. 27. Brevet, Captains Charles Rees, Rifle Brigade, and John Gould, 88th Foot, to be Majors in the Army.

NAVAL PREFERMENTS. Promotions.-Commander Charles Richards, of the Cornwallis, the bearer of dispatches from Sir W. Parker, in China, to the Admiralty, to the rank of Post Captain.-Lieut. Thomas Francis Birch to be Commander, in consequence of the recent war in China.Lieutenant W. Crispin (1825), commanding the Vulcan steamer; Lieut. E. Drew (1815), commanding the Harpy cutter; Lieut. W. Prowse (1814), stationed at Southampton; and Lieut. J. F. Stirling (late flag-Lieut. to Admiral Sir E. Codrington), to the rank of Commander.

Appointments-Commanders W. F. Glanville, to the St. Vincent; G. G. Otway, to the Vixen; G. G. Macdonald, to the Dublin; G. C. Robinson, to the Gleaner; William Maitland to the Spiteful new steam-vessel; Commander J. Harding, from the Comet, to the Columbia, surveying steamer; Lieut. B. Aplin to command the Acheron.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. Hon. and Rev. H. Pakenham to be Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin.

Rev. G. T. Pretyman, Chancellor of Lincoln
Cathedral, to be Canon Residentiary.
Rev. R. J. C. Alderson, Kirton R. Suffolk.
Rev. H. Arkwright, Bodenham V. co. Heref.
Rev. J. Armstrong, St. Paul's R. Exeter.
Rev. T. V. Bayne, St. John's P. C. Broughton,
Manchester.

Rev. R. Blackburn, Selham R. Sussex.
Rev. J. H. Bolland, Siddington R. Glouc.
Rev. R. M. Bonner, Ruabon V. Denbighsh.
Rev. E. N. V. Boydell, Wyngate Grange P.C.
Durham.

Rev. R. B. Cartwright, South Stoke R. Linc.
Rev. W. Chamberlain to be Incumbent of the
principal Church of Trinidad.
Rev. W.C. Clarke, Swinderby V. Lincoln.
Rev. Cranmer, St. Andrew's Ancoats P.C.

Manchester.

Rev. W. A. Dawson, Flitwick V. Beds.
Rev. G. Dealtry, Hinckley V. Leicestershire.
Rev. T. R. Dickinson, Salesbury P.C. Lanc.
Rev. J. Dixon, Marple P.C. Cheshire.
Rev. J. Dobson, Wivenhoe R. Essex.
Rev. C. Dodgson, Croft R. York.
Rev. G. Doughty, Todmorden P.C. Lanc.
Rev. J. C. Duncan, Bradford R. Devon.
Rev. J. C. Ebden, King's Ripton R. Hunts.
Rev. G. L'Estrange, Knockbride R. Cavan.
Rev. Richard Evans, St. John Llantrisaint P.C.
Glamorganshire.

Rev. C. W. Ethelston, Uplyme R. Devon.
Rev. R. Evans, St. John's P.C. Compton
Greenfield, Gloucestershire.

Rev. T. Farebrother, St. Margaret, Ward End,
P.C. near Birmingham.

Rev. J. Farrand, Cumberworth R. Yorkshire. Rev. R. Fenton, Cockerington V. Lincolnsh. Rev. J. J. Fletcher, D.D. Powerscourt R. Wicklow.

Rev. J. Garney, Hough on the Hill V. Linc.

Rev. J. Glencross, Helland R. Cornwall.
Rev. J. Grasett, Edwin Zouch and Tedstone
Wafer R. Worcestershire.

Rev. W. Haughton, South Wootton R. Norfolk.
Rev. G. Harrison, New Brentford P.C. Middx.
Rev. S. Hinds, D.D. Castleknock R. and Preb.
Dublin.

Rev. J. Hutchinson, Pleshy P.C. Essex.
Rev. T. James, Theddingworth V. Northampt.
Rev. F. Lear, Bishopstone R. Wilts.
Rev. L. Lucena, to be Honorary Canon of the
Cathedral Church, Gibraltar.

Rev. W. H. Newbolt, Paulerspury V. N'p'tn.
Rev. J. P. Pickleton, Birkenhead new ch.,
Cheshire.

Rev. J. D. Piggott, Radston P.C. N'p'nsh.
Rev. J. W. Reeve, Holy Trinity P.C. Ipswich.
Rev. J. Roberts, Llanhefydd V. Wales.
Rev. L. Roberts, Whitewell P.C. Lanc.
Rev. F. L. J. Russell, Little Eversden V. Camb.
Rev. H. T. Simpson, Marnhull R. Dorset.
Rev. S. Smith, Barrowford P.C. Lanc.
Rev. J. A. Stewart, Vange R. Essex.
Rev. T. Stringer, St. Anne P.C. Liverpool.
Rev. C. Tower, Chilmark R. Wilts.
Rev. R. Twigg, Tilmanstone V. Kent.
Rev. M. Vicars, Godmanstone R. and Nether
Cerne P.C. Dorset.

Rev. E. J. Walmesley, Hilperton V. Wilts.
Rev. W. Ward, Asgarby P.C. Lanc.
Rev. G. T. Ward, Headington R. Oxford.
Rev. W. Whitelegg, St. George's Hulme P.C.
Manchester.

Rev. D. A. Williams, Merthyr R. Carnarv.
Rev. R. J. W. Wright, Arreton V. I. of Wight.
Rev. J. C. D. Yule, Bradford R. Devon.

CHAPLAINS.

Rev. J. Buchanan, to the Forces at Gibraltar. Rev. C. D. Dalton, to be examining Chaplain to the Bishop of London.

Rev. W. A. Francis, to the Earl of Meath.
Rev. G. France, to the Earl of Erroll.
Rev. J. W. Markwell, to Viscount Torrington.
Rev. Melvin, to Portsmouth Garrison.
Rev. R. F. Meredith, to Lord Monteagle.
Rev. J. Pickwood, to Bp. of Antigua.
Rev. J. A. Stewart, to be English Chaplain at
Malines.

Rev. J. Stoddart, D.D. to the Duke of Dorset.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

Allan Maconochie, esq. advocate (son of Lord Meadowbank), to be Professor of Civil Law in Glasgow.

Rev. J. L. Allan, to be Second Master of Rochester cath. grammar-school.

Rev. J. Arrowsmith, to be Head Master of Leominster grammar-school.

Rev. J. D. Collis, to be Head Master of Bromsgrove school.

Rev. W. Singleton, to be Vice-Principal of Kingston College, Hull.

BIRTHS.

June 26. At Trematon Park, New South Wales, the wife of John Crichton Stuart M'Douall, esq. a son.

Nov. 9. At Jamaica, the wife of the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop, a dau.-18. At Malta, the wife of Capt. Fitzherbert, of the Rifle Brigade, a son.-25. In Chester-st. the wife of Charles S. Grey, esq. dau. of Sir Charles Elton, Bart. a dau.

Dec. 9. At Conock Manor House, the wife of Major-Gen. C. S. Flagan, C.B. a dau.-14. At Mottram St. Andrew, Cheshire, the wife of John S. A. Shuttleworth, esq. a dau.-16. At Minterne, Lady Theresa Digby, a dau. 17. At Clifton, the widow of the Rev. G. I. Majendie, Rector of Headington, Wilts, a dau.-At Brussels, the wife of Thomas Wa