478 OBITUARY.-Bill of Mortality.-Markets. aged 54, W. Hamper, esq. F.S.A. Of this distinguished antiquary, a memoir will appear in our next. May 7. At Leamington Spa, Mr. Henry Cobb, youngest son of Timothy Cobb, esq. banker, of Banbury, Oxfordshire. April 27. Anne, wife of W. Welch Lea, esq. of Beaudesert, near Henley, in Arden. WESTMORELAND.-April 18. At Eden Grove, near Appleby, aged 71, Richard Tinkler, esq. WILTS.-April 22. In his 78th year, Tho. Waters, esq. of Boscombe, Wilts April 24. In his 40th year, W. Oakes Blount, esq. of Lidiard House, Lieut. R. N. only son of Sir Charles Burrell Blount. April 26. At Salisbury, in her 91st year, Frances, relict of the late W. Ghost, esq. WORCESTER.-April 28. Aged 85, W. Thompson, esq. of Henwick Hill, Worcester. YORK.-April 16. At Huddersfield, aged 78, Mr. Edw. Hirst, father of Mr. W. Hirst, the celebrated cloth manufacturer of Leeds. April 21. Aged 21, John Farsyde Watson, esq. of Bilton Park, near Knaresborough. As an amateur performer on the violincello, Mr. W. was inferior only to the celebrated Lindley. At Hyde Lodge, Elizabeth, wife of the Rev. C. Carr, Rector of Headbourne. WALES.-April 28. At Bettws, Abergele, in her 84th year, Eliz. relict of the late Rev. John Fleming Stanley. [May, May 1. Aged 54, at Maeslough Castle, South Wales, Walter Wilkins, esq. May 4. At Brynhufod, Carmarthenshire, in her 43d year, Mary wife of Edw. Bowles Symes, esq. and dau. of the late Mr. War burton. bart. ABROAD.-Oct. 18. At Allahbod, Lt.Col. Hugh Wrottesley, of the Bengal Establishment, brother to Sir John Wrottesley, At the Cape of Good Hope, Capt. Tho. Erasmus Ward, of the E. I. C.'s ship Eliza. Dec. 31. March. 24. At Malta, Anthony, eldest son of Anthony Surtees, esq. of Hamsterley Hall, co. Durham. March 27. At Elsinore, in Denmark, in the 64th year of his age, of apoplexy, Thos. Ellah, esq. principal of the firm of Balfour, Ellah, Ramals, and Co. He was a native of Market-Weighton, in Yorkshire. At Jersey, aged 82, James Trimbey, esq. of Lewisham, Kent, for nearly half a century common-councilman of the City of London. ... April 14. At Paris, M. L'Abbé de Pompieres, father of the Chamber of Deputies. April In consequence of a fall in ascending one of the Egyptian Pyramids, aged 32, James Maze, esq. eldest son of Peter Maze, Esq. of Rownham-lodge, co. Somerset, and partner in the House of Messrs. Peter Maze and Sons, merchants, of Bristol. BILL OF MORTALITY, from April 20 to May 24, 1831. PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW, May 23. Smithfield, Hay 27. 10s. to 3l. 15s. Straw 17. 14s. to 17, 18s. Clover 31. 15s. to 5l. 10s. SMITHFIELD, May 23. To sink the Offal-per stone of 8lbs. Beef...... ............ 2s. 4d. to 3s. 8d. Lamb .... Os. Od. to Os. Od 2,204 Calves 240 Head of Cattle at Market. March 25: Sheep and Lambs 20,380 Pigs 200 COAL MARKET, May 23, 25s. Od. to 40s. Od. TALLOW, per cwt.-Town Tallow, 49s. 6d. Yellow Russia, 49s. Od. SOAP.—Yellow, 76s. Mottled 82s. Curd, 84s.6d.-CANDLES,8s.6d. per doz. Moulds, 10s. In the Price of HOPS there is little variation. PRICES OF SHARES, May 23, 1831, At the Office of WOLFE, BROTHERS, Stock & Share Brokers, 23, Change Alley, Cornhill. Price. Div.p.ann. Ashton and Oldham Manchester & Liverp. 186 210 Birmingh. (1-8th sh.) 250 0 12 10 WATER-WORKS. Brecknock & Abergav. 17 0 Manchester & Salford 44 0 4 p.ct. Derby West Middlesex Dudley Grantham Loughborough Ellesmere and Chester Forth and Clyde Glamorganshire Grand Surrey Mersey and Irwell Monmouthshire N.Walsham & Dilham 240 0 0 27 0 Alliance 84/ 4 p.ct. 13 12 8 Atlas 10 0 0 10 13 0 County Fire 37 5p.ct. 2 10 Guardian Eagle Globe 18 1 0 Ditto Life METEOROLOGICAL DIARY, BY W. CARY, STRAND, 24 1994 82 83 25 82 483 -91 24 98 17 204 909092 994 17 204 2 dis. par. New South Sea Annuities, April 29, 777; May 10, 82; 17, 828. Old South Sea Annuities, April 29, 77; May 3, 78; 4, 777; 11, 80; 12, 801. J. J. ARNULL, Stock Broker, Bank-buildings, Cornhill, J. B. NICHOLS AND SON, 25, PARLIAMENT-STREET. 6 pm. 8 pm. 9 pm. 7 10 pm. 5 pm. 6 pm. 7 pm. 5 7 pm. 7 pm. 9 7 pm. 7 8 pm. 8 7 pm. 6 8 pm. 6 7 pm. 7 pm. 9 pm. 9 8 pm. 8 9 pm. 6 pm. 7 pm. MINOR CORRESPONDENCE. Mr. J. F. RUSSELL says "I owe you my best acknowledgments for referring me to the interesting account of some of my ancestors in the 94th volume of your miscellany. There is one omission, however, in those biographical notices, which I should thank you to supply, by inserting the following brief narrative of the Rev. John Meadows, brother of Sir Philip Meadows, K.B. Ambassador, &c. extracted from Palmer's Nonconformist Memorial, vol. iii. P 284-5. 'OWSDEN rectory, Suffolk. John Meadows, M.A. of both Universities, and Fellow of Christ's Coll. Cambridge. He was a person holy in all manner of conversation; constantly careful to please God, and preserve the peace of his conscience, always jealous of his own heart, and on every occasion willing to try it. He served God while in his public ministry with great labour and comfortable success. A diligent visitor and instructor of his flock, and a practical and moving preacher. He ever maintained a catholic charity for all Protestants, and greatly bewailed the divisions of the church, and the intemperate heats of all persuasions. He held occasional communion with the Church of England, but could not desert the duty of his office. Such was the integrity of his life, such was his humility, gospel sincerity, and quiet deportment; such his moderation as to the circumstantials of religion, and so well did he fill up all the relations in life, that his enemies could only object Nonconformity as his crime. He was really a pattern of true religion; he preached freely, he lived exemplarily, he died comfortably in the 75th year of his age, and was buried honourably.'My esteemed uncle, John Fuller, esq. of Dunmow, the hereditary proprietor of the manor of Witnesham, possesses a valuable and interesting portrait in oil of the above clergyman, in which he is represented as a youth of 16, in his academical dress, with his hair flowing gracefully upon his shoulders." L. remarks-" TEMPLARIUS, on the Administration of Oaths, having alluded to the engagement of the servant of Abraham upon being sent into a distant country to fetch a wife for his master's son, is referred to an explanation of great delicacy and learning, respecting the mode of adjuration by putting his hand under the thigh of the patriarch: not because "the posterity of the patriarchs are described as coming out of the thigh, and this ceremony therefore having some relation to the belief of the promise, to bless all the nations of the earth by means of one that was to descend from Abraham," as in Burder's Oriental Customs, cited by your correspondent, p. 598, note, vol. c. pt. ii., but actually thus swearing by the sign of circumcision, typical of that mise. Harmer and Barrington both failed pro to explain this custom; which is, however, elegantly and clearly exemplified by Dr. Adam Clarke, and confirmed by the Targum." ARCHIPRESBYTER RURALIS, (who has been for some time engaged in collecting materials in illustration of the office of rural Dean or Archipresbyter,) enquires, whether a seal of that ancient office exists in any of the public or private repositories of the kingdom That the functionary in question had his sigillum auctenticum, on which was engraven the name of his office, there is no doubt. Indeed, by the 28th constitution of Cardinal Otho, it is expressly enjoined that rural Deans and other officials should resign their seals of office immediately on the expiration of the period of their tenancy. Mr. MADDEN, of the British Museum, would feel obliged for any information respecting the Original Will of Queen Mary I. which, at the beginning of the last century, was in the hands of Mr. Hale of Alderley, Gloucestershire, (a son of Sir Matthew Hale,) and appears since to have been mislaid, or lost. The Rev. J. GRAHAM says "A friend of mine, James Prior, esq. of the Royal Navy, the author of the Life of Burke, has undertaken the Biography of Oliver Goldsmith, and requests information on the subject. He has been already tolerably successful in Ireland, and is not without hope of recovering some dormant documents in England which may be of use to him." A BIBLIOGRAPHER inquires who the "Richard Cavendish" was, who is mentioned in a letter from William Capon to Cardinal Wolsey (inserted in Ellis's Original Letters, 1st series, vol. 1), as having presented a "bukk" to "6 your Grace's college at Ipswich. He appears to have been of Suffolk, and is called " your Grace's servant.' M. U. will feel obliged for any notices of Benjamin Parker, who, from 1744 to his death in 1747, read Theological and Philosophical Lectures in London, having previously published several treatises in these sciences. He is slightly mentioned by Hutton, Hist. of Derby, and by Lysons, Mag. Brit. Derbyshire. M. U. is informed that there is no other engraved portrait extant of Rev. Stebbing Shaw, the historian of Staffordshire, than a private plate drawn and etched by Thomas Donaldson; an inferior artist, who was under obligatious to Mr. Shaw. It bears scarcely any resemblance to the original. M. T. is informed that the MSS. from which Mr. Shaw compiled his History of Staffordshire were privately bought by the late Mr. Hamper, whose collections are now preparing for sale by Mr. Evans. The communication of H. H. has never been received. |