It seems appropriate and desirable to give the above representation of Mr. Parkinson's ticket, for there are few who retain the original. Besides-the design is good, and as an engraving it is an orna

ment.

And as a memorial of the method adopted by sir Ashton Lever to obtain attention to the means by which he hoped to reimburse himself for his prodigious outlay, and also to enable the public to view the grand prize which the adventure of a guinea might gain, one of his advertisements is annexed from a newspaper of January 28, 1785.

IR ASHTON LEVER'S Lottery Tickets are now on sale at Leicesterhouse, every day (Sundays excepted) from Nine in the morning till Six in the evening, at One Guinea each; and as each ticket will admit four persons, either together or separately, to view the Museum, no one will hereafter be admitted but by the Lottery Tickets, excepting those who have already annual admission.

This collection is allowed to be infinitely superior to any of the kind in Europe. The very large sum expended in making it, is the cause of its being thus to be disposed

of, and not from the deficiency of the daily receipts (as is generally imagined) which have annually increased, the average amount for the last three years being 18337. per annum. The hours of admission are from Eleven till Four.

Good fires in all the galleries.

The first notice of the Leverian Museum is in the "Gentleman's Magazine" for May, 1773, by a person who had seen it it was first formed. Though many speciat Alkerington, near Manchester, when mens of natural history are mentioned, the collection had evidently not attained

its maturity. It appears at that time to

have amounted to no more than " upwards of one thousand three hundred glass cases, containing curious subjects, placed in three rooms, besides four sides of rooms shelved from top to bottom, with glass doors before them." The wo:ks of art particularized by the writer in the "Gentleman's Magazine," are "a head of his present majesty, cut in cannil coal, said to be a striking likeness; indeed the workmanship is inimitable-also a drawing in Indian ink of a head of a late duke

NATURALISTS' CALENDAR. Mean Temperature . . . 62 · 52.

July 19.

K. George IV. crowned.

Holiday at all the public offices.

"THE GLORY OF REGALITY."

This is the title of "A Historical Treatise on the Anointing and Crowning of the Kings and Queens of England, by Arthur Taylor, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. London: 1820." 8vo. pp.

440.

The present notice is designed to acquaint inquirers with the most important and satisfactory work regarding our regal ceremonies that exists. Mr. Taylor's volume is a storehouse of information concerning the kingly title and office, the regalia, the assistants at the coronation, the tenants of the crown by grand sergeantry performing services, the ceremonial, the processions, and the feast. That part of the book entitled a "Chronicle of the Coronations," is full of singular details. The "History of the Coronation Oath" is remarkably curious and interesting. There is likewise an appendix of important documents and records, a valuable index, and, according to a good old custom, which modern authors find it convenient to neglect, the reader is referred to every source of information on the subjects treated of, by a list of upwards of two hundred and thirty works resorted to, and quoted by Mr. Taylor, in the course of his labours. Few writers of the present day have achieved a monument of so much diligence as this work.-The trifling sum at which it was published can scarcely have remunerated its erudite author, beyond the expense of the paper and print and wood engravings.

This saint is in the church of England calendar and the almanacs.

Butler speaks of her merely as a virgin, who is "said" to have been instructed in the faith by a christian nurse, and persecuted by her father, who was a pagan priest; that after being tormented, she was martyred by the sword "in the last general persecution;" that "her name occurs in the litany inserted in the old Roman order," and in ancient Greek calendars; that, from the east, her veneration was exceedingly propagated in England, France, and Germany during the holy wars; that "Vida, the glory of the christian muses," honoured her as

one of the titular saints of Cremona, his native city, with two hymns, begging of God through her prayers" a happy death and a holy life; and that "her body is now kept at Monte Fiascone, in Tuscany."

The Egyptians are not more famous for embalming, than the Romish church is celebrated for the keeping of saints' bodies-with the additional reputation of a peculiar tact at discovering them. It was not at all uncommon to distinguish their bones, from other mortuary remains, a few centuries after death.

The illustrious father of the order of the jesuits, Peter Ribadeneira, rather confusedly relates that St. Margaret was devoured by the devil; and " in an other place it is sayd that he swalowed her into his bely," and that while in his inside she made the sign of the cross, and she "yssued out all hole and sounde," though it is added that this account "is apocrifum." We are told that a devil appeared to her in the likeness of a man, but she caught him by the head, threw him down, set her right foot on his neck, and said, "Lye still thou fende, under the fote of a woman." In that situation the devil admitted he was vanquished, and declared he would not have cared if a young man had conquered him, but he was very vexed to have been overcome by a young woman. St. Margaret asked him what he was, and he answered that his name was Veltis, that he was one of a multitude of devils who had been enclosed in a brass vessel by Solomon, and that after Solomon's death this vessel was broken at Babylon by persons who supposed it contained a treasure, when all the devils flew out and took to the air, where they were incessantly espying how to "assayle ryghtfull men.' Then she took her foot from his neck, and said to him, "Flee hens thou wretched fende," and behold "the earth opened and the fende sanke in."t

However "right comfortable" this relation may be, there is more "delection" in that of St. Margaret being swallowed by the devil; it is a pity it is "apocrifum

July 21.

ST. VICTOR OF MARSEILLES. We are informed by Butler that this saint was a martyr under the emperor Maximian. From his silence as to the saint's life, it is to be inferred that biographers of saints were rare, while, from his elaborate account of the saint's death, it is to be inferred that their martyrdoms were attended by able reporters.

The abbey of St. Victor at Marseilles was one of the most celebrated religious foundations in Europe. It claimed to have been the first monastery established in France. Its ruins are striking objects of curiosity to visiters of the town.

St. Victor's monastery was founded by St. Cassien, patriarch of Constantinople, in the fourth or fifth century. The spot was fixed upon by St. Cassien for his new foundation, from the ground being already considered as sacred by the Marseillais, for we are assured that Mary Magdalen and her brother Lazarus arrived in Provence with a cargo of saints, fixed their residence at Marseilles, and converted a great number of the inhabitants; and that Mary Magdalen after remaining there some time, desirous of being more secluded, withdrew to a grotto in the rock on which the abbey of St. Victor now stands. Still, pressed by crowds, she removed a league from Marseilles to the quarter of Aygalades, where afterwards was founded a monastery of the Carmes. Even here she could not find seclusion, and she finally fixed her retreat at the Sainte Beaume, a grotto in the mountain of St. Pilon, in a more remote part of the country where she ended her days.

On the spot sanctified by her first retreat, a chapel was erected and dedicated to the Holy Virgin under the title of "Nôtre Dame de la Confession." A little confusion seems here to have been made between Mary Magdalen, in remembrance of whom the spot was considered as sacred, and the virgin mother; for after the monastery was built, a chapel in it was dedicated to the Virgin Mary, while little notice was taken of Mary the penitent.

The monastery of St. Cassien many years after the body of the celebrated St. Victor was interred there, was called the monastery of St. Victor. His foof was said to have been cut off by order ot Maximian, for having kicked down a

statue of Jupiter when required to sacrifice to it; this foot has been a relic in high esteem ever since. Afterwards his head was cut off, and the head became another relic of very high value. Various miracles are reported to have been wrought at his tomb, particularly in the cure of demoniacs.

It is also related that the tomb of the emperor Maximian, who died and was interred at Marseilles, was discovered about the middle of the eleventh century, and recognised to be his by an inscription. The body was in a leaden coffin, and found entire, having been preserved by an odoriferous liquor with which it was anointed without, and filled within. Two chalices of gold, full of the same liquor, were placed on each side of the head. As a persecutor of the christian church, his body was by order of Raimbaud, archbishop of Arles, thrown into the sea; and it is alleged that for some time after the water of the spot where it was thrown bubbled furiously, as if boiling over a fire, and cast up smoke and flames from the bosom of the deep.

There is a tradition respecting St. Victor in the archives of the abbey, that a dragon of the wood adjoining devoured every thing that came in his way, human beings as well as animals; whereupon St. Victor went forth to fight him, armed cap-à-piè, and mounted on a mettled courser, and that he slew him and freed the country from so terrible a scourge. An effigy of the saint, engaged with his fearful antagonist, was carved in stone, and placed over the porch of the great church and the same device was adopted as the great seal of the monastery. The carving over the church porch remains to this day, though somewhat defaced it is the exact counterpart of the English St. George and the dragon. Underneath

is inscribed

Massiliam vere. (VICTOR) civesque tuere.

On the St. Victor's day, which is the twenty-first of July,there were formerly held at Marseilles a festival and procession in honour of him, called "La Triomphale." The relics of the saint were carried round the town by the prior of the monastery, attended by the whole community. At the head of the procession marched a cavalier in complete armour, highly orna

mented, carrying a lance in one hand, and in the other the standard of the abbey on which were the arms richly embroidered; he wore a rich scarf, and his horse had a housing of white damask, orna mented with blue crosses. This cavalier! was intended to represent St. Victor He was preceded by twelve cavaliers carrying lighted tapers, and accompanied by a band of music with drums and trumpets. Six pages followed him. As soon as the people heard the music, and saw the standard, they flocked in crowds to join the procession. As it passed along the quay of the port, all the vessels hoisted their colours, and saluted it with a discharge of cannon and musquetry; and the consuls, with the rest of the magistrates, met it at an appointed place, to pay their homage to the saint, and attend him back to the abbey.

This ceremony had been observed every year from time immemorial, till monsieur de Belsunce, the bishop of Marseilles, who distinguished himself so much in the great plague of 1720, prevailed upon the magistrates to consent to the abolition of it, for the following reason. He was about to publish a biography of the bishops, his predecessors, from the first conversion of the town to the christian faith, among whom it was necessary to include St. Victor; and not wishing him to appear otherwise than a christian bishop and martyr, he thought he would not be considered in these lights only, while the people were accustomed to see him every year in a character directly opposite; so that no way appeared of making the impression he desired, except by abolishing the annual Until then the relics of St. Victor, who was esteemed the patron saint of Marseilles were always borne in the procession. They were likewise carried in procession at the time of any public cafamity; but on these occasions the armed cavalier did not make his appearance.

ceremony.

The grotto, which for a short time had been the residence of Mary Magdalen, was, on the foundation of the monastery, converted into a chapel, and a tomb erected to her memory. It was said that no woman could enter this chapel without being immediately struck blind; and for some centuries no female attempted to penetrate the sanctity of the place, till the celebrated queen Joan insisted on