Jan. 27. At Brighton, Robert Walter Alexander, esq. of Hampstead, Deputy Commissary-general.

Jan. 29. At Brighton, aged 74, Andrew Plimer, esq. many years ago an eminent miniature painter in Exeter.

Jan. 31. At Southover, Lewes, aged 78, W. Verrall, esq.

Feb. 1. At Kemp-town, aged 59, Miss Villebois, youngest daughter of the late W. Villebois, esq. of Feltham-pl. Middlesex. Feb. 2. At Stopham house, aged 86, W. Smyth, esq.

At Brighton, aged 76, John M'Queen, esq. of Braxfield, last surviving son of the late Right Hon. Robert M'Queen, Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland.

Feb. 4. George Holden, esq. of Brighton, and late of his Majesty's Customs. Feb. 8. At Bognor, aged 79, Captain Baumgarben, R. Mar.

Feb. 9. At Chichester, aged 87, Mrs. Cutfield. And on the same day, her niece, the wife of William Ridge, esq. banker.

Feb. 20. At Brighton, in her 19th year, after a long and trying illness, borne with exemplary patience and resignation, the most beloved Hannah Augusta, only child of Augustus Gostling, LL.D. and Hannah, eldest daughter of the late Samuel Prime, esq. of Whitton, Middlesex.

WARWICK.-Jan. 9. In Warwick gaol, at the extraordinary age of 104, Mr. Thomas Gubbins, of Pailton, who was imprisoned for the costs of a suit between Trinity coll. Camb. and the parishioners of Pailton.

Jan. 30. Aged 57, Mr. James George, of Stratford-upon-Avon; Treasurer to the Royal Shakspearean Club, and one of the Common Council of the borough.

Feb. 7. At Haunchwood house, Nuneaton, P. U. Williams, esq. formerly of Fenchurch-st.

Feb. 10. At Leamington, aged 33, James Duff, esq: of Innes House, Elgin, son of Gen. Sir James Duff, of Funtingdon, Sussex.

WILTS.-Dec. 23. At Salisbury, aged 54, Anne Elizabeth, widow of John Hodding, esq. dau. of Fred. Gibson, of Turnham Green, esq.

He

Jan. 15. At his son Dr. Greenup's house, Salisbury, aged 67, George Greenup, esq. late of Sowerby Bridge, York. survived only 30 days the loss of his wife, with whom he had lived happily more than forty years (see p. 319).

Jan. 30. At Frome, in her 63d year, Hester, wife of Wm. Baynton, esq.

Feb. 3. At the rectory, Wooton Rivers, aged 65, Mary, relict of Thomas Whitfield, esq.

At Salisbury, Capt. Harry Hunt, of the Royal Marines.

Feb. 5. At Fyfield, Miss Elizabeth Penruddocke, 3d dau. of late C. Penruddocke, esq. M. P. for Wilts.

YORK.-Jan. 31. At Whitby, aged 77, William Middleton, esq.

Feb. 2. At Moor-Allerton, aged 52, Robert Harrison, esq. of Leeds, timber merchant, and brother to Joseph Harrison, esq. of Hull.

Feb. 7. At Doncaster, aged 79, Joseph Lockwood, esq. the late highly respected clerk and judge of the course, which post be filled for many years prior to 1832, when he resigned his offices in favour of his son.

Feb. 8. At Beverley, aged 84, John Arden, esq. M.D. He was elected alderman in 1787, was mayor nine times, and resigned his gown, 1828, in favour of his

son.

WALES.-Lately. At Hay, Frances, wife of the Rev. Morgan Walters, Rector of Vaynor, Breconshire, eldest dau. of late Wm. Davies, esq. of Forest, near Hay, Wales.

Feb. 15. At Llandidloes, co. Montg. aged 38, Fliza-Margaret, wife of Boyce Combe, esq. barrister.

SCOTLAND.-Dec. 20. At Edinburgh, Mary, wife of Sir John Nasmyth, Bart. of Posso, county Peebles; and on the same day, their second son, Stewart Nasmyth. She was a dau. of the late Sir John Marjoribanks, of Lees, co. Berwick, Bart. and was married in 1826.

Feb. 3. At Edinburgh, the Hon. David Robertson Williamson Ewart Lord Balgray, a Judge of the Court of Session; he was appointed to the bench in 1811. Feb. 4. At her residence in the island of Arran, Lady Charlotte Frances Erskine, aunt to the Earl of Mar and Kellie. Her Ladyship was the eldest dau. of JohnFrancis the 14th Earl. In pursuance of the plans of her venerable father, her Ladyship was the laborious and munificent promoter of religious education throughout Scotland.

IRELAND.-Dec. 26. At Boomhall, co. Londonderry, the seat of her father the Lord Bishop of Derry, Harriett, wife of the Rev. Thomas Lindesay, Rector of Tamlaght.

Dec. 31. At Glanworth, co. Cork, Mrs. Brinkley, relict of the Lord Bishop of Cloyne.

Jan. 6. At Darrynane Abbey, aged 75, John Charles O'Connell, esq. brother to General Sir Maurice O'Connell, and the immediate cousin of Daniel O'Connell, esq. M.P.

Jan. 6. At Dumfermline, Fifeshire, aged 71, A. Robertson, esq. of Watling

street.

Jan. 17. At Dublin, the Right Hon. Clara dowager Lady Ventry. She was the dau. of Benj. Jones, esq.; became, in 1797, the third wife of William. Townsend 2d Lord Ventry, who died in 1827, having had issue by her one son, Thomas, who died in 1817; and was married in 1832 to Peter Fitz-Gibbon Hench, esq.

Jan. 23. At Waterford, Bishop Abraham, of the Roman Catholic church.

Lately. In Dublin barracks, Captain James Fraser, 95th reg., a veteran Waterloo officer. His name was included (too late) in the promotions to the rank of Major in the late brevet.

JERSEY.-Dec. 12. Aged 38, WilliamJames Cockburn, esq. late of 78th reg.

EAST INDIES.-Aug.

At Agra,

Lieut. Francis George Beck, 13th N. Inf. son of James Beck, esq. of Allesleypark, Warw.

Aug. 2. At Columbo, Ceylon, aged 23, John Hynde Cotton, Lieut. and Adjutant of the 90th Light Inf. son of the Rev. Alexander Cotton, Rector of Girton, Camb.

Aug. 31. At Meerut, aged 42, Lieut. Edw. John Richard Arnold, 11th Light Dragoons, second son of the late George Arnold, esq. of Ashby St. Leger, county of Northampton, and Mirables in the Isle of Wight, by his second wife, HenriettaJane, eldest daughter of General George Morrison.

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D. H. remarks: "I should have been surprised that none of the learned correspondents of the Gentleman's Magazine had replied to the very imaginative article by Mr. BELFOUR in the January number, intitled an Explication of two Babylonian cylinders, had it not been evident that their silence had arisen from the circumstance that that gentleman's theories were too groundless and extravagant to admit of a serious discussion. Permit me, therefore, independently of all oriental learning, to employ only my eyes and common sense in comparing Mr. BELFOUR'S explication and his wood-cuts with the casts of the cylinders in question with which I have been supplied by Mr. Doubleday, of Little Russell-street. In

so doing, I am sorry to say, I must pronounce your cuts to be very incorrect. The features of the three figures in the first are totally miscopied; and the central figure or deity has, I think, not a full-front" in its upper part, but is Janusheaded, one face being turned to each worshipper. This figure Mr. Belfour terms the golden image set up by Nebuchadnezzar; on which I have nothing further to remark than that his description of the dress, and the absence of the hands (p. 38.) is purely imaginary: those particulars being, from the small scale of the engraving, not more clear on the original than they are in the wood-cut. We are

further told that the three devout persons in the furnace are depicted with remarkable precision!' the whole of the furnace consisting of something like a hank of cotton placed above their heads,—a figure which might be taken as symbolical of the waves of water, but certainly not a whit like flames. Above the furnace are quietly seated two animals which are either lions or hares!' One would have thought that this was really a misprint for either rabbits or hares ;' but we find Mr. Belfour in the note seriously maintaining that they must be lions!!! Any child of four years old would be competent to contradict him; for there are certainly some animals whose names are ascertained among our earliest lessons from their length of ear. To advert briefly to the second cylinder. Mr. Belfour's explication' is at first, it must be confessed, imposing. The picture appears to agree remarkably with the sacred text, except that the animal is again not very like a lion." But on looking at the original cylinder, the whole becomes changed; for the wood-cut is materially

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inaccurate. The winged man, instead of holding a man's heart," or any other separate article in his hand, has absolutely got his hand grasped round the fore-leg of the beast,-which, I beg humbly to suggest is an antelope."

In answer to the question (p. 297,) for the etymology of Cricket, J. J. L. remarks: "This famous English sport boasts of no more ancient origin than the commencement of the last century, and the following etymology seems to be the most likely, from its close and natural resemblance, namely, from the Saxon 'cryce'' a stick.' This derivation is also supported by the authority of the great Dr. Johnson. I must however confess myself totally at a loss to account for a game, which certainly had not its origin among the learned, receiving a name from a language now little known, except amongst a few scholars and antiquaries. This leads me to suspect that perhaps cricket may be of a much more ancient origin than Mr. Strutt is disposed to assign to it."-Possibly the name of Cricket might have been given to the game when it was in its infant state as Club and ball: as such, it is an old game. The old copper-plate etching to the Cotswold Games' gives all the games of the time, but nothing like this. Mr. Bonstetten, of Berne, considered it originally an Icelandic game: but that it is a gradual improvement on club and ball, we have no doubt for the old bat, as seen in the picture at the Pavilion in Lord's Ground, has the bend of the club.-EDITOR.

Our correspondent at Stroud is respectfully reminded that in our Historical Chronicle we have room only to record the most prominent public works completed, and none for those which are merely in contemplation.

The continuation of the article on the antiquarian remains of Italy, with the accompanying map, is deferred to our next number.

We thankfully accept the offer made by M. H. R. if his extracts do not run to a very great extent. Perhaps he will favour us with a portion by way of experiment.

J. R. W. is informed that the claim of Lachlan Macleane to be the author of the Letters of Junius, which has been recently taken up by Sir David Brewster, is by no means a new conjecture, but that it was fully discussed in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1831, where memoirs of Macleane will be found.