PRICES OF SHARES, Feb. 19, 1827, At the Office of WOLFE, BROTHERS, Stock & Share Brokers, 23, 'Change Alley, Cornhill. Barnsley Coventry Cromford Manchester & Salford . Price. Div.p.ann. 122 0 £. 5 0 640 3 0 East London Grand Junction Kent 3 0 West Middlesex 69 68 0 2 15 Grantham Ellesmere and Chester Forth and Clyde Grand Surrey Huddersfield 99 0 3 15 Atlas British Commercial County Fire 2 10 288 Eagle 181 254 1 Norwich Union 15 0 RI. Exchange (Stock) Anglo Mexican Bolanos Brazilian (iss. at 5 pm) British Iron Colomb. (iss. at 5 pm) Pasco Peruvian 32 dis. 20 pm. par 26 dis. 19 0 245 000 0 18 0 3 8 p.ct. 14 dis. 14 dis. Rochdale Shrewsbury Real Del Monte Staff, and Wor. 50 pm. 40 pm. 305 0 12 0 United Mexican 10 dis. Welch Iron and Coal 19 dis. GAS LIGHTS. Severn and Wye Thames and Medway. Thames & Severn, Red Ditto, Black Trent and Mersey Warw. and Birming. Wilts and Berks Worc. and Birming. St. Katharine's London 235 West India (Stock) 195 0 East India Commercial (Stock) 70 0 3 BRIDGES. 2 10 Ratcliff Australian (Agricult') Annuity, British 1 18 Ditto, New 34 0 Ditto, New 0200 8 dis. 6 p.ct. 12 dis. 10 do. Bristol Isle of Thanet MISCELLANEOUS 29 Hol. 30 Hol. METEOROLOGICAL DIARY, BY W. CARY, STRAND, Fahrenheit's Therm. Farenheit's Therm. 31 202 7980 794 87 87 945 96 19 234447 49 pm. 28 29 pm. 28 29 pm. 1202 80 783804 87 87 75 2 Hol. 96194238 13 208 82 3482 49 pm. 30 28 pm. 30 28 pm. 48 50 pm. 29 30 pm. 29 30 pm. 240 50 51 pm. 28 30 pm. 28 30 pm. 52 54 pm. 3031 pm. 30 31 pm. 54 52 pm. 30 31 pm. 30 31 pm. 52 54 pm. 30 31 pm. 30 31 pm. 52 54 pm. 3031 pm. 30 31 pm. 54 56 pm. 3031 pm. 3031 pm. 54 55 pm. 3132 pm. 31 33 pm. 97 19 242 97 7 893 891 974 983 198 244455 57 pm. 32 34 pm. 34 34 pm. 14 208483 급 82급 3층 904 89길 97급 8월 99 19 15 2084 834823 90 899798 19 55 57 pm. 35 37 pm. 35 37 pm. 52 54 pm. 33 34 pm. 3 34 pm. South Sea Stock, Feb. 7, 883. Feb. 23, 90.-New South Sea Ann. Feb. 1, 79§. Old South Sea Ann. Feb. 21, 823-Feb. 26, 83}. RICHARDSON, GOODLUCK, and Co. 104, Corner of Bank-buildings, Cornhill. J. B. NICHOLS, 25, PARLIAMENT STREET. MINOR CORRESPONdence. The writer of an article signed VERAX in our Magazine for Nov. 1825, p. 399, is respectfully solicited to forward his real address to us immediately: the institution he has so strongly recommended being on the point of formation. We refer EXPLORATOR to the College of Arms, where his inquiries will receive all the elucidation which they admit. The names Tomlins and Tomkins are both evidently diminutives of Tom; and Tomlinson and Tomkinson can, therefore, both mean nothing more than the son of little Tom.' Mr. JOSIAH PRATT says, "If Philalethes (p. 508) will apprise me how I may convey to him the copy of Bishop Hall's Peace of Rome,' which, as he states, I purchased in 1821, it shall be at his service, for his own use, or for any public purpose to which he may be pleased to apply it. It did not appear to me, having availed myself of the very valuableDissuasive from Popery,' which is prefixed to the volume, that the contradictions among the Roman Catholic Doctors would sufficiently interest the reader to justify the re-publication of the work." A CORRESPONDENT observes, that the architectural improvements at Christ's Hospital proceed rapidly, and are highly creditable to the taste and skill of the architect, John Shaw, esq. The great dining hall, when completed, will exceed 180 feet in length. It is in the interesting style of Henry VIII.'s reigu, and has been copied from the hall of Hampton Court Palace, from which noble model, however, it differs in many respects. A precise imitation of any ancient design for a building in a new situation, is seldom desirable, but in the deviations proposed, whether for the sake of increasing or varying the enrichments, good taste requires that the style of the original be scrupulously maintained; and this rule has been observed by Mr. Shaw, who will doubtless render the hall of Christ's Hospital one of the most magnificent banqueting rooms in England. Mr. STORER, in reference to his work on the British Cathedrals, claims our impartiality to make the following statement. Mr. Britton, in his Preface to the fifth Volume of Architectural Antiquities just published, says, "The terms Saxon and Gothic have been much confounded, and indiscriminately used by almost every writer who has published opinions or observations on the subject, whilst that of Norman has been im properly and unfairly omitted by the writer of the literary part of Storer's account of Cathedrals." From this observation it may be supposed, that the writer alluded to has paid no attention whatever to the term Norman, instead of which he has not hesitated in "roundly affirming that there is no such thing in existence as any peculiar style of architecture invented or even adopted by the Normans." The reader is referred to a long note in the account of Peterborough Cathedral, published in the first Part of Mr. Storer's publication, and the opinions which it developes are repeated in many subsequent pages of the work. C. K. P. observes; "One of your Correspondents lately alluded to the continuation of Baronets' names in the Almanacks, &c. though their titles are extinct; permit me on the other hand to mention, that several titles are omitted in the last Court Calendar which yet undoubtedly exist,—for instance, Cope and Farmer. The representation of the latter, Sir George Farmer, resides in Ireland; his gallant grandfather, Captain Farmer, was a native of the county of Cork, -not York, as in the Baronetage book." J. G. N. writes: "The last Baronetcy created by King James the First (the founder of the order) was bestowed on Sir Thomas Playters, of Sotterley in Suffolk, knight; whose descendant Sir John, the eighth Baronet (mentioned in Kimber's Baronetage, 1771, vol. III. p. 438,) died about 1790. Since that period the family has not been noticed in the pocket Baronetages, nor does Betham include it in his quarto of 1801. In the Gent. Mag. for 1806, p. 451, M. M. enquired why the name of Sir Charles Playters was omitted in the Court Calendars, and in page 777 of the same volume is the following death: July 8, at his apartments at Hayneford, ço. Norfolk, in his 58th year, Sir Charles Playters, bart. He is succeeded in title by his half-brother William, now abroad.' In the Court Calendar of 1807, the name of Sir Wm. Playters is inserted in the list of Baronets; but not in that of 1809. Qu. what was the descent of Sir Charles and Sir William, and is the title now extinct?" J. D. Oxon states, in reply to the enquiry made by "A Plain Speaker," p. 112, on 2 Sam. i. 23, of " David's lamentation over Saul and Jonathan," that the most rational interpretation seems to be as follows: "Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives," or, accordiog to our marginal annotation, "sweet," i. e. simply towards the people, but not towards one another. N. would be obliged by an explanation of Stump-pye, which occurs in Ashmole's elaborate folio, on the Order of the Garter, and is mentioned in two or three of the lists of the dishes prepared for the great official dinners of the Knights. Neither in Pegge's "Form of Cury," nor in Warner's "Culinary Antiquities," nor in May's, Rabisha's, or other old Cookery Books, is there any account of stamp-pye. GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. MARCH, 1827. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. Mr. URBAN, NEW HORSE ARMOURY AT THE TOWER. March 1. S you deemed my former Letter Henry III. Edw. II. and Richard III. being represented on the three remain A detailing the commencement of ing ones, my intention being to give my proceedings at the Tower, of that public interest, as to insert it in your valuable Miscellany, I am induced to trouble you with this, which gives notice of their termination. Had the order from the Honourable Board of Ordnance to their inferior agents at the Tower, to render me every assistance, been without exception cordially complied with, this period would have arrived long ago; but the obstacles which the Clerk of the Works and his partisans have, through a petty jealousy, contrived to throw in my way, and of which I have been obliged to complain to the Board, delayed the time until it has excited just complaints on the part of the public. I hope, by means of your Magazine, to put on record that I have had nothing to do with what is called the Spanish Armoury, which still continues the cradle of falsehood, nor with the contemptible puppet-show of Queen Elizabeth, which I should conceive would disgrace even Bartholomew Fair. Nor have I had any thing to do with the new building for the Horse Armoury, erected without any knowledge of how effect is produced, with the exception of substituting some of Mr. Willement's painted glass for the childish and tasteless ornaments of two out of four semicircular windows. You may remember that the row of Kings, as it was called, bid defiance to truth. One of my objects was, therefore, to restore the suits of armour to their real dates. Having ousted William the Conqueror, Richard I. Edw. III. John of Gaunt, and Henry V. I recommended to the Board that the true costume of those times should be painted on five of the canvas blinds, ocular demonstration of the propriety of what I had done. My motive does not appear, however, to have been clearly understood, as no order has been given to prepare them. Otherwise, when the blinds (as in summer) were all pulled down, the room would have contained a complete series of military costume, from the time of the Conquest to that of James II. inclusive. Another object has been to give the suits of armour the appearance of having within them living figures, instead of the disgusting spectacle, you may remember, of dislocated limbs, disjointed as if by the utmost exertion of the torture. A third, and no easy matter, especially with those on horseback, so to vary the attitudes, that there should not be two alike, in lieu of one position, as previously, for the whole. These three things I have effected. Another likewise, attended with great difficulty, from the repetition, was to dispose of the detached pieces on the walls with as much taste as in my power. Whether I have been successful here, the public must judge; but in the hopes of rendering a service to the country, I have given above thirty whole days of my time to this purpose, working on each of them as hard as any of the artificers. I must beg them also to understand, that I have had only common carpenters to form what was wanted of the human figure, and common house painters to execute the heraldry; and that I was charged to bear in mind, that on all occasions the strictest economy was to be attended to. What my intentions might have been, had these mattersbeen otherwise, is what I call on the public in justice to consider, rather |