PRICES OF SHARES, May 21, 1827, At the Office of WOLFE, BROTHERS, Stock & Share Brokers, 23, 'Change Alley, Cornhill. CANALS. Ashton and Oldham Barnsley Birmingh. (1-8th sh.) Brecknock & Abergav. Price. Div.p.ann. WATER-WORKS. Price. Div.p.ann. Ellesmere and Chester Forth and Clyde Grand Surrey 100 0 3 15 Atlas 550 2 10 0 0.10 Eagle 4 0 5 Hope Life 4 18 Imperial Fire 92 2540 Kennet and Avou. Leeds and Liverpool Leicester Leic. and North'n Loughborough N.Walsham & Dilham 1 1 10 16 17 4 197 35 10 1 10 Protector Fire. dis. 013 Provident Life Rock Life 246 0 8 p.ct. 1001 Shrewsbury 210 0 Staff, and Wor. Stourbridge Tlalpuxahua United Mexican 3 dis. par. 15 dis. Stratford-on-Avon dis. Stroudwater Swansea London Severn and Wye Thames and Medway. Trent and Mersey Warw. and Birming. Warwick and Napton Wilts and Berks Worc. and Birming. St. Katharine's West India Ditto, New 14 pm. 0 12 O200 Phoenix 6 dis. 34 dis. 6 p.ct. 5 p.ct. 14 dis. 4 p.ct. 12 0 British 17 dis. 199 (Stock) East India (Stock) 82 0 (Stock) Commercial 73 Bristol 0 4 10 do. 0 10 o do. 8 o do. Birmingham&Stafford Isle of Thanet. 0 3 0 do. Liverpool 60 0 4 15 1 10 1 0 0 19 10 4 pm. - 8 2 Maidstone Brighton 8 8 dis. 5 p.ct. 10 0 2 10 4 p.ct. 8 o'clock Day of 11 o'clock METEOROLOGICAL DIARY, BY W. CARY, STRAND, Fahrenheit's Therm. Fahrenheit's Therm. Day of Month. 8 o'clock Morning. Noon. 11 o'clock Night. Barom. Weather. in. pts. DAILY PRICE OF STOCKS, From April 26, to May 28, 1827, both inclusive. 1887 88 987 99819 3 202 81828787 19 19 247 246 82 1482884 88 99 997183 244 10 203 82 2 824 884 88 99 998 67 68 pm. 43 44 pm. 43 44 pm. 68 69 pm. 44 45 pm. 44 45 pm. 70 pm. 4445 pm. 44 45 pm. 71 70 pm. 4445 pm. 44 45 pm. 70 72 pm. 4546 pm. 45 46 pm. 71 72 pm. 4648 pm. 46 48 pm. 73 75 pm. 4748 pm. 47 48 pm. 73 75 pm. 47 48 pm. 47 48 pm. 74 pm. 4648 pm. 46 48 pm. 75 76 pm. 47 48 pm.47 48 pm. 47 48 pm. 47 48 pm 76 pm. 88 88 994 98 19 88 98 997 19 97 18 7 202 81 97 18 243 8 82 19 246 48 49 pm. 48 49 pm. 4947 pm. 49 47 pm. 73 75 pm. 48 46 pm. 48 46 pm. 76 77 pm. 47 48 pm. 47 48 pm. 76 77 pm. 48 50 pm. 48 50 pin. 77 75 pm. 49 50 pm.49 50 pm. 76 77 pm. 49 50 pm. 49 50 pm. 77 pm. 49 50 pm. 49 50 pm. 76 77 pm. 49 50 pm. 49 50 pm. 76 77 pm. 49 50 pm. 49 50 pm. 76 pm. 49 50 pm. 49 50 pm. 78 80 pm. 50 52 pm. 50 52 pm. 80 79 pm. 52.53 pm. 52 53 pm. 80 pm. 5253 pm. 52 53 pm. 89 99 100 99 194246 83 84 pm. 5351 pm. 53 51 pm. South Sea Stock, April 27, 91.-New South Sea Ann. April 28, 824 May 7, 81 May 10, 82. Old South Sea Ann. April 26, 82. May 10, 814. May 18, 82, May 25, 823. J. J. ARNULL, Stock Broker, Bank-buildings, Cornhill, J. B. NICHOLS, 25, PARLIAMENT STREET. MINOR CORRESPONDENCE. S. R. M. says, "Your reviewer asserts at p. 420, of your last Magazine, on the authority of the late Mr. Lysous, that "the etymon of Sul is utterly unknown;" now I beg leave to inform him that it is the British word for the Sun, and is always pronounced Sil, so that Silbury and Silchester would have been originally called Dinas-Sal and Caer-Súl. Every Welshman still calls Sunday Lydd-sûl. It was a part of antient mythology not to pay a scrupulous attention to the sex of a divinity, and hence the Romans, finding that the ceremonies and offerings to Sal resembled those by themselves rendered to Minerva, gave this conjoined appellation to the presiding deity at Bath. The serpent is a well-known attribute of the worshipped luminary in Britain; and in Mr. Lysons's 10th Plate it will be found accompanying the head of Sulminerva." The Rev. W. L. BOWLES observes, "In consequence of some very sensible observations of your Reviewer (p. 419), on a small tract of mine, on our Wiltshire Antiquities, I am induced to request an insertion of a few words in explanation. Having come to a conclusion that TANHILL, in the neighbourhood of Avebury, was so called from TANARIS, the Celtic god of thunder, not from St. Anne of the Roman Calendar, I hastily couceived that Avebury was the temple of Tanaris. Your Correspondent remarks very justly, that in Britain Tanaris was a secondary deity, and that it is unlikely the greatest temple should be erected to a second deity. In fact, the least attention to the subject convinced me this could not be the case, as in perusing the investigation printed before I read the remarks of your judicious and candid Reviewer, I was led by a series of singular demonstrative arguments, to the conviction that Avebury was the temple of Teutates (Mercury), the greatest god of the Celts, the messenger of the Zeus Beovraios, whose altar was near, on the highest elevation of the Downs, and that Silbury-hill was the Mercurii Tumulus,' such as that of which Livy speaks.” .supposes that our Correspondent, p. 389, in noticing Vicesimus Knox's Description of the Method by which certain Degrees were formerly acquired at Oxford, has not seen the note affixed to No. 78, in the last editions of his Essays, which is as follows: "It is justice to add, that since the above essay was written in the warm zeal which a young mind felt for the honour of the Universities, several important reforms have taken place at Oxford. I claim no merit in the alteration; I merely men tion the fact. Let others bestow the praise OPTIMO MAXIMO SIT OMNIS LAUS ET GLO- Mr. F. GIBSON will be obliged by any information on the subject of a gold medal struck in the reign of Queen Anne, on occasion of the passing of that most important statute the Act of Succesion, which was carried by a majority of one vote only, in favour of the present illustrious House of Brunswick, to the exclusion of the Catholic family of the Stuarts. The medal is about the size of a half crown; on the obverse is a bust of Queen Anne; on the reverse is the figure of Britannia with her shield and spear, standing on the shore, repulsing two sea monsters, one of whom has in his hand a fragment of rock uplifted, and the other a Vicem gerit large club. The motto is, " illa tonantis. (she bears the part of the thunderer.) Inaugurat. Apr. 23, 1702." It is not exactly ascertained whether a medal was presented to each of the members who had voted in favour of the Protestant Ascendancy, or whether only one was struck and presented to the individual who occasioned the majority. It is a fact that the subject had been so frequently agitated in Parliament, and each party so perfectly aware that the balance was nearly equal, that the discussion was shrunk from, day after day, and at length approached with all those feelings which characterize an important struggle, or trial of strength. It is not a little singular, that the original possessor of this medal has in his Diary a memorandum to the effect, that he had previously in his own mind determined not to go down to the House on the evening this great question was decided; but yielding to the entreaties of his friends, he entered the House but a few minutes previous to the division. Had he not done so, the Speaker would have been called on to exercise his privilege of giving the casting vote; and it is a wellauthenticated fact, that he was decidedly in favour of the Stuarts. It would be doing a valuable service, were the records of the House of Commons searched into for the official details of that memorable evening, the elucidation of which would form one of the most interesting facts in the pages of English history. GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. JUNE, 1827. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. ON THE SUPPOSED DRUIDICAL MONUMENTS IN WILTSHIRE. June 13. T was with much interest I perused the observations of your Reviewer on the pamphlet recently published by the Rev. Wm. Bowles, as the Avant Courier of the History of the Parish of Bremhill, in which those singular Monuments of Antiquity, Wansdyke, Abury, Silbury, and Stonehenge pass under his consideration,-monuments which have so repeatedly engrossed the attention of the learned inquirer, and which, in conjunction with other circumstances, render the county of Wilts perhaps the most interesting in the Kingdom. Previously to the remarks of the Reviewer, I had perused the Pamphlet itself, and laid it down with the full impression on my mind, that its author had been advocating the hypothesis that Abury was a Celtic temple dedicated to the god Teutates, the British Mercury, and I was indeed surprised, when I observed, that your Reviewer, after making a quotation from it, proceeded with this declaration: "We hesitate as to Abury being dedicated to Tanaris," thus leading your readers to suppose it to be the object of Mr. Bowles to prove, that Abury was a Celtic temple of the god Tanaris, or Jupiter Tonans.* I was so much struck with this variance between the remarks of your Reviewer, and my pre-conceived opinion of the intent of the pamphlet, that I was induced immediately to compare the quotation in your Magazine with the original, when I presently discovered, that the words above quoted appear in the first or private edition of the pamphlet (a copy of which must have been in the hands See Mr. Bowles's explanation in our -Minor Correspondence, p. 482. of your Reviewer), and not in the second, or published edition; thus the unintentionally misstated, and your main scope of the hypothesis became readers may rest assured, that it is the purpose of Mr. Bowles to prove, that Abury was a temple of the god Teutates, or Mercury, not that of Tanaris, or Jupiter. In the quotation above alluded to, the author was not speaking of Abury, but discussing the etymology of St. Anne's Hill; and I hope, Sir, you will allow me to recite the portion of it alluded to, placing within a parenthesis the words improperly introduced in the earlier copies, and which led to the erroneous inference. "What is the Tanfana of Tacitus ? evidently in Latin Tanaris Fanum! (The temple of Abury then was the Tanfana, the temple of Celtic Tanaris.) Silbury we might suppose to be the hill on which the priests of Tanaris after sacrifice appeared, whilst the people below assembled around it. The British trackway led directly to the hill, which in a straight line over Marden (another Celtic temple) looks on to Stonehenge. To this extraordinary spot the whole assembly generally proceeded, headed by the priests, as to the locus consecratus of Cæsar; and Tan-hill Fair is the remains of this annual assemblage with the altered cha racter of modern times." From the previous context, and from the circumstance that Marden can neither be seen from Abury nor Silbury, but is overlooked by St. Anne's, or Tan-hill, it is evident he is pointing out the etymology of the latter, and assigning to it the site of the Tanaris Fanum. There is no doubt, Mr. Urban, but that the literary world will hail with delight the contemplated History of Bremhill by its worthy and learned Incumbent, and it were to be wished, that the parochial Clergy would more frequently undertake the History of their respective Parishes, as the cause |