PREFACE. WHEN we last made our usual periodical address to our readers, thanking them for their past support, and soliciting from them a continuation of their patronage, the world was still at peace, and, though the storm was gathering, the thunder-cloud had not yet burst. It is not for the first time that we salute our friends, as we do now, at the opening of a very eventful period. We are in the second century of our existence, and during that period our pages have made faithful record of thrones created and destroyed, of dynasties that have been born and which have died out, and of triumphs by which even the conquerors gained nothing but at the expense of wide-suffering humanity. To sum up our historical experience since the far-distant day of our birth, we might say with pleasant brevity that, during the long period which that experience embraces, the only things which have survived unscathed the shock and struggle of the battle of life, are the British Constitution, the London Gazette, and the Gentleman's Magazine. We fancy we hear our readers exclaim, "May they flourish together for ever!" We cannot but heartily respond " Amen!" to so gracious a wish. To secure the realization of such a wish there needs but continued exertion on our side; that the public is sure to have. There is further need of the hearty good-will of the public, and that we hope to have. As the Circassian chiefs said the other day to Sir E. Lyons, we deserve no less in consideration of our fidelity and constancy. We will not say that under all circumstances the public has found us the same; but we will go further, and aver with courageous modesty, that, under all circumstances, we have improved. We have never been discouraged, and have always been prepared to perform with alacrity our duty to our generous subscribers. Bourdaloue, when he desired to create more than ordinary sensation in the pulpit, always used to excite himself to vigour by being energetically played-to on the violin, while he violently danced about his room, and so got his spirit into play before he gravely ascended to the pulpit. We are still too young to require such factitious stimulant; the public needs only to visit us with increasing favour to find increase of useful service and unwearied zeal at the hands of their true and faithful GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE CONTENTS. MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.-The Tombs of Nelson and Wellington-Iconoclasm at Lydiard The Princess Elizabeth a Prisoner at Woodstock ...... On Supposed Apparitions of the Virgin Mary; and particularly at La Salette.. Sir Walter Raleigh at Sherborne (concluded).. Manners and Morals of the University of Cambridge during the last Century.... English Sketches by Foreign Artists-Max Schlesinger' Saunterings in and CORRESPONDENCE OF SYLVANUS URBAN.-English Physicians in Russia--Knights Ban- neret Sir Constantine Phipps and Sir William Phips-Diaries of Dr. Stukeley-Counsels' NOTES OF THE MONTH.-New Statutes of the Society of Antiquaries-Anniversary of the Royal Society-University Reform-International Copyright-Sale of Copyrights and Stereotype Plates-Mr. H. Stevens's" English Library "--Athenæum at Bury and Working- Man's Library at Prescot, co. Lancaster-Dr. Faussett's Coins and Anglo-Saxon Antiqui- ties-Roman Statue found at Lillebonne-Memorial Windows at Ipswich and Ashton- under-Lyne Sepulchral Brasses by the Messrs. Waller-Restoration of the Effigy of Sir Marmaduke Constable in Nuneaton Church-Scientific and Literary Intelligence at Home HISTORICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS REVIEWS.-Bartlett's Pilgrim Fathers, 56; Riley's Translation of the Comedies of Terence and the Fables of Phædrus, 57; Riley's Transla- tion of the Fasti, Tristia, Pontic Epistles, Ibis, and Halieuticon of Ovid, 58; Various Theolo- gical Works, 60; Sir Philip Sidney and other Stars of the Sixteenth Century, and The Child's In-door-Companion, by S. S. S.-Booker's Obsolete Words and Phrases in the Bible- Griffith's Translation of The Birth of the War-God-Mr. Rutherford's Children, 61; Louisa von Plettenhaus-Work-Saturday and Sunday-Charles Roussel-The Monthly Volume-The Happy Resolve, &c...... ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES.-Society of Antiquaries, 63; Numismatic Society, 65; Archæ- OBITUARY; with Memoirs of The Queen of Portugal; The Duke of Beaufort; The Countess of Newburgh; Lord Cloncurry; Hon. Cecil Lawless; Lord Fullerton; Sir T. J. Claver- ing, Bart.; Sir Charles Witham, Bart.; Rear-Adm. Bell; Rear-Adm. Pasco; Capt. Alex. Ellice, R.N.; Capt. H. E. Napier, R.N.; Capt. W. Gregory, R. Eng.; Capt. Norris, R.M.; Bickham Escott, Esq.; Thomas Ponton, Esq.; William Gardiner, Esq.; Mrs. Opie; Mr. James Trubshaw, C.E.; Mr. Thomas Weddle, F.R.A.S.; Mr. Samuel Williams, Mr. Willes Maddox; Dr. Bexfield; M. Depping; M. Fontaine; Mr. John Saville Faucit..79-104 DEATHS, arranged in Chronological Order Registrar-General's Returns of Mortality in the Metropolis-Markets, 111; Meteorological |