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At the close of our present Number our readers will find the sheets deficient last month, together with the customary Indexes, and the Title and Preface of our last volume. We have also given some supplementary pages of Marriages to bring up arrears, in order that our monthly list may henceforward be closer up to the period of our publication. In our present Number we have adopted an alteration in printing the Marriages, which we trust will have the effect of guiding the eye when referring to a mass of small type.

The Portland Vase. Since our article on this subject was printed, we have obtained a more accurate statement of the explanations of Millingen, which we referred to from memory in p. 43. He describes the Obverse of the Vase, (which Mr. Windus treats as the second subject.) as Peleus led by Cupid seizing Thetis in the presence of old Nereus; and the Reverse as Medea, Jason, and Aphrodite. (See Millingen's Ancient Inedited Monuments, i. 27; and Memoirs of the Royal Society of Literature, ii. 99.) Thus, we believe, Millingen does not differ from Thiersch. Lenormant makes the third figure on the Reverse, Ariadne.

With reference to the article on the Ancient Inn at St. Alban's in our Sept. Number, and the enumeration therein of inns having open galleries, C. would add that Leadenhall-street possesses two such in close contiguity, viz. "The Bull," opposite the entrance to Leadenhall Market, and "The King's Arms," over against the India House.

The Rev. F. R. RAINES, M.A. F.S.A. of Rochdale, is engaged in preparing for the press a Life of Dr. Gastrell, Bishop of Chester (1714-1725), and would be glad if any of our readers having unpublished letters or information relative to that prelate would entrust such letters (or authentic copies) to him. He asks where a correct report of Gastrell's speech at Bishop Atterbury's trial is to be found, and desires information respecting the descendants of the Rev. Dr. Bromley, whose son, Thomas Bromley Chester, Gastrell's grandson, was living in 1768.

In the account of Sowton Church, Devonshire (Dec. p. 628) we read that " a new plan of heating has been adopted, consisting of a trough covered with a floor

of ornamental iron work, laid in the middle of the passage." A YORKSHIREMAN asks, Would the architect, or any of our Devonshire correspondents, have the kindness to favour the public with a more full account of that new plan, as to how the trough is supplied,-how the smoke is conveyed away, or consumed, -and how heat is communicated through the building from the said "trough." It would likewise be desirable to state whether the plan is found effectually to answer.

F. inquires who is the author of a tract in small quarto, printed "Permissu Superiorum, 1638," but without any printer's name, entitled "The Church Conquerant over Humane Wit," being an answer to Chillingworth's Religion of Protestants, &c. The tract, with a preface and a short advertisement to the reader (which shows that the book was priuted abroad), occupies 193 pages. Appended thereto is another tract, printed in like manner, "Permissu Superiorum, 1639," entitled "The Total Summe, or No Danger uuto Roman Catholiques for any Errour in Faith," &c. &c. The last tract fills 104 pages. Are these tracts well known or scarce ?

A SUBSCRIBER wishes to ascertain the Christian name of the father of Ezekiel Hopkins, Bishop of Derry, ancestor of Sir Francis Hopkins, Bart. He held the living of Sandford, Devon. Also to apprise him of the college and university wherein he received his education and took his degree.

A CONSTANT SUBSCRIBER will feel deeply obliged by any information on the Priory and Church of Davington, near Faversham, particularly by reference to any early representations of the buildings, the former eastern end of the church especially.

The silver coin communicated by E. T. R. F. is of Barsaba, in Spain. See Akerman's Ancient Coins of Cities and Princes, page 69, and plate VIII. No. 4.

Is our Correspondent Mr. DUDLEY, who inquires respecting the letters and MSS. of A. Wood, acquainted with the collection of "Letters from the Bodleian," published in 1814, in 3 vols. 8vo. ?

The inscription on the silver ring said to have been found in Selby Abbey, communicated by B. appears to be αμεν της μανατης, but we cannot explain its meaning.