TABLE OF MORTALITY AND BIRTHS IN THE DISTRICTS OF LONDON. (From the Returns issued by the Registrar-General.) Under 20 years Total. 576 162 166 175 29 1108 925 149 148 149 40 1147 923 895 1818 617 146 149 159 37 1113 865 818 1683 570 143 163 156 1065 954 892 1846 PRICE OF HAY AND STRAW AT SMITHFIELD, Oct. 17. Best Wallsend, per ton, 18s. 3d. to 19s. 9d. Other sorts, 12s. 6d. to 16s. 6d. 580 METEOROLOGICAL DIARY, BY H. GOULD, late W. CARY, 181, STRAND. From September 24 to October 23, inclusive. ALFRED WHITMORE, Stock and Share Broker, 19, Change Alley, London, E.C. PRINTED BY MESSRS. JOHN HENRY AND JAMES PARKER. THE Gentleman's Magazine AND HISTORICAL REVIEW. KENT ARCHEOLOGICAL SOCIETY-A NEW COUNTY HISTORY. IN reviewing the second volume of the Archæologia Cantiana, in the early part of this year, we called attention to the very practical nature of the work undertaken by the Kent Society. A glance at our summary of the contents of that volume would shew that while antiquities, strictly so called, had a due share of attention, they by no means engrossed the energies of all the members of the Society, but that one of their number at least was bent on rendering a permanent service to the landed gentry of the county by placing before them the unimpeachable evidence of title to their broad acres. We allude to the Rev. Lambert B. Larking, the Vicar of Ryarsh, in reality the founder of the Society, and until recently its honorary Secretary. This post the rev. gentleman resigned at the Maidstone meeting in July last, on the ground of failing health, and the paramount claims of his professional duties. But for his positive declaration on this point, we would fain have hoped that another motive might have had its influence, viz., that he might have leisure to carry out a project, the benefit of which will not be confined to Kent; we mean, supervising the publication of the voluminous Collections of the late Rev. Thomas Streatfeild, of Chart's Edge, who for nearly half-a-century, with the most enthusiastic ardour, devoted all the energies of his life to the accumulation of materials for a new history of his native county. In this, it appears, he had a zealous coadjutor in Mr. Larking, and the survivor is laudably anxious that the fruits of so much labour should be given to the world by means of the press. But this is a subject to which we shall return, after a brief notice of the contents of the volume now before us, which is the third issued by the Society. In the first place, we must remark that, in illustration as well as in outward appearance, the Kent Society's publications have all along been of a very high order of merit. The present volume contains six handsome lithographs of antiquities, four of which are fully coloured, one representing GENT. MAG., Feb. 1861, p. 140 et seq. GENT. MAG. VOL. CCXI. b Ibid., Sept. 1861, p. 282. |