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to Cambridge, Boston, Mass., about 1800. Is it known where they married ? Records of the former family (which is seldom met with) would oblige. F. K. P.

.ALDERMAN'S WALK. This is a narrow lane off Bishopsgate, between St. Botolph's Church and a fish restaurant. The history of this obscure passage should be interesting, and perhaps some student of the City's past will favour me with the particulars.

M. L. R. BBESLAB.

JOHN BUTLER of Mullaghowny, co. Tip- perary (temp. Charles I.), was descended from Piers Butler, youngest son of the ninth Earl of Ormonde, through the Butlers of Kilmoyler. Can you tell me which of the latter was his father, or to what sources I should go for this information ? LECTOR.

ARACHNE HOUSE, STRAND-ON-THE-GREEN. Some celebrated person lived here about 1820. I have lost the reference, and should be glad to get the information.

NEL MEZZO.

LONDON STATUES AND MEMORIALS.

(10 S. ix. 1, 102, 282, 363, 481 ; x. 122, 211,

258.)

I DESIRE to offer my sincere thanks to those who have so kindly helped to perfect my list, and I am particularly grateful to MR. HARLAND-OXLEY for his valuable contribu- tion at the penultimate reference. I may say in passing that I have in my possession a considerable quantity of additional informa- tion respecting most of the memorials, in- cluding the names of the sculptors, &c., ; but I hesitated to overload the pages of 4 N. & Q.' with more than the barest details. I now wish to add a few words by way of reply to MR. HARLAND-OXLEY, but must first thank him for his kind offer to supply the inscription on Bishop Heber's statue. As, however, I have already copied it, there will be no need to trouble him.

72. Statue of Queen Anne, Queen Anne's Gate, Westminster. I am afraid it will never be decided who was the sculptor of this statue. I think, however, the evidence is decidedly in favour of Francis Bird. It is strange how critics differ in their estimate of the statue as a work of art. MR. HARLAND- OXLEY says, " It would appear to be not by any means the worst of our statues." MR J. STANDISH HALY (7 S. viii. 225) charac- terizes it as " really a beautiful one." In

Bohn's ' Pictorial Handbook of London ' it is said to be "a quaint statue of the old school " ; while the late Mr. Edward Walford ('Old and New London,' iv. 42; and 7 S. viii. 332) considered it to be "a very poor specimen of art." In ' Westminster,' by Augustus J. C. Hare, I find the following item concerning it :

" It is a belief in the neighbourhood that on each anniversary of her death the Queen descends from her pedestal and walks three times round the square."

77a. Statue of George Canning. Possibly MR. HARLAND-OXLEY is correct in his sur- mise as to the exact position this statue first occupied. I can only say that in The Penny Magazine of 31 May, 1832, was an engraving of the statue and the statement that it had "just been erected by subscription in Palace Yard." The Mirror of 14 July, 1832, also published an engraving of the statue and referred to it as lately " placed in Old Palace Yard, Westminster."

776. Statue of Sir Robert Peel. I am sorry I am unable to specify the exact site originally occupied by this statue. Haydn ('Dictionary of Dates,' 1889) says "near Westminster Abbey, 1868, Parliament Square 1877."

A correspondent informs me that a statue of a schoolboy which formerly stood within the precincts of the Rev. Alex. Lindsey's Unitarian Church, Essex Street, Strand, is now placed in The Mall, Netting Hill Gate. It depicts a schoolboy seated, book in hand. On the pedestal are in- scribed the names of the founders of Sunday schools, commencing with St. Charles Borromeo (1580), Raikes, Pounds, and others.

I am also told that a statue of the late Queen Victoria, sculptured by the Princess Louise (Duchess of Argyle), stands in Kensington Gardens. Will some one kindly supply particulars ?

I have a copy of Ralph's book alluded to by R. S. B. (10 S. ix. 482), but it contains little or no information of value on the subject.

I take this opportunity of thanking the solitary correspondent who, in response to my request at 10 S. ix. 364, favoured me with a picture post card of the Beaconsfield statue.

JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

With reference to the query of MR. PAGE as to the statue of Lord Eldon " at Wands - worth Road Schools " (ante, p. 123), I would state that the correct name of the school is the Eldon School, as appears in partly