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merchant at Lambeth. I shall be glad if any of your readers can state particulars of his family and parentage, and the date of hi death. ALASDAIR MACGILLEAN.

LEFROY FAMILY. I should be much obliged if any of your readers could tell me the name of any book in which mention is made of any Lefroys (Loffroy, Loffrpie, &c.) who existec previous to 1588. I believe that in a certain article in Society Notes some years ago a writer stated that the Chateau d'Eu (near Cambray) was known to have been built by I cannot discover who wrote this article, or whence he got his information. I should also be glad to know of any one of that name living in France or any other foreign country (not belonging to England) that any of your readers may have heard of when abroad. H. LEFROY, Lieut.R.E.
 * the brothers Lefroy," architects, in 1568

R.E. Quarters, Shorncliffe.

QUEEN'S SURNAME. What is the family name of our present Queen, in the same way as Guelph is the family name of the King and his Hanoverian ancestors 1 I can find no clue in any book at the Brighton Public Reference Library. E. M. GRACE.

SIR ANTHONY JACKSON. Can any corre- spondent tell me if there are any English families descended from Sir Anthony Jack- son, who was knighted at Breda in 1650, and interred in the Temple Church, London, in 1666 1 WM. JACKSON PIGOTT.

COLISEUMS OLD AND NEW.

(10 th S. ii. 485.)

THE name of the mighty Coliseum of Rome, constituting "the grandest remains of anti- quity in the world," has been taken in vain, for neither the modern extraordinary, if pic- turesque structure in St. Martin's Lane nor that in Regent's Park affords the slightest resemblance to the Flavian amphitheatre. The origin of the Regent's Park edifice is a curious one. A Mr. Hprnor,* a land surveyor, during the construction of the present ball and cross of St. Paul's Cathedral by C. R. Cockerell, Esq., A.R.A., undertook to make a series of panoramic sketches of London from a temporary observatory raised above the cross ; and that he might overcome the difficulties which the smoke of the vast city

" Horner," but Elmes, who was intimate with the artist, invariably writes Hornor with two o's.
 * In ' Old and New London ' the name is spelt

ordinarily presented, he invariably com- menced his labours immediately after sunrise, before the lighting of innumerable fires had time to obscure the brick-and-mortar-scape with the reek. Mr. James Elmes, who was engaged at first by Mr. Hornor to superintend the erection of the building that was to contain the drawings, until superseded in that task by Mr. Decimus Burton, was occa- sionally a witness, he tells us, to the precision with which the projector of this immense picture determined the situations of the various buildings on his paper, and of his "extreme inaccuracy as to architectural details."

So far as external design went, Burton's building is claimed by Mr. Elmes to have been precisely the same as his own, namely, a sixteeen-sided polygon, with a Doric portico and cupola. But the grandest feature of the building, which was rather a miniature Pantheon than a Coliseum, was its portico, "one of the finest and best proportioned of the Greco -Doric in the metropolis," and this gave a majestic feature to that part of the park in which it was situated, a part, as MR. CECIL CLARKE points out now, occupied by the fine row of mansions called Cambridge Gate, in honour, no doubt, of the late Ranger. In the accounts of this show-place in my possession there is no mention of the lower part having been arranged as a bazaar, though this may well, perhaps, have been so. A writer in the Mirror says the first place that particularly attracted ^ notice after entering was the saloon, which was fitted up with festooned draperies, arranged in imitation of an immense tent, with numerous recesses around the exterior verge for settees and tables. Round this apartment was a choice collection of sculpture, and casts by celebrated ancient and modern artists. There was also a skating-room of artificial ice, of which an illustration is given in the Mirror for 6 August, 1842. See also the Monthly Supplement of the Penny Magazine, 28 Feb- ruary to 31 March, 1833, and Elmes's 'Topo- graphical Dictionary,' 1831.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

MR. CECIL CLARKE must be in error as to here being a panorama in the centre of Leicester Square, unless the "Great Globe" can be called such. Burford's "Panorama," N"o. 16 in the square on the north side, hard ay Cranbourne Street, was for many years a -ery popular place of amusement and in- struction, having exhibited a long series of panoramic pictures of great interest and con- stituting one of the chief attractions of London.