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LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1912.

CONTENTS. No. 134.

NOTES : Calcutta Statues and Memorials, 41 A Fleet- wood Miscellany, 43 Quotations in Jeremy Taylor " Aircraft," 45 " Robbing Peter to pay Paul "Last Fatal Duel in England Fees at the City Compters, 46 Australian Gold Yield-" On the nail," 47.

QUERIES : Nevills of Raby : their Ancestor Weather Rime References Wanted Barrow at Gotham -Small Republics in Europe : Goust : Tavolara, 43 Author of Quotation Wanted " Though lost to sight, to memory dear " Arms on a Seal" Morgenstunde hat GoM im Munde" W. Petitot: Boyd Porterfleld: Col. H. B. Dolphin : Major Hatsell Employment of Counsel in Trial for Treason William Penn, or George Penne ' The Longships Lighthouse,' by Daniell, 49 Sussex Place- Names temp. Henry VIII.-" Stipend" of a Furnace- Edward Gibbon's Residences Coaching Tokens Sheffield Family Canongate, Edinburgh, Church Registers, 50.

REPLIES: Sir William Courtenay, 50 Massacre of St. Bartholomew: Medals Bag- Envelopes, 52 The Capture of Spira Pierre Loti : Easter Island Authors of Quota- tions Wanted Casanova and the English Resident at Venice Napoleon's Emblem of the Bee, 53 -Monuments in Old City Church -" Spoiling the ship for a ha'porth of tar" The Fitzwilliam Family, 54 Penleaze Words- worth's Friend Jones Turkish Spy in Paris in the Seven- teenth Century, 55 -Missing Line Wanted Abercromby Family Rev. George Jerment Forlorn Hope at Badajos, 56" J'ai vu Carcassonne " " Here I lay outside the door "_Theodore=Dirck, 57 Coaching Songs Apparent Death No Twin ever Famous, 58.

NOTES ON BOOKS : ' Men and Measures ' ' The Secret of the Pacific ''Byways in British Archaeology.'

Notices to Correspondents.

CALCUTTA STATUES AND MEMORIALS.

CALCUTTA, still the " Premier City " of India, although it is decreed that the seat of the Imperial Government is to be removed to Delhi, has long been known as the " City of Palaces " a term adapted by Lord Macaulay from an expression by Lord Valentia. It has also of late years won for itself another reputation as the " City of Statues." In the course of the preparation of an historical work on Calcutta, I have found that particulars of the city's statues and memorials are scattered in many publi- cations ; and the following list is an attempt to focus the salient facts I have been able to bring together concerning the more important of these (for the most part beautiful public testimonies to the fragranl memories of notable men and women asso- ciated with India, and, more particularly Calcutta. Distinctions conferred have not

>een indicated. I hope that others may assist in making the list complete, or in the iorrection of any inaccuracies that may be detected.

The busts, tablets, urns, &c., commemorat- ing eminent Europeans and Indians in the various public and semi-public places of resort are too numerous to be detailed here. Many are remarkable both for their historical value and the charm of their execution. The historical paintings and portraits of elebrities to be found in the two Govern- ment Houses and other public galleries are also of the highest interest.

Among the many busts may be noted those of Dr. W. Carey (Lough), Sir H. J. S. Cotton (Armstead), Sir H. Havelock (Noble), Sir W. W. Hunter (Thornycroft), Sir W. Jones (Weekes), Claud Martin (Banks), Sir C. Metcalfe (Bailey), the first Lord Mintc (Jennings an earlier bust was destroyed in the earthquake of 1897), General Neil (Noble), John Nicholson (Foley), Sir James Outram (Foley), John Palmer (Chantrey), James Prinsep (Weekes), James Rennell, (Thornycroff), W. M. Thackeray a native of Calcutta, who left the city in 1817 as a child, never to return (Jennings), and the Duke of Wellington (Turnerelli). There is also a bust of the Duke when Sir A. Wellesley (sculp- tor unknown to me).

The larger statues were embellished bv Lord Curzon with conspicuous lettering, enabling passers-by to learn the more readily to whose memories they are erected. The Viceregal and other statues of an Im- perial nature are placed on and near the maidan ; those to the provincial Lieutenant - Governors and other Bengal celebrities in Dalhousie Square Park.

No attempt is now made to chronicle the statuary and other memorials in St. John's Church and compound. They include the Job Charnock mausoleum, the Rohilla ceno- taph, and the tombs of Vice-Admiral Watson, Midshipman " Billy " Speke, the " Begum " Johnson, and Pilot Townshend. Watson's statue in Westminster Abbey, by Schee- makers, depicts the Admiral in classical attire, and is flanked by a male Indian and a kneeling female in an attitude of thankful- ness, representing Calcutta "freed Jany. 11, 1757." The latter symbolical figure has the features and contours of a European rather than an Oriental. A shield above bears the legend " Chandernagore taken March 23 1757." The figures are good, but an un- sightly arrangement of vegetable growth, apparently intended to represent palm trees, adds a forced semblance of cohesion