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often reasoned by local antiquaries anc ^topographers no matter where the barques awaited their complements of agents, fac tors, officers, and seamen, all voyagers alike assembled at Ratcliff Cross and the adjacenl Stairs in the numerous inns and taverns which grew up rapidly ; and all were rowec or sailed therefrom to the vessels astream in the Lower Reaches of the Thames, de- pendent on the varying winds and tides and flows. The first practice of getting aboard at Ratcliff gradually declined, for sailing out of the winding river was often a work oi days, and sometimes of weeks, which could be more pleasantly, or more hilariously, -occupied ashore. For the same reason, the Shipwrights' and the sawyers' centre of governance was in Butcher Row, within a bosun's call of Ratcliff Cross ; and their neighbour the Watermen's Company allotted the privileges and arbitrated the claims, customs, and courses of the river -workers below bridge ; and frequently recruited crews not merely for the King's service but for the nominally private adventurers oversea. And liere also the Masters and Captains of the Trinity Brotherhood watched, warded, and dwelt when England's great day upon the Inner and the Outer Seas was dawning.
 * ' from Gravesend," &c. ; but, as has been

Me.

BOUTELL' S PUNNING CATALOGUE OF PAINTING AND SCULPTURE.

READEBS of ' N. & Q.' may be interested by the following transcript from an autograph by the late Rev. Chas. Boutell, which, as the present owner of the MS. believes, has never yet been in print. Mr. Boutell, author of well-known books on heraldry and archae- ology, was, at the time he produced this jeu cTesprit, Rector of Norwood, Surrey. Some of the jests seem really witty ; some may be more intelligible to others than they are to me. I presume all the painters' names to be genuine. S.

A Catalogue of a small collection of rare and singularly characteristic Paintings, with a few works of the same class in Sculpture, all of them by most eminent artists, ancient and modern. 1. The Holy City in Sight .. Old Palma


 * 2. The Siege of Troy . . . . Teniers

3. The Waggon on the Boad

Van Goen and Van Os.

4. The Flower Protected. . Salvator Rosa

5. The Rencontre. . . . . . Metzu

6. The Cat not let out of the Bag. . Poussin
 * 7. The Monk Cloesterman

8. Glovers superseded

9. The Blush Rose. .

10. The Salute

11. The Mutual Promise

12. The Field of Battle

13. Cats Fighting

14. Tolling the Great Bell. .

15. The Fairest of the Flowers

16. Interior of a Carpenter's Shop (a

Cabinet picture)

17. The Successful Candidate

18. Caught at Last. .

19. The Slender Waist

20. Rolling Waves

21. At the Seaside. .

22. The Empty Manger

23. The Estate Purchased

24. Rabbits at Home

25. The Gathered Flowers.

26. The Day after the Alma

27. The Pride of the Forest

28. Fair in the Olden Time.

29. Highland Attendants

30. Sunset

31. The Decision, without

for a Verdict "

32. A Scene in Macbeth

88. The Stage-coach Catastrophe

34. Anchovy Nets

35. River Navigation Impeded

by A.

36. The Boaster Outdone

37. Innocent Flirtation

38. The Way to the Village

39. Sharp Set

40. Venice

41. The Notice to Quit

42. The Bird's Nest ..

43. David and Goliath

44. Sunday in Scotland

45. Pugilists

46. Dressing the Wound

47. The Bell-wether ..

48. Across the River

49. Vanity Fair

>0. The Impending Cry

51. Arctic Scenery

52. The Pathway Stopped. .

53. The Home made Happy. .

54. The Sly Glance. .

" She never told her love " A Hard Row at Sea 57. The Pudding made Perfect

8. The Trout Taken

9. The Proposal 60. The Response 31. Blue Noses..

Ball- Room Scenes

.by Mytcns Rubens Lippo Lippi by Both . Waterloo Claude Kneller Lely

Turner Gainsborough . by A. Constable Girtin Sandby Beechey Haydon Morland Warren Faed

. . Redgrave Oakley Bartholomew Gillies

,-. . . Westall Waiting

Solomon

Duncan and Haag Brokedon Burgess

Harrison Weir by Topham by Cousins by Lane Hone

. . Waterton by A. Tennant Callow . . Hurlstone Kirke Boxall Linton Tinkler Ferrey .. P. Cox . . Whymper Landseer by A. Poole .. by Shee Smirke Pvne

Mrs. Herring by Egg

by Hooke and Rodwell Asker Clarke Jack Frost

52. Ball- Room Scenes. Hoppner, Dance, Inskipp

and Stephanoff.

53. The Knight Armed. . . by Lance

54. Travel in the Dark. . . . Knight

5. Sketch on the Caspian. . . . Eastlake

6. The Mountain Spring. . . . Gush

7. The Butt. . . . Cooper and Singleton

8. Full Cry Hunt

59. The Happy Family. . . . Goodall

0. The Two Letters Opie

1. An Exclamation at Whist. . Uwins

2. Preparations for Dinner. . . . by Cooke

3. On the Forth ' Frith

4. High and Dry Patten