The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-04 00:00:00

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)e advisable to let the

Oct stand over until they had seen

copy of the

The.board then adjourned

HISTORIC

SOCIETY,

)gical peeting for the session was held
oorge's Ilall, the Rev:Dr. Thom its the

,Thomas BLAKE; EN., F. A. Welton, Esq.,
Fencliurch-street,-Vendon, and 'the Rev. Thomas Stanifertb;
Sten rs, Winderinere, were elected members of tlii9;OPek.lA
large numberof donations were acknowledged 1?), thelhnrorar)f
sderctarV, "Dr. Hume, as having been received. Among therti
wereßeport, presented to the Cambridge Antiquarian
Society at its fifteenth-annual general meeting, and cornztßini..
elatierts -Made to the society, from' the society; 'Proe'eedings
and Transactions .of the Kilkenny Archeological Society, for
May; !',July, and .September, 1855; from the .sbeiety';-First
annual Report of the Government School of Art, 'established in
connectiortith the Collegiate Institution, from the-Rev.:J.-B.
trowson, Chairman of its .Council'; the Archeological Journal
for September, 1855; from the Archeological Institute of Great
Britain and Ireland ; from the ,-Literary and Philosophical
Society .of :Leiccster,.a. volume containing,the-lait annual report
and a printed, selection from the papers read since the founda-
tion of Abe &c; &c.

Dr. Huiife-exhibiled three ancient parchments relative to
families in Fiintshire•and Cheshire, part of a set of fifty4our
presented to him by a friend in Ireland, in the hope.that they
would possess soave interest in thisjloca:ity. Most of then]
were quit4erfect, and about half of them had the,inaient seals
still attached. The:dates ranged from 1106' to the latter half
of the seventeenth century. Most of the papers relate:to the
property possessed by
.the family of the :celebrated Archibald
Hamilton Rowan. ,

Mr.: Mayer exhibited a gold torque, and seven armilli,
recently found in Ireland. They are all of nearly pure gold,
and quite solid. The torqbe, or necklace; weighs near twelve
ounces, and in of a rather remarkable 'form, being formed bn
the flange in the inside with a half-round:on one half, and a
bevilled edge on the other on the outside. • The armilli or
bracelets are all of different sizes. These ornaments are
part of a find, the value of, which, for gold only, is computed
to be worth more, than £1,200. Mr. Mayer stated that the
man who found them, fearing the claim of the Crown, refused
to disclose the plee where he discovered them.

Th.s,circunniance, etrungly illustrating the evils of the' law
of treasure-trove, gave rise to .a brief discussion on the 'subject.
.The Chairman, Dr. Etnerie, and Mr. Mayer, mentioned several
instances in which valuable' antiquities Were lost to the Country
by the parties who forind them concealing the fact, lest
treasure-trove_might be. enforced, and expressed a bop that
tlic law would' b'd loon cha-nged. • '

A conversation also took place orr, the destruction of
monuments of antiquity in this age, which prides itself on being
gothie in nothing else than its love of the architecture of the
period so characterised—in history. . „

, . .
The Chairman auggested that it would-be a wise and 'good
thing. if the government appointed a conservator of ancient
monuments;which would thus be saved from the hands- of
modern iconoclasts.

Dr.,Hutne stated that in France such an officer Was appointed
for that purpose.

4' !
The Rev:W. B. Greenside exhibited a silver spoon ana
four coins, recently found near Thurland Castle,- in Lan-casliire,Along with numerous coins -in gold and iil'Ver; 'Of- the
periods of the Edwards and Henrys of England, as well as
several rare and interesting Medals in silver and bronze; and
one of the oval -Medallion§ thade-pc: silver, On one Side 'f
which is a portrait Oraarl.es the.rirst, with the initials C. R ,
and on the reverse is a tree, with,their arms, on each of whic
is a royal crown; and in the-upper part of the field is a sun in
splendour, and' :Wound- Abe ' edge are the Words Revirescet
tanclein. Similar. •badges were— worn' by •tho adherents' of
Charles during the troublous tithes ' that 'followed his
deposition.; - -'

The paper of the evening was On the western portion
of the ancient kingdom of Northumberland dovin to the
Roman conquest" by',the'Rev. J. W. Made, IsTewcastle-oil-
Tyne. In the absence of the writer, the paper was read ly
the Rev. Thomas ,Moore.

Vice-Admiral of the Red Sir George Seymour, R.C.8.,
G.C.U., commenced his duties as Commander-in-Chief at
Poitsmouth on Wednesday. He went on board his fiagship,the
Victory, and was received with the usual,honors by- Captain
Gordon and officers ; he afterwards embaiked on the
steam-tender Fire Queen, and steamed round the fleet at
Spithead, whence he steamed into harbour and made a
similar cursory inspection.