The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-26 00:00:00

British Archaeological Association.

Yesterday evening the members of this association
held their ordinary meeting in their rooms in Sack-
ville-street. Mr. Irving was in the chair, and he
introduced the proceedings by mentioning, in refer-
ence to an Andrea Ferrara sword that had been ex-
hibited on a former evening, that he had been in-
formed a manufacture of swords, purporting to be
real Andrea Ferraras, is now carried on at Birming-
ham, and the purchasers of antiquities should there-
fore be on their guard against such forgeries.

The first paper read :Was a short communication
from Dr. Harker on British interments on Lanca-
shire moor, which was illustrated by a variety of
drawings on sepulchral urns which had been dis-
covered on the moor, most of them containing in-
cinerated bones. The urns were buried in regular
order about a yard apart, and they were variously
ornamented, the decorations on some being very
elaborate. Among the drawings was one of a smaller
kind, like an incense burner.

The next paper was " On Potters' Kilns at Silver-
dale, Lancashire," communicated by Mr. J. Marton,
which was illustrated by several examples of the pots
found there. They were of very rude workmanship,
having been made by hand and of coarse materials.
Mr. Cuming considered they belong6d to the early
part of the 17th century, and were curious as show-
ing, from the numerous fragments of pottery that
surrounded them, that a pottery had been established
in that part of Lancashire, for it had been supposed
that no manufacture of the kind had existed at that
period further north than Liverpool.
Mr. STER CUMING read some "Notes on Purses,"
which were illustrated by a great variety of examples,
principally of the Stuart period, including two card
purses of cloth of gold; two card purses of coloured
silks with gold and silver threads, exhibited by Lord
Boston ; a double purse, 24 inches long, of green
silk, also sent by Lord Boston, who further contri-
buted a Turkish purse of cloth woven of camels'
hair, brought to England by Lord Wm. Paget at
the close of the 17th century, and Mr. Cuming ex-
hibited, a purse of felted cloth of camel's hair from
Bagdad. Among the ornamental devices on one of
the purses of cloth of gold was a figure of Cupid
grinding a heart on a grindstone.
a Mr. ROBERTS read a paper on a round window
lin a church in Norfolk, a model of which he ex-

bited, laced across with string, as he believed

it was originally. It had been attributed to the
Saxon period, but he had no doubt it belonged to
the early Norman. The object of windows in
churches was, he said, formerly to admit the wind,
and not light, hence they were made small and
covered over with lattice-work, to keep out birds.
So late as the fourth century these windows were
covered with skins or cloths, and afterwards with
oiled paper or linen fabric, to admit light, which
practice was continued to the 16th century.
Numerous drawings were exhibited of paintings

in distemper in the church of the Holy Cross, near
Winchester, contributed by Mr. Baigent, whose
paper on the subject was deferred in consequence
of his absence. These copies of beautiful fresco
paintings in the old church, which have now been
destroyed in the progress of " restoration," gave
rise to an animated discussion on the destruction of
ancient work of art by that process. In the church
of Holy Cross these paintings were in some instances
placed one over the other, but they have been now
destroyed, together with a remarkably curious pillar
which had two enclosures. The original pillar,
which was light and elegant, was enclosed in a
massive round pillar, and that again was surrounded
with an octagonal casing. The chairman said

that all the beauty of the fine old churches along the
coast of Sussex had been entirely destroyed by re-
storation. Mr. Falconer related some strange acts
of Vandalism in a church at Banbury, where, at this
very day, some most beautiful brasses lie buried
underground, and others had been sold as old metal.
Mr. Roberts and other gentlemen also joined in
protesting against the destruction of ancient work,
but the blame was attributed principally to the
masters of works, the churchwardens, and the work-
men, and not to the architects.
After the transaction of some other business, the
meeting adjourned.

The Holborn Union.--Case of Amelia Bing.

At the ordinary weekly meeting of the board of
guardians, held last night in the board room of the
Holborn Union, Gray's-inn-road, Mr. Hopwood,
the chairman, presiding,
Mr. James, the clerk to the board, read a letter
from the Poor-law Board, calling attention to the
complaint of Amelia King, which had been sent to
that board by the Protective Society, and asking for
explanations with regard to those charges.
The charges were a repetition of those which were
made at the Clerkenwell Police-court by Mrs. King
in the early yart of this year.
Mr. James read a reply which contradicted the
statements of Mrs. King, and further stated that
Mr. Norton had stated when she first came into the
workhouse he certified that she was not in a fit con-
dition to scrub, but that certificate did not apply to
the time when she was asked
to scrub the tables.
When Mrs. King came into
the house on the 2d
January, after being out on leave, she was intoxi-
cated, and he gave her a draught at her own re-
quest to get rid of the effects of the drink she had
taken. The complaints of Mm. King were referred
to a committee, and that body came to the unani-
mous resolution that they were utterly without
foundation—that the master had neither sworn at
nor struck her, and that she was properly punished
for refusing to obey the lawful order of the mas-
ter for her violent and continued resistance to the
officers who were directed to take her to the work-
room, and for using bad and violent language.
At the conclusion of the inquiry Mr. Southee, one
of the vice chairmen of the board of guardians, who
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The board unanimously approved the letter, and
Mr. James was directed to send that reply to the
Poor-law Board.