The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-18 00:00:00

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circumstance may have been the cause of her leaving
home.

HISTORIC
,SOCIETY ()F LANCA-
SHIRE AND CHESHIRE. •
The fourth ordinary meeting of the session was
held at the Collegiate Institution, Liverpool, on
Tnursday last ; P. R; Quie, Esq., in the chair.
Among the presents received were—the " Memoires
de la Societe d'Emulation d'Abbeville," sent with a
considerable number of other works, including the
very interesting
"is ntiquites Celciques et Ante-
diluviennes," by M. Boucher de Perthes, a distin-
guished French arct wlogist ; Mr. J. E. Lee's de-
scription of a Roman building, and other remains
lately discovered at Caerleon, sent by the author ;
a very curious and elaborately illustrated folio
volume on the arms, armour, and tactics of cavalry,
printed at Frankfort-on-the Maine, 1680 ; the journal
of the British Archaeological Association sent by the
council ; a maid, of the fastening of a door in the
durgeon tower of Lancaster Castle, sent by Mr.
Winfield anti forming the chief illustration of
one of the papers of the evening ; a very highly
wrought luck, taken from a treasure-chest of
11-nry IV , of France, now in the tower of London,
presented by Messrs. Chubh and Co. Mr. Pidgeon
presented,
on the part of Dr. Kendrick, of War-
rington, a volume of extracts from the records of
vestry meetings, and other documents connected
with the parish church of Warrington, from 1630 to
1781. Sir Pnilip Egerton, Bars., M.P, sent for ex•
hibition a large collection of ancient deeds and let-
ters, many of them of great historical interest, and
a fine impression of the seal. of Charles 11. for the
county palatine of Chester and Flint, dated 1660,
of which Mr. Pidgeon laid on the table a proof of
an etching, executed for the society's transactions.
Among the other curiosities, &c., exhibited were
an elaborate drawing of a bench end at Childwall
church, by Mr. Pidgeon ; a fine specinien of the
brazen dishes, which are exciting so much interest
among archseologistr, contributed by J. Robins, Esq.,
of West Kirby. Ancient maps, books, ice., frcm Dr.
Hume, &c. A discussion took place relative to the
exaction by the Government of the duties on books,
&c., sent as presents by learned societies on the Con-
tinent to similar societies in Great Britain, and it was
resolved to transmit a memorial on the subject to the
Lords of the Treasury.
The Rev. Dr. Thom then read a paper ,on the
Scotch kirks in Liverpool, minutely detailing the rise
and progress of the various Scottish congregations
now or formerly in being.
The Rev. Dr. Hume read a paper on the parish of
Church Minshull, drawn up with great care and re-
search by the clergyman of that parish, the Rev. G. B.
Sandford, M.A. Few more complete histories of a
single parish have ever been compiled, and perhaps
no better plan could be adopted for so minutely de-
scribing a district as by similar reports, communi-
cated to, and printed by such a body as the Historic
Society.
Mr. E. Iliggin then read a sketch of the history of
door-fastenings. Though apparently a trifling sub-
ject, the paper showed minute research, and was fully
elucidated by diagrams and models, as well as by a
series of the elaborate modern inventions.