The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-21 00:00:00

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PARLIAMEN TARY PAPER• The
BRITISH MUSECM.—(No. 116, March 14, 1844).--
accounts, estimate, number of persons admitted,
progress of arrangement, are classed, this year, un
alt
nine separate heads. No. lis a general account iB,}3,
receipts from Christmas, 1842, to ChristmaE, 15,t,
showing an aggregate of 37,3141. 9s. Sd. Of this amotl4l
3,2311. was balance in hand at December, 1842; 7,8f0;
the fourth instalment. of Parliamentary gre,ll,
eOO
1842-43 ; three (out of four) instalments for, We ;
1843-44 (that for the quarter ending this month net dr.
received), 24,432 L; cash for sale of copies of the SYg4;
sis, 338/; ditto for sales of casts of marbles, 450.,
rent of houses lately purchased in Great 1?,
11t0;1
street, 157/ Under head No. 2, estimaten-70
actual—expenditure from Christmas, 1842, te.,s-ely.
period 1843 (A), and estimated charge from i?,10
day, 1844, to Lady-day, 1845, we find some itmee,
of interest and importance. In the first P
the amount of (A) estimated expenditure to Clrill'ai
1843, was 37,5261. 17s. 9d., but the (B) actual e%r the
ture for that period was only 35,4881. 10s. 9d, Ire° fo
latter account we find the actual payments
salaries officers of the ordinary establishment 5,3'
ditto of sssistants, 3,0081. 1,35. 4d. ; ditto and vinge,shere
attendants and servants, 4,985/. 10s. 9d. Then,,
:„'s
were paid salaries of librarians for the inn!
library, 2001.; of officers for the Banksian
5431. ; attendants on stores and labourers, 402/. , re.
None of these allowances, considering the exten"
sponsibility, and continuance of the duties, to herpe
formed in retu:n, appear to be excessive. But we
the " stores" will be better looked after, particular:o.
they be deposited in the cellars and vaults of the
blishment, with a better management and more for wed
for their preservation than have heretofore been hest`t)josi
on pre served zoological specimens and other collo. s for
which were remitted to the same destructive centrterielo,
as unlimited period. We well remember the utter dim
tion which had been permitted to overtake theme fries,
gift of stuffed mammalia, &c., from Southern friend
presented some years ago to this institution hymn' i,,irst
Mr. Burchell, the traveller. It was sufficient to do.,
with indignation the impracticable hides of the pee ore
rnata themselves, which he little dreamed he wp's, were
signing to mere " oubliettes," from whence the) l .rin;
never to be brought forth to the gaze of "an °roi ts,
public." until moths and earwigs, spiders se' ols•
had devoured the parded skins of his canieleo...ar of,
made barracks of the interior of his hipPol)°,_nrl
70.
carried off a whole rhinoceros in the minute but nget
five rations appropriated to the sustenance of their
devourers, and gnawed into mincemeat the inteA";. ,find
teguments, and hay-substituted entrails of a l'am".•
elephant. „mote
The supernumeraries employed in different dePrnws
appear to have been paid respectively as ib'vripto
Employed in the MS. department, 56/. ; in theLE neit
book ditto, 6781. ; in preparing the (internrinau'i es'
, catalogue of printed books, 1,283/. ; repayment :00 the
penses incurred by the Admiralty in renlol4l;° for
Xanthian marbles, 3571. (on account--35, Pea;
the current year, also) ; purchase of MS5e
ditto, of printed books, 4,003/4 paid for benkml-0611
2,9681.; purchase of minerals and fossil remains! 911(i'
of zoological specimens, 681!.; expense of prePar'b'',7se
preserving objects of natural history, 9661; Pricy 01'
antiquities and coins, 1,691!.; ditto, Prin:-
engravings, 846/.; drawings from ancrenvoioiog
bles, 147/4 engravings from ditto, 330/; 1ntu".57:1;
historical papyri in Hieretic characters, vroeoll,
for balance of receipts, 37,3141; Itcoliv'
35,4891.; surplus (in hand), 1,8951. No. 3is an ,'"(c110;
of the administration of the Bridgewater Fun" WI
dends at 12,903/. in the Three per Cents., hectn„,-ohe."
by the late Earl, and rental of a small estate beg': ic
by the same Nobleman to this institution). !INs ge:
m.lar account of the Farnborough Fund. 240;
neral account of Funds for year ending LadY:ael'et
No. 6, amount of grant required for service 10, 01
year—viz., 37,987/. No. 7, account of exPoldichrist;
a special grant made during the year ending be
mas, 1843—that is to say, of 5,2701, sou
were paid on account of printed books, CO'' bill'-
MSS., from the collection at StraeberrY lste
1,018!. ; antique vases from collection of tirs fro!
Prince of Casino, 1,3001.; botanical speeitnele.
ditto, of late A. B. Lambert, Esq., 3841. ; ra-
purchased in Egypt by the Rev. H. TattS
to
B 40!,
and a collection of engravings, the work 01017
Morghem, 1,5751. No. 8, number of persons ad 1134,„''
visit the British Museum—in 1841, 319,374 ;
_..;de
547,718 ; in 1843, 517,440: number of visits wish, is
reading-room, for purposes of study and, re,5,70951,;
same years, respectively-69,303, 71,706, an_neries
number of visits by artists and students to g';est,„
sculpture, for purposes of study, &c., in WO
5,655, 5,627, and 4,907 : ditto to the print,'"
same years-7,744, 8,781, and 8,162.
The decrease of visitors in all these dennr",e
1843, as compared with 1842, is very remark 0:111
. No. 9. is a statement of the " progress emains,."
cataloguing and arrangement of' the colleeyer'
account of objects added in year ending 25th Dieefor ttiie
1843." 48 Arabic MSS. have been describen,ditior
general catalogue of Orienial MSS. The aka
MSS., including the Wellesley Papers, have
A schedule has been compiled of t',o Is.
tion pf Wellesley Papers, comprised in 1,337 .0
ba
exclusive of maps. To the " General Collectio",,,'l.sitlr
been added 805 MSS. and 35 original charters'
102 MSS. to the Egerton\Collection. ec 4i6e11/
" Among the manuscripts acquired maybe 5.n
Three hundred and taenty volumes of Syriaeri
scripts, on vellum and paper, of great Biblical atreb 1(5
logical importance, the greater portion of wh-
written between the sixth and ninth centuriee';'ooP):
volumes of Papers from the late Lord Kingsh°4„ool'
library, chiefly illustrative of the history of the loellf's
Indies.—A considerable fragment of the Old 're,6:0111:,
from Proverbs to Ecclesiasticus, inclusive, partiYer ne.
Latin version of Jerome, and partly of an ear'' cli t
slation, written on vellum, in an Iliberno-5a%011,4,1;
ter, not later than the middle of the eighth cel'`,btisPo''
copy of Ranulph de Glanville's Treatise De -11egin. dej
ghee, not later than the reign of King Johli.---4-01
sive collection of' works relative to AstroOs of ',"O,
Arithmetic of the Hindoos, and to the Statistiesode
dia.—About forty volumes relating to English f the
reign Geology and Heraldry, from the library
bluest
Lord Berwick.—An original Writ, signed hY j;1
ward the Fifth, and countersigned by Richard Aer,
Gloucester. rero,
The number of deliveries of manuscripts t° 0 0/
in the reading-room (exclusive of those velledetii)
suited in the rooms of the department), am°lll3-s' 4_4010
the last twelvemonth, to 22,207. of v'the
" Reading-room Service.-1. The number /0004;
returned to the shelves of the general library gl,',h;
reading-room is 137,613 ;to the Royal lihr1111:001
to the closets, where they are kept for the of
re'
readers from day to day, 77,270 ; to the she 3017
reading-rooms, about 117,000 ; altogether
lumes ; on an average 1,196 a day." le 11#
The collections in mineralogy, and s°°of sliccief
tang, and antiquities have received addenda e re!,o
variety, and so numerous, that we must refer Piste!"
to the Parliamentary paper itself for any ntleg
of them.
CO" Ts
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SUICIDE OF A RETIRED TRADESMAN' Lord „,e0
the Coroner, held a inuest yesterday, at the
o
Inn, Old Kent-road, n qas to the death of Mr. Jan eliai4ie;
aged 65, formerly the well-known fishmonger verYher hot
Bricklayers' Arms, who committed suicide untie' our,
lancholy circumstances. The deceased had ford crefoo,
h
years been the proprietor of the shop alluded soi.
retire e
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amassed a good fortune. A few years ago e,,e
trade in favour of his son, and went to reside at the
Ist
Mr. Davis, 11, Thirza-place, Old Kent-road;„cs, le" fro;
went to his former residence daily, but had 3":"iatr'ioo"'
been very low-spirited, chiefly arising, as his soitS oetPiebet,:
the works carrying on in the Upper Grange'r,°,3l'loY,i' ,011 i
sey, in connexion with the new line of Dover Pallid ca-ter„
he had some houses, and which he believedlo boat or;
ruin. On Saturday he was at his old shoe aspiiiclfort.
o'clock, and was more than usually depressed' ,41 was, joie
he went home. At half-past six the deeeas`s.o,, C!!'"
hanging by a slight cord to the bedstead, and w" hen cu
he was quite dead. Verdict—" Temporary Insaa'nce,
APPROACHING MARRIAGES: to
. ecte'
nounced between Mr. Henry Hoare and Miss ~ Vele
daughter of Sir East Clayton East, Bart , is 1104„, it "la 'of
be solemnised until the close of the season. 7„"if Dertjors
neval will be shortly united, at Paris, to 31""oprieite'
Veaux, the accomplished daughter ofone of theta b
the Journal des Debats. A marriage is on the le. Ale'
Horsley Palmer, Esq., and one of the Misses G 11'70
CHEAP GLASS OF GIN AND WATEL--ik !ll' for,-0
day afternoon, a genteelly-dressed man we;" ecsil'`t roe",l
Angel public-house, High-street, Bristol, an" `.ace ho Dej,
glass of gin and water. He was shown into 3 After fool!f
and supplied with the gin, which he paid for. lass'„;e3l.
left, the waiter, who went into the room for thetribstit'
to her surprise, that a lead tea-spoon had beets
the silver one by the " gentleman."