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

circumstance may have been the cause of her leaving
home.

HISTORIC SOCIETY OF LANCA-
SHIRE AND CHESHIRE.

The fourth ordinary meeting of the session was
held at the Collegiate Institution, Liverpool, on
Thursday last ; P. R. Qiir, EN.., iii the chair.
Among the presents received were—the " Memoires
de la Societ6 d'Emulation d'Abbeville," sent with a
considerable number of other works, including the
very interesting " iintiquites Celtiques et Ante-
diluviennes," by M. Boucher de Perthes, a distin-
guished French archnelogist; Mr. J. E. Lee's de-
scription of a Roman building, and other remains
lately discovered at Caerkon, sent by the author;
a very curious and elaborately illustrated folio
volume on the arm', armour, and tactics of cavalry,
printed at Frankfurt-on-the laine, 1680; the journal
of the British Archeological Association sent by the
council ; a model of the fastening of a door in the
dungeon tower of Lancaster Castle, sent by Mr.
Winfield Iliggin, and forming the chief illustration of
one of the papers of the evening ; a very highly
wrought lock, taken from a treasure-chest of
Henry IV., of France, now in the tower of London,
presented by Messrs. Chubb 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 Philip Egerton, Bart., 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 specimen of the
brazen dishes, which are exciting so much interest
among archaeologists, contributed by J. Robins, Esq.,
of West Kirby. Ancient maps, books, &c., from 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.

RACES T
FEBRI

0 COME.

Lincoln Spring

Liverpool.
,cu.

Doncaster Spring
AP

War wick l9

CattGriek Bridge
Northampton & Pyteh-
ley Hunt .
Czoxton Park 9

lEpsom Spring
Newmarket Craven
I Bath 23
Newmkt. First Spring
'AY.

Ch(ster Spring
Newrn. &cowl Spring l4
Shrewsbury ... 15

Manchester 22
Epsom Sumuicr
Edinburgh

Ne wton
Ascot
ilimpton l9

Nreweastle
Bibury 26
S:oek bridge 27

Newmarket
Liverpool lO
Nottingham IC
Stamford l7

Salisbury lB
Winchester 23
Goodwood

Ripon
Brighton 7
Wolverhampton l2
Eglinten Park ... 13 or 14

Warwick .
Lichfield .