Essex Buildings.—­“On Thursday next, the 22nd of this instant, November, at the Musick-school in Essex Buildings, over against St. Clement’s Church in the Strand, will be continued a concert of vocal and instrumental musick, beginning at five of the clock, every evening.  Composed by Mr. Banister.”—­Lond.  Gazette, Nov. 18. 1678.  “This famous ‘musick-room’ was afterwards Paterson’s auction-room.”—­Pennant’s Common-place Book.

St. Antholin’s.—­In Thorpe’s Catalogue of MSS. for 1836 appears for sale, Art. 792., “The Churchwarden’s Accounts, from 1615 to 1752, of the Parish of St. Antholin’s, London.”  Again, in the same Catalogue, Art. 793., “The Churchwardens and Overseers of the Parish of St. Antholin’s, in London, Accounts from 1638 to 1700 inclusive.”  Verily these books have been in the hands of “unjust stewards!”

Clerkenwell.—­Names of eminent persons residing in this parish in 1666:—­Earl of Carlisle, Earl of Essex, Earl of Aylesbury, Lord Barkely, Lord Townsend, Lord Dellawar, Lady Crofts, Lady Wordham, Sir John Keeling, Sir John Cropley, Sir Edward Bannister, Sir Nicholas Stroude, Sir Gower Barrington, Dr. King, Dr. Sloane.  In 1667-8:—­Duke of Newcastle, Lord Baltimore, Lady Wright, Lady Mary Dormer, Lady Wyndham, Sir Erasmus Smith, Sir Richard Cliverton, Sir John Burdish, Sir Goddard Nelthorpe, Sir John King, Sir William Bowles, Sir William Boulton.—­Extracted from a MS. in the late Mr. Upcott’s Collection.

Tyburn Gallows.—­No. 49.  Connaught Square, is built on the spot where this celebrated gallows stood; and, in the lease granted by the Bishop of London, this is particularly mentioned.

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

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SEWERAGE IN ETRURIA.

I have been particularly struck, in reading The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria, of George Dennis, by the great disparity there appears between the ancient population of this country and the present.

The ancient population appears, moreover, to have been located in circumstances not by any means favourable to the health of the people.  Those cities surrounded by high walls, and entered by singularly small gateways, must have been very badly ventilated, and very unfavourable to health; and yet it is not reasonable to suppose they could have been so unhealthy then as the author describes the country at present to be.  It is hardly possible to imagine so great a people as the Etruscans, the wretched fever-stricken objects the present inhabitants of the Maremna are described to be.

To what, then, can this great difference be ascribed?  The Etruscans appear to have taken very great pains with the drainage of their cities; on many sites the cloaca are the only remains of their former industry and greatness which remain.  They were also careful to bury their dead outside their city walls; and it is, no doubt, to these two circumstances, principally, that their increase and greatness, as a people, are to be ascribed.  But why do not the present inhabitants avail themselves of the same means to health?  Is it that they are idle, or are they too broken spirited and poverty-stricken to unite in any public work?  Or has the climate changed?