The examination of the copies of the inscriptions already in our possession will probably determine whether the language is hieroglyphic, syllabic, or alphabetic. The principal point is to enumerate the characters found to be clearly distinct from each other. Should there be found two to three hundred decidedly _distinct_ characters--assuming it to be one language and one uniform character of that language, for many nations (peoples) use more than one character--the language _à priori_ must be _hieroglyphic_. If 70 to 90, it will be _syllabic_; but if only 20 to 50, it may be safely concluded that it is alphabetic. The letters distinct from each other may be less than 20, inasmuch as in the Arabic, most probably the language which will solve this problem, one character represents several sounds, the points, usually omitted, alone distinguishing the difference between _be_, _te_, _tse_, _nun_, and _jod_, between _jim_, _ha_ and _cha_, between _dal_ and _zal_, between _re_ and _se_, _sin_ and _shin_, _zad_ and _dad_, _fe_ and _kaf_, &c. &c. On the other hand, the language has increased the number of its characters, by distinguishing _initial_ from _medial_ and _terminal_ letters, having retained only thirteen originally distinct characters in its alphabet. The Ethiopic, written from left to right, has manifestly furnished the Arabs with their cursive character, the one uniformly printed, written from right to left, or otherwise both have derived them from a common source. Of the intimate relation early subsisting between the Ethiopians and their Shemitic congeners in Asia, one remarkable instance is the former retaining to themselves exclusively "the exalted horn," so often mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, the wearing of which has been long abandoned by every other family of that race. T. J. BUCKTON. Lichfield. ADDITIONS TO CUNNINGHAM'S HAND-BOOK OF LONDON. _St. Stephen's Church, Walbrook._--Sir Robert Chicheley, alderman and twice Lord Mayor of London, is said, in Wm. Ravenhill's _Short Account of the Company of Grocers from their Original_ (4to. Lond. 1689), to have purchased the ground whereon St. Stephen's church stands, and to have built, at his own charge, the church which was afterwards replaced by the edifice of Sir Christopher Wren. The founder was a member of that company, and to them he gave the advowson. He was the youngest of three brothers, of whom the eldest was Henry Chicheley, Archbishop of Canterbury _temp._ Henry VI. The second brother was Sir William, who, like Robert, was an alderman, and a member of the Grocers' Company. From the younger brother, Robert, descended Sir Thomas Chicheley, who was Master of the Ordnance and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in the reign of Charles II.