---- at Hill 3,980 12 3 ---- Aldermanbury 5,237 3 6 ---- le Bow 8,071 18 1 ---- le Steeple 7,388 8 7-3/4 St. Magnus, Lond. bridge 9,579 19 10 St. Mildred, Bread-street 3,705 13 6-1/4 ---- Poultry 4,654 9 7-3/4 St. Nicholas Cole Abbey 5,042 6 11 St. Olav, Jewry 5,580 4 10 St. Peter's, Cornhill 5,647 8 2 St. Swithin, Canon-street 4,687 4 6 St. Stephen, Wallbrook 7,652 13 8 ---- Coleman-str 4,020 16 6 St. Vedast, Foster-lane 1,853 15 6 EARLY CLOCKS. The first clock which appeared in Europe, was probably that which Eginhard (the secretary of Charlemagne), describes as sent to his royal master by Abdalla, King of Persia. "A horologe of brass, wonderfully constructed, for the course of the twelve hours, answered to the hourglass, with as many little brazen balls, which drop down on a sort of bells underneath, and sounded each other."--The Venetians had clocks in 872, and sent a specimen of them that year to Constantinople. SINGULAR SPECIMEN OF ORTHOGRAPHY IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. The following letter was written by the Duchess of Norfolk to Cromwell, Earl of Essex. It exhibits a curious instance of the monstrous anomalies of our orthography in the infancy of our literature, when a spelling book was yet a precious thing:-- "My ffary gode lord,--her I sand you in tokyn hoff the neweyer, a glasse hoff Setyl set in Sellfer gyld, I pra you tak hit in wort. An hy wer babel het showlde be bater. I woll hit war wort a m crone." Thus _translated_:-- "My very good lord,--Here I send you, in token of the new year, a glass of setyll set in silver gilt; I pray you take it in worth. An I were able it should be better. I would it were worth a thousand crown." DEATH OF THE EARL OF KILDARE.