Lecturing at the Royal Institution on Friday week on "
Westminster Abbey in the Early Part of the Seventeenth Century," the Dean of Westminster dealt at length with the history of the Chapel of the Pyx. Though certain Royal treasures and part of the Regalia had been kept there from the days of Edward III. onward, it was doubtful whether the chapel—the oldest remaining part of Edward the Confessor's building—was really the treasury chamber. As all ite contents had now found a home elsewhere, except the old altar, he cherished a hope that this ancient building might be restored to the custody of the Abbey authorities, opened to the public, and used for divine service, and for erecting memorials to great men of the future. There was no reason to suppose that the King could any longer use it for his treasures, and if the State no longer required it, it seemed reasonable that it should revert to its original ecclesiastical use.
Bank Rate, 3 per cent.
Consols (24 per cent.) were on Friday 891.
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