299 committed undan yiul, are sent to Sandwich. ne County Court is held in the Guildhall, and also the meetings of the Commissioners of Turnpikes. The Weighbridge is very near the Market-place. The market days are held as named in the Charter, on Tuesdays and Saturdays, for the sale of meat, poultry, eggs, butter, &c., but of late years it has been badly supplied. The Fish Market is open daily. THE NATIONAL AND PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS. In 1792 the National School in Middle Street was founded, in order to give secular and religious instruction to the youth of both sexes in the town of Deal. It was under the special direction of the Rector of St. Leonard's Church, and of the Curate of St. George's Church, Deal. It has been supported by voluntary contributions and annual collections, until recently, when a new order of things has been introduced, and the schools are now connected with Government inspection, receiving a certain small sum towards its support. It is more immediately affiliated with the congregation of St. George's Church, since new schools have been built at Middle Deal. There is a Sunday School, attended by children living in the district, who are gratuitiously instructed by able and zealous teachers who belong to St. George's Church. A few years since, new schools upon large and more commodious scale have been built at Middle Deal. The Rev. Archibald Duthie undertook the task of procuring funds, aided by the Rev. M. E. Benson: these two clergymen were assisted by a Committee, who succeeded in raising sufficient money to defray the cost, amounting, it is said, to more than £2,000. These schools are of the first importance to the popular district of Upper Deal, and the North-end district, connected with St. Andrew's Church. The teachers are of the qualified class, having undergone examination as to fitness by competent and recognised authority. DEAL CASTLE, To the south of the town is encompassed with a ditch, over which is a drawbridge, leading to the entrance. It consists chiefly of a round tower, with a hall and other apartments, designed for the conveniency of the Captain. A battery of a few guns, with lunets, make its chief defence. In 1776, the Marquis of Carmarthen, afterwards summoned up to the House of Peers by the title of Baron Osborne, of Kiveton, had the Castle suitably fitted up for his reception and for the purposes of bathing. Lord Carrington, when Captain of Deal Castle, expended large sums of money in improving the interior, which added nothing whatever to its defence, but added materially to the comforts of his family, who were accustomed to reside here, several months in the year. After his decease, the Earl of Mornington, then the Earl of Dalhousie were appointed successively Captains of the Castle, who retained it a few years. On the appointment of the noble Earl of Dalhousie to the important office of Governer-General of India, he relinquished it, when the Earl of Clanwilliam received the appointment, which he still holds. UPPER DEAL CHURCH Is a spacious and handsome structure, with a tower at the west end, surmounted by a wooden cupola turret. This tower was erected in 1684, and was repaired in 1825. The date of the Church is obscure, and there are but few vestiges of antiquity to trace it to any remote period, except in the transept, where there are still to be seen distinct remains of early Saxon arcades. The west gallery was built by the Deal Pilots, in 1705; in front of it is the painting of a man-ofwar, on each side of which is a globe. In 1819, the Church was put in thorough repair and enlarged, and more recently by the munificence of a lady lately deceased, (Mrs. Oldman,) the Church, in the interior, has undergone considerable alteration and improvements. In the centre of the Church is the tomb of the Coppin family, many of whom lie buried underneath. The family of Coppin, as also that of Ockman, who for a series of years lived in Deal, are extinct. On the wall of the communion table is a remarkably handsome brass tablet, to the memory of Thomas Boys, Esq., who died 16th February, 1562; it is inlaid in Bethersden marble; above the inscription is the figure of a knight, kneeling before a desk, on which a bible, or missal, is placed; a scroll just above the head has these words"Toutjours prest." The knight's hemlet and gauntlets are on the ground in front of the desk, and his armorial bearings at the top of the brass. The following is the inscription :— "Here in this ile lyeth the Bodde of Thomas Boys Gentellman at armes at calles and attended upon the Yet Robert Boys sayth to him shall never die." Near this brass is a memorial to Edward Bulstrode, Esq., late of "Tewksbury," painted in panel, together with the armorial bearings, &c. This gentleman died the 27th December, 1718, aged 67. In the south side of the chancel is a piscina of very singular construction, supposed to be Norman, and adjoining it are two "Sedilia." There is also an ambry in the wall on the north side. Near the west entrance is a very handsome octagonal memorial font of Caen stone (presented by the family of the late Mrs. Smith, of Upper Deal); round the base of it is a record of the death of this lady, which took place on the 30th January, 1850; on the upper edge is the following inscription: "Except a man be born of Water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God."-St. John, chap. 3, v. 5. The organ, a very superior instrument, by Bevington, is the munificent gift of the late Mrs. Oldman. At the east of the Churchyard, is the resting-place for the family of Admiral Drake-a vault built about Queen Elizabeth's time, but it has not been used for many years for the puposes intended. On the south side, not far distant from the above-mentioned vault is a stone in memory of Newman Shrewsbury, who died January, 1837, aged 84. With fidelity and honour He served his country during a period As a Gunner in his Majesty's navy: Endeared to all who knew him, By the amiability of his manners And the rectitude of his character. At the south-west corner of the Church is a stone to the memory of John Munn. Cornelius Winter, in his Life of Whitfield, states that on one occasion. when in the Downs, wind bound, this celebrated preacher came on shore and preached a sermon in Upper Deal Church, and in that of Shoulden likewise. The Rev. T. Ll. Griffith is the present Rector. ST. GEORGE'S CHURCH, LOWER STREET, Is now, by recent arrangement, made a district Church, and out of the division of the parish it has had assigned to it a much larger portion of the inhabitants than the other two divisions. In the burial ground there are many grave stones and memorials of the dead-one especially arrests the attention, and that is the monument, "Sacred to the memory of Catherine Clayton Bayley, who died on the 2nd November, 1807, aged 17 years," and for others of her family,—also one in memory of Paul Mace, of Weymouth, late Midshipman of the "Dublin," Indiaman, who was drowned on the 23rd March, and buried here the 19th of May, 1788, aged 18 years. The body of this young man was picked up between Sandown Castle and the Battery, after being buried some weeks in the sand. He left a disconsolate mother to mourn for the loss of a dutiful son— "Mother, weep not your son's untimely fate, The youth you fondly embraced so late, Who now reclined in earth's cold bosom lies In hopes through Jesus Christ, with you to rise." In the south corner is the following: "The remains of Captain Edward Thornborough Parker, of the Royal Navy, are here interred: wounded 15th August 1801, off Boulogne, and on the 27th September following, terminated his career of glory, in the 23rd year of his age." The funeral of this gallant young officer was attended by the hero of the Nile, Admiral Lord Nelson, which circumstance attracted an immense concourse of people, the Churchyard |