Chapter I: Front Matter

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{405} NOTES AND QUERIES:

A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.

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No. 209.] Saturday, October 29. 1853. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition, 5d.

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CONTENTS.

NOTES:-- Page
The Scottish National Records 405
Patrick Carey 406
Inedited Lyric by Felicia Hemans, by Weld Taylor 407
"Green Eyes," by Harry Leroy Temple 407
Shakspeare Correspondence, by Samuel Hickson, &c. 408

MINOR NOTES:--Monumental Inscriptions--Marlborough
at Blenheim--Etymology of "till," "until"
--Dog-whipping Day in Hull--State 408

QUERIES:--
Polarised Light. 409

MINOR QUERIES:--"Salus Populi," &c.--Dramatic
Representations by the Hour-glass--John Campbell
of Jamaica--Hodgkins's Tree, Warwick--The
Doctor--English Clergyman in Spain--Caldecott's
Translation of the New Testament--Westhumble
Chapel--Perfect Tense--La Fleur des Saints--
Oasis--Book Reviews, their Origin--Martyr of
Collet Well--Black as a Mourning Colour--The
Word "Mardel," or "Mardle," whence derived?--
Analogy between the Genitive and Plural--Ballina
Castle--Henry I.'s Tomb--"For man proposes, but
God disposes"--Garrick Street, May Fair--The
Forlorn Hope--Mitred Abbot in Wroughton Church,
Wilts--Reynolds' Portrait of Barretti--Crosses on
Stoles--Temporalities of the Church--Etymology
of "The Lizard"--Worm in Books 410

MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Siller Gun of Dumfries
--Margery Trussell--Caves at Settle, Yorkshire--
The Morrow of a Feast--Hotchpot--High and Low
Dutch--"A Wilderness of Monkies"--Splitting
Paper--The Devil on Two Sticks in England 412

REPLIES:--
Stone Pillar Worship and Idol Worship, by William
Blood, &c. 413
"Blagueur" and "Blackguard" by Philarète Chasles 414
Harmony of the Four Gospels by C. Hardwick, T. J.
Buckton, Chris. Roberts, &c. 415
Small Words and Low Words, by Harry Leroy Temple 416
A Chapter on Rings 416
Anticipatory Use of the Cross.--Ringing Bells for the
Dead 417

PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Stereoscopic Angles 419

REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Berefellarii--"To
know ourselves diseased," &c.--Gloves at Fairs--
"An" before "u" long--"The Good Old Cause"
--Jeroboam of Claret, &c.--Humbug--"Could we
with ink," &c.--"Hurrah!"--"Qui facit per alium
facit per se"--Tsar--Scrape--Baskerville--
Sheriffs of Glamorganshire--Synge Family--Lines
on Woman--Lisle Family--Duval Family 420

MISCELLANEOUS:--
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 423
Notices to Correspondents 424
Advertisements 424

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NOTES.

THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL RECORDS.

The two principal causes of the loss of these records are, the abstraction of them by Edward I. in 1292, and the destruction of a great many others by the reformers in their religious zeal. It so happens that up to the time of King Robert Bruce, the history is not much to be depended on. A great many valuable papers connected with the ancient ecclesiastical state of Scotland were carried off to the Continent by the members of the ancient hierarchy, who retired there after the Reformation. Many have, no doubt, been destroyed by time, and in the destruction of their depositories by revolutions and otherwise. That a great many are yet in existence abroad, as well as at home, which would throw great light on Scottish history, and which have not yet been discovered, there is no doubt, notwithstanding the unceremonious manner in which many of them were treated. At the time when the _literati_ were engaged in investigating the authenticity of Ossian's _Poems_ (to go no farther back), it was stated that there was in the library of the Scotch College at Douay a Gaelic MS. of several of the poems of great antiquity, and which, if produced, would have set the question at rest. On farther inquiry, however, it was stated that it had been torn up, along with others, and used by the students for the purpose of kindling the fires. It is gratifying to the antiquary that discoveries are from time to time being made, of great importance: it was announced lately that there had been discovered at the Treasury a series of papers relating to the rebellion of 1715-16, consisting chiefly of informations of persons said to have taken part in the rising; and an important mass of papers relative to the rebellion of 1745-46. There has also been discovered at the Chapter House at Westminster, the correspondence between Edward I., Edward II., and their lieutenants in Scotland, Aymer de Valance, Earl of Pembroke, John, Earl of Warren, and Hugh Cressingham. The letters patent have also been found, by which, in 1304, William Lamberton, Bishop of St. Andrew's, testified his having come into the peace of the king of England, and {406}found himself to answer for the temporalities of his bishopric to the English king. Stray discoveries are now and then made in the charter-rooms of royal burghs, as sometime ago there was found in the Town-house of Aberdeen a charter and several confirmations by King Robert Bruce. The ecclesiastical records of Scotland also suffered in our own day; the original charters of the assembly from 1560 to 1616 were presented to the library of Sion College, London Wall, London, in 1737, by the Honorable Archibald Campbell (who had been chosen by the Presbyters as Bishop of Aberdeen in 1721), under such conditions as might effectually prevent them again becoming the property of the Kirk of Scotland. Their production having been requested by a committee of the House of Commons, the records were produced and laid on the table of the committee-room on the 5th of May, 1834. They were consumed in the fire which destroyed the houses of parliament on the 16th of October of the same year. It was only after 1746, and on the breaking up of the feudal system, when men's minds began to calm down, that any attention was paid to Scottish antiquities. Indeed, previous to that period, had any one asked permission to examine the charter chests of our most ancient families, purely for a literary purpose, he would have been suspected of maturing evidence for the purpose of depriving them of their estates. No such objection now exists, and every facility is afforded both the publishing clubs and private individuals in their researches. Much has been done by the Abbotsford, Bannatyne, Maitland, Roxburgh, Spalding, and other clubs, in elucidating Scottish history and antiquities, but much remains to be done. "If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly," as every day lost renders the attainment of the object more difficult; and it is to be hoped that these clubs will be supported as they deserve.[1]

The student of Scottish history will find much useful and important information in Robertson's _Index of Charters_; Sir Joseph Ayloffe's _Calendars of Ancient Charters_; _Documents and Records illustrative of the History Of Scotland_, edited by Sir Francis Palgrave, 1837; Jamieson's _History of the Culdees_; Toland's _History of the Druids_; Balfour's _History of the Picts_; Chalmers' _Caledonia_; Stuart's _Caledonia Romana_; _History of the House and Clan Mackay_; _The Genealogical Account of the Barclays of Ury for upwards of 700 Years_; Gordon's _History of the House of Sutherland_; M'Nicol's _Remarks on Johnson's Journey to the Western Isles_; Kennedy's _Annals of Aberdeen_; Dalrymple's _Annals_, &c. &c.

ABREDONENSIS.

[Footnote 1: See _Scottish Journal_, Edinburgh, 1847, p. 3., for a
very interesting article on the Early Records of Scotland.]

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PATRICK CAREY.

Looking over Evelyn's _Diary_, edited by Mr. Barry, 4to., 2nd edit., London, 1819, I came upon the following. Evelyn being at Rome, in 1644, says:

"I was especially recommended to Father John, a Benedictine Monk and
Superior of the Order for the English College of Douay; a person of
singular learning, religion, and humanity; also to Mr. Patrick Cary,
an abbot, brother to our learned Lord Falkland, a witty young priest,
who afterwards came over to our church."

It immediately occurred to me, that this "witty young priest" might be Sir Walter Scott's _protégé_, and the author of "_Triviall Poems and Triolets_, written in obedience to Mrs. Tomkins' commands by Patrick Carey, Aug. 20, 1651," and published for the first time at London in 1820, from a MS. in the possession of the editor.

Sir Walter, in introducing his "forgotten poet," merely informs us that his author "appears to have been a gentleman, a loyalist, a lawyer, and a rigid high churchman, if not a Roman Catholic."

In the first part of this book, which the author calls his "Triviall Poems," the reader will find ample proof that his character would fit the "witty young priest" of Evelyn; as well as the gentle blood, and hatred to the Roundheads of Sir Walter. As a farther proof that Patrick Carey the priest, and Patrick the poet, may be identical, take the following from one of his poems, comparing the old Church with the existing one:

"Our Church still flourishing w' had seene,
If th' holy-writt had euer beene
Kept out of laymen's reach;
But, when 'twas English'd, men halfe-witted,
Nay, woemen too, would be permitted,
T' expound all texts and preach."

The second part of Carey's poetical essays is entitled "I will sing unto the Lord," and contains a few "Triolets;" all of an ascetic savour, and strongly confirmatory of the belief that the author may have taken the monastic vow:

"Worldly designes, feares, hopes, farwell!
Farwell all earthly joyes and cares!
On nobler thoughts my soule shall dwell;
Worldly designes, feares, hopes, farwell!
Att quiett, in my peaceful cell,
I'le thincke on God, free from your snares;
Worldly designes, feares, hopes, farwell!
Farwell all earthly joys and cares.

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Pleasure att courts is but in show,
With true content in cells wee meete;
Yes (my deare Lord!) I've found it soe,
Noe joyes but thine are purely sweete!"

The quotation from the Psalms, which forms the title to this second part, is placed above "a helmet and a shield," which Sir Walter has transferred {407}to his title. This "bears what heralds call a cross anchorée, or a cross moline, with a motto, _Tant que je puis_." With the exception of the rose beneath this, there is no identification here of Patrick Carey with the Falkland family. This cross, placed before religious poems, may however be intended to indicate their subjects, and the writer's profession, rather than his family escutcheon; although that may be pointed at in the rose alluded to, the Falklands bearing "on a bend three roses of the field."

J. O.

["Ah! you do not know Pat Carey, a younger brother of Lord
Falkland's," says the disguised Prince Charles to Dr. Albany
Rochecliffe in Sir Walter Scott's _Woodstock_. So completely has
the fame of the great Lord Falkland eclipsed that of his brothers,
that many are, doubtless, in the same blissful state with good Dr.
Rochecliffe, although _two_ editions of the poet's works have been
given to the world. In 1771, Mr. John Murray published the poems of
Carey, from a collection alleged to be in the hands of a Rev.
Pierrepont Cromp, apparently a fictitious name. In 1820, Sir Walter
Scott, ignorant, as he confesses himself, at the time of an earlier
edition, edited once more the poems, employing an original MS.
presented to him by Mr. Murray. In a note in _Woodstock_, Sir Walter
sums up the information he had procured concerning the author,
which, scanty as it is, is not without interest. "Of Carey," he
says, "the second editor, like the first, only knew the name and the
spirit of the verses. He has since been enabled to ascertain that
the poetic cavalier was a younger brother of the celebrated Henry
Lord Carey, who fell at the battle of Newberry, and escaped the
researches of Horace Walpole, to whose list of noble authors he
would have been an important addition." The first edition of the
poems appeared under the following title, _Poems from a Manuscript
written in the Time of Oliver Cromwell_, 4to. 1771, 1_s._ 6_d._:
Murray. It contains only nine pieces, whereas the present edition
contains thirty-seven.--ED.]

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INEDITED LYRIC BY FELICIA HEMANS.

A short time since I discovered the following in the handwriting of Mrs. Hemans, and it accompanied an invitation of a more prosaic description to a gentleman of her acquaintance, and a relative of mine, now deceased. I thought it worth preserving, in case any future edition of her works appeared; but the 13th, 14th, and 15th lines are defective, from the seal, or some other accident, having torn them off, and one is missing. And though perhaps it would not be difficult to restore them, yet I have not ventured to do so myself. The last two lines appear to convey a melancholy foreboding of the poet's sad and early fate. Can any one restore the defective parts?

WELD TAYLOR.

Bayswater.

_Water Lilies._

Come away, Puck, while the dew is sweet;
Come to the dingle where fairies meet.
Know that the lilies have spread their bells
O'er all the pools in our mossy dells;
Stilly and lightly their vases rest
On the quivering sleep of the waters' breast,
Catching the sunshine thro' leaves that throw
To their scented bosoms an emerald glow;
And a star from the depth of each pearly cup,
A golden star! unto heaven looks up,
As if seeking its kindred, where bright they lie,
Set in the blue of the summer sky.
.... under arching leaves we'll float,
.... with reeds o'er the fairy moat,
.... forth wild music both sweet and low.
It shall seem from the rich flower's heart,
As if 'twere a breeze, with a flute's faint sigh.
Cone, Puck, for the midsummer sun uproars strong,
And the life of the Lily may not be long.--MAB.

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"GREEN EYES."

Having long been familiar with only one instance of the possession of eyes of this hue--the well-known case of the "_green-eyed_ monster Jealousy,"--and not having been led by that association to think of them as a beauty, I have been surprised lately at finding them not unfrequently seriously admired. _Ex. gr.:_

"_Victorian._ How is that young and _green-eyed_ Gaditana
That you both wot of?

_Don Carlos._ Ay, soft _emerald_ eyes!"

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_Victorian._ A pretty girl: and in her tender eyes,
Just that soft shade of _green_ we sometimes see
In evening skies."

Longfellow's _Spanish Student_, Act II. Sc. 3.

Mr. Longfellow adds in a note:

"The Spaniards, with good reason, consider this colour of the eye as
beautiful, and celebrate it in a song; as, for example, in the
well-known Villancico:

'Ay ojuelos verdes,
Ay los mis ojuelos,
Ay hagan los cielos
Que de mi te acuerdes!

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Tengo confianza,
De mis verdes ojos.'"

Böhl de Faber, _Floresta_, No. 255.

I have seen somewhere, I think in one of the historical romances of Alexander Dumas (Père), a popular jingle about

"La belle Duchesse de Nevers,
Aux yeux verts," &c.

And lastly, see _Two Gentlemen of Verona_, Act IV. Sc. 4., where the ordinary text has:

"Her eyes are grey as glass, and so are mine."

Here "The MS. corrector of the folio 1682 converts 'grey' into '_green_:' 'Her eyes are _green_ as {408} _grass;_' and such, we have good reason to suppose, was the true reading." (Collier's _Shakspeare Notes and Emendations_, p. 25.)

The modern slang, "Do you see anything _green_ in my eye?" can hardly, I suppose, be called in evidence on the question of beauty or ugliness. Is there any more to be found in favour of "_green eyes_?"

HARRY LEROY TEMPLE.

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SHAKSPEARE CORRESPONDENCE.

_On the Death of Falstaff_ (Vol. viii., p. 314.).--The remarks of your correspondents J. B. and NEMO on this subject are so obvious, and I think I may also admit in a measure so just, that it appears to me only respectful to them, and to all who may feel reluctant to give up Theobald's reading, that I should give some detailed reason for dissenting from their conclusion.

In the first place, when Falstaff began to "play with flowers and smile upon his fingers' ends," it was no far-fetched thought to place him in fancy among green fields; and if the disputed passage were in immediate connexion with the above, the argument in its favour would be stronger. But, unfortunately, Mrs. Quickly brings in here the conclusion at which she arrives: "I knew there was but one way; _for_," she adds, as a farther reason, and referring to the physical evidences upon his frame of the approach of death, "his nose was as sharp as a pen on a table of green frieze." We can hardly imagine him "babbling" at this moment. "How now, Sir John, quoth I;" she continues, apparently to rouse him: "What, man! be of good cheer. _So_ [thus roused] 'a cried out--God, God, God! three or four times: now, I to _comfort_ him," &c. Does this look as though he were in the happy state of mind your correspondents imagine? I take no account of his crying out of sack and of women, &c., as that might have been at an earlier period. At the same time it does not follow, had Shakspeare intended to replace him in fancy amid the scenes of his youth, that he should have talked of them. A man who is (or imagines he is) in green fields, does not talk about green fields, however he may enjoy them. Both your correspondents seem to anticipate this difficulty, and meet it by supposing Falstaff to be "babbling snatches of hymns;" but this I conceive to be far beyond the limits of reasonable conjecture. In fact, the whole of their very beautiful theory rests upon the very disputed passage in question. At an earlier period apparently, his mind did wander; when, as Mrs. Quickly says, he was "rheumatick," meaning doubtless _lunatic_, that is, delirious; and then he talked of other things. When he began to "fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers' ends," though for a moment he might have fancied himself even "in his mother's lap," or anything else, he was clearly past all "babbling." In saying this, I treat Falstaff as a human being who lived and died, and whose actions were recorded by the faithfullest observer of Nature that ever wrote.

SAMUEL HICKSON.

_Passage in "Tempest."--_

"Thy banks with pioned and twilled brims,
Which spongy April at thy best betrims,
To make cold nymphs chaste crowns."

_Tempest_, Act IV. Sc. 1.

The above is the reading of the first folio. _Pioned_ is explained by MR. COLLIER, "to dig," as in Spenser; but MR. HALLIWELL (_Monograph Shakspeare_, vol. i. p. 425.) finds no authority to support such an interpretation. MR. COLLIER'S anonymous annotator writes "tilled;" but surely this is a very artificial process to be performed by "spongy April." Hanmer proposed "peonied;" Heath, "lilied;" and MR. HALLIWELL admits this is more poetical (and surely more correct), but appears to prefer "twilled," embroidered or interwoven with flowers. A friend of mine suggested that "lilied" was peculiarly appropriate to form "cold nymphs chaste crowns," from its imputed power as a preserver of chastity: and in MR. HALLIWELL'S folio, several examples are quoted from old poets of "peony" spelt "piony;" and of both _peony_ and _lily_ as "defending from unchaste thoughts." Surely, then, the reading of the first folio is a mere typographical error, and _peonied_ and _lilied_ the most poetical and correct.

ESTE.

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MINOR NOTES.

_Monumental Inscriptions_ (Vol. viii., p. 215. &c.).--I have never seen the monumental inscription of Theodore Palæologus accurately copied in any book. When in Cornwall lately, I took the trouble to copy it, and as some of your readers may like to see the thing as it is, I send it line for line, word for word, and letter for letter. It is found, as is well known, in the little out-of-the-way church of St. Landulph, near Saltash.

"Here lyeth the body of Theodoro Paleologus Of Pesaro in Italye,
descended from ye Imperyail Lyne of ye last Christian Emperors of
Greece Being the sonne of Camilio, ye so[=n]e of Prosper the sonne
of Theodoro the sonne of Iohn, ye sonne of Thomas, second brother to
Constantine Paleologus, the 8th of that name and last of yt lyne yt
raygned in Constantinople, untill subdewed by the Turkes, who
married with Mary Ye daughter of William Balls of Hadlye in
Souffolke Gent, & had issue 5 children, Theodoro, Iohn, Ferdinando,
Maria & Dorothy, and departed this life at Clyfton ye 21th of
January, 1636."

ED. ST JACKSON.

{409} _Marlborough at Blenheim._--Extract from a MS. sermon preached at Bitton (in Gloucestershire?) on the day of the thanksgiving for the victory near Hochstett, anno 1704. (By the Reverend Thomas Earle, afterwards Vicar of Malmesbury?)

"And so I pass to the great and glorious occasion of this day, wh
gives us manifold cause of praise and thanksgiving to Almighty God
for ... mercies and deliverances. For ye happy success of her
Majesty's arms both by land and sea [under the] Duke of
Marlborough, whose fame now flies through the world, and whose
glorious actions will render his name illustrious, and rank him
among the renowned worthies of all ages. Had that threatning
Bullet, wh bespattered him all over with dirt, only that he might
shine the brighter afterwards; had it, I say, took away his Life,
he had gone down to the grave with the laurels in his hand."

Is this incident of the bullet mentioned in any of the cotemporary accounts of the battle?

E.

_Etymology of "till," "until."_--Many monosyllables in language are, upon examination, found to be in reality compounds, disguised by contraction. A few instances are, _non_, Lat. ne-un-(us); _dont_, Fr. de-unde; _such_, Eng. so-like; _which_, who-like. In like manner I believe _till_, to-while, and _until_, unto-while. Now _while_ is properly a substantive, and signifies _time_, corresponding to _dum_, Lat., in many of its uses, which again is connected with _diu_, _dies_, both which are used in the indefinite sense of _a while_, as well as in the definite sense of _a day_. _Adesdum_, come here a while; _interdum_, between whiles. If ~te~ (Gr.) is connected with this root, then ~este~, to-while, till. Lawrence Minot says, "_To time_ (till) he thinks to fight."

_Dum_ has the double meaning of _while_ and _to-while_.

E. S. JACKSON.

_Dog-whipping Day in Hull._--There was some time since the singular custom in Hull, of whipping all the dogs that were found running about the streets on October 10; and some thirty years since, when I was a boy, so common was the practice, that every little urchin considered it his duty to prepare a whip for any unlucky dog that might be seen in the streets on this day. This custom is now obsolete, those "putters down" of all boys' play in the streets--the new police--having effectually stopped this cruel pastime of the Hull boys. Perhaps some of your readers may be able to give a more correct origin of this singular custom than the one I now give from tradition:

"Previous to the suppression of monasteries in Hull, it was the
custom for the monks to provide liberally for the poor and the
wayfarer who came to the fair, held annually on the 11th of
October; and while busy in this necessary preparation the day
before the fair, a dog strolled into the larder, snatched up a
joint of meat and decamped with it. The cooks gave the alarm; and
when the dog got into the street, he was pursued by the expectants
of the charity of the monks, who were waiting outside the gate, and
made to give up the stolen joint. Whenever, after this, a dog
showed his face, while this annual preparation was going on, he was
instantly beaten off. Eventually this was taken up by the boys;
and, until the introduction of the new police, was rigidly put in
practice by them every 10th of October."

I write this on October 10, 1853: and so effectually has this custom been suppressed, that I have neither seen nor heard of any dog having been this day whipped according to ancient custom.

JOHN RICHARDSON.

13. Savile Street, Hull.

_State_: _Hamlet_, Act I. Sc. 1.--Professor Wilson proposed that in the "high and palmy _state_ of Rome," _state_ should be taken in the sense of _city_:

"Write henceforth and for ever _State_ with a towering capital.
State, properly republic, here specifically and pointedly means
Reigning City. The ghosts walked in the city, not in the
republic."--Vide "Dies Boreales," No. III., _Blackwood_, August,
1849.

Query, Has this reading been adopted by our skilled Shakspearian critics?

Coleridge uses _state_ for _city_ in his translation of _The Death of Wallenstein_, Act III. Sc. 7.:

"What think you?
Say, shall we have the _State_ illuminated
In honour of the Swede?"

J. M. B.

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QUERIES.

POLARISED LIGHT.

During the last summer, while amusing myself with verifying a statement of Sir D. Brewster respecting the light of the rainbow, viz. that it is polarised in particular planes, I observed a phenomenon which startled me exceedingly, insamuch as it was quite new to me at the time; and not withstanding subsequent enquiries, I cannot find that it has been observed by any other person. I found that _the light of the blue sky is partially polarised_. When analysed with a Nichols prism, the contrast with the surrounding clouds is very remarkable; so much so, indeed, that clouds of extreme tenuity, which make no impression on the unassisted eye, are rendered plainly visible.

The most complete polarisation seems to take place near the horizon; and, when the sun is near the meridian, towards the west and east. The depth of colour appears to be immaterial, as far as I have been able to ascertain with an instrument but rudely constructed for the purpose. The light is polarised in planes passing through the {410} eye of the observer, and arcs of great circles intersecting the sun's disc.

From the absence (so far as I am aware) of all mention of this remarkable fact in works on the subject, I am led to conclude that it is something new; should this, however, turn out otherwise, I shall be obliged by a reference to any author who explains the phenomenon. The greater intensity towards the horizon would point to successive refractions as the most probable theory.

H. C. K.

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MINOR QUERIES.

_"Salus Populi," &c._--What is the origin of the saying, "Salus populi suprema lex?"

E. M.

_Dramatic Representations by the Hour-glass._--I have seen it stated (but am now unable to trace the reference) that, in the infancy of the drama, its representations were sometimes regulated by the hour-glass. Does the history of the art, either among the Greeks or the Romans, furnish any well authenticated instance of this practice?

HENRY H. BREEN.

St. Lucia.

_John Campbell of Jamaica._--I shall be very much obliged if any of your readers can give me any information respecting John Campbell, Esq., of Gibraltar, Trelawny, Jamaica, who died in January, 1817, at Clifton (I believe), but to whose memory a monument was erected in Bristol Cathedral by his widow. I should be glad to know her maiden name, and whether he left any surviving family? Also how he was related to a family _going by the name_ of Hanam or Hannam, who lived at Arkindale, Yorkshire, about one hundred years before the date of his decease; he appears, too, to have had some connexion with a person named Isaac Madley, or Bradley, and through his mother with the Turners of Kirkleatham. This inquiry is made in the hope of unravelling a genealogical difficulty which has hitherto baffled all endeavour to solve it.