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POMONA IN THE ORKNEY ISLANDS - HOW came the principal island in this group to receive the Latin name of Pomona, when the names of all the surrounding islands are of unmistakable Norse origin, as was likewise the ancient name by which this island was known to its early inhabitants? The presumption that the name was given to it by the Latins is strengthened by the historian Solinus, who records the fact that it was at the

period when he wrote, about the middle of the third century, known by this name; and he adds, that such name had been given to it on account of the length of the day in that region, which definition of its origin may be subject to some doubt, from its apparent unlikelihood. It has occurred to the writer, from perusing an hypothesis contained in an early geographical treatise, by which it is attempted to be proved that this group of islands are identical with the fabled Islands of the Blest, that some early Roman navigator, in discovering this group of western isles, through some supposed identity or association with the above mentioned prolific source of Greek and Roman fable, may have bestowed on the principal island of the group the name of Pomona. Can reader any farther elucidate the inquiry. J. G. F.

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STARACHTER AND MURDOCH.
"Dirty Starachter, who was able
To eat raw meat on unwashed table,
And gnawed his beard, to get relief
From hunger, rather than roast beef;
Who butter scorned, and found more good in
Unleavened dough than boil'd plum-pudding;
Compound of pugilist and bard,
Put into lyrics lame and hard

His rules of diet, crude and nasty

Ast Murdoch's cat and herring pasty;

This famed for walking, that for fighting, Both for foul feeding and bad writing." "The Progress of Cookery," by W. Woty, in The Poetical Miscellany, London, 1771. The above notes may have been explanatory ninety years ago; they are not now. A reference to any account of Starachter or Murdoch will oblige

E. C.

FRANCES, DUCHESS OF SUFFOLK. This lady, after the death of her husband, Henry Grey Duke of Suffolk, who was beheaded in 1654, married Adrian Stokes, Esq. Can any of your readers say who he was, and when he died ? Does she appear named in any public document between 1554 and her death in 1559; and, if so, * Vide Wormius ap. T. Hearnc.

The famous walking parson, and Sabellian polemic. [See "N. & Q.” 1st S. vi. 225.; xii. 451.—ED.]

how is she described? It is strange that little or nothing should be known of the step-father of Lady Jane Grey. S. E. G.

Queries with Answers. THOMAS BURTON'S "DIARY." Some years since Mr. Upcott, whilst on a visit to Edinburgh,

informed me that this work was in the handwrit

ing of Lord Clarendon, who, he asserted, was the true author. He said he had seen the MS., and had no doubt of the fact. He added, that the the interference of the University of Oxford, reason for ascribing it to Burton, was to prevent which had the exclusive privilege of printing all the works of the Earl. How far Mr. Upcottwhose knowledge of calligraphy is well knownThe work, though exceedingly valuable, has so was correct I have no means of ascertaining. long been allowed to remain on the shelves of the booksellers, that if the statement be true, it is not very likely the University would put forth any claim to it. J. M.

[There is certainly an apparent similarity in the handwriting of this Parliamentary Diary and an autograph of the Earl's both in the British Museum; but it must be borne in mind that, at the date of these parliamentary proceedings (1656-1659), Clarendon was residing at Bruges and Antwerp. Not the least hint is given in the Catalogue of Mr. Upcott's Manuscripts that this document is by the Earl. This Diary, together with the Correspondence of Henry and Laurence Hyde, sons of the Chancellor, so ably edited by the late Mr. Singer in 1828, were obtained by Mr. Upcott from a lady who inherited them from persons very nearly connected with the noble family of Hyde. It is probable that both these manuscripts formerly belonged to Henry, the second Earl; for Evelyn (Correspondence, iii. 301., edit. 1852,) informs us that the library of this noble Earl contained "the manuscript copies of what concerns the Parliamentary Records, Journals, and Transactions, which I have heard both himself and the late unfortunate Earl of Essex (who had also the same curiosity) affirm, cost them 500l. transcribing and binding." After all, it still remains an open question, who was the original reporter of this Parliamentary Diary: for the Editor, Mr. Rutt, has attributed it to Thomas Burton, M.P., for Westmoreland, on what, after the question now raised, must be considered very insufficient proofs. See vol. ii. p. 159.]

"MACBETH."-Who is Editor of Macbeth, a old and modern editions, 8vo., 1773? Tragedy by Wm. Shakspeare, collated with the This would appear to be a different edition from that of Mr. Charles Jennens, who about this time published Hamlet, Macbeth, Lear, &c. ZETA.

[There was but one edition of Macbeth in 1773, and this, in most of the lists of Shaksperiana, is attributed to Charles Jennens of Gopsal; but in the Catalogue of the King's library, British Museum, the name of Abbott prefixed to Lear is as follows:[who is he?] is given as the Editor. The Dedication

"To Charlos Jennens, Esq., at Gopsal, Leicestershire, under whose patronage, by access to whose library, and from whose hints and remarks, the Editor hath been

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enabled to attempt an Edition of Shakspeare, the same is inscribed, with the greatest respect and gratitude, by his most obliged and obedient humble servant. "THE EDITOR."

From the account, however, of the eccentricities of Charles Jennens, in Nichols's Anecdotes of Wm. Bowyer, p. 442., it would appear that Jennens himself collated these plays.]

COPPER COIN OF JAMES THE SECOND, DATED LATER THAN 1688.- Probably some of your readers may know something of the origin of these coins, three specimens of which are now before me. They bear the well-known head- of James, with the inscription "Jacobus II., Dei Gratia." On the reverse is a crown in the centre upon two crossed sceptres. On the left and right respectively are the letters "J.," "R."; above the crown is the day of the month in Roman. numerals, and, at the foot, the month. The date of the year is at the top of all. The inscription is the common one, "" Mag. Br. Fra. et Hib. Rex." The date of my coins are 6th Aug. 1689, 12th Aug. 1690, and 30th July, 1690.

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I have no earlier copper coin of this reign.

W. T.

[The copper pieces to which our correspondent refers were coined either at Limerick, or at the Mint-House in Capel Street, Dublin, to meet "the present necessity" of King James II., when he made his feeble attempt in Ireland to recover his crown. Such pieces were made current in all payments, except the duties of custom and excise, upon the importation of foreign goods, &c.; and all persons who refused to receive the same (with the above exceptions) were to be punished with the utmost rigour of the law, as contemners of the royal prerogative and command. For further particulars of this and the other "degraded coinage" executed by James during his final struggles in the sister kingdom, consult Simon's Essay on Irish Coins, London, 1749, and Dublin, 1810; Ruding's Annals, ii. 24. et seq. 4to. London, 1840; and "N. & Q." 1st S. x. 385, xi. 18.]

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SILVER PLATE-THE MONTEITH. (1" S. ix. 452. 599., xi. 374.; 2nd S. x. 407.) MR. JOHN GOUGH NICHOLS has thrown fresh light upon the early use of this piece of plate, which he has traced to the latter part of the seventeenth century, as shown by a quotation from The Pagan Prince, 1690, for which MR. NICHOLS acknowledges himself indebted to the new edition of Nares' Glossary by Mr. Halliwell and Mr. T. Wright. The adoption of this appliance of social luxury may, however, be carried back to a somewhat earlier ⚫ period. The earliest allusion to the use of a vessel of such description which has fallen under my notice, is to be found in the Life of Anthony à Wood, written by himself, and edited by the late Dr. Bliss for the Ecolesiastical History Society. Under the year 1680-1 the following entry

occurs:

"This year in the summer came up a vessel or a bason notched at the brimms to let drinking glasses hang there by the foot, so that the body and drinking place might hang in the water to cool them."

I have never been able to trace the convivial Col. Monteith, to whom, as I have heard a tradition, the introduction of the vessel into this country was due. I may observe, however, that in every village in the South of Europe, at the open shop door or place of entertainment where refreshing drinks are sold, there may vessels, notched at the brimms," with glasses be seen such hanging thereon, and a jug of lemonade or some other cool potation usually stands close at hand. These refrigeratories are commonly of oval form and of glazed earthenware. I have noticed specimens fashioned with considerable elegance: I have seen no Monteith in England of earlier date than the pair to which MR. NICHOLS refers, preserved among the plate of the Stationers' Company. ALBERT WAY.

THE LAWRENCES OF CHELSEA.
(2nd S. x. 428.)

I cannot assist your correspondent MAGDALENENSIS to any biographical information of importance respecting the Lawrences of Chelsea. A brief notice of the Sir John Lawrence to whom he refers, and who was at one time Lord Mayor of London, will be found in Faulkner's History of Chelsea; and of Sir Thomas he will find it recorded in Burke, that he "spent all his estate," and retired to Maryland about the year 1700. He left no male issue, and the baronetcy expired with him. I have, however, in my possession three original letters (copies of which I enclose), dated in the year 1621; two of them being written by Sir Edward Cecil, and the other by the first Sir John Lawrence (the father of your correspondent's Sir John), relative to a disputed pew in the Lawrence Chapel, which are so characteristic that I think, if you can find space to print them, they will not only interest MAGDALENENSIS but your general readers also.

"Sir Edward Cecill to Sir John Laurence.

"Sir; I received a Letter from you, wherin you tell mee of exceptions you take at a pue I made in the Church at Chelsea; which I had then answered, if your dwelling had beene so well knowne to mee, as mine is to you. You pretend a claime of royaltie by inheritance vnto it. I send you now an account of myself, and my purpose touching your claime. When I came into the Church, I found all men accommodated with pues; speciallie you and your house; sufficientlie becomming your person and qualitie. I intruded vpon no man; but found out an vnhandsome neglected corner, imployed in nothing but for the roome of an old rotten chest; seeing everie man served, I selfe to serve God in. I have beene at the charge of the thought it no iniurie to goe into that poore corner my pue in that place, which was never putt to this vse before. You take a Reat for your owne; and make vse of

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my charge. I know not what greatnes belonges vnto you, that you cannot content your selfe with a reasonable proportion in so little a Church, nor what strange kind of malice it is you beare mee, that you seek to keepe mee out of a place in the Church, that till my comming into it, you never made account of to serve God in; and I beleeve not now, but to serve yor owne humour in. In such a case there is a simile of a Dogge in a Manger, that may not vnfitly bee applied vnto it. Now for your authoritie and inheritance, I cannot vnderstand the iustnes of it. In my mind, those are thinges given in generall to the parish; speciallie when they concerne groundes that have not been vsed; and are to bee disposed of by the Churchwardens. For, my Grandfather, and some other of my frends, have made pues in St Clementes and St Martines; and wee their Children, can challenge no right, but what the parish will allow vs. Therefore, I would wish you (Sir) to forbeare my pue; and not to vallew your selfe at so great a rate, and mee at so litle; as to possesse it when you know I am in Chelsea; vnlesse you wilbee content, when I shall find it, to take as great an affront as you have done me. I pray you consider with your selfe what you have done, and what you will doe. "Yr frend

"Aprill ye 29th 1621.
[Direction.]

"To my Worthie Friend

Sir John Laurence

Knight & &c."

Wth

ED: CECILL.

"Sir John Laurence to Sir Edward Cecill. "Hoble SrI receaved a message, & a Letter from yo a fayre outside but more bitter wthin then there is cause, either of the mallice you conceave I beare you, or of ye slight opinion yo seeme to have of mee. Yet honouring yor noble birthe & person, I have thought fitt to write you an answere least a message might miscarry: both to shew you vpon what misinformed grounds yow inferre; and wth due moderation to enforme yo of my right for yor better satisfaction, supposing you, though yet vnacquainted, to bee so honorable, as yow will knowingly offer wrong to no man. For y pretended voydnes in my chappell, I assure yow when I dwelt heere before I went to my howse at Iver: there stood a seate in wch my parents in their life time (who are buried in yt chappell) sate, & I their heyre so long as I continued heere; So as yf it were removed it was lately done by some of my tenants, and this y clarke can enforme yo". For my right it stands thus: that many hundred yeeres sithence till King Henry ye 8th builded a nursery in this towne, mine was y manor house of Chelsy, in that chapelle have all my predecessors sate, as solely & peculiarly belonging to my howse. The King exchanged wth ye then lord of Chelsy other lands for ye lands belonging to this mannor; but ye lord yt dwelt in my howse reserved ye same howse wth those rights, and that ground wch now I hold about it, to himself. Ever sithence also wee have had ye only property of that chappell, wee ever repayred it, & not ye parishe; wee only buried in it, & none els save out of my bowse. The Parson hath nothing to do there, nor ever hath anything for beaking vp the ground, but wee have a private dore into it wth a peculiar locke & key, ever kept by my predecessors & my self. So as no man in Chelsy (though beere have been very great persons) did ever offer to disturbe our right & possession, continued so many hundreths of yeeres, time out of mind, till it pleased yow Sr, vpon misconceaved grounds, so to do. This there is none old or yong in Chelsy, either by themselves, or by relacōn fro their forefathers, can contradict. Now for yor self I did, & still do honour yo so much, as I sent you worde, yf yow pleased to accept a

place there for a convenient time (as a curtesy not of right) till you could otherwise bee provided, you might comaund me. But yf I should p'mitt you to take a parte of my chappell frō mee de iure, I should in short time, as you well know, loose my right, my chappell, and my auncient inheritance; wch I thinke you will not hold vnreasonable for mee to defend, nor reasonable in mee yf I should offer ye like to yo; were my case yours. For yor Pue I desire not to make vse of yor charge, I thanke god, (howsoever you vallue mee) my fortunes are not so meane as I need it. But yf yo will take it downe, yo shall have free liberty, and I will set vp mine in yo place where it formerly stood. Yf otherwise you thinke yor title better then mine, take it not as any maliciousnes to yor worthe (but as befitts every man yt is able, or vnderstands reason) yf I defend myne owne; doing, nor intending to do ought, but that wch is and shall bee lawfull for mee to do. And for ye affront yow write of I know of none, nor will I offer any to yo", nor do I feare yor threats, assuring my self yor wisdome, & moderation will bee such, as not to make a disturbance in ye howse of god, nor wth a strong hand to dispossesse mee of my auncient birth-right (wch I intend to hold) till by a legall proceeding you can evict it from mee. Ánd thus leaving it to yor choyce to deeme of mee as you please, desiring to know you answere, I rest

"Yor loving frend to comaund
"Yf so yow please to esteeme me
"J. LAURENCE.

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"To his Hoble frend St Edw: Cecill Knight. &c."

"Sir Edward Cecill to Sir John Laurence. "Sir; You desire to know my answere. This it is. There are two thinges considerable to mee, in the question that was betweene vs. The first, that I had no purpose to intrude; but benefited the place where I seated my selfe. The second, that the manner of your proceeding with mee hath called vpon mee to bee sensible of an affront in it. Concerning the first; when I had taken a house heere in Chelsea, now and then to lodge at, the next thing I sought for, was a place at Church, wherin, that I intended no intrusion, it will appear in this. I considered places alreadie taken vp. Among the rest, I found your house fullie and spatiouslie provided for. I then looked vpon the emptie places, and was desirous fo have a Pue in that voide roome, which was putt to no vse, but laie open to the Church, yet, I did not presuminglie enter vpon it, but wth ye notice and advice of the Parson and Church wardens; as Sir Arthur Gorges and others well know; who never informed mee of anic title you had vnto it: but held it reasonable, and wthout offence to anie. Neither did I it to appropriate the place to my dwelling for posteritie; but onlie to convert an idle Roome to my vse, when I should bee heere, for the service of God. This was all of it, so farre from meaning to intrude or doe wrong; as I made it a Roome fit for you in my absence, that was before vnserviceable. Now, touching the second thing considerable in the question; which is the discourtesie I was sensible of. When I had built this pue, you took affection to the place; and (for anie thing I did heare) not before. And then you writt vnto mee about it, without letting mee know how or where I might find you, to answere you, which if you done, I assure my selfe, wee should not have disagreed. But wthout doing this, you proceeded to the shutting mee out of it, which verie course of yours towardes mee, wherin you professe you meant kindnes to mee, I took to bee vnfreindlie. Again; vnderstanding you a Gentleman of much discretion and humanitie, it did seeme exceeding strange vnto mee, that I having made the place better,

you should denie mee Roome, when I am heere my selfe, comming so seldom to make vse of it.. But there maie bee mistaking in both of vs. I shall bee willing to have the misvnderstandinges cleared. And as I shall not gladlie meete wth anie occasion of disturbance in the house of God; or ever affect the doing of wrong; so I could not wth reason forsak mine owne honour by suffering indignitie. To conclude; had I knowne how to have answered your first letter; I would have gratefullie entertained your kind offer then made mee; as I doe the same now. And thus I rest

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In reply to the queries of F. C. B., I may mention that the apparition seen by the Baron de Guldenstubbé in his apartments in the Rue St. Lazare, at Paris, in no wise resembled himself, but presented the semblance of " a tall, portly old man, with a fresh colour, blue eyes, snow-white hair, thin white whiskers, but without beard or moustache, and dressed with some care. He seemed to wear a white cravat and long white waistcoat, high stiff shirt collar, and a long black frock coat, thrown back from his chest, as is the wont of corpulent people like him in hot weather. After a few minutes the figure detached itself from the column, and advanced, seeming to float slowly through the room, till within about three feet of its wondering occupant. There it stopped, put up its hand as in form of salutation, and slightly bowed." The figure then returned to the column, as previously related, and gradually melted into the cylindrical vapour, until it was no longer perceptible. Upon the following morning, the baron met the wife of the concierge, Madame Mathieu, and inquired of her who had been the former occupant of his rooms, adding

"His reason for making the inquiry was, that the night

before he had seen in his bedroom an apparition. At first the woman seemed much frightened, and little disposed to be communicative, but when pressed on the subject, she admitted that the last person who had resided in the apartments now occupied by the baron was the father of the lady who was the proprietor of the house, a certain Monsieur Caron, who had formerly filled the office of mayor in the province of Champagne. He had died about two years before, and the rooms had remained vacant from that time until taken by the baron. Her description of him, not only as to personal appearance, but in each particular of dress, corresponded in the minutest manner to what the baron had seen: a white waistcoat coming down very low, a white cravat, a long black frock coat; these he habitually wore. His stature was

above the middle height; and he was corpulent, his eyes blue, his hair and whiskers white; and he wore neither beard nor moustache. His age was between sixty and seventy. Even the smaller peculiarities were exact, down to the high-standing shirt collar, the habit of throwing back his coat from his chest, and the thick white cane, his constant companion when he went out.

"Madame Mathieu further confessed to the baron that he was not the only one to whom the apparition of M. Caron had shown itself. On one occasion a maid-servant had seen it on the stairs. To herself it had appeared several times 3-once just in front of the entrance to the saloon; again in a dimly-lighted passage that led past the bedroom to the kitchen beyond, and more than once in the bedroom itself. M. Caron had dropped down in the passage referred to in an apoplectic fit, had been carried thence into the bedroom, and had died in the bed now occupied by the baron. She said to him, farther, that, as he might have remarked, she almost always took the opportunity when he was in the saloon to arrange his bedchamber, and that she had several times intended to apologise to him for this, but had refrained, not knowing what excuse to make. The true reason was that she feared again to meet the apparition of the old gentleman. The matter finally came to the ears of the daughter, the owner of the house. She caused masses to be said for the soul of her father; and it is alleged - how truly I know not that the apparition has not been seen in any of the apartments since. Up to the time when he saw the apparition, the Baron de Guldenstubbé had never heard of M. Caron, and of course had not the least idea of his personal appearance or dress; nor, as may be supposed, had it ever been intimated to him that any one had died, two years before, in the room in which he slept." - Footfalls on the Boundary of another World. English edition, pp. 284-5.

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In my former communication on this subject, I only copied as much of the Baron de Guldenstubbé's narrative as served to mark its likeness to the apparition seen by MR. SWIFTE. The whole story is very well told, and will amply repay perusal. JOHN PAVIN PHILLIPS.

Haverfordwest.

I readily respond to M. P.'s Queries:

the "cylindrical tube," except the cloud or vapour 1. 2. My wife did not "perceive any form " in which both of us described at the time, and which neither had ever described otherwise.

3. Her health was not affected, and her life was not terminated, by the "appearance"-be its cause what it might-which then presented itself to us.

I cannot supply the precise date of the sentinel's alarm. If "following hard at heel" be a synchronism, then must Hamlet's mother have married his uncle on the day of his father's funeral: the "morrow," whereon I saw the poor fellow in the Tower guard-room, had reference to his visitation, not to ours; which, I submit to F. C. B., is of the twain the more difficult of solution. (x. 477.)

The Bonchurch and Pichincha cases have not come within my knowledge; the "appearance" in the Jewel House did not suggest to me the Brocken spectre; and the Guldenstubbé phantom

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fails in its parallel (x. 291. 477.) favoured by any "portly old man," detaching himself from our vaporous column and resolving himself into it again; no "electric shocks" or "muscular twitchings" had predisposed us; and the densest fog that ever descended a damp chimney could hardly have seized one of us by the shoulder. The only "natural cause (x. 478.) which has occurred to me is phantasmagoric agency; yetto say nothing of its local impediments in the Jewel House-the most skilful operator, with every appliance accorded him, could not produce an appearance, visible to one-half the assembly, while invisible to the other half, and bodily laying hold of one individual among them. The causation of non-natural, preternatural, or supernatural effects passes my scholarship; and the anomalies of a formless, purposeless, phantom, foretelling nothing and fulfilling nothing, is better left to the adepts in Psychology.-Davus sum, non Edipus.

EDMUND LENTHAL SWIFTE.

COCKSHUT (2nd S. vi. 400.) In Ray's Ornithology (London, 1678, fol. p. 33.) the following passage occurs with reference to the capture of woodcocks:

"We in England are wont to make great glades through thick woods, and hang nets across them; and so the woodcocks, shooting through these glades, as their nature is, strike against the nets, and are entangled in them." According to this passage, the word cockshut is properly cockshoot, and is derived from the rapidity of the woodcock's flight through the narrow glade. This etymology of the word is mentioned in some of the passages cited in the page of "N. & Q." above referred to; and is probably the correct one. It agrees best with the phrase cockshoot time for twilight; namely, the time when woodcocks are on the wing. L.

SONG ON BISHOP TRELAWNY (2nd S. x. 370.)— You speak of " the well-known balled recited by the Cornish peasantry on Bishop Trelawny's committal to the Tower." It is well known" to every body but you that the Rev. R. S. Hawker, Vicar of Morwenstow, Cornwall, wrote that ballad in 1825. See his Ecclesia, a volume of poems, pp. 91-93. The refrain, two lines only, is all

that is ancient.

[We omit the signature for reasons which the writer will, we trust, approve of. We are always glad to correct any errors into which we may have fallen. In the present case we have blundered in good company, viz. that of Lord Macaulay (see his History of England); the late Davies Gilbert, Esq., himself a Cornish man; and Sir Walter Scott, as will be seen from the following note by Mr. Hawker to his Song of the Western Men:

"With the exception of the chorus, contained in the two last lines, the song was written by me, as an imitation of the old English Minstrelsy, and was inserted in a Plymouth paper in 1825. It happened to fall into the hands of Davies Gilbert, Esq., who did me the honour

to reprint it at his private press at East Bourne, under the impression that it was the original ballad. I have pliment from the critical pen of Sir Walter Scott. In a been still more deeply gratified by an unconscious comnote to the fourth volume of his Collected Poems, p. 12., he thus writes of the Song of the Western Men:

'In England the popular ballad fell into contempt during the seventeenth century; and although in remote counties its inspiration was occasionally the source of a few verses, it seems to have become almost entirely obsolete in the Capital." "-ED. "N. & Q."]

DISAPPEARANCE OF BIRDS IN CHOLERA (2nd S. X. 428.) In reply to your correspondent W. H. B., I beg to acquaint him that I was present during an unusually severe visitation of cholera in 1846, at the town of Kurachee, in Sinde, in which the 86th regiment lost in the space of ten days about 240 men. It was particularly remarked that the vultures, kites, and other birds of prey, which are very numerous in that part of the world, entirely disappeared almost simultaneously with the outbreak of cholera, returning gradually after the first few days when the virulence of the disease began to abate.

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I may also mention a very singular circumstance which came under my observation on the same occasion, from which it would seem that the inhabitants of the sea are by no means exempt from On the the visitation of this mysterious disease. second or third day after the appearance of the cholera, the bay to the south of Kurachee was strewed with countless myriads of dead fish, which were left on the beach by the receding tide. high water the shores of the bay presented a most singular appearance; the waves for several yards from the shore seeming to be composed of an almost solid mass of dead fish, chiefly of the sardine species. Amongst which, however, there were not wanting others of considerably larger size. No sharks were observed among those left on the beach by the tide, though they are very numerous in the neighbouring sea. C. O. CREAGH, Major, 86th Regiment.

Army and Navy Club.

THOMAS CAREY (2nd S. x. 519.)-Is the Thomas Cary who translated from the French of P. de le Serre "The Mirrour which flatters not," the same as the poet mentioned by MR. HAGGARD? There are many pieces in verse appended both at the beginning and end of the work. Some, though not all, undoubtedly by Cary, who dates from Tower Hill, Antepenultima Augusti, 1638, though the book is not printed till 1639.† In an "Advertissement au Lecteur," Cary says it was upon occasion of the last summer's sad effects generally

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