cros 66 involved in, interested in, affected by the dispensations of was GOD in regard to man, as in plagues , wars, &c. (Jerem. Eng xxi, 6, &c., &c., &c.), consequently, if vast alterations have taken place in regard to man, the presumption is porc that vast alterations must take place in all connected olde with him. Hence, if an animal existed which served a stop particular propbetical function, when the reality had who been in One Person, there might be no more need of it, I sai and so it might become extinct, if it is extinct. If the have whole brute creation were deprived of their faculty of being Sacrifices by Christ's coming, why might not other and alterations as strange have happened in regard to them? shou -alterations which we are disposed to pass over, but which if on upon consideration do seem to show something very alm wonderful to exist in this portion of the world." Who would bave thought à priori that some species of animals the should be gifted with foresight so superior to that of exce man? And if this foresight may be given to beasts, why you might not it, or they who exercised it, be removed, espe- late cially as in regard to man it is removed; there are no the prophets now. II. We know so little of the whole system of the brute creation, that our ignorance does seem to me to weaken you internal improbabilities to any well-attested fact in regard to it, almost to an incredible degree. III. The real reason of men's strong presumption against gas] it is, I suppose, that they think the animal creation to be something fixed and to keep pretty near to a given set of laws. Now a Phønix riddles these altogether, therefore me. it is improbable. This seems to me unsound reasoning, fact since all dispensations of Providence with which we are acquainted contain anomalies in them, and so the ano give malousness of the Phonix seems to be almost positive evidence to induce one to believe it. If men had asserted cou that there were & whole creation of anomalous animals, such an assertion would have made me suspect their cas veracity; but as it is asserted of one only it makes for all their veracity, since there are anomalies. ton I have put down two or three things that come to mind, “Malim tantis auspiciis errare," as Fell says, car which I think states a most important principle in the philosophy of evidence. However it may be said, “ But, after all, the Fathers no were not naturalists, &c., therefore your external evidence to goes for nothing.” To this I answer: that it seems to me to litt be credible, that, when they speak in a body, they would be led into truth generally, rather than the contrary. Thi Therefore to assume this was a mistake is not fair, unless mo you can prove that they were not so led in this case; but waiving this, there were sundry naturalists who did to think with them according to Fell, not to mention Jews, and the Chinese, and the acute Tacitus. How are these to be got over by the objector? Is not the external evi. ] dence for the Phenix greater than that for the darkness tru at the Crucifixion ? Have not infidels denied the latter say on the score of the ignorance or enthusiasm of those who do witness for it, and the want of heathen testimony for it? They, not knowing the whole of the case through want of faith, think the darkness internally improbable, and so get themselves against the external evidence for it, die We, through want of knowledge of the whole of the case, the may be similarly disposed to unbelief, though in a much off less important matter, the But I end my incoherences. Yours ever truly, pei [June ? 1840.] J. B. MORRIS. ye: olo EARLY ENGLISH AND LATE GOTHIC. Several years ago I was in a country churchyard, 601 engaged in making a sketch of the church, which api this cro and my wa ma BROADSIDE BALLAD. Now Hodge quoth his wife, don't you mind his lewd bantring, The following old song in ridicule of Pitt is For certain he has under his coat a dark Lanthorn. printed as a broadside, with a few bars of music at Shut the gate of the court, if he once gets within it, ihe beginning to give the air. It is headed, " Bow I'll be bound, he 'll whip up our back stairs, in a minute. Wow Wow. As sung by Mr. Hooke at the Ana- Then the wife she went on, can ye go for to say now, creontic Society.” Some curious expressions occur Thou.com'st to get foot in the House, that's the plan on't , Any good upon Earth made thee take this Bye way now. in the song, which are perhaps Americanisms, or And so let in thy Gang for to make what they can on 't. may be intended to appear as such. Don't you hear how the brazen faced Rogue, now preSit down neighbours all, and I'll tell a merry story, tends, Man, About a British Farmer, and Billy P-T the Tory, He crept up in the Dark, but for Virtuous ends, Man, I had it piping hot from Ebenezer Barber, He says he's our Friend, but he's no such a thing, Man, Who sailed right from England and lies in Boston har. The impudent Dog would say so to the King, Man. bour. Chorus. Then Billy perceiving the Wife in a Fury, Bow Wow wow, fal lal de id dy id dy, Bow wow wow. And knowing his deeds wouldn't stand Woman's Jury, Felt the Spirit of Jenky a dangerous Potion, And roared out to Harry to speak for the Motion. Thon Harry stopt up, but Hodge wisely supposing, 8o be deals the cards, that the Knaves may be winners. His part was to steal, while the other was prosing, Let fly at poor Billy and shot through his lac'd Coat. He was bred up a Whig, but with Nabobs to thrive Sir, Oh what a pity 'twas it did not hit his Waistcoat. Who have votes in the House, about two out of five Sir, Solid Men of Boston, banish strong potations, Solid Men of Boston, make no long Orations, And never lose your way, like the Loggerheads of London. Perhaps some Boston correspondent could say He went to Daddy Jenky by Trimmer Hal attended, if the song was ever known over there, or if In such company, good lack, how bis morals must be “Ebenezer Barber” had any existence outside mended. these verses. W. H. PATTERSON. This Harry was always a staunch Friend to Boston. Belfast. His bowels were soft for they yearned for Hindostan. If I bad him in our Township I'd Feather him and Tar BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHRISTMAS. him (Continued from 6th S. vi. 506; viii. 491; x. 492; xii, 489; With forty lacking one too, I'd Lam him and I'd scar 7th 8. ii, 502; iii. 152; iv. 502.) him. Britannia Trivmphans : A Masque presented at WhiteWith his Skin full of wine and his Head full of State ball, by the Kings Majesty and his Lords, on the Sunday Tricks, after Twelfth Night, 1637. By Inigo Jones and William Sbam reforms, Commutations, and the rest of his late Davenant. London. 4to. 1637. [Suppressed on acTricks, count of the statement that it was acted on Sunday, He came back with Harry, two birds of a feather, Lowndes.] And both Drunk as Pipers they knocked their Heads Episcopus Puerorum in Die Innocentium, or a Distogether. covery of an Antient Custom in the Church of Sarum of Now so it fell out that this pair were benighted, Making an Anniversarie Bishop among the Choristers, And drove out of the road, so the statesmen alighted, By John Gregory. 4to. 1649. And to get in again away scrambled they Sir, Sermon preached before the King and Queen at WhiteTo find the back road to the King's Highway Sir. Hall, on Christmas Day, 1691, by John Sharp, Archbishop Long lost in the dark were these lights of the Nation, of York, London, 4to., pp. 28. 1692. Of the True Years of the Birth and of the Death of But stumbled at length on a small Habitation To which they marched up, while the fowls in confusion Mann. 8vo. 1733. [No doubt 1633, quoted from Lowndes Christ. Two Chronological Dissertations. By Nicholas Thought their lives were aimed at by this bold intrusion. 7ela S. iv. 502, is an error.] The Dogo barked, the Ducks quacked, and sore Billy Christmas, a Poem. By Edward Moxon, 8vo. 1829. baited, (Dedicated to Charles Lamb.) The Wife she cries out, we be all ruinated. Christmas Carols, with appropriate music, and an introductory account of the Christmas Carol. 4to. 1836. "To drop on the Pate of this daring Philistine. Songs and Carols, from a MS, in the British Museum of the fifteenth century. Edited by T. Wright. 8vo. The Husband, awaked by her Rage and her Screaming, 1856. At first he supposed that his Spouse must be dreaming. Christ was born on Christmas Day, a Carol, illustrated But to make matters short, snatched his Gun in a Fury by J. A. Hows. 8vo. 1864. And eried, Sons of Belial I've got what will cure ye. May the Kirk keep Pasche and Yule? By Th. LeishThen Billy began for to make an Oration, man. Edinburgh. 1875. As oft times be bad done to bamboozle the Nation, Christmas under the Commonwealth. By Andrew But Hodge cried, begone or I'll crack thy young Crown Greame, in Wildridge's Hull Christmas Annual, 1887 for 't, Thou belongst to a rare gang of Rogues I'll be bound Yule Tide Stories. A Collection of Scandinavian and for 't. North German Popular Tales and Traditions, from the 本 pp. 70–2. can bo ba do B Swedish, Danish, and German. Edited by B. Thorpe. MUFFLING BELLS DURING ADVENT. —À corre- The Holidays, Christmas,' Easter, and Whitsuntide, spondent of the Banbury Guardian writes in that , in his parish magazine, states that it is more proper during AdLittle Book of Christmas Carols, with the Ancient vent to ring the muffled peal," and that on the 4th Music, By E. Rimbault. Sm. 4to. the practice was commenced. He expresses his dis- Collection of Old Christmas Carols, with the Tunes. existing usage, and out of harmony with the Christmas festival, of which the Advent-tide is the the custom generally, and whether any good reason be adduced for mufiling the bells before New Year's Eve, on which night the practice of mufiling W, E. BUCKLEY. Charles Greville in his " Menuoirs,' C. C. Robinson :- "Noan o' the sons wur wed, an nivver thowt abart Ther parent as ther cawal'd ther art, which wur a roll o' butter an'a fryin'-pan. Be put as he cut it i'two: then cuttin' one o't horfs i' two Half for baby d' you see, Half for baby number two (cut agean), Half for maid-of-all-work new (cut agean), Half for Peter half for Paul (cuts troice], (Babies three and four we call), To see the babies suck their thumbs; Half to keep the cat alive (cul). Half for when we're in a fix, Half for baby number six; Lo, where shall I find the remnant so small ! the Dalston School Board in reference to this sub Sing high then, sing low then, or rise we or fall, Come to me my butter, oh come hither all !' “I would ask the sanction of the Board for the closing then they awal use to shout an' laugh an' luke at one ing he rung o' t' sarvant agean to tell her to put t'cooks it warming-pan art o'i kitchen fire an' gehr swalt master's difficulty, and granted bis request, though shoes off an' tell 'em thuh mud saay ther prayers whear as chairman I expressed my curiosity to see the thuh wor as it worrant so cowd, then he telld em to repetition of a custom I had heard so much about think o'what ther'd seen that neet, an' to mind an nut J. W. mak sich ’n a noise i' goin' up stäars." Dalston, Carlisle. I am afraid 'N. & Q.' will grudge its face to the setting forth of this barbarous mystery ; but they both refer to the training of bloodhounds, the passage, potwithstanding that I can render it and the explanation will be found in the following into English, puzzles me, and to my thinking extract from the last two papers named above :stands almost as much in need of explanation as if “Burgho has been trained from a puppy to hunt 'the it related to some hitherto unsuspected domestic clean shoe '—that is to say, follow the trail of a man observance of palæolithic man instead of to the whose shoes have not been prepared in any way by the custom of a Yorkshire family of the present century. application of blood or aniseed so as to leave a stronglySt. SWITHIN. F. CHANCE. FOLK-LORE TALES CURRENT AMONGST HOTTEN- Sydenham Hill. TOTS OF SOUTH AFRICA. -The two following folklore stories were told me by a missionary from CHAUCER, 'PROLOGUE,' LL. 163-4.Bloemfontein. They were told him by a native : Another Nonne with hire hadde sche A tiger and a wolf joined partnership to build a The editors found a difficulty in these lines about That was hire chapeleyne, and Prestes thre. house - the wolf built outside, the tiger within ; but they found that they had forgotten to build & the nun who was the chaplain of the prioress, and door. The tiger told the wolf to seek advice from it led to some rash criticism and rather unscholarly another tiger who lived at some distance. On his conjecture. The thing was explained by Mr. way the wolf drank of a stream that he crossed. Furnivall (in, I think, the Academy, May, 1880, But when he got to the other tiger, he began to tell p. 385, and elsewhere), who made it clear that á his story, but found that he had forgotten the most chaplain was a nun in attendance on the prioress important word—the name of the thing that was or abbess in the choir on festivals,” &c., and that wanted, so he concluded he had lost the word on the same nun was practically secretary.” the way in the stream as he drank. So some If I remember rightly, Mr. Furnivall's informaother tigers offered to dig up the sand of the tion was derived from the kindness of a Roman stream to assist him to find the lost word. Catholic friend, and was illustrated by modern and Then the wolf in digging chopped his foot French examples. I have found some interesting with a boe, and began to bellow out, and illustrations of Chaucer's words in Dr. Jessopp: said in Dutch, "I have put the hoe through my edition of Visitation of the Diocese of Norwich, foot.”. The Dutch word for “through” is deure, 1492–1532, Camden Society, 1888, in which eight and the word duur is “door”; so the wolf said, punneries (Benedictine, I believe) are mentioned. “I have found the word. It was in my foot, In the Visitation of Bishop Nicke in the year 1514, and not in the stream.” So having thus found the when he visited Blackborough, “domus monialium lost name, he obtained the instruction which he de Blakborow” (p. 108), one deposition or comneeded, and went back and built a door and set plaint was "Quod priorissa habuit unam capellanum free the tiger. [sic] per tres annos” (it should be capellanam). A bare and a tortoise were disputing about their And when in the same year he visited Ridlingfield speed as they met drinking at a stream. They “prioratus monialium de Redlingfelde” (p. 138), arranged a race on a certain day. The tortoise there was a complaint “quod priorissa non mutavit beforehand disposed a certain number of other capellanam a tempore præfectionis.” It seems from tortoises in the grass along the agreed course. a side-note that Domina Johanna Deyne, the subThey both started. The hare lost sight of the prioress, who made the complaint, was herself the tortoise, and not seeing him in the long grass, The Lord'Bishop made “injunction” to the prioress capellana, so she wanted to be relieved of her office. kept asking of bis rival the tortoise, “Where are you?” and a confederate tortoise some quod mutet capellanam citra festum Michaelis what abead called out, “Here am I.” The bare, proximum"; and in the year 1520 no complaint imagining that the tortoise who was competing was made. In 1526 Joanna Dean (Deyne) was with him was in front, dashed on full speed, and “capellana dominæ," in 1532 Anna Drury was, and again asked the same question, and got the so complaint was made. At the Visitation of samo reply from another confederate tortoise. Flixton Nunnery in 1520 a more interesting comAgain he exerted his utmost speed, but only to see plaint was made (p. 190): “Priorissa non habet a tortoise just reaching the winning-post. The hare sororem in capellanam sed sola cubat ad placitum said, “This is the first time I ever heard of a hare in cubiculo extra dormitorium absque testimonio being beaten in speed by a tortoise.” sororis continue.” The “injunction” was “quod by w to store man, LL.D. de cetero priorissa habeat secum testimonium unius sororis loco capellanæ maxime quando cubat extra “ TO FUNT THE BOOT (shoe).”—The dormitorium." I think we may conclude that the former of these expressions will be found in the office was troublesome and of no dignity, partly Times of October 8, p. 3, in a letter signed “Ed. from these notices, partly because elsewhere in the win Brough," the latter in the Evening Standard list of members of the houses, though "subof October 9 and the Daily News of October 10. priorissa," “sacrista,” “infirmaria," "præcentrix,” a CLEAN » of the pe "refectuaria," are titles commonly added to the Loose,". names, “capellana" is not, except once, at Camp- Prince.” sey (p. 291), where Katerina Blomefeld, a "capel. Well-Be lana," is mentioned, and she is eighteenth on the and, as List of nineteen sisters of the house. Learned, 0. W. TANCOCK. “Eduard Norwich. greatest HUMPHREY Repron. (See ante, p. 202.)–At Pope Jo through the above reference is an interesting notice of ' A is ir very Visit to the Country of the Boleyns,' and there it is stated that “the famous landscape gardeper of death Humphrey Repton, who died in 1818" is buried indicated in the churchyard at Aylsham, and that he is described as of Hare Street, Essex, The small en My cop served as closure where he is buried is planted as a garden. who has As an addition to the Rev.Joun Pickford's note, I may mention that I have now before me a work come und to be scar by Repton. It is called “An Enquiry into the Changes of Taste in Landscape Gardening, to which Richmon are added Some Observations on its Theory and Practice, including a Defence of the Art, by H. SILLY E Repton, Esq., London, printed for J. Taylor, 59, round of High Holborn, 1806.” The preface is dated same volume, w year, “Hare Street, near Romford.” In the pre- one of the face (p. iv) Mr. Repton states that he does not in- of the ne tend to republish his first work, ‘Sketches and the remarl Hints on Landscape Gardening,' of which only 250 Billy," an copies had been published by Messrs. Boydells in the man k 1794, and adds, “The book is become so scarce place to st that above four times the original price has been bad no s paid for some copies.” H. DE B, H. pine sons ['Odd Whims an 1 Miscellanies,' London, 1804, 2 vols. Frederick, crown 8vo., with coloured plates, is still in demand. It William I is one of the works occasionally seen with a picture on of Kent (f the edges, apparently under the gilding, especially in (afterwards large-paper copies.] Duke of Sturt's 'CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF EUROPE,'| Cambridge 1714. - This is, I think, the least known of Sturt's and Alfrei engraved books, but it is one of the most curious. was Chanc It is a tiny long 12mo., “Printed for B. Barker at was Willia the White Hart, and Ć. King at the Judges Head younger br in Westminster Hall” (what time the money when the 1 changers had full sway in that quasi-market-cousin, Prir place). "It is done [eaith Sturt] on 43 Copper plates wth a QUOTATIC Plain Letter & Compassed for the Pocket: And I take known pass it, in short, to be one of the Readiest & Exactest Chrono. monument logies yet Extant, at Least of yo Price (considering it is All Well Engraven) & withall so generally usefull." Essex, to th It consists of a series of small and not very Countess W informing tables, bearing about the same relation to the 'Oxford Tables' as a horn-book does to Murray's Nella ' Dictionary '; but the fun and spice of the little thing lies in its tail, an alphabetically arranged list Tbus imiti of remarkable persons, with their "attributes" in by Tennyson dicated by hieroglyphics. I think this is almost a unique departure, and gives scope for any amount That a sorrow' of favouritism or malice. Let us try one or two things. celebrities at random. Caligula (a saturnine native) is “Cross, Bloody, Cruell, Vitious and rendered into Ed e Che The passa |