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till Trinity Sunday."-CRANMER'S Remains, fices were suffered to be raised.-HOOKE, vol. 1, p. 236. vol. 1, p. 43. Livy, lib. 1, c. 44, referred

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An advocate of Poictiers, Le Breton by name, took up the cause of a widow and

her child. He lost it both there and at Paris. But, being strongly persuaded that though law was against him, all justice was on his side, he sought to reform the law, presented himself before Henry III. and addressed him upon the subject. The King treated him with contempt, (probably as a madman), so did the Dukes of Guise and Mayenne, and the King of Navarre would not hear him. He returned to Paris and printed a book containing the case, and his efforts afterwards, and interspersed it with 66 a thousand injuries and calumnies against the King and the Parliament." M. Seguier, the Lieutenant-Civil, seized the book and the author, brought him to trial, and he was hanged in the Court of the Palace, about twenty paces from the grands degrez, and his book burnt before his face. This execution "fut un des plus specieux prétextes qui prirent les Seize, de parler contre le Roy et la justice."-PALMA CAYET. Col. Gen. vol. 55, pp. 76-7.

THE Pomorium was that space of ground both within and without the walls which the augurs at the first building of cities solemnly consecrated, and on which no edi

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A politic provision.

MONCK MASON derives Bachelor from Bas Chevalier, the title Sir being still appropriated to Bachelors of Arts in the University of Dublin.-SHAKESPEARE, vol. xix. p. 203, N.

Monthly Review, October 1764.-A Harmony of the Gospels, in Welsh, by John Evans, A. M. Bristol.

All the reviewer says is, "We cannot conceive how any subject can be harmonized by being treated in Welch. However as the poor Welchmen have souls to be saved as well as other people, we have no objection to their receiving the assistance of good books, in whatever language they can read."

Ibid. vol. 32. May 1765. P. 395.

THE Freemasons' Quadrille, with the Solitary, printed by order of the Prince of Conti, Grand Master of the Lodges in France; and revised by M. de Bergeron, Advocate in Parliament, and Perpetual Secretary of the Royal Lodge at Versailles : in French and English; with the Free Masons' Minuet and Country Dance.

12mo. 18.

The free masons of some of the principal lodges in France, in order to take off a scandalous imputation, were politic enough to admit their wives into their assemblies and societies; and this quadrille is indebted to the female masons for its establishment. The rules are nearly the same as those of the other quadrilles played in France; but there is a variation in the names of the cards, which have been changed, in order to conform to the terms of masonry.

MATHEMATICS and absence of mind running in a family. Sir Isaac Newton had an uncle, Ayscough by name, a clergyman, who when he had any mathematical problems or solutions in his mind, would never

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Consona phenomenon on the moning of Jace —About two o'clock, LL on the 20th ut, a mark from the Wyre was off Bipham, at the distance of about a | me and a half from the shore, when the ! manter, who was at the blm, perceived within a few yards of the vessel a large volume of pale fire whirling round with great rapidity over the surface of the sea. The water at the spot did not seem agitated. Report says that a slight shock was felt at Kirkham about two o'clock.-Manchester Courier, Sept. 12, 1835.

Is the Kamtchatsal translation of the Lord's Prayer, the passages-forgive us our trespasses, and lead us not into temptation, are omitted. M. Kracheninnikow assigning as a reason, that the Kamtchadales could not be made to comprehend the meaning of | the terms.--Monthly Review, vol. 41, p. 443.

An enquiry into the subject of suicide, published by some Mr. Moore, in 1790, is said to prove that no cause has produced it so frequently as gaming,-probably in the proportion of nine cases out of ten.

The editor of Mrs. Carter's Letters calls it a copious and elaborate enquiry.

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Is the year 1908 the Empere T twog was mi cued in a vine that a book should be sent win a Heaven. Aewringly it was sugended at coe of the gates of his palace, in a covering of yellow sik twenty feet king. The Emperor went i to the place, attended by his grandees, rereived the celestial book on his knees, placed it on a magnificent chariot, and read in it a prediction that the family of Song, (his dynasty), should possess the empire during 700 generations. The book was deposited in a gold box, the monarch received the congratulations of the whole empire on occasion of the celestial present, and public re- | joicings were celebrated five days successively.-Monthly Review, vol. 60, p. 508. From the Hist. Gen. de la Chine.

THE vilest wretch may become an object of the best feelings in others. When William Coxe was at Moscow, there was a gentleman confined there in the prison of the police; and he alone of all the prisoners was denied the privilege of ever coming out. His crime was, having used several of his peasants so cruelly that they died. Close! to the door of his prison, his nurse, then about seventy years of age, had built a miserable shed which scarcely protected her from the weather, and there she lived in order to render him all the services in her power,-services which could have no other possible motive than affection; for it was certain that his punishment would be, as it deserved, for life. Upon Coxe's giving her a small piece of money, she immediately gave it to the prisoner.-Monthly Review, vol. 64, p. 383.

SPEGHT'S (Rachel) Mouzell for Melastomus, the Cynical Bayter, and foul-mouthed

Barker against Evah's Sex, and Ansuere made to Jo. Swetnan's Arraignment of Women, 4to. with many MS. Notes, half russia, 98. 6d., sold for £1. 11s. 6d. at Gordonstoun sale. 1617.

"IN ancient Rome, when the empire was come to its height, and learning and arts were grown into reputation among them, it was the fashion for such as aimed at the credit of being accomplished gentlemen, to frequent conferences, and entertain the company with discourses of philosophy, and all other specimens of study and wit. In consequence to this it happened, that others who had neither parts nor industry to accomplish themselves on this manner, and yet were ambitious to have a share in every thing that made men look great, made it their practice to buy some learned slaves out of Greece, and to carry those about with them into company; and then whatsoever wit or learning the slaves could produce, that the masters looked upon as their own, and took the glory of it unto themselves." YOUNG (the father's), Sermons, vol. 1, p. 97.

Times, 23d March, 1836.-Wax and composition casts from the heads of Fieschi, Lacenaire, Avril, and David, exhibited at the Cosmorama in Regent Street; in appearance like so many heads just separated from the bodies by the guillotine. And to make them more complete, the hair and whiskers are those of the murderers themselves!

July, 1836. STRANGE Discovery.-"About three weeks ago, while a number of boys were amusing themselves in searching for rabbit burrows on the north-east range of Arthur's Seat, they noticed, in a very rugged and secluded spot, a small opening in one of the rocks, the peculiar appearance of which attracted their attention. The mouth of this little cave was closed by three thin pieces of slate-stone, rudely cut at the upper ends into a conical form, and so placed

as to protect the interior from the effects of the weather. The boys having removed these tiny slabs, discovered an aperture about twelve inches square, in which were lodged seventeen Lilliputian coffins, forming two tiers of eight each, and one on a third, just begun! Each of the coffins contained a miniature figure of the human form cut out in wood, the faces in particular being pretty well executed. They were dressed from head to foot in cotton clothes, and decently "laid out" with a mimic representation of all the funereal trappings which usually form the last habiliments of the dead. The coffins are about three or four inches in length, regularly shaped, and cut out from a single piece of wood, with the exception of the lids, which are nailed down with wire sprigs or common brass pins. The lid and sides of each are profusely studded with ornaments, formed with small pieces of tin, and inserted in the wood with great care and regularity. Another remarkable circumstance is, that many years must have elapsed since the first interment took place in this mysterious sepulchre, and it is also evident that the depositions must have been made singly, and at considerable intervals-facts indicated by the rotten and decayed state of the first tier of coffins, and their wooden mummies, the wrapping cloths being in some instances entirely mouldered away, while others show various degrees of decomposition, and the coffin last placed, with its shrouded tenant, are as clean and fresh as if only a few days had elapsed since their entombment. As before stated, there were in all seventeen of these mystic coffins; but a number were destroyed by the boys pelting them at each other as unmeaning and contemptible trifles. None of the learned with whom we have conversed on the subject can account in any way for this singular fantasy of the human mind. The idea seems rather above insanity, and yet much beneath rationality; nor is any such freak recorded in the Natural History of Enthusiasm. Our own opinion would be, had we not some years ago abjured witchcraft and

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to it should be regulated with a more than ordinary regard to propriety and decorum." -OWEN. Hist of B. Soc. vol. 2, p. 529. See vol. 3, pp. 154-5.

became the more degraded and corrupt in their national religion."

"IT is no bad maxim, where there are two handles, to take hold of the cleanest."—

How the B. Soc. may be looked at by its MAJOR DOYLE. Irish Debates, vol. 7, p. 225. friends.-Ibid. vol. 1, p. 44.

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"WHEN the payment of the clergy by tithes in kind was instituted, the landlord was also paid in kind. The clergy were paid by the produce of the land, to be consumed upon the land; and the landlord was also paid by the produce for the use of his land."-MR. BROWNE. Ibid. p. 349.

"COARSE expressions-which men are apt to bring forth, when they are pumping in vain for strong ones."-MR. BURKE. Ibid. vol. 11, p. 327.

Lords B. and Nugent to wit.

"APRES avoir creusé les fertiles sillons, Qui reçoivent le grain, espoir de nos mois

sons,

Si chaque jour le soc repasse sur la terre, Au lieu de l'abondance il produit la misère, Et detruit aujourd'hui ce qu'il a fait hier. Tel est le mouvement dont le siecle est si fier.

Le talent naturel s'éteint dans la lecture, Et l'esprit est sterile à force de culture."

"D'UN ton fier, en vrai gentilhomme de lettres," said of Chateaubriand in this MS. satire.

Nov. 1786. "A MEETING of lawyers at Lord Mansfield's to take into consideration

Kakiα p0αρrikỳ άpxñs. — Arist. Eth. the alarming growth of perjury, which had lib. 6, c. 5.

Αἱ ἀκροάσεις κατὰ τὰ ἔθη συμβαίνουσιν. ὡς γὰρ εἰώθαμεν, οὕτως ἀξιοῦμεν λέγεσOat.—Ibid. Metaphys. Min. lib. 1, c. 3.

“Ir is curious to observe," says GODFREY HIGGINS, (Celtic Druids, p. 207) "that the more elegant, polite, and learned these people became, in the same proportion they

become so very rife in our courts of justice, as to threaten the most dangerous consequences: it was determined at this meeting that nothing short of capital punishment was sufficient to deter persons from the commission of this crime, and it was agreed that a bill should be prepared to make perjury in any court of justice, &c. a capital offence, punishable with death." - Lady's Magazine, vol. 17, p. 667.

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