not a few authentic reminiscences of this eccentric man. Tradition as it grows older will most likely do his memory injustice; and although no place can be claimed for him in the history of his country, his house and name have been honoured in the person of his son, Fox Maule, Earl of Dalhousie, of whom it is not too much to say he was at once an able statesman, a good man, and a Christian gentleman. S. A. The story referred to by A. J. B. (ante, p. 297) was in the volume for 1855 of Willis's Current Notes (pp. 47-48), and certainly referred to the Hon. William Ramsay, second son of George, eighth Earl of Dalhousie. That clever, though eccentric, man assumed the name of Maule on succeeding to the large estates of that ancient house in 1787; was created a peer of Great Britain, by the title of Lord Panmure, in 1831, and died in 1852. The whole story is, however, a fiction, and a full explanation of its origin, and the inaccurate statements which it gave rise to, will be found in the above volume of Current Notes, in a communication from " A(ndrew) J(ervis), Brechin, June 11," 1855; where, also, the date of breaking the crockery of the old widow, at Montrose, is assigned to 1794-96, nearly forty years previously to Mr. Ramsay-Maule becoming a titled "nobleman." Richmond. A. S. A. doings; which is a strange thing to say, that they could this day think it to be the house of God, and the next day the house of the devil; or else they would not have been so ready to have spoiled it." JOHN PIGGOT, F.S.A. "A NEW TERROR TO DEATH" (5th S. vi. 126, 195, 236, 293.)-It is difficult to believe that Lord Lyndhurst's memory was accurate when he told the extraordinary story reported by F. B. That Sir Charles Wetherell used the phrase under discussion, with a smile and by way of witticism, is likely enough; but that at an Inner Temple dinner to an illustrious guest of his own, with Lord Campbell present, he should "launch out into a violent attack" on Lord Campbell's book, and seriously taunt him with having added another sting to death, is really incredible. It may be noticed that his biographical lordship speaks most generously of Sir Charles; and in view of the following passage such an "attack" as that described would have been especially reprehensible: "As my most honoured friend, Sir Charles Wetherell, in 1829, nobly resigned the same office [the AttorneyGeneralship] when required to prepare the Roman Catholic Relief Bill, which he conscientiously disapproved of."-Lives of Lord Chancellors, 1st ed., vol. iii. P. 99, in notis. MIDDLE TEMPLAR. "LAUNDERS" (5th S. vi. 206, 315.)-In this part of Lancashire, the spouting of a house is not generally called "the launders"; but the wooden box or trough into which a colliery pump delivers its waters is always described as 66 the launderH. FISHWICK, F.S.A. box." Rochdale. ROCHE ABBEY (5th S. vi. 244, 275.)-Roche Abbey was an affiliation from Newminster; and I have pointed out, in my paper on "The Cistercian Abbeys of Yorkshire," in Fraser (Sept., 1876, p. 358), that though Hugh de Kirkstall, in speaking of Newminster, says, "Domus, siquidem, CLASSICAL QUOTATIONS ON TOMBSTONES (5th S. de novo fundata, fæcunditatem matris suae emu-vi. 166, 316.)-On a tombstone in Whitgift Churchlata est. Concepit et peperit de se tres filias faciens Pipewellam Salleiam et Rupem" (Roche), Dr. Whitaker, in his History of Craven, and Mr. Hunter, in his History of South Yorkshire, both make erroneous statements respecting the monastery whence Sawley and Roche were colonized. In Ellis's Original Letters (3rd Ser. iii. 35) there is a very interesting letter describing the spoliation of this abbey by an eye-witness. He describes it as "a very fair builded house, all of freestone, and every yard, co. York, to the memory of John Dixon, late of Swinefleet, who died April 7, 1756, aged fifty, and Rebecca Johnson, his sister, who died January 11, 1783, aged seventy :— : “Ipsa quoque assiduo labuntur tempora motu," and four following lines (Ovid, Met. xv. 179, &! a tombstone commemorating Richard Dixon, wh In Whittington Churchyard, co. Derby, a died December 20, 1736, in his forty-sixth year, 1743, in his twenty-ninth year :— and William, his son, who died February 5, "Mista senum ac juvenum densentur funera." house vaulted with freestone and covered with lead.... withall, although there was wood plenty within a flight- As far as I know, there was no connexion beCL. tween these two families of Dixon. ELECTRICITY (5th S. vi. 147.)-The thunderstorm of Sunday, the 16th July last, was unusually heavy; it commenced about 3, and lasted to 6.30 P.M., and extended all round the city of Worcester. A servant entered our room in great alarm, and said upon opening the front door she had seen a gang with them, dined at Dr. Gibson's, provost of Queen's, who is related to them, and made a great entertainment for them, expecting something from them, the physician being said to be worth 30,000 libs. They went from Oxford after dinner." There are several other very interesting notes on the Cromwell family in this valuable work, published by J. Russell Smith (1869). W. WINTERS, F.R.H.S. Churchyard, Waltham Abbey. bright star in the lightning pass close before her, and that the hall was then filled with a sulphurous suffocating smell (sulphuretted hydrogen). I immediately went to the hall and house-door, which was open, when a flash passed before me, only a few yards distant, about twelve feet from the ground, in which was a bright star-like meteor that passed horizontally from south to north, and then ascended obliquely at a sharp angle. An invalid in bed on the first-floor back remarked that the room was full of bad vapour as from burnt JOHNSON'S "DICTIONARY" (5th S. v. 188, 355; water. The barometer stood very high before the vi. 157, 298, 339.)—I have a copy of the second storm, viz., 304 inches, equal to 30.5 inches sea-edition, "corrected," 2 vols. 8vo. 1760. In it the level, and during the storm fell one-tenth of an quotation from Marvel occurs as the definition of inch; only little rain fell; weather very close. On the word "excise." GEORGE M. TRAHERNE. the evening before, the thermometer stood at 78° in the open air at 9 P.M., and the lowest thermometer during the night was 60° in the garden, five feet from the ground. Allow me to remark to your correspondent that the barometer is only affected by the density of the atmosphere, and that electricity has no direct influence. A dense or heavy air causes the mercury to rise, whilst with a less dense air brought by a southerly wind it falls. A rapid fall of the mercury always indicates a storm of wind or heavy rain, or both. J. B. P. Barbourne, Worcester. In White's Selborne (editorial note) it is recorded that at Joyeuse, in the department of the Ardéche, "during this excessive fall of rain [October 9, 1827] the barometer remained nearly stationary, at two or three lines below the mean altitude, notwithstanding the continuance of the most violent thunder and lightning during the whole time." How veritable this record may be, however, ought perhaps to be judged from the statement in the same foot-note, that on this occasion " twenty-nine inches and a half [of rain] fell within the space of two hours" ! KINGSTON. CROMWELL FAMILY (5th S. vi. 229, 292, 338.)The following note from vol. ii. of the Reliquiæ Hearniane may be useful to J. G. C. :— Sept. 8 [1719]. On Saturday (Sept. 5) came to Oxford two daughters of Richard Cromwell, son of Oliver Cromwell, Protector, one of which is married to Dr. Gibson, the Physician, who writ the Anatomy; the other is unmarried. They are both Presbyterians, as is also Dr. Gibson, who was then with them. They were at the Presbyterian meeting-house in Oxford on Sunday morning and evening; and yesterday they, and all the LORD STANHOPE A LAY BISHOP (5th S. vi. 229, 279, 295.)-I quoted the inscription in Depedale Church from Cassell's Picturesque Europe. L. L. having impugned its accuracy, I communicated with the incumbent of the church. He obligingly sent me a transcript, which is as follows: "Sacred to the memory of the Right Hon. Philip Henry Earl Stanhope, of Chevening, in Kent, Lord of this Manor, and Lay Bishop of this Church, who died March 2, 1855, aged 73 years. This tablet is erected by the parishioners of Dale Abbey." He further informed me a probate court used to be held at Dale Abbey (Depedale) till within the last twelve years or so, at which he believes Earl Stanhope was styled "bishop." The parishioners wished the word "bishop" to be inserted on the tablet, but were informed "lay bishop" would be more correct. L. L. is consequently wrong in reading "abbot" instead of "bishop," but right in replacing the date 1875 by 1855. C. W. EMPSON. THE SHIPS OF THE OLD NAVIGATORS (5th S. vi. 168, 373.)-The Centurion, Anson's ship, was certainly broken up long before 1830, and not at Halifax, Nova Scotia, as suggested by J. C. H. The lion which adorned the head, with the inscription quoted by MR. NASH, stood against the inn at Waterbeech, close to Goodwood Park, for very many years in the early part of this century, but is no longer there. It was presented by the late Duke of Richmond to William IV. WILLIAM DILKE. PLASTER CASTS OF SHAKSPEARE'S FACE (5th S. vi. 307, 376.)—J. G. has been misinformed. The plaster casts on black lias were, I believe, taken from a mould made by one James De Ville (? the phrenologist) from one of George Bullock's casts of the Stratford bust. I remember, the late Dr. Francis Sibson had one of these casts on black lias in his consulting-room. Casts of the Stratford bust have been taken at different times by Bullock, Warner, and Michele; and we read of a cast being taken earlier than these, for Malone. THE O'NEILLS OF FRANCE AND SPAIN (5th S. iii. 407; iv. 130; v. 69, 149.)—Personal engagements have prevented me from returning to the subject of the controversy brought forward under the above head in "N. & Q." some time ago, and I now hasten to put before your readers new proofs of what seems to me perfectly established, namely, 1. That the house of Tyrone is represented in the male line by John O'Neill, Esq., of Mallorca, to whom the "Real Despacho" was given; 2. That the house of Clandeboy or Clan Aadh Buidh is represented also in the male and scion line by the O'Neills of Portugal. With respect to my first assertion, I may be allowed to differ from MR. BONAPARTE-WYSE, and say that I cannot but give full credit to a document that has been made out and authenticated by authorities of so respectable a character as Archbishop McMahon and the Bishops of Dromore and Down, and this in a time when the clergy were, more than any one, in the best position to furnish the necessary data for such pedigrees. It will also be borne in mind that this pedigree belongs to a family of great note, and that it bears upon four or five generations only. Thus it is therein clearly stated that Felix O'Neill, greatgrandfather of the present John, was the son of Henry, who was son of Felix, son of Arthur, son of Terence, brother to John. Now as it seems sufficiently proved from the "Four Masters" themselves that this Terence was a son of the great Hugh, the link is established. My second assertion regards the O'Neills of the house of Clandeboy, and if any doubts can arise as to the exactness of family descents in general, I do not think it is reasonable to entertain any such with respect to the genealogy I have in my power. This document traces the pedigree as far back as Brian Ballagh, Prince of Clandeboy, and brings it down to John O'Neill, who was the first of his stock to establish himself in Portugal, and who is mentioned in G. Baretti's Lettere Famigliari as carrying on important wine business in the proximity of Lisbon in the year 1760. The whole is duly authenticated by Michael, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland; Antony Garvey, Bishop of Dromore; John McMullin, Protonotarius Apostol; Fr. Bernard McHenry, Vicar of Ulster. The signatures of these are certified by Fr. Bernard Brulaugham, rector of the convent of the Irish Preachers, established in Lisbon in that epoch, and by Fr. Dominick, of the same house, also rector and Doctor in Divinity. The signatures of these two are duly certified by an attorney of renown in Lisbon, Roberto Loares da Lilña. But what pronounces still more in favour of the genealogy in question is that its authenticity was discussed and proved before a special tribunal held for the purpose of ascertaining the nobility of its possessor, and it was acknowledged in spite of the great opposition on the part of some persons of the royal house of Portugal, who could not strike the possessor and have him punished for a certain abuse because he was noble. This and much other information I am enabled to give, and may even, if any of your readers desire it, publish the entire genealogy of this which I consider the senior branch of the O'Neills of Clandeboy. I am very sorry that the letter addressed to me by TIR EOGHAIN did not reach me, and I again state to the editor my address in case of any further communication. PETRUS. MRS. SERRES'S BAPTISM (5th S. vi. 400.)-I trust I may be permitted to anticipate MR. COOKE's reply to H. O. H.'s inquiry, who was the William Henry FitzClarence who accompanied Mrs. Serres to Islington Church, by stating that information respecting him, under the names of FitzStrathearn and Strange Petrie, will be found in your Fourth Series, iii. 392, 451, 601 ; iv. 204. I have in my possession materials, in the shape of autograph letters and other documents, for a biography, almost an autobiography of him. It would be too long for "N. & Q.," but would make an amusing article in a magazine, and would prove that this scion of royalty, as he professed to be, was on his own admission unmistakably a fitting associate of the soi-disant Princess Olive of Cumberland. T. GAMBADOES (5th S. vi. 189, 292.)-Since writing my reply on this word I have come upon the fol lowing passage in Sir Walter Scott's Autobiogra phy illustrative of its meaning : "The ballad of Hardyknute I was early master of, te the great annoyance of almost our only visitor, the worthy clergyman of the parish, Dr. Duncan, who b shouting forth this ditty. Methinks I now see hil not patience to have a sober chat interrupted by thin emaciated figure, his legs cased in clasped gans does, and his face of a length that would have rivs the Knight of La Mancha's, and hear him exclaiming One may as well speak in the mouth of a cannon as Scott, Burt. By J. G. Lockhart. where that child is.""-Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter New edition, com plete in one volume. Edinburgh, Cadell, 1815, royal 8vo., p. 6. From this it would seem that gambadoes were worn in the house, and consequently were not necessarily attached to the saddle. In my last communication, in the quotation from Richardson, for "It. syambettare," read “It. sgambettare." A printer's error, caused no doubt by my cacography, has substituted Y for g. MIDDLE TEMPLAR. THE CAIRN ON THE EILDON HILLS (5th S. vi. 229, 356.)-Being deterré by your correspondent F. F., I may as well confess to the facts stated by him. I reversed the task of Sisyphus, with more hopeful but scarcely less laborious perseverance. The "impudent" masses of stone bounded freely to the plain, but made no effort to climb back again. poets, the selection being most judicious, and the whole work worthy of unqualified praise. THE publication by Messrs. Warne & Co. of the complete poetical works of Dr. Charles Mackay, in a single volume, is one which should interest a very large portion of intellectual readers. It is a handsome volume without, and a most attractive one within. SHAKSPEARE readers will be glad to learn that Dr. Ingleby's Shakespeare, the Man and the Book, is now at press, and will appear in the spring-tide of next year. THE ROD.-The history of the rod receives further ment, which lately appeared in a weekly London paper of the highest respectability : "Wanted, by a widow lady, a person who is experienced in the art of whipping, and well qualified to administer a severe flogging with a new birch rod to two young children of the ages of nine and ten. Wages, 301. per annum. The children are very wilful and troublesome." My object in the confession, however, is principally to contradict F. F.'s supposition, and to give the true account. When I first went to Mel-illustration from the following extraordinary advertiserose as the first "priest and pastor of the Chapel of the Holy Trinity," a gallant colonel residing in the neighbourhood told me the history of the cairn, and added that, as he did not sympathize with the event which it commemorated, whenever he ascended the hill he took off a stone and rolled it down. Upon this hint, but not for the same reason, I determined to follow his example. My reason, or at least my chief reason, was that it spoilt the fine natural outline of the hills. As in the course of two or three years I frequently visited the summit, I saw from the windows of the parsonage that my work was beginning to tell, and at last I resolved to hasten and complete the demolition, availing myself as stated of the frequency and density of Scottish mists. The cairn finally vanished in 1855 by my hands. It is matter for astonishment that such an advertise ment should have been admitted into a respectable paper. legitimate, real birch rod, the disuse of which in the I had certainly no love for the Reform Bill, though I always saw that the abuses and corrup-correction in the bands of a judicious parent, a small, tions which had grown intolerable must be removed. The success of General Gascoyne's motion (by which the revolutionary proposal to diminish the English representation to the extent I think of seventy members on a division, and so to place unrestricted power in the hands of an unscrupulous party, was thrown out) had taken the sting out of the first bill, and I, like all good citizens, had long before acquiesced in a necessity. That success lost my relative, Sir Robert Wilson, his seat for Southwark and the favour of Lords Grey and Brougham, in whose hands was then the power of redressing former acts of ministerial wrong. Some small feeling, therefore, of antagonism to their work might have been present to my mind; but, as I said, the one dominant reason was the injury of the ugly erection to the beauty of the Eildon Hills. HERBERT RANDOLPH. Bexhill. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &o. MESSES. BLACKIE & SON (London, Glasgow, and Edinburgh) have just issued a superb volume, The Poets and Poetry of Scotland, which magnificently closes the series under that name, which was to, and does, embrace all the Scottish bards, from the earliest to the present time. Mr. J. G. Wilson (the editor), in the volume before us, gives us the poets from Campbell (born 1777) to the Marquis of Lorne (born 1845). Within the period indicated we have samples of about one hundred and sixty DR. JAMES H. DIXON.-We regret to learn the death of an old correspondent of "N. & Q.," DR. JAS. HENRY DIXON, of Lausanne, who is to be identified with STEPHEN JACKSON. DR. DIXON died on the 26th ult. He was born in London in 1803, educated at the Grammar School in Skipton-in-Craven, articled to an eminent firm of solicitors in the city of Durham, and afterwards became established as a solicitor in London. From boyhood he began to indulge his literary tastes by contributing largely to the "Poets' Corner" of newspapers. He wrote much prose and poetry for Hone's Table-Book, &c., generally under the initials "T. Q. M." To the Craven Herald (published in Skipton) he contributed "Stories of the Craven Dales," Songs," a translation from the German, called Voices of the Forest, and other matters. In " N. & Q." (passim) are to be found many of his admirable translations and original articles. Remarks on French CAPT. GEORGE STRANGE NARES, K. C.B.-Our old correspondent, the REV. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A., Rector of Newbourne, observes that this celebrated Arctic explorer comes of a family which has produced several distinguished men in different professions, and whose motto, "Dum spiro spero," is most appropriate. His father, Capt. William Henry Nares, was a distinguished naval officer, and had fought under Lord Cochrane, whose great uncle was Robert Nares, Archdeacon of Stafford, and a well-known writer, the son of Dr. Nares, an eminent composer of Church music, and organist to George II. and III. The brother of Dr. Nares, the musician, was Sir George Nares, one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas, one of whose sons was Edward Nares, D.D., Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, and author of several books. The Horatian sentiment is verified in the present instance, and in several of them: "Fortes creantur fortibus et bonis : Est in juvencis, est in equis, patrum Virtus: neque imbellem feroces Progenerant aquila columbam." Lib. iv., Ode 4. A DAY IN ETTRICK FOREST (ante, p. 381.)-As in this interesting article there occur notices of pictures connected with the works of Sir Walter Scott, it may not be out of place to remind your readers of Mrs. E. M. Ward's popular work in last year's exhibition at the Royal Academy of "The Poet's First Love," representing the child Hogg reposing on the lap of a young lassie while tending her sheep amidst the Ettrick hills, the description in the catalogue being taken (to the best of my recollection) from his own words in the same autobiographical sketch quoted by MR. PICKFORD. M. E. Notices to Correspondents. ON all communications should be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. GLWYSYDD denies the right of Napoleon I. to be ac counted the original utterer of the expression which alluded to England as "a nation of shopkeepers." Our correspondent claims originality in this matter for Barère. The latter made a speech in the Convention, June 18, 1794, in which he proclaimed that Lord Howe, on the famous 1st of June, had been defeated by Villaret Joyeuse-Our fleet (said Barère), though fourteen ships inferior in number, and to leeward of the English, made them feel our vengeance, and obliged them to abandon to us the scene of action. Seven of our vessels were dismasted, and there is reason to apprehend they were lost. Ten of the English were dismasted, and there is reason to believe that one of their three-deckers went to the bottom. Let Pitt then boast of his victory to his nation of shopkeepers" (sa nation boutiquière). The expression, however, is said to have been made by Adams, in a speech delivered at Philadelphia in 1776; but it is to be found in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, published in 1775; and nine years before that Dean Tucker had it in one of his tracts, 1766, "And what is true of a shopkeeper is true of a shopkeeping nation." Catholic emancipation. At the duel the earl fired in the air, and afterwards stated that by imputing un worthy motives he meant no offence. The last duel of any note between English subjects on English ground was the fatal one in May, 1845, between Lieutenants Hawkey and Seton. The latter was killed. DAVID C. A. AGNEW (Wigtown, N.B.)-With regard to what is said in the preface to the Authorized Version of the Bible, headed "The Translators to the Reader," that "Much about that time, even in our King Richard 11.'s days, John Trevisa translated them into English," Dr. Eadie, in The English Bible, vol. i. p. 60, says that "Caxton is the only authority" for the statement; that "Bale simply repeats Caxton"; and that "finally, Usaber inserts the statement of Bale, and Wharton copied Ussher." How the belief arose that Trevisa translated the Scriptures is traced in the volume referred to. GREYSTEIL.-On the authorship of Eight Months at Rome during the Vatican Council: Impressions of a Contemporary, by Pomponio Leto, the Quarterly remarks: "The world says the book was brought out, and perhaps put into shape, by the Marchese Vitelleschi; but that it was inspired unquestionably by the late cardinal of that name, who sat in the council as Bishop of Osimo and Cingoli, and received his hat, when it was over, for his services there, from the Pope. He lived long enough to be thoroughly aware what a mis take the council had been." S. MORTON. Mrs. Barbauld's poem, "1811," has often been noticed as forestalling Macaulay's New Zealander by her prophecy that on a future day a traveller from the antipodes would, from a broken arch of Blackfriars Bridge, contemplate the ruins of St. Paul's. But many writers anticipated Mrs. Barbauld. The saying has been traced back in " N. & Q." (5th S. v. 338) to Horace Walpole, 1774. S. T. P.-Gouache, s.f., "peintures avec des couleurs délayées dans l'eau gommée" (Boiste, Dict. Univers.). Gouache, f., water-colour painting, "Die Malerei mit Wasserfarben" (Dict. Franc.-Allem.-Anglais, Leipzig, 1841).. IGNORAMUS.-There was an Egbert Vander Poel, a Dutch artist, of the close of the seventeenth century, who is said to have painted in the manner of Brouwer and Teniers. TRISTRAM.-The Dover and Calais packet, the Union, was lost off Calais in 1792. More than a century bad elapsed since a like disaster had happened. ST. VINCENT. The gentleman named is undoubtedly since June 2, 1853. a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and has been s Consult his Life by Hill (1858). J. M.-The additional matter compels a postponement till next week. C. S. C.-Between 1810 and 1846 Rossini composed forty operas. See list in Queens of Song. DR. BLOXAM and R. N. (Beechingstoke.)-Forwarded. G. W.-"Ireton," next week. NOTICE. J. PIKE.-There was no duel between the Duke of Wellington and the Duke of Bedford. The latter duke, however, was called out by the Duke of Buckingham for words used by the former at a county meeting. They met in Kensington Gardens, May 2, 1822, when the Duke of Bedford fired in the air, and the other duke's honour was thereby satisfied. The Duke of Wellington Editorial Communications should be addressed to "The encountered the Earl of Winchilsea in a duel in Batter-Editor of Notes and Queries ""-Advertisements and sea Fields, March 21, 1829. The earl had withdrawn his name from the subscribers' list for founding King's College, London, on the ground that the duke, when he placed his own name there, was covertly and basely resolved to overthrow the ccnstitution of 1688 by aiding Business Letters to "The Publisher"-at the Office, 20, Wellington Street, Strand, London, W.C. 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