Minor Notes.

The Scotch Grievance.—Can the demand of Scotchmen, with respect to the usage of the royal arms, be justified by the laws of Heraldry? I think not. They require that when the royal arms are used in Scotland, the Scotch bearings should be placed in the first quarter. Surely it is against all rules that the armorial bearings, either of a person or of a nation, should be changeable according to the place where they are used. The arms of the United Kingdom and of the sovereign are, first and fourth, England; second, Scotland; third, Ireland. The Scotch have therefore the option of using these, or else the arms of Scotland singly; but to shift the quarterings according to locality, seems repugnant to the principles of the science. Queen Anne and George I. bore, in the first quarter, England impaling Scotland: is it to be supposed that, for Scotch purposes, they bore Scotland impaling England? Can any coin be produced, from the accession of James VI. to the English throne, on which the royal arms are found with Scotland in the first quarter and England in the second?

A Descendant from Scottish Kings.

Walpole and Macaulay.—That well-known and beautiful conception of the New Zealander in some future age sitting on the ruins of Westminster Bridge, and looking where London stood, may have been first suggested by a thought in one of Walpole's lively letters to Sir H. Mann:

"At last some curious native of Lima will visit London, and give a sketch of the ruins of Westminster and St. Paul's."

Anon.

Russian "Justice."—Euler, in his 102nd letter to a German princess, says:

"Formerly there was no word in the Russian language to express what we call justice. This was certainly a very great defect, as the idea of justice is of very great importance in a great number of our judgments and reasonings, and as it is scarcely possible to think of the thing itself without a term expressive of it. They have, accordingly, supplied this defect by introducing into that language a word which conveys the notion of justice."

This letter is dated 14th February, 1761. Statne nominis umbra? An answer is not needed to this Query. But can nothing be done to rescue from destruction the precious analytical treasures of Euler, now entombed in the archives of St. Petersburgh?

T. J. Buckton.

Birmingham.

False Dates in Water-marks of Paper.—Your correspondent H. W. D. (Vol. ix., p. 32.) on the subject of the water-mark in paper, is, perhaps, not aware that, within the last few years, the will of a lady was set aside by the heir-at-law, her brother, on account of the water-mark, she having imprudently, as it was surmised, made a fairer copy of her will on paper of a later date. The case will be in the recollection of the parties employed in the neighbourhood of the Prerogative Court.