CONTENTS.

Notes:—Page
Political Predictions, by Henry H. Breen[559]
Derivation of the Word "Bigot"[560]
"Book of Almanacs," by Professor De Morgan[561]
Minor Notes:—Distances at which Sounds have been heard—Anagram—Logan or Rocking Stones[561]
Queries:—
A Rubens Query[561]
The Paxs Pennies of William the Conqueror[562]
Minor Queries:—Peculiar Customs at Preston, in Lancashire—Obsolete Statutes—Sale of Offices and Salaries in the Seventeenth Century—Board of Trade—Sacheverell's and Charles Lamb's Residences in the Temple—Braddock and Orme[562]
Minor Queries with Answers:—Cromwell's Bible—Canne's Bible—Dryden and Luke Milbourne—Portrait Painters of the last Century—Ætna—Sir Adam, or Sir Ambrose, Brown[563]
Replies:—
Norwich, Kirkpatrick Collection of MSS. for the History of, by B. B. Woodward, &c.[564]
Early German Coloured Engravings[565]
The Bellman at Newgate, by J. W Farrer[565]
Herbert's "Church Porch"[566]
Ancient Usages of the Church[566]
Popiana, by R. Carruthers[568]
Catholic Floral Directories[568]
Photographic Correspondence:—Mr. Lyte's New Instantaneous Process—Photographs, &c. of the Crystal Palace—Soluble Cotton—Cameras[570]
Replies to Minor Queries:—Shakspeare Portrait—"Aches"—"Waestart"—Willow Bark in Ague—Lord Fairfax—The Young Pretender—Dobney's Bowling-green; Wildman; Sampson—Palæologus—Children by one Mother—Robert Brown the Separatist—Hero of the "Spanish Lady's Love"—Niagara—Hymn attributed to Handel—Marquis of Granby—Convocation and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel—Cassie—"Three cats sat," &c.—Tailless Cats—Francklyn Household Book—"Violet-crowned" Athens—Smith of Nevis and St. Kitt's—Hydropathy—Leslie and Dr. Middleton—Lord Brougham and Horne Tooke—Irish Rhymes—Cabbages—Sir William "Usher," not "Upton"—"Buckle"—Cornwall Family—John of Gaunt—"Wellesley" or "Wesley"—Mantel-piece—"Perturbabantur," &c.—Edition of "Othello"—Perspective—"Go to Bath," &c.[571]
Miscellaneous:—
Books and Odd Volumes Wanted[579]
Notices to Correspondents[579]

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