Alfred Gatty.
[Our correspondent may probably get some clue to the derivation of these terms in a work entitled Campanologia Improved; or the Art of Ringing made Easy, third edition, 12mo. 1733. We may also mention, that some Notes of Dedications of Churches and Bells in the Diocese of Gloucester will be found in the British Museum, Add. MSS. 5836. f. 189 b.]
Keseph's Bible.—About the year 1828, there was issued a thin duodecimo pamphlet by some one who took the cognomen of Keseph, and who
proposed to publish an edition of the authorised version under the title of "Keseph's Bible," with the substitution of the Hebrew terms Alehim, Aleh, Al, Adon, Adonai, &c. &c. for our English ones God, Lord, &c. &c.
Can any of your readers inform me if this was ever published? and can they also favour me with the loan of the pamphlet for a month?
The Editor of the "Chronological New Testament."
36. Trinity Square, Southwark.
[This Bible was published in 1830, as far as chap. xix. of the Second Book of Kings, with the following title: The Holy Bible, according to the Established Version: with the Exception of the Substitution of the Original Hebrew Names, in place of the English Words, Lord and God, and of a few corrections thereby rendered necessary. With Notes. London: Westley and Davis, 4to. It contains a Preface of four pages, and a list of the Meaning or Signification of the Sacred Names substituted in this edition, of nine pages. A copy of it is in the British Museum, the press mark 1276 h.]
Proclamations to prohibit the Use of Coal, as Fuel, in London.—Dr. Bachoffner, in the lecture which he is now delivering at the Royal Polytechnic Institution, mentions the fact that three separate proclamations were issued for this purpose, and that it was at last made a capital offence; and a man was actually accused, tried, condemned, and executed for burning coal within the metropolis. Now what I want to ascertain relative to the above facts, is: 1. The date of each; 2. Any particulars that you or any of your correspondents may be kind enough to furnish; 3. The name, and station, trade, or profession of the person so executed.
As Dr. Bachoffner has now often reiterated the above statement at the Polytechnic, and as it has always been received (at least when I have been there) with acclamations of surprise, I have no doubt that the particulars will interest many of your readers.