Ajax.
"To talk like a Dutch Uncle."—In some parts of America, when a person has determined to give another a regular lecture, he will often be heard to say, "I will talk to him like a Dutch uncle;" that is, he shall not escape this time.
As the emigrants to America from different countries have brought their national sayings with them, and as the one I am now writing about was doubtless introduced by the Knickerbockers, may I ask if a similar expression is now known or used in Holland?
W. W.
Malta.
Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Belgium.—I want some work on this subject: can any one tell me of one?
N.B.—A big book does not frighten me.
Ajax.
Charter of Waterford.—I have a copy of the English translation of this charter, published in Kilkenny, with the following note, written in an old hand, on the title-page:
"This was first translated by William Cunningham Cunningham (sic), a native of Carrick-on-Suir, born on Ballyrichard Road: his father and brother were blacksmiths; his grand-nephew Cunningham lives now a cowper (sic) in New Street in do. town."