"Veni, vidi, vici."—To these remarkable and well-known words of the Roman general, I beg to forward two more sententious despatches of celebrated generals:
Suwarrow. "Slava bogu! Slava vam!
Krepost Vzala, yiatam."
"Glory to God and the Empress! Ismail's ours."
It is also stated, I do not know on what authority, that the old and lamented warrior, Sir Charles Napier, wrote on the conquest of Scinde, "Peccavi."
Perhaps some of your correspondents could add a few more pithy sentences on a like subject.
G. Lloyd.
Dublin.
Autumnal Tints.—Scarce any one can have failed to notice the unusual richness and brilliance of the autumnal tints on the foliage this year. I have more particularly remarked this in Clydesdale, the lake districts of Cumberland and Westmoreland, and in Somersetshire and Devonshire. Can any of the contributors to "N. & Q." inform me if attributable to the extraordinary wetness of the season?
R. H. B.