Malta.
Contango.—A technical term in use among the sharebrokers of Liverpool, and I presume elsewhere, signifying a sum of money paid for accommodating either a buyer or seller by carrying the engagement to pay money or deliver shares over to the next account-day. Can your correspondents say from whence derived?
Agmond.
Pedigree to the Time of Alfred.—Wapshott, a blacksmith in Chertsey, holds lands held by his ancestors temp. Alfred (M‘Culloch's Highlands, vol. iv. p. 410.). Can this statement be confirmed in 1853?
A. C.
"Service is no inheritance."—Will you or any of your readers have the goodness to inform me
what is the origin of the adage occurring twice in the Waverley Novels, thus:
"Service, I wot, is no inheritance now-a-days; some are wiser than other some," &c. (See Peveril of the Peak, chap. xiv.)
and
"Ay, St. Ronan's, that is a' very true,—but service is nae inheritance, and as for friendship it begins at hame."—St. Ronan's Well, chap. x.