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No. 230.Saturday, March 25. 1854.Price Fourpence.
Stamped Edition 5d.

CONTENTS.

Notes:—Page
Original English Royal Letters to theGrand Masters of Malta, by WilliamWinthrop[263]
Fata Morgana, by J. Macray[267]
On the Destruction of MonumentalBrasses[268]
Original Letter of the Countess ofBlessington to Sir William Drummond[268]
MINOR NOTES:—The late Judge Talfourd—Authors'Trustee Society—TheOld Clock at Alderley—TheOlympic Plain, &c.—Electric Telegraph—IrishLaw in the EighteenthCentury—Gravestone Inscriptions[269]
Queries:—
Minor Queries:—Paintings of OurSaviour—Heraldic—Dedication ofKemerton Church—Consolato delMare—Consonants in Welsh—Atonement—SirStephen Fox—"Accountof an Expedition to the Interior ofNew Holland"—Darwin on Steam—ScottishFemale Dress—"The Innocents,"a Drama—Waugh of Cumberland—Norton—DeLa Fond—"ButtonCap"—Cobb Family—PrinceCharles' Attendants in Spain—Sack[270]
Minor Queries with Answers:—RalphAshton the Commander—ChristopherHervie—Dannocks—Brassin All Saints, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—ImperfectBible—The Poemof "Helga"—"Merryweather'sTempest Prognosticator"—EdwardSpencer's Marriage—Yew-tree atCrowhurst[272]
Replies:—
The Electric Telegraph in 1753[274]
Factitious Pedigrees: Dixon of Beeston,by Lord Monson, E. P. Shirley, &c.[275]
Licences to Crenellate, by the Rev. W.Sparrow Simpson, &c.[276]
Newspaper Folk Lore, by C. MansfieldIngleby, &c.[276]
French Season Rhymes and WeatherRhymes, by Edgar MacCulloch[277]
Vault Interments: Burial in an ErectPosture: Interment of the Trogloditæ[278]
Do Conjunctions join Propositions only?by H. L. Mansel, &c.[279]
Has Execution by Hanging been survived?[280]
Photographic Correspondence:—AStereoscopic Note—PhotographicQuery—Deepening Collodion Negatives—Cautionto Photographers[282]
Replies to Minor Queries:—ArtesianWells—Prior's Epitaph onHimself—Handwriting—"Beggingthe Question"—When and wheredoes Sunday begin or end?—PreciousStones—Scotch Grievance—"Corporationshave no Souls," &c.—DevereuxBowly—Reversible Names—DuvalFamily, &c.[283]
Miscellaneous:—
Notes on Books, &c.[288]
Books and Odd Volumes wanted[289]
Notices to Correspondents[289]