Notices to Correspondents.
NOTES AND QUERIES IN CHINA. It will be seen by a communication in the present Number that "N. & Q." at length entered the Celestial Empire. We are gratified by the fact, and cannot resist therefore laying before our readers the following extract from the private note which accompanied several communications from an old contributor who has removed to that remote quarter of the world:—"I perceive that you have reached India in an Eastern direction; and trust that you will allow one who was a slight contributor at home, to avail himself of your publication in a still more distant oriental land. The "N. & Q." since my introduction of them, have excited here (Victoria, Hong Kong) a remarkable interest in many."
The letter to MR. HAMPSON has been forwarded; as has also the one addressed to our Querist respecting the "Ruthvens."
ÆGROTUS. We have thought we should better serve the cause which our correspondent has at heart, by not calling attention to the subject of his query.
C. B. T. shall receive a note from us.
L. I. N. Many thanks. We have forwarded her communication and specimen of bachelor's buttons to our correspondent.
THE TRADESCANTS. We take this opportunity of calling the attention of our readers to the attempt which is making to raise funds for the restoration of the Tomb of the Tradescants, &c., and of which particulars will be found in our advertising columns. We have reason to believe that we shall, in the course of a short time, be enabled to lay before our readers some new and valuable illustration of their history.
E. N. will find in some modern German books, that capital letters are not even used at the commencement of sentences.
DIABOLUS GANDER. The enigma—
"'Twas whispered in heaven," &c.