K. E.
It is a most curious circumstance connected with the superstition sailors have regarding putting to sea on a Friday, which will now have greater weight attached to it than ever, that I can inform your correspondent, W. FRASER, that the ill-fated Amazon, Captain Symons, did really sail on a Friday, as he suggested she might have done.
The day was January 2, 1852, by Lloyd's Lists, which is the day of the month the West India mail always leaves this country.
J. S. O.
Old Broad Street.
A Pinch of Snuff from Dean Swift's Box (Vol. v., p. 274.).
—The printed leaves inquired for by A SUBSCRIBER, are from the Irish Union Magazine, No. 2., April, 1845, and are quoted at p. 182. of Wilde's Closing Scenes of Dean Swift's Life, where may be found several particulars of the snuff-box inquired about. The inscription within the lid is curious, and is copied by Wilde.
E. D.
English Translation of the Canons (Vol. v., p. 246.).
—M. tells us that in the second clause of the 36th canon of 1603, the words quodque eodem taliter uti liceat are translated "and that the same may be lawfully used," the word taliter being altogether omitted in the English. What authority is there for this statement? In all the copies of the English Canons that I have examined, the translation is exact, viz., "and that it may lawfully so be used;" and that the form now presented for subscription at ordination agrees with this, may be inferred from the fact that the words are so printed in Mr. Hodgson's Instructions for the Clergy (6th edition, p. 8.).