work Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid, that the interior of the Pyramid contains standards of measure in inches, while the outside gives the same standards in sacred cubits.

Now the American silver coinage corresponds to the Pyramid's inch standard, while the gold coinage corresponds to the cubit standard. Thus the king's chamber in the Pyramid is 412-5 English inches in length, and 206 2 in breadth; and the American silver dollar, the unit of the coinage, and which they are endeavouring to remonetize, called also the "dollar of the fathers," contains 412-5 grains, the half-dollar 206 2 grains, and the quarter dollar the magic number, 1031 grains. The height of the Pyramid is 232.5 cubits; and the American gold eagle, the unit of gold coinage, contains 232 2 grains; and of course the half-eagle contains 1161 grains-another magic Pyramid number. These numbers are such that "the area of a square, measuring 103'03 on the side, is equal to the area of a circle having 116 26 for its diameter."

Now the weight of these coins, by whatever name they were called, has come down to us from tradition, and evidently had its origin from the same source as the Pyramid weights and measures. It is quite remarkable that not a single grain has been lost amidst all the turmoil of the nations for more than four thousand years.

The English weights and measures are closely in accord with those of the Pyramid; and as these have been shown by Piazzi Smyth and others to have a better scientific foundation than the new French metric system, the English-speaking people have no need to make any change. Our system is not entirely decimal, but contains the older divisions of halves and quarters.

WATSON F. QUINBY, M.D.

Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.

LORD ELDON A Buttress of tHE CHURCH (5th S. viii. 447, 473.)-According to Sir Horace Twiss (Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon, vol. iii. p. 488), the view taken by AN INQUIRER is correct, and the Bishop of Peterborough mistaken in attributing the saying to Lord Eldon himself. I think it would be fair to the great Chancellor to give the remarks that led to the story being told at length:

"Of all his endeavours, public and private, the spring and guide was religion, which he cherished not as an engine of state, but as the rule of life and the earnest that the union of the State with the Church was not of immortality. His was the memorable apophthegm, to make the Church political, but to make the State religious. It is true, perhaps, that he was not suffi ciently attentive to external observances; indeed, for many months in each year, during the pressure of official business, his devotions were almost wholly private. It may be some apology that he had begun life at a time when the duty of public worship was not so generally regarded as it is now; but it is said that 'Sir Samuel Romilly, who attended the parish church at which the Chancellor ought to have been, used to comthere' (Law Mag., xliv. 356). On an occasion when his ment, with no slight severity, on never seeing him merits were in discussion among some lawyers, one of them, a warm partisan of the Chancellor, called him one of the pillars of the Church. No,' said another, 'he may be one of its buttresses, but certainly not one of its pillars, for he is never found within it. At Encombe, however, where he had some intermission from the harassing demands which usurped his time in London, he was a regular attendant on public worship."

He rebuilt Kingston Church; and further on it is recorded that he gave it as his deliberate opinion to a friend, that he had been wrong in getting into the habit, as a young man, of working up arrears of business on a Sunday, and so too much neglecting due attendance at church.

Moor House.

J. BOYD.

LEEDS POTTERY (5th S. viii. 409, 455.)—I have a bottle of cream-coloured ware, with figures in black and red: one the bust of a man in scarlet uniform, with a tie wig, and the other the bust of a woman, with a very peculiar head-dress. An orange tree grows between them, and also between them are the letters "PV OR." On the other side of the bottle is an inscription: the first word is partly chipped off, but I think it is:

"Siet wat Rich Van agteren Staat."

"bid voor ŭ vorst wenst

from geen kwaad."

"Many of the plates manufactured by John Turner, of Lane End Pottery (Staffordshire), are painted with portraits of the reigning family of Orange. Upon one

He then describes the figures precisely as they are on W. M. M.'s plate and on my bottle, and says that different plates have different inscriptions. He adds :

"They were fabricated on the occasion of this marriage, which seems to have been a popular one in Holland, and another plate shows the figures separated by a candle, while lines in Dutch surround them. The letters 'P. W. D. V.,' which we see on many of these services, are the initials of Prins Willem, Deu. V."

From Chaffers's description, then, this ware seems to be Staffordshire and not Leeds pottery, though in many respects very like it. Can any one give me the translation of the two inscriptions on my very quaint bottle, the likenesses on which are certainly approaching caricatures? B. J.

The inscription is corrupt Dutch, but not wholly so, as couleur is French. In correctly written Dutch it would read :

"Zal nooit de Oranje Klein vergaan,' -the orange colour will never fade. Is W. M. M. really assured that this plate is of Leeds pottery? The political allusion points to a much earlier date. HUGH OWEN.

DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH MALE AND FEMALE NAMES (5th S. vii. 267, 397.)-MR. WARREN will hardly find one which is more satisfactory than the glossary affixed to vol. i. of the History of Christian Names, by the author of the Heir of Redclyffe, &c. (London, Parker, Son & Bourn, West Strand, 1863). ST. SWITHIN.

HERALDIC (5th S. viii. 268, 379.)-The arms described are so nearly identical with those borne by the Hutchinsons of this country, that I think they must be the same.

See the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. i. pp. 296 and 310, for those borne by Gov. Thomas Hutchinson, the eighteenth Governor of Massachusetts; and id., xxii. p. 236, for those of the Hutchinsons of Salem, Mass. The "lion rampant" is argent in both cases; but of the "cross crosslets or" there are eleven in the former, and but eight in the latter; but the description gives the field as "semée of cross crosslets or," which may account for the discrepancy between both and the one described in "N. & Q." Col. Joseph L. Chester, of London, has spent time and labour in tracing the Salem branch of the family, and somewhere he concludes that the governor's branch are not entitled to these arms. The governor's family name is extinct here, but there are descendants from the same parent stock, of whom I am one. He left descendants in England; for his grandson, the Rev. John Hutchinson,

Portland, Me.

Penrhos House, Rugby.

Religion, freedom, vengeance, what you will," &c. Byron's Lara, ii. 8, third and fourth lines from the end. C. W. BINGHAM.

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A Chronicle of England during the Reigns of the Tudors, from A.D. 1485 to 1559. By Charles Wriothesley, Windsor Herald. Edited from a MS. in the possession of Lieut.-Gen. Lord Henry Percy, by Wm. Douglas Hamilton. (Printed for the Camden Society.) THIS interesting volume contains notes made in the reigns of Edward VI., Mary, and in the first year of Elizabeth. Its great value lies in the fact that it tells us as much of the private life of the times as of their public history. In some cases the record of manners will raise a smile; at others, something graver than a smile. Under 1554 there are these incidents, illustrating a street scene, and how the Spaniards who came over with there was a Spaniarde hanged at Charinge Crosse which Philip bore themselves: " Frydaye, the 26 of Octobre, had shamefullie slayen an Englishe man, servant to Sir George Gifforde. There would have been given c. crownes of the strangers to have saved his life." Again, in 1555: "The xi of Januarie was a Spaniarde hanged at Charing Crosse for slaying an English man at the cunningely runninge him thorowe with a rapere whilst court gate at Westminster, at Christenmas holydayes,

Here is one

Spaniardes held him by his armes, who also were arrayned and cast, but after pardoned by the Queene." The entries of executions in Mary's reign are numerous, sample out of many: "Saturday, 27 Junii (1556), were 13 persons carried from Newgate in three cartes to the end of the towne of Stratford the Bowe and there brent."

and business-like as a ledger account.

Tales, Poetry, and Fairy Tales, by Walter Brown, recommends itself by the author and publisher illustrating his book by a few of Bewick's woodcuts. -From the Oxford University Press (Frowde) we have, in a single volume, "The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the Use of the Church of England. Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, printed as they are to be said or sung in Churches, and the Form and Manner of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons." Bound up with this are the Old and New Testaments. The compact whole is in two columns; the type small, but clear.

The Theban Trilogy of Sophocles. With Copious Explanatory Notes for the Use of Elementary Students. By the Rev. W. Linwood, M. A. (Longmans & Co.) ADMIRABLY edited in every respect. The student has just enough help afforded him as may serve for encouragement to help himself. Of old the learner was often left with scanty aid, or none at all. Now, there is some danger of going to the other extreme. Mr. Linwood has adopted the happy medium. Moreover, the volume is so neatly got up that a student, on opening it, might find pleasure in the perusal of its attractive pages.

WE have received Corn and Choff, or Double Acrostics (B. M. Pickering),-The Public Ledger Almanac, kindly sent to us by Mr. Childs of Philadelphia.-The Genea logist, No. 16, edited by Dr. Marshall,-The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, No. 125, -Journal of the National Indian Association,-and English Mystics of the Puritan Period, a reprint from the New Englander of an article by R. E. Thompson (Univ. Pennsylv.).

UNIVERSAL CATALOGUE OF PRINTED BOOKS.-The Prince of Wales, President of the Society of Arts, having referred to the Council the subject of the cost of producing a Universal Catalogue of all Books printed in the United Kingdom up to the year 1600, the Council, to enable them to report to their President, will feel greatly obliged if librarians, publishers, and printers will kindly give replies to the following questions. and return them answered to the Secretary, P. Le Neve Foster, Esq., John Street, Adelphi, London, on or before February 15:1. As it is proposed to issue the catalogue in sections, do you approve of dividing the catalogue into periods, say, of fifty years? If not, please say what other periods you recommend. 2. Do you approve of the size of the proposed page and type? If not, what do you suggest? 3. Would you be willing to attend a meeting of the Council, and give explanations of your views generally on the subject? A specimen of the proposed catalogue may be seen at the Society of Arts', Adelphi, between the hours of 10 and 4, or a copy will be sent for inspection, to be returned.

THE Scotish Literary Club, instituted for the reprinting of rare, curious, and remarkable works pertaining to Scotland, has issued as its volume for 1877 the works of Adam Petrie, "the Scotish Chesterfield," viz. :-1. Rules of Good Deportment, or of Good Breeding. For the Use of Youth. 1720.-2. Rules of Good Deportment for Church Officers; or, Friendly Advices to Them. 1730. Now first collected.

THE Diploma Galleries of the Royal Academy, containing the works deposited by members on their election as Academicians, and other works the property of the Academy (including the Gibson Sculpture), are now open free to the public, from 11 to 4 daily, Sundays excepted.

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of York's company, who first translated Molière's Tartufe, undertook the work for the purpose of ridiculing the Catholic, and was arrested in November, 1678. on a French Huguenots. Medbourne was a zealous Roman charge of being concerned in the Popish Plot. He died in Newgate in the following March. Molière's original comedy satirized hypocritical human nature. Medbourne adapted it to calumniate an adverse religious party. Cibber used it in his Nonjuror (1717) to cast obloquy on an antagonistic political faction; and Bickerstaff, who had no religion at all, readjusted the piece in his Hypocrite (1768) in order to caricature those Dissenters who thought nobody religious but themselves.

JUNIOR GARRICK-Medbourne, the actor in the Duke

F. DE H. L. (Madras.)-The Parliamentary History of England, 1806-20, as well as the series of the Parlia mentary Debates (Hansards), give lists of the members of the House of Commons from a very early period down to the last Parliament of the current reign. The lists are prefixed to each new Parliament. Another list, from 33 Henry VIII, 1542, to 12 Charles II., 1660, arranged in Parliaments, is printed in Willis's Notitia Parliamentaria, vol. iii. pt. ii. Beatson's Chronological Register, 3 vols. 8vo., gives the members of both Houses from 1708 to 1807.

DOUBLE X. Mrs. Southey, in 1834, published Olympia Morata and her Times. In 1851, M. Jules Bonnet published his Vie d'Olympia Morata, Episode de la Renaissance et de la Reforme en Italie. In the latter work the story that Olympia had been a professor at Heidelberg was proved to be without foundation.

MR. H. GAUSSERON (2, Bath Place, Ayr) thinks he can give useful information about anti-Popery hymns and songs to ACTON WEST if the latter will send him his address.

HORATIO.-Always glad to hear from you. We will act on your suggestion by printing the comments in small type.

VINCENT S. LEAN.-"Cold pudding will settle your love." See " N. & Q.," 1" 8. v. 30, 189.

F. RULE. We shall be happy to forward to K. N. (5th S. viii. 289) the translation.

T. L.-The name of the Russian general responsible for the slaughter of the Turcoman men, women, and children is given in Burnaby's Ride to Khiva.

doubtless, be procured of any publisher of children's S. W.-The rhymes on the kings of England can,

books.

WM. FREELOVE.-Has the account been published before?

REV. W. ROTHERHAM should write to MR. J. A. C. VINCENT. We shall be happy to forward a letter to that gentleman.

GEO. GASCOYNE.-See 5th S. vii. 206, under "A Strange Descent."

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