de-lis of the second (az.); in base an open book with three seals ppr., on the leaves the words "Ora et labora."

Nelson, N.Z., See of.-Or, a Calvary cross az., on a canton of second three mullets of six points arg. (Assumed 1867.)

New South Wales, Colony of.-Badge or emblem, corn stalks or wheat.

Perth, W.A., See of.-Az., two crosiers in saltire arg., crooks or, between four mullets pierced and radiated or.

Richmond, Vict., Town of.-No arms. Motto, Famam extendere factis.

spondence and Table-Talk of B. R. Haydon (Chatto & Windus, 1876) in reference to an application from the painter for employment made in 1830. In the account (Corr. and Table-Talk, Memoir, pp. 154, 155) of the correspondence in that year between Haydon and the Premier, on the public encouragement of historical painting in England, it is stated (p. 155) that "Haydon replied " (to the duke's letter of October 12, 1830) on the 14th, in a sad letter, that lays open to us the condition of his mind. He describes his life and labours and his actual position to the duke. Then he adds: "This perpetual pauperism will in the end destroy my mind. I look around for help with a feeling of despair that is quite dreadful."" The editor continues to quote the remainder of this "sad letter" (and truly sad it is), not, however, adhering to the words of the copy preserved in Haydon's MS. Journal, which is undated. He goes on: "The duke, I regret to say, never replied. PerSandhurst, R.C. See of.-Arg., a Bible sup-haps, as he sat behind his iron blinds, he felt a porting a crosier in bend sinister, surmounted by certain touch of scorn for the man who could make a heart emitting flames, pierced from behind by a such a fuss over being starved," and adds a footbarbed arrow in bend dexter, all ppr. (Assumed note illustrative of the duke's love of "little gains," 1874.) and good bargains, and of his dislike to parting with his money.

Sandhurst, Vict., City of.-Arg., quarterly 1,.... in bend; 2, spade and pick, head upwards, in saltire; 3, garb; 4, a bunch of grapes, stalked and leaved; all ppr. Crest, Out of a mural crown or, a flagstaff, the flag therefrom charged with five stars. Supporters-D., a horse; S., a bull. Motto, Progress.

Sandridge, Vict., Borough of.-Quarterly, gu. and arg. 1, a beehive; 2, woolpack; 3, a kangaroo sejant erect; 4, a cabled anchor in bend. Crest, A ship in full sail on waves of sea ppr. Supporters-Two sailors, the dexter holding a cutlass and the sinister an oar, blade upwards, ppr. Motto, Post tot procellas portum.

Stawell, Vict., Borough of.-Motto, By industry. Sydney, N.S.W., See of.-Az., four mullets of eight points in cross arg.

Sydney, N.S.W., University of.-Arg., on a cross az. an open book between four eight-pointed mullets arg., and on a chief gu. a lion passant gardant or. Motto, Sidere mens eadem mutato.

Now if Mr. F. W. Haydon had examined his father's journal, not to say with care, but even in the most ordinary way, he would have found that as this "sad letter" was addressed to the duke of Bedford, and not to the Duke of Wellington, all his own fine writing about the Field-Marshal's "iron blinds," contempt for the "fuss" made by Haydon "over being starved," love of money, and all the rest of it, was utterly out of place. Mr. Tom Taylor has published the letter (Life, 2nd ed. vol. ii. p. 288), and dates it October 14. Though he does not give the name of the duke to whom it was addressed, he does not imply that it was Tasmania, See of.-Az., a crosier in bend dexter written to the Duke of Wellington, who was, by surmounting a key in bend sinister or, between the way, remarkably scrupulous in replying to four mullets of eight points arg. (Assumed ante communications made to him, even of the most 1847.) trivial character. Mr. F. W. Haydon has himself Victoria, Colony of.-Az., five stars, represent-printed the correspondence between the duke and ing the constellation of the Southern Cross, arg. (see Gov. Gazette, March 26, 1877, p. 629). The top mullet has seven points, the left-hand eight, the bottom nine, the right-hand six, and the intermediate five points. Badge, Five white stars, representing the Southern Cross, as in the arms (see Gov. Gazette, Feb. 3, 1870, p. 225).

Western Australia, Colony of.-Arg., a swan sable, beaked and membered gu., swimming in water ppr. (Assumed ante 1858.) Badge, A swan, as in the arms. JAS. SIM. Melbourne, Victoria.

HAYDON'S ALLEGED APPLICATION TO THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON IN 1830 FOR EMPLOYMENT. -A strange blunder has been made in the Corre

the painter on the public question in his second volume (pp. 225-7), and has there given his father's answer to the duke's letter of Oct. 12, 1830. Though dated, as the editor of the Correspondence and Table-Talk has dated the "sad letter," on the 14th of that month, it deals, not with Haydon's necessities, but with the duke's arguments (in his letter of the 12th) against the possibility of encouraging historical painting in England by a grant of public money. In the memoir (p. 155) we are informed that "in a few days"- -a few days, that is, after the "sad letter" of Oct. 14, 1830'Haydon appealed again to the duke for public employment and received for answer an assurance that Haydon's 'own good sense must point out how impossible' it was for the duke to comply with

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the request." This appeal to Haydon's "own good
sense is made in the duke's answer, dated
Oct. 15, to Haydon's letter to him of the 14th, and
not in his answer to a letter from Haydon of “ a
few days" after that date (Corr. and Table-Talk,
vol. ii. p. 227). It is not very easy to see, in fact,
how a letter written on the 15th of a month could
well have been a reply to a letter dated a few
days after" the 14th.
H. S.

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MR. NICHOLLS: CHARLOTTE BRONTË.-I have lately read for the second or third time the Life of Charlotte Brontë by Mrs. Gaskell. Few books are so interesting or so melancholy. Great original genius oppressed by sickness, domestic misfortunes, and poverty fully illustrated the sentiment of Juvenal:

“Haud facile emergunt, quorum virtutibus obstat Res angusta domi."

However, Currer Bell rose superior to all.

of our clergy. My uncle saw the young man's ability, and took great pains to teach him, but he (Mr. Brontë) never taught my cousins anything. Mrs. Gaskell tells us Mr. Brontë entered St. John's College, Cambridge, in July, 1802. I suppose Mr. Tighe thought him unable to get a sizarship in Trinity College, Dublin, which till lately depended on classics. I should like to know something of his entrance and degree. He was probably a good mathematician, and was advised to seek a place where mathematics were more appreciated. H.

TENNYSON AND WASHINGTON IRVING.-I gather from the many parallel passages cited in "N. & Q." that I am by no means singular in feeling a strong interest in such matters. It is, perhaps, rather a contrast than a parallel to which, with your permission, I draw attention. Washington Irving's "Pride of the Village," in his Sketch Book, has for its backbone the pathetic story of a blasted life My object is at present to correct some mistakes and a broken heart, but it is just possible that it as to the Rev. Patrick Brontë, incumbent of may have afforded to our sweet singer the sugHaworth. The author states that he was tutor ingestion for his exquisite May Queen, inasmuch as the family of the Rev. Mr. Tighe. This is a mistake. The Rev. Thomas Tighe was rector of Drumgooland and Drumballyroney in the county of Down. He was my grand-uncle, and from his son, who was one of the best friends I ever had, I have heard the facts which I now state.

I remember my uncle's establishment, Parson's Hill, near Castle Wellan. Though his elder brother could return either two or three members to the Irish Parliament, my uncle lived in a cottage not as good as the residence of a gentleman's steward. A parlour and two bedrooms, a kitchen and servants' room, and a housekeeper's room formed the whole house. Mr. Tighe was most hospitable. I have been with him as a child, along with my father and mother. I suppose he sent his sons to some farmhouse to make room for us. I have been told he used to have clerical meetings at his house, and to lay down mattresses in the parlour for his guests as on board ship. He lived several miles from any town. One of his curates was the Rev. Benjamin Williams Mathias, afterwards the most popular preacher in Dublin. He had very fine offices, including a room fitted up for a study. He bought the property intending to build, but his wife died young, and he continued to live in the original cottage. He was looked upon as a patriarch in the country, and is still remembered. I mention these facts to show the style in which some of our gentry lived in Ireland during the last century. Tighe died just after the king's visit in 1821. His son told me that he remembered Mr. Bronte well. He was a child when Mr. Brontë was a young man. He was then known as Paddy Prunty, and had a school in one of his father's parishes. I remember some such schools, just emerging from hedge schools, and taken up by the more diligent

Mr.

Irving's Pride of the Village was also Queen of the May, "crowned with flowers, and blushing and smiling in all the beautiful confusion of girlish diffidence and delight." And then in a later scene we see her wasted and hectic. "She felt a conviction that she was hastening to the tomb, but looked forward to it as a place of rest. The silver cord that had bound her to existence was loosed, and there seemed to be no more pleasure under

the sun."

Our May Queen is touched by the sweetness of "all the land about and all the flowers that blow," and Irving's Pride of the Village would "totter to the window, where, propped up in her chair, it was her enjoyment to sit all day and look out upon the landscape." Our May Queen exults in the honeysuckle that "round the porch has woven its wavy bowers," and she is anxious that when she has gone little Effie should "train the and to Irving's Pride of the Village "the soft air rose-bush that she set about the parlour window," that stole in [through the lattice] brought with it the fragrance of the clustering honeysuckle which her own hands had trained round the window." Our May Queen reaches forward to view her grave "just beneath the hawthorn shade," and wills that Effie shall not come to see her till it be "growing green," and in Irving's sketch "evergreens had been planted about the grave of the village favourite, and osiers were bent over it to keep the turf uninjured." The coincidences, at most, are trivial, and the treatment in each case is so distinctive and characteristic that they may well be accidental. D. BARRON BRIGHTWELL.

CABRIOLET CAB.-Those who can look back to the introduction of the hired cabriolet into London will remember that it was a humble copy of the private carriage of that name. It carried

one passenger, who sat beside the driver. Soon this close companionship was found unpleasant, and two persons sat inside, the driver being perched on a sort of outrigger seat, overhanging the off wheel. Next, a closed carriage was invented, in which two persons sat, facing each other, and riding sideways, the door being behind. But it was found that a dishonest passenger could slip out of this carriage unknown to the driver, and the duobus was superseded by the present four-wheeler. "Hansom's patent safety" came into use in 1837 or 1838.

I remember when it was thought vulgar to call a cabriolet a cab. Now the word is recognized English, and is known all over the world; and a servant would stare if he were told to fetch a cabriolet. The original carriage, copied from that in use in France, was introduced among us in 1828 or 1829. I have a very retentive memory for all sorts of rubbish, and can call to mind a comic song of about that date, The Good Old Days of Adam and Eve, which set forth how "In days of yore, when folks got tired,

A backney coach or a chariot was hired; But now along the streets they roll ye In a shay with a kiver called cabriolet." The other day, in reading Macaulay's Life and Letters, I met with an illustration of the transition from the original word to the new one. Macaulay is describing the division on the first Reform Bill, in March, 1831, and tells how, on leaving the House, he "called a cabriolet." Only two months later he tells his sister that he "called a cab, and was whisked away to Hill Street." JAYDEE.

Ata

"April 8, 1879. Having been a month out this day the sailors have a sort of jubilee, called Dead Horse horse of sacking, &c., and put a man dressed up on him. Day, which means that they manufacture an imitation A procession is then formed round the ship, the sailors saying a refrain somewhat as follows: Poor old man! your horse will die; we think so and we hope so.' certain stage in the proceedings the horse falls down black hat is called in, and administers physic-alas, to sick, and a man arrayed in green spectacles and tall no avail, as the poor old horse is very soon pronounced dead. Another man, dressed up, then acts as auctioneer. This used to be done to get the passengers to subscribe a certain sum to bid for it, the horse not being knocked down until a sufficient sum had been offered; but the skipper of this ship would not let us subscribe, as he says it usually produces a good deal of drunkenness. A ration of grog was served out to each man instead. After the horse is sold he and his rider are hauled up to the yardarm, and at a given signal rockets and blue lights are let off, and the horse falls into the sea, the man coming down by the rope on to the deck. To a landsman's eye it looks rather dangerous, as the yard is a good height, and the end where man and horse are suspended is a long way over the side of the vessel. The rider has been known to cut the wrong rope and drop into the sea with the horse."

In the above journal there is no record of any ceremonies connected with crossing the Line. ST. SWITHIN.

KIT'S COTY HOUSE FOLK-LORE.-A belief was

on

current in the neighbourhood of these stones—say in Rochester, &c. some forty-two years ago, that there was Kit's covering stone a basin of water that, ladle it out as you would, could never be emptied. Two of us, curious boys, mounted the flat roof and found, not one basin, but two, or one cavity divided by a septum. A DOG-HOLE AND A DOG'S KENNEL.-In the Commencing on Baconian principles, we carefully History of English Literature, by H. A. Taine, examined these, and the murder soon seemed out. D.C.L., translated by H. Van Laun (Chatto & The septum had a communicating hole below, and Windus), is the following passage: "One Dr. our minds were satisfied with the theory that, not Leighton was imprisoned fifteen weeks in a dog's caring to take the trouble of throwing the water kennel, without fire, roof, bed, and in irons" over the stone, some one had ladled it from one (bk. ii. chap. v.). This is probably a correct trans-basin into the other, with the result, of course, of lation of the French; but in the work from which M. Taine derived his information, Neal's History of the Puritans, vol. ii. ch. vii. p. 367 (see note to Taine, bk. ii. ch. vi.), Dr. Leighton himself makes his petition thus :

everything remaining in statu quo.

Not far off were some scattered stones that never could be counted twice alike; but our belief in the bucolic intellect was shaken, or it may be confirmed, and our half holiday was short.

B. NICHOLSON.

think, have resumed her maiden name. But still
I should like to have positive proof that she was
not the lady in question, and would therefore ask
those of your readers who are better versed than
I am in the peerage whether there was in 1673
another Lady Elizabeth Howard who could have
spoken the above-mentioned prologue.
A. BELJAME.

Paris.

"The wind blaws cauld o'er Dunnet Head,
The snaw dri's snelly thro' the dale,
The gaberlunzie tirls the sneck,
And shivering tells his wa'fu' tale:

My Effie's voice, oh! wow 'tis sweet,
E'en tho' she bans and scaulds a wee;
But when 'tis tuned to sorrow's din,

Oh haith 'tis doubly sweet to me."
Much of it, I am very sorry to say, has escaped
be informed where a copy may be obtained, and
my memory, and I am desirous, if possible, to
shall be greatly obliged by your assistance herein.

H. STRUTT.

AUTHOR WANTED.-Is anything known of the author of the following work? It cannot be very common in this country :

ST. EDMUND'S BURY.-Will any of your correspondents, acquainted with the history of this place, have the goodness to tell me-First, whether there was any nunnery (not monastery) there in the years 1236-43, with details of it if there were? namely, to what order it belonged, the name of the abbess, and the style of architecture. Secondly, whether there is any trace of a residence of Hubert "Select Translations | and | Imitations | from the de Burgh, Earl of Kent? His last wife, Princess French of Marmontell and Gresset. | By an Officer of the Margaret of Scotland, was there on two occasions, Army, who fought for America under Gen. Wolfe | the circumstances of which seem to indicate some-York, | printed for Samuel Campbell, | No. 124, Pearl at the taking of Quebec. | Copyright Secured. | New thing more than a passing visit. I wish to ascer-Street, 1801." tain whether she had a home in this locality, whether she was probably visiting a friend, or whether there was a nunnery at which she might be staying. If probabilities seem to point to the friend, who was that likely to be? I have vainly consulted several books before troubling you.

HERMENTRUde.

BUNN'S 66 LIFE AND RECOLLECTIONS." It is believed that Alfred Bunn published, or printed for private circulation, a book under this or some similar title, although no record of such publication can be found. Did he do so, or did he write any book, autobiographical or otherwise, later than 1845, other than the following, noted in Allibone and the London Catalogue?-"The Stage both before and behind the Curtain," 3 vols., London, 1840; "Old and New England," 2 vols., London, 1853 ? G. W.

BURNS.-Many years ago I lost a copy of Burns's Life, Correspondence, &c., in four volumes, in one of the foot-notes of which were some beautiful verses which had been published anonymously, and were ascribed to him, but he disowned them with very strong expressions of admiration of them. Since then I have examined many editions of Burns and copies of miscellaneous collections of poetry, and made sundry inquiries of his countrymen and admirers after these verses, in vain. They began:

has been noticed a good deal lately. The author It contains the "Ver Vert" of Gresset, which says he has studied the spirit and not the expresof "Laurette" by Marmontel, he has made use of sion of the author. At p. 147, in his translation Shakespearian phraseology :

"A robber and murderer is broke on the wheel, because he takes our gold, which is but trash. And you who ravish from us our good name, our innocence, and peace of mind, jewels that all the wealth of India could enriched yourself; but you have made us poor indeed." not purchase, what is it you deserve? You have not The italics are the translator's. A. H. BATES.

Edgbaston.

the date of the earliest English book containing a BOOKS PUBLISHED BY SUBSCRIPTION.-What is list of subscribers to its publication? ZERO.

PEPPER.-I want a short quotation in verse or prose on the subject of pepper, in Spanish or Eng