86 



NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[2°d S. VII. Jan. 29. '59. 



some of his political projects whidi in his waking mo- 

 ments sorely puzzled him." — P. 271. 



Sir J. Herschel is said to have composed the 

 following lines in a dream : — 

 " Throw thyself on thy God, nor mock him with feeble 

 denial ; 

 Sure of his love, and oh ! sure of his mercy at last ; 

 Bitter and deep though the draught, yet drain thou 

 the cup of thy trial, 

 And in its healing effect, smile at the bitterness 

 past." 



Goethe says in his Memoirs (London, 1824) : — 



" The objects which had occupied my attention during 

 the day often reappeared at night in connected dreams. 

 On awakening, a new composition, or a portion of one I 

 had already commenced, presented itself to my mind. In 

 the morning I was accustomed to record my ideas on 

 paper."— P. 126. 



Coleridge composed his poem of the Abyssinian 

 Maid during a dream. Something analogous to 

 this is what Lord! Cockburn says in his Life of 

 Lord Jeffrey,, vol. i. p. 243. note : — 



" He (Lord Jeffrey) had a fancy that though he went 

 to bed with his head stuffed with the names, dates, and 

 other details of various causes, they were all in order in 

 the morning; which he accounted for by saj'ing that 

 during sleep, ' they all crystallised rottnd their proper 

 centres.' " 



EXUL. 



The Qveen of Prussia. — The "Times Corre- 

 spondent" fi^ora Rome states that the Queen of 

 Prussia, now at Rome, is the daughter of the late 

 King of Bavaria, Maximilian (who abdicated). 

 This statement is. untrue. Her Majesty is daugh- 

 ter to the late King of Saxony, sister to the ab- 

 dicated Queen of Bavaria, to the Archduchess 

 Sophia, who is mother to the Emperor of Austria, 

 and to the Princess John of Saxony. The Roman 

 correspondent also asserts that the Queen of 

 Prussia renounced the Catholic faith on her mar- 

 riage, and embraced the evangelical faith. That 

 assertion is also erroneous ; at least, not publicly 

 known. Could any of your correspondents say 

 if it be true ? M. G. 



The English Language Abroad. — We are con- 

 stantly hearing of the universal character of the 

 French language, as being the most generally dif- 

 fused and understood throughout the civilised 

 world. With the means at the command of the 

 British government, through the agencies of 

 trade, commerce, and colonies, in all parts of the 

 globe, it is not sufficient to leave our language 

 to win its way through these alone : schools of 

 instruction and universities ought to be founded, 

 with professors of the English language and lite- 

 rature attached to them, wherever our influence 

 extends ; or where it becomes of importance that 

 facilities should be afforded for other tribes or 

 nations — civilised or uncivilised — to acquire a 

 thorough knowledge of English. In a polytechnic 

 school at Teheran, the capital of Persia, we are 



boastfully told that the French language is taught. 

 Can any of your readers state whether the Eng- 

 lish language is also taught in the same school, 

 which appears to be a kind of governmental esta- 

 blishment ? Native Tongue. 



Clerical Baronets. — Some time since a list of 

 Clerical Peers was published in " N. & Q." Per- 

 haps the following list of Clerical Baronets at 

 present existing in England, with the dates of the 

 creation of the title, and the succession of the 

 present occupants, may not be unacceptable to 

 some of your readers : — 



Baronets in Holy Orders. 



Names. Creation. Succession. 



Boothby, Brooke W. R. - - 1660 1846 



Borrowes, Erasmus D. - - 1645 1834 



Carraichael, W. H. - - - 1628 1855 



Chinnery, Nicholas - - . 1799 1840 



Clarke, Charles - - - 1831 1857 



Colt, E. H. V. - - - - 1693 1849 



Cope, W. H. - - - - 1611 1857 • 



Craufurd, G. W. - - - 1781 1839 



Darell, W. L. - - - - 1795 1853 



Dunbar, VVm. - - - - 1697 1813 



Farnaby, Charles - - - 1726 1802 



Foulis, Henry - - - - 1619 1845 



Glyn, Geo. L. - - - - 1759 1840 



Hardinge, Charles - - - ISOI 1826 



Kemp, W. R. - - - - 1641 1804 



King, J. W. - - - - 1821 1838 



Langrishe, H. R. - - - 1775 1842 



Lighten, C. R. - - - - 1791 1844 



Macartney, W. J. - - - 1799 1812 



Macgregor, Chas. - - - 1828 1846 



Mahon, W. V. R. - - - 1819 1852 



Mill, J. B. - - - - 1836 created. 



Miller, Thomas - - - 1705 1816 



Molesworth, H. H. - - - 1688 1855 



Moncrieff, H. - - - - 1626 1851 



Newport, John . . - 1789 1843 



Ouseley, F. A. G. - - - 1808 1844 



Perring, Philip - - - 1808 1843 



Phillipps, James E. - - - 1621 1857 



Prevost, George . . - 1805 1816 



Robinson, G. S. - - - 1660 1833 



Salisbury, C. J. - - - 1795 1835 



Seymour, J. H. C. - - - 1809 1834 



Stapleton, Hon. F. J. - - - 1679 1831 



Thompson, Henry - - - 1797 1826 



Walsh, H. H. J. - - - 1777 1848 



WiUiams, Erasmus H. G. - - 1815 1843 



Wood, J. P. - - - - 1837 1843. 



Thirty-eight in all. The titles of thirteen bear 

 date previous to 1700. A. T. L. 



PORTRAIT AT BROXBOUBNBURT. 



Impannelled in the wainscot of one of the prin- 

 cipal rooms at Broxbournbury there remained, 

 till lately, a portrait of a young man in the cos- 

 tume of the beginning of the seventeenth century, 

 with ruff, embroidered jerkin, enormous trunk- 

 breeches, large cloak, and a scarf worn obliquely 



