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lead, and very heavy, were found iriucli flistiirbed. In 

 1816, a Mr. Brewster's body was placed ih the vaiilt, and 

 again great disorder was apparent amotig the cOfiins. In 

 1819, a Mr. Qiarke was placed in the vault; and, as bei- 

 fore, the coflSns were in confusion. Each time that the 

 vault was opened, tiie cOfflns Were replaced in their proper 

 situations : that is, three on the ground, side by sidfe, arid 

 the others laid on them. The vault was then regularly 

 closed ; the door (a massive stonej which required six or 

 seven men to move) was cemented by masons; and 

 though the floor was (^j^nd, there were no marks of 

 footsteps or water; Again the vattilt was opefted in 1819. 

 Lord Combermere was then present; and the cofHnswere 

 found thrown confusedly about the vault — some with 

 the heads down, and others up. ' What could have occa- 

 sioned this phenomenon ? In no other vault in the island 

 has this ever occurred. Was it an earthquake which oc- 

 casioned it, or the effects of an inundation in the vault? ' 

 These were the questions asked by a Barbadoes journal at 

 the time, and no one eoald afford a solution. 



"The matter gradually died away, until the present 

 year, when, on the 16th of February, the vault was again 

 opened^ and all the coffins were found thro-kn about as 

 confusedly as before. A strict investigation took place, 

 and no cause could be discovered. Was it, after all, that 

 the sudden bursting forth of noxious gas froiii one of the 

 coffins could have produced the phenomena ? If so, it is 

 against all former experience; The vault has been her- 

 metically sealed again -^ ■♦rhen tO be re-opened tfre caiJliot 

 tell. 



" In England there was a parallel occurrence to this, 

 some years ago, at Hauntou in Suffolk. It is stated, that 

 6n opening a vault there, several Jeaderi coffins, with 

 wooden cases, which had been fixed on biers, were fouftd 

 displaced, to the great consterflatiOii of thfe villagef-s. The 

 coffins were again placed as before, aild the vault propferly 

 closed, when again another of the family dyihg, they 

 were a second time found displaced ; and tWo years after 

 that, they wet'e not only fbtJnd atU off their bifers^ btit olie 

 coffin (so heavy as to rfeqiiirfe eight mfen td raise it) was 

 found on the fourth step which Ifed dd^n to the vaults, 

 and it seemed perfectly certain that no human htod bm 

 done this." 



WiiiiiAM Bates. 



Blrmingiiaih. 



QtJI8QUIX.IN-5! I.ITERARI>5E LONDINENSES. 



Under this name, an unique and extraordinary 

 collection has been hete Idtely fotmed. Its ra- 

 tionale ■rtras thd followiiig : — Siiice the year 1838, 

 England has gone through a number of political 

 and soeietary revulsions, which in some cases 

 assumed an important charactel-— ^for instahoe, the 

 storming of the soldiers' station at MoinraOuth ; the 

 extempore procession of 40,000 London prolitaires 

 in the night of June 29^ 1848. These and sittiilar 

 facts implied an analogous motion and convulsion 

 ot the public mind : this again became typified 

 and pourtrayed in a niimbeir of flying leaves, pam- 

 phlets^ and journals, all of the same fepheiiieral 

 character as the deeds to t^hlfch they led hitherto. 

 Still, they iiil ^ISO fdrtn 



"Ihe very age and body of the tlme< his form and 

 pressure." 



Hence, therefore) it had seettied advisable tb 

 c&llect tbtise strafige rriemeritos of the titae, other- 



wise irretrievably lost. Evrfen the titles 6f sbihe of 

 them are remarkable : The Atheist and RepuhUcan ! 

 a penny periodical, the few numbers of which 

 were probably published by some deluded journey- 

 man who thought that he had discovered these 

 mystic words of histttry. The late W. Hethering- 

 ton (formerly of the Strand) delighted in such 

 deep issues, by which also he became a bankrupt. 

 The number of Social {Owenite) and Chartist piib- 

 licatioiis and leaves is legion— ; all which seemed 

 to be built on sand. To say at least 100,000Z. 

 must have been spent in 1839 seqq. in journals like 

 The Working Mans Friend, The Charter, Sfc. ; 

 some of which, like The London Dispatch, were 

 large weeklies, in folio. The late line of policy of 

 not prosecuting such publications has done then! 

 a deal of harm ; and some of them contain pas- 

 sages which we would not venture to reprint here. 

 On an equally untenable foundation rest the anti^ 

 religious, atheistic publications of that period — - 

 The 07'acles of Reason — which only establish the 

 fact, that in a huge community every creed and 

 sentiment will have its abettors, and therefore 

 organs; The collection also contains specimens 

 of all sorts of exploded journals and periodicals, a 

 great many in numbers (!) ; data, however, for 

 the histoty of the periodical press of England at 

 that time. Although I have given to the eollectiori 

 a bud name, yet the Quisquilince Literariee Lon- 

 dinenses will be a fertile source for the searchers 

 into the mind of the English and Londoti people 

 at the period referred to ; in fine, whatever might 

 have been right in those exertions, will expaiid in 

 future, according to the axiom of the younger 

 Coleridge : 



" Whatever is to be — is." . , . 



Dr< 3. Lotskt; 

 i§. Qower Street, London. 



P;S;-^A collection of the Vienna Revolutiori 

 prints of 1848 and 1849, containing some very 

 scarce street lampoons, has been purchased by the 

 Berlin Library. 



^itAj bt fttcflAftfi illflGAfeD. 



The following will may probably be initeresting 

 to some of the readers of "N. & Q." Tbe tes- 

 tator was a rhan of learning and reputation, and 

 his testameht is an extremely curious documents 

 It was proved in the Registry at York. 



•' tteiidihSAiUid Richdrdi Lingard nuper de Rismore in 

 regno Hwernia. 



" The plate alid furniture of the Chamber, and six scofe 

 poufids in money, aS itt becomes due, 1 bequeath to my 

 sistet; sind the rerhnant of that I bequeath to myselfe. 

 For the recovery of my right 1 appoint Captaine Nicliolas, 

 Sir Francis Brewstef. 1 desire to be buried where the 

 parish of St. Andrewe's sdall appoint. I desire the hun- 

 dred pounds lyeing in the hands of Sir Francis Brewster 

 to be left in the hands of the exectitOTs 6f -WnOme hee 



