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disastrous, yet it is difficult to see what object 

 Pascal could have had in illustrating his case in 

 the enigmatical form alluded to. In my opinion 

 the Edinburgh English translator of 1751 took 

 the plain common sense view of the passage, and 

 that we have yet the historical personage to dis- 

 cover whom Pascal had in his eye. G. N. 



PoniatowsU Gems (2°'i S. i. 471.; ii. 19.) — 

 The Explanatory Catalogue of the Proof-Impres- 

 sions of the Antique Gems possessed by the late 

 Prince Poniatowski, and afterwards in the possession 

 of John Tyrrell, Esq., was published, in 4to., by 

 Graves and Co., Pall Mall, in 1841. The volume 

 is dedicated by Mr. Tyrrell to Prince Albert, and 

 is " accompanied with Descriptions and Poetical 

 Illustrations of the subjects, and preceded by an 

 Essay on Ancient Gems and Gem Engraving, by 

 James Prendeville, A.B., editor of Livy, Paradise 

 Lost, &c." There is also Catalogue des Pierres 

 Gravies Antiques de S. A, le Prince Stanislas Po- 

 niatowski, privately printed by the Prince, at Flo- 

 rence, in 4to., and upon this the English catalogue 

 was founded. My copy of the French catalogue 

 has no date. 



Further information may be obtained from a 

 pamphlet entitled Remarks exposing the unwoi'thy 

 Motives and fallacious Opinions of the Writer of 

 the Critiques on the Poniatowski Collection of Gems, 

 contained in " The British and Foreign Review " 

 and " The Spectator,''' published by Graves & Co., 

 and Smith, Elder, & Co., 1842. S. W. Ilix. 



Beccles. 



Posies on simple heavy Gold Rings (1" S. xii. 

 113., &c.) — 



" God did decree, this unitie." 



" Where hearts agree, there God will be." 



" I have obtained, whom God ordained." 



Copied from originals. S. R. P. 



Sleep the Friend of Woe (2"-^ S. ii. 11.).— The 

 lines which Ertca asks for are from Southey's 

 Curse of Kehama, canto xv., the city of Baly, 

 stanza 11. It begins, — 



" Be of good heart, and let thj' sleep be sweet." 

 Laduvlad said, — 



" Alas ! that cannot be," &c. &c. 



And then comes 



" Thou hast been called, Sleep, the friend of woe ; 

 But 'tis the happy who have called thee so." 



J. C. J.* 



Medal of Charles I. (2°^ S. ii. 28.) — There are 

 several medals of various sizes which have the 

 head of Charles I. on one side, and that of his 

 queen on the other. They were all probably 



[* We are also indebted to Mr. De la Pryme and 

 . other correspondents for similar replies.] 



worn as badges of loyalty by his friends and par- 

 tisans, but I am not aware of any one of the va- 

 rieties said to have been made out of the plate 

 melted up for the king's service. It is probable 

 that none were made of such materials, as melted 

 plate would be applied to money of necessity, not 

 to medals of comparative luxury. Rings, or 

 rather holes, are at the sides and ends of many of 

 these medals, from whence to suspend small orna- 

 ments. It would not be convenient to sew upon 

 a coat or hat a medal having a device on both 

 sides ; these medals were suspended from a ribbon 

 or chain. I have one with the silver chain still 

 attached to it. Edw. Hawkins. 



Major- General {?) Thomas Stanwix (2"'' S. i. 

 511.) — This officer died March 14, 1725, Colonel 

 of the present 12th regiment of infantry. He 

 never attained the rank of major-general, and was 

 appointed colonel of the 12th regiment, August 25, 

 1717, about the time of the royal visit to Cam- 

 bridge. He was appointed coh)nel of the 30th 

 regiment, previously Willis's Marines, July 17, 

 1737, but was transferred to the 12th regiment in 

 the following month, as above stated. G. L. S. 



Conservative Club. 



" Tantum Ergo" the Eucharistic Hymn (2"'^ S. 

 ii. 13.) — Will you kindly allow me to give a 

 somewhat fuller answer to your correspondent 

 Ein Frager than you have done ? " Tantum 

 ergo " is not a psalm at all, and could not have 

 been chanted as such at Rathmines. It is a hymn 

 of the Holy Roman Church, and is appointed to be 

 sung after the mass on Maundy Thursday, and is 

 ordinarily used at Benediction of the Most Holy 

 Sacrament, and also in Processions of the Most 

 Holy. As I think accuracy most important in all 

 matters of this nature, I trust you will give in- 

 sertion to this communication. Catholicus. 



Kennington, near Oxford. 



Bottles filled, 8fc. (2"<^ S. i. 493.)— I have 

 several times seen this experiment tried, and, if 

 my memory serve me right, invariably with the 

 same results. 



The bottle being tightly corked, a strong piece 

 of sail-cloth was placed as a cap over the cork, 

 and this was firmly secured by a lashing round 

 the neck. I do not remember the depth to which 

 it was sunk, but on being drawn up the bottle was 

 always filled, and still corked ; the cork, however, 

 was reversed, the small end being uppermost. 



A. C. M. 



Exeter. 



Leverets with a White Star (P' S. xi. 41. 111.) 

 — I have always understood tliat the white star 

 in the forehead indicated the male sex, the buck 

 of the leveret, and that it disappears in the course 

 of the first j; ear. Henky Stkpheks. 



