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are upwards of five hundred persons in Bristol 

 engaged in the manufacture of tobacco, many of 

 whom are living in some of the worst localities, in 

 a sanitary point of view, that the city can exhibit ; 

 yet during the severe visitations of the cholera in 

 1849 and 1852, only one person out of this num- 

 ber was fatally attacked. Among our own hands, 

 numbering upwards of ninety, we had not a single 

 case, I am quite satisfied too, that, apart from 

 acute disease, the business is not injurious to the 

 duration of life, as lean enumerate nearly twenty 

 persons who have worked in our manufactory for 

 terms varying from twenty-five to fifty years, and 

 who always enjoyed excellent health. Personally, 

 I am quite inclined to M. Ruef's opinion as to 

 the business being a protection against pulmonary 

 disease ; but catarrhs may arise either from the 

 irritation consequent on the dusty process of 

 grinding snuff, or from the damp state of tobacco- 

 leaves during manufacture. I have not, however, 

 noticed the prevalence of colds, &c. beyond the 

 average extent among our hands. 



The fair authoress of the essay quoted by Ma. 

 Bates would have done well to inspect a factory 

 before alluding to its processes, as I have learnt 

 with a good deal of surprise that " the unavoidable 

 inhalation of smoke by workpeople " constitutes 

 a "sphere of manufactory labour!" I always 

 thought that that was a duty belonging more 

 properly to the consumer than to the "manu- 

 facturer. W. H. Wills. 

 Bristol, 



Stamforth Family (Vol. xii., p. 125.). — The 

 name of the " Justic. Com. Banc." in Dugdale's 

 Origines Juridiciales, p. 329., is not Staniford, 

 but Stamford; as the judge is called also by 

 Dyer, Coke, and other reporters. His real name 

 was William Staunford : his father, of the same 

 name, was a mercer in London ; his mother was 



Margaret, daughter and heiress of Gedney, of 



London ; and his grandfather was Robert Staun- 

 ford, of Rowley in Staflbrdshire. The judge 

 married Alice, daughter of John Palmer, Esq., 

 who survived him, and took for her second hus- 

 band Roger Carew, Esq., of Hadley, in Middlesex, 

 m the church of which parish her tomb may now 

 be seen. On it the name is spelled Stamford. If 

 this information should be of any use to K., I 

 shall be glad. Edward Foss. 



Cathedral Registers (Vol. xii., p. 135.). — The 

 woman's statement is literally correct, but the 

 inference, which F. B. R. evidently deduces from 

 it, IS wrong. A part of Chichester Cathedral was 

 tor many years, probably two centuries, built off, 

 or separated from, the cathedral, and used as the 

 parish church of St. Peter the Great. Of course 

 marriages were as regularly performed there as in 

 any other parish church. If F, K. B, desires a 



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certificate of the marriage of his Informant, he 

 must apply to the rector or vicar of St. Peter the 

 Great. They know no more about it at the ca- 

 thedral than of marriages at St. Peter the Less, 

 or at any other of the town parishes. It is only 

 within these three or four years that a separate 

 church has been built for the use of the parish of 

 St. Peter the Great, C. R, 



"Maud" (Vol. xii,, p. 124.). — No wonder 

 W. H. stumbles at the lines of which he desires 

 an explanation, for he not only divorces a reason 

 from its antecedent fact, but misquotes his author. 

 Detractors are first compared to " long-necked 

 geese," and secondly to "poisonous flies." The 

 former " hiss dispraise because their natures are 

 little ; " the latter surround every man's head, 

 " whether he heed (not tried) it or not." 



Now I am on the subject of this magical poem, 

 without any imputation of plagiarism to a poet so 

 transcendently original as Tennyson, I must say 

 that I cannot read Maud without feeling that he 

 has drunk at the fountain of a younger poet. 



Maud, p. 61.: ' 



" Beat happy stars, timing with things below. 

 Beat with my heart more blest than heart can tell." 



Compare the following from Alexander Smith's 

 Life Drama : 



" One life moves in my myriad veins, in fields, in air, in 

 cloudy cars, 

 Blowing under foot in clover, beating over head in 

 stars." 



Maud, p. 52. : 



" Lord of the pulse that is lord of her breast." 



Comp. " Lord of the beating heart," in one of 

 A. Smith's sonnets. C. Mansfield Inglebt. 



Birmingham. 



D' Israelis Sonnet on the Duke of Wellington 

 (Vol. xi., pp. 379. 474.). — Is your correspondent 

 L. (1) quite sure that he has correctly appre- 

 hended the application of the words : 

 " And, conquering Fate, 

 Enfranchise Europe ? " 



The obvious meaning, as I take it, is that Wel- 

 lington, in conquering Napoleon, conquered Fate ; 

 but the sense in which Napoleon may be described 

 as " Fate," is not quite so clear. It is well known 

 that he believed, or affected to believe, that he 

 was destined for some extraordinary career. This 

 impression seems to have taken hold of his imagin- 

 ation after the battle of Lodi. He then formed 

 the design of grasping the French sceptre, and 

 ultimately of aspiring to universal ^ dominion. 

 With those who, like himself, believed in fatalism, 

 he passed for " I'homme du destin ; " with those 

 who put their trust in an all-ruling ]?rovidence, as 

 "I'homme providentiel ;" with all as invincible; 

 and these notions contributed, even more than his 



