Nov. 24. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



411 



of the adventurous story of his being obliged to 

 fly from iiis native country on account of his re- 

 ligion, lie was a native of the Crimen, not of 

 the Caucasus ; and, unless my memory deceives 

 me, his widow was alive in the Crimea, respected 

 by all, about twenty years ago. Ilis marriage 

 with Miss Neilson excited a strong sensation in 

 Edinburgh at the time, but it was much the same 

 kind of sensation that would have been excited 

 Lad the lady married an Esquimaux or Negro. 



The sultan, though next heir to the Ottoman 

 throne, had the present line become extinct, was 

 petted in the evangelical circles, but still looked 

 upon as of an inferior race. His marriage made 

 no change in his reception in society. Miss Neil- 

 son was pitied as a silly girl, who had lost caste 

 for the childish vanity of being called sultana. I 

 believe the imputation was unjust, that the mar- 

 riage was the result of sincere esteem and affection 

 on both sides, and that it was a happy one. The 

 last time I saw the sultan and his bride was at a 

 dejeuner in Dumfries, which they visited on a tour 

 they made before leaving the country. When the 

 ])arty was about to break up, the sultan rose and 

 addressed the misti-ess of the house with emotion, 

 but his words were unlucky : " Madam, may the 

 Lord pickle you ! " He had not studied the vo- 

 cabulai-y of the pastrycook sufficiently to know 

 the difference between pickles and preserves ; he 

 poured the vinegar instead of sweets on the head 

 of the good lady. M. R. 



CAINBRIDGE, CARDINAI. ARCHBISHOP OF YORK. 



(Vol. xii., p. 273.) 



Perhaps some of your readers may like to 

 have some account of the tomb of this great 

 Prelate. His tomb is now in the cloister of (he 

 English College at Rome. The church of the 

 English College was destroyed during the first 

 French Revolution. Some monuments were pre- 

 served. And in 1833, Cardinal Wiseman, then 

 rector of the English College, efTected a restora- 

 tion, which is thus described on a tablet there : 



" Vetusta monumenta 



Hospitii et Collegii Angloruin 



Qu« post vices temporum supererant 



NicoLAus WisEMAx, Rector, 



Restituenda, et in luinc locum colligenda 



curavit. 



A. 3I.UCCC.XXXIII." 



Of these monuments, Cardinal 13ainbridge's is 

 the most conspicuou'S. It is on the left hand as 

 you enter the gate of the college, which admits 

 you immediately into the cloister. The figure of 

 the cardinal, of the size of life, lies on a white 

 marble slab, raised like the slab of an altar tomb. 

 He is in his chasuble, and has his gloves on his 

 hands. The chasuble is of the ancient shape, with 



No. 317.] 



a very fine " I. H. S." on the breast. Under his 

 head are two cushions. The inscription is on a 

 roll at his feet : 



" D. O. M. 



Christophero Arcliiep : Eboraceii : 



S. Praxed : Presb : Cardinal! Anglie 



A Julio II. Pont : Max : ob egregiam 



operam S. R. E. prajstitam, dum svi 



Regis legatvs esset, assvmpto, 



qvam mox et domi et foris castris 



Pontificiis prefect : tvtatvs est. 



Obiit Prid. Id. Jul. A. Sal. 



3I.D.XIIII." 



Under the verge of the slab, on the lefo hand of 

 the Archbishop, in a carved circular wreath of 

 leaves and berries, are these arms : quarterly, 

 1 and 4, two battle-axe^, and on a chief as many 

 mullets; 2 and 3, a squirrel sejant cracking a nut. 

 The Archbishop's cross is behind the achieve- 

 ment ; and tassels remain, as if once attached to a 

 hat, now gone. These arms are repeated at the 

 right side, and at the feet. Under the verge, at 

 the heild, in a wreath like the other, are the royal 

 arms : 1 and 4, France ; 2 and 3, England. Dex- 

 ter supporter, a dragon Avith two legs and curled 

 tail ; sinister, a greyhound collared. No colour 

 is given in any of the coats. I made my memo- 

 randa, from which I compile this Note, in 1847, 

 on the spot. D. P. 



Begbrook. 



PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRE8PONDBRCE. 



Preparation of Gun Cotton for Collodion. — M. Dela- 

 haye lias communjcated to the Societe Frangaise de Pho- 

 tographie a method he employs for obtaining invariably 

 gun cotton for collodion wliich is perfectly soluble, lie 

 immerses the cotton, immediately on its being removed 

 from the mixture of nitrate of potash and sulphuric acid, 

 in monohydrated nitric acid of 48 degrees. The im- 

 mersion must be as complete as rapid ; as the cotton 

 cannot remain in the nitric acid without undergoing 

 some moditication, it must be instantly removed and 

 thrown into the washing trough. In this operation 

 M. Delahaye prefers distilled water, in order to avoid the 

 saline substances contahied in ordinary water, which 

 always interfere with the collodion. 



M. Delahaye bases his process upon this principle, that 

 it is impossible, on a large scale, to make' a gun cotton 

 which shall be perfectly soluble, by immersing the cotton 

 in the usual manner, as the whole of it cannot fix such 

 an amount of nitric acid as to form the compound C 24 

 H 17 O 17, 5 N" 0:„ the formula necessary to give a 

 perfect collodion. 



diortiiari/ Photographs (Vol. xii., p. 370.). — Perhaps 

 the use of photography in its application to the copying 

 of mortuary memorials is more " general!}' known " than 

 X. believes it to be. I have met with many specimens 

 similar to those of which he speaks. But, I would here 

 particularise the very interesting calotypes of that corner 

 of Grasmere Churchyard, in which is a blue headstone, 

 inscribed " William Wordsworth," and surrounded by 

 gravestones, on Avhich arc the names of Dora Quillinan, 

 and other members of the poet's family, together with the 

 gravestone of Hartley Coleridge. This family group of 



