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fered in the reign of James I. This I cannot 

 understand. I know no means by which the 

 tenets of Arminius could, according to the law of 

 that time, be made out to be heresy. Is it not a 

 mistake of the printer, who has substituted the 

 word Arminian for Socinian ? K. P. D. E. 



" Henley's wide-moutKd sons" — Where is this 

 line ? Is it Drayton's 'f J. S. Buen. 



Kaul Dereg. — In one of his essays, Goldsmith 

 classes with Robin Hood among the English, and 

 Johnny Armstrong amongst the Scotch, " Kaul 

 Dereg among the Irish." I presume " Dereg " is 

 dearg (or red, i. e. red-headed). But who is the 

 Irish unknown ? H. C. C. 



Long Lane. — Will any of your readers inform 

 me if Long Lane is an ordinary cognomen for 

 long lanes in the country, and if there are any 

 lanes still so called ? There was and still is a 

 Long Lane in London, but what is wanted is the 

 locality of a Long Lane in the country, especially 

 if one can be pointed out in Gloucestershire or 

 Warwickshire. W. S. M. 



The first Discoverer of Gold in Australia. — At 

 my late departure from Sydney I was informed 

 that some twenty-five years ago there had been 

 in the colony a foreign gentleman, who, well sup- 

 plied with mineralogical books and instruments, 

 had explored the country in reference to its 

 mineralogical capabilities. His endeavours, how- 

 ever, did not meet with encouragement, in conse- 

 quence of the rather rude state our country was 

 then in. Still, it is said that some document of 

 his views remains behind, in a rather extensive 

 notice inserted in several of the Sydney papers, 

 about the years 1832 or 1833.- The notice is en- 

 titled, " Australian Mine Exploring Company." 

 In this document some anticipatory allusions to 

 the finding of Gold are said to have been ex- 

 pressed. As I should think that there must be 

 files of the Australian journals of that date, either 

 at Lloyd's or at the Colonial Office, the finding of 

 this document would be interesting. 



A Citizen of the Five Confbdeeated 

 Provinces of Australia. 



Bakers Manuscripts. — In the Preface to Wor- 

 thington's Diary, published in 1847, and edited 

 by James Crossley, Esq., for the Chetham Society, 

 occurs the following note : — 



" The want of a minute and classified Index to the 

 Baker MSS. at Cambridge and in the British Museum 

 has been long felt. It will give great pleasure to all who 

 know how important it is to facilitate the reference to 

 these interesting collections, to learn that such an Index 

 is now in the course of publication at Cambridge." 



Was this separate Index to the Baker MSS. 

 ever published ? May I also ask, whether it is 

 intended to publish an Index to the Rawlinson 

 MSS. in the Bodleian ? J. Y. 



Minav mutviti toftj ^nitoetg, 



" Secrets de Merry." ~1 once possessed an odd 

 volume of an old French work called Secrets de 

 Merry; it contained odd and old receipts in French 

 for all sorts of trades, illnesses, floriculture, &c. 

 It must have been in more than one volume ; and, 

 as far as I remember, was published at Amster- 

 dain in the 17th century. I should be much 

 obliged if any of your readers could afford in- 

 formation relative to the book. A. C. 



[The work is entitled Recueil de Curiositez des plus ad- 

 mirables Effets de la Nature et de VArt, par Nicolas Lemery, 

 in 2 Parts: Paris, 1676, 8vo. The edition noticed by 

 our correspondent is probably the following: Nouveau 

 Recueil des Secrets et Curiosites les plus rares, Amsterdam, 

 1709, 2 vols. 8vo.] 



Tripper's " Proverbial Philosophy." — In this 

 very beautiful book, and in the piece " Of Indirect 

 Influences," there is this line : " A sentence hath 

 formed a character, and a character subdued a 

 kingdom ; " to which is appended this note : — 



" A better instance of this can scarcelj' be found than 

 in the late Lord Exmouth, who first directed his thoughts 

 to the sea from a casual remark made by a groom. See 

 his Life." 



I remember, when quite a child, (perhaps I was 

 searching for some sentence to form my character,) 

 meeting with this anecdote, but I thought it was 

 in the Life of Earl St. Vincent. Can any one 

 prove whether Martin Tupper is in error, or 



Henri ? 



[In Tucker's Memoirs of Earl St. Vincent, vol. i. p. 6., 

 occurs the following passage : " As would be likely, Mr. 

 Jervis designed his son for that profession to which he 

 belonged himself; but in 17-17, being appointed counsel 

 to the Admiralty, and auditor of Greenwich Hospital, by 

 removing his residence from Staffordshire to the scene of 

 his duties, and placing his son John at Swinden's aca- 

 demy at Greenwich, he in all probability did that which 

 changed the boy's career from that of the bar to the navy ; 

 for whether it were, as the young sailor used afterwards 

 to saj', owing to the sage advice of his father's coachman, 

 one Pinkhorne, a servant probably hired in the town, 

 who advocated the sea and condemned 'all lawyers as 

 rogues,' or to the naval character of his new associates, 

 among them Dick}', the father of Admiral Sir Richard 

 Strachan, still the change seems mainly due to the father's 

 appointment to Greenwich."] 



The Bible and Psalter. — Which is the oldest 

 translation of the Psalms, the Bible or Prayer- 

 Book ? Humphry, in his History of the Book of 

 Common Prayer, says : 



"The Psalms in the Prayer- Book (commonly called 

 the Psalter) are taken from the Translation of the Bible 

 made by Tyndale and Coverdale, and from that edition 

 which was published in the year 1539." 



Now from a note I have, Tyndale and Cover- 

 dale only translated the Pentateuch, being pre- 

 vented going farther by oppression. There 

 appears a mistake somewhere. Tyndale was 

 strangled and burnt at Auggburg in 1536, aged 



