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P.ipiANA : — " The Dunciad " — Pope's 

 Quarrels ----- 277 



T)ie liord ClianccUor's Purse, by Ed- 

 ward ros3 . . - - 278 



Hi^h Church and Low Church - - 278 



S^nthey and Voltaire, by Professor De 

 Morgan - - - - - 282 



Cornwall Family, their Monuments,&c., 

 by J. B. Whitborne - - - 282 



A remarkable and authentic Prophecy - 281 



MiNon NoTKs : — The Crimea — Errors 

 in Dates of Pnst-Office Stamps —"The 

 Poor Voter's SoiiE "— Pegrime Manin- 

 trec : Mattliew Hopkins— Pulnit Pun 



— Louis Napoleon and his Beard — 

 Thierry's Theory - - - 284 



Ql'eries : — 



William Houlbrook, the Blacksmith of 

 Marlboroui^h - - - - 286 



Minor Queiue".: — Arthur. Earl of 

 Anglesey — Tiie noted Westons of 

 Winclielsea _ Lightfoot : Pocock : 

 Thorndike : Upcott _ Slaughtering 

 Cattle in Towns — Who is General 

 Prim ? — Mudie's " Propositions " — 

 Monastery of Nutcelle — Quotations 

 Wanted — Anastatic Printing — Dr. 

 Noad's Lectures— No Tides in the 

 Baltic— Vaccination— Speech of Lord 

 Derby — " The Friends " _ Genoa 

 Kegisters — Geoffery Alford - - 286 



MixoB Queries with Answers : 



Pascal Paoli — Pizarro and Almagro 



— Names of Churches — Artificial Ice 



— Milton's Watch - - - 289 



Ej^PMES! — 



" Walsingham's Sfanual " - - 290 



Boston : Burdclyers : Wilkyns : Fem- 

 ble - - - - - - 291 



Photoorapiiic Correspoxdenoe :— Opa- 

 city of Collodion— Travelling Photo- 

 graphers — Photographic Patents — 

 Pliotographic Terms : Glucose, Bitu- 

 men of Judoia — Calotytje Views of 

 Interiors - . - . - 292 



■IIepi.tes to Minor Queries : — Cen- 

 niclc's Hymns — " Branks " — Ra- 

 phael's Cartoons — Chinese Proverbs— 

 I>ong Sir Thomas Kobinson — "Cul- 

 tiver mon jardin " — Love — Dollond's 

 Telescopes— Great Events from little 

 Causes — Leases — The Fashion of 

 Brittany — '• Thee " and " thou " — 

 Marriage Custom— Elstob Family - 293 



M-ir.r:Er.LANEOus : — 

 Notes on Books, &c. - - - 295 



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