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CONTENTS. 

 Notes : — Page 



Nelson's Funeral ------ 333 



Customs Duties - - - - - - 334 



Hints to Authors and Publisliers . - - - 334 



Guano and the Lobos Islands .... 336 



Ineditcd Letter of Johu Finch, by Kenneth R. H. Mac- 

 kenzie -..---- 33G 



" Epigram Corner " . . - - . 337 



Folk Lore : — Newspaper Folk Lore ... 338 



Minor Notes : — The Venom of Toads — " Sheets," a 

 Kentish Word — Church-stile — Curiosities of Cata- 

 logues -.-.-_- 338 



Queries : — 



Shakspeare's Manuscripts and Papers, by J. O. Halli- 



well 339 



Ilornung, the Painter of Geneva - - - - 339 



Minor Queries : — Epitiph — Anglican Baptism — Cap- 

 tain Booth of Stockport — Printed Sermon by Oliver 

 Cromwell — Milton in Prose — Passage in Sir W. 

 IJraper — Saying of a great Judge — Henricus Gru- 

 jngius, Decanus Embricensis — Serpent's Tongue — 

 Crawford of Kilburnie— Sandred Groat— Wife of 

 Stanislaus Augustus II. of Poland— Legend of King 

 Alfred — Plunkett's " Light to the Blind " — Portraits 



of Lady Jane Grey— Jimius: Letter XVI Hob, 



Meaning of — Sussex Ghost-Story — Scotch East- 

 India Company — Pepys's Morma — Passage in Milton 

 — The Venerable Bede — Consecration of Bishops in 

 Ireland — Gerit Comhaer . . - - 340 



Minor Queries Answered: — " Epistles Philosophical 

 and Moral" 343 



Beplies : — 



" Pretty Peg of Derby, O ! " by Dr. E. F. Rimbault - 343 



Rufus' Oak, by W. Sparrow Simpson, B.A. . - 343 



The Passage in " Love's Labour's Lost " - - 344 



The Robin - - - - - - - 344 



Tomb of John Baret in St. Mary's Church, St. Ed- 

 munds, Bury ...... 345 



Exterior Stoups, by Thos. L. Walker and Jos. Boswortli 345 



South's Sermons -....- 346 



Photography and Manuscripts, by George Stephens, &c. 347 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Glossary of old Scientific 

 and Medical Terms — Tonson and the Westminsters 

 _ The Crystal Palace : Who designed it ?— St. Chris- 

 topher — Cowdray — Frampton, Bishop of Gloucester 

 —Ititun — Uncovering the Head and uncovering the 

 Feet — Savez — Names of Places — " Not serve two 



Masters" — John de Huddersfield — The Larch 



Rhymes upon Places, &c. ... - 34g 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, &c. - . • . ' - 353 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted - - - - 354 



Notices to Correspondents - - « - 354 



Advertisements --...- 354 



Vol. VL — No. 154. 



Hateg. 



nelson's FUNERAL. 



Public attention being at this moment directed 

 to public funerals, &c., consequent upon the loss 

 the nation has sustained by the deatli of the Duke 

 of Wellington, I have been making reference to 

 my old newspapers at the period of Nelson's 

 funeral. I have much pleasure in sending you 

 this brief account, in the hopes that it may prove 

 acceptable to your pages as well as your readers. 



The " Victory," with the remains of the ever- to- 

 be-lamented Nelson, arrived off Sheerness, Sun- 

 day, December 22, 1805. 



The body was placed the following morning on 

 board the " Chatham" yacht, proceeding on her 

 way to Greenwich. The coffin, covered with an 

 ensign, was placed on deck. Tuesday she arrived 

 at Greenwich ; the body, still being in the coffin 

 made of the wreck of " L'Orient," was then enve- 

 loped in the colours of the "Victory," bound round 

 by a piece of rope, and carried by sailors, part of 

 the crew of the " Victory," to the Painted Plall, 

 where preparations were made for the lying in 

 state ; the days appointed for which were Sunday, 

 Monday, and Tuesday, January 5, 6, and 7, 1806, 

 and to which all due effect was given. Wednes- 

 day, January 8, the first day's procession by water 

 took place, and the remains were removed from 

 Greenwich to Whitehall, and from thence to the 

 Admiralty, Avith all possible pomp and solemnity. 

 This procession of barges, &c. was nearly a mile 

 long, minute guns being fired during its progress. 

 The banner of emblems was borne by Captain 

 Hardy, Lord Nelson's captain. The body was 

 deposited that night in the captain's room at the 

 Admiralty, and attended by the Eev. John Scott. 



Thursday, January 9, 1 806, the procession from 

 the Admiralty to St. Paul's moved forward about 

 eleven o'clock in the morning, the first part con- 

 sisting of cavah-y regiments, regimental bands with 

 muffled drums, Greenwich pensioners, seamen from 

 the " Victory," about 200 mourning coaches, 400 

 carriages of public officers, nobility, &c., including 

 those of the royal family (the Prince of Wales, 

 Duke of Clarence, &c. taking part In the proces- 

 sion). The body, upon a funeral car, was drawn 



