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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2«'iS. Nolll., Fkb. 13. '58. 



Eastern King may probably interest some of your 

 readers : — 



"Let us pass from the Emanbarra to Constantia — a 

 whimsical pile of buildings of vast extent, erected at great 

 expense by General Martine, a Frenchman. Having en- 

 tered the Company's service towards the end of the last 

 century as a private soldier, he was afterwards transferred 

 to the arm}' of the Nawab of Oudo, and rose step by step 

 to the rank of general, amassing enormous wealth as he 

 rose. He was a prudent and successful cockfighter, and 

 Saadut Ali, the reigning Nawab of those days, was fond 

 of betting with him. General Martine left lOO.OOOZ. to 

 found a school for orphan children in Lyons, his birth- 

 place, a similar sum for founding a similar institution in 

 Calcutta, and an amount nearly equal for a third in 

 Lucknow. Each of these institutions is called La Marti- 

 nifere as directed b3' the founder, and all are flourishing 

 and useful. Constantia, his residence, to the public, as a 

 serai or caravansery. It was called, I was told, after his 

 first love, a French maiden, whom he had left behind 

 him in France, and who died long before he attained to 

 wealth and honours. To prevent the Nawab from con- 

 fiscating the building and estate, the general was buried, 

 by his own direction, beneath it, for a Mussulman, how- 

 ever unjust, will respect a grave. His tomb, in a sort of 

 crypt beneath, is shown to visitors. A white marble bust 

 of him stands on a sarcophagus, supported by two figures of 

 sepo3's coloured. The whole is in execrable taste. When 

 the general died, his furniture was sold by auction, and 

 the Compan3''3 agents purchased the chandeliers and lus- 

 tres of Constantia to decorate the Governor-General's 

 palace in Calcutta. They got them a dead bargain, for 

 the King of Oude would not bid against the Company, 

 and the Honourable Compan}' was delighted with its sa- 

 gacity. No Yankee pedlar could have done the thing 

 better. When one has said that Constantia is vast and 

 whimsical, all has been said about it that needs be said. 

 Some part of the grounds reminded me of the gardens of 

 Versailles, particularly a sheet of water in the form of a 

 cross, with groves of clipped trees on either side ; but on 

 the whole, though it is apparent that vast sums have been 

 spent to produce the result one sees before him, yet that 

 result is altogether bizarre and wanting in harmony." 

 (pp. 117, 118.) 



E. H. A. 



Quotation (2°'^ S. v. 110.) — 



" Suns that set and moons that wane 

 Rise and are restored again." 



Cowper, " ' On the Shortness of Human Life,' 

 translated from the Latin of Dr. Jortin." {Works 

 by Bohn, vol. v. p. 398.). Zeus. 



The Cakes of the Indian Mutiny (2"^ S. iv. 195.) 

 — L. F., who inquires respecting the account of 

 the Chupaties or little cakes transmitted by the 

 Chokedars through Oude in the spring of last 

 year, will find it in " N. & Q." (2"'» S. iii. 365.), in 

 an extract from The Times given by Mr. J. Graves. 

 It was then supposed to refer to the cholera. 



William Eraser, B.C.L. 



Alton, Stafibrdshire. 



The Lotos-flower and the Sipahis (2"'^ S. iv. 161. 

 195. 221.) — I have heard it definitely asserted by 

 a person well acquainted with India that the Lotos, 

 which was said to have been handed from one 

 Sipahi to the other before the mutiny, and which 



has been explained sometimes as a Brahmin 

 symbol and sometimes as a Mahometan one im- 

 plying the resurrection of Mahometan power, was 

 not a flower at all, but was the Lota or small 

 brass cup used by the natives. It was filled, I 

 was told, with the sacred water of the Ganges, 

 and was then handed from one conspiring soldier 

 to another, as that upon which the most solemn 

 oath that a native of India can take was to 

 be taken. These Lotas or brass cups of sacred 

 water, by misprint or misunderstanding, were con- 

 verted into the Lotos-flower, which has puzzled 

 the readers and writers of " N. & Q." Corrobo- 

 rative or other information on this point is de- 

 sirable. William Frasek, B.C.L. 

 Alton, Stafi'ordshire. 



Andreio Wood, D. D. (2"^ S. iv. 349.) — This 

 clergyman is a totally distinct individual from 

 the Bishop of the Isles (as you correctly alter 

 Messrs. C. H. and Thompson Cooper's Bishop of 

 " Sodor and Man"). The Scottish Bishop, An- 

 drew Wood, was son of Rev. David Wood, "a mi- 

 nister," and nephew, maternally, of the courageous 

 Bishop of Moray, John Guthrie of Guthrie in 

 Forfarshire (whose descendants still possess the 

 estate) : who, after being successively Incumbent 

 of the parishes of Spott and Dunbar, both in the 

 county of Haddington and diocese of Edinburgh, 

 was promoted to the Bishopric of The Isles in 

 the year 1676, and thence translated to the see of 

 Caithness in 1680. At the Revolution of 1688-9 

 he was deprived, along with the rest of the dio- 

 cesan bishops of Scotland, but appears to have 

 retained his living of Dunbar, — which benefice he 

 had received a royal dispensation, of June 2, 1677, 

 to hold together with the bishopric of The Isles, 

 — until the period of his death, which occurred at 

 Dunbar in 1695, in the seventy-seventh year of 

 his age, and nineteenth of his episcopate. These 

 dates prove his birth to have taken place in 1619, 

 the same year in which the Shropshire Andrew 

 Wood received his degree of D.D. at Cambridge. 



A. S. A. 



Barrackpore, E, I., Dec. 24, 1857. 



Ximenes Family (2"'^ S. iv. 190. 258.) — I for- 

 ward the underwritten inscription upon a tomb- 

 stone in Sidmouth churchyard for the information 

 of your correspondent F. C. H. 



'•■ Here are interred 



the remains 



of 



Daniel Ximenes, Esq""., 



late of Rose Mount in this Parish, 



who died August 21, 1829, 



aged 68 years." 



W. S. IIeineken. 



Sale of the late Lord Dundrennans Lihrary 

 (2°'* S. iv. 344.) — It is possibly no new inform- 

 ation to Mr. Maidment (one of the fii st literary 



