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Saturday, October 8. 1853. 



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CONTENTS. 



NoTHs : — 



Notes on Newspapers : " The Times," Daily Press, 



&c., by H. M. Bealby 



♦' In quietness and confidence shall be your strength," 



by Joshua G. Fitch ..... 



Binders of tlie Vohimes in the Harleian Library 

 French Verse, by Tlios. Keightle^ ... 



A Spanish Play-bill, by William Robson 

 Shakspeare Correspondence, by Kobert Rawlinson, 



C. Mansfield Ingleby, &c. _ - - . 



MiNon Notes :— Injustice, its Origin — Two Brothers 

 of the same Christian Name — Female Parish Clerk - 



QuEniEs : — 



Descendants of Milton - . - - • 



An anxious Query from the Hymmalayas 

 Mi.voR QuEKiES : — " De la Schola de Sclavoni " — 

 Mineral Acids — Richard Geering — Stipendiary 

 Curates— Our Lady of Rounceval — Roden's Colt — 

 Sir Christopher Wren and the Young Carver — 

 Vellum Cleaning — Dionysia in Boeotia — Poll Tax 

 in 1641 — Thomas Chester, Bishop of Klphin, 1580 — 

 Rev. Urban Vigors — Early English MSS. — Curing 

 of Henry IV. — Standard of Weights and Measures — 

 Parish Clerks' Company — Orange Blossom — Mr. 

 Pepys his Queries — Foreign Medical Education 



Minor Queries with Answers: — Chandler, Bishop 

 of Durham — Huggins and Muggins — Balderdash — 

 Lovell, Sculptor— St. Werenfrid and Butler's " Lives 

 of the Saints" ------ 



TlEfLIES: — 



Sir W. Hankford— Gascoigne's To'mb, by Mr. Foss, &c. 



Translation of the Prayer Book into French 



Praying to the West . . . - - 



.Tacob Bobart, by Dr. E. F. Rimbault - 



Early Use of Tin Derivation of the Name of Britain, 



by the Rev. Dr. Hincks and Fras. Crossley - 

 Yew-trees in Churchyards, by J. G. Cumming 



W. King, &c. 



Stars are the Flowers of Heaven, by W. Fraser - 

 Books burned by the common Hangman, by John S. 



Burn, &c. ...... 



riioTOGRAPinc CoRRESFONDENCE ;— Stercoscopic Angles 

 — Mr. Pumphrey's Process for securing black Tints 

 in Positives . . - . 



Page 



335 

 335 

 33'! 

 336 



Wm. 



- 348 



Heplies to Minor Queriks : — Baskerville the Printer 



— Lines on Woman — Haulf-naked — Cambridge and 

 Ireland — Autobiographical Sketch — Archbishop 

 Chichely — " Discovery of the Inquisition " — Divin- 

 ing Ro'd — " Pinece with a stink" — Longevity — 

 ■Chronograms — Heraldic Notes — Christian Names — 

 " I put a spoke in his wheel " — Judges styled 

 Reverend — Palace at Enfield — Sir John Vanhrugh 



— Greek Inscription on a Font — "Fierce" — Giving 

 Quarter — Sheriffs of Glamorganshire — " When the 

 maggot bites " — Connexion between the Celtic and 

 Latin Languages — Bacon's Essays, &c. 



Kjscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, &c. ----- 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted . - • - 



Notices to Correspondents - . _ - 



Advertisements , • - - - a 



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ToL. Ylir. — Is'o.206. 



NOTES OS NEWSPAPERS : " THE TIMES," DAILY 

 PRESS, ETC. 



A newspaper, rightly conducted, is a potent 

 power in promoting the well-being of universal 

 man. It is also a highly moral power — for it 

 quickens mind everywhere, and puts In force those 

 principles which tend to lessen human woe, and 

 to exalt and dignify our common humanity. The 

 daily press, for the most part, aims to correct 

 error — whether senatorial, theological, or legal. 

 It pleads In earnest tones for the removal of public 

 wrong, and watches with a keen eye the rise and 

 fall of great interests. It teaches with command- 

 ing power, and makes its Influence felt in the 

 palace of the monarch, as well as through all 

 classes of the community. It helps on, in the path 

 of honorable ambition, the virtuous and the good. 

 It never hesitates or falters, however formidable 

 the foe. It never crouches, however injurious 

 to itself the free and undisguised utterance of 

 some truths may be. It is outspoken. When the 

 nation requires them, it Is bold and fearless In 

 propounding great changes, though they may clash 

 with the expectations of a powerful class. It 

 heeds the reverses to which a nation is subjected, 

 and turns them to good account. It does not 

 abuse Its power, and is never menaced. It Is un- 

 shackled, and therefore has a native growth. It 

 looks on the movements of the wide world calmly, 

 deliberately, and intelligently. We believe the 

 independency of the daily press can never be 

 bribed, or its patronage won by unlawful means. 

 Its mission is noble, and the presiding sentiment 

 of the varied intellect employed upon it is " the 

 greatest -good to the greatest number." It never 

 ceases in its operations. It is a perpetual thing : 

 always the same in many of Its aspects, and yet 

 always new. It is untiring In Its efforts, and un- 

 impeded in its career. We look for it every day 

 with an unwavering confidence, with an almost 

 absolute certainty. Power and freshness are its 

 principal characteristics ; and with these it com- 

 bines a healthy tone, a fearless courage, and an 

 invincible determination. That it has Its imper- 

 fections, we do not deny — and what agency is 



