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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No» 292. 



(Jean insurrection and war, a& to details of the j 

 field the most interesting portion by faT of the 

 revolutionary period^ havejustice done them in the 

 S. IT., and there only. Their fellow- biographers 

 have indeed daly recorded La Roche Jacquelein, | 

 a sort of revived Sydney or Bayard. But he ■ 

 stands pretty nearly alone, and becomes in the j 

 Harrative, in too large a degree, the centre of that i 

 heroic strife. What better finale to this too-far | 

 extended article can there be tha,n the significant j 

 •words in an earlier one of the " N. & Q." (Vol. vi., j 

 p. 3^.), pertaining to one of the most singular no- j 

 torieties of the era referred to a few sentences 

 back, — " He will have a place in a Biographical 

 Dictionary, whenever loe shall harve one that ia 

 worthy, of the name." Harvabdiensis. 



Cambridge, New England. 



BUKIAtS AT MAPtB DUHrHAM". 



(VoLxi., p.283.) 



The Blount family have, I believe, held the 

 estate of Maple Durham since the reign of 

 Henry V. The house, however, is of Tudor 

 architecture, and probably of the reign of 

 Henry VIII. An aisle to the parish church was 

 built by Mr. Head of that fiimily before the 

 Reformation, principally with a view to its be- 

 coming a family cemetery. There are vaults below, 

 m which the Blounts and no others are interred. 



Some years since the house was let to a Pi"0- 

 testant lady ; and, during her residence there, 

 Mr. Blount allowed a pew to be used in that aisle 

 for her convenience. After the Blount family 

 returned to their old residence — and were of 

 course, as Roman Catholics, unable to make use 

 of this pew, — the parish, through the late vicar and 

 churchwardens, claimed a right over the whole 

 arisle. Mr. Blount resisted this ; and the question 

 was referred to the late Dr. Pliillimore, who de- 

 cided in Mr. Blount's favour. In consequence of 

 this, an iron railing separates the whole of this 

 aisle from the rest of the church. Mr. Blount has 

 a private entrance to it; and at the funerals of 

 members of his family, the ceremonies of the Ro- 

 man Catholic church are performed, but I believe 

 at a late hour. Thus far the account given in 

 Mambles hy Rivers is true, but no farther. It is 

 not true that " the greater part of the parishioners 

 adhere to the Roman Catholic faith." The num- 

 ber is very few ; and there is an alms-house near 

 Mr. Blount's house wholly under his patronage, 

 in which there are at least as many Protestant as 

 Roman Catholic inmates. Mr. Blount is a con- 

 scientious member of the church of his ancestors, 

 but he is only known in the parish for his chari- 

 ties, and not for any exertion of his influence as a 

 landlord for purposes of proselytism. I may add. 



that these claims of private persons to a property 

 in the church to which they may have made addif 

 tions, is not peculiar to the Roman Catholics and 

 Dissenters^ I am acquainted with a church in a 

 town of one of our southern counties, where a 

 similar claim is made by the squire of the parish ; 

 and enforced by the erection of a very frightful 

 tomb of enormous size, as inconvenient to the 

 parishioners as it is offensive to good taste. It 

 seems wrong that any person should be allowed 

 to build an addition to a church which occupies a 

 large portion of sacred ground, unless that build- 

 ing be appropriated by himself, or conceded to 

 others, for purposes of worship., E. C. H» 



PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCB. 



[Tlie great interest with which the photographic world 

 is looking to the subject of securing the permanency of 

 positive pictures, has induced us to bring under their 

 notice the following article from the Bulletin de la Society 

 Frangaise de Photograjihie. This journal promises to 

 render important services to the art.] 



On the Alteration of Positives, and their Revival, 

 by MM. Davanne and Girard. — The slow alteration 

 which the positive proofs experience in the course 

 of time, is without doubt one of the causes which up 

 to the present time has been opposed to the develop- 

 ment of photography as an industrial art. It is then of 

 the utmost importance to study the causes why positive 

 pictures suffer this slow transformation, which so con- 

 siderably modifies, aiid often completely destroys them. 

 This question is, as one may saj', entirely new. Several 

 hypotheses can be put forward on the subject, but no 

 serious study has been undertaken. We have endeavoured 

 to supply this defect by chemical analysis ; but in the ab- 

 sence of any certain theory even on the formation of the 

 picture we were stopped, not being able to explain the 

 destruction of an object, of the mode of preparation of 

 which we were ignorant. Our sphere is then suddenly 

 enlarged, and we have thought that in determining witii 

 exactness the variations which the nature of the photo- 

 graphic substance undergoes by the different preparations 

 to which it is submitted, we should trace by reasoning an 

 easy path on which we might enter in all confidence 

 without running the risk of losing oneself. Our work at 

 this point of view is already sufficiently advanced that, 

 without prejudging anything, we may hope to arrive at 

 important results for photography. But in tlie meaa 

 time, whilst we are determining the divers changes which 

 the proofs undergo, whilst we are deducing the caases of 

 their destruction, whilst we are perhaps finding a way to- 

 prepare them in an unalterable manner, it appears to u» 

 that it will be interesting to find a means which permit* 

 of the evil which at present one cannot altogether avoid 

 being remedied, — a means which admits of the restoration 

 of the red and yellow positives to the ordinaiy black and. 

 violet tints. This means presents itself to us at once, 

 guided by this preconceived idea, that the silver, whether 

 red or yellow on the positive proof, is in a metallic state i 

 we have thought that by causing it to undergo a second 

 transformation into chloride or iodide of silver, and ex- 

 posing it to the light, we should obtain a revival of the 

 tint. But this would not be enough; in effect, this iodide 

 or chloride of silver ought to be submitted, after exposing- 

 it to the light, to the same operations as a positive prints 



