June 30. 1855.] 



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would be a son and become a great man. She 

 wisely partook of the fish, and her dream was 

 fulfilled beyond a doubt. Perhaps the pike 

 (which exceeded in potency the magic fish in 

 the Arabian Nights) had some share in making 

 her other son, Robert, Bishop of Salisbury. He 

 too was a good man. Izaak Walton, in his " gen- 

 tle portraiture" of Sanderson, tells us that when 

 he left his college for his bishopric he " was so- 

 lemnly conducted out of Oxford by the heads of 

 all Houses, and the chief of all the University." 



Standing in one of the upper rooms of the hos- 

 pital, you see from the window the modest house 

 where Abbot was born, and where his father car- 

 ried on his trade as cloth-worker. It suggests a 

 useful lesson. It shows how nearly rich and poor 

 are allied ; and it speaks well for Abbot, who, in 

 the midst of grandeur and the repose of Lambeth 

 Palace (to the beauty of which he added) did not 

 forget his humble origin, but erected, in his native 

 town, an honourable asylum for those whose path 

 in life had been less pleasant than his own. 



J. Virtue Wtnen. 



1. Portland Terrace, Dalston. 



Services of the Aristocracy in the Army. — The 

 outcry lately raised by many of the newspapers on 

 this subject has induced me to look over the list 

 of the Duke of Wellington's generals in the Penin- 

 sular war, and the predominance of the aristocracy 

 (baronetical families included) is curious : — Peer, 

 Dalhousle ; sons or grandsons of peers, Paget, 

 Hope, Cole, Beresford, the two Clintons, Charles 

 and William Stewart, Colville, Pakenham, &c. ; 

 baronet. Cotton ; sons of baronets. Hill, Leith, 

 Robert Craufurd, George Murray, Dickson, &c. 

 I cannot at present recall to mind any names to 

 put on a par with these among the untitled, ex- 

 cept the distinguished ones of Graham and Picton ; 

 and these derived their origin from a source al- 

 most equally reprobated by our levellers, the 

 ancient landed gentry. No one, surely, will pre- 

 tend to say that any of the above attained a sta- 

 tion that his merits did not entitle him to. The 

 abov« list is from memory, and does not pretend 

 to be a complete one. J. S. Warden. 



Devonshireisms : " To Jiaul and saul" — There is 

 a saying of this kind used in Devonshire, when one 

 person is pulling another about in a rough manner, 

 or lounging upon him. I was struck the other day 

 with a word similar to that which I have written 

 "saul" (agreeably to the pronunciation), in Co' 

 riolanus, Act IV. Sc. 5. : " He'll go, he says, and 

 sowle the porter of Rome's gates by the ears." 

 What is the etymology of the word ? 



" Is this of 'em ?" — I could not help writing 



this phrase down the other day, and looking at it, 

 although I had heard it hundreds of times before 

 without taking much notice of it. It is very com- 

 monly used here by the uneducated to signify 

 " Are tliese they ? " or an equivalent expression. 

 I should be glad to know if this barbarous com- 

 bination of words is used in any other county. 



" Giving turnips." — The common people here 

 say, when a damsel has cast ofi" a lover, that she 

 has " given him turnips." Is this felicitous ex- 

 pression employed elsewhere ? 



Orts. — • This old word is used hereabouts by 

 many people when speaking of broken victuals 

 left by children ; but there is, perhaps, an equal 

 number of persons who look at the word as a 

 corrupt and unauthorised one. It is curt and 

 expressive ; for instance, a child asked by another 

 to eat what he has left, will say, " No, I shall not 

 eat your orts" The word is to be found in 

 Troilus and Cressida, but I forget the passage. 

 Is it not worthy of being revived? 



J. W. N. Keys. 



Longevity in Suffolk. — In White's Suffolk Di- 

 rectory for 1844, the following living instances are 

 recorded : 



William Abraham Shuldham, Esq., owns great 

 part of the parish of Marlesford, and resides at 

 the Hall ; in which, on July 18, 1843, he honoured 

 the hundredth anniversary of his birthday by 

 giving a dinner to his tenantry and a considerable 

 number of the neighbouring gentry. 



Mrs. Susan Godbold, who was bom at Flixton, 

 has resided at Metfield eighty years, and walked 

 round the village on her one hundred and fourth, 

 birthday, Sept. 13, 1843. 



Thomas Morse, Esq., of Lound, is now (1843), 

 in his ninety -ninth year. 



Supposing these persons to be dead, it would be 

 desirable to obtain from some of your Suffolk 

 correspondents extracts from the parochial re- 

 gisters, proving the exact dates of their births and 

 deaths. E. G. R. 



" Den waerlyken Vriend." — About the year 

 1783, a work called Den waerlyken Vriend was 

 printed in London, and privately sent for circula- 

 tion to Brussels. The contents were found to be 

 exceedingly opposed to the sentiments entertained 

 by the ruling powers of the day at that detracted 

 period. 



The religious or political tendencies of the work 

 speedily brought it under the surveillance of the 

 authorities, and it was immediately condemned to 

 be burnt. Proclamation was then made, ordering 

 all persons to send in the copies they possessed, 

 and to give information of their existence else- 

 where. The day appointed for the burning was 

 proclaimed a holiday ; the court took the initiative, 

 and in grand procession in their gaily decked state 



