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the Privy Council (at which the Lord Mayor 

 never appeared) with a meeting of other persons 

 (nobility, gentry, and others), who assemble on 

 the same occasion in a different room, and to 

 which meeting (altogether distinct from the Privy 

 Council) the Lord Mayor is always summoned, as 

 are the sheriffs, aldermen, and a number of other 

 notabilities, not privy councillors. This matter is 

 conclusively explained in Vol. iv., p. 284. ; but if 

 more particular evidence be required, it will be 

 found in the London Gazette of the 20th June, 

 1837, where the names of the privy councillors 

 are given in one list to the number of eighty- three, 

 and in another list the names of the persons at- 

 tending the meeting to the number of above 150, 

 amongst whom are the lord mayor, sheriffs, under- 

 sheriffs, aldermen, common Serjeants, city solicitor, 

 &c. As "N. & Q." has reproduced the mistake, 

 it is proper that it should also reproduce the ex- 

 planation. C. 



New Zealander and Westminster Bridge (Vol.ix., 

 p. 74.). — Before I saw the thought in Walpole's 

 letter to Sir H. Mann, quoted in " N. & Q." I 

 ventured to suppose that Mrs. Barbauld's noble 

 poem, Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, might have 

 suggested Mr. Macaulay's well-known passage. 

 The following extracts describe the wanderings of 

 those who — 



" With duteous zeal, their pilgrimage shall take, 

 From the blue mountains on Ontario's lake, 

 With fond adoring steps to press the sod, 

 By statesmen, sages, poets, heroes, trod." 



" Pensive and thoughtful shall the wanderers greet 

 Each splendid square, and still untrodden street ; 

 Or of some crumbling turret, mined by time, 

 The broken stairs with perilous step shall climb, 

 Thence stretch their view the wide horizon round, 

 By scatter'd hamlets trace its ancient bound, 

 And choked no more with fleets, fair.Thames survey, 

 Through reeds and sedge pursue his idle way. 



Oft shall the strangers turn their eager feet, 

 The rich remains of ancient art to greet, 

 The pictured walls with critic eye explore, 

 And Reynolds be what Raphael was before. 

 On spoils from every clime their eyes shall gaze, 

 Egyptian granites and the Etruscan vase ; 

 And when, 'midst fallen London, they survey 

 The stone where Alexander's ashes lay, 

 Shall own with humble pride the lesson just, 

 By Time's slow finger written in the dust." 



J. M. 

 Cranwells, near Bath. 



The beautiful conception of the New Zealander 

 at some future period visiting England, and giving 

 a sketch of the ruins of London, noticed in " N. & 

 Q." as having been suggested to Macaulay by a 

 passage in one of Walpole's letters to Sir H. Mann, 

 will be found more broadly expressed in Kirke 



White's Poem on Time. Talking of the triumphs 

 of Oblivion, he says : 



" Meanwhile the Arts, in second infancy, 



Rise in some distant clime; and then, perchance, 



Some bold adventurer, fill'd with golden dreams, 



Steering his bark through trackless solitudes, 



Where, to his wandering thoughts, no daring prow 



Had ever plough'd before, — espies the cliffs 



Of fallen Albion. To the land unknown 



He journeys joyful ; and perhaps descries 



Some vestige of her ancient stateliness : 



Then he with vain conjecture fills his mind 



Of the unheard-of race, which had arrived 



At science in that solitary nook, 



Far from the civil world ; and sagely sighs, 



And moralises on the state of man." 



This hardly reads like a borrowed idea ; and I 

 should lean to a belief that it was not. Kirke 

 White's Poems and Letters are but too little read. 



J. S. 



Dalston. 



Cui Bono (Vol. ix., p. 76.). — Reference to a 

 dictionary would have settled this. According to 

 Freund, "Cui bono fuit = Zu welchem Zwecke, 

 or Wozu war es gut ? " That is, To what purpose ? 

 or, For whose good ? Carnatic. 



The syntax of this common phrase, with the 

 ellipses supplied, is, " Cui homini fuerit bono ne- 

 gotio?" To what person will it be an advantage? 

 Literally, or more freely rendered, Who will be 

 the gainer by it ? It was (see Ascon. in Cicer. 

 pro Milone, c. xii.) the usual query of Lucius 

 Cassius, the Roman judge, implying that the 

 person benefiting by any crime was implicated 

 therein. (Consult Facciolati's Diet, in voce Bo- 

 num.) Hk. 



The correct rendering of this phrase is un- 

 doubtedly that given by F. Newman, " For the be- 

 nefit of whom ?" but it is generally used in such a 

 manner as to make it indifferent whether that, or 

 the corrupted signification " For what good ? " was 

 intended by the writer making use of it. The 

 latter is, however, the idea generally conveyed to 

 the mind, and in this sense it is used by the best 

 writers. Thus, e. g. : 



"The question 'cut bono,' to what practical end 

 and advantage do your researches tend ? is one," &c. — 

 Herschel's Discourse on Nat. Philosophy, p. 10. 



William Bates. 



Birmingham. 



Barrels Regiment (Vol. viii., p. 620. ; Vol. ix., 

 p. 63.). — I am obliged to H. B. C. for his atten- 

 tion to my Query, though it does not quite answer 

 my purpose, which was to learn the circumstances 

 which occasioned a print in my possession, en- 

 titled "The Old Scourge returned to Barrels." 

 It represents a regiment, the body of each sol- 



