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klan, who defended Treves against the said Franz; 
and upon the entablature are portraits of the said 
archbishop on the one side, and his enemy Franz 
on the other. Why placed there it is difficult to 
conceive, unless to show that death had made the 
prelate and the robber equals. W.C. 
BODY AND SOUL. 
(From the Latin of Owen.) 
The sacred writers to express the whole, 
Name but a part, and call the man a soul. 
We frame our speech upon a different plan, 
And say “ somebody,” when we mean a man. 
Nobody heeds what everybody says, 
“And yet how sad the secret it betrays! 
Rurvs. 
“ Laissez faire, laissez passer.’ —JI think your 
correspondent “A Man in a Garrer” (No. 19. 
p- 808.) is not warranted in stating that M. de 
Gournay was the author of the above axiom of 
political economy. Last session Lord J. Russell 
related an anecdote in the House of Commons 
which referred the phrase to an earlier date. In 
the Times of the 2nd of April, 1849, his Lordship 
is reported to have said, on the preceding day, in 
a debate on the Rate-in-Aid Bill, that Colbert, 
with the intention of fostering the manufactures 
of France, established regulations which limited 
the webs woven in looms to a particular size. He 
also prohibited the introduction of foreign manu- 
factures into France. ‘The French vine-growers, 
finding that under this system they could no 
longer exchange their wine for foreign goods, be- 
gan to grumble. “It was then,” said his Lord- 
ship, “that Colbert, having asked a merchant 
what he should do, he (the merchant), with great 
dustice and great sagacity, said, ‘ Laissez faire et 
aissez passer’—do not interfere as to the size and 
mode of your manufactures, do not interfere with 
the entrance of foreign imports, but let them com- 
pete with your own manufactures.” 
Colbert died twenty-nine years before M. de 
Gournay was born. Lord J. Russell omitted to 
state whether Colbert followed the merchant's 
advice. C. Ross. 
College Salting and Tucking of Freshmen (No. 
17. p. 261., No. 19. p. 306.) —A circumstantial ac- 
count of the tucking of freshmen, as practised in 
Exeter College, Oxford, in 1636, is given in Mr. 
Martyn’s Life of the First Lord Shaftesbury, vol. i. 
p- 42. 
“On a particular day, the senior under-graduates, 
in the evening, called the freshmen to the fire, and 
made them hold out their chins; whilst one of the 
seniors, with the nail of his thumb (which was left 
long for that purpose), grated off all the skin from the 
lip to the chin, and then obliged him to drink a beer- 
glass of water and salt.” 
Lord Shaftesbury was a freshman at Exeter in 
1636; and the story told by his biographer is, 
that he organised a resistance among his fellow 
freshmen to the practice, and that a row took place 
in the college hall, which led to the interference 
of the master, Dr. Prideaux, and to the abolition 
of the practice in Exeter College. The custom is 
there said to have been of great antiquity in the 
college. 
The authority cited by Mr. Martyn for the story 
is a Mr. Stringer, who was a confidential friend of 
Lord Shaftesbury’s, and made collections for a 
Life of him; and it probably comes from Lord 
Shaftesbury himself. C. 
Byron and Tacitus Although Byron is, by 
our school rules, a forbidden author, I sometimes 
contrive to indulge myself in reading his works by 
stealth. Among the passages that have struck my 
(boyish) faney is the couplet in “ Lhe Bride of 
Abydos” (line 912),— 
* Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease ! 
He makes a solitude, and calls it—peace !” 
Engaged this morning in a more legitimate study, 
that of Tacitus, I stumbled upon this passage in 
the speech of Galgacus (Ag. xxx.),— 
“ Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem adpellant.” 
Does not this look very much like what we call 
“cabbaging ?” If you think so, by adding it to 
the other plagiarisms of the same author, noted in 
some of your former numbers, you will confer a 
ereat honour on A ScHootnoy. 
The Pardonere and Frere. —If Mr. J. P, Collier 
would, at some leisure moment, forward, for your 
pages, a complete list of the variations from the 
original, in Smeeton’s reprint of Zhe Pardonere 
and Frere, he would confer a favour which 
would be duly appreciated by the possessors of 
that rare tract, small as their number must be; 
since, in my copy (once in the library of Thomas 
Jolley, Esq.), there is an autograph attestation by 
Mr. Rodd, that “there were no more than twenty 
copies printed.” G.A.S. 
Mistake in Gibbon (No. 21. p. 341.).— The pas- 
sage in Gibbon has an error more interesting than 
the mere mistake of the author. That a senator 
should make a motion to be repeated and chanted 
by the rest, would be rather a strange thing; but 
the tumultuous acclamations chanted by the sena- 
tors as parodies of those in praise of Commodus, 
which had been usual at the Theatres (Dio), were 
one thing; the vote or decree itself, which follows, 
is another. 
There are many errors, no doubt, to be found 
in Gibbon. I will mention one which may be 
entertaining, though I dare say Mr. Milman has 
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