July 12. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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First Panorama (V^ol. iii., p. 526.)- — I remem- 

 ber when a boy going to see that panorama. I was 

 struck with " the baker knocking at the door, in 

 Albion Place, and. wondered the man did not 

 move!" But this could not have been the first 

 (though it might have been the first publicly ex- 

 hibited), if what is told of Sir Joslma Reynolds 

 be true, that, having held that the painting of a 

 panorama was a " thing impossible," on the sight 

 &f it he exclaimed — " This is the triumph of per- 

 spective!" I have frequently met with this 

 anecdote. B. G. 



Vermui/den. — I wish very much to obtain a 

 portrait, painted or engraved, of Sir Cornelius 

 Vermuyden, Knt., a celebrated Flemish engineer 

 in the time of Charles I. Can any one kindly 

 assist my object, and inform me where one is to 

 be met with ? J. 



Portrait of Whiston, — Having an original and 

 characteristic half-length portrait in oil, bearing 

 to the left corner (below an oval, such as is found 

 about portraits by Alex. Cooper) the name of 

 William Whiston, which picture came from a 

 farm-house named Westbrook, in "Wiltshire, and 

 was by my ancestors, who lived there, called a 

 family partrait, I should be glad to know how such 

 connexion arose, if any did exist. 



In the possession of a member of my family, on 

 the maternal side, is a large silver tobacco-box, 

 bearing the initials W. W., and given as a legacy 

 by Whiston to his friend Thomas ^Vhite, Fellow 

 and Librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge. 

 They were members of the same club. 



William Fennell.. 



Wakefield, June 12. 1851. 



Charities for the Clergy and their Families. — • 

 I am desirous of procuring a complete list of 

 charities confined to, or primarily intended for, the 

 benefit of clergymen, their wives and families. 

 There are a good many such throughout the 

 country, but I am not aware that any list has ever 

 been published. Will your readers furnish me 

 with the particulars of such as they may be ac- 

 quainted with, together with tlie names of the 

 secretaries? J. Wuitakek. 



377. Strand. 



Principle of Notation hij Coalwhippers, ^-c. — 

 I shall fet-'l much oljliged to any of your readers 

 who can inform me whether the principle adopte<i 

 by the coalwhrppers on the river Thames, and by 

 the seafaring class in general, is adopted by any 

 other class in these islands, or particularly in the 

 North of Europe. 



This principle may be thus explained, viz. : 

 1. A set of four perpendicular, equal, and equi- 

 distant straight lines arc cut by a diagonal line, 



which runs from right to left; that is to say, from 

 the higher end of the fourth line to the lower ex- 

 tremity of the first line. This diagonal then re- 

 presents number 5, and feompletes the scale or tally 

 of 5. 



2. A similar set of four lines are cut by another 

 diagonal, which passes from left to rights or from 

 the higher extremity of number oue, to the lower 

 extremity of number four. The diagonal thus 

 completes the second score or tally for number 5. 

 The two fives are marked or scored separately, 

 and the diagonals thus form a series of alterna- 

 tions, which, when repeated, form a scale of ten, 

 the tally of the coalwhippers. 



The "navvies" of the railroads carry this prin- 

 ciple somewhat further. They form a cross with 

 two diagonals on the perpendiculars, and count 

 ! for ten ; then, by repeating the process, they have 

 j a division into tens, and count by two tens, or a 

 ; score. I. J. C. 



Kiss the Hare's Foot. — This locution is com- 

 monly iised in some parts of the United liLingdom, 

 to describe what is expressed by the Latin pro- 

 verb : " Sero venientibus ossa." Will any of your 

 readers be so good as to explain the origin of the 

 Englisli phrase ? Henrt H. Beeen. 



St. Lucia, May, 1851. 



Old Dog. — Can any correspondent of "Notes 

 AND Queries" inform me where "old dog" 13 

 used in the same sense as in Hudibi-as, part ii. 

 canto 3. v. 208. : — 



" He (Sidrophel) was old dog at physiology? " 



P. J. F. G. 



" Heu quanta minus" ^-c. — From what author is 

 this passage taken ? 



" Heu quanto minus est cum aliis versari quam tui 

 merainisse." 



J. O. B. 



Lougliborough. 



Lady Russell and Mr. Hampden. — Extract 

 from a letter of Rev. Alex. Chalmers, dated 

 London, Feb. 10th, 1736-7 : 



" Mr. Hampden* has had the misfortune to lose 

 5000/. by Lady IlusseU. f She was a Lady of good 

 stnse, and great piety in appearance, and made many 

 believe she had a private way of tradeing which brought 

 seven or eight per c*. to the adventurers, by which 

 means she got above 30,000?. put in to her hands, and 



* M. P. for Buckinghamshire. 



\ " Sept. '2. Lady IlusseU, mother of the wife of 

 Thomas Scawen, Esq., Kt. of the Shire for Surrey, 

 and wife to Sir Harry Houghton, Bt. She had an 

 excellent character." — Gent. Mag., vol. vL, 1736, 

 p.5j'2. She had been previously married to I.,ord James 

 Russell, 5th son of William, 1st Duke of Bedford, to 

 whom she bore the daughter mentioned above. What 

 was lier maiden name ? 



