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Consecration of Churches, Sc. (2"2 S. i. 172.) — 
If A Country CLercyMan can procure the “ Book 
of Common Prayer,” printed at Dublin by George 
Grierson, at the King’s Arms, and two Bibles in 
Essex street, 1750, folio, he will there find “A 
form of Consecration or Dedication of Churches 
and Chappels according to the use of the Church 
of Ireland:” the following rubric is prefixed to 
this service : 
“The Patron or the chief of the Parish when a new 
church is erected, is to give timely notice to the Bishop 
of the Dioces, and humbly to desire him to appoint a con- 
venient time, some Lords-day or other great festival of 
the church for performance of the solemnity.” 
“ At the day appointed, the Bishop with a convenient 
number of his clergy (of which the Dean or Archdeacon 
to be one) and the chancellor of the Dioces, and his 
Registrar shall come between the hours of eight and ten 
in the morning, and when they are near, the bell is to 
ring, till they be entered into the church appointed to be 
consecrated.” 
“First the Bishop and his Clergy, togather with the 
Patron or his Deputy shall go round about the cemetery, 
or church-yards, which done, the Bishop and his Clergy 
shall enter into the church at the west door, the Patron 
and people standing without, while the Bishop and Priest 
do vest themselves: in theif respective ecclesiastick 
habits. 
“When they are vested they shall kneel down in the 
body of the church with their faces to the east and say 
togather.” — 
After this ceremony there is the following : 
“ An office to be used in the Restauration of a 
ebureh.” Rubric: 
“When the Fabrick of a church is ruined and a new 
church is built upon the same foundation, the Bishop at- 
tended by his clergy shall enter into the church-yard, 
and go in procession round about the church new built, 
and recite alternately Psalm Ixxiv.” Then “A short 
office for Expiation and Illustration of a church Dese- 
crated or Prophaned ;” and lastly, “Instrumentum Pub- 
licum conficiendum et ad finem Consecrationis publicé 
legendum et postea in Archivis Episcopalibus repo- 
nendum.” 
Much valuable information relative to the con- 
secration of churches and the ancient constitutions 
respecting the same will be found in Bulling- 
brooke’s Ecclesiastical Law and of the Church of 
Ireland, vol. i. p. 253., et seq. R. C. 
Cork. 
Latitude and Longitude (2°° §. i. 134.) — The 
etymology of these terms, and the earliest in- 
stances of their use, will be found in Richardson’s 
Dictionary. W. H. W. T. 
Somerset House. 
The Divining Rod (1* 8. xii. 226.) — The al- 
leged virtues of this have been quite conclusively 
settled by M. Chevreul in his recent work, De la 
Baguette Divinatoire, du Pendule dit Explorateur et 
des Tables tournantes, au point de vue de Uhistoire, 
de la Critique et de la Méthode Experimentale. 
Paris: Mallet Bachelier, 1854. 8vo. I. HA. 
“ History of William III.” (1* S. xii. 267.) — 
Although the work here referred to was not 
written by David Jones, author of The Secret 
History of Whitehall, &c., there is another his- 
torical narrative in the first volume of the Har- 
leian Misceliany, which appears to have been 
written by that author, the title of which is as 
follows : 
“The Wars, and Causes of them, between England and 
France, from William the First to William the Third, 
with a Treatise of the Salique Law. By D.J., and re- 
vised by R.C., Esq. 1697.” 
To the same David Jones, Watt ascribes a Life of 
James IT., illustrated with medals, 1702, 8vo. 
BrsuioTHEcaR. CHETHAM. 
Galilee (2"4 §. i. 131.)—In the Rev. A. P. 
Stanley’s lately published, and most interesting 
work, Sinai and Palestine, at p. 355., in speaking 
of the settlement of the*tribes of Ephraim and 
Judah, is the following passage : 
“From a very early period, their joint territory ac- 
quired the name which it bore under a slightly different 
form in the distribution of the country into a Roman pro- 
vince, ‘ Galil, Galilah, Galilea.’* It would seem to be 
merely another mode of expressing what is indicated by 
the word ‘Ciccar,’ in the case of the Jordan Valley —‘a 
circle,’ or ‘region,’ and as such implies the separation of 
the district from the more regularly organised tribes or 
kingdoms of Samaria and Judea. Gradually, too, it be- 
came to be regarded as the frontier between ‘the Holy 
Land’ and the external world—‘ Galilee of the Gen- 
tiles,’ |—a situation curiously illustrating, if it did not 
suggest, the use of the term in ecclesiastical architecture, 
‘the Galilee,’ or porch of the cathedral of Palestine.” 
C. pe D. 
Dan, Jordan (1% S. xii. 224. 414.) —If Mr. 
Bucxron forgets that Dan, in the north of Judea, 
was not so named till 500 years after the time of 
Abram and Lot, so does his opponent Mr. Hus- 
sey forget that Abram pursued the four kings as 
far as Dan, in order to rescue Lot; and that this 
southern Dan was evidently not far distant from 
the river. (See Gen. xiv. 14.) PSP. 
Absorbent Paper (1% §. xii. 87. 133. 175.) — 
Finely powdered pounce, rubbed in lightly with 
the finger and then burnished with an ivory folder 
will cure the most porous paper. But if, as is 
generally the case with German manufacture, the 
paper has a tinge, the burnishing whitens it. For 
such paper (as for all, except that the resort re- 
quires a poultry-yard) the white of a fresh egg 
applied lightly with a flat camel's hair pencil pro- 
duces a sizing like foolscap. It takes but a few 
minutes to dry, and is perfectly transparent. 
; LH. A. 
Almanacs (1* S. xii. 143.) — Under this head a 
correspondent has referred to the late Mr. Ingra- 
* Josh. xx. 7. Heb. “ Galil ;” 2 Kings xy. 29., Galilah. 
+ Isa. ix, 1. ; Matt. iv. 16, 
