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pects a profit upon it. The wine was bottled in 
1820. ‘The lot consisted of fourteen dozens. 
Edinburgh. 
‘The great Comet (cometh) (2° S. i. 272.) — 
The work of P. Fabricius on the comet of 1556, 
hitherto sought for in vain, has been at last 
discovered by M. Littnow, at Vienna. M. L. has 
not only found the German edition hitherto known 
to exist, but a Latin edition more detailed than 
the former. At the same time the important 
observations by Heller, the Niirnberg astronomer, 
have been disinterred, which make the reappear- 
ance of the mysterious aster this year, 1856, rather 
probable! J. Lorsxy, Panslave. 
15. Gower Street. 
finor Queries. 
John Liston. —Has an Address to this cele- 
brated actor been published, commencing : 
_“ Liston farewell! for once the comic muse 
Looks sad and doleful, griev’d with thee to part,” &e. 
And if it has, who was its author ? 
Liston deserves a biographer ; and, I have been 
told, capital materials exist for a life. I have at 
times seen specimens of his correspondence, and 
it indicates a very superior mind. Where are his 
stores now? All his effects were sold off on his 
son’s death, in 1854. Of course, private docu- 
ments were not dispersed ; but, among other items 
in the catalogue, were (238.) a bust of J. Kemble, 
a most accurate likeness; (314.) a Malacca cane, 
amber top, gold mounted. Liston’s favourite, 
“nortrait, horse and dog ;” an oil painting ditto. 
“Six figures, Liston in as many characters ;” 
(113.) china cups, &c.; (106.) presents from Mrs. 
Mathews. The books, numbering 400, were many 
of them of a religious kind, and especially on 
Biblical criticism. Ei GD: 
Blach Sea, why so called, §c. 2 — 
“Mare hoc, Grecis ob sui profunditatem Nigrum vo- 
eatur, et Latinis mare Majus; cujus aqua semper extra 
in Propontidem confluit, neque in Pontum introrsum re- 
fluit; ejus quoque superficies duleedinem quodammodo 
habet ob perpetuum quamplurium amnium ingentium 
confluxum, introrsum vero salsum est, ac magna piscium 
copia prestat.”— Geographia Cl. Ptolemai, etc., Jo. Ant. 
Maginus, Patavinus, 1608, pt. ii. fol. 232., retro. 
Is the Black Sea so called on account of its 
depth ?* B. H. C. 
“ Apices and Pices.” — 
“Si superest aliquid, hoe forte tributa redundant, 
Qui modo mitto apices, te rogo mitte pices.” 
Venantius Fortunatus, pars i. lib. vii. ¢. 31. 
The above are the concluding lines of one of his 
poetical epistles addressed “ Ad Galactorium Co- 
mitem Burdegalensem.” The MSS. warrant the 
[* See “N, & Q.” 1 S, xi, 102, 283, 393.] ’ 
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reading of quod for hoc, and redundent for redun- 
dant ; but even so, what can be the meaning of 
“ pices ” in this place ? J. 
“ Good boys,” §c.— Whence is the following ? 
“Good boys generally die in their fifth year, not be- 
cause they are good, but because their quiet habits make 
them strangers to mud puddles and oxygen, dirt pies, 
and out-door exercise.” 
R. W. Hacxwoop. 
Scottish Episcopal Church.— Can any of the 
readers of “ N. & Q.” inform me if there are any 
lists preserved, published or unpublished, of the 
Scotch episcopal clergy from 1700 downwards, 
which furnish the dates after which the different 
clergymen took orders, and the colleges at which 
they were educated. Or can any one inform me 
how I can discover the place of education of a 
Scotch episcopal clergyman who was appointed to 
a charge about 1700. Sicma THETA. 
Dr. Stubbins.—In England and Wales De- 
lineated, article “ Ewell,” mentioned as the birth- 
place of Richard Corbet, an English poet and di- 
vine of the seventeenth century, who was chaplain 
to James I., and afterwards raised to the bishop- 
ric of Norwich, we find it narrated that the said 
bishop riding out one day with a Dr. Stubbins, 
who was extremely fat, the coach overturned, and 
both fell into a ditch. The bishop, on giving an 
account of the accident, observed that Dr. Stub- 
bins was up to his elbows in mud, and he was up 
to his elbows in Dr. Stubbins. Can any of your 
correspondents say who was Dr. Stubbins ? 
J. A. LL. 
Birmingham. 
“ Discourse on Emigration of British Birds.” — 
Who is the author of A Discourse on the Emi- 
gration of British Birds; or, the Question at last 
solu'd : Whence come the Stork and the Turtle, the 
Crane and the Swallow? Sc. By a Naturalist. 
Lond. 1795, pp. 64. The introduction is dated 
“ Market-Lavington, Wilis;” and at p.29., in a 
note, he announces that he has a work finished by 
him, entitled A new and complete Natural History 
of British Birds, to be comprised in two large 
volumes octavo, and speedily to appear. Of any 
such work, however, I find no trace. W. H.C. 
Edinburgh. 
Manzy of Barnstable.—Can any of your cor- 
respondents give me any information respecting 
a French Protestant refugee family, Manzy, which 
settled at Barnstable about 1700; or respecting 
any French refugees who settled at Exeter about 
the same time? G. G. 
French Horns. — When did the old French 
horn (cor de chasse) cease to be used in hunting ? 
I met with one lately in a gentleman’s library in 
the country ? JONES. 
