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the stone, on a sudden so struggled drew him backward 
beyond his power to recover that he was choaked.” 
Can any of your Devonshire readers inform me 
whether or not this stone still remains, and if it 
does, whether it is still designated as above ? 
Henry KEnsIncToN. 
Passage in Coleridge (2° S. i. 254.) — An au- 
thor’s name cited simply is understood to mean 
the most eminent of its bearers. In literature 
Coleridge is the poet, in law the judge. The 
Coleridge referred to by “a Layman” was an 
English divine of the last century, who seems to 
have been a learned and pious man. He may 
have been influenced by Spinoza, but not by 
Paulus, who was born in 1761, three years after 
the publication of the Dissertations. As the book 
was published by subscription, and is not common, 
I copy the passage : 
“T would note also that 1 Kings, xvii. 4., DXAYN, the 
Worebim, the ravens, are said to feed Elijah at the brook 
Cherith, before Jordan. Now there is a town mentioned, 
Josh. xv. 6., called Beth-Warebah, or simply Warabah, 
whose inhabitants would be called Worebim, or Hawore- 
bim, the men of Warabah. Hence it is probable that the 
translation, 1 Kings, xvii. 4. 6., should stand thus: ‘And 
it shall be that thou shalt drink of the brook, and I have 
commanded the men of Warabah to feed thee there. 
And the men of Warabah brought him bread and flesh in 
the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening, and he 
drank of the brook.’ This observation, which I suppose 
I may justly claim as my own, will take off one topic of 
ridicule from deistical men, and be more confirmed by 
noting that the town is, Josh. xviii. 22., in the tribe of 
Benjamin, and seems not far from the river Jordan.” — 
Miscellaneous Dissertations arising from the seventeenth and 
eighteenth Chapters of the Book of Judges, by the Rev. Mr. 
John Coleridge, Vicar of, and Schoolmaster at, Ottery St. 
Mary, Devon. London: printed for the Author, 1758. 
Dissertation xxix. p. 234. 
H. B. C. 
Garrick Club. 
Proclamation of Banns (2°° S. i. 270. 341.) — 
The answer of B. B. (p. 341.) to J. K.’s inquiry 
(p- 270.) on the subject of soldiers’ marriages, is 
ealeulated to lead to a false conclusion. B. B. 
says that “ J. K. alludes to the practice in England 
of allowing soldiers [banns] to be proclaimed only 
two Sundays instead of three before marriage.” 
Now J. K. does not assert that there is any such 
practice. We simply says that “he has been fold, 
that in the instance of soldiers who are suddenly 
ordered upon service abroad, the banns are oc- 
casionally published” two Sundays instead of 
three. Ido not believe that such a practice exists. 
If any clergyman has at any time done this, he 
has acted either in gross ignorance or in open 
defiance of his duty. Neither the Marriage Act 
nor the Rubric gives him a discretionary power. | 
The facility with which marriages are solemnised 
“ over the borders” every one knows; and doubt- 
Jess there have been many families lezitimised, 
and many expectant heirs-at-law disappointed, by 
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such proceedings as B. B. has instanced. It is 
satisfactory, however, that the legislature is turn- 
ing its attention to the law of marriage as it now 
prevails in Scotland. 
Apropos of soldiers’ marriages, I was once 
threatened with condign punishment for having 
married a private soldier without the consent of 
his commanding officer. But this threat was “ vox 
et preterea nihil.” The soldier, so marrying, sub- 
jects himself to certain penalties from the military 
authorities, but the officiating clergyman commits 
no offence. GasTRos. 
Legal Jeu" d@ Esprit (24 S. i. 222., “ Gorham 
Controversy.”) — With due respect to Y. B. N. J. 
he has got hold of but a lame version of this ad- 
mirable piece of wit, and has left out the conclu- 
sion, which is singularly pithy and pointed, and is 
as follows: 
“ Chorus and Semi-Chorus of People. 
Hurrah for the Bishop! Hurrah for the Vicar! 
Hurrah for the row that grows thicker and thicker! 
Alas for the Church, that grows sicker and sicker! 
Moral. 
Odium theologicum to fish up, 
In a priest is a curse: 
But in Right Reverend Bishop 
Ecce ter quaterque worse ! 
Q. E. D. 
If the Vicar’s a pest, 
The Bishop Ecce turpior est !” 
Sir George Rose said and wrote so many clever 
things, that it is natural enough for the bar to 
have attributed this brochure alsoto him. I don’t 
pretend to deny his claim to it, but only wish to 
observe that it came out in the Examiner news- 
paper. Y.B.N.J.says it was “handed about,” 
which phrase, I presume, means that it was passed 
from one barrister to another, either verbally or 
in MS., which may account for his incomplete 
version. It puts one in mind of the palmy days 
of Tom Moore and his political squibs. M.H.R. 
Heaven in the sense of Canopy (2°78. i. 133. 
201.)—Is not the use of the word in this sense 
referable in some degree to the beautiful expres- 
sion of the psalmist : 
“ Who stretchest out the heavens as a curtain.” — 
Psalm ciy. 2. 
Or Isaiah xl. 22. — 
“That stretcheth out the heaven as a curtain, and 
spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in.” 
Expressions in which, as Dr. Shaw remarks, 
allusion appears to be made to the kind of veil or 
curtain which in the Hast is expanded over the 
inner courts of the houses (where upon special 
occasions, such as at marriages, &c., the company 
is received), in order to protect them from the 
heat. KR. W. Hackwoop. 
