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selected " half blue and half red, with an agrafe 

 of silver and the motto ' A bonne fin.' " Shortly 

 after, Etienne Marcel was murdered at the Porte 

 St. Antoine, with sixty of his followers, ^Yhere- 

 upon the colours of the city were suppressed, and 

 remained in obscurity until 1789. 



Upon the accession of the Dauphin to the 

 throne as Charles V., he erected the " Bastille 

 St. Antoine " (on the very spot where Etienne 

 Marcel had been slain), as the first monument of 

 defiance on the part of the crown against the 

 capital, and which remained for centuries a state 

 prison, and the symbol of despotism. By a sin- 

 gular coincidence the Bastille was destroyed the 

 very day upon which the ancient colours of Paris 

 — the colours of Etienne Marcel — became victo- 

 rious over royalty. On that day, July 14, 1789, 

 La Fayette restored the colours of the city to the 

 people, adding thereto the royal emblem " white," 

 and thereby composed that " Tricolor," which, 

 according to La Fayette's prophetic words, " de- 

 vait faire le tour du monde." H. F. H. 



Teudleton, Manchester. 



licjlie^ t0 :^tn0r dhucvie^. 



Saiiit Sunday (2°* S. vi. 132.) —The saint thus 

 designated must be Saint Dominic, in Latin Do- 

 miiiiciis, and from Dominica, the name of Sunday 

 in the Liturgy of the Catholic church, quaintly 

 called in English Saint Sunday. F. C. H. 



Lynn Regis Blonunient (2^^ S. vi. 166.)— The 

 arms are those of King's Lynn in Norfolk, but 

 should have been described as dragons^ heads ; 

 they stand recorded in the Visitation of that 

 county, A. D. 1563 — azure, three dragons' heads 

 erased, each holding a cross-crosslet fitchy, or. Y. 



College of Arms. 



Darwin's Botanic Garden (2°'* S. vi. 165.) — 

 E. B. asks where Miss Edgeworth advances the 

 opinion attributed to her by a writer in the Satur- 

 day Review, Aug. 14, on the value of Darwin's 

 Botanic Garden f The Saturday Reviewer, in 

 common (I suppose) with many of the present and 

 preceding generation, has read Miss Edgeworth's 

 Frank. In that clever child's-book Miss Edge- 

 worth makes quotations from Darwin's poem the 

 proof of her little hero's good memory and rather 

 precocious poetical taste, as well as the occasion of 

 his Jirst experience of the world. The Saturday 

 Keviewer remembers Frank. Peregrin us. 



Family of Fothergill (2'"» S. v. 321.) — In this 

 article by F. B. D. there are several errors. 

 " Thomas Fothergill, B.D., of Brounber," is stated 

 to have been " Master of St. John's College, Cam- 

 bridge, 1668 ;" whereas Pe^er Gunning, afterwards 

 Bishop of Chichester and of Ely, held that office 



from 1661 to 1670. The Rev. John Fothergill, 

 "B.D.," was not "archdeacon of one of the Afri- 

 can settlements," but oi Berbice, in South America. 

 He was appointed to that archdeaconry on its 

 erection in 1842, there having been previously 

 only one archdeacon for the colony of British 

 Guiana ; and he appears to have held that dignity 

 till 1851, since which year no successor has been 

 nominated to it. If Mr. Fothergill was a B.D., he 

 did not receive the degree from either of the Uni- 

 versities of Oxford or Cambridge, and in my lists 

 (MS. Fasti) he is only designated M.A. It should 

 also be noted that there was no clergyman of 

 archidiaconal rank in any part of our African 

 settlements previously to the year 1847. 



Several Fothergills occur as prebendaries 

 during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. 

 John Fothergill was Preb. of Durham in the col- 

 legiate church of St. Mary, Southwell, Northamp- 

 tonshire, from 1660 till his death in 1676-7; 

 T'homas Fothergill held the prebend of Botevant 

 in the cathedral church of York, from 1660 to 

 1677 ; Thomas Fothergill, D.D., was a prebendary 

 of Durham, 1775 to 1776; he was also Provost 

 of Queen's College, Oxford, 1767-96, and Vice- 

 Chancellor of that University, 1772-6. George 

 Fothergill, D.D., was Principal of Edmund Hall, 

 Oxford, from 1751 till his death, 4th Oct. 1760; 

 and others of the name occur, as graduates of Ox- 

 ford, from 1687 to 1798; all of them, with four 

 exceptions, having been Members of Queen's Col- 

 lege. There is no Fothergill among the Graduati 

 Cantabrigienses since the year 1760. 



" The celebrated fight of Sollom Moss," should 

 have been Solway Moss — that disastrous event 

 for Scotland — fought and won by the English, 

 25th Nov. 1542. 



The endowed Grammar School of Ravenstone- 

 dale in Westmoreland was founded in 1688. 



A. S. A. 



Gulliver's Travels (2°* S. vi. 123.) —Prof. De 

 Morgan's interesting paper on Gulliver's Travels 

 is in some parts slightly hypercritical, e. g. when 

 Swift describes the beef and mutton of Laputa as 

 being served up in the shape of equilateral trian- 

 gles, rhomboids, and cycloids, it must surely be 

 understood that the writer is using popular lan- 

 guage, not strict mathematical terms, and that he 

 presupposes the third dimension, or thickness of 

 the slices into which the joints of beef and mutton 

 had been divided. Nor is it reasonable to sup- 

 pose, as insinuated, that Swift had overlooked the 

 fact of cones and cylinders being terms for solids, 

 while parallelograms is a term for a superficies 

 only, vox et prceterea nihil. 



The "awkward satire" respecting the tailor's 

 system of measuritig, is rendered necessary by the 

 other more graceful satire which Pkof. De Mor- 

 gan suggests having been already anticipated in 

 the Lilliputian adventures, where the sempstresses 



