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THE TURKISH ALLIANCE, TEMP. Q. ELIZABETH. WILLIAM CECIL, afterwards Earl of Exeter, in a letter to Lord Talbot, at Stafford, dated Oct. 23, 1590, refers to a then vastly different position in the preponderance of Turkey in Europe, to what it is now.

"The Turke had not he bene prevented by or Ambass. intended to set uppon the Kinge of Poland wth 60,000 men; but, understanding her Majestie had greate neede of many things fro. yt countrey necessary for her navies, he withdrewe his force, though he was assured of victorie, only for her Majestie's sake, who received greate thanks fro- ye Kinge of Poland; and ye Turke hath him self written to her Majestie letters, wth most greate titles, assuring her yt if she will wright her letter to him, to require him, he will make ye King of Spain [Philip the Second] humble him self unto her. He also threatened invasion to those of Marsaly [i. e. Marseilles,] yt theruppon, they have yielded to [Henry the Fourth] ye Kinge of Fraunce, otherwise he vowed to have spoyled their cittie."

The Russians seem now to be playing the Turk in Europe.

MY LOVE, GOOD-MORROW!
PACKE clowdes away, and welcome day;
With night we banish sorrow.
Sweet Ayre blow soft, mount Larke aloft,
To give my Love, good-morrow!
Winges from the winde, to please her mind,
Notes from the Larke Ile borrow;
Bird prune thy wing, Nightingale sing,
To give my Love, good-morrow!

To give my Love good-morrow!
Notes from them all Ile borrow!
Wake from thy nest, Robin red-breast;
Sing birds in ev'ry furrow,
And from each bill, let Musicke shrill,

Give my fair Love good-morrow!
Blacke-bird and Thrush, in ev'ry bush,
Stare Linnet, and Cock-sparrow;
You pretty elves, amongst yourselves,
Sing my fair Love good-morrow.
To give my Love good-morrow,
Sing Birds in ev'ry furrow.
THOMAS HEYWood, 1630.

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RECOLLECTIONS OF DIRTY DICK'S HOUSE. IT must have been sometime in or about the year 1803 or 4, when my Father first took me to London, we travelled by the fast coach, which left Coventry at 8 p.m. the time was fixed for leaving; very different as to its arrival! for on my enquiring at the coach office what time we should get to London, the bookkeeper replied, "Ah! that's more than I can tell! but I should think about dinner time next day! this proved to be an excellent guess.

Leadenhall Street. I have no doubt it was on the right Among other sights, was Dirty Dick's Warehouse in hand side, going from the City. The number of the House was 46. My father was about to describe the peculiarities of this store to me, when Mr. Bentley made his appearance, and said, without much suavity of manner, I wonder what you country loobies want here," or some such expression. His appearance is now present to my mind, and somewhat resembled in countenance the founder of modern Leamington, Benj. Satchwell, whom I well knew, and whose portrait I offer for acceptance.

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In one of the periodicals about half a century ago,* I remember there is an elevation of Bentley's House, and in the Wonderful Magazine is a plate of the large Drawing Room, in a dilapidated state, with a good account of this celebrated emporium for "wares of all sorts." JOHN MERRIDEw.

35, Bath Street, Leamington.

The portrait and many amusing peculiarities of Nathaniel Bentley, alias Dirty Dick, will be found in Wilson's Wonderful Characters, vol. i. p. 166; in Kirby's Wonderful Museum, vol. i. p. 445; and in the fourth volume of the Eccentric Museum, 1807.

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CRUCIFIX OF KING EDWARD THE CONfessor.

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"In 1688, a singular narrative was published, under the name of Charles Taylor, Gent., but actually written by Keepe, author of the Monumenta Westmonasteriensia,' relating to the finding of a crucifix and gold chain in King Edward's coffin; which, either from design or accident, had a hole broken through the lid, when the scaffolding was removed that had been erected for the coronation

of James the Second and Queen Mary, in 1685. It appears from the account, that several weeks had elapsed before the writer inspected the opening, which was about six inches long and four broad.' On putting my hand in the hole," he continues, "and turning the bones which I felt there, I drew from underneath the shoulder bones a crucifix richly adorned and enamelled, and a gold chain of twenty-four inches long." After these articles had continued in his own possession about a month,' and been shewn to the Archbishops of York and Canterbury, who look'd upon 'em as great pieces of antiquity,' he was introduced by the Dean of Westminster to the king, at Whitehall, who accepted the sacred treasure with much satisfaction;' and soon afterwards sending to the Abbey, ordered the old coffin to be inclosed in a new one, that no abuse might be offered to the sacred ashes.' The head of the sainted monarch was 'firm and whole,' and the jaws full of teeth, A list of gold about an inch broad, in the nature of a coronet, surrounded the temples. There was also in the coffin white linen, and gold-coloured flowered silk, that looked indifferent well, but the least stress put thereto shewed it was well nigh perished.' Both the chain and crucifix were of pure gold; the former consisted of oblong links, curiously wrought, and connected by a gold locket, (ornamented with two large red stones, supposed to be rubies) from which the crucifix was dependent: the latter resembled a cross bottony in its form, excepting that the perpendicular beam was about one-fourth longer than the transverse one. It was richly enamelled, having on one side the picture of our Saviour Jesus Christ, in his passion wrought thereon, and an eye from above casting a kind of beams upon him; whilst on the reverse is pictured a Benedictine monk, and on each side of him, these capital Roman letters: (A)

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On the right limb, thus Z`A X-and on the left, thus AC

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The cross was hollow, for the purpose, as presumed, of containing some relic, and could be opened by two little screws at the top; its length was four inches."

This extract is from Brayley's History and Antiquities of the Abbey Church of St. Peter, Westminster, 1823, 4to. vol. ii. p. 71.

Can any of your correspondents explain the meaning

of these letters?

Lanchester.

MONKBARNES.

MAJOR ANDRE.-The grave of this meritorious officer was denoted by a small tree, planted near his head, by some friendly hand; and about five and twenty years since, when the body was exhumed from the place of its interment, near the Hudson, for the purpose of bringing it to England; the roots of the tree were found to have closely entwined the skull by a net-work. H. M..

EVANGELIST SPOONS, Current Notes, p. 72.-Steevens on the passage in Shakespeare's King Henry VIII., act V. sc. 2, when the King having bade Cranmer stand godfather to the Infant Princess Elizabeth, in reply to his plea of poverty and humbleness, as a gentle remonstrance, says

"Come, come, my Lord, you'd spare your spoons;" observes, it was the custom long before the time of Shakespeare for the Sponsors at christenings to offer gilt spoons, as a present to the child. These spoons were called Apostle Spoons, because the figures of the Apostles were carved on the handles. Such as were at once generous and opulent gave twelve. Those who were moderately rich or liberal, escaped at the expence of the Four Evangelists, or even sometimes contented themselves with presenting one spoon, that exhibited the figure of any saint, in honour of whom, the child received the name.

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When the Infante Don Sancho, Archbishop-elect of Toledo, and brother of Eleanor of Castile, wife of Prince Edward, afterwards King Edward the First, came to England in December 1254, to prepare for the reception of his sister, he was accompanied by Sir Garcias Martinez, a Spanish Nobleman of some celebrity, and a numerous suite. The New Temple, in Fleet Street, was appointed for their residence, but the Londoners were scandalised to see the Archbishop-elect, a boy of twenty, riding in great state, wearing a ring on his thumb, and bestowing his benediction utterly at variance with English customs and habits; that on the people; they remarked that their manners were while the walls of their lodgings in the Temple were hung with silk and tapestry, and the very floors covered with costly carpets, their retinue was disorderly and vulgar in lar feelings on these subjects, notwithstanding King Henry the extreme; and many mules, but few horses The poputhe Third's injunctions, were freely vented in abusive language and sarcastic allusions to the gluttony and luxuriousness of these aliens. No earlier notice of the introduction of carpets into England, has occurred to the writer. Notices from correspondents will be acceptable.

COMPLAINT OF A LOVER.-In the steward's book of "Accounts and Memoranda of Sir John Howard, Knight, from 1463 to 1471;" printed at the expense of Mr. Beriah Botfield, for the Roxburghe Club in 1841; there is, under the date of April 1467, p. 620, the following fragment of some love verses, that may afford some gratification to the poetical antiquary. It is there written as prose, and very oddly appears in the manuscript, as a paragraph of the items in account.

A lake for low mey leyfe ys lorne,

Yn betture balys here mone I be;

Fore one of the breytest that ever was borne,
With yowtyne speyre hat wondyd me,

But store I stoy the whane I mey lowe not.
Can any of your correspondents supply the rest; or is
it at all known to them?
H. M.

THE DODO.-The complete skeleton of this asserted now extinct bird, is said to have been recently discovered, where is it? Leguat, in his voyage at the commencement of the last century, speaks of the Dodo as an inhabitant of the island of Roderique, one of the group eastward of Madagascar. He there describes it as the "Solitaire, or the Solitary, because they are rarely seen in flocks, although there is abundance of them." Early in the reign of Charles the First, a living specimen was exhibited in London; when dead it was stuffed and preserved in Tradescant's Museum at Lambeth. This collection, with Ashmole's other rarities, founded the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; and although the bill and one foot are all that remain, the whole was entire in that depositary in 1700.

T.

BRITISH MUSEUM.-The recent return to the House of Commons states, that, at the end of the year 1848, the books in the Library were estimated at 435,000 volumes. The additions in the next four years amounted to 58,110 volumes; to which are to be added, parts or portions of volumes, when completed and bound, at three thousand per annum more, amounting in all to 12,000. Five thousand volumes have been added this year; and the estimated total number of volumes, by the last return, are 510,110.

HAND-BOOK.-Whence the origin of the phrase as applied to modern books? J. R.

AMBITION A FOLLY.-Peter Hein, a distinguished Admiral in the Dutch service, rose to that rank from a cabin boy; and in a desperate conflict with the Spaniards was killed in the moment of victory. Their High Mightinesses, in respect of his valour, sent a deputation to condole with his mother, upon the loss of her son. The old woman was found in her original obscurity at Delft, and in her simplicity, replied to the Deputies"I always foretold that Peter would perish like a miserable wretch that he was: he loved nothing but rambling from one country to another, and now he has the reward of his folly."

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ST. BARNABAS DAY.-I should like to know the authority for the rhyme, "Barnaby bright-longest day and shortest night." Before the change in the style, the longest day may have been June 11th, but how could St. Barnabas remain immoveable, when Christmas, Lady Day, and every other festival moved forwards in the amended calendar? Here is another question: Is the morrow of a feast the same morning, or the morning following? I imagine the doubt has arisen from the expression good morrow, being convertible with good morning. Probably good morrow was the salutation when day was declining, and the evil principle was believed to be rising in the ascendant. Y. S. N.

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BOLD AND SPIRITED. Reynolds and Burke, one night standing in the plaister-room at the Royal Academy, one of the pupils approached the President, with his drawing, and placing it in his hands, said, in reference to his effort: "Very bold and very spirited, Sir Joshua." Reynolds, with his usual mildness, honoured it with a glance; and, in passing it to Burke, observed: " Very bold;" the latter, on returning it to the youthful Raphael, continued the President's commendation, with "and very spirited."

GENIUS.

AND what is Genius? 'Tis the sacred flame
That burns upon the altar of the mind.
'Tis fed by Fancy! who with ready hand,
Gathers the fuel e'en from distant climes:
From earth, from sea, from sky; ceaselessly fanned
By fair Imagination's out-spread wing.
While oft it glows so vividly intense
As to consume its altar. Yet, oft too,
It purifies the shrine where it is placed,
And bearing incense sweet, mounts upward still
More bright, more pure, till in its native heav'n
It gleams effulgent with light celestial.

A. D. W. NEW ZEALAND.-Mr. Chapman, formerly Judge of the Supreme Court, stated at a recent meeting that New Zealand possesses more writers, literary and scientific, than any other British colony.

DODSLEY'S SHOP IN PALL-MALL. FREQUENT as my visits have been to the metropolis, I have in vain endeavoured to trace the shop or house formerly distinguished as Dodsley's. I have glanced over scores of title-pages, dated even more than a century back, but it is ever "in Pall Mall;" never affording the slightest clue to its position. I have asked many other persons, who were surprised the question had not occurred to them before, but were unable to afford any intimation, and yet expressed themselves to be also desirous of acquiring the knowledge, from the Dodsleys' having been so long and so creditably associated with much of the literature and London publications of the past century. Mr. Cunningham's "Handbook of London," it was observed, would certainly solve the difficulty, but on referring, he simply names among the eminent inhabitants-"Robert Dodsley, the bookseller, originally a footman; he opened a shop here in 1735, with the sign of Tully's Head, and dying in 1764, was buried at Durham." But, after him, was his brother James Dodsley, who had been in partnership with Robert; with his name, however, all trace of their place of business appears to have passed away. Will any of your readers and correspondents, kindly point out the locality, or has the mutations in that neighbourhood, so wholly effaced the house, that it may now be only mentioned or named among the notables that were. J. M. Liverpool, Oct. 8.

Like the old Coffee Houses and the Taverns, Dodsley's shop, or place of business, his residence and warehouse, was up a long entrance, opposite to Marlborough House, in Pall Mall. The "Tully's Head," that so frequently figures as a vignette on Dodsley's title pages, was a gilded head, as a sign, placed over the door of the entrance passage in Pall Mall. The long entry and the position of Dodsleys' shop, for the sale of books, published solely by them, is defined in Horwood's Map of London, 1794; there numbered No. 65, on the north side of Pall Mall. Dodsley's house abutted, and in fact, encroached, on one corner of the pleasure garden attached, and behind Nerot's Hotel, a fine large old house, facing Bury Street, in King Street, St. James's; and denoted No. 19, in Horwood's map. The hotel lastly occupied as a warehouse, was demolished by Mr. Braham, and on the site of the house and garden much of the eastern portion of St. James's Theatre now stands.

Dodsley's premises were six or seven years since rased to the ground, by the late Mr. George Tattersall, who erected there several suites of chambers, the entrance to which in Pall Mall, in accordance with recent alterations and enlarged buildings, is now No. 58.-EDITOR.

M. SCRIBE, the Nestor of the French dramatic writers, has purchased the estate of Courbetire, in the neighbourhood of Chateau-Thierry, for 260,000 francs, or, in English money, 10,4007.; a sum no English dramatist ever possessed.

NIAGARA FALLS.-On the morning of Sept. 9th, the remainder of the Table-rock fell, with a tremendous crash.

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They appear to have attended as the band of musicians at this Festival, given on the part of the returned members. There were no Parliamentary inquiries in those days, or it would have been charged against them as a gross act of treating; and the votes of the men of Suffolk seem to have been propitiated by a large amount of good cheer, "wine at gentlemen's lodgings," hogsheads of wine, and barrels of beer.

Sir John Howard, knight, of Stoke by Neyland, in Suffolk, was the eldest son of Sir Robert Howard, knight, by Margaret, daughter of Thomas and cousin, and eventually co-heir to John Mowbray, the last of that family, Dukes of Norfolk. Upon the assumption of the crown by King Edward the Fourth, he was as a Yorkist, made Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, and rewarded with certain manorial grants. In January 1467, he met the ambassadors of the Duke of Burgundy at Gravesend, whence he escorted them in the King's barge to London. In June following, he accompanied Margaret, the King's sister, to Flanders, on her marriage with Charles, Comte de Charalois, afterwards Duke of Burgundy. It is probable, that on his return, he brought over "the Bastard of Burgoyne," as shortly after, Sir John acted as Deputy Marshal for the Duke of Norfolk, at the great jousting in Smithfield, between Anthony, Lord Scales, and the Bastard of Burgundy; and when that personage quitted England, Sir John escorted him to Calais.

Sir John Howard subsequently held many high and prominent distinctions in an official capacity, and was by King Richard III. created on June 28, 1483, Duke of Norfolk and Earl Marshal of England, with remainder to his heirs male. Upon the landing of the Duke of Richmond, he marched resolutely to the assistance of Richard, and commanded the archers at Bosworth-field, where he fell on the 22nd of August, 1485. He was buried in the Abbey of Thetford, and by the act passed in the first year of King Henry the VIIth, was, with his son Thomas, Earl of Surrey, attainted.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

D. Current Notes, p. 30. British Galleries of Art, printed for the Whittakers, in 1824, was written by Patmore. The volume noticed, Current Notes, p. 66, was a rival publication.

J. GARLAND will find at p. 31, ante, the composition of the music to Lady Ann Lindsay's ballad of Auld Robin Gray, is already stated to be "by the Rev. William Leeves, rector of Wrington, near Bristol, the birthplace of Locke."

VAN OS.-Will H. W. forward his address to the undersigned, as probably he may be enabled to assist H. W., in the object sought? JOHN GARLAND.

Dorchester, Oct. 1.

J. D.-The Whittington Club in Arundel-street, Strand, as a literary institution, is fast declining; it will possibly not subsist six months, although its capabilities and position are unrivalled.

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