_The Times_ first appeared under that title on the 1st January, 1788, but bore the Number 941, it being a continuation, under a new name, of the _Universal Register_, of which 940 numbers had been published.--_The Morning Chronicle_ must have commenced in 1769, as a correspondent, F.B., writes to tell us that he possesses No. 242. dated Monday, 12th March, 1770. See further Nichol's _Literary Anecdotes_, i. 303; and for _Morning Advertiser_, established in 1794, the same volume, p.290. Another correspondent writes:--During 1849 the _Morning Chronicle_ has completed its 81st year; next in seniority stands the _Morning Post_, at 77; and the _Morning Herald_, at 65. _The Times_ in the numbering of its days, is in its 64th year, but has not really reached its grand climacteric, for its three years of infancy passed under the name of _The Universal Register_, it having only received its present appellation in the opening of 1788. _The Morning Advertiser_ is wearing away its 54th year. _The Public Ledger_, commenced in 1759, or 1760, is however, the oldest Daily Paper. * * * * * _Dorne the Bookseller--Henno Rusticus, etc._ Sir,--In answer to W. in page 12. of No. 1, I beg to suggest that Dormer, written Dõmr in the MS.--a common abbreviation--may be the name of the Oxford bookseller, and _Henno Rusticus_ may be _Homo rusticus_, "the country gentleman." The hand-writing of this MS. is so small and illegible in some places, that it requires an Oedipus to decipher it; and the public will have much reason to thank those lynx-eyed antiquaries who have taken great pains to render it intelligible. "The _Sige_ of the End," is of course properly explained to be "the Signe of the End." J.I. * * * * * SANUTO'S DOGES OF VENICE. Sir,--The high value of your Journal as a repertory of interesting literary information, which without it might be lost to the world, is becoming daily more apparent from the number and character of your correspondents. You have my best wishes for its success. The communication of Sir FREDERICK MADDEN respecting the singular and obvious error in Marin Sanuto's _Lives of the Doges of Venice_, has renewed in me a desire for information which I have hitherto been unable to obtain; and I will, therefore, with your permission, put it here as a _Query_. Who was the _foreigner_ who gave to the world the very interesting book respecting _Sanuto_ under the following title?--_Ragguagli sulla Vita e sulle Opere di Marin Sanuto, &c. Intitolati dall' amicizia di_ _uno Straniere al nobile Jacopo Vicenzo Foscarini.--Opera divise in trè perti_, Venezia, 1837-8. in 8vo.