"At daybreak the troops were assembled, and Chirosophus, Cleanor, and Xenophon successively addressed them. An accident, in itself even ridiculous, assisted not a little, through the importance attributed to it by Grecian superstition, to infuse encouragement. Xenophon was speaking of that favour from the gods which a righteous cause entitled them to hope for against a perjured enemy, when somebody _sneezed_. Immediately the general voice addressed ejaculations to protecting Jupiter, whose omen it was supposed to be. A sacrifice to the god was then proposed; a universal shout declared approbation; and the whole army, in one chorus, sang the Pæan."--_History of Greece_, vol. v. p. 185. cap. xxiii. sect. iv.: Lond. 1835, 8vo. We must not, however, forget that when Elisha restored the Shunamite's son to life-- "The child _sneezed_ seven times, and the child opened his eyes."--_2 Kings_, iv. 35. RT. _Rents of Assize_ (Vol. v., p. 188.).--Has not J. G. misquoted? Is not the line-- "Regis ad exemplar, totus componitur orbis." J. E. Rochester. _Fire unknown_ (Vol. iv., pp. 209. 283. 331.).--In _An Account of the Native Africans of Sierra Leone_, by T. M. Winterbottom: Lond. 1803, 2 vols., occurs the following note to vol. i. p. 75.:-- "It is said that the inhabitants of the Marian or Ladrone islands were ignorant of the use of fire before they were visited by the Spaniards; but even then they were acquainted with the mode of producing intoxication by means of the wine of the cocoa-nut tree." ZEUS. _Newtonian System_ (Vol. v., p. 490.).--The author of the pamphlet entitled _The Theology and Philosophy of Cicero's Somnium Scipionis explained_, London, 1751, 8vo., was Bishop Horne. He wrote it before he had attained majority, and many attacks were made upon it. It is not included in the edition of his collected works in 6 vols. 8vo. 1809. Bishop Warburton, who cordially disliked the Hutchinsonians, or, as he styled them, the English Cocceians, mentions this tract in his _Letters to Bishop Hurd_: "There is one book, and that no large one, which I would recommend to your perusal; it is called _The Theology and Philosophy of Cicero's Somn. Scip. examined_. It is indeed the ne plus ultra of Hutchinsonianism. In this twelve-penny pamphlet Newton is proved an atheist and a blockhead. And what would you more?"--Warburton's _Letters to Hurd_, edit. 1808, 4to. p. 63. The anecdote as to Newton, Locke, and Lord Pembroke, p. 27., was first told by Whiston, whose character for accuracy does not stand high, particularly when Sir I. Newton, against whom he bore a grudge, is concerned. JAS. CROSSLEY.