Anti-Gallican (four taverns of this name). Bombay Grab. Essex Serpent. Fortune of War (five). George and Guy (two). Moonrakers (two). Grave Maurice (two). Sun and Thirteen Cantons (two). J. E. Fleet Street. _Old Fable._--There is a fable in the _Vicar of Wakefield_ of two brothers, a dwarf and giant, going out to battle, and sharing the victory but not the wounds. There is another, perhaps a sequel to it, which relates that the dwarf, "tot bellorum superstitem," {156} was choked in the fraternal embrace, with the sorry consolation that it was "the giant's nature to squeeze hard." Are these fables wholly modern or not? I have thought that some such are the key to Juvenal's meaning: "Malim fraterculus esse gigantis;" to the ordinary construing of which there are positive objections. J. E. G. _Tide Tables._--Can you, or any of your subscribers, give me a rule for ascertaining the heights of tides and times of high water, the establishment of the port, and rise of springs and neaps, being known? One divested of algebraic formulæ would be preferred: say-- Establishment 10 h. 58 m. Springs' rise 8½ feet. Neaps' " 2 feet. R. Lancaster. _Passage in Ovid._--In speaking of the rude and unscientific state of the early Romans, in the third book of his _Fasti_, Ovid has the following verses: "Libera currebant, et inobservata per annum Sidera: constabat sed tamen esse Deos. Non illi coelo labentia signa tenebant; Sed sua: quæ magnum perdere crimen erat." V. 111-114. The idea expressed in this passage is that the primitive Romans cared more about war than astronomy. They did not observe the stars, though they believed them to be deities. The pun upon the word _signa_--constellations and military standards--is worthy of notice. But what is the meaning of _libera_, in the first verse? Is it nearly equivalent to _inobservata_, and does it denote the absence of the prying curiosity of men? It cannot be intended that the courses of the stars were less regular before they were the subjects of observation, than after the birth of astronomy. L. _Roger Pele, Abbot of Furness._--Is anything known of the antecedents of Roger Pele, last abbot of Furness, who, after years of trouble and persecution, was at length constrained to execute a deed, dated 5th April, 28 Hen. VIII., whereby he did "freely and hollie surrender, giff, and graunt unto the Kynges highnes and to his heyres and assignes for evermore ... all his interest and titill in the said monasterie of ffurness, and of and in the landes, rentes, possessions, revenous, servyce, both spirituall and temporall," &c.? This deed is, I believe, given at length in the Cotton MSS., Cleopatra E. IV. fol. 244.