_Folkestone_ (Vol. vi., p. 507.).--Various etymologies have been given with a view of arriving at the right one for this town. I have to inform you that the places of that part of Kent where Folkeston, so properly spelt on the seal of the ancient priory, is situated, receive their etymologies from local or geological distinctions. Folkeston forms no exception to the general rule. The soil consists of a most beautiful yellow sand, such as the {167} Romans distinguished by the word _Fulvus_. This the Saxons contracted into Fulk, which word has become a family prenomen, as in Fulke-Greville, Fulk-Brooke; in other terms, the yellow Greville or yellow Brook; and Folkeston is nothing more than the yellow town, so called from the nature of the soil on which it is built. S. _The Curfew Bell_ (Vol. vi., p. 53.).-- "During the last 700 years, the curfew bell has been regularly tolled in the town of Sandwich: but now it is said it is to be discontinued, in consequence of the corporation funds being at so low an ebb as not to allow of the payment of the paltry sum of some 4l. or 5l. per annum."--_Kentish Observer._ ANON. _Confirmation Superstition_ (Vol. vi., p. 601.).--It is singular, that though the office is called "the laying on of _hands_," the rubric says, "the bishop shall lay his _hand_ on the head of every one severally." When was the [Greek: epithesis cheirôn] (Heb. vi. 2.) changed into an [Greek: epithesis cheiros]? A. A. D. _Degree of B.C.L._ (Vol. vii., p. 38.).--On Feb. 25, 1851, a statute was passed at Oxford, by Convocation, which requires that the candidate for the degree of B.C.L. should have passed his examination for the degree of B.A., and attended one course of lectures with the Regius Professor of Civil Law. In the case of particular colleges, twenty terms must have been kept: by members of other colleges, twenty-four terms must have been completed. The examination is upon the four books, or any part of them, of the _Institutes of Justinian_, or works which serve to illustrate them in the science of civil law, of which six months' notice is previously given by the Regius Professor. At Cambridge, a B.A. of four years' standing can be admitted LL.B. The candidate must have passed the previous examination; attended the lectures of the professor for three terms; be examined; and after four years' standing, and residence of three terms, keep his act. MACKENZIE WALCOTT, M.A. _Robert Heron_ (Vol. vi., p. 389.).--The literary career of this individual in London is selected by D'Israeli as an illustration of his _Calamities of Authors_. Some farther particulars of him, in an editorial capacity, will be found in _Fraser's Magazine_, vol. xx. p. 747. WILLIAM BATES. Birmingham.