W. W. _Suicide encouraged in Marseilles._--In the _Lancet_ of Nov. 30, 1839, it is stated by De Stone that anciently, in Marseilles, persons having satisfactory reasons for committing suicide were supplied with poison at the public expense. What authority is there for this? I should also like to be informed what was the occasion on which a suicidal propensity in the Milesian ladies was corrected by an appeal to their posthumous modesty? ELSNO. _Fabulous Bird._--Among the many quaint and beautiful conceits in Fuller, there is one preeminently fine: in which he likens the life-long remorse of a man who has slain another in a duel to the condition of "a bird I have read of, which hath a face like, and yet will prey upon, a man; who, coming to the water to drink, and finding there, by reflection, that he had killed one like himself, pineth away by degrees, and never afterwards enjoyeth itself." Where did Fuller read this story? I do not recollect it in Pliny. V. T. STERNBERG. _Segantiorum Portus._--Has there been any locality yet found for this port, mentioned by Ptolemy in his _History of Britain_? PRESTONIENSIS. _Stamping on Current Coinage._--Can any of your readers inform me whether the current English coinage may legally be used for stamping advertisements on? GREGORY. _Rhymes: Dryden._-- "Thou breakst through forms, with as much ease As the French king through articles." "To Sir G. Etherege." "Some lazy ages, lost in sleep and ease, No action leave to busy chronicles." _Astræa Redux_, 105, 106. And again, in _Threnodia Augustalis_, "these," ending line 410, and "miracles," ending line 414, are made to rhyme. Was it ever the fashion to pronounce these different terminations alike; or does any other author of repute of that date use such rhymes? Again, "hour" and "traveller" are made to rhyme in _Astræa Redux_, 147, 148; "stars" and "travellers," in _Religio Laici_, 1; "are" and "Lucifer," in _The Medal_; "men" and "sin," in _Religio Laici_, 89, 90; "convince" and "sense," in _Ibid._ 148; _cum multis aliis_. HARRY LEROY TEMPLE.