As I am dealing with corrections in the play of _King Henry VIII._, I may take occasion to observe that MR. COLLIER, in his recent supplemental volume of _Notes and Emendations_, has, I have no doubt unwittingly, stated that a passage, Act IV. Sc. 2., has been absurdly pointed, "over and over again, from the year 1623 to our own day." Whereas it will be found corrected, exactly as it stands in his second folio, in the edition I gave of Shakspeare in 1826, with a note adverting to the absurdity of the old pointing. I may further add, that the first instance MR. COLLIER gives in his preface of the corrections in his folio, is in the same predicament. He has stated that the reading of "Aristotle's _cheeks_" for "Aristotle's _ethics_," in the first scene of the _Taming of the Shrew_, "has been the invariable text from the first publication in 1623 until our own day;" when the fact is, that it stands properly corrected in my edition in 1826, with the following note: "Blackstone suggests that we should read _ethics_, and the sense seems to require it; I have therefore admitted it into the text." It is possible that MR. COLLIER may have never looked into my edition of the poet, and I may honestly say that I regret it, not on my own account but on his, for I think, had he consulted it, his own would not have been the worse for it. S. W. SINGER. Manor Place, South Lambeth. * * * * * MINIATURE RING OF CHARLES I. (Vol. vi., p. 578.) By the courtesy of W. K. Rogers, Esq. (in whose possession it is), I am enabled to account for another of these interesting and invaluable relics; one of the four said to have been presented by the Martyr prior to his execution. "ROGERS OF LOTA. This family was early remarkable for its loyalty and attachment to the Crown; a ring is still preserved as an heir-loom, which was presented to its ancestor by King Charles I. during his misfortunes."--Burke's _Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland_. Robert Rogers of Lota received extensive grants of land from Charles II., which upon the accession of James II. were confirmed to him by letters patent. He was Mayor of Cork, 1680, M. P. for that city 1692, and again 1695. In the body of his will, bearing date 1690, and registered in the Record Court, Dublin, occurs the following {185} paragraph, embraced by brackets, as if he wished to convey forcibly his appreciation of the value of the relic: ["And I also bequeath to Noblett Rogers the miniature portrait-ring of the martyr Charles I., given by that monarch to my ancestor previous to his execution; and I particularly desire that it may be preserved in the name and family."]