3. The words _down_ and _up_ are much misapplied by the inhabitants of the provinces in another sense, not knowing, or forgetting that, _par excellence_, London is considered the highest locality: _from_ every place, how high soever its position, it is "_up_ to London," and _to_ every such place, it is "_down_ from London." In London itself, St. Paul's Cathedral is considered as the highest or central point; and in every street radiating from that point, it is _up_ when going towards it, and _down_ when going from it. In going from St. Paul's to the Poultry we go _down Cheapside_. 4. The inhabitants of provincial towns and cities are much in the habit of saying such a person is not "in town" to-day. That is wrong: they ought to say "in _the_ town." The word _town_ is, _par excellence_, applicable to London alone. ROBERT SMART. Sunderland. _Hexameters from Udimore Register._--The following hexameters are copied from the fly-leaf of a register-book which dates back to 1500. They were written by a vicar in Elizabeth's reign. The burden of the lament is, that the tithes, now worth about 500l. a-year, had been sold by a "sordid unprophetick priest" for 30l. per annum, and that consequently all his successors found themselves "vicars without tithes." The register-book is in the church of Udimore, near Rye, in Sussex: "Udimer infelix! nimis est cui Presbyter unus; Presbyter infelix! cui non satis Udimer una; Impropriator habet Clero quæ propria durus, Atque alter Proprios Clerus peregrinus et hospes; Ex decimis decimis fruitur vir lege sacerdos Alter Evangelio reliquis prohibente potitur Eheu! quam pingui macer est mihi passer in arvo Idem est exitium fidei fideique ministro Ita queritur STEP. PARR, Vic." J. MN. _Dr. Johnson._--The parchment containing the grant of the freedom of the city of Aberdeen to the "Literary Colossus," in 1773, once the property of {203} Mrs. Piozzi, was sold in Manchester in August, 1823, to an eminent bookseller in Bond Street. KIRKWALLENSIS. _Borrowed Thoughts._--We often hear the man who, from his more advanced position, looks with contempt on the wisdom of past ages, likened to the child mounted on his father's shoulder, and boasting that he is the taller of the two. This no new idea. It is probably derived immediately from Mr. Macaulay, who in his _Essay on Sir James Mackintosh_ says: "The men to whom we owe it that we have a House of Commons are sneered at because they did not suffer the debates of the House to be published. The authors of the Toleration Act are treated as bigots, because they did not go the whole length of Catholic Emancipation. Just so we have heard a baby, mounted on the shoulders of its father, cry out, '_How much taller I am than Papa!_'" But it may be traced farther; for hear what Butler says (_Hudibras_, ii. 71.):