{301} NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 178.] SATURDAY, MARCH 26. 1853 [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. * * * * * CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Page Napoleon a Poet, by Henry H. Breen 301 Smith's "Dictionary of Antiquities" and "Dictionary of Biography and Mythology," by P. J. F. Gantillon, B.A. 302 St. Columba's Cross 302 MINOR NOTES:--The "Ball at Brussels," June, 1815: Historical Parallel of April, 1605--Drawing an Inference--Edmund Spenser--The Mint, Southwark 303 QUERIES:-- The Spectre Horsemen of Southerfell 304 MINOR QUERIES:--Passage in Bacon--Lamech killing Cain--Lord Chief Justice Popham--"Her face was like the milky way," &c.--Nelson Rings--Books wanted--Mr. Cromlin--Dr. Fletcher and Lady Baker--Jeremy Taylor and Christopher Lord Hatton--"Pylades and Corinna"-- The Left Hand: its Etymology--The Parthenon 305 REPLIES:-- Mediæval or Middle Ages 306 Consecrators of English Bishops 306 "Grindle" 307 Mummies of Ecclesiastics, by William Bates 308 Vicars-Apostolic in England 308 Banbury Zeal, &c. 310 Dr. South _versus_ Goldsmith, Talleyrand, &c., by Henry H. Breen 311 Irish Rhymes, by Henry H. Breen and Cuthbert Bede, B.A. 312 Count Gondomar 313 Door-head Inscriptions 314 PHOTOGRAPHIC NOTES AND QUERIES:--Photographic Gun-Cotton--Sealing-wax for Baths--Developing Chamber--The Black Tints on Photographic Positives 314 REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Contested Elections--Suicide at Marseilles--Acts xv. 23.--Serpent's Tongue--Croxton or Crostin--Robert Dodsley--Lord Goring--Chaplains to Noblemen--The Duke of Wellington Maréchal de France--Lord North--Mediæval Parchment--"I hear a lion," &c.--Fercett--Old Satchells--Curtseys and Bows--The Rev. Joshua Marsden--Sidney as a Christian Name--The Whetstone--Surname of Allen--Belatucadrus-- Pot-guns--Graves Family--Portrait Painters--Plum Pudding--Muffs worn by Gentlemen--The Burial Service by Heart--Burrow--"Coming home to men's business"-- Heuristic--"Cob" and "Conners"--Lady High Sheriff-- Death of Nelson--Editions of the Prayer-Book prior to 1662--Passage in Juvenal--Tennyson--Capital Punishment 316 MISCELLANEOUS:--