_Contested Elections_ (Vol. vii., p.208.).--There is a very fair history of the boroughs of Great Britain, by Edwards, in 3 Vols. 8vo., printed by Debrett in 1792. J. B. X. Y. Z. is informed that a compilation on the subject to which his Query relates was published a few years since in Leeds by Henry Stooks Smith. Speaking from recollection, it appears to be a work of some research; but I cannot say how far it is to be relied on. It may, perhaps, be one of the unfortunate works which have already fallen under his censure. J. B. Prestwich. _Suicide at Marseilles_ (Vol. vii., p. 180.).--In Montaigne's _Essays_ I find,-- "In former times there was kept, in our city of Marseilles, a poison prepared out of hemlock, at the public charge, for those who had a mind to hasten their end, having first, before the Six Hundred, which were their Senate, given an account of the reasons and motives of their design; and it was not otherwise lawful than by leave from the magistrate, and upon just occasion, to do violence to themselves. The same law was also in use in other places."--Book ii. chap. iii., at end. This, however, is not the original authority required by your correspondent. In the earlier part of the same chapter, "Plutarch, _On the Virtuous Deeds of Women_," is referred to as the authority for the statement which Montaigne makes of "The Milesian virgins, that by an insane compact hanged themselves, one after another, until the magistrate took order in it, enacting, that the bodies of such as should be found so hanged should be drawn by the same halter, stark naked, through the city." J. P. Birmingham. _Acts_, xv. 23. (Vol. vii., p. 204.).--From the notes to Tischendorf's _Greek Testament_, it appears that [Greek: kai hoi] is omitted by Griesbach ed. II. anno 1806, as well as by Lachman, on the authority of the four most ancient Greek MSS. distinguished as A, B, C, and D, confirmed by the versio Armenica, and so quoted by Athanasius, Irenæus, Pacian, and Vigilius. The MS. A is referred by Tischendorf to the latter half of the fifth century, and is the Alexandrian MS. in the British Museum. B is the Vatican codex of about the middle of the fourth century. C the codex Ephraemi Syri rescriptus at Paris, and is of the first half of the fifth century; and D is Beza's MS. at Cambridge, of about the middle of the sixth century. MR. SANSOM may find a very interesting letter upon this subject from Dr. Tregelles to Dr. Charles Wordsworth, the present Bishop of St. Andrew's, which was published _very recently_ in the _Scottish Ecclesiastical Journal_, and in which that learned critic defends the omission of the [Greek: kai hoi]. I regret that I cannot furnish him with the number of that Journal, but it was not more than three or four back. I hope that MR. SANSOM will inform your readers of the ultimate result of his inquiries on this interesting subject. P. H.