A memoir and portrait of the Rev. Joshua Marsden will be found in the _Imperial Magazine_, July, 1830. He was at that period a preacher among the Wesleyan Methodists, having been for many years previously a missionary in connexion with that people. He was an amiable, ingenious, and worthy man, and although not a powerful, a pleasing poet. Among other things, he published _Amusements of a Mission_, _Forest Musings_, and _The Evangelical Minstrel_. J. H. _Sidney as a Christian Name_ (Vol. vii., p. 39.).--Your correspondent R. D. B., of Baltimore, is informed that the name of Sidney is extremely common in North Wales as a Christian name of either sex, but more particularly of the female. There seems to be no tradition connected with its use. In this part of the principality, the name {319} has generally been assumed more from its euphonistic character than from any family connexion. E. L. B. Ruthin. _The Whetstone_ (Vol. vii., p. 208.).--In your No. 174. of "N. & Q.," E. G. R. alludes to the _Game of the Whetstone_. The following quotation, as bearing on that subject, may not be uninteresting to your readers: "In the fourth year of this king's (Edward VI.) reign, in the month of September, one Grig, a poulterer of Surrey (taken among the people for a prophet, in curing of divers diseases by words and prayers, and saying he would take no money), was, by command of the Earl of Warwick, and others of the Council, set on a scaffold in the town of Croidon, in Surrey, with a paper on his breast, wherein was written his deceitful and hypocritical dealings: and after that, on the eighth of September, set on a pillory in Southwark, being then Our Lady Fair there kept; and the Mayor of London, with his brethren the aldermen, riding through the fair, the said Grig asked them and all the citizens forgiveness. "'Of the like counterfeit physicians,' saith Stow, 'I have noted, in the summary of my _Chronicles_ (anno 1382), to be set on horseback, his face to the horse-tail, the same tail in his hand as a bridle, a collar of jordans about his neck, a _whetstone_ on his breast; and so led through the city of London, with ringing of basons, and banished.' "Whereunto I had added (with the forementioned author) as followeth:--Such deceivers, no doubt, are many who, being never trained up in reading or practice of physicke and chirurgery, do boast to doe great cures, especially upon women; as to make them straight that before were crooked, corbed, or cramped in any part of their bodies, &c. But the contrary is true; for some have received gold, when they have better deserved the whetstone."--Goodall's _Royal College of Physicians_: London, 1684, p. 306. J. S. S. Bath.