_Drawing an Inference._--The following is an amusing instance of false inference, drawn through ignorance of the original. William Rae Wilson is the innocent offender, in his _Travels in Egypt and the Holy Land_ (London, Longmans, 1824, 2nd edition). The author remarks (p. 105.): "This I am inclined to believe was not the track which was taken by the Apostle Paul, when he went up to Jerusalem from the coast, as he appears to have travelled in some _conveyance moved on wheels_; for it is so far from being in any degree possible to draw one along, that, on the contrary, a great exertion is necessary for travellers to get forward their mules." On referring to his authority for such an unapostolic mode of locomotion, we find (Acts xxi. 15.) these words: "And after those days we took up our _carriages_, and went up to Jerusalem." "[Greek: Meta de tas hêmeras tautas aposkeuasamenoi anebainomen eis Hierousalêm.]" The word "carriages" conveyed to the mind of our traveller the idea of a "conveyance moved on wheels;" whereas our translators intended the term to signify _anything carried_. Professor Scholefield, in his _Hints for an improved Translation of the New Testament_, renders the passage, "We put up our baggage." In fact, _carriage_, _luggage_, and _baggage_ may be termed synonymes; for carriage = that which _is_ carried; luggage = that which _is_ lugged; and baggage = that which _is_ bagged. The word "carriage" is used in this sense, Judges xviii. 21., and again 1 Sam. xvii. 22. R. PRICE. _Edmund Spenser._--The subjoined paragraph from _The Times_ newspaper, the readers of "N. & Q." may perhaps wish to find in a less voluminous journal, but by biographers of Spenser more likely to be consulted. "_Edmund Spenser._--The literary world will be glad to learn that the locality of the illustrious author of _The Faëry Queen_ has been ascertained. Mr. F. F. Spenser, of Halifax, in making some researches into the ancient residence of his own family, has been fortunate in identifying it with that of the great Elizabethan bard, and, we are informed, is about to lay the particulars before the public. The little rural village of Hurstwood, near Burnley, in Lancashire, is the honoured locality; and in the romantic Alpine scenery of that neighbourhood it is probable Spenser took refuge when he was driven by academical disappointments 'to his relations in the north of England.' The family of that great poet appear to have resided at Hurstwood about four hundred years, that is, from the early part of the reign of Edward II. to the year 1690."--_The Times_, Wednesday, June 16, 1841. W. P.