Daignez, Monsieur le Général, agréer l'assurance de la haute considération avec laquelle J'ai l'honneur d'être, de votre Excellence, Le très-obéissant serviteur, EMOUF. EDWARD FOSS. _Erroneous Forms of Speech._--Since you allow your correspondents to correct such words as _teetotal_, I hope you will allow me to call the attention of your agricultural readers to the corruption in the word _mangold_, as they now write it. The word is in German _mangel wurzel_, root of scarcity. It is wrong to use even such a name as this, in my opinion, while we have the English name _beet_, which has the additional advantage of being derived from the botanical name _Beta_. But if a new name must be used, let it, at any rate, be the pure German _mangel_, and not the mongrel _mangold_. Indeed, those who spell the word in the latter way, ought in common consistency to write _reddishes_, _sparrowgrass_, and _cowcumbers_ for radishes, asparagus, and cucumbers. E. G. R. * * * * * QUERIES. EUSTACHE DE SAINT PIERRE. (Vol. vii., p. 10.) MR. KING'S inquiry reminds me of two Queries on the same subject which I sent you as far back as the end of 1851, or beginning of 1852. Those Queries have not appeared in "N. & Q.," and I was led to suppose, either that you had laid them aside for some future occasion, or had found something objectionable in the form in which they were presented. The following is a literal copy. "There are two circumstances connected with this event (the surrender of Calais), respecting which I am desirous of obtaining information. The first has reference to the individuals who offered themselves as victims to appease the exasperation of Edward III., after the obstinate siege of {330} that town in 1347. They are represented as _six_ of the principal citizens; Eustache de Saint Pierre was at their head, and the names of three others have come down to us, as Jean d'Aire, Jacques de Wissant, and Pierre de Wissant. Who were the other two? "The second point relates to the character of that occurrence. Some historians are of opinion that the devotedness of Saint Pierre and his associates was prompted by the most exalted sentiments of patriotism; while others assert that it was all a 'sham,' that Saint-Pierre was secretly attached to the cause of the English monarch, and that he was subsequently employed by him in some confidential negociations. To which of these opinions should the historical inquirer give his assent?"