[Footnote 2: The accidental resemblances are curious. Thus, _Nebucadnetzar_ is in Russian _nebê kazenniy Tzar_, "A Lord or Prince appointed by heaven;" or, _nebu godnoi_ _Tzar_, "A Prince fit for heaven." _Belshatzar_ is also in Russian _bolszoi Tzar_, "A great Prince;" and _Belteshtzar_, Daniel's Chaldean pagan name, is _byl têsh Tzar_, "he was also a Prince," _i. e._ "of the royal family."] The interpretation of Hessius (_Geschichte der Patriarchen_, i. 83.) is preferred by Rosenmüller: "Ex hujus Doctissimi Viri sententia Lamechus _sese jactat_ propter filios suos, qui artium adeo utilium essent inventores: Cainum progenitorem suum propter cædem non esse punitum, multo minus se posse puniri, si vel simile scelus commisisset. Verba enim non significant, cædam ab eo revera esse paratam, sed sunt verba hominis admodum insolentis et profani. Ceterum facile apparet, hæc verba a Mose ex quodam carmine antiquo inserta esse: tota enim oratio poeticam quandam sublimitatem spirat." The sense of these two verses (Gen. iv. 23, 24.) is, according to Dathe: "_Si propter viri aut juvenis cædem vulnera et plagæ mihi intendantur, cum de Caino poena septuplex statuta fuerit, in Lamecho id fiet septuagies septies._" Herder, in his _Geist der ebräischen Poesie_ (i. 344.) says: "Carmen hoc Lamechi laudes canere gladii a filio inventi, cujus usum et præstantiam contra hostiles aliorum insultus his verbis prædicet: _Lamechi mulieres audite sermonem meum, percipite dicta mea: Occido jam virum, qui me vulneravit, juvenem, qui plagam mihi infligit. Si Cainus septies ulciscendus, in Lamecho id fiet septuagies septies._" T. J. BUCKTON. Birmingham. The legend of the shooting of Cain by Lamech is detailed in _The Creation of the World, with Noah's Flood_, a Cornish mystery, translated into English by John Keigwin, and edited by Davies Gilbert, Esq. The legend and translation, in parallel columns, are given also at pp. 15, 16. of Mr. Gilbert's "Collections and Translations respecting St. Neot," prefixed to descriptive account (in 4to., with sixteen coloured plates) of the windows of St. Neot's Church in Cornwall, by Mr. Hedgeland, who restored them, 1805-1829, at the expense of the Rev. Richard Gerveys Grylls, patron, and formerly incumbent of the living. JOSEPH RIX. St. Neot's, Huntingdonshire. * * * * * LORD COKE'S CHARGE TO THE JURY. (Vol. vii., p. 376.) _Saltpetre-man._--An explanation of this title may be found in a proclamation of King Charles I. (1625): "For the Maintaining and Increasing of the Saltpetre Mines of England, for the Necessary and Important Manufacture of Gunpowder." This proclamation states: