As some of your correspondents doubt as to the proper reading I have thought it worth while to give this duplicate version. I recollect the inscription well, having been sorely puzzled, when a schoolboy, in my frequent walks to High Sunderland, to understand these two inscriptions. I must not omit the inscription on the south front: "Omnipotens faxet, stirps Sunderlandia sedes Incolet has placide, et tueatur jura parentum, Lite vacans, donec fluctus formica marinos Ebibat et totum testudo perambulet orbem!" The commentary of the worthy historian is edifying: "The writer of these, or his son, alienated this very estate, which the then owner so earnestly wished might continue in the family for ever!" JAMES CROSSLEY. On the portico of Arley Hall, the seat of the ancient family of Warburton, and about four miles from the town of Northwich, Cheshire, the following "free pass" to visitors appears, carved in stone: "This gate is free to all men, good and true; Right welcome thou, if worthy to pass through." T. HUGHES. Chester. "_Time and I_," &c. (Vol. vii., p. 181.).--Who was the author of this adage? Lord Mahon gives it as a favourite saying of Mazarin (_History of England_, vol. ii. p. 100., small edition). Mr. Stirling (_Cloister Life of Charles V._, p. 151., 2nd edition) tells us that it was a favourite adage of {586} that temporising monarch. Perhaps it was a well-known Spanish proverb. CHEVERELLS. _Lowbell_ (Vol. vii., p. 181.).--The inclosed was taken from the _Northampton Herald_ of the 16th April, 1853: