_Spontaneous Combustion_ (Vol. vii., pp. 286. 440.).--I have somewhere read an account of a drunkard whose body was so saturated with alcohol, that being bled in a fever, and the lamp near him having been overthrown, the blood caught fire, and burst into a blaze: the account added, that he was so startled by this occurrence, that on his recovery he reformed thoroughly, and prolonged his life to a good old age. Where is this story to be found, and is the fact related physically possible? It seems to bear on the question of spontaneous combustion. W. FRASER. Tor-Mohun. _Erroneous Forms of Speech_ (Vol vii., p. 329.).--E. G. R. will find, on farther inquiry, that he is in the wrong as regards the mode of writing and speaking _mangold-wurzel_. The subject was discussed in the _Gardeners' Chronicle_ in 1844. There (p. 204.) your correspondent will find, by authority of "a German," that _mangold_ is field-beet or leaf-beet: and that _mangel_ is a corruption or pretended emendation of the common German appellation, and most probably of English coinage. Such a thing as _mangel-wurzel_ is not known on the Continent; and the best authorities now, in this country, all use _mangold-wurzel_. M. P.S.--Since writing the above, I have seen MR. FRERE's note on the same subject (Vol. vii, p. 463.). The substitution of _mangel_ for the original _mangold_, was probably an attempt to correct some vulgar error in orthography; or to substitute a word of some significance for one of none. But, as Dr. Lindley has said, "If we adopt a foreign name, we ought to take it as we find it, whatever may be its imperfections." _Ecclesia Anglicana_ (Vol. vii., pp. 12. 440. 535.).--I gladly set down for G. R. M. the following instances of the use of "Ecclesia Gallicana;" they are quotations occurring in Richard's _Analysis Consiliorum_: he will find many more in the same work as translated by Dalmasus: "Ex _Gallicanae Ecclesiae_ usu, Jubilaei Bullae ad Archiepiscopos mittendae sunt, e quorum manibus ad suffraganeos Episcopos perferuntur."--_Monumenta Cleri_, tom. ii. p. 228. "_Gallicana Ecclesia_ a disciplinae remissione, ante quadringentos aut quingentos annos inducta, se melius quam aliae defendit, Romanaeque curiae ausis vehementius resistat."--Fleurius, _Sermo super Ecclesiae Gallicanae Libertatibus_. I have not time to search for the other examples which he wants; though I have not any doubt but they would easily be found. The English Church has been, I consider, a more Romanising church than many; but, in mediaeval times, the most intimate connexion with Rome did not destroy, though it impaired, the nationality of the church. The church of Spain is, I believe, now one of the most national of the churches in communion with Rome. W. FRASER. Tor-Mohun.