[The following passage occurs in the bishop's Charge to the clergy of St. Asaph in 1806, p. 26. "Take especial care, before you aim your shafts at Calvinism, that you know what is Calvinism, and what is not: that in that mass of doctrine, which it is of late become the fashion to abuse under the name of Calvinism, you can distinguish with certainty that part of it which is nothing better than Calvinism, and that which belongs to our common Christianity, and the general faith of the Reformed Churches; _lest, when you mean only to fall foul of Calvinism, you should unwarily attack something more sacred and of higher origin_."] "_Marry come up!_"--What is the origin of this expression, found in the old novelists? It perhaps originates in an adjuration of the Virgin Mary. If so, how did it gain its present form? H. T. RILEY. [Halliwell explains it as an interjection equivalent to indeed! _Marry on us, marry come up, Marry come out_, interjections given by Brockett. _Marry and shall_, that I will! _Marry come up, my dirty cousin_, a saying addressed to any one who affects excessive delicacy.] _Dover Court._--What is the origin of the expression of a "_Dover Court_, where all are talkers and none are hearers?" There is a place called by this name in the vicinity of Harwich? H. T. RILEY. [There is a legend, that Dover-Court Church in Essex once possessed a miraculous cross which spoke, thus noticed in the _Collier of Croydon_: "And how the rood of _Dovercot_ did speak, Confirming his opinions to be true." So that it is possible, as Nares suggests, that this church was the scene of confusion alluded to in the proverb: "Dover Court, all speakers and no hearers." Fox, in his _Martyrology_, vol. ii. p. 302., states, that "a rumour was spread that no man could shut the door, which therefore stood open night and day; and that the resort of people to it was much and very great."] _Porter._--In what book is the word _porter_, meaning the malt liquor so called, first found? I have an impression that the earliest use of it that I have seen is in Nicholas Amherst's _Terrae Filius_, about 1726. H. T. RILEY. [We doubt whether an earlier use of this word, as descriptive of a malt liquor, will be found than the one noticed by our correspondent; for it was only about 1722 that Harwood, a London brewer, commenced brewing this liquor, which he called "entire," or "entire butt," implying that it was drawn from one cask or butt. It subsequently obtained the name of _porter_, from its consumption by porters and labourers.] _Dr. Whitaker's Ingenious Earl._--