_Ancient Arms of the See of York._--Can any correspondent enlighten me as to the period, and why, the present arms were substituted for the ancient bearings of York? The modern coat is, Gu. two keys in saltire arg., in chief an imperial crown proper. The ancient coat was blazoned, Az. an episcopal staff in pale or, and ensigned with a cross patee arg., surmounted by a pall of the last, edged and fringed of the second, charged with six crosses formee fitchee sa., and differed only from that of Canterbury in the number of crosses formee fitchee with which the pall was charged. TEE BEE. _Hupfeld._--Can any correspondent of "N. & Q." tell me where I can see Hupfeld, _Von der Natur und den Arten der Sprachlaute_, which is quoted by several German authors? It appeared in Jahn's _Jahrb. der Philol. und Paed._, 1829. If no correspondent can refer me to any place where the paper can be seen in London, perhaps they can direct me to some account of its substance in some English publication. E. C. _Inscription on a Tomb in Finland._--Can any reader of "N. & Q." explain the meaning of the following inscription? "IETATIS IN SUBDITOS MARTYRI .`IET:S CONIUGALIS :: :::IV." It appears on an old monument of considerable size in a Finnish burial-ground at Martishkin near Peterhoff on the Gulf of Finland. The letters are in brass on a stone slab. The dots before the IV., and in the other word, are holes in the stone wherein the missing characters had been fixed. J. S. A. Old Broad Street. _Sir Isaac Newton and Voltaire on Railway Travelling._--Having been forcibly impressed by a {35} paragraph in a popular periodical (_The Leisure Hour_, No. 72.), I am desirous of learning upon what authority the statements therein depend. As, perhaps, it may also prove interesting to some of the readers of "N. & Q." who may not already have seen it, and in the hope that some of your contributors may be able to throw a light upon so curious a subject, I herewith transcribe it: