_The Southwark Pudding Wonder._--I have been very much pleased with the perusal of a collection of MS. letters, written by the celebrated antiquary William Stukeley to Maurice Johnson, Esq., the founder of the Gentlemen's Society at Spalding. These letters have not been published; the MSS. exist in the library of the Spalding Society. They contain much interesting matter, and furnish many traits of the manners, character, and modes of thinking and acting of their respected author. Can any of your readers explain the meaning of the following passage, which is found in a letter dated 19th June, 1718: "_The Southwark Pudding wonder is over?_" In the same letter the Dr. alludes to a contested election for the office of Chamberlain of the City of London, which took place in 1718: "The city is all in an uproar about the election of a chamberlain, like a country corporation for burgesses, where roast pig and beef and wine are dealt about freely at taverns, and advertisements about it more voluminous than the late celebrated Bangorean Notification, though not in a calm and undisturbed way." PISHEY THOMPSON. Stoke Newington. _Roman Catholics confined in Fens of Ely._--Mr. Dickens, in _Household Words_, No. 169. p. 382., in the continuation of a "Child's History of England," says, when alluding to the threatened invasion of England by the Spanish Armada: "Some of the Queen's advisers were for seizing the principal English Catholics, and putting them to death; but the queen--who, to her honour, used to say that she would never believe any ill of her subjects, which a parent would not believe of her own children--neglected the advice, and only confined a few of those who were the most suspected among them, in the fens of Lincolnshire." Mr. Dickens had, of course, as he supposed, good authority for making this statement; but, in reply to a private communication, he states it should have been _Fens of Ely_. I am, perhaps convicting myself of gross ignorance by seeking for information respecting it; nevertheless, I venture to ask the readers of at "N. & Q." for a reference to the authentic history, where a corroboration of Mr. Dickens' statement is to be found? PISHEY THOMPSON. Stoke Newington. _White Bell Heather transplanted._--Is it generally known that _white bell_ heather becomes _pink_ on being transplanted from its native hills into a garden? Two plants were shown to me a few days ago, by a country neighbour, flowering pink, which were transplanted, the one three, and the other two, years ago; the former had white bells for two years, the latter for one year only. What I wish to know is, Whether these are exceptional cases or not? W. C. Argyleshire.