"When the committee I have mentioned was appointed, March 13, 1700, to consider what might be done towards _propagating the Christian Religion as professed in the Church of England in our Foreign Plantations_; and the committee, composed of very venerable and experienced men, well suited for such an inquiry, had sat several times at St. Paul's, and made some progress in the business referred to them, a charter was presently procured to place the consideration of that matter in other hands, where it now remains, and will, we hope, produce excellent fruits. But whatever they are, they must be acknowledged to have sprung from the overtures to that purpose first made by the lower house of Convocation."--_Some Proceedings in the Convocation of 1705 faithfully represented_, p. 10. of Preface. W. FRASER. Tor-Mohun. _Pigs said to see the Wind._--In _Hudibras_, Independant says to Presbyter: "You stole from the beggars all your tones, And gifted mortifying groans; Had lights when better eyes were blind, _As pigs are said to see the wind_."--Pt. 3. c. ii. l. 1105. That most delightful of editors, Dr. Zachary Grey, with all his multifarious learning, leaves us here in the lurch for once with a simple reference to "Hudibras at Court," _Posthumous Works_, p. 213. Is this phrase merely an hyperbolic way of saying that pigs are very sharp-sighted, or is it an actual piece of folk-lore expressing a belief that pies have the privilege of seeing "the viewless wind?" I am inclined to take the latter view. Under the head of "Superstitions," in Hone's _Year-Book_ for Feb. 29, 1831, we find: "Among common sayings at present are these, _that pigs can see the wind_," &c. The version I have always heard of it is-- "Pigs can see the wind 'tis said, And it seemeth to them _red_." EIRIONNACH. _Anecdote of the Duke of Gloucester._--Looking through some of the Commonwealth journals, I met with a capital _mot_ of this spirited little Stuart. "It is reported that the titular Duke of Gloucester, being informed that the Dutch fleet was about the Isle of Wight, he was asked to which side he stood most addicted. The young man, apprehending that his livelihood depended on the parliament, and that it might be an art to circumvent him, turning to the governor, demanded of him how he did construe 'Quamdiu se bene gesserit.'"--_Weekly Intelligencer._ SPERIEND. * * * * * Queries. LORD WILLIAM RUSSELL.