2. Is it true that it was removed in the way that I have stated? 3. If so, in whose possession is the stone at this present time? M. A. _Mammon._--Perhaps some of your readers could refer me to some work containing information in reference to the following allegation of Barnes, on Matt. vi. 24.: "Mammon is a Syriac word, _a name given to an idol worshipped as the god of riches_. It has the same meaning as Plutus among the Greeks. It is not known that the Jews even formally worshipped _this idol_, but they used the word to denote wealth." My question relates to the passages in Italics. B. H. C. _Derivation of Wellesley._--In a note to the lately published _Autobiographic Sketches_ of Thomas De Quincey, I find (p. 131.) the following passage: "It had been always known that some relationship existed between the Wellesleys and John Wesley. Their names had in fact been originally the same; and the Duke of Wellington himself, in the earlier part of his career, when sitting in the Irish House of Commons, was always known to the Irish journals as Captain Wesley. Upon this arose a natural belief, that the aristocratic branch of the house had improved the name into Wellesley. But the true process of change had been precisely the other way. Not Wesley had been expanded into Wellesley, but inversely, Wellesley had been contracted by household usage into Wesley. The name must have been _Wellesley_ in its earliest stage, since it was founded upon a connexion with Wells Cathedral." May I ask what this connexion was, and whence the authority for the statement? Had the illustrious Duke's adoption of his title from another town in Somersetshire anything to do with it? J. M. Cranwells, Bath. _The Battle of Cruden--A Query for Copenhagen Correspondents._--In the year 1059, in the reign of Malcolm III., king of Scotland, a battle was fought on the Links of Cruden, in the county of Aberdeen, between the Danes and the Scots, in which the Prince Royal, who commanded the Danish forces, was slain. He was buried on the Danish field, near to which, according to the custom of the times, King Malcolm "biggit ane kirk." This church was overblown with sand, and another built farther inland, which is the present parish church. To the churchyard wall there leans a black marble gravestone, about 7 ft. × 3 ft. 6 in., which is said to have been sent from Denmark as a monument for the grave of his royal highness. The stone has the appearance of considerable antiquity about it, and appears to have been inlaid with marble, let into it about half an inch; the marks of the iron brads, and the lead which secured it, are still visible. "Tradition says it did from Denmark come, A monument the king sent for his son."