PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Stereoscopic Angles--Mr. Pumphrey's Process for securing black Tints in Positives 348 REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Baskerville the Printer--Lines on Woman--Haulf-naked--Cambridge and Ireland-- Autobiographical Sketch--Archbishop Chichely--"Discovery of the Inquisition"--Divining Rod--"Pinece with a stink"-- Longevity--Chronograms--Heraldic Notes--Christian Names-- "I put a spoke in his wheel"--Judges styled Reverend--Palace at Enfield--Sir John Vanbrugh--Greek Inscription on a Font--"Fierce"--Giving Quarter--Sheriffs of Glamorganshire-- "When the maggot bites"--Connexion between the Celtic and Latin Languages--Bacon's Essays, &c. 349 MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, &c. 354 Books and Odd Volumes wanted 354 Notices to Correspondents 354 Advertisements 355 * * * * * Notes. NOTES ON NEWSPAPERS: "THE TIMES," DAILY PRESS, ETC. A newspaper, rightly conducted, is a potent power in promoting the well-being of universal man. It is also a highly moral power--for it quickens mind everywhere, and puts in force those principles which tend to lessen human woe, and to exalt and dignify our common humanity. The daily press, for the most part, aims to correct error--whether senatorial, theological, or legal. It pleads in earnest tones for the removal of public wrong, and watches with a keen eye the rise and fall of great interests. It teaches with commanding power, and makes its influence felt in the palace of the monarch, as well as through all classes of the community. It helps on, in the path of honorable ambition, the virtuous and the good. It never hesitates or falters, however formidable the foe. It never crouches, however injurious to itself the free and undisguised utterance of some truths may be. It is outspoken. When the nation requires them, it is bold and fearless in propounding great changes, though they may clash with the expectations of a powerful class. It heeds the reverses to which a nation is subjected, and turns them to good account. It does not abuse its power, and is never menaced. It is unshackled, and therefore has a native growth. It looks on the movements of the wide world calmly, deliberately, and intelligently. We believe the independency of the daily press can never be bribed, or its patronage won by unlawful means. Its mission is noble, and the presiding sentiment of the varied intellect employed upon it is "the greatest good to the greatest number." It never ceases in its operations. It is a perpetual thing: always the same in many of its aspects, and yet always new. It is untiring in its efforts, and unimpeded in its career. We look for it every day with an unwavering confidence, with an almost