and which was really the last subject that was ever brought before Convocation. On Jan. 27, 1742, it was unanimously agreed, that "the motion made by the Archdeacon of Lincoln concerning ecclesiastical courts and clandestine marriages, the qualifications of persons to be admitted into holy orders, and the salaries and titles of curates," should be "reduced into writing, and the particulars offered to the House at their next assembly." But in the next session, on March 5, 1742, the Prolocutor, Dr. Lisle, was afraid to go on with the business before the House, and after "speaking much of a _praemunire_," and "echoing and reverberating the word from one side of good King Henry's Chapel to the other," the whole was let drop; and Convocation was fully consigned to the silence and the slumber of a century. The whole of these transactions are detailed in a scarce pamphlet, _A Letter to the Rev. Dr. Lisle, Prolocutor of the Lower House_, by the Archdeacon of Lincoln (the Venerable G. Reynolds). W. FRASER. Tor-Mohun. * * * * * PARALLEL PASSAGES. (Vol. iv., p. 435.; Vol. vi., p. 123.; Vol. vii., p. 151.) 1. "When she had passed it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music."--Longfellow's _Evangeline_, Part i. I. "When she comes into the room, it is like a beautiful air of Mozart breaking upon you."--Thackeray "On a good-looking young Lady." (Quoted in _Westminster Review_, April 1853.) 2. "Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere."--Whence? "We are the twin stars, and cannot shine in one sphere. When he rises I must set."--Congreve, _Love for Love_, Act III. Sc. 4. 3. "Et ce n'est pas toujours par valeur et par chastete que les hommes sont vaillants et que les femmes sont chastes."--De La Rochefoucauld, _Max._ I. "Yes, faith! I believe some women are virtuous, too; but 'tis as I believe some men are valiant, through fear."--Congreve, _Love for Love_, Act III. Sc. 14. 4. "Mais si les vaisseaux sillonnent un moment les ondes, la vague vient effacer aussitot cette legere marque de servitude, et la mer reparait telle qu'elle fut au premier jour de la Creation."--_Corinne_, b. I. ch. 4. "Such as Creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now!"--Byron, _Childe Harold_. 5. "Il est plus honteux de se mefier de ses amis que d'en etre trompe."--De La Rochefoucauld, _Max._ LXXXIV. "Better trust all, and be deceived, And weep that trust, and that deceiving, Than doubt one heart that, if believed, Had blessed thy life with true believing! "Oh! in this mocking world, too fast The doubting fiend o'ertakes our youth: Better be cheated to the last, Than lose the blessed hope of truth!"--Mrs. Butler (Fanny Kemble). 6. In "N. & Q.," Vol. iv., p. 435., I cited, as a parallel to Shelley, the following from Southey's _Doctor_, vol. vi. p. 158.: