I have neither a Welsh dictionary nor one of the ancient Cornish language at hand, but I have no doubt that the same word, with the same signification, will be found in both those dialects of the Celtic, probably with some difference of spelling, which would bring it nearer to the word _clunk_. It is not wonderful that a word, the sound of which is so expressive of the action, should have continued in use among an illiterate peasantry long after the language from which it is derived was forgotten; but many pure Celtic words, which have not this recommendation, are still in common use in Cornwall, and a collection of them would be highly interesting. Could not some of your antiquarian correspondents in the west, MR. BOASE of Penzance for example, furnish such a list? I will mention one or two words which I chance to remember: _mabyer_, a chicken, Breton _mab_, a son, _iar_, a hen; _vean_, little, Breton _vihan_. {655} To persons acquainted with the Welsh or Breton, the names of places in Cornwall, though sometimes strangely corrupted, are almost all significant. The dialect of Celtic spoken in Cornwall appears to have approached more closely to the latter than to the former of these tongues; or perhaps, speaking more correctly, it formed a connecting link between them, as Cornwall itself lies about midway between Wales and Brittany. EDGAR MACCULLOCH. Guernsey. _Gentile Names of the Jews_ (Vol. viii., p. 563.).--The names of Rothschild, Montefiore, and Davis are family names, and not _noms de guerre_. It is possible that the honoured names of Rothschild and Montefiore date from a purchase by some one of their ancestry of _Gentile castles or lands_, and with it the purchase right of name. Davis is legitimately Jewish, but probably the Gentile name of Davis cannot boast of its pure source, and no doubt where Gentile pedigree loses trace, Jewish descent commences, either by a left-handed Jew connexion with a Gentile fair one, or a renegade ancestry. ISRAEL BEN ISAAC. Red Lion Square. _Longevity_ (Vol. viii., p. 113.).--On October 15, Judy, a slave, died on the plantation of Edmund B. Richardson, in Bladen county, North Carolina, aged 110 years. She was one of eight slaves who nearly sixty years ago were the first settlers on the plantation, where she died. Of the seven others, one died over 90 years of age, another 93, and a third 81; two are living, one 75 and the other over 60 years of age. Within five miles of the place where Judy died, William Pridgen lived, who died about five years ago, aged 122 years. David Kennison, a soldier of the Revolution, died near Albany (N. Y.) on the 24th of February, 1852, aged 117 years. M. E. Philadelphia.