_Catholic Bible Society_ (Vol. viii., p. 494.).--MR. COTTON will find some account of this Society (the only one I know of) in Bishop Milner's _Supplementary Memoirs of the English Catholics_, published in the year 1820, p. 239. It published a stereotype edition of the New Testament without the usual distinction of verses, and very few notes. The whole scheme was severely reprobated by Dr. Milner, on grounds stated by him in the Appendix to the _Memoirs_, p. 302. The Society soon expired, and no tracts or reports were, I believe, ever published by it. The correspondence between Mr. Charles Butler and Mr. Blair will be found in the _Gentleman's Magazine_ for the year 1814. S. Fitzroy Street. _Legal Customs_ (Vol. ix., p. 20.).--The custom, related by your correspondent CAUSIDICUS, of a Chancery barrister receiving his first bag from one of the king's counsel, reminds me that there are many other legal practices, both obsolete and extant, which it would be curious and {42} entertaining to collect in your pages, as illustrative of the habits of our forefathers, and the changes that time has produced. I recognise many among your coadjutors who are well able to contribute, either from tradition or personal experience, something that is worth recording, and thus by their mutual communications to form a collection that would be both interesting and useful. Let me commence the heap by depositing the first stones. 1. My father has informed me that in his early years it was the universal practice for lawyers to attend the theatre on the last day of term. This was at a period when those who went into the boxes always wore swords. 2. It was formerly (within fifty years) the custom for every barrister in the Court of Chancery to receive from the usher, or some other officer of the court, as many buns as he made motions on the last day of Term, and to give a shilling for each bun. EDWARD FOSS. _Silo_ (Vol. viii., p. 639.).--The word _silo_ is derived from the Celtic _siol_, grain, and _omh_, a cave; _siolomh_, pronounced _sheeloo_, a "grain cave." Underground excavations have been discovered in various parts of Europe, and it is probable that they were really used for storing grain, and not for habitations, as many have supposed. FRAS. CROSSLEY. I have no doubt but that MR. STRONG'S Query respecting _silos_ will meet with many satisfactory answers; but in the mean time I remark that the Arab subterranean granaries, often used by the French as temporary prisons for refractory soldiers, are termed by then _silos_ or _silhos_. G. H. K. _Laurie on Finance_ (Vol. viii., p. 491).-- "A Treatise on Finance, under which the General Interests of the British Empire are illustrated, comprising a Project for their Improvement, together with a new scheme for liquidating the National Debt," by David Laurie, 8vo., London, 1815. ANON.