"The issue of which complaint was, that the author, for these his outlandish politics, was taken into custody, and his book condemned to the flames: nor could the dedication of it to his then grace of Canterbury save it."--Atterbury's _Rights, Powers, and Privileges of Convocation_, p. 7. of Preface. WM. FRASER, B.C.L. Tor-Mohun. I possess a copy of _The Case of Ireland being bound by Acts of Parliament in England stated_, by William Molyneux of Dublin, Esq., which appears to have been literally "plucked as brand from the burning," as a considerable portion of it is consumed by fire. I have cut the following from a sale catalogue just sent to me from Dublin: "Smith's (Matthew) _Memoirs of Secret Service_, Lond. 1696. Written by Charles, Earl of Peterborough, and is very scarce, being burnt by the hangman. MS. note." JAMES GRAVES. Kilkenny. A decree of the University of Oxford, made July 21, 1683, condemning George Buchanan's treatise _De jure regni apud Scotos_, and certain other books, the names of which I do not know, was on March 25, 1710, ordered by the House of Lords to be burned by the hangman. This was shortly after the trial of Dr. Sacheverel. W. P. STORER. Olney, Bucks. * * * * * DIFFERENT PRODUCTIONS OF DIFFERENT CARCASES. (Vol. vi., p. 263.) Up to a very recent period, it was held, even by philosophers, that each of the four elements, as well as every _living_ plant and animal, both {228} brute and human, generated insects; but of all sources of this equivocal generation, none was considered more potent than the putrefaction or corruption of animal matter: as Du Bartas says: "God, not contented to each kind to give, And to infuse the virtue generative, By His wise power, made many creatures breed, Of _lifeless bodies_ without Venus' deed." _Sixth Day._ Pliny, after giving Virgil's receipt for making bees, gives similar instances: "Like as dead horses will breed waspes and hornets; and asses carrion, turne to be beetle-flies by a certaine metamorphosis which Nature maketh from one creature to another."--Lib. xi. c. xx. And soon after he says of wasps: "All the sorte of these live upon flesh, contrarie to _the manner of bees, which will not touch a dead carcasse_." This brings Shakepeare's lines to mind: " 'Tis seldom when the bee doth leave her comb In the _dead carrion_." _Henry IV._, Part II. Act IV. Sc. 4. The _Belfast News Letter_ of Friday, Aug. 10, 1832, gives one of these rare occurrences: