{261} NOTES AND QUERIES: A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. "When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. * * * * * No. 230.] SATURDAY, MARCH 25. 1854 [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d. * * * * * CONTENTS. NOTES:-- Page Original English Royal Letters to the Grand Masters of Malta, by William Winthrop 263 Fata Morgana, by J. Macray 267 On the Destruction of Monumental Brasses 268 Original Letter of the Countess of Blessington to Sir William Drummond 268 MINOR NOTES:--The late Judge Talfourd--Authors' Trustee Society--The Old Clock at Alderley--The Olympic Plain, &c.--Electric Telegraph--Irish Law in the Eighteenth Century--Gravestone Inscriptions 269 QUERIES:-- MINOR QUERIES:--Paintings of Our Saviour--Heraldic-- Dedication of Kemerton Church--Consolato del Mare-- Consonants in Welsh--Atonement--Sir Stephen Fox-- "Account of an Expedition to the Interior of New Holland"--Darwin on Steam--Scottish Female Dress-- "The Innocents," a Drama--Waugh of Cumberland-- Norton--De La Fond--"Button Cap"--Cobb Family-- Prince Charles' Attendants in Spain--Sack 270 MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--Ralph Ashton the Commander-- Christopher Hervie--Dannocks--Brass in All Saints, Newcastle-upon-Tyne--Imperfect Bible--The Poem of "Helga"--"Merryweather's Tempest Prognosticator"-- Edward Spencer's Marriage--Yew-tree at Crowhurst 272 REPLIES:-- The Electric Telegraph in 1753 274 Factitious Pedigrees: Dixon of Beeston, by Lord Monson, E. P. Shirley, &c. 275 Licences to Crenellate, by the Rev. W. Sparrow Simpson, &c. 276 Newspaper Folk Lore, by C. Mansfield Ingleby, &c. 276 French Season Rhymes and Weather Rhymes, by Edgar MacCulloch 277 Vault Interments: Burial in an Erect Posture: Interment of the Trogloditæ 278 Do Conjunctions join Propositions only? by H. L. Mansel, &c. 279 Has Execution by Hanging been survived? 280 PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--A Stereoscopic Note-- Photographic Query--Deepening Collodion Negatives-- Caution to Photographers 282 REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Artesian Wells--Prior's Epitaph on Himself--Handwriting--"Begging the Question"--When and where does Sunday begin or end?--Precious Stones-- Scotch Grievance--"Corporations have no Souls," &c.-- Devereux Bowly--Reversible Names--Duval Family, &c. 283 MISCELLANEOUS:--