"1008. Vallancey's Green Book, _manuscript, folio_. *** Vallancey's Green Book, so named from being bound in green vellum, was the volume in which the celebrated Irish antiquary, General Charles Vallancey, entered the titles of all the manuscripts and printed works relative to Ireland which he had occasion to consult in his antiquarian researches. The copy now offered for sale is believed to be the only one extant. Bound in the same volume is a collection of the titles of all the manuscripts relating to Ireland, which are preserved in the Archbishop of Canterbury's library, at Lambeth, London." R. H. Trin. Coll., Dublin. _Herrings._--"The lovers of fish" may be glad to learn what a bloater is, a mystery which I endeavoured to unravel when lately on the Norfolk coast. A bloater, I was informed, is a large, plump herring (as we say a _bloated_ toad); and the genuine claimants of the title fall by their own weight from the meshes of the net. The origin of the simile--"As dead as a herring"--may not be generally known. This fish dies immediately upon its removal from the native element (strange to say) from want of air; for swimming near the surface it requires much, and the gills, when dry, cannot perform their function. C. T. _Byron and Rochefoucauld._--The following almost word-for-word renderings of two of Rochefoucauld's _Reflexions_ occur in the third and fourth stanzas of the third canto of Byron's _Don Juan_. I am not aware that any notice has been taken of them beyond a note appended to the first passage, in Moore's edition of Byron's _Works_, attributing the _mot_ to Montaigne: "Yet there are some, they say, who have had _none_, But those who have ne'er end with only _one_."--_Byron._ "On peut trouver des femmes qui n'ont jamais eu de galanterie; mais il est rare d'en trouver qui n'en aient jamais eu qu'une."--Rochefoucauld's _Maximes et Reflexions Morales_. "In her first passion, woman loves her lover, In all the others all she loves is love."--_Byron_ "Dans les premieres passions les femmes aiment l'amant; dans les autres elles aiment l'amour."--Rochefoucauld's _Maximes et Reflexions Morales_. SIGMA. Customs, London. "_Abscond._"--This is a word which appears to have lost its primary meaning of concealment, apart from that of escape. Horace Walpole, however, uses it in the former sense: "Virette _absconds_, and has sent M. de Pecquigny word that _he shall abscond_ till he can find a proper opportunity of fighting him." CHEVERELLS.