_Garlands, Broadsheets, &c._--Will you allow me to suggest to your correspondents, that it would be very desirable, for literary and antiquarian purposes, to form as complete a list as possible of public and private collections of garlands, broadsheets, chap-books, ballads, tracts, &c.; and to ask them to forward to "N. & Q." the names of any such public or private collections as they may be acquainted with. I need not say anything of the importance and value of the ballads, &c., contained in such collections, to the historical student and the archaeologist, for their value is too well known to require it; but I would earnestly urge the formation of such a list as the one I now {348} suggest, which will greatly facilitate literary researches. J. _Life-belts._--Suppose that each person on board the Tayleur had been supplied with a life-belt, how many hundreds of lives would have been saved? And when it is considered that such belts can be made for less than half-a-crown each, what reason can there be that government should not require them to be carried, at least in emigrant vessels, if passengers are so ignorant and stupid as not voluntarily to provide them for themselves? THINKS I TO MYSELF. _Turkey and Russia--The Eastern Question_ (Vol. ix., p. 244.).--The past history of these rival states presents more than one parallel passage like the following, extracted from Watkins's _Travels through Switzerland, Italy, the Greek Islands, to Constantinople, &c._ (2nd edit., two vols. 8vo. 1794): "The Turks have been, and indeed deserve to be, praised for the manner in which they declared war against the Russians. They sent by Mr. Bulgakoff, her Imperial Majesty's minister at the Porte, to demand the restitution of the Crimea, which had been extorted from them by the merciless despot of R----a, (_sic_) when too much distressed by a rebellion in Egypt to protect it. On his return without an answer they put him in the Seven Towers, and commenced hostilities. They hate the Russians; and to show it the more, frequently call a Frank _Moscoff_. To the English they are more partial than to any other Christian nation, from a tradition that Mahomet was prevented by death from converting our ancestors to his faith."--Vol. ii. pp. 276-7. J. MACRAY. Oxford. "_Verbatim et literatim._"--As this phrase often finds insertion, even in the pages of "N. & Q.," it may be well to call attention to the fact that there is no such adverb as _literatim_ in the Latin language. There is the adverb _literate_, which means after the manner of a literate man, learnedly; but to express the idea intended by the coined word _literatim_, I think we must use the form _ad literam_--"_Verbatim et ad literam._" L. H. J. TONNA. * * * * * Queries. PRINTS OF LONDON BEFORE THE GREAT FIRE.