"The death of a single prince in any part of Europe, remarkable either for wisdom or folly, renders political conjectures of future contingencies so extremely uncertain, that I seldom indulge myself in forming them; yet it seems to me probable, that Europe will soon be divided among three powers, France, Austria, and Russia; and in half a century between two, France and Russia; and that America will become the greatest naval power on the globe, and be replenished by migrations of oppressed and discontented people from every part of Europe."--See _Anecdotes of the Life of Richard Watson, Bishop of Llandaff_, 2 vols. 8vo., London, 1818, vol. ii. p. 196. C. FORBES. Temple. _Extracts from the Registers of the Bishops of Lincoln._--In searching through the registers of the bishops of Lincoln, the following curious entries met my eye: "_Smoke-farthings._--Commissio domini episcopi ad levandum le Smoke farthinges, alias dict. Lincoln farthinges a nostris Archidiaconatus nostri Leycestriæ: subditis ad utilitatem nostræ matricis ecclesiæ Cath. Linc. sponsæ nostræ convertend., dicti Smoke farthinges conceduntur ad constructionem campanili ecclesiæ prebendalis Sanctæ Margaretæ Leycestr. 1444." The above entry occurs at fo. 48. of the register of William Alnewick, Bishop of Lincoln. "A^o 1450. _Testamentum domini Thomæ Cumberworth, militis._--In the name of Gode and to his loveyng, Amen. I, Thomas Cumbyrworth, knyght, the xv day of Feberer, the yere of oure Lord m^lcccc and L. in clere mynde and hele of body, blyssed be Gode, ordan my last wyll on this wyse folowyng. Furst, I gyff my sawle to God, my Lorde and my Redemptur, and my wrechid body to be beryd in a chiffe w^towte any kyste in the northyle of the parych kirke of Someretby be my wyfe, and I wyll my body ly still, my mowth opyn, untild xxiiij owrys, and after laid on bere w[t]towtyn any thyng y^ropon to coverit bot a sheit and a blak cloth, w^t a white crose of cloth of golde, but I wyl my kyste be made and stande by, and at my bereall giff it to hym that fillis my grave; also I gif my blissid Lord God for my mortuary there I am bered my best hors." This entry occurs at fo. 43. of the register of Marmaduke Lumley, Bishop of Lincoln. Z. _Marston and Erasmus._--I am not aware the following similarity of idea, between a passage in Marston's _Antonio and Mellida_ and one in Erasmus' _Colloquies_, has ever been pointed out: " . . . . As having clasp'd a rose Within my palm, the rose being ta'en away, My hand retains a little breath of sweet. So may man's trunk, his spirit slipp'd away, Hold still a faint perfume of his sweet guest." _Antonio and Mellida_, Act IV. Sc. 1. From the reprint in the _Ancient British Drama_.