"_Aches_" (Vol. ix., pp. 351. 409.).--_Aches_, as a dissyllable, may be heard any day in Shropshire: "My yead _eaches_" (my head aches) is no uncommon complaint in reply to an inquiry about health. WM. FRASER, B.C.L. "_Waestart_" (Vol. ix., p. 349.).--The querist, I humbly presume, is not a Yorkshireman himself; or, probably, he would have at once resolved _waestart_ into the ungrammatical but natural inquiry, "Where ist' 'art"--_ist'_ meaning _are you_, _thou_ being vulgarly used for you; the _h_ is elided in _hurt_, the _u_ in _'urt_ being pronounced as _a_, changing the vowel, as is very common among the illiterate. For instance, church is often called _ch_a_rch_ by those who live a little to the north-west; and person, where the _e_ is almost equivalent to the soft _u_ in sound, is made into _p_a_rson_! L. J. _Willow Bark in Ague_ (Vol. ix., p. 452.).--In the _Philosophical Transactions_ (1835?) is a memoir by the Rev. E. Stone, of Chipping Norton, of the salutary effects of the bark of the Duck Willow in agues and intermittent fevers. The author states, that being dried in an oven, and pounded, and administered in doses of one drachm every four hours in the intervals of the paroxysms, it soon reduces the distemper; and, except in very severe cases, removes it entirely. With the addition of one fifth part of Peruvian bark, it {572} becomes a specific against these disorders, and never fails to remove them. One advantage it possesses of influencing the patient beneficially immediately it is adopted, without the necessity of preparation previously. It is a safe medicine, and may be taken in water or tea. I copy the above from an entry in an old notebook. I imagine the Duck Willow to be the Common White Willow (_Salix albæ vulgaris_) of Ray. SHIRLEY HIBBERD. See Pereira's _Materia Medica_: SALIX. He refers to a paper by the Rev. Mr. Stone in the _Phil. Trans._ vol. liii. p. 195., on the efficacy of the bark of the _Salix alba_ as a remedy for agues. See also A. T. Thomson's _London Dispensatory_, in which is given an account of Mr. Stone's mode of administration. H. J. _Lord Fairfax_ (Vol. ix., p. 380.).--I apprehend that there is nothing in the reply of A FAIRFAX KINSMAN at all calculated to shake the opinion which I expressed touching the barony of Fairfax of Cameron. The case of the earldom of Newburgh, which your correspondent does not even mention, is, I submit, of greater weight than all the "Peerages," and even than the Roll of Scottish Peers. As to the Irish case--that of the Earl of Athlone--I can but repeat my Query. Whether right or wrong, it is not binding on the British House of Lords. The cases of the King of Hanover, the Duke of Wellington, and Earl Nelson, are not in point. His Hanoverian Majesty is not an alien; and though some British subjects may be recognised as peers by foreign states, it does not follow that a foreigner can be a peer of Britain. H. G.