_"Wellesley" or "Wesley"_ (Vol. viii., pp. 173. 255.).--Your readers will find, in Lynch's _Feudal Dignities_, the name spelt _Wellesley_ in Ireland, so long ago as the year 1230, and continued so for several centuries at least subsequent to that date. The Public Records also bear evidence of the high position and great influence of the Wellesleys, not _Wesleys_, for a lengthened period in Irish history. Y. S. M. _Mantel-piece_ (Vol. ix., pp. 302. 385.).--In old farm-houses, where the broad, open fireplace and hearth still exist, a small curtain, or rather valance, is often suspended from below the mantle-shelf, the object apparently being the exclusion of draughts and smoke. May not the use of this sort of _mantel_ have caused the part of the fireplace from which it hangs to be called the mantel-piece? EDGAR MACCULLOCH. Guernsey. "MANTEL, _n. s._ (_mantel_, old French, or rather the German word _mantel_, 'Germanis _mantel_ non pallium modo significat, sed etiam id omne quod aliud circumdat: hinc murus arcis, atque structura quæ focum invertit, _mantel_ ipsis dicitur.' V. Ducange in v. Mantum). Work raised before a chimney to conceal it, whence the name, which originally signifies a cloak."--Todd's _Johnson_. Richardson gives the two following quotations from Wotton: From them (Italians) we may better learn, both how to raise fair _mantles_ within the rooms, and how to disguise gracefully the shafts of chimneys abroad (as they use) in sundry forms."--_Reliquiæ Wottonianæ_, p. 37. "The Italians apply it (plastick) to the _mantling_ of chimneys with great figures, a cheap piece of magnificence."--Id. p. 63. ZEUS. _"Perturbabantur," &c._ (Vol. ix., p. 452.).--When I first learned to scan verses, somewhere about thirty years ago, the lines produced by your correspondent P. were in every child's mouth, with this story attached to them. It was said that Oxford had received from Cambridge the first line of the distich, with a challenge to produce a corresponding line consisting of two words only. To this challenge Oxford replied by sending back the second line, pointing out, at the same time, the false quantity in the word "Constantin[)o]politani." J. SANSOM. The story connected with these lines current at Cambridge in my time was, that the University of Oxford challenged the sister university to match the first line; to which challenge the second line was promptly returned from Cambridge by way of reply. At Oxford, I believe, the story is reversed, as neither university is willing to own to the false quantity in "Constantin[)o]politani." J. EASTWOOD, M.A.