"They appear as if cut off transversely towards their ends with scissors. This is a mode of termination which in the language of natural history is called _truncated_." The word _trunck-hose_ is often met with. WREDJID KOOEZ. _Queen's Messengers._--"J.U.G.G.," who inquires about Queen's messengers (No. 12. p. 186.), will, I think, find some such information as he wants in a parliamentary paper about King's messengers, printed by the House of Commons in 1845 or 1846, on the motion of Mr. Warburton. Something, I think, also occurs on the subject in the Report of the Commons' Committee of 1844 on the Opening of Letters in the Post-office. I am unable to refer to either of these documents at present. C. _Dissenting Ministers_ (No. 24. p. 383.).--The verses representing the distinctive characteristics of many ministers, by allegorical resemblance to _flowers_, were written by the lady whose paternal name is given by your correspondent. She married the Rev. Joseph Brooksbank. I think it quite improbable that those verses were ever published. It seems that two of the three names mentioned in your description of this "nosegay" are erroneous. The first is indisputable, RICHARD WINTER, a man of distinguished excellence, who died in 1799. "Hugh Washington" is certainly a mistake for HUGH WORTHINGTON; but for "James Jouyce" I can offer no conjecture. J.P.S. _Ballad of "The Wars in France"_ (No. 20. p. 318.).--Your correspondent "NEMO" will find two versions of the ballad commencing, "As our king lay musing on his bed," in appendices 20 and 21 to Sir Harris Nicolas's _History of the Battle of Agincourt_, 2nd edit. They are not, I believe, in the first edition. I have a copy of the ballad myself, which I took down a few years ago, together with the quaint air to which it is sung, from the lips of an old miner in Derbyshire. My copy does not differ very much from the first of those given by Sir H. Nicolas. C.W.G. ["J.W." (Norwich), and "A.R." (Kenilworth), have each kindly sent us a copy of the ballad. "F.M." informs us that it exists as a broadside, printed and sold in Aldermary Church-yard, Bow Lane, London, under the title of "King Henry V., his Conquest of France, in Revenge for the Affront offered him by the French King, in sending him (instead of the tribute due) a ton of tennis balls." And, lastly, the "Rev. J.R. WREFORD" has called our attention to the fact that it is printed in the collection of _Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England_, edited by Mr. Dixon for the Percy Society in 1846. Mr. Dixon's version was taken down from the singing of an eccentric character, known as the "Skipton Minstrel," and who used to sing it to the tune of "_The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood_."]