We have received the following Catalogues: J. Miller's (43. Chandos Street, Trafalgar Square) Catalogue No. 11, for 1850 of Books Old and New, including a large Number of scarce and curious Works on Ireland, its Antiquities, Topography, and History; W. Heath's (29-1/2. Lincoln's Inn Fields) Catalogue No. 5. for 1850 of Valuable Second-hand Books in all Departments of Literature. * * * * * BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE TRANSLATION OF THE FRENCH LETTERS IN THE APPENDIX TO FOX'S HISTORY OF JAMES II. 4to. 1808 HUTTON'S (W.) ROMAN WALL, 8vo. 1801 ---- BARBERS, a Poem. 8vo. 1793 (Genuine edition, not the facsimile copy.) ---- EDGAR AND ELPRIDA, 8vo. 1794 Odd Volumes. BEYAN'S DICTIONARY OF PAINTERS AND ENGRAVERS, 4to. London, 1816. Vol. I. SULLY'S MEMOIRS, Eight Volumes in French. London, 1763. Vol. II LES AVENTURES DE GIL BLAS. London, 1749. Vols. I and II. Letters, stating particulars and lowest prices, _carriage free_, to be sent to Mr. Dell, Publisher of "NOTES AND QUERIES," 186 Fleet Street. * * * * * NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. _Volume the First of Notes and Queries, with Title-page and very copius Index, is now ready, price 9s. 6d., bound in cloth, and may be had, by order, of all Booksellers and newsmen._ _The Monthly Part for September, being the Fourth of Vol. II, is also now ready, price 1s._ _Notes and Queries may be procured by the Trade at noon on Friday: so that our country Subscribers ought to experience no difficulty in receiving it regularly. Many of the country Booksellers are probably not yet aware of this arrangement, which enables them to receive Copies in their Saturday parcels._ _S.G. (C.C. Coll., Camb.), who writes respecting the History of Edward II., is refered to our First Volume, pp. 59. 91. 220._ A Student of History. _The Oxford Chronological Tables published by Talboys, and now to be had of Bohn, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, at the reduced price of One Guinea, is, we believe, the best work of the kind referred to by our correspondent._ S.S. _The Query respecting Pope's lines_,--"Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest," _has been answered. See_ No. 42. p. 188. * * * * * {288} ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. 26. Suffolk Street, Pall Mall, Sept. 23, 1850. At an ordinary meeting of the Central Committee of the Archæological Institute, the President in the chair, it was unanimously "Resolved--That the Committee, having taken into consideration the Resolution of the British Archæological Association, passed at their congress at Manchester, and also that of their Council of the 4th of September, and communicated by the President of the Association to the President of the Institute, are of opinion that the position and prospects of the Institute are such as to render inexpedient any essential modifications of it's existing rules and managements.