"The devil engaged with Job's patience to battle, Tooth and nail strove to worry him out of his life; He robb'd him of children, slaves, houses, and cattle, But, mark me, he ne'er thought of taking his wife. "But heaven at length Job's forbearance rewards, At length double wealth, double honour arrives, He doubles his children, slaves, houses, and herds, But we don't hear a word of a couple of wives." A.M. _The Assassination of Mountfort in Norfolk street, Strand._--The murder of Mountfort is related with great particularity in Galt's _Lives of the Players_, and is also detailed in, if I recollect aright, Mr. Jesse's _London and its Celebrities;_ but in neither account is the following anecdote mentioned, the purport of which adds, if possible, to the blackness of Mohun's character:-- "Mr. Shorter, Horace Walpole's mother's father, was walking down Norfolk Street in the Strand, to his house there, just before poor Mountfort the player was killed in that street by assassins hired by Lord Mohun. This nobleman lying in for his prey, came up and embraced Mr. Shorter by mistake, saying 'Dear Mountfort.' It was fortunate that he was instantly undeceived, for Mr. Shorter had hardly reached his house before the Murder took place."--_Walpoliana_, vol. ii. p. 97., 2nd ed. J.B.C. _The Oldenburgh Horn_ (Vol. ii., p. 417.) is preserved amongst the antiquities in the Gallery of the King of Denmark at Copenhagen. It is of silver gilt, and ornamented in paste with enamel. It is considered by the Danish antiquaries to be of the time of Christian I., in the latter half of the fifteenth century. There are engraved on it coats of arms and inscriptions, which show that it was made for King Christian I., in honour of the three kings, or wise men, on whose festival he used it, at Cologne. W.C. TREVELYAN. Wallington, Dec. 19. 1850. [We avail ourselves of the opportunity afforded by Sir Walter Trevelyan's communication to add from Vulpius (_Handwoerterbuch der Mythologie_) the following additional references to representations and descriptions of this celebrated horn--which is there said (p. 184.) to have been found in 1639:--Schneider, _Saxon. Vetust._ p. 314.; Winkelmann's _Oldenburgische Chronik._ s. 59.; S. Meyer, _Vom Oldenburgischen Wunderhorne_, Bremen, 1757.] _Curious Custom_.--In 1833 the late Record Commissioners issued Circular Questions to the Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, requesting various information; among such questions was the following:--"Do any remarkable customs prevail, or have any remarkable customs prevailed within memory, in relation to the ceremonies accompanying the choice of corporate officers, annual processions, feasts, &c., not noticed in the printed histories or accounts of your borough? Describe them, if there be such."