_Foreign English._--The following handbill is a specimen of German English, and is stuck up among other notices in the inn at Rastadt: "ADVICE OF AN HOTEL. "The underwritten has the honour of informing the public that he has made the acquisition of the hotel to the Savage, well situated in the middle of this city. He shall endeavour to do all duties which gentlemen travellers can justly expect; and invites them to please to convince themselves of it by their kind lodgings at his house. BASIL JR. SINGISEM. Before the tenant of the Hotel to the Stork in this city." BLOWEN. _Britannicus._--I gather the following anecdote from the chapter "Paper Wars of the Civil Wars" in Disraeli's _Quarrels of Authors_. Sir John (Birkenhead) is the representative of the _Mercurius Aulicus_, the Court Gazette; Needham, of a Parliamentary _Diurnal_. "Sir John never condescends formally to reply to Needham, for which he gives this singular reason: 'As for this libeller, we are still resolved to take no notice, till we find him able to spell his own name, which to this hour BRITANNICUS never did.' In the next number of Needham, who had always written it _Brittanicus_, the correction was silently adopted." A similar error occurs on the shilling and six-penny pieces of George III., circa 1817 (those {276} most frequently met with in the present circulation), whilst the cotemporary crowns and half-crowns have the correct orthography. R. W. C. _Honeymoon._--Among my memoranda I find that, on January 31, 1845, an accomplished Welsh lady said to me, that the common expression "Honeymoon" was "probably derived from the old practice in Wales of drinking _metheglin_ for thirty days after the marriage of a bride and bridegroom. A _metheglin_ jollification for thirty days among the relatives and friends of the newly married pair." The _metheglin_ is a fermented liquor, of some potency, made from honey. The lady asked me, at the same time, if _honey_ was used by the ancient Greeks or Romans in the preparation of a fermented liquor. I said that I recollected no such use of honey among them, but that the ancient Greeks seemed to have brewed a _beer_ of some kind from barley or other grain, as allusion was made to it by Aristophanes. Perhaps this notice of the "honeymoon" may draw forth some information from your correspondents who are learned in "folk lore." In the Old Testament there are many passages alluding to the use of honey, but none of them appear to indicate its having been employed in making a fermented beverage. Lucretius alludes to the practice of enticing children to swallow disagreeable medicine by anointing the edge of the cup with honey. G. F. G. Edinburgh. _Fees at Westminster Abbey._--The custom of taking fees at Westminster Abbey is of very ancient date, and was always unpopular. Shirley alludes to it in his pleasant comedy called _The Bird in a Cage_, when Bonomico, a mountebank, observes--