"Lord Thurlow, in his speech for postponing the further reading of the Surgeons' Incorporation Bill, July 17th, 1797, stated 'that by a statute still in force, the barbers and surgeons were each to use a pole.'" R. W. E. Cor. Chr. Coll., Cambridge. _Emendation of a Passage in Virgil_ (Vol. iii., p. 237.).--The emendation of SCRIBLERUS is certainly objectionable, and by no means satisfactory, for these reasons:--1st. "Ac sunt in spatio" is by no means elegant Latin, which "addunt se in spatia" is; for the word "addunt" is constantly used in the same way elsewhere. 2nd. The word "spatium" is seldom used to signify a chariot course. "Spatia," the plural, was the proper expression, and is only so deviated from in poetry in a single instance. (Juv. _Sat._ vi. 582.) It is used in {358} the plural in Virg. _AEn_. v. 316. 325. 327.; Statius, _Theb._ vi. 594.; Horace, _Epist._ 1. xiv. 9. _Vide_ Smith's _Dictionary of Antiquities_, under art. Circus, p. 232. Surely there is nothing unintelligible in the expression, "addunt se in spatia," which is the reading given in almost all the best editions. J. E. M. * * * * * Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. Archdeacon Cotton, whose endeavours to ascertain and record the succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies in Ireland are probably known to many of our readers (at least, by the Queries which have appeared in our Columns), has just completed his _Fasti Ecclesiae Hiberniae_, in 4 vols. 8vo. From the nature of the work, it is obvious that it could never have been undertaken with a view to profit. The printing, &c., has cost upwards of six hundred pounds, and the Archdeacon, naturally unwilling to lose the whole of this outlay, is circulating a prospectus offering copies at fifty shillings the set. Of these, there are but two hundred. The utility of a book which contains the names and preferments of every occupant of an Irish see, dignity, or prebend, from the earliest period to the present day, so far as existing materials permits, is so obvious, that it can scarcely be doubted that it must eventually find a place in all public and official libraries.