I am not aware of anything else that can be advanced in support of the claims of the Dorset shire Gillingham to be the scene of this event except it be the fact that a royal palace or hunting-seat there was the occasional residence of the English kings early in the twelfth century, and subsequently. I do not know whether its existence can be traced prior to the Conquest; and unless that can be done, it is obviously of no importance in the present inquiry. Now it had occurred to me that, after all, Gillingham, near Chatham in _Kent_, may be the true locality; but, unfortunately, my knowledge of that place is limited to the fact, that our London letters, when directed without the addition of "Dorset," are usually sent to rusticate there for a day or two. Perhaps one of your Kentish correspondents will favour me with some more pertinent information. QUIDAM. "_We hope, and hope, and hope._"--I wish to discover the author (a disappointed courtier, I believe) of a poem ending thus: "We hope, and hope, and hope, then sum The total up--Despair!" C. P. Ph***. _What is Champak?_--In Shelley's "Lines to an Indian Air," I read--"The Champak odours fail." Is it connected with the spice-bearing regions of Champava, or Tsiampa, in Siam? C. P. Ph***. _Encorah and Millicent._--These are very common baptismal names for females in this parish, and I should be very much obliged to any one who could refer me to the origin and meaning of either or both of them. The former is also spelt _Anchora_ and _Enchora_. J. EASTWOOD. Ecclesfield. _Diogenes in his Tub._--It may be hypercritical, but is there any authority for placing Diogenes in the tub at the time of his interview with Alexander, which took place at _Corinth_, as Landseer has done in his celebrated dog-picture? A. A. D. _Topical Memory._--Where can I find the subject of "topical memory" treated of? _Cic. de Orat._ i. 34. alludes to it. A. A. D. _St. Paul's Clock striking Thirteen._--Will you allow me on this subject to put to men of science, and to watchmakers, the _à priori_ question--_Is the alleged fact mechanically possible?_ AVENA.