_Meaning of Zoll-verein._--Should a one-shilling visitor to the Crystal Palace ask a question of a holder of a season ticket touching the exact meaning and history of the word Zoll-verein, I wonder what he would tell him? CORDEROY. [Zoll-Verein, _i. e._ Customs Union.--An union of smaller states with Prussia for the purposes of Customs uniformity, first commenced in 1819 by the union of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, and which now includes Prussia, Saxony, Bavaria, Wirtemburg, Baden, Hesse-Cassel, Brunswick, and Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and all intermediate principalities. For the purposes of trade and customs these different kingdoms and principalities act as one empire.] _Crex, the White Bullace._--Will you insert a Query from a new correspondent but old subscriber? _Crex_ is the ordinary name with Cambridgeshire folk for the White Bullace. I cannot answer for the orthography, as neither Dictionary nor Provincial Glossary acknowledges the word. Can any of your correspondents enlighten me? CHARLES THIRIOLD. St. Dunstan. [This Cambridgeshire name for the White Bullace is clearly connected with the Dutch name for Cherry, _Kriecke_. See Killian, s. v., where we find KRIECKE, Cerasum, and the several kinds of cherry, described as _Swarte Kriecke_, _Spaensche Kriecke_, _Roode Kriecke_, &c.] Replies. THE OUTER TEMPLE. (Vol. iii., p. 375.) While I thank MR. PETER CUNNINGHAM for his ready compliance with my request, I am sorry to say that I cannot concur in the reliance which he expresses on the authority of Sir George Buc. The passage quoted from that writer contains so palpable a blunder in that part of the history of the Temple of which we have authentic records, that I look with much suspicion on that portion of the relation, with regard to which no documentary evidence has been found. He makes "Hugh Spencer, Earle of Glocester," the next successor of the Earl of Lancaster in the possession of the Temple after the suppression, and places "Andomare de Valence" in the house _after_ the execution of Spencer for treason: an account which receives a somewhat significant contradiction in the fact, that Valence died in 1323, and Spencer was beheaded in 1326.