As an instance of the health and vigour of this remarkable old man, it may be mentioned, that ten years ago, in the winter of 1832-3, he attended at Newton, to vote for Lord Molyneux, then a candidate for South Lancashire. He was then in his ninetieth year. He walked from Harwood to Bolton, a distance of three miles. From thence he went to Newton by the railway; and, having voted, he by some means missed the train, and walked to Bolton, a distance of fifteen miles. On arriving there he took some refreshment, and again set out for Harwood, and accomplished the distance of twenty-one miles in the day, in the depth of winter.--_Manchester Guardian_, Aug. 19, 1843. MINOR NOTES. _On a Passage in Sedley._--There is a couplet in Sir Charles Sedley's poems, which is quoted as follows in a work in my possession: "Let fools the name of loyalty divide: Wise men and Gods are on the strongest side." Does the context require the word "divide?" or is it a misprint for "deride?" Of course, the latter word would completely alter the sense, but it seems to me that it would make it more consistent with truth. The word "divide" supposes loyalty to be characteristic of fools, and places the Gods in antagonism to that sentiment; while the word "deride" restores them to their natural position. HENRY H. BREEN. St. Lucia, April, 1851. _On a Passage in Romeo and Juliet._--In the encounter between Mercutio and Tybalt (Act III. Sc. 1.), in which Mercutio is killed, he addresses Tybalt tauntingly thus:-- "Good king of cats, &c., will you pluck your sword out of his _pilcher_ by the ears? Make haste, lest mine be about your ears ere it be out." The first quarto has _scabbard_, all the later editions have _pilcher_, a word occurring nowhere else. There has been a vain attempt to make _pilcher_ signify a _leathern sheath_, because a _pilch_ was a _garment of leather_ or _pelt_. To me it is quite evident that _pilcher_ is a mere typographical error for _pitcher_, which, in this jocose, bantering speech, Mercutio substitutes for _scabbard_, else why are the _ears_ mentioned? The poet was familiar with the proverb "Pitchers have ears," of which he has elsewhere twice availed himself. The _ears_, as every one knows, are the _handles_, which have since been called the _lugs_. Shakspeare would hardly have substituted a word of his own creation for _scabbard_; but _pitcher_ was suggested by the play upon the word _ears_, which is used for _hilts_ in the plural, according to the universal usage of the poet's time. The _ears_, applied to a _leathern coat_, or even a _sheath_, would be quite unmeaning, but there is a well sustained ludicrous image in "pluck your sword out of his _pitcher by the ears_." S. W. SINGER. _Inscription on a Tablet in Limerick Cathedral._-- "Mementi Mory.