* * * * * _English French_ (Vol. iii., p. 346.).--I take the liberty to inform C. W. B., for the justification of my countrymen, as well as of his own, that the _Guide to Amsterdam_ was probably written by a British subject born between the tropics, and will point out, not by way of reprisals, but as a curiosity of the same sort, an example of French-English to be found in a book just published by Whittaker and Co., entitled _What's What in 1851_? Let any one who understands French try to read the article, p. 69., headed "Qu'êst que, qu'êst que la veritable luxure en se promenant," and if he can guess at the meaning of the writer, no foreign-English I ever met with will ever give him trouble. G. L. KEPPER. Amsterdam, May 10. 1851. * * * * * _Deans, when styled Very Reverend_ (Vol. iii., p. 352.).--I cannot answer this question, but I can supply a trace, if not a clue. I find in a long series of old almanacks that the list of deans is invariably given as _the Reverend_ the dean down to 1803 inclusive. I unluckily have not those for the three next years, but in that for 1807 I find "_the very Reverend_ the dean." C. * * * * * _Duchess of Buckingham_ (Vol. iii., p. 281.).--There is one circumstance omitted by P. C. S. S., in his remarks upon the Duchess of Buckingham, which explains why _a Phipps_, on being called to the peerage, chose the titles of Mulgrave and Normanby. By her second husband--the Duke of Buckingham and Normanby--she had one son, who succeeded to the title and estates; but, dying unmarried during his mother's lifetime, _bequeathed to her all the Mulgrave and Normanby property_. Her daughter (by her first marriage with James Annesley, third Earl of Anglesey) was then the wife of Mr. W. Phipps, son of Sir Constantine Phipps, Lord Chancellor of Ireland: to their issue, Constantine Phipps, first Lord Mulgrave, the Duchess _left by will these estates_; thus founding her grandson's fortune, although she did not live to see him created the first Baron Mulgrave. The Sheffield Buckingham family, although extinct in the male line, is represented in the female branch by the Sheffield Dicksons; Mrs. Dickson, the widow of Major Dickson, of the Life-Guards, being in direct descent from the Lady Catherine Darnley's husband, by another wife. A. B. Redland, April 13. * * * * *