[The Lord Mayor is never sworn as a Privy Councillor; but on the demise of the Crown attends the meeting, of the Privy Council held on such occasion, and signs the proclamation of the new Sovereign. On the accession of William IV., some objection was, we believe, made to the admission of the Lord Mayor into the Council Chamber, which was, however, abandoned on an intimation that if the Lord Mayor was not admitted, he would retire, accompanied by his officers and the aldermen who were present.] _Alterius Orbis Papa._--In the Bishop of Exeter's celebrated _Pastoral Letter_, p. 44., the Archbishop of Canterbury is styled-- "The second spiritual chief of Christendom, _alterius orbis Papa_." In conversation a few days since I heard these expressions objected to, when a gentleman present observed that the title "Alterius orbis Papa" was conferred by the Bishop of Rome, or Pope of Christendom, on his confrère of Canterbury, at a very early period. His memory did not furnish him with the precise date, but he was convinced that such was the fact as reported in Collier's _Ecclesiastical History_, and seemed inclined to refer it to a period not long subsequent to the mission of Augustine. Is such the fact? or, if not, to whom may the words be ascribed? A. B. Redland, June 5. [Carwithen, in his _History of the Church of England_, vol. i. p. 40., speaking of Wolsey's attempt to gain the popedom, says, "His aim was the chair of St. Peter, and to the attainment of his wishes he rendered subservient both the alliances and the enmities of his own country. At home, even the papacy could confer on him no accession of power: he was indeed _papa alterius orbis_."] _Mrs. Elstob._--Mrs. Elstob, the Anglo-Saxon scholar, is stated by a recent reviewer to have passed the period of her seclusion in a village in Wiltshire, until taken notice of by a neighbouring clergyman. What village was this, and who was the clergyman? for other authorities place her at Evesham in Worcestershire. J. W. [We are inclined to think that _Wiltshire_ must be a misprint for _Worcestershire_ in the Review, as the notices of Miss Elstob in Kippis' _Biographia Britannica_, and Nichols' _Anecdotes of Bowyer_, only speak of her retirement in distressed circumstances to Evesham, where she attracted the notice of Mr. Ballard, author of _Memoirs of British Ladies_, and of Mrs. Capon, wife of the Rev. Mr. Capon, of Stanton, in Gloucestershire.] _Cardinal Bellarmin._--I find the following passage in D'Israeli's _Curiosities of Literature_:-- "Bellarmin was made a Cardinal for his efforts and devotion to the Papal cause, and maintaining this monstrous paradox--that if the Pope forbid the exercise of virtue and command that of vice, the Roman Church, under pain of sin, was obliged to abandon virtue for vice, if it would not sin against conscience."