Chaldee _dul_, situla, urna, _a vessel_ for holding liquor. Arabic _dal_, a fat _woman_. These primary steps lead us to a passage in Isaiah li. 1., "the _hole_ of the _pit_:" where the _idea_ (not the word) is contained, and forms a connecting link between the Chaldee and Sanscrit; where, by taking _t_ for _d_ (a letter of the same organ), we have Sanscrit _tal_, a _hole_, _pit_, cause, origin, &c.; _talla_, a young woman, _reservoir_, _pit_, &c.; Greek (from the Syriac) ταλιθα, a damsel, Mark v. 41.; and by affixing the Sanscrit _pha_, or _pa_, _fruitfulness_, nourishment, drink, &c., we get _talpa_, a wife, bed, &c. Hebrew _dalaph_, stillavit. Syriac _dalpha_, conjunctio venerea. Delilah, a proper name, Judges xvi. 4. We thus ascertain that δελ-φ relates to the fruit or fruitfulness, &c. of the womb: and by putting the constructive affix υς = the Sanscrit _as_ or _us_, we have δελφυς, uterus, &c. We now come to the most important part of the compound αδελφος, viz. the Sanscrit ā = ομου, simul, at the same time; and we find that this ā refers us to "a limit conclusive" (to _that_ place, to that time), and also to a "limit inceptive" (_from_ THAT _place_, from that time); consequently, the _primary_ meaning of α-δελ-φ-ος, is what Scapula has defined it to be, "frater uterinus," a brother _to_, or _from the_ SAME _womb_. My deduction from hence is, that where the context, or history, does _not_ point us to a more general sense of the word, _i.e._ to relatives such as cousins, or to the whole _human_ race adopting the same term; _correct_ criticism seems to demand the signification of the word in its _primary_ meaning. T. R. BROWN. Vicarage, Southwick, near Oundle. LAMBERT, THE "ARCH-REBELL." Mr. Hallam (_Const. Hist._, vol. ii. p. 26. ed. 1850), after some remarks on the execution of Vane, who was brought to trial together with Lambert in 1661, asserts that the latter, "whose submissive behaviour had furnished a contrast with that of Vane, was sent to Guernsey, and remained a prisoner for thirty years." Mr. Hallam does not quote his authority for this statement, which I also find in the older biographical dictionaries. There exists, however, in the library of the Plymouth Athenæum, a MS. record which apparently contradicts it. This is a volume called _Plimmouth Memoirs, collected by James Yonge_, 1684. It contains "a Catalogue of all the Mayors, together with the memorable occurrences in their respective years," beginning in 1440. Yonge himself lived in Plymouth, and the later entries are therefore made from his own knowledge. There are two concerning Lambert: "1667. _Lambert, the arch-rebell, brought prisoner to this Iland."_ [The Island of St. Nicholas at the entrance of the harbour, fortified from a very early period.]