_First Panorama_ (Vol. iii., p. 526.).--I remember when a boy going to see that panorama. I was struck with "the baker knocking at the door, in Albion Place, and wondered the man did not _move!_" But this could not have been the first (though it might have been the first publicly exhibited), if what is told of Sir Joshua Reynolds be true, that, having held that the painting of a panorama was a "thing impossible," on the sight of it he exclaimed--"This is the triumph of perspective!" I have frequently met with this anecdote. B. G. Queries. Minor Queries. _Vermuyden._--I wish very much to obtain a portrait, painted or engraved, of Sir Cornelius Vermuyden, Knt., a celebrated Flemish engineer in the time of Charles I. Can any one kindly assist my object, and inform me where one is to be met with? J. _Portrait of Whiston._--Having an original and characteristic half-length portrait in oil, bearing to the left corner (below an oval, such as is found about portraits by Alex. Cooper) the name of William Whiston, which picture came from a farm-house named Westbrook, in Wiltshire, and was by my ancestors, who lived there, called a family portrait, I should be glad to know how such connexion arose, if any did exist. In the possession of a member of my family, on the maternal side, is a large silver tobacco-box, bearing the initials W. W., and given as a legacy by Whiston to his friend Thomas White, Fellow and Librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge. They were members of the same club. WILLIAM FENNELL. Wakefield, June 12. 1851. _Charities for the Clergy and their Families._--I am desirous of procuring a complete list of charities confined to, or primarily intended for, the benefit of clergymen, their wives and families. There are a good many such throughout the country, but I am not aware that any list has ever been published. Will your readers furnish me with the particulars of such as they may be acquainted with, together with the names of the secretaries? J. WHITAKER. 377. Strand. _Principle of Notation by Coalwhippers, &c._--I shall feel much obliged to any of your readers who can inform me whether the principle adopted by the coalwhippers on the river Thames, and by the seafaring class in general, is adopted by any other class in these islands, or particularly in the North of Europe. This principle may be thus explained, viz.: 1. A set of four perpendicular, equal, and equidistant straight lines are cut by a diagonal line, which runs from _right_ to _left_; that is to say, from the higher end of the fourth line to the lower extremity of the first line. This diagonal then represents number 5, and completes the scale or tally of 5. 2. A similar set of four lines are cut by another diagonal, which passes from _left_ to _right_, or from the higher extremity of number one, to the lower extremity of number four. The diagonal thus completes the second score or tally for number 5.