I have been informed that the only other use of the word known is with the confectioners, who use _Bummaree_ pans. The prefix "bum" is used to express the lowest of the kind in bum-bailiff, and also further additionally in connexion with selling in "bum-boat." I cannot think that "bona venalia," goods set to sale, among the Romans, give any clue to Bummaree. This, and other derivations equally unsatisfactory, have been submitted by those who have hitherto directed their attention to this subject. BLOWEN. 7. _Thread the Needle._--What is the game so called? and what its origin? In it these words occur: "How far hence to Hebron? Threescore miles and ten! Can I be there to-night? Yes! and back again!" I have somewhere seen the name of Thread-the-Needle-Gate. Where is, or was, it? and whence was the London street so named? R. S. H. Morwenstow. 8. _Proof of a Sword._--Is the following statement correct and true (I mean, as to the trial of the sword blade, not the anecdote)? "A troop of horse are riding along under the command of 'Duke William' of Cumberland, in the '45. A little old Highlander joins the march; a strong lusty soldier laughs at, and insults him. He is allowed to demand satisfaction, and fight it out at once: he craves the loan of a sword; one is handed to him. But Donald had seen too many snows to trust his life to the blade of untried metal: he minutely examined the handle, the edge, the point, and the _spring_, and finally turning aside to _a pool_ of water, and applying the _flat_ side of the blade to its surface, with one smart stroke broke it in two." Is this a good test of a sword blade? Would _any_ sword stand it? Would the Toledo blade, at the Crystal Palace, that _rolls_ up into the form of a serpent, bear it? What is the usual test of a good blade? ENSIS. 9. _Shelley's Children._--Are any of Shelley's children, by his first wife, still living and where?--a friend of mine, who was her companion, having a relic of her, which she would gladly give into their possession. PHILO. 10. _Ackey Trade._--I have in my cabinet a silver coin (shilling size) which has on the obverse, besides the bust of the kind, the date 1818, and the legend, the following under the head (between it and the legend), "_½ Ackey Trade_;" and I shall be glad to have an explanation of what is meant by the "_Ackey Trade_?" The reverse has the arms and crest of the African Company. The legend is "Free Trade to Africa by Act of Parliament, 1750." J. N. C. 11. _Baskerville the Printer._--I was informed in 1835, by a friend living at Birmingham, that the coffin containing the body of that celebrated printer was then lying in a timber yard in that town under a pile of deals--a fact which was well known there. Is it still in the same place? And why? And is there any portrait, engraved or otherwise, of him? Mr. Merridew of Coventry, and others, have assured me there was not.