"_Bene._ At. ht Hiss to Ne LI esca Theri Neg ---- Ray. C. Hanged. F ..... Roma bvs. y. L. if et oli .... Fele SS. C. la. YB: year than. D.C. La Ys ---- he Go ..... th Erp ---- E. L F bvtn ows H e'st Urn E D T odv Sth E R Se ==== Lf. "An old Record. J. H. W...... Birch Hill, May, 1844." R. H. _Glass in Windows formerly not a Fixture._--In Brooke's _Abridgement_, tit. "Chatteles," it appears that in the 21st Hen. VII., A.D. 1505, it was held that though the frame-work of the windows belonged to the heir, the _glass_ was the property of the executors, and might therefore be removed by them, "_quar le meason est perfite sauns le glasse_." In A.D. 1599 Lord Coke informs us it was in the Common Pleas "resolved _per totam curiam_, that glass annexed to windows by nails, or in any other manner, could not be removed; for without glass it is no perfect house." J. O. M. _D'Israeli: Pope and Goldsmith._--Mr. D'Israeli congratulates himself with much satisfaction, in his _Essay on the Literary Character_, both in his Preface, p. xxix., and in the text, p. 187. vol. i., in having written _this_ immortal sentence: "The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces." --more particularly as it appears Lord Byron had "deeply _underscored_ it." Perhaps he was unaware that Pope, in a letter to Swift, Feb. 16, 1733, had said: "A few loose things sometimes fall from men of wit by which _censorious fools_ judge as ill of them as they possibly can, for _their own comfort_." And that Goldsmith says: "The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish."--_Citizen of the World._ JAMES CORNISH. Queries. ON A SONG IN SCOTT'S PIRATE--"FIRE ON THE MAINTOP." In the 231st number of that excellent New York periodical, _The Literary World_, published on the 5th of July, there is an article on "Steamboats and Steamboating in the South West," in which I find the following passage:-- "I mentioned the _refrain_ of the firemen. Now as a particular one is almost invariably sung by Negroes when they have anything to do with or about a fire; whether it be while working at a New Orleans fire-engine, or crowding wood into the furnaces of a steamboat; whether they desire to make an extra racket at leaving, or evince their joy at returning to a port, it may be worth recording; and here it is: "'Fire on the quarter-deck, Fire on the bow, Fire on the gun-deck, Fire down below!' "The last line is given by all hands with great vim (_sic_) and volume; and as for the chorus itself, you will never meet or pass a boat, you will never behold the departure or arrival of one, and you will never witness a New Orleans fire, without hearing it."