_Anecdote of Curran._--During one of the circuits, Curran was dining with a brother advocate at a small inn kept by a respectable woman, who, to the well ordering of her establishment, added a reputation for that species of apt and keen reply, which sometimes supplies the place of wit. The dinner had been well served, the wine was pronounced excellent, and it was proposed that the hostess should be summoned to receive their compliments on her good fare. The Christian name of this purveyor was Honoria, a name of common occurrence in Ireland, but which is generally abbreviated to that of Honor. Her attendance was prompt, and Curran, after a brief eulogium on the dinner, but especially the wine, filled a bumper, and, handing it, proposed as a toast, "Honor and Honesty." His auditor took the glass, and with a peculiarly arch smile, said, "Our absent friends," and having drank off her amended toast, she curtseyed and withdrew. M. W. B. _Difficulty of getting rid of a Name._--The institution founded in Gower Street under the name of the _University of London_, lived for ten years under that name, and, since, for fifteen years, under the name of _University College_, a new institution receiving the name of the _University of London_. A few years after the change of name, a donor left reversionary property to the _London University in Gower Street_, which made it necessary to obtain the assistance of the Court of Chancery in securing the reversion to its intended owners. A professor of the _College_ in Gower Street received a letter, dated from Somerset House (where the _University_ is), written by the Vice-Chancellor of the University himself, and addressed, not to the _University College_, but to the _University of London_. And in a public decision, by the Archbishop of Canterbury, as Visitor of Dulwich College, which appears in _The Times_ of July 21, it is directed that certain scholars are to proceed for instruction to some such place as "King's College or _the London University_." This is all worthy of note, because we often appeal to old changes of name in the settlement of dates. When this decision becomes very old, it may happen that its date will be brought into doubt by appeal to the fact that the place of _instruction_ (what is _now_ the _University_ giving no instruction but only granting degrees, and to students of King's College among others) ceased to have the title of _University_ in 1837. What so natural as to argue that the Archbishop, himself a visitor of King's College, cannot have failed to remember this. A reflected doubt may be thrown upon some arguments relating to dates in former times. M.