_Bishop Bedell._--This divine, to remind him of the need he had of being cleansed and purified in heart by the Spirit, chose an ingenious device, consisting of a flaming crucible, with a Hebrew motto, signifying, "Take from me all my tin," in allusion to Isaiah i. 25. The reason for selecting these particular words was, that the Hebrew word for _tin_ is _bedil_. CLERICUS (D.) _Foreign Guide-books._--The samples of foreign English preserved in your pages are nearly equalled in ludicrous effect by the novel information often found in guide-books and manuals published on the continent for the use of strangers in England. Our metropolis is an inexhaustible subject of blunders on the part of the compilers of these works, of whom not a few deserve to rank with the Frenchman who, having heard something of a coal duty in connexion with St. Paul's, gravely told his readers that the cathedral was built on _sea-coal_. The following extract is from a work entitled _Londres et ses Environs_, Paris, 2 vols. with plates: the compiler states that, having resided fifteen years in London, "il est, plus que tout autre, en état d'en parler avec certitude." "Ce gouffre majestueux a englouti la ville de Westminster, le bourg de Southwark, et quarante-cinq villages, dont les noms, conservés dans les différens quartiers qu'ils occupaient, sont-- Mora Islington Falgate Mile End New Town Ratcliffe The Hermitage The Strand Shoreditch White Chapel Stepney Wapping The Minories S. James Bloomsbury Soho Saffron Hill Lambeth math The Grange Finsbury Hoxton The Spital Poplar Shadwell S. Catherine's Charing Cross S. Giles in the Fields Holborn Kennington Horsley Down Wenlaxbarn Wauxhall Newington Butts Rotherhite Clerkenwell Norton Mile End Old Town Limehouse East Smith Field S. Clement Danes Knightsbridge Portpool Lambeth Bermondsey Paddington, et Mary-le-Bone." Vol. i. pp. 39, 40. We have here a strange admixture of the names of parishes, streets, and prebends; amongst the last are Portpool, Mora, and Wenlake's Barn, the precise locality of which many old Londoners would be puzzled to state. I think the following specimen of foreigners' English, which appeared as the address of a huge package received at the Exhibition, is worth adding to your collection:-- "Sir Vyat and Sir Fox Henderson Esqvire Grate Exposition Parc of Hide at London. "Glace to be posid upright." JAMES T. HAMMACK.