May I take this opportunity of asking for information respecting the origin of the Porter family? Their father, who was a surgeon in the army, and died in early life, is said to have been of Irish extraction. Their mother was a Miss Blenkinsop, of the city of Durham. Any information respecting the families of Porter and Blenkinsop would be interesting. What is the name of the Russian nobleman or gentleman to whom the daughter of Sir R. K. Porter is married? If she is still alive, she is the sole representative of the Porters, it is believed. E. H. A. GENERAL WOLFE. (Vol. v., pp. 34. 136.) As a sequel to the inquiries suggested in your pages respecting General Wolfe, permit me to contribute the inscription on the obelisk erected by Lord Dalhousie, in 1827, in a conspicuous part of Quebec, in honour of the General and of his brave opponent Montcalm.[9] I give it in the precise form in which it was obligingly communicated to me by the present Bishop of Quebec, in reply to my suggestions, a year or two ago, of another inscription, which I also send: "Mortem Virtus communem Famam Historia Monumentum Posteritas dedit." Upon the base: "Hujusce Monumenti in memoriam virorum illustrium WOLFE et MONTCALM. Fundamentum p. c. Georgius Comes de Dalhousie, In Septentrionalibus Americæ partibus Ad Britannos pertinentibus Summam rerum administrans (Quid duci egregio convenientius?) Auctoritate promovens, exemplo stimulans Munificentiâ fovens Die Novembris XV. MDCCCXXVII Georgi IV. Britanniarum Rege." * * * * * _Suggested Inscription._ "Hoc in loco JACOBUS WOLFE, Anglorum, LUDOVICUS DE MONTCALM, Francogallorum, Exercitibus præfecti, Optimis belli pacisque artibus pares, Vitæ exitu simili, Dispari fortunâ, Commissâ inter Anglos et Francogallos pugnâ, Ille in amplexu victoriæ Hic victus, sed invicto animo, Vulneribus confossi Satis honorificé defuncti sunt. * * * * * "Felices ambo! Quorum ingenio, moribus, bellicæ virtuti, Duarum amplissimarum gentium Mutuo luctu lacrymisque Parentatum." [Footnote 9: [An account of laying the first stone of the obelisk to Wolfe and Montcalm, on Nov. 20, 1827, will be found in Quebec and its Environs, 8vo. 1837.--ED.]] P.S.--I would add, in connexion with this subject, that an elegant and classical epitaph on Montcalm, printed in Popham's _Illustrium Virorum Elogia Sepulchralia_, ends as follows: