The nature of the flame which consumed the sacrifice was one point which the haruspices, both Greek and Roman, particularly observed in endeavouring to ascertain the will of the gods; hence the expressions ἔμπυρα σήματα, φλογωπὰ σήματα. See Valckenaer on this very passage of the Phoenissæ. E. S. TAYLOR, B.A. Martham, Norfolk. MSS. OF DR. WHITBY, AND PETITION OF INHABITANTS OF ALLINGTON, KENT. Perhaps some of your numerous readers may be interested with the following Note:--A few weeks since I met with at a stall a most beautifully-written MS. commentary on the Second Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians. The MS. was evidently of the close of the seventeenth, or the first three or four years of the eighteenth century. I was much struck with its learning. At the end were two sermons written in a different hand. The commentary was scored and corrected by the same hand the sermons were written in. These latter were full of most copious extracts from the Greek and Latin Fathers. The handwriting was very remarkable. I discovered that the commentary was that of Dr. Whitby, though differing in several places from that published by him. By a comparison with some of Dr. Whitby's letters in the British Museum (especially Add. MSS. 4276., fol. 194.), two learned friends at once identified the Doctor's handwriting, which is very peculiar in the formation of some of the letters, and especially from having a remarkable curve [Illustration: horizontal curved line]. The two sermons, I believe, have never been published. Between the leaves of the MS. I found an old letter, of which I send you a copy. The person to whom it was addressed was Dr. Elias Sydall, subsequently, I believe, Bishop of Gloucester, then chaplain to Archbishop Tenison. I know not whether it has ever appeared in print before. "To the Pious and Revd Dr Sydall, Chaplain to his Grace the Archbp. of Canterbury. "The humble petition of the Inhabitants of the Parish of Allington in Kent. "Sr.