_Boston and Bunker's Hill._--In the plan of Boston, among the maps of the Useful Knowledge Society, is to be found, near Charleston, and on Breed's Hill (the real site of the battle usually misnamed as of Bunker's Hill), the following notice, "Defeat of the British, 1775." My first idea was, that, _Liberal_ though the Society might be, it was being rather too liberal to give away in this manner a victory which, however bloody and fruitless, was indubitably ours: but, on second thoughts, it seemed that the whole fault arose from copying too implicitly an American map. Now I am well aware that a very large part of the Americans, from continually vaunting (and with good reason) the valour they displayed, and the honour they acquired, on that occasion, have gradually worked themselves into the belief that they were the victors, even though their own historians tell a different tale; and they have even placed inscriptions on the monuments standing on the site of the intrenchments from which they were forced by the British; which inscriptions also assert a similar claim. This would be of no great consequence had it been confined to themselves; but its being transferred to an English publication not only tends to mislead many persons on this side, but enables the Americans to refer with confidence to it, as an admission of _their_ victory on the part of the British; and no one who remembers the use they made, on the Oregon Question, of a similarly occasioned error in one of the Society's globes, can doubt that our Transatlantic friends would make the most of this trifling affair in confirmation of their claims to the victory. J. S. WARDEN. _Snooks._--This name, so generally associated with vulgarity, is only a corruption, or rather a contraction, of the more dignified name of _Sevenoaks_. This town is generally called _Se'noaks_ in Kent; and the further contraction, coupled with the phonetic spelling of former days, easily passed into _S'nooks_. This is no imaginary conclusion, for I am told by a trustworthy friend that Messrs. Sharp and Harrison, solicitors, Southampton, have recently had in their possession a series of deeds in which all the modes of spelling occur from _Sevenokes_ down to _S'nokes_, in connexion with a family now known as _Snooks_. G. W. J. _Last Slave sold in England._--Can any of your correspondents tell me the date of the last public slave sale in England? Till the establishment of Granville Sharpe's great principle, in 1772, announcements of these are by no means uncommon. The following, from the _Public Ledger_ of Dec. 31, 1761, grates harshly upon the feelings of the present generation:-- "FOR SALE: "A healthy negro girl, aged about fifteen years; speaks good English, works at her needle, washes well, does household work, and has had the small-pox." SAXONICUS. _Hoax on Sir Walter Scott._--The following passage occurs in one of Sir W. Scott's letters to Southey, written in September, 1810: