Perceiving that you sometimes admit curious and eccentric epitaphs into your very amusing and instructive periodical, if the enclosed is worthy a place, it at least has this merit, if no other, that it is a _literal_ copy, from a tombstone in St. Edmund's churchyard, Sarum:-- _In Memory of 3 Children of Joseph and Arabella Maton, who all died in their Infancy, 1770._ 1. Innocence Embellishes Divinely Compleat To Prescience Coegent Now Sublimely Great In the Benign, Perfecting, Vivifying State. 2. So Heavenly Guardian Occupy the Skies The Pre-Existent God, Omnipotent Allwise He can Surpassingly Immortalize thy Theme And Permanent thy Soul Celestial Supreme. 3. When Gracious Refulgence, bids the Grave Resign The Creators Nursing Protection be Thine Thus each Perspiring Æther will Joyfully Rise Transcendantly Good Supereminently Wise. W.C. * * * * * THE LETTER B. "Or like a lamb, whose dam away is fet, He treble _baas_ for help, but none can get." SIDNEY. Its pronunciation is supposed to resemble the bleating of a sheep; upon which account the Egyptians represented the sound of this letter by the figure of that animal. It is also one of those letters which the eastern grammarians call _labial_, because the principal organs employed in its pronunciation are the lips. With the ancients, B as a numeral stood for 300. When a line was drawn above it, it stood for 3,000, and with a kind of accent below it, for 200. P.T.W. * * * * * A DOUBLE. (_To the Editor._) I read your story of the cherry-coloured cat. The clergyman with whom I was educated astonished me when a child, by saying, when at his living at ----, he preached in a cherry-coloured gown and a _rose_-coloured wig (white.) AN OLD ONE. * * * * * PROPHECY OF LORD BYRON. In his journal, under the date of January 13, 1821, Lord Byron writes: "Dined--news come--the powers mean to war with the people. The intelligence seems positive--let it be so--they will be beaten in the end. The _King-times_ are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the people will conquer in the end. I shall not live to see it--but I foresee it." * * * * * HARDHAM'S 37 Snuff-takers generally, especially the patrons of Hardham's 37 will read the following record of benevolence with some gratification:--"In 1772, Mr. John Hardham, a tobacconist, in London, a native of Chichester, left by his will the interest of all his estates to the guardians of the poor, 'to ease the inhabitants in their poor-rates for ever.' This valuable legacy amounting to 653_l._ per annum was subject to the life of the housekeeper of the testator, so that it was not till 1786 that it reverted to the city."--This is even better than the plan for snuff-takers paying off the national debt.