St. Elphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, was barbarously murdered by the Danes in 1012, and buried in St. Paul's Cathedral. Twelve years after his martyrdom, his body was found entire, and solemnly translated to Canterbury. The King and Queen, and an incredible multitude of persons following the procession from London. A long narrative of the event is amongst the Harleian MSS. When King Edmund was cruelly slain by the Danes in 870, his head was carried by the infidels into a wood, and thrown into a brake of bushes; but being afterwards discovered, it was deposited with the royal remains at Hoxon, which were soon afterwards conveyed to Bury St. Edmunds, and there honourably interred. Fifty-seven years rolled on, when his body was taken up by order of the good Bishop of London; on which occasion, says the author of Britannia Sancta, "his body, to the admiration of all, was not only found entire, and without any blemish of corruption, much more like to one lying in a sweet sleep than one dead; but also his wounds were found all closed up, and his head united to the rest of his body, only a slender mark remaining like a red thread around the neck, testifying their former separation." Yours, truly, A BOOKWORM. ARMS OF THE ISLE OF MAN. Southwick, near Oundle, Feb. 27th, 1852. SIR,--The accompanying woodcut, taken from Gesenii Monumenta Phœnicia, Tab. 23, fig. 59, has induced me to send you a description of the remaining figures of the precious fragment, and the history written underneath them. [Illustration] The upper part of the stone contained, _probably_, the infant Jesus and his mother Mary. Immediately beneath her feet is the figure here described; and below it is an ox at his manger; and underneath the feet of the ox, an ancient writing, of which the following is the meaning. "The illuminated star (spica Virginis) of Virgo led the Magi slowly to the inn filled within, and in the court-yard, with crowds of people. Arriving at the mean cattle-stable, the Magi were." The names of the _three_ chiefs of the Magi in the place of the erasions? From a Mukatteb inscription I get the name of one of them, viz. "Nathan Hafi, the Grandfather." Now what can the three legs, with the _man's_ head in the middle denote, but the three _chiefs_ of the Magi? And how is it that the people of Mona adopted it as _their_ peculiar coat of arms, if _a portion_ of that sect did not establish themselves, after the nativity, in the isle of Mona? The passage in Matt. ii. 12, does not militate against the idea. Let us now take that most valuable auxiliary, Etymology, in order that we may further elucidate the subject.