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of iron by steam power over the tramway to the point named. The journey, not unnaturally, was accompanied by circumstances of difficulty. The train conveyed 70 passengers, besides 10 tons of iron, and the stack of the strange - looking loco- motive, being of bricks, was overthrown upon colliding with a bridge. Trevithick succeeded in repairing the damage, and accomplished the run at the rate of five miles an hour. The train failed, however, to get back again, for the reason that the gradients were too steep and the curves in the "tramline too sharp."

HARRY HEMS. Fair Park, Exeter.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, an order that the answers may be addressed to them direct.

TOWNSHEND PEDIGREES. 1 am endeavour- ing to make a complete collection of the pedigrees of the Townshend or Townsend lamily in England. I should be greatly obliged by any information concerning the families settled in Wales and Salop, other than those descended from Sir R. Agborough, who assumed the name of his stepfather Aurelian Townsend. There are also said to have been descendants of Thomas of Tester- ton, Norfolk, settled at Cramworth and Wretham. I should be grateful for any .account of them. DOROTHEA TOWNSHEND.

117, Banbury Road, Oxford.

LUKE KING, DEPUTY MUSTER MASTER, IRELAND, 1689. This gentleman was attainted by King James's Irish Parliament, 1689. On 6 August, same year, he was examined before the English House of Lords on the mis- carriages in Ireland, when he stated he had come over in January, and knew nothing. Was he the same Luke King who was ap- pointed, with Henry, first Viscount Palmer- ston, 21 Sept., 1680, to the office of Chief Remembrancer of H.M.'s Court of Exchequer in Ireland, during their respective lives, and on whose death the patent was renewed to iLord Palmerston and his son Henry Temple for life, 6 June, 1716 ? I shall be glad of any information on the subject, and any par- ticulars as to the family of these officials, or -of the one. CHARLES S. KING, Bt.

St. Leonards-on-Sea.

MRS. LANE AND PETER PINDAR. I was informed by a relative that my grandmother Mrs. Lane, in4e Chandler, copied out for the fpress Peter Pindar's satires. I believe that i)oth my grandparents belonged to families having strong Jacobite sympathies, and

had many literary and artistic friends. I should be glad of any opinion or criticism bearing on the probability or otherwise of this tradition. A. WALLACE.

Pennthorpe, Mead Road, Chislehurst.

CATSKIN EARLS. I should be very glad indeed of any information on this subject. (Rev.) H. H. COURTENAY. Kenton, Exeter.

[See 7 th S. ix. 314, 393, 435, 512.]

BOER WAR OF 1881. Can you tell me of a good book on the Boer war of 1881 1 I seek a book that gives the regiments in garrison at the different places, along with accounts of the fighting, &c. I want especially to study the sieges of Pretoria, Potchefstroom, Pietersburg, <fec. A. J. MITCHELL, Major, Lancaster Fusiliers.

GAME OF STATE. I am a member of a club where intellectual diversions are always in requisition. I shall be glad if a reader can give any particulars of the " Game of State," which is, I believe (as is chess), of Eastern origin, and needs much " subtlety of thought and purpose " for its successful practice so I am told. ASTRAPATH.

POWELL OF BIRKENHEAD. Can any one give me the date of marriage of Eliza Powell to Mr. John Shaw, the waggon proprietor of Liverpool? (Mrs.) J. HAUTENVILLE COPE.

13c, Hyde Park Mansions, W.

NORTHALL, SHROPSHIRE. Any early or late information about Northall will be gladly received. In the Visitations it is said to be "in Kinnersley," and was the birthplace of Edward Hall, the historian. But Eyton does not mention the place, nor is it marked in the ' Stafford Estate Maps.' C.

RODNEY'S SECOND WIFE. I should be glad to know details of the family of Henrietta Clies, of Lisbon, who was the second wife of Admiral Lord Rodney. Miss Clies is stated to have been the daughter of John Clies, of Lisbon, merchant, but no further details are given in printed pedigrees. Any information on the subject of this marriage would be welcomed. P. M. '

FRANCO-GERMAN WAR. Can any one tell me what became of the landed property of the Frenchmen of Alsace and Lorraine who refused to accept German rule ? Was it sold to land speculators ? Was it confiscated ? Or was some arrangement made by which residents in France could still receive the rents of estates which were no longer French 1

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