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ipm Ritson ut supra, and gives this further illu stration from Gait's 'Sir Andrew Wylie,' "No just sae far; I maun gang there on Shanks-naggy." THOMAS BAYNE.

"ONLY FEED." The following paragraph from the York Courant of 26 March, 1751, has been recently revealed :

" Between ten and eleven o'clock last night <(20 March) died, at Leicester House (to the utmost grief and concern of his Royal Family and House- hold, and inexpressible loss of the public), the most High Puissant and most illustrious Prince Frederick Lewis, eldest son of our Most Gracious Sovereign,

George II To form a just estimate of the

nation's loss by the death of his Royal Highness one should be able to do justice to his character, but that is more than we dare venture to under- take, and therefore leave it to some masterly hand to tell the world that the joy of Britain is withered, her hope is gone. The merchant's friend, the pro- tector of arts and sciences, the patron of merit, the fsnerous reliever of the distressed, the accomplished rince, and the fine gentleman in private life is now no more. Weep, all ye inhabitants of the land, pour out floods of tears, let there not be a dry eye in the nation ; humble yourselves under this fatal stroke and deprecate the wrath of heaven, who seems to have taken away this great and good Prince for our numberless crying sins."

44 There's no more to be said."

ST. SWITHIN.

" CHOP-DOLLAR." In many places in China the Mexican dollar, when found to be of good silver, often receives the chop or stamp -of the tradesman through whose hands it passes. At Shanghai the chop is applied in black or red ink by means of a rubber stamp. At Hong Kong a die is used, and some of the metal is fetched away each time the chop is applied. Hence the surface of the coin becomes pitted. So much is this the case that dollars of good silver are some- times rejected because they have lost weight. The interesting part of the case arises when we find the term applied figuratively to any one whose face is pitted with smallpox. On first hearing the expression is startling, but its aptness is unmistakable.

I do not find the word with either meaning in the 'H. E D.' It may be as well to say that the Indian "chobdar," "chopdar," or beadle, is a different word altogether.

Du AH Coo. Hongkew, Shanghai.

FARNLEY HALL. In your notice of Murray's Handbook for Yorkshire,' ante, p. 259, you inquire if Farnley Hall, three miles west of Leeds, has disappeared, and say that it is mentioned in ' Cassell's Gazetteer.' Many gazetteers besides Cassell's mention the Farnley Hall alluded to, but what is

most generally meant by Farnley Hall is the seat of the Fawkeses. Other discrepancies and omissions in this excellent work could readily be pointed out, but presumably the book has already assumed sufficiently alarm- ing dimensions without giving every place worth mentioning in our broad-acred shire.

We have in Yorkshire all in this imme- diate district Farnley, in the parish of Otley ; Farnley, in the parish of Leeds ; Farnley Hey, a hamlet in the parish of Almond bury ; and Farnley-Tyas, a township in the parish of Almondbury. In the last- named Farnley is Woodsome Hall, one of the seats of the Earl of Dartmouth, which is frequently alluded to as Farnley Hall.

As regards the Farnley Hall which is missing from 'Murray,' the 'National Gazetteer ' (1868) says :

" Farnley is a chapelry in the parish and borough of Leeds, West Riding, co. York, four miles south- west of Leeds and six east of Bradford. The Wortley station on the Great Northern Railway is

about one mile to the north-east Farnley Hall is

the principal residence."

CHAS. F. FORSHAW, LL.D.

Bradford.

"VESTIBULE" AS A VERB. The announce- ment is going the round of the newspapers that through carriages on a certain train between London and Hull will henceforward " be vestibuled through " to an express at an intermediate station ; and this use of "vestibule" as a verb seems to deserve note.

A. F. R.

SIBERIA. The Russian name of Siberia, viz., Sibir, has been sometimes connected, indeed, with the Russian and Slavonic word for north = sever, as incidentally suggested by MR. DODGSON in his note (ante, p. 264). This supposition must be, however, now entirely abandoned, since it is unfounded. According to Potanin (quoted in Vivien de Saint-Martin's ' Dictionnaire Geographique,' vii. 885), the most probable derivation of Sibir is from the name of a Mongolian or Tatar tribe first known to Russia in the sixteenth century, and afterwards gradually extended to the whole of Asiatic Siberia. The same view is held by Prof. Morfill, as he kindly informed me. H. KREBS.

GEORGIANA M. CRAIK. In his 'English Literature in the Reign of Queen Victoria,' published in 1881, the late Henry Morley said that " Miss Georgiana Craik began to write novels in 1859." He repeated this in the revised ' First Sketch of English Literature,' in which he practically embodied the Vic- torian book. The attention thus given by an