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following passage (* Modern Painters,' part iv chap, xii.) ?

" I forget who it is who represents a man in despair desiring that his body may be cast into th sea,

Whose changing mound and foam that passed awaj Might mock the eye that questioned where I lay."

Who wrote this couplet 1 J. C. C.

GERMAN-ENGLISH DICTIONARY. What ii the most complete and up-to-date German English dictionary ? KOM OMBO.

[We find most complete the Fliigel-Schmidt Tanger 'Worterbuch' (Asher & Co.. and Wester mann, Brunswick) ; the Muret-Sanders ' Encyclo paedic Dictionary,' 2 vols. of which give the German English portion (H. Grevel & Co., and Langen scheidtscne Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin); and the tenth edition of the Grieb-Schroer * Worterbuch (Frowde, and Biichle, Stuttgart).]

BEER SOLD WITHOUT A LICENCE. I have heard it said that until quite recent days in certain towns of England at fair times all the householders had a right by charter to sel beer without a licence. Is this true ? and if so which were they ? EDWARD PEACOCK.

Kirton-in-Liudsey.

OWL AND ATHENIAN ADMIRAL. In Keats 's 4 Endymion ' (book ii. 1. 22) is the following passage :

What care, though owl did fly About the great Athenian admiral's mast?

I shall be obliged if any one can tell me of

the incident to which reference is here made.

C. McL. CAREY.

[See Plutarch's 'Themistocles,' xii. Langhorne's translation reads : " While Themistocles [before Salamis] was thus maintaining his arguments upon deck, some tell us an owl was seen flying to the right of the fleet, which came and perched upon the shrouds. This omen determined the confederates to accede to his opinion, and to prepare for a sea fight."]

BLACKETT FAMILY. Ann Blackett, cousin to Michael Blackett (qy. of Durham ?), married a Mr. Parcable (qy. spelling?), and was the mother of Elizabeth Parcable (qy. spelling ?),

who, as daughter and co-heir of Parcable,

and co-heir of Michael Blackett, married John Moule, living in 1790 in Great Swan Alley, Coleman Street, London, and earlier in Aldgate. Wanted any further information about the persons named. The said John Moule was great-grandfather of the present Bishop of Durham. CHAS. A. BERNAU.

Marwood, Crutchfield Road, Walton-on-Thames.

THE ST. HELENA MEDAL. I should feel much obliged for information respecting the bronze medal known as the St. Helena Medal. It is one and a half inches in diameter, and

bears on the obverse the head of Napoleon laureated, looking right, NAPOLEON. i EMPEREUR ; on the reverse, in an oute circle, the words, CAMPAGNES. DE. 1792 . A 1815 ; and on the field the inscription, A. SES

COMPAGNONS. DE. GLOIRE. SA. DERNIERE

PENSEE. s te HELENE. 5 MAI .1821. The medal is surmounted with an imperial crown, and is attached to a green ribbon, with red perpendicular stripes. The name of the artist is not given, but the execution is good, and worthy of Denon.

In Napoleon's will and in the codicils thereto no sum of money is set apart for meeting the cost of the medal, though gratuities are left out of his private purse to different indi- viduals of his household ; and I find no allusion to any such "last thought" in Bourrienne's ' Memoirs,' in O'Meara's * Napo- leon at St. Helena,' or in 'Memorial de Sainte Helene,' by the Count de Las Cases. I should much like to know when, where, and by whose directions this medal was struck presumably by the members of his family or his partisans, with the view of completing the medallic history of Napoleon. Was it ever distributed 1 JAMES WATSON.

Folkestone.

RUNEBERG, FINNISH POET. Have the works of the Finnish poet Runeberg been translated into English, especially his ' Fan- rik stals sagner ' ? If so, by whom, and where published 1 SUOMI.

BENNETT FAMILY OF LINCOLN. I shall feel greatly obliged for any information relative to the descendants of Charles Bennett, of Lincoln, who married Dorothy, daughter of Ralph Watson, of H.M. Customs, Newcastle- upon-Tyne, sometime lieutenant in the Northumberland Militia, and sister and co-heiress of Richard Pringle Watson, of the same city. Their eldest son Charles Watson Bennett married in May, 1843, Ellen, daughter of Thomas Henderson, of Newcastle.

H. R. LEIGHTON.

EastBoldon, R.S.O, co. Durham.

" KOLLIWEST." Can any reader tell me how ! or " contrary " and " opposite " 1 It is not in An Attempt at a Glossary of some Words used in Cheshire,' by Roger Wilbraham, Esq., F.R.S. and S.A., 1817. C. L. POOLE.
 * his word came to be used in Mid -Cheshire

Alsager.

[The 'E.D.D.' refers under ' Colly weston ' to N. & Q.,' 6 th S. ii. 212. Cf. ' Conny west.']

FEMALE INCENDIARY. ! should be much

bliged for any particulars especially time

and place of the following case. I think it