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Lord Norbury thrust under the seat of his armchair a letter which had reached him, when enjoying by the fireside well-earned rest after a day of toil. The chair was subse- quently sent to an upholsterer for repair, and the letter came to light. The writer was the Orange Attorney-General Saurin, who urged the Chief Justice to exert the influence of his official position, whilst going on circuit as judge, to mingle in political conversations with the grand jury, in order to check the Catholic question. The letter found its way to Daniel O'Connell, who was shocked at its contents. After some correspondence on the subject, O'Connell appealed to Brougham, who did not hesitate to animadvert in Parliament on Saurin's letter, especially as it was connected with the return of members to the House. Peel replied that he would rather be the writer than he who, having found the letter, made so base a use of it. Vide vol. i. pp. 80, 82 of ' Correspondence of Daniel O'Connell,' by W. J. Fitzpatrick, F.S.A. (Murray, 1888);

HENRY GERALD HOPE. 119, Elms Road, Clapham, S.W.

STORMING OF FORT MORO (10 th S. i. 448, 514; ii. 93, 175). The extract given from Cannon's 'Record of the First, or Royal Regiment of Foot,' is practically word for word the same as given by the late James Grant in his 'British Battles on Land anc Sea,' vol. ii. p. 125, which I think I took ii parts about the years 1875-6. In the Army List of 1763 there is no mention of any officer of the name of Wiggins or O'Higgins as belonging to the 1st, 56th, or 90th Regi ment. The only name approaching Higgin is Heighington, who was gazetted major in the 56th Regiment, 20 Feb., 1762, the early part of the year in which this event tool place.

Lieut. T. Shillibeer, R.M., in his * Narrativ of the Briton's Voyage to Pitcairn's Island including an Interesting Sketch of the Presen State of the Brazils and of South America third edition, 1818, on p. 160, writes : " Abou daylight we reached the summit of th mountain Zapata, which is very high, and w ascended by a zig-zag road, made by O'Higgin (an Irishman) in the time of his presidenc in the kingdom of Chili." He was proceec ing to Santiago. Is it possible that the make of this road was of the same family as th one mentioned in 10 th S. i. 448 ?

HERBERT SOUTHAM.

NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN PRONUNCIATIO (10 th S. i. 508). With respect to YORK'S la sentence, why should he necessarily sosuppose

We still have, I believe, an "English " alpha- bet, and in it the first letter is, or was, a, nob Now the a of such Southern word-sounds s arsis, parss, larst, rarzberry, and so on, is ot the English a at all, but a regular " Dog Jatin" specimen. May not YORK boldly loose which style he will follow 1 An old choolmaster of mine, the late Dr. Dawson W. Turner, used always to say, " You are- o-and-so, are you not 1 ?" He was no mean cholar, and had a good tongue to take care r himself with, and I think the man who- lould have told him he was " wrong" would lave had to face a mauvais quart d'heure ;: )ut this was some forty-five years ago, and we have gone a long way in the Latinizing f the " English " tongue since then, in the outh especially. Forty-five years ago the bove-mentioned gentleman taught his boys- iashion now makes it carstrum. The Romans lad the letter r like ourselves. If castrum is ndicated in sound after the vowel, in a yllable so constituted ? YORKSHIREMAN.
 * o say casstrum (castrum). I suppose the
 * o be pronounced carstrum, how can an r be

SHROPSHIRE AND MONTGOMERYSHIRE MANORS (10 th S. ii. 148). The only Osleston ! can trace in any of my gazetteers is in the parish of Sutton-on-the-Hill, co. Derby.

There are two Sandfords in Shropshire r. one in the parish of Prees, the other in the )arish of Felton.

Wollaston is in the parish of Alberbury,, Shropshire, nine miles frpm Shrewsbury. There are many variations in the spelling of and Wolstone ; but the only place spelt Wol- ston is in the county of Warwick.
 * he name, such as Woolstone, Woolastone,.

Nethergorther I cannot find mentioned. CHAS. F. FORSHAW, LL.D. Baltimore House, Bradford.

Whilst I cannot lay claim to a single drop of Welsh blood, I may yet be able to render some little assistance to F. N.

Has he not misread Nethergorther for Netherworthen, which is situated in the Hundred of Ford, Salop 1

Sandford is in the parish of Prees, five and a half miles north-west of Wem.

Possibly Osleston is a misreading for Oswestry ; and similarly Wolston may be a local or contemporary spelling of Woolaston, in the parish of Alberbury, eleven miles west of Shrewsbury. WM. JAGGARD.

139, Canning Street, Liverpool.

CAPE DUTCH LANGUAGE (1.0 th S. ii. 126). May I add to MR. PLATT'S interesting note the title of another book relating to the