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 422 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io» B. iv. NOT. ss, u» now is on exhibition. We shall be obliged if you will kindly mention that our firm was the maker of the memorial rings." I have a vague idea that a niece of John Salter's is said to have married a Mr. Veal, and also that Lord Nelson gave a silver tray to a member of the Salter family as a wedding gift. If only the Salter ledgers existed, many of the christening gifts presented by our great naval hero to his godchildren might be iden- tified and traced, whereas their histories are now lost. Possibly from Salter's was ordered the beautiful tea service given to the little daughter of Capt. Sir William and Lady Bolton, born in March, of whose advent Nelson wrote to Lady Hamilton, 6 June, 1804 :— "Sir William Bolton joined last night, and re- ceived letters announcing his being called a papa. Apropos, I believe, you should buy apiece of plate value 301. for our goddaughter of Lady Bolton, and something of '201. or 30A for Col. Suckling's." This last joint godchild, afterwards chris- tened Nelson, was son of his first cousin William Suckling, and the gift took the form of a silver jug and stand, the facsimile of one depicted in Lord Charles Beresford's ' Nelson and his Times.' Nelson's letter to Lady Hamilton telling her to choose the natne for their godchild (Nelson's dispatches) has been the cause of some confusion of ideas. Writing before the birth, he said, " Call him what you please ; if a girl, Emma." Lady Hamilton wrote out to announce the birth to Nelson and to Sir William Bolton. "Your letter," wrote Lady Bolton later to Lady Hamilton, "gave Sir William the first intelligence of the birth of his little girl. My Lord has told him the name, Emma Horatia, and that you aud he are to answer for it." Lady Hamilton's gift was a very handsome coral mounted in gold. She was particularly interested in the young couple, having known Sir William in the Mediterranean when he was serving with Nelson in the Vanguard, and she appears to have aided his wooing of his cousin "Kitty Bolton." The marriage had been fixed for the spring of 1803, but Lord Nelson's sudden departure to serve afloat in May of that year had upset all the family plans, and even the installation to the Order of the Bath had to be performed by proxy, and William Bolton, being selected for the office, was knighted for the occasion on 18 May, and "married on that same day by special licence in a private house." Possibly the house was the Hamiltons', for Nelson, travel- ling post haste, had arrived at Portsmouth that same afternoon, and thence dated a letter to Lady Hamilton : " I hope your marriage has_ gone off well, for the girl may thank you (if it is worth thanking) for her husband." A memorial ring was made for the Rev. Edmund Nelson in May, 1802. The letter giving a list of the recipients was in> the Holding Collection, and is printed in Mrs. Hilda Gamlin's ' Nelson's Friendships." It K a gold band with black enamel and a white line edging it, and bears the date of death and the age of the venerable cleric. __ The one I have seen has no tell-tale case, but" the rings were in all probability made at the cost of that most generous of sons and brothers, Horatio Nelson, and may well also have come from John Salter's. It would be in- teresting to know if any readers of ' N. & Q.' possess any of the memorial rings herein mentioned or know aught of their existence. F. H. S. THE JUBILEE OF 'THE SATURDAY REVIEW.' (See ante. pp. 382, 402.) I. 1855 and 185G hawkers were selling in the streets of London caricatures of the two popular preachers Bellew and Spurgeon, Spurgeon being depicted as Brimstone and Bellew as Treacle. The Saturday JRevitw, ever on the look-out for popular subjects, devoted much space to reviewing their sermons as well as those of Dr. Cummiog. Bellew then preached to a fashionable con- gregation at St. Philip's in Kegent Street, which was crowded to the doors. The reviewer describes him as having "a loose, rambling intellect," and column after column could be filled " with examples of the sur- prising digressions, the tawdry ornaments, and the jumble of ideas, which, with a very few exceptions, disfigure every sermon thai Mr. Bellew has published." To Dr. Cumming two long reviews are devoted on June 14th and 21st, 1856, the works being ' The End ; or, Proximate Signs of the Close of the Dispensation,' and ' Apocalyptic Sketches.' The last had a sale of 16,000. He is charged "with gross ignorance; his object is to insinuate —for he does not go so far ae explicitly to assert- that the end of the world is to take place in 18S>r ind this he does on the strength of certain panage* in the Greek Testament, ana their connexion witi certain historical events." The review disclaims all knowledge of Dr. Cumming or his affairs :— " We look only at the influence which h« cises, and at the doctrine which he preaches, and we feel very strongly that such influence ought not to be exercised, nor such doctrine to be preached, by incompetent persons without some kind of