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the sons of Sir W. Burrell, the antiquary. Oublie ' of Charles Virmaitre, published in Can any one help me to identify the others ? 1886, I find the account of a stone dug up [ am assisting in the compilation of a from a considerable depth, on Montmartre Register of Chigwell School, and shall be | in 1799, which bore this inscription : glad if those who know of any old Chig- wellians who were at the school before 1876 will communicate with me.

W. J. DARCH. 2, Hills Road, Buckhurst Hill.

OFFICERS' REPRESENTATIVES. Would some of your readers kindly let me know the representatives tinguished officers ? cult in England, I imagine.

Sir Alured Clarke, Governor-General of India, Field-Marshal, d. 1832.

Sir Phineas Riall, General, K.C.H., d. at Paris 10 Nov., 1851.

M. Virmaitre says : "The Academy of Inscriptions was called to-

i gether Some were of opinion that the inscription

of the following dis- was Latin, that the stone was from the tomb of a It should not be dim- I martyr contemporary with St. Denis Others de- clared that it had served as an altar in a temple of Bacchus. At last, after many discussions, no agree- ment having been reached, a commission was ap- pointed to consider the question It was the

sacristan of the church ot Montmartre who ex- tricated the learned Academy from its difficulty.

Sir Roger H. Sheaffe, Bart., General, d. He explained the mysterious inscription in the

at Edinburgh, 17 July, 1851.

DAVID Ross McCoRD, K.C. Temple Grove, Montreal.

LOWE AND WRIGHT. I should be ex- tremely obliged to be put in communication for historical purposes with the family of the late Lord Sherbrooke (Robert Lowe), and with Mr. Robert Wright (or with his representatives, should he have joined the great majority), who published in 1864 ' Life of Wolfe.' DAVID Ross McCoRD.

following manner :

Ici le chemin des anes. Our savants, who had so often climbed the path

that the stone indicated, were speechless Paris

laughed for a long time over this comical affair." W. H. HELM.

[The late F. G. Kitton in the ' Rochester Dickens ' refers to Oldbuck's similar discovery of a supposed ancient inscription in Scott's 'Antiquary.']

WOODEN CUPS IN EAST ANGLIA. I have three wooden cups two of them nine inches high, the third a little taller and bigger. They were given me by a native of

SIR JAMES MARRIOTT, ADVOCATE-GENERAL

1774. I should much like to know who at Blythburgh, Suffolk, and came out of the present represents him. His knowledge in church there during its "restoration"

som e time during the last century. The CU p S are O f brown varnished wood, and do

not ver old an an y our

unsuspected quarters has long surprised me. DAVID Ross McCoRD.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. '. should be most grateful to any one wh would help me to find the author of

The heart two chambers hath,

Of joy and sorrow.

I believe it to be a translation from Goethe. I have set it to music, but do not wish to publish it with the author unknown.

FRANK LAMBERT.

Can any one help me to the words of an

me what purpose they served ? part of East Anglia the device of

" Three Cups " is common as a sign :

there

are " Three Cups " inns at Colchester, Chelmsford, and Harwich, and a beerhouse at Ipswich. Moreover, the three cups occur on the font at Nacton (or Levington) and on the west front of St. Mary's Church, Trimley. These are villages between Ips- wich and Harwich. But, most curious of

old navy song in which the following lines all, the three cups occur on the notice-board

occur ?

When we poor middies are pacing the deck With the wind and the spray all down our neck. I wish also to know who wrote

But when I came unto merry Carlisle, Then out I laughed loud laughters three.

CARNATIC. BILL STUMPS HIS MARK. Has it ever

of the church at Harwich.

No one seems able to explain what they mean. I think that my wooden cups from Blythburgh and all these other instances of the same device must have a common origin.

AUBREY STEWART. Ipswich. CARDINAL NEWMAN'S BIRTHPLACE. Can

been suggested that Dickens took the idea I any reader of ' N. & Q.' tell me the exact of Mr. Pickwick's archaeological discovery site of the house in the City of London from a French source ? In the ' Paris where Newman was born ? Dr. Barry in