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1850) in a third-class carriage without roof, and with a seat down the centre, with a break in the middle for passage-way, but, as a boy, naturally did not get sitting- room.

On the Eastern Counties Railway the fact that we only went as far as Cambridge by rail on our journey to Norwich will fix the date, which was certainly later than 1844 or 1845, and I do not recollect seeing open carriages of any kind on the trains. If there were any such, they may have been limited to short distance trains.

Hie ET UBIQUE.

RACIAL PKOBLEM OF EUROPE (10 S. viii. 145, 218, 233, 274, 394). At the last reference but one MB. FOSTER PALMER protested against the use of the word language, ancient or modern." I should like to be allowed to ask why the construction of "racial," from " race " should be reckoned " barbarous." Perhaps the very asking of the question shows that I do not pretend to write as a philologist, but I simply take the stand of the man in the street, who cannot see why he may not treat the word " race " as his forefathers have that of " face." This is, I believe, the only other word of four letters ending in ace, which has hitherto required an addition to signify the quality of, or a characteristic of, or pertaining to, the substantive. Physiognomists recognize different facial angles, anatomists the facial artery, &c. I need not say facial is found in the dictionaries. If facial be thus acknowleged, whv not racial ?
 * ' racial," which has " no root in any

W. S. B. H.

" NJTOR IN ADVERSUM " (10 S. viii. 429). Burke's ' Peerage and Baronetage ' for this year does not give this phrase in its list of mottoes. " Nitor dum supero" is the motto of Russell of Charlton Park, who seems, however, to have no connexion with the Russell family who supplied his Grace of Bedford. HIPPOCLIDES.

Fairbairn gives this as the motto of the families of Bredel, Fysh, and Horner.

H. J. B. CLEMENTS.

In Robson's ' British Herald ' this is entered as the motto of the Scotch family

of Horner, thus : " Horner [Scotland]

three hunting horns, stringed, sa. Crest, a stag's head, erased, ppr. Motto, ' Nitor in adyersum,' " translated further on as " I strive against."

In Washbourne's ' Book of Family Crests ' (llth ed., 1875) the same motto is given to

the Scotch Homers, but the translation appears as " I contend against adversity."

RICHD. WELFORD. Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

NORMAN COURT, HAMPSHIRE (10 S. viii. 345, 415), was for centuries the seat of a branch of the family of Whitehead ; and it is very probable that the pictures in question may be portraits of members of that family. There is said to be a portrait of Sir Henry Whitehead, who flourished temp. Eliz. and Jas. I., at Henslow Grange, Beds. This might be useful (if still in existence) to your correspondent by way of comparison. There are also some very ancient brasses with figures in the parish church of West Tytherley to the memory of members of the family, and various notes relating thereto are scattered throughout ' N. & Q.' B. WHITEHEAD, B.A.

2, Garden Court, Temple.

LONDON QUERIES OF THE EARLY EIGH- TEENTH CENTURY (10 S. viii. 388). 3. There was a Morris's Coffee-House in Lower Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, in 1803, with " Accommodation for Gentlemen and Families." See the ' Picture of London ' for that year.

4. Is K. K. quite sure that the " Pestle and Mortar " was an inn ? If so, it is pro- bably a unique instance, that sign having been peculiarly an apothecary's distinction, although taverners, like other people, gener- ally possessed a pestle and mortar among their household utensils. The best-known sign of the " Pestle and Mortar " in the early part of the eighteenth century was that of " Egregious Moore," the worm-doctor of Dryden's stanzas, whose shop was in Ab- church Lane, and later in St. Lawrence Poultney's Lane.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

4. According to Larwood and Hotten's ' History of Signboards,' an inn bearing the sign of " The Pestle and Mortar " was kept by a Grace Pestell in Fig-tree Yard, Rat- cliffe. S. D. C.

DEATH OF THE OLDEST PHOTOGRAPHER (10 S. viii. 306). John Frederick Long, born in Jerusalem Passage. Clerkenwell, 21 March, 1819, sang as a choirboy at St. Bartholomew the Great's, Smithfield, so long ago as 1826. Whilst a young man he operated as a photo- grapher. In the middle forties, falling into delicate health, he migrated to Devonshire his friends believed, to die. Settling at Exeter, he lived to be hale and strong, con- tinuing to practise his art with much success