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Rh The names of those who perished in the Black Hole, as well as those of several other Europeans who died during the siege, so far as they could be ascertained, were inscribed upon the memorial which was erected during the Viceroyalty of Lord Curzon upon the site of the original monument which was raised to their memory. Copies of these inscriptions will be found in the late Dr. H. E. Busteed's 'Echoes from Old Calcutta,' 4th ed., 1908, pp. 382-4, and in Mr. H. E. A. Cotton's 'Calcutta Old anf New.' 1907, pp. 418-20. The history of the "Black Hole," and of the events thay preceded and followed the tragedy, is given in the first chapter of Dr. Busteed's book, and in the fifth chapter, part i., and the fourth chapter, part ii., of Mr. Cotton's.

(11 S. vii. 489; viii. 55.)—After reading H. O.'s query, I noticed that the small children of an agricultural labourer near here (North Suffolk, on the Norfolk border said "Hello!" but I think that "Hullo!" is still the usual pronunciation of the English schoolboy. The word is frequently printed "Hallo"; in fact, in the case of one big London firm the printers seem so enamoured of this spelling that, even when an author writes "Hullo," the word often appears on the proof as "Hallo." I do not remember hearing this pronunciation, but perhaps the spelling is not intended to be phonetic. Is not "Hollo" the usual pronunciation when shouting to some one at a distance, and "Hullo" that customary when used as an ordinary greeting, greatly favoured by schoolboys

It may be worth while to note that Byron in his 'Versicles' of March, 1817, after referring characteristically to 'Christabel' and other novelties, concludes thus:—

(11 S vii. 189, 275, 334, 373, 434; viii. 14).—In the cemetery of Spanish and Portuguese Jews—where Lord Beaconsfield's father lies—in the Mile End Road, next to St. Benet's Church, all the graves are head to the north, and every gravestone is laid flat. Very few of these stones have any ornament; on a few is carved an arm holding an axe which is cutting a tree trunk, and on stones placed over a deceased "Cohen" is carved a pair of hands "erect, appaumée, couped at the wrist," with the tips of the thumbs touching and the fingers extended in couples. To describe this as clasped hands is a mistake. I do not think the custom of carving this emblem is abandoned.

 (11 S. vii. 483).—With all submission to the authority of, let me state that Canning's jeu d'esprit, printed at the above reference, appeared in The Edinburgh Review for July, 1858, in the course of an article by Abraham Hayward, reviewing Edmonds's edition of 'The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin.' The lines have been reprinted at least once since in vol. i. (new series) of Hayward's 'Biographical and Critical Essays,' 1873. As Hayward's version of the lines differs from that quoted by, I set it out here:—

  (11 S. vii. 369, 477, 497).—Edward Thomason (afterwards Sir Edward) of Birmingham is described as a "button-maker" in patents granted to him in 1786, 1789, 1803, and 1804, and he probably continued to manufacture buttons until his death in 1851.

Mr. Collis was afterwards taken into partnership, and the London address is given by at the second of the above references.

Thomason had a large manufacturing establishment in Birmingham, and it is not likely that his buttons were made in London. 