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 NOTES AND QUERIES. m & v. MAY 25, 1912.

but this order with regard to the cutting of their hair was resisted by the Chinese most vigorously. Thus, for example, the in- habitants of the town of " Xaoking " in the Province of Chekiang seem to have submitted to the invaders without striking a blow,

" but when the Tartars commanded all by Proclamation to cut off their Hair, then both Souldier and Citizen took up Armes, and fought more desperately for their Hair of their Heads, than they did for King or Kingdome, and beat the Tartars not only out of their City, but repulst them to the River Cienthang : nay forced them to passe the River, killing very many of them."

The following year, however, the Tartars recrossed the river and retook the city, whereupon many of the inhabitants and a certain " petty king Lu " took ship and sailed to the island called " Cheuxan " (Chusan),

" which Island being heretofore only a ret re it for Fishermen, and some Clowns, now is become a potent Kingdom, by reason that many fly from China to this King Lu, as to their sanctuary to conserve the libertie of their Hair." P. 284.

BENJ. WALKER. Gravelly Hill, Erdington.

ROTHSCHILD AND BUXTON (US. v. 309). The passage which MR. BRESLAR quotes from Emerson is taken from a letter in which Mr. Buxton, afterwards Sir Thos. Fowell Buxton. the Abolitionist, gives an .account of a conversation with Baron Nathan Meyer Rothschild, who migrated from Frank- fort to London and made a great fortune. The advice was given to Buxton's son Edward. The letter, dated 14 Feb., 1834, containing some interesting particulars which Rothschild gave of his early career in Eng- land, will be found in the ' Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton.' edited by his son Charles Buxton, published by John Murray in 1848. As quoted by MR. BRESLAR, there is one slight difference. Rothschild said, x ' You may be the great brewer of London," not " you will be,'' &c. Rothschild seems to have been communicative, and Buxton was a good letter-writer. F. NEWMAN.

' No THOROUGHFARE ' : MR. J. COLLINS FRANCIS'S NOTES ON DICKENS (11 S. v. 363). One feels somewhat diffident over any criticism of MR. JOHN COLLINS FRANCIS'S most interesting notes on the great novelist. But I venture to think we should read Ben- jamin Webster for " Fechter " in respect of the play 'No Thoroughfare.' Fechter's house, was the old Lyceum, outside which, I fancy, he never performed. And was not Mrs. John Billington, still happily with us, in the cast ? CECIL CLARKE.

"MIZPAH'' EPITAPH (11 S. v. 290).- Omitting reference to social custom, there is good reason why, on philological or technical grounds, " Mizpah : ' should be used in association with tombstones, especially with the fixing of marble or granite columns, the purpose of which is " to attract atten- tion." The root of' Mizpah " iszafa, to see clearly, intently, any object to observe ; and differs from the verb raha, which has for base " mental vision " rather than the physical act. There were two types of " prophets ' ' zoupheem, or practical teachers, and roueem, magi or dreamers in the Jewish commonwealth. We do not use the word on our tombstones. M. L. R. BRESLAR.

"WAIT AND SEE'' (11 S. iii. 366, 434; iv. 74, 157). Punch of 12 October, 1878, has already been quoted in this connexion ; but the veteran had anticipated the idea in a paragraph of 11 December, 1875, headed ' Respice Finem.' dealing with the Disraelian purchase of the Suez Canal shares, in which it was observed of the policy involved :

" Wait a while ! The Continental Press generally speaks well of it. Nevertheless, it may possibly turn out an advantage for England. We shall see."

POLITICIAN.

PENLEAZE (11 S. v. 270). The Rev. J. Silvester Davies, in his ' History of South- ampton,' 1883, gives a list of the " Bur- gesses of Parliament " for that borough, in which occurs the name of John Storey Penleaze, Esq.. of Bossington, co. South- ampton. He and Arthur Atherley, Esq., of Arundel (both Liberals), were returned to Parliament in 1831. On the next election in 1833 he was defeated at the poll by James Barlow Hoy, Esq., the Tory candi- date ; but the latter was unseated on petition, and Penleaze took his place as member. Whether he stood again in the election of 1835 is not stated ; but South- ampton, a very changeable constituency, then returned two Conservatives, one of whom was the before-mentioned Hoy.

FREDK. A. EDWARDS.

EMERSON : " MR. CRUMP'S WHIM " (11 S. iv. 108). Mr. Crump, an American gentle- man, wrote 1o Lord Macaulay offering him 500 dollars if he could introduce the name of Crump into his history. See Sir George Trevelyan's ' Life of Lord Macaulay,' p. 482 (single - volume edition). Probably this aspiration on the part of Mr. Crump was the " whim " to which Emerson refe r red.

W. SCOTT.