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the wall and sallies forth with that (viii. 10). When, Jones rescues Mrs. Waters from Northerton, he uses his oaken stick as a weapon (ix. 2). When attacked by the landlord at Upton, he relies again upon the cudgel, as well as his fists (ix. 3). When the highwayman attacks him, he vanquishes him with his hands, and only stands with his sword drawn when his antagonist is helpless on the ground (xii. 14). He relies wholly on his fists in the contest with Nightingale's .footman, and his efficiency compels the admiration of the defeated man. It is only when Fitzpatrick strikes Jones, ard draws his own sword, that the hero is permitted to put his weapon to its predestined use.

FREDERICK STOEVER DICKSON. New York.

ANAGRAM. (See ante, p. 427.) " Flit on, cheering angel "= Florence Nightingale.

G. W. E. R.

" HICKORY " AS AN ADJECTIVE. Brigham Young in 1855 (see my ' American Glossary ') said : "If there are any Gentiles, or hickory ' Mormons,' write it down." A hickory Mormon was evidently one whose attachment to the system was weak. I now find that in 1824 William Cobbett called Joseph Gurney " a sort of hickory Quaker " (Weekly Register, Aug. 14, col. 420). He probably picked up the phrase during his second visit to the United States. The word, as thus used, is not noticed by Bartlett, and has escaped the vigilance of the ' N.E.D.' RICHARD H. THORNTON.

' THE LAST CHRONICLE OF BARSET ' : AN INCONSISTENCY. Had Archdeacon Grantly's son Charles any children ? Charles was married to a certain Lady Anne, and it is -said, chap. xxii. :

" Charles Grantly and Lady Anne had no children, and the heir of all the Hartletops was too august to have been trusted to the embraces of her mother's grandfather. Edith, therefore [Henry's child], was all that he had in that generation. ..."

But in chap. Ixxviii. we read that the aforesaid Lady Anne used to bring Mr. Harding cheap presents from London, " of which he did not take much heed, of her he rarely said a word, or of her children, to either of his daughters."

It seems to be a case of the author nodding. Considering the method of his working, it is astonishing how correct and consistent in side details Anthony Trollope's work usually as. PEREGRINUS.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION FOR

QUEENSFERRY, &c., DISTRICT OF BURGHS, 1754.

IN James Aikman's ' History of Scotland,' vol. vi., 1829, p. 615, foot-note, is a copy of "an advertisement " :

" Queensferry, 16th January, 1754. The magis- trates and town council of Queensferry being this day convened, and taking into their serious con- sideration the many dismal effects that follow upon the canvassing and pothering for votes in several boroughs, with a view to the ensuing general election of members of parliament, such as the raising and fomenting of animosities, grudges, and feuds among neighbours whose happiness, in a great measure, depends upon their mutual peace and good-will ; the corrupting the consciences, and debauching the minds of severals by bribes and excessive drinking ; taking them off their proper callings and the ordinary means of providing for their families ; and habituating them for some time to a luxurious and riotous manner of me, to the endangering of their health and the weaning of their affections from their ordinary business ; besides the loading of the candidates with an intolerable expense, and thereby exposing such of them as succeed to a violent temptation of some- how or other getting themselves reimbursed ; and as the members of this town council are already resolved upon colonel George Haldane as the gentleman they propose should represent them m the next parliament, they make this public inti- mation, that such as are concerned in knowing it may save trouble and expense to themselves, as the council is determined to admit of no further solici- tations or potherings on that head. Signed m name and by desire of the council, by James Murray."

Col. George Haldane, younger, of Bere- crofts, of the 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards, was elected May 9, 1754. Whether there was a contest or not, of course the Blue- book of Members of Parliament does not say. Aikman gives the " advertisement "

as " a singular trait probably unique in

the history of burgh electioneering."

Apparently the election was in the hands of the magistrates and town council of Queensferry, or they were the most powerful body, although Stirling, Inverkeithing, Dun- fermline, and Culross were associated with Queensferry in this District of Burghs.

Comparing the state of representation of Ireland with that of Scotland between 1793 and 1800, Dr. T. Dunbar Ingram, in his ' History of the Legislative Union of Great