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PLATE-MARKS (12 S. ii. 450). The forks are most probably not solid silver ones. Had they .been so the law would compel them to bear assay marks.

The date of manufacture of silver faceted forks bearing similar marks is circa 1820-30. Probably these were made in Sheffield and struck from dies by some cutlery firm for Savory, then marked with his name.

A. B. Savory & Sons are now defunct, but were existing a generation ago, their address then being Cornhill, London. A member of this firm was, I believe, Lord Mayor of London some years since Sir Joseph Savory. T. BRADBURY.

These marks mean that the forks were made by Savory & Son of Cornhill (after- wards The Goldsmiths' Alliance) ; the Q S , I fear, implies that they are plated on german-silver ; the S. may mean Sheffield,

or anything, and the cross and triangle a trade-mark or mere fancy mark. I can give an exact opinion if COL. PARRY cares to

.show me one. W. B. S.

[MR. JOHN E. PRITCHARD thanked for reply.]

J. SHERIDAN LE FANU'S WORKS (12 S. ui. 450). There has been no complete edition of Le Fanu's work since that by Downey & Co. in 1895-9. In addition to the books mentioned by the Editor, Macmillan published ' House by the Churchyard ' and ' Uncle Silas ' in 1899 at 2s. each, and these like all his other books are now out of print. ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

PORTRAITS IN STAINED GLASS (12 S. ii. 172, 211, 275, 317, 337, 374, 458, 517). The sub- joined cutting gives a modern instance, in Elham Church, near Folkestone, Kent :

" The Church. Many well-educated Canadians Are deeply interested in Elham's fine old Parish Church. One of the stained-glass windows is especially attractive to them, as some of the figures represent such departed men as Gladstone, Lord Beaconsfield, Carlyle, and Lord Salisbury. This window was, we believe, designed and pro- duced by a former Vicar (the Rev. S. Wodehouse)." The Herald, Folkestone, Dec. 2, 1916.

R. J. FYNMORE.

STATUE OF QUEEN VICTORIA IN THE MEDICAL EXAMINATION HALL (12 S. ii. 448). This statue was sculptured by Mr. F. J. Williamson, and was unveiled by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales (the late King Edward) on May 24, 1889. A full account, with photo- graph, of the statue, and of the unveiling, will be found in The British Medical Journal rfor June 1, 1889.

S. D. CLIPPINGDALE, M.D.

BULL-BAITING IN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL (12 S. ii. 447). If by "baiting" EMERITUS means the worrying or exciting of a tied-up animal, I do not know that there is any record of such a pastime being countenanced in the Peninsula ; but if he wishes for ac- counts of ring-fights between men and bulls, very few travellers in the lands which revel in them fail to supply something of what is needed in their printed experiences. Ford's 'Gatherings from Spain,' chaps, xxi., xxii., may be read with profit.

ST. SWITHIN.

CONSTABLE FAMILY (12 S. ii. 410). Though only indirectly relating to his question, possibly your correspondent may be in- terested to know that on a plain tablet affixed to the south pier of the west arch in Watford Church, Northamptonshire, is inscribed :

Philip Constable

Died 20 June 1824

aged 59 years.

JOHN T. PAGE.

AN ARTIST'S SIGNATURE : THACKERAY ANI> 'PUNCH' (12 S. ii. 468). MR. RICHARD H. THORNTON is certainly right in saying that Thackeray " contributed much to Punch in its earlier days, and all of this has not yet been identified" ; but the novelist's signature to illustrations is usually considered to have been limited to a pair of spectacles. It was because of this well-known signature that I submitted in 'N. & Q.,' 7 S. xii. 301, that it is in the legend attached to one of Thacke- ray's undoubted Punch drawings in the opening number for 1851, that the germ is to be found of one of Leech's most famous cartoons, depicting ' The Boy who chalked up " Xo Popery," and then ran away.' This date, it will be seen, is later than that assigned by MR. THORNTON for the severance of Thackeray's connexion with Punch. Thb novelist's explanation was that

" The biographer of Jeames, the author of the 'Snob Papers,' resigned his functions [as a "mem- ber of Mr. Punch's Cabinet "] on account of Mr. Punch's assaults upon the present Emperor of the French nation, whose anger Jeames thought it was unpatriotic to arouse." It was not in 1850, however, but on Dec. 27, 1851, that there appeared Leech's cartoon ' A Beggar on Horseback ; or, The Brum- magem Bonaparte out for a Ride,' to which MR. THORNTON refers. If this cartoon were the direct cause of Thackeray's severance from Punch, it would correspond with Anthony Trollope's statement in his " Eng- lish Men of Letters " volume (p. 89) : " Thackeray ceased to write for Punch in