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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[12 S. V. JULY, 1919.

75. The Prompt Blunder. . . . Mulread}

76. The Gambler Ruined. . . . by Dyce

77. The Lesson Repeated. . . . by Harl

78. The Youthful Aspirant. . . . Cockerell

79. Caught Out .. by Copley Fielding

80. The Eavesdropper. . . . Martin

81. The Order of Release. . . . Grant

82. Incident in ' My Novel,' the Italian

Philosophizing. . . . Stocks

Sculpture.

1. The Distressed Milkmaid. . Can-ova

2. The Irish Weaver.. .. .. Flaxraan

3. The Cathedral Choir. . . . Chan trey

4. The Highlander Admonished MacDowell

5. The Model Footman. . John Thomas

6. Baby's Recompense. . . . Papworth

7. The Convalescent. . . . by Physick

8. A House to Let. . . . by Weeks

April 5, 1859.

CHARLES BOUTELL.

AUSTRALIAN

MEMORIAL INSCRIPTIONS : IV. ST. JAMES'S CHURCH, SYDNEY.

(See 12 S. iii. 269, 330; iv. 184.)

THE following abstracts were made in 1895:

1. James Given, Commander of the ship Dunbar, died Aug. 20, 1857.

2. Robert AlhvooJ, B.A., Incumbent of St. James's, 1840-84 ; died Oct. 27, 1891.

3. Wm. John Dumaresq, Capt. Royal Staff Corps. Served in Crirrea, Canada, N.S.W. Died Nov. 9, 1868.

4. Alexander Macleay, F.R.S. Died July 19. 1848.

5. Commodore Sir James Brisbane. Died Dec. 19, 1826.

6. Lieut.-General Sir Maurice Charles O'Connell, K.C.B., Lieut.-Governor of N.S.W. 1810 to 1814. Died May 25, 1848.

7. Rt. Hon. Lady Mary Fitzroy, wife of Sir Charles Augustus Fitzroy, Kt. Died Dec. 7, 1847.

8. (A shield-hatchment.) Rt. Hon. Sir Robt. Wm. Dull, G.C.M.G., Governor of N.S.W. 1893-5. Died March 15, 1895.

9. Dulce et decorum est pro scientia mori. | This monument is erected | by the Colonists of New South Wales | in memory of | John Gilbert | Ornithologist | who was speared by the blacks on the 29th of June | 1845, during the first overland expedition to Port Essington by Ludwig Leich- hardt and his intrepid companions.

10. In | Memoriam | lonnis Coleridge Patteson,
 * primi Melanesia? Episcopi | et martyris. |

Vestigia Domini fideliter secutus | in gaudium Domini intravit xx die Sept. A.D. | MDCCCLXXI Cum dilexisset suos usque ad finem dilexit eos.

11. Collet Barket, 39th Regt., murdered by the aborigines April 30, 1831.

12. Others to various officers who fell in the New Zealand W T ar of 1845.

13. This tablet erected by the Executive Government pursuant to a vote of the Legislative Council of New South Wales, in testimony of the

respect and gratitude of the inhabitants of the Colony commemorates the active service and early death of Assistant-Surveyor Edmund Besley Court Kennedy, who, after having completed the survey of the River Victoria, was chosen by the Government to conduct the first exploration of York Peninsula, where, after the most patient and persevering exertions to overcome the- physical difficulties of the country and the destructive effects of consequent disease, by which- the expedition, originally consisting of thirteen persons, was reduced to three. He was slain by the aborigines in the vicinity of Escape River on the 13th December, A.D. 1848, falling a sacrifice,- in the 31st year of his age, to the cause of science,, the advancement of the Colony, and the interests of humanity. | Flebile Principium melior fortuna sequatur.

The persons who perished by disease were Thomas Wall (naturalist), W. Costigan, C. Niblet,. E. Carpenter, J. Mitchell, James Luft, J. Douglas, E. Taylor, Denis Dunn. | requiescant in pace.

The survivors are William Carron (botanist),. William Goddard, and Jackey Jackey, an aboriginal of Merton District, who was Mr. Kennedy's sole companion in his conflict with the savages, and, though himself wounded, tended his~ eader with a courage and devotion worthy of" remembrance, supporting him in his last moments and making his grave on the spot where he fell.-

14. To the memory of the Reverend Richard! Hill, the first minister of this Church, who expired suddenly, in the performance of his duty within its^ walls, on xxxth May, MDCCCXXXVI., aged LIV. | Erected by his friends and congregation in ftectionate remembrance of his unwearied labours- luring seventeen years, his serene resignation under no ordinary trials, his blameless and useful ife, his prompt attention to every call of distress,, is faithful and fearless reproof of the sinner, his disregard of personal ease when any work of ibility in engaging the attention and affection of" .he young, and in imbuing them with a deep- everence for the word of everlasting salvation^- Blessed are those servants whom the Lord, when.
 * harity required his services, and his peculiar

cometh, shall find watching.

J. \V. FAWCETT.

Consett, co. Durham.

THE GREEK FLAG. According to a generally accepted idea, the Greek flag of


 * >lue and white stripes, with a white cross-

on a blue canton, was first used in a modern jense as the national or commercial ensign

D Greek-speaking people, when Bishop

Grermanos raised the standard of revolt against Turkish rule on the festival of the Annunciation (Mar. 25), 1821, at Patrasso

n the Morea. Since then generations of" modern Greeks have been taught from

nfancy to repeat the following lines of a Datriotic hymn from the ' Child of Inde- pendence,' in John Adams's oration on the-

Jnited States, beginning :

) Child of German os ! O banner beautiful ! Godchild of the Panayia, compassionate and? merciful !