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 228 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s.vm. MARCH 19, 1021. there were 279 such banks with an aggregate issue of 8,648, 864L The powers of issue ranged from 1,503Z. by the Helston Banking Co. to 356,976/. by Stuekey's Banking Co. ROBERT PIERPOINT. 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. " NOTHING BUT THEIR EYES TO WEEP WITH." A supposed saying of Bismarck's, that war must be waged in such fashion that nothing remains to the enemy population but their eyes to weep with, was quoted in good faith by English people during the war. It was shown in a German weekly publication Deutsche Politik, 1919, No. 44^ pp. 545 f., that according to Moritz Busch (Tagebucher, vol. i. pp. 179 f., under date Sept. 8, 1870), it was not Bismarck, but General Sheridan, who made the remark, a proposof the treat- ment of civilian combatants. His words, says Busch (whose German I here translate) were to this effect : " The richt strategy is to try to give the enemy hard knocks as far as the soldiers are concerned, but also to inflict so many hardships on the inhabitants of the country that they long for peace and press their government for it. Nothing must remain to the people but their eyes, to weep over the war with." Sheridan was military attache of the United States with the German army in 1870. My friend, Prof. Adolf Deissmann, recently in his Evangelischer Wochenbrief (third series, No. 40/46, p. 139) was able to trace the same form of words much farther back, viz., to a certain French volunteer named Joliclerc, who wrote on Aug. 17, 1793 : '.' We have left the inhabitants of this country [the Rhenish Palatinate] nothing but their eyes to weep with." (I again translate the German, quoted from Gustav Landauer's ' Brief e aus der franzosischen Revolution,' ii. 369.) The saying must surely be much older than that, and I shall be ' grateful to any reader of ' N. & Q.' who can furnish an earlier quotation. It may be the relic of some very ancient barbarism that Joliclerc and Sheridan (or Busch ?) were repeating ; and who knows but that Bismarck after all did use the words on some occasion or other ? L. R. M. STRACHAN. Birmingham University. OLD INNS. Can any one give the name- of the owner, or manager, of The Dolphin, Dolphin Court, Ludgate Hill, London, irs the year 1827 ? (Mrs.) C. STEPHEN. Wootton Cottage, Lincoln. " THE HAVEN UNDER THE HILL," appears (1) in Tennyson's ' Break, break, break' : The stately ships go on To their haven under the hill, and (2) in Henry Newbolt's ' Admirals All ' t Admirals all, they said their say (The echoes are ringing still) ; Admirals all, they went their way To the haven under the hill. A general meaning appears to be a shel- tered harbour which in (2) becomes a figure for the peace of the grave. But has the phrase any special reference to any par- ticular haven and hill ? I have conjectured, having regard to the context, Portsmouth Harbour overlooked by Portsdown Hill. T. HENDERSON. Mapumulo, Natal. FOUNTAINS RUNNING WITH WINE. Where- can one find any particulars about, or description of, the construction of fountains which were erected in London on festive occasions and used to run with wine. W. W. WHITE. 61 Leyland Road, Lee, S.E.12. LONDON ETCHINGS BY JANE SMITH. I have some etchings of views in the suburbs of London, of quarto size, loose, in a light brown wrapper, uncut, with a title-page as, follows : " Picturesque Scenery Round London. No. II?. Most respectfully dedicated to the Rev. John, Grove Spurgeon, A.M. of Lowestoft (sic), Suffolk, by his obliged servant, Jane Smith, Teacher of Etching, London : Published as the Act directs Ocober 1, 1822, by Jane Smith, 22 Carmarthen Street, near Upper Gower Street, Bedford Square. Price Six Shillings." On the back of this title-page is printed : " This Number contains Six Etchings : Three of which are Topographical : viz. West Entrance of the Village of Haggerstone, near Shoreditch,. as it appeared in 1794 ; White Lead Mills, near Islington taken from the Garden of the Rosemary, Branch; the Original Garden Entrance to Bagr nigge Wells, established in 1680." What were the titles of the others ? The small collection, I have seems to have- comprised or included others by her not named as above, and as the title-page I have quoted is No. 2 I am anxious to find out. what others she may have published. In addition to those already given I have the- following: 'Paddington Canal.' ;.' Near thfi&