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NOTES AND QUERIES.

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lished in 1678. The author was fellow of Mag- dalene College, in this university. He further adds, that the bridegroom must be at least four- teen, and the bride at least thirteen, or the mar- riage is not canonical. The whole service may be found in Greek, the rubrics in Romaic, in their Euchologion, published at Venice. It contains the three communion offices, baptism, matri- mony, and holy orders ; but I regret to say I do not possess a copy of it. The Greek Church is so very unchanging in its services, that this account may be considered correct at the present time. Of the rites of the heretical Eastern bodies I know nothing. Y. S. M. will perceive that it is entirely a religious ceremony, and not a civil one.

Q.V. Q. Oxford.

The Greeks have no other belief of matrimony than as of one of the sacraments of the new law, in common with the Catholic Church. They know nothing of celebrating marriage merely as a civil ceremony; and to mark their express belief that it is a religious and sacramental rite, they never call it merely 70*^0?, but, in the very words of St. Paul, y&fios rinios. Their usual name for it, however, is ffTttydvcauo, or tne^avitr^, because with them the ceremonies commence and finish with the crown- ing of the married couple. Thus they style the ceremonial the " Office of the Crowning : " "A/co- \ou6ia. TOV ff-f^ofci/iaTos. The ceremonies, prayers, and nuptial benediction, may be seen in La Per- petuite de la Foi de VEglise Catholique sur lea Socrementi, t. v. liv. vi. ch. ii. F. C. H.

PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE.

Photographic Views nf Sevastopol, taken immediately after the Retreat of the Russians. The small space which we are this week enabled to devote to Photography will be well filled by a brief notice of a collection of Photo- graphs, published in aid of The Nightingale Fund. They are the production of a gentleman, Mr. George Shaw Lefevre, who, visiting the Crimea as George Selwyn was wont to visit the execution of distinguished criminals, that is, en amateur, had the good fortune to be present on the memorable 8th of September, to witness the fall of Sebastopol ; and in the course of the next few days, de- spite storms of wind and the excitement consequent upon the success of the Allied Forces, to secure the photo- graphic views which he is now publishing in aid of the Nightingale Fund. The views are twelve in number, viz. :

1. The Glacis of the Redan, from the Curtain of tJie Malakoff, showing the Ground over which the British Troops had to advance on Sept. 8th.

2. Guns and Embrasure in the Redan.

3. Redan, looking towards the Great Ravine.

4. Curronade Battery, flanking the Ditch of the Redan.

5. Russian Barracks behind the Redan.

6. The General's Bunk in the Redan.

7. Mortar, " Whistling Dick," in the Malakoff.

8. Interior of the Mala/toff.

9. Interior of the White Tower.

10. Street in the Karabelnaia.

11. Ruined House behind the Malakoff.

12. The " Leander," at the Entrance of Balaklava Harbow.

When we add that some of these views will stand comparison with those produced by Mr. Fenton, many of our readers will, we doubt not, be glad to add them to their collections.

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Scotish Pasquils. Your correspondents (2 nd S. i. 163.) will receive my thanks for their communi- cations on the subject of this curious work. I must attribute the circumstance of my possessing two books only, to the fact that the third book, mentioned by T. G. S. and J. M. (2.), appeared subsequently to the period when Sir Walter Scott kindly presented me with the earlier parts.

It may be observed that the editor, in his pre- fatory notice, says,

" In a second part, which he intends, some of these daj r s bringing out, he will include such satirical pieces as he can find against the Tories. These are by no means numerous; but as his Jacobite materials are not ex- hausted, he trusts he will be able to produce a volume, fully as curious as the present." P. xiii.

We may therefore infer that the editor did not then contemplate any other than a second part.

One of your correspondents, possessing the en- tire work, unquestionably a scarce one, will pro- bably be good enough to give us particulars re- specting Part III., similar to those which I now subjoin of the Parts I. and II. To copy the titles of each Pasquil would occupy too much space in your pages.

Part I. Title, A Book of Scotish Pasquils, frc., Edinburgh, 1827; prefatory notices, pp. v. to xxx., comprising some mention of the families of Mylne ami Govean, and several short poems addressed to Robert Mylne and others, which the editor terms " sad trash." Following these we have 31 Pasquils, and 10 copies of minor satirical verses extending to p. 80.

Part II. Tide, A Second Book of Scotish Pas- quils, fyc, Edinburgh, 1828; prefatory notices, pp. v. to xxi. ; Pasquils, 37. ; minor satirical verses, 17., extending to p. 102. Neither part is designated as a volume, but each concluding with " The End," implies that it was regarded, at the time it appeared, as complete in itself.

J. H. MARKLAND.

Bath.

Mrs. Fitzherbert (2 nd S. i. 153.) The follow- ing list of two or three pamphlets which have been published on the subject of Mrs. Fitzherbert's marriage with the Prince of Wales may be of use to your correspondent.

1. " A Letter to a Friend on the reported Marriage of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. By Mr. Home Tooke. The Second Edition. 1787."