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house in the Kue Royale nearest to the former Porte de Schaerbeek, and about fifteen minutes' walk from the Rue des Cendres, mentioned in the query. The late Dowager Lady de Ros and Lady Louisa Tighe were nineteen and eleven years of age respectively when present at their mother's ball, and it might well be that in their later years they somewhat confused the events of their extreme youth. They were but two of the many present, and houses in Brussels are, and no doubt were then, curiously alike. Should not the opinion of the present-day descendants of the then residents of Brussels be of some weight ? RONALD DIXON.

46, Marlborough Avenue, Hull.

WATSON OF BARRASBRIDGE, NEWCASTLE-ON- TYNE (9 th S. ix. 388). I forwarded MR. H. REGINALD LEIGHTON'S queries respecting Lieut. Charles Mitford Watson to the Ceylon papers, with the following disappointing result, extracted from the Times of Ceylon of 12 June :

" Regarding the information wanted by a corre- spondent about the burial-place of Lieut. Charles Mitford Watson, who is said to have died in Ceylon on 17 June, 1824, we have made inquiries, and ascertain that there is no record at the Military Headquarters of the death of such an officer on such a date. A careful perusal of the files contain- ing such information between the years 1822 and 1828 discloses no record of the death."

J. P. L.

" THE BEATIFIC VISION " (9 th S. ix. 509 ; x. 95). It seems natural to refer the use of these words to Acts xxvi. 19, where St. Paul says to Agrippa : ov/c eyej/o/x^i/ aTrei^s rfj ovpai/ty oTTTatriq. : " I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision" (A.V.) Are this noun and adjective to be found in earlier combina- tion in the New Testament? HIPPOCLIDES.

ARMS OF CONTINENTAL CITIES (9 fch S. ix. 308, 414, 472 : x. 59). A large number of coats of arms of kingdoms, duchies, cities, &c., appear in "Atlas Minor sive Geographia Com- pendiosa, qua Orbis Terrarum per paucas attamen novissimas tabulas ostenditur. Amstelodami ex officina Nicolai Visscher." No date. The date is somewhere in the second half of the seventeenth century. There were, I think, several editions. The British Museum gives 1690 (?) as the date of one of its copies. Besides the coats of arms accompany- ing most of the maps there are, in my copy at least, two sheets mainly devoted to coats of arms and the like. The mapof Switzerland, &c., has in the margin no fewer that thirty-three. In my copy almost every one is in colours or in gold and colours, in brilliant condition. One of the sheets gives, in miniature, inter

alia, seventeen badges of orders of knight- hood. The maps and illustrated title-page are also coloured and gilt.

The arms of a few Spanish towns are given in Henry O'Shea's ' Guide to Spain and Portugal," sixth edition, 1878.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF A CELEBRATED BANKING FIRM (9 th S. x. 27, 114). I regret to find that while I quoted the Daily Telegraph of 16 June I omitted to give the date of the issue of the following day, where some of the facts given by nae were to be found. Mr. Hilton Price's ' Handbook of London Banks ' is, indeed, so well known that I really feel very little harm was done by not stating that the writer of the article in the newspaper admitted that he had dipped into its pages for his information ; for without doubt all who touch upon the subject of banks and banking will refer to it to confirm their statements. This I felt in this case to be unnecessary, my object being merely to put upon record, in as few words as possible, the fact that the old'5)ank known as Smiths, Payne & Smith had ceased to exist, as there are so few ways of keeping in mind notes that appear in the daily or weekly press.

W. E. HARLAND-OXLEY.

FLINT: FERREY (9 th S. x. S^.Fferis is the Welsh word for steel or hard metal, and was used to designate a fire-steel. Owen Pughe has " Feris ddn=& steel to strike fire with," which would seem to have been the name of the instrument in full.

JEANNIE S. POPHAM.

Southbourne-on-Sea, Hants.

THE FROST OF 1683-4 (5 th S. xi. 145; 9 th S. x. 112). In 'Poems on Several Occa- sions,' written by Charles Cotton, and pub- lished in 1689, two years after his death, there is one entitled ' Burlesque. Upon the Great Frost,' in which he naturally does not omit a reference to the river Dove and the fish in it. He writes :.

And doubtless there was great mortality Of trout and grayling in great quality.

Cotton does not, however, allude to the death of Izaak Walton during the frost.

STAPLETON MARTIN. The Firs, Norton, Worcester.

BOUDICCA: ITS PRONUNCIATION (9 th S. x. 64, 117). I cannot quite gather whether MR. STREET is criticizing my remarks or confirm- ing them. I think it must be the latter, as I endorse all he says about Portuguese ou. When properly pronounced in Portuguese, Spanish, or Catalan, it is simply o plusw; but it is worth noting that by the side of