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wife of a former vicar of the parish, "La Belle Alliance Sophia Hough," who was born on 17 June, 1815, which explains the matter. The thought has never occurred to me before, but the baptismal registers of the day would, if searched, yield many instances of the bestowal of names suggested by the battle of Waterloo. Perhaps your clerical readers will take the hint. R. B. P.

LIGHTOWLER SURNAME. In the notice (ante, p. 59) of the recently issued ' Registers of the Parish Church of Wigan, in the County of Lancaster, 1580-1625,' it is stated :

" There are very few surnames which strike us as peculiar to the district, but there are two which we never saw before. Lightowler occurs in 1596 and Gaylady in 1613 ; we should be sorry were we called upon to make a guess as to their origin or meaning."

The surname of Lightowler is still in exist- ence and is borne by at least two families in Hull. RONALD DIXON.

46, Marlborough Avenue, Hull.

"TRANCE." I thought the following extract from the Daily Mail of 22 September would be worth recording in ' N. & Q.' :

" After calling a prisoner at Bow Street a ' trance,' a witness explained the term as meaning a man who was given a lift from the country in a market- cart on condition that he assisted the carman to unload at the end of the journey. 1 '

W. CURZON YEO.

Richmond, Surrey.

ADAMS'S JAFFA COLONY. Mark Twain, in his ' New Pilgrim's Progress,' ch. xxvi., notices this mad venture. Adams, whom he describes as " once an actor, then several other things, afterward a Mormon and a missionary, always an adventurer," induced a number of New Englanders to go to the Holy Land. They went in the belief that great events would shortly take place there, by which they might receive spiritual and temporal benefit. This must have been in 1866. In the next year most of them were penniless, and Mr. Moses S. Beach, of New York, paid their passage home. I believe this Adams to be the same man who held Sunday-evening meetings in 1864 or 1865 in a hall situated between Fins- bury Circus and London Wall. Curiosity led me to attend several of these meetings. Adams prayed with all the fervour of a revivalist ; but the objective point of his petitions was that we might have wisdom to understand the hidden things of prophecy, arid his discourses had to do with the battle of Armageddon, the cleaving of the Mount of Olives, and such topics. One more curious thing I may mention, I have heard the

phrase " passing the soup-plate " used by irreverent persons with reference to taking up a collection. I never saw a literal, bond Jide soup-plate passed round, except on these occasions, and then a white soup-plate was used, into which no one put anything but copper. Not wishing to affect singularity, I put in copper also

RICHARD H. THORNTON. Portland, Oregon.

WE must request correspondents desiring infor- mation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers maybe addressed to them direct.

COLERIDGE'S ' CHRIST ABEL.' I have what purports to be the first edition of the two parts of ' Christabel ' and other poems of Coleridge. The title-page is as follows :

" Christabel : | Kubla Khan, | a vision ; | The

Pains of Sleep. | by | S. T. Coleridge, Esq. | London


 * Printed for John Murray, Albemarle-street, | By

William Bulmer and Co. Cleveland - row, | St.

James's. | 1816."

This differs from the title supplied by MR. R. H. SHEPHERD in his ' Bibliography of Cole- ridge ' (8 th S. vii. 443), which does not mention

the "Printed for by William Bulmer and

Co. Cleveland-row," nor the "Albemarle- street." The text gives, moreover, the now accepted reading,

Sir Leoline, the Baron rich, instead of

Sir Leoline, the Baron, which said by MR. SHEPHERD to occur in the first edition. The number of pages is in each case the same viz., vii-64. May I ask COL. PRIDEAUX if these variations are familiar, and if any further information concerning the first edition is accessible 1 H. T.

"NEBULAR HYPOTHESIS." Can you inform me who in the House of Commons originally used the term " Nebular hypothesis " as applied to a phase of politics ? PUZZLED.

PHIPPS FAMILY. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' give me information regarding the wife, ancestry, and arms of Constantino Phipps, of the island of St. Christopher 1 His daughter Frances married on 4 November, 1773, the Very Rev. Arthur Onslow, D.D., Dean of Worcester, Archdeacon of Berks, and Chap- lain to the House of Commons, who was born 17 August, 1746, and died 15 October, 1817. A son of Constantino's, James Phipps, matri- culated at St. Mary Hall, Oxford, 16 Feb-