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forth, tell us with unerring certainty what will be the general nature of our lot during the years of from 30 to 35 and from 35 to 40 respectively. The next period belongs to the nose, that of 40 to 45, then to the cheekbones, that of 45 to 50, then to the mouth, that of 50 to 55. The chin and lower jaw will tell what may be expected about the age of 55 to 60; and after 60, on the principle that a man is then in his second childhood, we begin again with the forehead and temples."

JAMES PLATT, Jun.

REGENT SQUARE, ST. PANCR AS, AND ITS NEIGH- BOURHOOD (9 th S. ii. 85, 159). The "curious provision " as to a house let to a foreign ambassador, to which MR. HEBB refers, is part of the recognition of the inviolability of an ambassador's property as well as of his person, many signs of which will be found in English law. See, for example, the Land Tax Act of 1797 (38 Geo. III., c. 5), where sect. 46 provides for land tax being paid by the land- lord of any house occupied by "an ambassador, resident, agent, or other publick minister of any foreign prince or state." Q. V.

The Act of Parliament 50 Geo. III. ch. 170 (1810) was strengthened and enlarged by the General Paving (Metropolis) Act, 1817, 57 Geo. III. ch. 29, but was repealed by the Metropolis Local Management Act, 1855, 18 & 19 Victoria, c. 128, ss. 248-50, which Act was amended by the 25 & 26 Vic. c. 102, ss. 72-73. I believe that trustees are still appointed and a rate levied for the maintenance of the enclosure in Regent Square (there being a saving in the Act for enclosed gardens), and a beadle "all in his coat and gold -laced hat "still perambulates the square to keep out intruders, as of yore. Woolrych, in a note to sec. 71 of the Met. Local Management Amendment Act, 1862 (p. 200), observes :

" The language in the 96 sec. of 18 & 19 Vic. 120, transferring to vestries and district boards the powers, authorities, and duties of surveyors of nHjjhways and certain property vested in those officers, is not large enough to include the income and proceeds of certain estates, which are in some localities subject to trusts for the repair of high- ways."

The barrier at the western end of Sidmouth Street, which leads into Regent Square, was removed by the London County Council on 17 Oct., 1891, under the powers of the Re- moval of Gates Act, 1890. JOHN HEBB. 2, Canonbury Mansions, N.

CoRDWAiNER (9 th S. ii. 5, 97). See some original evidence in ' N. & Q.,' 7 th S. ii. 6.

W. C. B.

" RINGING-OUT " (9 th S. ii. 127). Markets on this side of the Atlantic having dealings in American produce have adopted American

methods and phrases. The expression is not unknown in Liverpool. Unless this deponent is mistaken, there is a complementary phrase, " ringing-in," which is also used.

ARTHUR MAYALL.

A REED PAINTED TO LOOK LIKE IRON (9 th S. i. 405). This blow with a bulrush at a fallen foe would be a particularly nasty one, since it was probably suggested by the cast-iron rustic-work decorations, painted to look like nature, of the Paris gardens of the Second Empire. THOMAS J. JEAKES.

Tower House, New Hampton.

SAKESPER (9 th S. ii. 167). It may be worth while to compare this old version of the name borne by the poet with the "sake" and " spares " given in the well-known lines pre- served in the church at Stratf ord-upon-Avon. WM. UNDERBILL.

"BROACHING THE ADMIRAL" (9 th S. i. 128,, 271, 350; ii. 154). Perhaps the following paragraph from a diary kept by my father during a voyage to Madras round the Cape on board the Wellesley in 1857 may be of interest in connexion with the above subject:

"By-the-by, I forgot to mention that we have discovered that Col. Sir Walter Scott, son of the great poet, died some years ago on his voyage home from Madras in this very ship, and in the very cabin we are occupying! 1 remember seeing him at Bangalore in 1844 in command of the 15th Hussars, and a remarkably fine-looking man he was, though I believe rather wild in his life, and of a mind the very reverse of his father's. His -corpse, I hear, was put into a cask of spirits and brought to England,, so I presume it now rests beside that of his illus- trious sire! "

C. S. HARRIS.

RICHMOND PARK (9 th S. ii. 148). The Lord S of whom N. T. inquires was probably the first Lord Sidmouth. He was appointed Deputy-Ranger of Richmond Park in 1814 and residea in the park at White Lodge, which was originally built by George II.

G. F. R. B.

"DUTFIN" (9 th S. ii. 147). Nail's 'East Anglian Glossary ' suggests that it may be derived from Old Fr. duire, to lead, guide, and frein, bridle or rein. W. B. GERISH.

RUBENS AND RAPHAEL (9 th S. ii. 28). Your correspondent is mistaken in attributing the ' Last Judgment ' to Raphael. It is the work of Michael Angelo and is in the Sistine Chapel. In D'Agincourt's 'History of Art by its Monu- ments ' is an excellent outline of this picture : at the bottom of the engraving are several enlarged drawings of faces from the picture. I believe that' Michael Angelo painted his own face in grotesque forms. Hogarth