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 9 th S. II. JULY 9, '98.]

NOTES AND QUERIES.

"THE DRENCHING OF A SWAN." I find

the following in Coles's 'Latin Dictionary (ed. 1679) : " Cignitus, the Drenching or Cry- ing of a Swan." I should be glad to hear of any other quotation for " drenching " in this sense, or to receive information about its use in any English dialect. A. L. MAYHEW.

THACKERAY'S LATIN. In a letter of Thacke- ray written in May, 1832, and quoted by Mrs. Eitchie in her introduction to the third volume of the Biographical Edition of her father's works, I find (p. 28) the line : O matutini roses aura que salubres ! It has clearly suffered in transcription. Can any one tell me what are the correct words, and in what Latin author (if any) the line is to be found ? M. T.

TITLES OP PICTURES WANTED. A very clever old lady, aged eighty-six, to whose company I have often been indebted for pleasant hours, recently told me that between sixty and seventy years ago she remembered seeing two pictures in a London shop window with the following verses appended. My old friend could not at the time see the con- nexion between the lines and the pictures, and has always been puzzled as to the "story" told by each. The matter is a trivial one, but I should like to gratify both my old friend and myself by identifying the pictures and verses if possible. Mr. Graves cannot help me, although it is believed that it was in his window that the pictures were seen :

Wilt thou ? I know thou wilt,

Sad Silence gives consent,

And with that pleasing hope

Thy Emma dies content. The bridal is over, the guests are all gone, The bride's only sister sits weeping alone. The wreath of white roses is torn from her brow, And the heart of the bridesmaid is desolate now.

These both read like T. Haynes Bayly ; but beyond 'Gaily the Troubadour' I do not possess his works. Please answer direct.

WM. H. PEET. 246, Barry Road, Dulwich, S.E.

THE LIEUTENANCY OF THE COUNTY OF MONTGOMERY. I am anxious to find the names of the deputy lieutenants for this county between about 1800 and 1833. Can any reader help me 1 THOS. J. DA VIES.

" JACK-UP- THE-ORCHARD." What is the origin of this expression, used in Hereford- shire, and perhaps other counties, metapho- rically for a beating ? " I '11 give thee Jack- up-the-orchard " (or " orchatj" as commonly pronounced) signifies " I '11 give thee a good trouncing." Can it be, as I suspect a good

many such popular figures of speech are, a corrupt survival of some phrase from a now forgotten geste or play ? J. H.

Middle Temple Library.

CHINESE PUNISHMENTS. I shall be pleased to learn where I can find in English books pictures of Chinese punishments.

WILLIAM ANDREWS.

The Hull Press, Hull.

QUOTATION IN EMERSON. In Emerson's ' Essays' there occurs the following quotation :

Prisca juvent alios, ego me nunc denique natum

Gratulor.

I remember many years ago reading the following couplet, the author of which I have forgotten. I always imagined it was an original thought; out it is now apparent that it emanates from Rome :

The good of other times let other people state ;

I think me lucky I was born so late. Will any of your learned readers furnish me with the names of the Roman and English authors of these lines ? M. L. BRESLAR.

Percy House, South Hackney.

RIGHT HON. C. TENNYSON D'EYNCOURT. In Burke's 'Landed Gentry,' ed. 1863, the Right Hon. Charles Tennyson d'Eyncourt, of Bayons Manor, who died on 21 July, 1861, is spoken of as " a statesman, scholar, and poet." Can any of your readers direct my attention to any poetry of his ? It is said that he also wrote a novel ; but I have not hitherto been able to identify it. In fact, I do not know that the statement is correct.

EDWARD PEACOCK.

Dunstan House, Kirton-in-Lindsey.

' EOTHEN.' If any one possesses the second or third edition of ' Eothen,' I shall be very much obliged by his communicating with me. Neither is in the British Museum.

W. TUCK WELL.

Waltham Rectory, Grimsby.

TRIBUTARY POEMS TO GLADSTONE. Along with Dr. Jacob, J.P., of Ripon, I am editing a volume of tributary poems to Gladstone. May I ask readers of ' N. & Q.' to send me any poems which may have come under their notice ? Answers direct.

CHAS. F. FORSHAW, LL.D.

Hanover Square,' Bradford.

THE DUKE OF YORK'S CAMPAIGN IN FLANDERS, 1793-4. Where can I find a good history of this? I have only Hume and Smollett's 'England,' and the account there is most meagre. In the Quarterly Review, January, 1885, I came across an account of one of the battles there fought, that on the heights of Cateau, 26 April, 1794: