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a id after a considerable time the marquessate o Winchester passed to George Paulet, Esq., o Amport, whose descendants still enjoy the ti tie. It is also worth noting that the name is spelt Powlett as well as Paulet, but in b >th cases is pronounced as Paulet ; and the tl ree swords in pile, emblematic of St. Paul, ai e borne by both families. The large estates ir Wensleydale, North Yorkshire, and Hack- wood Park, Hants, are now the property of Lord Bolton, whose patronymic was Orde a peerage created in 1797. John Powlett, fifth Marquess of Winchester, who died in 1674, was so conspicuous for his zeal in the royal cause and his gallant defence of Basing House, that he was called the Great Loyalist, and the motto "Aymez loyaulte" is used by both the Winchester and Bolton families to this day. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

DICKENS IN WELSH. No work of Charles

Dickens appears to have been issued in a

separate form in Welsh. There is no entry

under his name in the excellent catalogue of

the Welsh books'in' the Cardiff Free.Library

recently compiled by Mr. John Ballinger and

Mr. James Ifano Jones. It may therefore be

worth noting that Dickens's beautiful story

I of 'A Child's Dream of a Star' has been

I turned into Welsh by Mr. W. C. Davies.

1 'Breuddwyd Plentyn am y Seren' will be

j found in 'Ceinion Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg,'dan

olygiad y Parch. Owen Jones (London, 1875,

vol. i. p. 189). WILLIAM E. A. AXON.

Moss Side, Manchester.

RED CROSS SOCIETY. Some inquiry having i been made as to M. Henri Dun ant (not
 * Durrant), the following notice of his present

position may afford the required informa- tion. The extract is from the Christian (No. 1518, p. 10) of 2 March :

" It is painful to learn that Henri Durrant, the founder of the Red Cross Society, sits in a small room in a little two-storied hospital in Heiden, I Switzerland, almost, if not quite, forgotten by the I world he did his best to serve. Once wealthy, he Ispent all his money on the great humanitarian i works in which he was interested. A few remember Mm, e.g., the Czarina has given him a yearly pension ; nevertheless he is weighed down by a [heavy debt, and now and then has been in dire straits. Some assistance may come to him from Sweden from the Nobel prize, given to the person who has done the most to promote peace ; in any sase, he ought not to be allowed to languish in want and distress."

M. Dunant is also mentioned in connexion with the International Universal Alliance in the Standard of Israel, vol. i. No. 2, p. 64, August, 1875, and vol. ii. No. 8, pp. 52-56, February, 1876. D J

CURIOUS CHRISTIAN NAME. The subjoined cutting'^from the Rock is, I -venture to think, quite deserving of being enshrined in the pages of j' N. & Q.' :

"J.. A. B. sends to the Canterbury Diocesan Gazette an interesting and authentic record of the use of Acts of the Apostles as a Christian name. The entries are in the registers of Boughton-under-Blean. Actsapostle, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Pegden, from Dunkirk, was baptized August 2, 1795, and the burial of this Actsapostle Pegden, aged seventy years, took place November 14, 1865. The name seems to have been abbreviated to Actsy, for the vicar of Boughton has heard a parishioner speak of her uncle Actsy Pegden. Again, Acts of the Apostles, son of Richard and Phoebe Kennett, was baptized at Boughton Church, April 21, 1833."

J. B. McGovERN.

St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.

EARTHQUAKE IN 1750. Ai the foot of p. 10 vol. iii. of the parish registers here occurs the following entry :

" On Sunday Sep* 30 th, 1750, between y e Hours of twelve & one in y Day-time, there was a violent Shock of an Earth-quake; This, & neighbouring Parishes were much affected w th it ; It reached y e greatest Part of Northtonss', Leicesterss', &c."

Further references to this earthquake, local or otherwise, will be appreciated by

JOHN T. PAGE. West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. It is far from my wish to lure correspondents into a dis- cussion on a subject which has already been mooted in some of the daily journals. Dear old 'N. & Q.' has other fish to fry, and its space is far too valuable for a discussion of that nature. It is, at the same time, curious to note that in 1786 some members of the King's household grew angry and facetious in the presence of Miss Burney, who thus records the incident (vide 'Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay,' iii. 192-3, pub- lished by Henry Colburn, 1842) :

" One evening poor Madame la Fite brought forth much entertainment. Suddenly, in her broken English, she said that she had been having a great dispute whether Mrs. Delany was born in this century or the last. Colonel Goldsworthy, surprised out of his glumness, called out, ' In the last century, ma'am ! What do you mean by that ? Would you make the good old lady out to be two hundred years old?'

" Madame la Fite explained herself so extremely ill, that not a creature was brought over to her opinion, though it was afterwards proved that she was right, and that the year 1700, in which Mrs. Delany was born, belonged to the last century. Mr. Fisher and Mr. Blomberg both said that the year 1700 must be the first of the present century. Madame la Fite declared she had made it clearly belong to the last, and that Mr. Turbulent was as well convinced of it as herself.