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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th S. V. MARCH 24, 1900.

I am forwarding for your inspection two specimens, which I think will be found to be fche cocoons of some insect. When burnt, and the ashes mixed with mustard oil, they are said by the natives to form an excellent remedy for earache. My friend Mr. P. J. Lucas tells me that he has inquired of several men in villages some miles apart, only to receive the same invariable reply. MAURICE J. D. COCKLE.

Solan, Punjab.

[We have received the specimens, which certainly seem due to insect work.]

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.

'FABLES NOUVELLES' OF LAMOTTE, 1719. In this admirably illustrated work there should be, according to Cohen's ' Guide de 1'Amateur,' a portrait by Ranc engraved by Edelinck, &fleuronon the title-page, a frontis- piece, and one hundred vignettes. From all the copies I have seen the portrait is missing. Can this be explained ? H. T.

PICTURE OF THE MARQUIS DE LA FAYETTE AT OLMUTZ. Can any reader kindly inform me where the original of this now is, and when and by whom was it painted 1 Also, by whom it has been engraved, and are copies of it scarce 1 The picture referred to represents the marquis in prison, seated ; near him are his wife and two daughters. S.

Whitton Road, Twickenham.

ACKLAND OR ACLAND. Can any corre- spondent of *N. & Q.' help me to identify Charles Richard Ackland, who left West- minster School in 1806, and Charles Ackland who was admitted there in 1812 1

G. F. R. B.

ADDERLEY. Can any correspondent o: George and Richard Adderley, who were admitted to Westminster School in October 1785 ? They were probably the sons of Thomat Adderley, of Dublin. G. F. R. B.
 * N. & Q.' give me information concerning

TROLLOPE. A Mr. Trollope of Carnbridg is mentioned in Gray's 'Letters.' Can he be identified 1 He seems to have written ir conjunction with Gray a poem called 'Th Alphabet.' Those parts of the poem which are attributed to Gray are printed in Gosse', edition of the ' Works of Gray' (vol. i. p. 210)

)i. i. p. 2K H. T. B.

WIDOW BLACKACRE. In what play does he appear? H. T. B.

[In Wycherley's ' Plain Dealer.']

".JULLABER." "Jullaber, a little hill in Cent, where (they say) Jullaber (a Giant or A^itch) was buried, or where Laberius Durus a Captain of Julius Caesars) was slain " Coles, 'Eng. Diet.,' 1677). In what part of lent is this "little hill"? A. L. MAYHEW.

Oxford.

" WORST." Has the sense of this verb ' deteriorate," " impair," " worsen "found in >he subjoined extracts, ever been common in iterature ?

"Luserne is more worsted by being suffer'd to survive its Virginity before Cutting." Jethro Tull, Horse-Hoing Husbandry ' (1733-40), p. 102.

" A Pear grafted upon a Quince will be mended, 3ut, if grafted upon a White- thorn, will be worsted." Ibid., p. 208.

"But suppose I had worsted my Substance, are there not many who, by Family Misfortunes or otherwise, have lessened their Estates, though they lave never practised Agriculture ? " Ibid., p. 238.

" Suppose you kill one another, will the matter be bettered or ivorsted by that?" Samuel Richard- son, * Clarissa Harlowe ' (1748), vol. vii. p. 341 (ed. 1811).

" Her manners must be very much worsted, by your description of them ; but I hope they will im- prove by this visit." Jane Austen (1808), ' Letters ' (1884), vol. i. p. 352.

A single instance of the synonymous worse is known to me :

' I looke for no other commendation than is ordinarily afforded other Translators, who are reputed to haue taken great paines in worsing their auctours." Richard Haydocke (1598), tr. of Lomazzo's ' A Tracte,' &c., To the Reader, H iv.

F. H.

Marlesford.

SHARES IN MERCHANT SHIPS. Ships in the mercantile marine of this country are divided into sixty-four shares. Why that number, and when so first divided ?

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

TOWN GATES OUTSIDE LONDON. Will corre- spondents oblige me with the names of town gates (British), whether the gate is still stand- ing or the name only remains ? Probably north, south, east, and west will be the most frequent, but there ought to be some interest- ing words. I should think London might be excepted. T. BRUCE DILKS.

Bridgwater.

ARMS OP THE PRINCIPALITY OF WALES. What relation does the red dragon of Wales bear to the arms (Quarterly or and gules, four lions passant gardant counter-changed) ? Was