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NOTES' AND QUERIES. [9 th s. VIIL SEPT. 28, 1901.

THE JUBILEE OF THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION (9 th 8. viii. 139). After reading with the most intense interest MR. JOHN LEIGHTON'S note, I cannot but feel sorry to think that he has forgotten, seemingly, the marvellous etchings of dear old George Cruikshank 4 The Opening Ceremony,' ' The Block in the Streets,' &c. the original rough sketches of which are now in the Bethnal Green Museum. I would also have been glad, had space permitted, to see some notice of G. A. Sala's ' Great Exhibition wot is to be.' I would like to mention, in regard to this subject, that my father, Benjamin Clayton, who etched the last three or four pages for Mr. Sala's book, designed and etched a work upon similar lines, entitled ' Doings in London,' which was published by Dean & Son, of Threadneedle Street. For the same firm dad, in collaboration with G. A. Sala, sketched a shilling brochure entitled 'The Idleness of all Nations.' I trust the readers of ' N. & Q.' will not suspect me of wishing to " make capital " out of the subject if I add that the first book produced by my late sister (Ellen C. Clayton, afterwards Mrs. E. C. Needham) was a small volume named 'The World's Fair,' published by the same firm in 1851. At the dear old South Kensington Museum (I never can learn to call it by its modern title) may be seen three or four water-colour drawings, by Louis Haghe, Wil- liam Simpson, and others, illustrative of the opening ceremony ; likewise, in addition to various architectural designs (made " on appro.") by various leading artists of the day. there is a large oil painting of the first executive committee Lord John Russell, Paxton, &c. grouped together. I cannot, on the moment, recollect the name of the painter, though I think it was Partridge.

HERBERT B. CLAYTON.

39, Renfrew Road, Lower Kennington Lane.

Why does MR. JOHN LEIGHTON call the porter's knot "an obsolete aid"? It is still used on Thames side, and can be seen in numbers from London Bridge, also at Covent Garden. RALPH THOMAS.

CHALICE AS RACE CUP (9 th S. viii. 162).- Some interesting information about the dis- appearance of church plate, and its having been put to secular uses, is to be found in Uid Scottish Communion Plate,' by the Rev. Thomas Burns (Edinburgh, 1892). In the preface, contributed by the Very Rev Dr Macgregor, it is stated that "from what is already known it may be inferred that quite a number of old Scottish sacramental vessels are still lying in the plate-chests of our

Scottish nobility"; and at p. 122 the author says that,

"apart from the theory that many church vessels of great value found a lodgment on the

Continent, there can be no doubt whatever that

church vessels in common with other church pro- perty were not only openly carried off, but in many instances were retained in Scotland, and eventually applied to secular purposes."

Some examples are given, beginning with that of Mary, Queen of Scots (p. 123) ; but the evil did not originate in the turmoil of the Reformation (p. 141), and it seems to have continued through post-Reformation times, when the Episcopalian party was predominant (pp. 148, 169, &c.). W. S.

We have in our abbey here an interesting example of the converse of this, namely, a former race cup converted into a chalice. The cup in question, the bowl of which is chased externally in an Oriental design, and is very much the shape of the cuppa of a Roman chalice, was won in the seventies, at the Singapore races, by Capt. Jasper Mayne, of the Inniskilling Fusiliers. Some years later the winner presented it to the first abbot of this monastery, and under the hands of a skilful goldsmith it was trans- formed to its present use, being encrusted at the same time with some valuable gems, the gift of the donor's family.

OSWALD HUNTER-BLAIR, O.S.B.

Fort Augustus, N.B.

VERSES IN BORROW (9 th S. viii. 145). The verses quoted by your correspondent are found in ' Lavengro,' chap, xxiv., though the reading there is slightly different. The song in full is :

Give me the haunch of a buck to eat, and to drink

Madeira old, And a gentle wife to rest with and in my arms to

fold,

An Arabic book to study, a Norfolk cob to ride, And a house to live in shaded with trees and near

to a riverside ; With such good things around me, and blessed with

good health withal, Though 1 should live for a hundred years, for death

I would not call.

G. K. A. BELL.

' THE TRIBAL HIDAGE ' (9 th S. vii. 441 ; viii. 99, Ylty. Wocen scetna. I thank C PRIDEAUX for his reference, to the paper by Mr. Duignan. The Wrekin was suggested by Kemble ('Saxons in England ') as the d welling- place of this people. There is also a riveit Wreak in Leicestershire. Rockingham is in the same district, and Nennius gives a Cair Guqrcon between Cair Londein and Cair Lerion (London and Leicester). I suppose the difference between Worcen and Wrocen would