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 NOTES BY THE WAY. "COMMISSION."

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��' Commis- sion."

��the Edinburgh Garrison.

��Is there any precedent for a member of Parliament convening 1904, Jan. 30. a " Commission " to take evidence upon a public question ? I Tariff Reform have always understood that the word " Commission " was used only when appointment was made by the Crown. Perhaps some reader of ' N. & Q.' may be able to inform me if it has been used previous to the congress of gentlemen now convened by Mr. Cham- berlain.

As there was no reply to this query, it would seem that there was no precedent for this use of the word.

CHAPLAIN TO THE EDINBURGH GARRISON.

This ancient office has been revived by the King, who has 1903, Feb. 20. appointed thereto the Rev. Theodore Marshall, D.D. The Daily Chaplain to Telegraph of February 13th, 1903, contains the following interesting particulars :

" The first chaplain to the Castle was one Turgot, the biographer of Margaret, Queen of Malcolm Canmore, who died in 1092. The office seems to have been maintained till the Revolution in 1688-9, after which there does not appear to be any mention made of it. Since the Revolution the minister of the High Kirk has been regarded as hon. chaplain to the Castle, and hence it is that the military service con- tinues to be held in St. Giles's Cathedral."

"DIADEMS" AND "TIARAS."

In The Daily Chronicle of July 14th, 1904, is the following 1904, July 23. protest against " the absurd custom " of calling diamond diadems " Tiara." " tiaras " :

" There is, of course, only one tiara in the world, and that is the Pope's, and even he does not wear it very often. It is quite a dis- tinctive crown, triple in form, and in several ways symbolical. What is the matter with the pretty word diadem, or the still better one carcanet, with its reminiscence of that splendid line A captain jewel in the carcanet ? "

' The Globe Shakespeare ' gives the line in Sonnet LII. as Or captain jewels in the carcanet.

��THE LONGEST TELEGRAM.

So far as I am aware, the longest telegram ever inserted in a 1904, Sept. 3. newspaper was that in The Chicago Times on the occasion of the The longest publication in London of the Revised Version of the New Testa- ment, when that enterprising journal sought to be the first to publish it in Chicago, and made arrangements for the entire Testa- ment to be telegraphed. I am the fortunate possessor of the paper, the gift of my friend Mr. Frowde, of the Oxford Press. The Chicago

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