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LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 90, 1901.


CONTENTS. No. 186.

NOTES : Civil List Pensions, 57 Charles Lamb as a Jour- nalist, 60 The ' Marseillaise ' " Jenkins's ear ' "Sare"=Dry General Viney, 61 - Land Tax-Family Likeness -Jeroboam -Parasols, 62 -Solar or Nature Myths Origin of "Jingo " in Politics, 63.

QUERIES : Lost Town in Suffolk" Lambsuckle "Coro- nation Stone, 63 Crawford Family Arms of European Countries "Tall Leicestershire women " Hesketh Family Lord Donore Leigh Hunt John Martin Rural Deaneries, 64 Cosens Royal Borough Massacre at Sligo J. S. Mill's Birthplace Jones, Lord Mayor of London ' Coronation Anecdotes ' Tasborough Chesel- den, Radcliffe, and Pridmore, 65.

REPLIES : Civil List Pensions American Heraldry Japanese Names, 66 Button and Seaman Families- National Flag "Toucan " Sir H. Goodyere G. Saunders Cowley's Poems set to Music Thompsons of York, 67 Napoleon and a Coat of Mail" Sawney "Sir R. Verney Goldsmith's Publishers Rev. J. Chartres " Sub " : "Subsist Money " Mortimer, 68 Moline Family " Juggins " Jowett's Little Garden Fillingham Family Poem attributed to Milton Flower Game' Takmi ' Acervation Michael Bruce and Burns, 70' ' Bible, Crown, and Constitution "Dendritic Markings Ecclesiastical "Peculiars," 71 Nathaniel Hawthorne Painted and Engraved Portraits Malt and Hop Substitutes ' Burial of Sir John Moore ' Phillippo, 72 Title of Dowager Peeress Icknield Street A. Fortescue Funeral Cards, 73 Col. Cooper Greek Pronunciation, 74" Qui vive?" Valia as Female Name, 75.

NOTES ON BOOKS : Jaggard's ' Index to Book-Prices Current ' Coleridge's 'Byron ' Shaw's ' Calendar of Treasury Papers.'

Notices to Correspondents.


CIVIL LIST PENSIONS.

(Concluded from p. 38. ) PUBLIC SERVICE (CIVIL).

1873, August 7th (W. E. Gladstone). MRS. GBORGINA GORDON COOTE.

" Widow of Mr. Holmes Coote. In con- sideration of her husband's medical services, especially during the Crimean War, and of her own labour as Lady Superintendent of the Smyrna Hospital. 50/."

Holmes Coote, 1817-72 (' D.N.B.,' vol. xii.).

1874, April 29th (Benjamin Disraeli). MRS. CHARLOTTE LOUISA BASEVI.

" Widow of James Palladio Basevi, late Captain of the Royal Engineers. In con- sideration of the services of her husband in connexion with the advancement of science and the Trigonometrical Survey of India

loot"

The great Trigonometrical Survey of India was initiated by Major Lambton in 1800 with the support of Col. Wellesley, afterwards Duke of Wellington (' Encyclopaedia Britan- nic*').


1875, June 19th (Benjamin Disraeli). . HAREIET CHRISTIANA DWELLY. "In consideration of the long and able services, extending over a period of forty fears, of her late husband, John Holmes Dwelly, Chief Clerk in the Department of

he Solicitor to the Commissioners of Inland

Revenue. 50/."

1878, June 19th (Earl of Beaconsfield). MRS. MARGARET EMMELINE MENZIES.

In recognition of the services rendered JQ the Crown by her late husband, Mr. William Menzies, Deputy - Surveyor of Windsor Park, especially with reference to the 'separate system of drainage' and other sanitary improvements. 501."

1878, June 19th (Earl of Beaconsfield). Miss HARRIET MONICA CHISHOLM (now MRS. GRUGGEN).

In recognition of the services rendered by her mother, Mrs. Caroline Chisholm, * the Emigrants' Friend. ' 50/."

Caroline Chisholm, "the Emigrants' Friend," born at Wootton, May, 1808, daughter of William Jones, yeoman and philanthropist. Married Capt. Chisholm, of the East India Company's service. Died at Fulham, March 25th, 1877; buried at Northampton (' D.N.B.,' vol. x.; 'The Emigrant's Guide to Australia,' with memoir and portrait, 1853 ; Michelet's ' La Femme,' 1860). 1882, June 10th (W. E. Gladstone).

Miss MARIANNE ALICE ALINE BURKE.

"In consideration of the high character and distinguished services of her brother, Mr. T. H. Burke, and in view of all the circumstances of the case. 4001"

Thomas Henry Burke (1829-82), Under- secretary of Ireland. He acted as private secretary to the Chief Secretaries Edward Card well, Sir Robert Peel, and Chichester P. Fortescue. In May, 1869, appointed Under- secretary, and filled the post until his death, May 6th, 1882. Early in the evening of that day Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Burke, while walking in the Phoenix Park, near Dublin, were assassinated by the members of a secret society calling themselves the Invincibles ('D.N.B.,' vol. vii.).

1883, February 2nd ( W. E. Gladstone). MRS. AUGUSTE MARGHERETA ELIZABETH PALMER (now DONKIN).

" In recognition of the services of her late husband, Prof. Palmer, and in view of all the circumstances of the case. 2001"

Ed ward Henry Palmer (1840-82), Orientalist. In 1860 he made the acquaintance of Seyyid