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England, and a Liberal candidate for South-West Lancashire in 1868. He and Mr. Gladstone were joint candidates, and they were defeated by Richard Assheton Cross and Charles Turner.
Nine portraits are in the National Portrait Gallery: Sir Wm. Bolland, Lord Brougham, Queen Caroline, Sir Philip Francis, Wm. Sharp (engraver), James Heath (engraver), Capt. Charles Morris, Rev. Abraham Rees, D.D., F.R.S., James Smith of the 'Rejected Addresses.' The N.P.G. possesses a marble bust of Lonsdale by E. H. Baily, R.A.
The Liverpool Royal Institution possesses & portrait of Thomas Stewart Traill, M.D., painted by Lonsdale.
The Liverpool Medical Institution, Mount Pleasant, possesses a portrait of Dr. Rutter which is attributed to Lonsdale.
Lonsdale exhibited at the Royal Academy and at the Liverpool Academy in 1835 a portrait of Richard Formby, M.D. (erroneously spelt "Fornby" in the R.A. Catalogue).
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There are engravings after portraits Nos. 22, 28, and 29 in the Liverpool Public Library. These, or the books in which they appeared, may give a clue to the present owners of the originals. There is a portrait of General Gascoyne in the Liverpool Art Gallery or Town Hall.
As regards No. 8, there were a number of Congreve portraits at Burton Hall, Wirral, until, I believe, the Gladstone family bought it. R. S. B.
"Hurley-hacket" (11 S. x. 150, 237).—This seems to have been an amusement like tobogganing, though without the snow. Annotating "sad and fatal mound" (at Stirling) in 'Lady of the Lake,' V. xx. Scott writes thus:—
"The 'heading-hill,' as it was sometimes termed, bears commonly the less terrible name of Hurly-hacket, from its having been the scene of a courtly amusement alluded to by Sir David Lindsay, who says of the pastimes in which the young king was engaged,
Some harled him to the Hurly-hacket;
which consisted in sliding, in some sort of chair it may be supposed, from top to bottom of a smooth bank. The boys of Edinburgh, about twenty years ago, used to play at the hurly-hacket on the Calton-hill, using for their seat a horse's skull."
Lyndsay's reference occurs in his 'Complaynt to the King,' 1. 176:—
Sum harld hym to the hurly hakkat;
And sum, to schaw thair courtlie corsis,
Wad ryid to Leith, and ryn thair horsis.
In a passage of 'Ane Satyre of the thrie Estaitis,' 1. 1031 et seq., the poet makes a similar allusion almost in the same words.
The connexion of hurly or hurley with hurl is obvious; and Jamieson says that hacket is from "Su.-G. halk-a, to slide, per lubrica ferri."
It may be worth while to add that Meg Dods, near the close of chap. xv. of 'St. Ronan's Well,' uses the word contemptuously of a carriage from the hotel of her rivals. "I never thought," exclaims the valiant hostess, "to have entered ane o' their hurley-hackets." Thomas Bayne.
John Charnock (11 S. x. 90, 218).—John Charnock, the author of 'Biographia Vavalis,' was born in 1756. See 'D.N.B.,' x. 132. He cannot be the John Charnock who was admitted at Westminster in 1738.
Lowell's 'Fireside Travels' (11 S. x. 147, 197).—8. Springs "which, without cost to the country, convicted and punished perjurers," were at one time pretty numerous, if we are to believe classical writers. The supply, we may suppose, was created by the demand.
That amusing compendium of information, the 'Dies Geniales ' of Alexander ab Alexandro, has a long list of such in bk. v. chap. x., and his commentator, Andreas Tiraquellus, supplies the references to Greek and Latin authors. Instances are quoted from Sicily, Sardinia, Arcadia, Corinth, Bithynia, and elsewhere, but not from Thessaly. Either Alessandro missed a specimen, or Lowell's reference is inaccurate.
The method by which the guilty are detected varies. At one place those who swear falsely are blinded when they touch their eyes with the water. At another they break out in boils and blains. At a spring mentioned by Aristotle the tablets inscribed with the sworn statement float if it be true, else they sink. In another case the water, while harmless to the innocent, scorches the perjured.
Cramputius: Simplicia: Q. Crassus Tubero: the Genie Jonquil (11 S. i 509). "Be mine[sc. paradisiacal pleasures]," wrote Gray to West, "to read eternal new romances of Marivaux and Crébillon." 'Le génie Jonquille ' is a character in the younger Crébillon's 'L'Écumoire; ou, Tanzaï et Néadarné, histoire japonaise.'
