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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
