Messrs. Ward and Co., of Belfast, announce the publication, to subscribers only, of a new work in Chromo-Lithography, containing five elaborately tinted plates printed in gold, silver, and colours, being exact fac-similes of an Ancient Irish Ecclesiastical Bell, which is supposed to have belonged to Saint Patrick and the four sides of the jewelled shrine in which it is preserved, accompanied by a historical and descriptive Essay by the Rev. William Reeves, D.D., M.R.I.A.  By an Irish inscription on the back of the case or shrine of the bell, which Doctor Reeves has translated, he clearly proves that the case or shrine was made in the end of the eleventh century, and that the bell itself is several hundred years older; and also that it has {143} been in the hands of the Mulhollands since the time the case or shrine was made; that they bore the same name, and are frequently mentioned as custodians of this bell in the “Annals of the Four Masters.”

We have received the following Catalogues:—­William Heath’s, 29.  Lincoln Inn Fields, Select Catalogue, No. 4., of Second-Hand Books, perfect, and in good condition.  Thomas Cole’s, 15.  Great Turnstile, Catalogue of a Strange Collection from the Library of a Curious Collector.  John Petheram’s, 94.  High Holborn, Catalogue of a Collection of British (engraved) Portraits.  Cornish’s (Brothers), 37.  New Street, Birmingham, List No.  IX. for 1850 of English and Foreign Books.

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BLOOMFIELD’S RECENSIO SYNOPTICA, Vols.  III. and IX.

Letters, stating particulars and lowest price, carriage free, to be sent to Mr. BELL, Publisher of “NOTES AND QUERIES,” 186.  Fleet Street.

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VOLUME THE FIRST OF NOTES AND QUERIES, with Title-page and very copious Index, is now ready, price 9s. 6d., bound in cloth, and may be had, by order, of all Booksellers and Newsmen.

Erratum.—­No. 38. p. 113. col. 2. l. 37., for “participle” read “particle.”

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MR. A.K.  JOHNSTON’S NEW GENERAL GAZETTEER.

In One Large Volume 8vo. of 1,440 pages, comprising nearly 50,000 Names of Places, price 36s. cloth; or half-russia, 41s.

A NEW DICTIONARY of GEOGRAPHY, Descriptive, Physical, Statistical, and Historical; forming a complete General Gazetteer of the World.  By ALEXANDER KEITH JOHNSTON, F.R.S.E., F.R.G.S., F.G.S., Geographer at Edinburgh in Ordinary to Her Majesty.

“He appears to have executed in a very laudable manner the task which he has undertaken, and to have taken every precaution possible to secure accuracy and precision of statement.”—­Times.