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To meet the wishes of many friends, and to avoid the inconvenience arising from the diversity of prices in our Monthly Parts, we propose in future to publish a fifth, or Supplementary Number, every Month in which there are only four Saturdays.  By this arrangement our Monthly Parts will be of the uniform price of One shilling and Three pence, with the exception of those for January and July, which will include the Index of the preceding half-year at the price of One shilling and Ninepence each.  Thus the yearly subscription to NOTES AND QUERIES_, either in unstamped Weekly Numbers or Monthly Parts, will be SIXTEEN SHILLINGS.  The subscription for the Stamped Edition, with which Gentlemen may be supplied regularly by giving their Orders direct to the Publisher, MR. GEORGE BELL, 186.  Fleet Street (accompanied by a Post Office Order), is One pound and Fourpence for a twelve-month, or Ten shillings and Two pence for six months_.

REPLIED RECEIVED.—­It has been suggested to us that we should here acknowledge all communications received by us.  We would willingly do so, but that, from their number, such acknowledgment would necessarily occupy far more space than our readers would like to see so employed.  But we propose in future to notice all replies that have reached us; by which means those who have replied_ will be aware that their communications have come to hand, and those who are about to {47} reply will be enabled to judge whether or not they have been anticipated.  The following have reached us between the publication of our Number on Saturday last and Wednesday.  Our future Lists will comprise those received in the week ending on the Wednesday previous to publication._

Lynch Law—­Curse of Scotland—­Butcher Willie—­Midwives—­Steam Navigation—­Frozen Horn—­Collar of SS.—­Holland Land—­Umbrellas—­Passage in Tennyson—­Sword of the Conqueror—­Couplet in Defoe—­Thruscross—­Earth has no rage—­Private Memoirs of Elizabeth—­By-the-bye—­Swearing by Swans—­Sir Cloudesley Shovel—­Chapel—­Difformis—­Grasson—­Savez—­Land Holland—­Peter Wilkins—­Passage in St. Mark—­Cockade and True Blue—­Mocker—­Mythology of the Stars—­Cauking—­Ten Children at a Birth—­Swans.

W.H.B. will find, on referring to Chappell’s National English Airs_, that the words of RULE BRITANNIA were written by Thomson (in the Masque of Alfred), and the music composed by Dr. Arne._

TAPETIA.—­Miss Linwood’s Salvator Mundi, after Carlo Dolce_, is, we believe, in one of her Majesty’s private apartments at Windsor Castle.  We do not insert TAPETIA’S letter, because we by no means agree with the writer in his views of the property of the Crown.  The Queen behaved most kindly and liberally on the occasion of the late Exhibition of Mediaeval Art:  but that is a very different thing from calling for a transfer of the Holbein or Da Vinci drawings to some public museum._