foucauld's _Reflexions_ occur in the third and fourth
stanzas of the third canto of Byron's _Don Juan_. I am not aware that any
notice has been taken of them beyond a note appended to the first passage,
in Moore's edition of Byron's _Works_, attributing the _mot_ to Montaigne:

"Yet there are some, they say, who have had _none_,
But those who have ne'er end with only _one_."--_Byron._

"On peut trouver des femmes qui n'ont jamais eu de galanterie; mais il
est rare d'en trouver qui n'en aient jamais eu
qu'une."--Rochefoucauld's _Maximes et Reflexions Morales_.

"In her first passion, woman loves her lover,
In all the others all she loves is love."--_Byron_

"Dans les premieres passions les femmes aiment l'amant; dans les autres
elles aiment l'amour."--Rochefoucauld's _Maximes et Reflexions
Morales_.

SIGMA.

Customs, London.

"_Abscond._"--This is a word which appears to have lost its primary meaning
of concealment, apart from that of escape. Horace Walpole, however, uses it
in the former sense:

"Virette _absconds_, and has sent M. de Pecquigny word that _he shall
abscond_ till he can find a proper opportunity of fighting him."

CHEVERELLS.

_Garlands, Broadsheets, &c._--Will you allow me to suggest to your
correspondents, that it would be very desirable, for literary and
antiquarian purposes, to form as complete a list as possible of public and
private collections of garlands, broadsheets, chap-books, ballads, tracts,
&c.; and to ask them to forward to "N. & Q." the names of any such public
or private collections as they may be acquainted with. I need not say
anything of the importance and value of the ballads, &c., contained in such
collections, to the historical student and the archaeologist, for their
value is too well known to require it; but I would earnestly urge the
formation of such a list as the one I now {348} suggest, which will greatly
facilitate literary researches.

J.

_Life-belts._--Suppose that each person on board the Tayleur had been
supplied with a life-belt, how many hundreds of lives would have been
saved? And when it is considered that such belts can be made for less than
half-a-crown each, what reason can there be that government should not
require them to be carried, at least in emigrant vessels, if passengers are
so ignorant and stupid as not voluntarily to provide them for themselves?

THINKS I TO MYSELF.

_Turkey and Russia--The Eastern