rtation to bless.

PETER CORONA.

_The Church History Society._--As one who feels greatly interested in the
scheme for the establishment of THE CHURCH HISTORY SOCIETY, given in your
number for the 2nd November last, and which you properly describe as "a
proposal calculated to advance one of the most important branches of
historical learning," will you permit me to inquire, through the medium of
"NOTES AND QUERIES," whether DR. MAITLAND's scheme has met with so much
encouragement as to justify the expectation, and I will add the hope, that
it may ever be fully carried out?

LAICUS.

_Pope Ganganelli._--There was a _Life of Pope Clement XIV._ (Ganganelli)
published in London in 1785. It was a distinct work from that by
Caraccioli. Can any of your readers inform me of the author's name; or is
there any one who has seen the book, or can tell where a copy may be found?

CEPHAS.

_Sir George Downing._--I should be glad to obtain any information
respecting Sir George Downing, of East Halley, Cambridgeshire, and
Gamlingay Park, or his family. He was ambassador from Cromwell and Charles
II. to the States-General of Holland, secretary to the Treasury, and the
statesman who caused the "Appropriation Act" to be passed, the 17th of
Charles II. The family is of most ancient origin in Devonshire, and I have
heard that a portrait of him is possessed by some person in that county.

ALPHA.

_Solemnization of Matrimony._--In the service of the Church for this
occasion, on the ring being placed upon the woman's finger, the man is
prescribed to say: "With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship,
and _with all my worldly goods I thee endow_," &c. How is this last
sentence to be reconciled with the law? or is the vow to be considered
revocable?

A. A.

Abridge.

_Passage in Bishop Butler._--In Bishop Butler's sermon "Upon the Government
of the Tongue" occurs the following passage:

"There is in some such a disposition to be talking, that an offence of
the slightest kind, and such as would not raise any other resentment,
yet raises, if I may so speak, the resentment of the tongue, puts it
into a flame, into the most ungovernable motions. _This outrage, when
the person it respects is present, we distinguish in the lower rank of
people by a peculiar term._"

Now I should be glad if any one could offer a conjecture as to the Bishop's
meaning in this last sentence? I have shown it to several peopl