lifax.

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Notices to Correspondents.

_Among other interesting communications intended for our present Number,
but which we have been compelled by want of space to postpone until next
week, are_ MR. GUTCH_'s Paper on_ Griffin and his Fidessa, MR. D'ALTON_'s
on_ James II.'s Irish Army List, _and_ DR. DIAMOND_'s on_ The Advantages of
Small Photographs.

CESTRIENSIS. _We have a letter for this Correspondent; where shall it be
sent?_

EIRIONNACH. _The letter for this Correspondent has been forwarded._

W. J. L. _The_ Merry Llyd _or_ Hewid _has already formed the subject of
some notices in our columns: see_ Vol. i., pp. 173. 315.; Vol. vi., p. 410.
_We should be glad to have any satisfactory explanation of the origin and
antiquity of the custom._

J. E. (Sampford) _is informed that there is no charge for the insertion of
Queries, &c. Will he oblige us by describing the communications to which he
refers?_

F. S. A., _who asks the origin of_ tick, _is referred to_ Vol. iii., pp.
357. 409. 502.

IGNORANT. _The_ Staffordshire Knot _is the badge or cognizance of the Earls
of Stafford: see_ Vol. viii., p. 454.

J. S. A. _will find the information he desires respecting the_
Extraordinary North Briton _in a valuable communication from_ MR. CROSSLEY,
"N. & Q.," Vol. iii., p. 432.

INDEX TO VOLUME THE EIGHTH.--_This is in a very forward state, and will, we
trust, be ready for delivery with_ No. 221. _on the_ 21_st of January._

"NOTES AND QUERIES," Vols. i. to vii., _price Three Guineas and a
Half.--Copies are being made up and may be had by order._

"NOTES AND QUERIES" _is published at noon on Friday, so that the Country
Booksellers may receive Copies in that night's parcels and deliver them to
their Subscribers on the Saturday._

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THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE FOR JANUARY (being the First Part of a new Volume)
contains the following articles:--1. The Princess (afterwards Queen)
Elizabeth a Prisoner at Woodstock. 2. On supposed Apparitions of the Virgin
Mary; and particularly at La Salette. 3. Sir Walter Raleigh at Sherborne.
4. Manners and Morals of the University of Cambridge during the last
Century. 5. English Sketches by Foreign Artists--Max Schlesinger's
Saunterings in and about London. 6. Richard Baxter's Pulpit at
Kidderminster (with a Plate). 7. Cambridge Improvements, 1853. 8. The
Toxaris of Lucian. Correspondence of Sylvanus U