_Weber's_ "_Cecilia._"--Can you inform me whether a work by Gottfried
Weber, entitled _Cecilia_, is to be had in English or in French? I find it
constantly referred to in the said Weber's work on the _Theory of Musical
Composition_, and in Mueller's _Physiology_.

For any information you can give me on the subject I shall feel much
indebted.

PHILHARMONICUS.

Dublin.

[_Caecilia_ is a musical art journal published in Germany, and is thus
noticed at page 12. of Warner's edition of Godfrey Weber's _Theory of
Musical Composition_:--"Since 1824 we have been laid under great
obligations to our distinguished mathematician and writer on acoustics,
Professor _W._ Weber, for most interesting developments on all these
points, which he has arranged into an article in the journal
_Caecilia_, vol. xii., expressly for musicians and musical instrument
manufacturers."]

_Andrew Johnson._--In the character of Samuel Johnson, as drawn by Murphy,
there is the remark, "Like his uncle Andrew in the ring at Smithfield,
Johnson, in a circle of disputants, was determined neither to be thrown or
conquered." Other allusions are made, in Boswell's _Life_, to this uncle
having "kept the ring," but I cannot find out who he could have been. There
was a noted bruiser, Tom Johnson; but certainly he was not the person in
question. I shall be glad if any of your readers can inform me who this
"Uncle Andrew" was, and what authority there is for believing that he was a
pugilistic champion of note.

PUGILLUS.

[In the _Variorum Boswell_, i. e. Croker's ed., 1847, p. 198., PUGILLUS
will find a note by the editor, stating that Dr. Johnson told Mrs.
Piozzi that his uncle Andrew "for a whole year kept the ring at
Smithfield, where they wrestled and boxed, and never was thrown or
conquered."]

_MS. by Glover._--Can MR. BOLTON CORNEY, or MR. R. SIMS, inform me whether
the Lansdowne MS. 205. is in Glover's handwriting?

H. M.

[This volume (Lansdowne, 205.) contains twenty-six articles in
different hands. Art. 3. contains _pedigrees by Glover in his own
hand_. See MS. Harl. 807., and an autograph letter in MS. Cot., Titus
B. vii. fol. 14.]

_Gurney's Short-hand._--Can any of your correspondents inform me if there
have been any alterations in this system of short-hand since 1802? Also, if
it be now much used?

WM. O'SULLIVAN.

Ballymenagh.

[This well-known system of shor