saying that no debates of that session are
extant; but the proceedings on the various bills may probably be traced
in the journals of the two Houses of Parliament, which are printed and
deposited in most of our great public libraries.

C.H. Cooper.

Cambridge, Sept. 7, 1850

_City Offices._--The best account of the different public offices of the
city of London, with their duties, etc., that I know of, your
correspondent A CITIZEN (Vol. ii., p. 216.) will find in the _Reports of
the Municipal Corporation Commissioners_.

W.C.

_Harvey and the Circulation of the Blood_ (Vol. ii., p. 266.).--The
claim set up on behalf of Father Paul to the honour of Harvey's
discovery, which is noticed by your correspondent W.W.B., is
satisfactorily disposed of in the life of Harvey in the _Biographia
Britannica_, iv. 2548., note C. Harvey gave a copy of his treatise _De
Motu Cordis_ to the Venetian ambassador in England. On his return home
the ambassador lent the book to Father Paul, who made some extracts from
it. After Father Paul's death, he was thought to be the author of these
extracts and hence the story which your correspondent quotes. It might
occasionally be convenient if your correspondents could make _a little_
inquiry before they send off their letters to you.

Beruchino.

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MISCELLANEOUS.

NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.

All who love the shady side of Pall Mall, and agree with Dr. Johnson
that the tide of human enjoyment flows higher at Charing Cross than in
any other part of the globe, will gladly welcome Mr. Jesse's recently
published volumes entitled _London and its Celebrities_. They are
pleasant, gossiping and suggestive, and as the reader turns over page
after page of the historical recollections and personal anecdotes which
are associated with the various localities described by Mr. Jesse, he
will doubtless be well content to trust the accuracy of a guide whom he
finds so fluent and so intelligent, and approve rather than lament the
absence of those references to original authorities which are looked for
in graver histories. The work is written after the style of Saint Foix'
_Rues de Paris_, which Walpole once intended to imitate; and is executed
with a tact which will no doubt render it very acceptable to those for
whom it has been written, namely those persons whose avocations of
business or pleasure lead them to traverse the thoroughfares of the
g