orge.

_Simile of the Soul and the Magnetic Needle_ (Vol. vi., pp. 127. 207. 280.
368. 566.).--Dr. Arnold, with more religion than science, thus employs this
simile:

"Men get embarrassed by the common cases of misguided conscience; but a
compass may be out of order as well as a conscience, and the needle may
point due south if you hold a powerful magnet in that direction. Still
the compass, generally speaking, is a true and sure guide, and so is
the conscience; and you {509} can trace the deranging influence on the
latter quite as surely as on the former."--_Life and Correspondence_,
2nd ed. p. 390.

C. MANSFIELD INGLEBY.

Birmingham.

_English Bishops deprived by Queen Elizabeth, 1559_ (Vol. vii., p.
260.).--I have endeavoured to procure some information for A. S. A. on
those points which MR. DREDGE left unnoticed, but find that, after his
diligent search, very little indeed is to be gleaned. _Bishop Payne_ died
in January, 1559/60 (Strype's _Annals_, anno 1559). Dod, in vol. i. p. 507.
of his _Church History_, mentions a letter of _Bishop Goldwell's_, or, as
he calls him, _Godwell's_, to Dr. Allen, dated anno 1581:

"This letter," he says, "seems to be written not long before Bishop
Godwell's death, for I meet with no farther mention of him. Here the
reader may take notice of a mistake in Dr. Heylin, who tells us he died
prisoner in Wisbich Castle, which is to be understood of Bishop
Watson."

Of _Bishop Pate_ he says:

"He was alive in 1562, but how long after I do not find."--Vol. i. p.
488.

_Bishop Pole_, according to the same authority, died a prisoner at large
about the latter end of May, 1568. _Bishop Frampton_ died May 25, 1708
(Calamy's _Own Times_, vol. ii. p. 119.). I cannot ascertain the day of
_Bishop White's_ death, but he was buried, according to Evelyn (vol. iii.
p. 364.), June 5, 1698.

TYRO.

Dublin.

_Borrowed Thoughts_ (Vol. vii., p. 203.).--The thought which ERICA shows
has been used by Butler and Macaulay is a grain from an often-pillaged
granary; a tag of yarn from a piece of cloth used ever since its make for
darning and patching; a drop of honey from a hive round which robber-bees
and predatory wasps have never ceased to wander,--the _Anatomy of
Melancholy_:

"Though there were giants of old in physic and philosophy, yet I say
with Didacus Stella[2], 'a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant
may see far