tled:--

"Deus Justificatus, or the Divine Goodness vindicated and cleared,
against the Assertors of Absolute and Inconditionate Reprobation.
Together with some Refections on a late Discourse of Mr. Parkers
concerning the Divine Dominion and Goodness. London, 1668." 8vo. pp.
xxxii. 280. iii.?

My copy (which has the autograph of Richard Claridge, the quaker) has
written on the title in an old hand "By H. Hallywell." In the _Biographia
Britannica_ vol. iv., p. 546., 2d edit., it is said to be by Ralph
Cudworth. If so, it has escaped Birch and the other editors of this
celebrated writer.

JOHN J. DREDGE.

_Death by Burning_ (Vol. ii., p. 6.).--In the Mendip mining district in
Somersetshire, I am credibly informed that within seventy years a person
has been burned alive for stealing ore from the pit mouth. There must be
some old inhabitant who can attest this fact, and it would be desirable to
obtain its confirmation.

J.W.H.

_Irish Bull._--What is the exact definition of an Irish bull? When was the
term first applied to the species of blunder which goes by that name?

GRIFFIN.

_Farquharson's Observations on Aurorae._--A translation of the _Course of
Meteorology_, by Professor Kaenitz, of Halle, by Mr. C.V. Walker, was
published at London in 1845, in one volume 12mo. The work was written in
German, and afterwards translated into French, and the English work is
derived from the French translation. In p. 459. the following passage
occurs:

"It is chiefly to the _shepherd_ Farquharson, at Alford, in
Aberdeenshire, that we are indebted for a long series of observations
on aurorae; and he endeavoured to prove that their height is
inconsiderable."

Lower down it is said:

"At the same time, _another Protestant minister_, Mr. James Paull, at
Tullynessle, four kilometres from Alford, saw that the aurora possessed
an unusual clearness in the zenith, so that its height did not perhaps
exeed 1300 metres."

I have neither the original German work nor the French translation at hand
to refer to; but I have a strong suspicion that the word translated
_shepherd_ is _pasteur_, and that it is used to designate Mr. Farquharson
as _minister_ of Alford.

L.

_Smith's Vitae Eruditissimorum et Illustrium Virorum._--In his _Life of Sir
Peter Young_ he quotes _Ex Ephemeride Cl. V.D. Petri Junii_, but does not
say where it was preserved. This (so-called) _Ephemeris_ was writt