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personal friends, whose descendants still possess the rings.

One of these was recently shown to me in its original red-morocco case, lined with white satin, and on the label the name of the maker. This was very interesting, as it was none other than John Salter, so frequently alluded "Lord Nelson's to in the Nelson dispatches as silversmith.' At p. 389, vol. vii. of Sir Harris Nicolas's work is the following refer

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On the 30th of August, 1805, Lord Nelson called very early in the morning at Mr. Salter's, the silversmith, in the Strand, and purchased a silver-gilt cup for Horatia; and there is in the possession of Mrs. Salter a paper that has been examined by the Editor," &c.

NOTES:-Nelson Memorial Ringe, 421-The Jubilee of 'The
Saturday Review,' 422-'The Living Librarie,' 425
Richard Bowes-Protestant-High Peak Words-Pinks's
'History of Clerkenwell,' 427.
QUERIES:-Directory of Foreign Peers-Thomas Hood and
Douglas Jerrold-Population of a Country Parish-"God's
Blessing Farm"-King's Money-Steer Family-John
Bowle, D.D.-Geoffrey Grin, Gent.-E.B.-Admiral Grey
and the Relief of Derry-Tale of Russian Life, 428-
W. Cole, Cambridge Antiquary - Hebrew Traditions
Slavery-Final e in Chaucer-Sir P. Jennings Clerke-
Basil Montagu -Westland Marston-Suingle Berries-
Samuel Whitchurch, Poet-Hugh Trevor-Escutcheon
of Pretence, 429-Open-air Pulpits-Parker's Consecration
and "Suffragan " Bishops, 430.
REPLIES:-Scotch Communion Tokens, 430 — Trafalgar
Amateur Dramatic Clubs, 431-Prisoner suckled by his
Daughter, 432-"Catamaran - Wakerley - Kingsway
The cup in question, given to Horatia, Mrs.
and Aldwych, 433
Roderigo Lopez
"Famous Chelsea Louis XIV.'s Heart-Archbishop Philip Ward, is still in the possession of her
Kempe, 434-Paul's Feet-"This too shall pass away son, and is fashioned in the shape of a port-
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Horatia,' and on the
Devil and St. Botolph- Byways in the Classics,' 435—| wine glass, inscribed "
Catalogues of MSS." Undertaker"-Lynde or Delalynde reverse side: "To my much loved Horatia,
Family-Anthony Bec, 436-Burns and the Palace of 21st August, 1806. Nelson & Bronte." "She
Traquair" 'Jenetta Norweb,' a Lost Book - William
Miller's Engravings-Cromwell House, Highgate-John used it," wrote Lady Hamilton to Mrs.
Danister, Wykehamist, 437-Tufnel Family-Ithamar-Salter, "till I thought proper for her to lay
Mulberry and Quince, 438.

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NOTES ON BOOKS: The Political History of England,

1066-1216'-' Gulliver's Travels' - Heine's Works-The

Magazine of Fine Arts-The Edinburgh Review-
A Quick Calculator'-Lamb and Wagner.
Obituary:-Mr. James Sykes.
Notices to Correspondents.

Hotes.

NELSON MEMORIAL RINGS.

IN 5th S. v. 486 appeared from MR. MAURICE LENIHAN, of Limerick, the following query, which apparently received no reply :

"I have a memorial ring of the hero of Trafalgar, which, I think, deserves a note in N. & Q. It is of gold, the front black enamel, with the letter under a baron's coronet, and the letter under a ducal coronet, and in the exergue, TRAFALGAR The letters are in gold on the black ground, and the coronet one heraldically displayed. On the back is the legend, Lost to his country, 21 Octr., 1805. Aged 47.' On the rim, in capitals, is the legend, PALMAM. QUI. MERUIT. FERAT. Am I to suppose that rings of this description were generally worn after the death of Nelson? or were they confined to a few mourners?"

The rings in question, of which I have seen several (one being my own property, inherited from my grandfather), were made by order of the executors of the hero of Trafalgar. The list, still existing, comprises sixty names, and is headed, "Persons to whom Mourning Rings were sent agreeable to the directions of the Rt. Hon. Earl Nelson and J. Haselwood, Esq., executors of the late Lord Viscount Nelson, deceased." The names that follow are chiefly those of relatives and

it aside as a sacred relic."

There still exists an old bill of John Salter's to Lady Hamilton, dated January, 1800, to March, 1803, written in faded ink in two columns, many of the items evidently for presents.

The name of Salter being thus familiar to me, and knowing it to be an old firm, I began to wonder if they produced the mourning rings which were made for Nelson's mother and grandmother (who died within ten days of each other during the Christmas season of 1767-8), and which are still in existence. They were probably made by order of Capt. Maurice Suckling, and are engraved "C. N. A. S., 1767-8" (for Catherine Nelson, died 26 December, 1767, and her mother, Anne Suckling. died 5 January, 1768). I therefore made inquiries, and found that the firm was still in the Strand under the name of Widdowson & Veal. Their courteous reply to my letter, although it shattered my little theory, is interesting:

"We are unable to give the exact year that John Salter established this business, but it was probably about 1780. Unfortunately, we have none of the books of the Salter period, and therefore no record of the particular Nelson mourning rings; but we know that they were made here at that time, and we have repaired old ones and made copies to replace lost ones ourselves. We should tell you that over a door between our two shops we have a fanlight of stained glass, which has a coat of arms, under which is the name of John Salter. We had here in a glass case Lord Nelson's cocked hat, the one worn at Copenhagen; but two or three years ago Mr. Ball, the present head of the firm, lent it to the United Service Institution, where it

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now is on exhibition. We shall be obliged if you will kindly mention that our firm was the maker of the memorial rings."

I have a vague idea that a niece of John Salter's is said to have married a Mr. Veal, and also that Lord Nelson gave a silver tray to a member of the Salter family as a wedding gift.

If only the Salter ledgers existed, many of the christening gifts presented by our great naval hero to his godchildren might be identified and traced, whereas their histories are now lost. Possibly from Salter's was ordered the beautiful tea service given to the little daughter of Capt. Sir William and Lady Bolton, born in March, of whose advent Nelson wrote to Lady Hamilton, 6 June,

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This last joint godchild, afterwards christened Nelson, was son of his first cousin William Suckling, and the gift took the form of a silver jug and stand, the facsimile of one depicted in Lord Charles Beresford's 'Nelson and his Times.'

Nelson's letter to Lady Hamilton telling her to choose the name for their godchild (Nelson's dispatches) has been the cause of some confusion of ideas. Writing before the birth, he said, "Call him what you please; if a girl, Emma." Lady Hamilton wrote out to announce the birth to Nelson and to Sir William Bolton. "Your letter," wrote Lady Bolton later to Lady Hamilton,

"gave Sir William the first intelligence of the birth of his little girl. My Lord has told him the name, Emma Horatia, and that you and he are to

answer for it."

Lady Hamilton's gift was a very handsome coral mounted in gold. She was particularly interested in the young couple, having known Sir William in the Mediterranean when he was serving with Nelson in the Vanguard, and she appears to have aided his wooing of his cousin" Kitty Bolton." The marriage had been fixed for the spring of 1803, but Lord Nelson's sudden departure to serve afloat in May of that year had upset all the family plans, and even the installation to the Order of the Bath had to be performed by proxy, and William Bolton, being selected for the office, was knighted for the occasion on 18 May, and "married on that same day by special licence in a private house." Possibly the house was the Hamiltons', for Nelson, travelling post haste, had arrived at Portsmouth that same afternoon, and thence dated a letter

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to Lady Hamilton: "I hope your marriage has gone off well, for the girl may thank you (if it is worth thanking) for her husband." A memorial ring was made for the Rev. Edmund Nelson in May, 1802. The letter giving a list of the recipients was in the Holding Collection, and is printed in Mrs. Hilda Gamlin's Nelson's Friendships.' It is a gold band with black enamel and a white line edging it, and bears the date of death and the age of the venerable cleric. The one I have seen has no tell-tale case, but the rings were in all probability made at the cost of that most generous of sons and brothers, Horatio Nelson, and may well also have come from John Salter's. It would be interesting to know if any readers of N. & Q. possess any of the memorial rings herein mentioned or know aught of their existence. F. H. S.

THE JUBILEE OF 'THE SATURDAY REVIEW.'

(See ante, pp. 382, 402.)

IN 1855 and 1856 hawkers were selling in the streets of London caricatures of the twopopular preachers Bellew and Spurgeon. Spurgeon being depicted as Brimstone and Bellew as Treacle. The Saturday Review, ever on the look-out for popular subjects, devoted much space to reviewing their sermons as well as those of Dr. Cumming. Bellew then preached to a fashionable congregation at St. Philip's in Regent Street, which was crowded to the doors. The reviewer describes him as having a loose, rambling intellect," and column after column could be filled" with examples of the surprising digressions, the tawdry ornaments, and the jumble of ideas, which, with a very few exceptions, disfigure every sermon that Mr. Bellew has published."

To Dr. Cumming two long reviews are devoted on June 14th and 21st, 1856, the works being 'The End; or, Proximate Signs of the Close of the Dispensation,' and 'Apocalyptic Sketches.' The last had a sale of 16,000. He is charged

"with gross ignorance; his object is to insinuate -for he does not go so far as explicitly to assertthat the end of the world is to take place in 1865, and this he does on the strength of certain passages in the Greek Testament, and their connexion with

certain historical events."

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