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No. 208.]
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22. 1853.
[Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d.

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CONTENTS.

  NOTES:--                                                 Page

  A Prophet                                                 381

  FOLK LORE:--Folk Lore in Cambridgeshire--New
  Brunswick Folk Lore--North Lincolnshire Folk
  Lore--Portuguese Folk Lore                                382

  Pope and Cowper, By J. Yeowell                            383
  Shakspeare Correspondence, by Patrick Muirson, &c.        383

  MINOR NOTES:--Judicial Families--Derivation of
  "Topsy Turvy"--Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias--
  "Mary, weep no more for me"--Epitaph at Wood
  Ditton--Pictorial Pun                                     384

  QUERIES:--

  Sir Thomas Button's Voyage, 1612, by John Petheram        385

  MINOR QUERIES:--The Words "Cash" and "Mob"
  --"History of Jesus Christ"--Quantity of the Latin
  Termination -anus--Webb and Walker Families--
  Cawdrey's "Treasure of Similes"--Point of Etiquette
  --Napoleon's Spelling--Trench on Proverbs--Rings
  formerly worn by Ecclesiastics--Butler's "Lives of
  the Saints"--Marriage of Cousins--Castle Thorpe,
  Bucks--Where was Edward II. killed?--Encore--
  Amcotts' Pedigree--Blue Bell: Blue Anchor--
  "We've parted for the longest time"--Matthew
  Lewis--Paradise Lost--Colonel Hyde Seymour--
  Vault at Richmond, Yorkshire--Poems published at
  Manchester--Handel's Dettingen Te Deum--
  Edmund Spenser and Sir Hans Sloane, Bart.                 386

  MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--The Ligurian Sage
  --Gresebrok in Yorkshire--Stillingfleet's Library--
  The whole System of Law--Saint Malachy on the
  Popes--Work on the Human Figure                           389

  REPLIES:--

  "Namby Pamby," and other Words of the same Form           390
  Earl of Oxford                                            392
  Picts' Houses                                             392
  Pronunciation of "Humble"                                 393
  School Libraries                                          395

  PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Albumenized Paper
  --Cement for Glass Baths--New Process for Positive
  Proofs                                                    395

  REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--The Groaning Elmplank
  in Dublin--Passage in Whiston--"When
  Orpheus went down"--Foreign Medical Education
  --"Short red, good red"--Collar of SS.--Who first
  thought of Table-turning--Passage of Thucydides on
  the Greek Factions--Origin of "Clipper" as applied
  to Vessels--Passage in Tennyson--Huet's Navigations
  of Solomon--Sincere--The Saltpetre Man--
  Major Andre--Longevity--Passage in Virgil--Love
  Charm from a Foal's Forehead--Wardhouse, where
  was?--Divining Rod--Waugh, Bishop of Carlisle--
  Pagoda                                                    397

  MISCELLANEOUS:--

  Books and Odd Volumes wanted                              401
  Notices to Correspondents                                 401
  Advertisements                                            402

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Notes.

A PROPHET.

What a curious book would be "Our Prophets and Enthusiasts!" The literary
and biographical records of the vaticinators, and the heated spirits who,
after working upon the fears of the timid, and exciting the imaginations of
the weak, have flitted into oblivion! As a specimen of the odd characters
such a work would embrace, allow me to introduce to your readers Thomas
Newans, a Shropshire farmer, who unhappily took it into his head that his
visit to the lower sphere was on a special mission.

Mr. Newans is the author of a book entitled _A Key to the Prophecies of the
Old and New Testament_; showing (among other impending events) "The
approaching Invasion of England;" "The Extirpation of Popery and
Mahometisme;" "The Restoration of the Jews," and "The Millennium." London:
printed for the Author (who attests the genuineness of my copy by his
signature), 1747.

In this misfitted key he relates how, in a vision, he was invested with the
prophetic mantle:

    "In the year 1723, in the night," says Mr. Newans, "I fell into a
    dream, and seemed to be riding on the road into the county of Cheshire.
    When I was got about eight miles from home, my horse made a stop on the
    road; and it seemed a dark night, and on a sudden there shone a light
    before me on the ground, which was as bright as when the sun shines at
    noon-day. In the middle of that bright circle stood a child in white.
    It spoke, and told me that I must go into Cheshire, and I should find a
    man with uncommon marks upon his feet, which should be a warning to me
    to believe; and that the year after I should have a cow that would
    calve a calf with his heart growing out of his body in a wonderful
    manner, as a token of what should come to pass; and that a terrible war
    would break out in Europe, and in fourteen years after the token it
    would extend to England."

In compliance with his supernatural communication, our farmer proceeded to
Cheshire, where he found the man indicated; and, a year after, his own farm
stock was increased by the birth of a calf with his heart growing out. And
after taking his family, of seven, to witness to the truth of {382} what he
describes, he adds with great simplicity: "So then I rode to London to
acquaint the ministers of state of the approaching danger!"

This story of the calf with the heart growing out