The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-14

friends on the eve of the battle of Nasebv.
The House of Commons printed at the time
collection of royal letters under the name of
The Kings Cabinet opened" These letters
We're thirty-nine in number but it has been
always known that, for reasons of state
good many of the Kings letters were kept
Dack These suppressed letters are the pa
pers recently found. They are in private
hands, but we hope TO hear in due time that
copies of them, at least, will be obtained for
public use
In the course of his researches into the
chemical constitution of the opium bases
DR. Matthiessen having treated mUrpha with
hydrochloric acid, obtained product which
he calls apomorphia. The process and its re-
suits were described in paper read recently
at the Royal Society, when certain facts were
mentioned which will interest medical practi-
tioners. II appears that the physiological
effects of apomorphia are very different from
those of morphia very small dose provokes
speedy vomiting, with much depression of
spirits, which, however, soon passes away
and leaves no i'll consequences Dr. Matthies-
sen states that he and his assistant, Mr.
Wright, while working with the substance
experienced more than once its disagreeable
effects. From experiments which are still in
progress it is found that one-tenth of grain
of apomorphia njected under the skin, or
one-fourth of a grain swallowed, will occa-
sion vomiting in from four to ten minutes;
dUu IT'S uOn-lIl1ldnU eneJlC ana powerful
antl-stimulant 1t may come into use in medi-
cine. In view of this result it has been
named apomorphia instead of morphine, ''to
avoid any possible mistakes in writing pre-
scriptions."
Two fresh pieces have turned up by Will
liam Grey, the lone Gray" whom Puttenham
notices as in favor with Henry the Eighth and
then the Protector Somerset, for writing
''The Hunt is Up" and other ballads; the
William Gray who wrote the celebrated
ballad against Cromwell (in Percy's 'Reli-
ques) which gave rise to the series in the
collection of the Society of Antquaries. The
Sloane MS, 1206, contains the first piece
found New Years Gift, or set Of verses,
! containing good counsel from Grey to the
Duke of Somerset, evidently in 1861, when
the Duke was free from bondage and in honor
again. But on referring to the Cambridge
University MS, Dd. ., 81. Sayings of his
servant Grey to Somerset not only did
better copy of the New Years Gift of 1551
appear, but also one of a shorter New Years
Gift of 1850, at the Dukes ''irste beinge
Prisoner in the Towre of London After
this evidence of Greys connection with
Somerset no one can hesitate to identify him
with the writer of ''Ihe Hunt is Up. Both
these gifts will be printed in Mr.. Furnivalrs
/ Second Part of Ballads from MSS. ;vol. l., for
the Ballad Society.
For the Chaucer Society Mr.. F. Norgate
will edit short Latin tract on how to use the
Chilindre. This kind of pocket sun-dial, the
rough watch of the middle ages, has been
curiously misunderstood. One MS. and edi-
tor explained it by stomach" the cataloguer
\ of the Sloane MSS. treated it man and
an author and boldly entered ''Chilander'
as the writer of the treatise, which Mr.. Nor
gate found, on looking at it, was a short
account of how the Chilindre should be used.
MIR. E. Brock has already edited for the
Chaucer Society Latin tract of the thir-
teenth century showing how the Chilindre
should be made, and this will be completed by
Mr.. Norgate's find of the MS. on how to use
the instrument. We shall then know how
the ''gentil monk" of Chaucers ''Shipman's
Tale" found out, after squeezing and kissing
the merchants pretty wife, that by his
Chilindre it was prime of day, and he
wanted his dinner.
1t is believed by many writer's that nc
word is more frequently omitted by authors
and its absence overlooked by printers, thar
the important syllable mo" A curious anG
early illustration of this idea presents itself il
an old tract, of which there is a copy in the
British Museum Library ''Sir G. Lucas hi
/ lait Speech" E. 462-2O which appears to have
been published by authority of the Lonl
Parliament, and contains the reply by SO
r." one of Fairfaxs officers at the taking O
Colchester to the last speech of Sir @. Luca
when about to be shot by the conqueror'
order. The knight complains of hi
Y sentence, as contrary to the conditions o
surrender which, as he alleged, promised
OF implied that quarter should be givel
without reserve. On the other hand, tn
officer is reported to have said these condi
tions were THAT you should be rendered t
us with (nO) certain assurance of quarter, S
as the Lord General may be free to put an
of you to the sword" The invaluable littl
word "no" was, strangely enough, left out c
the report of this speech; the context clearl
~ shows what was meant.
The word ''shallow" was wanted i
English before itappeared there. Hlfrics tern
for it was ''undeep" In the sentence, 'Som
shallow-thinlxing man will ask how God ca
be everywhere at once and nowhere divided
the good monk and mass-priest renders tt
a first three words sum unde0pthdnc0g man.
-Homiies, j, 2S6.
His Excellency the Pasha of Cyprus,
d the head of his forces, has gained gloriol
victory-at least, 50 he publishes-over IL
great enemies of the isle, the locusts. Thes
81 are no phantoms, like those Don Quixo
~ combated, but enemies which for many yea
have destroyed the prosperity of the islan'
n ( If the Cypriotes listened to Manchester al
"a 4 planted cotton, the locusts came from Il
n 4 mountains and ate it while green. In val
4 Pasha after Pasha took the field against then
4 IA Now, it is affirmed there are no loeusts in Il
island. The people are no longer afraid
M being ruined in an instant, and they loud
"a celebrate their benefactor. The Pasha carrie
on a campaign with 2000 men for thirty day
heading them himself, keeping his saddle fl
fwelve hours at time and camping out
W night. The insects were caught in kind
||.H cloth net: and ha devOtad Ia fhair daetru