MELANION.

_Sir G. Wyattville._--J.P. would be glad to be informed in what year Sir

G. Wyattville was knighted?

_Sparse._--As I am "less an antique Roman than a Dane," I wish to know

what authority there is for the use of this word, which is to be found

in a leading article of _The Times_, January 8th, 1850?--"A _sparse_ and

hardy race of horsemen." I should like to see this among the Queries,

but I send it as a protest.

"Hostis et Peregrinus unus et idem."

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