_Episcopal Insignia of the Eastern Church._--Having seen in a late number
of the _Illustrated London News_ (Feb. 11, 1854) a peculiarly shaped
episcopal staff, with a cross rising from between two in-curved dragons'
heads, which is represented in the hand of the metropolitan of Wallachia, I
would be glad to know whether this form is peculiar to any branch of the
Eastern Church. A reference to a work of authority on the subject will
oblige a provincialist.