With respect to the practice of sitting while the epistle is read, and of standing while the gospel is read, in the communion service; there is in the rubric a distinct direction that "all the people are to stand up" during the latter, while it is silent as to the former. From the silence of the rubric as to standing during the two lessons of the morning service, and the epistle in the communion service, it seems to have been inferred that the people were to sit. But why are they directed to stand during the gospel in the communion service, while they sit during the second lesson in the morning service?
_Blew-Beer._--Sir, having taken a Note according to your very sound advice, I addressed a letter to the _John Bull_ newspaper, which was published on Saturday, Feb. 16. It contained an extract from a political tract, entitled,--
"The true History of Betty Ireland, with some Account of her Sister Blanche of Brittain. Printed for J. Robinson, at the Golden Lion in Ludgate Street, MDCCLIII. (1753)." { 247}
In allusion to the English the following passage occurs,--
"But they forget, they are all so idle and debauched, such gobbling and drinking rascals, and expensive in _blew-beer_," &c.
Query the unde derivatur of _blew-beer_, and if it is to be taken in the same sense as the modern phrase of "blue ruin," and if so, the cause of the change or history of both expressions?
_Carpatio._--I have lately met with a large aquatinted engraving, bearing the following descriptive title: "AngliÊ Regis Legati inspiciuntur Sponsam petentes Filiam Dionati CornubiÊ Regis pro Anglo Principe." The costume of the figures is of the latter half of the fifteenth century. The painter's name appears on a scroll, OP. VICTOR CARPATIO VENETI. The copy of the picture for engraving was drawn by Giovanni de Pian, and engraved by the same person and Francesco Gallimberti, at Venice. I do not find the name of Carpatio in the ordinary dictionaries of painters, and shall be glad to learn whether he has here represented an historical event, or an incident of some mediÊval romance. I suspect the latter must be the case, as _Cornubia_ is the Latin word used for Cornwall, and I am not aware of its having any other application. Is this print the only one of the kind, or is it one of a set?