1. Is there any contingency in which the meaning of the word _extradition_ may not be sufficiently expressed by the verb _to deliver up_, or the substantive _restitution_?
2. If so, how has its place been supplied heretofore in our diplomatic correspondence?
_Singing of Metrical Psalms and Hymns in Churches._--1. When and how did the custom of singing metrical psalms and hymns in churches originate? 2. By what authority was it sanctioned? 3. At what parts of the service were these psalms and hymns directed to be introduced? 4. Was this custom contemplated by the compilers of the Book of Common Prayer?
_Ormonde Portraits._--I shall feel much obliged by information on the following points:--
1. Whether _any_ portrait of Thomas Earl of Ormonde has been published? He died in the year 1614.
2. _How many_ engraved portraits of Thomas, the famous Lord Ossory, have been issued? their dates, and the engravers' names.
3. _How many_ engraved portraits of the first and second Dukes of Ormonde, respectively, have appeared? their dates, and engravers' names.
_Tradescant._--In the inscription on the tomb of the Tradescants in Lambeth churchyard, which it is proposed to restore as soon as possible, these two lines occur:
"These famous antiquarians, that had been Both gardeners to the Rose and Lily queen."
Can any of your readers inform me _when_ the elder Tradescant came over to England, and when he was appointed royal gardener? Was it not in the reign of Elizabeth?
_Arthur's Seat and Salisbury Craigs._--L. M. M. R. is very anxious to be informed as to the origin of the name of Arthur's Seat and Salisbury Craigs, the well-known hill and rocks close to Edinburgh.
_Lincoln Missal._--Is a manuscript of the missal, according to the use of the church of Lincoln, known to exist? and, if so, where may it be seen?
I must beg a very small portion of your space to reply to your correspondent H. K. S. C., who criticises so pleasantly my remarks on the meaning of "eisell." The question is: Does the meaning MR. SINGER attaches to this word require in the passage cited the expression of quantity to make it definite? I am disposed to think that a definite quantity may be sometimes understood, in a well-defined act, although it be _not_ expressed. On the other hand, your correspondent should know that English idiom requires that the name of a river should be preceded by the definite article, unless it be personified; and that whenever it is used without the article, it is represented by the personal pronoun _he_. Though a man were able "to drink _the Thames_ dry," he could no more "drink up _Thames_" than he could drink up _Neptune_, or the sea-serpent, or do any other impossible feat.