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In our myst'ries uninitiated
Our Altars touch not.
By us alone inscriptions can be read
(As those so ven'rable)
Long ages buried with the Roman dead.
Southern Member of the Archæological Society.
O Bremenium! O Roman Bremenium! Where can I find you now? How have we been led astray by the voluntary or compulsory visits of the Piets to Rochester, who, like ourselves, ignorantly must have mistaken BREM for Bremenium; for as to Antoninus, he can afford us no help. He wrote his history of himself in Greek, and would have written Hodos and not Iter for his first day's journey.
"Non tali axilio nec defensoribus istis."
Translated—Save us, O save us, from our stupid friend.
THE ROMAN ALTAR FOUND AT ROCHESTER.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEWCASTLE JOURNAL.
Sir,—My attention has been drawn to a further effusion of the Rev. Thomas Surridge, LL.D. of Thorneyburn, who would do well to bear in mind that it is not less becoming in a Doctor of Laws, than it is in a Doctor of Divinity, to keep his temper—which, by the way, those who persist in error seldom do. I must submit to the reproach, which, in the eyes of the reverend doctor, attaches to my southern domicile; I do not know where
