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lady in question lived before my time any
remarks I could make would be only of the
second-hand or hearsay order. If I knew
her real (not her theatrical) name I could
soon trace out a short biography. The so-
called or self-styled Black Malibran, a hand-
some negress, black as ebony (in no way
related to Madame Malibran de Beriot), came
to this country from the United States,
where she had already made her mark,
about the year 1836, though I cannot fix the
date. Having a very lovely voice, like many
negresses (though to say she was in any way
either the equal or rival of Madame Malibran
would be only talking "moonshine"), she
made an immediate success, and during
the forties and fifties was always sure of
applause at Vauxhall, Cremorne, Highbury
Barn, Surrey Gardens, <kc., to say nothing
of provincial concert-rooms : but I do not
think she ever achieved much success as an
operatic singer. Her latest appearances in
public were, I have been informed, at the
Oxford and Canterbury during the early
sixties. As I write only from shadowy recol-
lections of what I have been told, I shall be
only tco ready to confess myself all in the
wrong should any correspondent of ' N. & Q.'
chance to know more about the subject than
myself. HERBERT B. CLAYTON.
39, Renfrew Road, Lower Kennington Lane.
REFERENCES WANTED (9 th S. x. 268). No. 3 is undoubtedly a translation from Goethe, and far more touching and melodious _than Carlyle's rendering given in ' Wilhelm Meister.' I give both translations :
Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate,
Who never through the long midnight hours,
Weeping, upon his bed has sat,
He knows ye not, ye heavenly powers.
Translator unknown. Who never eat his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping and watching for the morrow, He knows ye not, ye gloomy powers.
Carlyle's translation in ' Wilhelm Meister.'
I cannot say which is the more correct trans- lation, but the former possesses a spirituality which that of Carlyle lacks.
HARRIETT MC!LQUHAM.
No. 4, "Measure thy life," &c., and No. 5, " Here, and here alone," are from Harriet Eleanor Hamilton King's ' The Disciples : Ugo Bassi III.' JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.
9, Tavistock Place, W.C.
DREAM-LORE (9 th S. x. 269). As, the only definite authority upon the subject must perforce remain uncommunicative, the ques- tion " At what age does a voung child begin to dream?" continues to be somewhat or a
poser. But if infantile sighs and murmu rings
are trustworthy indications, I am disposed to
think a certain little four-year-old of my
acquaintance offers a clue to the period in
his own fragile person. Students of babyhood
must be pretty well agreed that very young
children do indulge in dreams. But how
early in life? There 's the rub, again.
CECIL CLARKE.
WATSON OF BARRASBRIDGE, NEWCASTLE-ON- TYNE (9 th S. ix. 388; x. 177, 237, 272). I suggest a reference to the ecclesiastical authorities. Archdeacon de Winton, of Colombo, who is at present, I believe, administering the -ordinary affairs of the diocese, will be able to find out if the burial in question took place at any of the stations then garrisoned by British troops in the island of Ceylon. Until about 1820 the British in Ceylon made use of the old Dutch Government churches for their services, and the old Dutch burial-grounds for their ceme- teries. After that date a new British burial- ground was set apart for use at Colombo ; but it is possible and probable that at some of the smaller up-country stations where there were detachments, such as Jaffna, Matara, Point de Galle, Trincomalee, and others, the old Dutch churches and churchyards were still in British use in 1824. Jaffna Church was certainly so used as late as 1819, for in this church there is a tablet to the memory of the Hon. George Tumour, fourth son of the Earl of Winterton, who died 19 April, 1819 (see Ludovici's 'Monumental Inscrip- tions'). Visitors to the old Dutch burial- ground in the Pettah at Colombo are sur- prised to see amongst the massive monuments of the old Dq.tch officials memorials of British civil and military officers. Amongst them are those of
John Ewart, M.D., Physician-General to H.M.'s troops in India, and Inspector-General of Hospitals in Ceylon, 1800.
Dugald Campbell, captain 88th Regiment, 1801.
William Ollen Ranshaw, lieutenant 65th Regiment, 1803.
Major David Blair, H.E.I.C.S., A.D.C. to his Excellency Governor F. North, 1803.
Burton Gage Barbirt, colonel H.M.'s service, 1803.
John Wilson, colonel H.M.'s service, 1807.
Anne Young, wife of Lieut, and Adjutant Young of the 65th Regiment, 1803.
There are also memorials of several other officers of the 19th, 51st, 65th, and Ceylon Regiments.
When I visited the spot two years ago it wa.s in a sadly neglected condition. Possibly
