LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
ST. JANUARIUS.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR:1
SIR,-I have just returned to London from the city of St. Januarius, and seeing for the first time your remark in the Spectator dl October 2 on my letter in the Times, that "if motion is the cause of the liquefaction, surely the substance, whatever it be, should solidify again when the vessel is at rest," I hasten to inform you that after being left alone, it does solidify again, and that in the morning, when brought out afresh, the first care of the officiating priest is to ascertain that it is hard, and to have the fact attested by the municipal Deputy. I was not aware till later in the week that it is carried about and kissed the whole afternoon through in the cathedral, and has not an instant's rest up to the moment of its being consigned for the night to the receptacle.
I venture to send you my notes on the later days of the festival, as containing much which I did not see or failed to record on the first day.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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