25 NOVEMBER 1865, Page 3

Has anybody examined that case of John Naylor, reported in

Friday's Times? According to the statement, he was baptized -at Welney, in Norfolk, and appeared from the register to have been 117 years old at his death, on October 30 of this year. If the statement is correct Naylor was probably the oldest man in the world, but, as usual, there is a hitch. The account, which is taken from a Lynn paper, leaves it uncertain whether Naylor's baptism was registered, or whether he only thought it was. His son, who is eighty, believed him to be only 110.