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Caution to Coin Collectors.-The Cork Constitution paper, and the Hampshire Independent, caution coin collectors against a person who has lately been in Ireland vending with great success a large quantity of forged Roman, Greek, British and Saxon, and Anglo-Gallic coins. It is presumed this is the same individual who was some months since in London engaged in the same trade. A correspondent at Winchester states he has recently visited that town, but unsuccessfully, and is now supposed to be journeying towards Bath and the West. He is described to be a Scotchman, thin, genteelly dressed, and about sixty years of age, and he accounts for his possession of the coins by being connected in marriage with an eminent collector at Glasgow, recently deceased, and as the relatives could not agree in the distribution, he was entrusted with their sale. As these imitations are certainly well executed, it becomes the more necessary to give the utmost publicity to all facts relative to the impostor, and his mode of passing off his forged stock.

Mr. JOSEPH MORRIS, of Shrewsbury, requests us to correct a very erroneous assertion which appeared in the memoir of the late Sir T. J. Tyrwhitt Jones, Bart. in our last number. The passage to which he refers is this:-" He was lineally descended on the female side from the ancient patrician stock of Jones of Chilton-grove, in the parish of Atcham, and of Shrewsbury. Of that family was the regicide Colonel John Jones, brother-inlaw of Oliver Cromwell, and also his secretary, whose residence was at Tonmon [Fonmon is meant] Castle, co. Glamorgan, who forfeited his life, and atoned for his crime under the most bloody, horrid, and ignominious sentence it was in the power of the human mind to invent; all which he suffered with the heroism and courage of the most undaunted character. His descendant, Robert Jones, Esq., is the present lord and proprietor."-In the first place, Robert Jones, Esq. of Fonmon Castle, is not a descendant of Col. John Jones, the regicide. His ancestor, Col. John Jones, of Fonmon, was, undoubtedly, a Parliamentarian, but he was in no way related to the regicide of the same name; neither was the regicide Colonel, nor his namesake of Fonmon, in any way related to the Joneses of Chilton-grove and of Shrewsbury. Colonel John Jones, of Fonmon, was a descendant of Bleddynap-Maenyrch, Lord of Brecon. The fa

mily of Jones of Chilton-grove and of Shrewsbury were the descendants of Welsh ancestors originally seated in Denbighshire; and the late Sir Tyrwhitt Jones's ancestor, Thomas Jones, of Shrewsbury and Sandford, Esq. (afterwards Lord Chief Justice), so far from being of the regicide family or opinions, was one of the loyal Shropshire gentlemen taken prisoners by the parliamentary forces on their capture of Shrewsbury, February 22d, 1644-5. Col. John Jones, the regicide, was of Maes-y-garnedd, in the county of Merioneth. Mr. Noble, in his Memoirs of the Cromwell family, gives some particulars of him, and mentions his marriage with Catharine, sister of the Protector. He had, however, been previously married to Margaret, daughter of John Edwards, of Stansty, Esq. (a Denbighshire gentleman), and by her had a son, John Jones, Esq. who was living at Wrexham in 1702. A curious book, entitled, "The Indictment, Arraignment, Tryal and Judgment at large, of Twentynine regicides, the Murtherers of His Most Sacred Majesty King Charles the First, of Glorious Memory," printed in 1713, gives some particulars of Colonel John Jones, but erroneously describes him as of a "mean family in Wales," whereas he was a lineal but unworthy descendant of Cadwgan, the son of Bleddyn-ap-Cynfyn, Prince of Powys. Another old quarto, of 88 pages, published in 1661, and entitled “ ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ ΤΕΡΑΣΤΙΟΣ, Mirabilis Annus," &c. contains, at page 43, a singular anecdote connected with the death of the regicide, and is confirmatory of his being the Merionethshire Colonel, because it refers to an occurrence that took place on his property in that county on the day of his execution, to which event the fact is particularly referred."

D. A. Y. observes that, in the probate of the will of Alicia de Columbers, printed in our last volume, p. 587 note, the name of her son should probably be Sir Philip instead of Sir Peter, the former being the name which appears in the Esch. 16 Edw. III. Nos. 50 and 51.

T. G. inquires whether there is any English work treating professedly on the Growth and Culture of Cotton. We can only refer him to Watts's Bibliotheca Britannica, where is a list of works on the Cotton Manufacture, and Thomson's translation of Lesteyric on its Culture, and to a work published not long ago by Mr. Baines, son of the M.P. for Leeds.