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bore a white cross in the Crusades ; that of France being red ; Germany , black ; Flanders , green ; and Italy , yellow . And when this Richard Cceur de Lion foolishly assumed the fictitious title of king of Jerusalem , he also assumed the dormant lion

of Judah ; hence , when his tomb was discovered in 1838 , in the cathedral of Rouen , a dormant lion was found sculptured at the feet of his recumbent effigy . Dieu et mon droit ( God and my ri ght ) was first given by Richard as a parole when

besieging Gisors in Normandy , then adopted as his motto , and has ever since been that of our royal arms . Henry the Third added another leopard to the Norman two ; and it was not until the accession of James of Scotland to the throne of England that

the three leopards were changed to three lions . The Scottish heralds claim for their red lion rampant , an antiquity dating back beyond the Norman conquest of England . When Henry the Fifth assumed the title of King of Francehe hoisted her

, blue flag , but instead of strewing it with those fleurs de lis of gold , which had given it the name of the oriflamme , he changed the white cross of Cceur de Lion

for the red one of France . It would make too long a Note to go into all the minute chauges that have been made from time to time in our national arms , the roses , the hawthorn , the swan of Boulogne , the silver horse of Hanover , and such like ;

suffice it to say , that our union jack , formed in 1801 , to commemorate the union of England , Scotland , and Ireland , under one parliamentary government , is a blue flag , bearing the red cross , which Henry the Fifth may have been said to

have stolen from France , generally known now as the cross of St . George , with the saltier or red cross of St . Andrew of Scotlaud , and the white cross of St . Patrick of Ireland . Mr . William Adamsof Hullhas issued

, , the fourteenth edition of The Sailor , a poem by Edward Anderson , for several years the master-mariner of the Jemima , in the Lisbon trade , though originally occupied as a shepherd on his father ' s farm , on the Yorkshire wolds ; and after his

retirement from the sea , a bookseller , who died at Hull in 1844 , and was buried at Kilham . There is a sixpenny edition of the poem printed at Beverley ; but the

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Hull edition , which is a shilling , is not only printed on better paper , but contains much information not to be found iu the former . Both are deficient of a short memoir , which I would advise Mr . Adams to affix to his next edition , although the poem itself is almost a biography . To

me , the most valuable part of The Sailor is its topographical and local historical information , and I hope in another Note to glance at the poem as illustrating the former condition of the Yorkshire wolds . Rose Cottage , Stokesley . '

Fritz And I.

FRITZ AND I .

WE take this amusing little specimen of German-American patois from the New York Dispatch . MYNEHEEE blese helb a boor oldt man Vot gomes from Sharniany . Mit Fritz , mine tog , urid only frendt ,

To geeps me gompany . I have no money to puy mine pread , No blace to lay me down ; For ve vas vanderers , Fritz and I , Und sdrangers in der town . Some beople gife us dings to eadt , Und some dey kicks us oud , Und say—you don ' t got peesnes here To sdrowl der schtreets aboudt .

Vots dot you say—you puy mine tog To gife me pread to eadt ? I vas so boor as never vas , But I vas no tead peat . Vot , sell mine tog , mine leetle tog Dot vollows me aboudt , Und vags his dail like any dings Vene ' er I dakes him oud .

Schust look at him , and see him schump , He likes me pooty veil ; Und dere vas somedings bout dat tog , Mynheer , I vouldn't sell . Der collar—nein— 'tvas someding else , Vrom vich I gould not bart ,

Und if dot dings vos dook avay , I dink it prakes mine heart . Vot vas it den , about dat tog You ashk , dats not vor sale ? I dells you vat it ish mine frendt , 'Tish der vag off dat tog ' s dail .