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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 55, 21 March 1900, Page 4

T!!p j; rr,.>.r. ! The nation.: " 0 f eld I Enriand, is. uuizm of the 1 crosses pt iit. Ct- , ot Andrew, and o{ {.. -St. Patrick res;actively; hence the Union i Jack. But why jack ? Some writers suggest that the wo-d Jack arose from the fact that James I. was the first to blend the ted cross of St. Ceorse with the cross saltire ol St. Andrew, t.nd that this flag was called ?. T-jcl: fro : :>• :_:.r:r.:s(.d j>rn', of the Kind's n-'-'e Ju-.1-. i iiytvihesis is > overraltd ♦by tius •- .-.t t;:at "Charles 11. ; issued aproclan-;.'.!- :i the merchant ships tiui they •• &■., na*. his Majesty's j Jack (commonly called the Union Jack) j without special warrant, but that they must t ■ keep to the flass, Jatks, and ensigns heretofore wprn by them." It is evident fromthir that some kind of small Sags were known as jack? - tevioas to the tiuie of Jbur.cs I. It has been suggested thai the name arose from i the fact that when the army of Richard 11. .invaded Scotland, that lung ordered that ■ •' even man, of wha; estate, condicion, or { nation thei be, if so that he be ofoure partie, beare ~a sig'ne ol the arms of St. George, large, both before and behind." And as the ■ tipper'part of the drtss of a horse-man was called a Jack, it came to pass that small flags for the use of sailors, which bore only the I symbfcl of a cross, cane to be called jacks In heraldic language the English flag is thus described:—Azure, the crosses saltire ol St. Andrew and St'. Patrick quarterly, per saltire counter-changed argent and gules, the latter fimbriated, and the second surmounted by the cross of St. George of the Third, fimbriated as the saltire." '• In plain language the three national flags seem to have been_blended as follows: First, the Scotch flag was taken, blue, with a white diagonal cross ; then the red cross from the English flag was placed over this ; then upon the union with Ireland, the Irish flag, a red diagonal cross on a white ground, bad to be combined, and this was done by what is called cojjnteichanging. Although ~ the present arrangement of the flag has been ■„ described as " false heraldry," yet the combination has a very picturesque effect, and "■* we should deprecate any alteration of the brave old flag, " the flag that has braved a thousand years the battle and the breeze," and which we hope may brave them for a thousand years more. ftEART BURIAL. Sir Nicholas CuisfE, Bart., one of the most devoted adherens of the house oi Stuart, during his lifetime caused to be placed high up on the r.DiJh wall of the nave of the churcii of Si. jraul. Hammersmith, Middlesex, a larce trior,'intent of black and white m-rhto to the memory of Charles 1., sutreonri'eu a.- .t • ->t >y. t;.s King. A ped- • estal o: L::.:;a: i;i the sormof acolutnn reaches about ijtd.'.vay up the monument, 'and op top of this is placed a stone um rnclosing the tieprt of Sir Nicholas Crispe. He himseli was interred in the family vault in the church pi Si. Vsi-sred, Bread Street, London but ho tHre'-.-'j that his heart should be p!a;?d Krn , A l„r.<» inscription, i:i i <•« ! >: .•», on the pedestal I records th- : f.-ir: n■■ :-1 r?d!' ! withm I.'" ; ; j's eate oi his j devb-; -■ ■ ... ;. .- } ati;-. c- 7 ; , years. J.t_ v,,.s tl;. : custuir. to tske ont the i::-art o:i ir.c r.ri:i:w.'sarv oi its ..ntornbr/.orjt :: "-d reiarh it y.ith a";wine, but Piter tne rxjnratirtii of ore I'.ian a ceacury end a ii.-ilr Li- - /,e decayed and was enclosed in a icr * which is no doubt It;i 1 in the urn. Victor : " , r cf a Crinie" nifenti'.rs f 1 ■' i r'. . v -■?'.>. ■■ ■ i\*; Giivirie?, i-.ho \.t; prcinir. ;■> r; . the f r„. r ..AU t...- irjlies 1)3-rr'-rlry, w»r. Lr,:i <!.«■-* n er.iis at Cologne j »n i'ir'erhrtut'emontryi j , hi, ~.... t . r.no enclosed -j . .it ir "■ s-:"S" vh : ch he took to Pari:;. J j ' • tiw Mt'iinista oeiegated him, I

y.itb C'nt&ct and Jt_ ; .;rneux, to convey this heart to Diion, Dexontry s native place, and ;:ive it a solemn funeral. This for.eral was -rrhihited by Louis Honauarte, then President of the Republic. Vic tor Hugo doe» not say what tventuaih became of Demontry's oeart. :X i-AI.SE XiAKi',. noCKiit.n 'vVF.2, poor ieJo'V, has a favoai to ask of the farm bailiff, ■•i-'h-. i_ ; vucle and nnbendinj, but at the p:v »of a ttoitctm >.;>t to c'mr-sa his l:,- n;x cf t's- ; lu'b'-.if/. j;rc.:>;w«cr remembers this as ho enters 'the a*.vitil rrestnee. hi first tlie ba:ii;T him :a the crruffc.U of "vr.c-s iad«kniv Sr.s »•.-.< stis directed to the pw.sam s co--;. ' Hi;; face brightens, be chnrldes "s, i-e contemphtct a certain spot on tho c v.t tvit'j visiMo s.uisfeev'on. ••VwfppKcatfc.n is. ra-rtcd. mj ISOoA fellow, here i#tivjorv cr," lit- j>!c.-»-;a!iv venarlra. " Yr.u ir.ay iea.e the hare 'D thi kitchen as y. i! pass out I"* ' "\\ Uat i-.a-i:?" Buckkbaiier innocently '■■..rnr.;3. " \Vhy, the hare that yr.j have gt ; nncler jv ; ;;r coati" At this the old slyboois unbuttons his coat in v.-ell-feifrned astonishment. "I declare!" he indignantly e> claims, " if these rascally lads of minn h.-.ven't gone and r'itchort a 00-.iple of oiri hare's feet en to my