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is a humble pot-house, at which we stopped. colours do to the eye, a sensation of re- shall take my leave of it with the followA path through its little garden leads out pose, after the contemplation of glaring ing: upon the ruins. They are very inconsidera- and offensive hues. "Look! under that broad beech tree I ble; an irregular mound of earth incloing The Complete Angler is in the form of sat down, when I was last this way a fisha space of two thousand feet in diameter, a dialogue between a Fowler, a Hunter, ing. And the birds in the adjoining grove and a yard or two of crumbling stone wall; and a Fisher, who meet together by acci- seemed to have a friendly contention with yet this place sends two members to par-dent and enter into a discussion of the an echo, whose dead voice seemed to live liament, that is, the proprietor of the land merits of their respective pursuits. The first in a hollow tree near to the brow of that sends them. Horne Tooke was once re- speaker is the Fowler, from whose pane- primrose hill. There I sat viewing the turned from this thoroughly rotten borough. gyric on his vocation, and every thing con- silver streams glide silently toward their Two lads were ploughing immediately un- nected with it, I would make one extract. centre, the tempestuous sea; yet sometimes der the ramparts. "But the nightingale, another of my airy opposed by rugged roots and pebble-stones, creatures, breathes such sweet loud music which broke their waves, and turned them out of her little instrumental throat, that it into foam." might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, Lord, what music hast thou provided for the saints in heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on earth.”

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durus arator Vertet, et, Urbs, dicet, hæc quoque clara fuit. Sannazarius.

A ride of fifteen minutes more brought us to Salisbury. F. G.

ISAAC WALTON.

ALL the world has heard of Isaac Walton's "fascinating little volume"-for all the world has read the Sketch Book-but few in this country have ever read it. Although it has passed through many editions since its first publication in 1653, it has for many years been comparatively a rare book, and I think you may have readers who will be amused by some account of the work and its author. The edition which is now before me* is in a less expensive form, than the former ones have usually been. All the engravings are omitted, which deprives the work of one charm, that the author seems to have made no small account of, observing that "he who likes not the book should like the excellent picture of the trout, and some of the other fish, which I may take a liberty to commend, because they concern not myself." The author of this celebrated treatise was born at Stafford, in the year 1593; and, to judge from the style of his literary per

formances, must have received a good English education. Some time before the year 1624 he settled in London as a sempster or linen-draper, which employment he continued to follow till 1643, when he retired from business and spent the remainder of his life, which was protracted to the advanced age of ninety," mostly in the families of the eminent clergymen of England, by whom he was much beloved." He wrote the biography of Sir John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, and other eminent persons; but the present work is the one to which he has owed his celebrity. It is chiefly remarkable for the tone of simplicity, benevolence, and gentleness, that breathes through the whole. We feel ourselves acquainted with the author; and when we contemplate his quiet cheerfulness and primitive morality and charity, and remember that he lived through the stormy periods of the reign of Charles I., the protectorate of Cromwell, and the licentious days which succeeded the Restoration, we cannot wonder that he was, as he is said to have been, "well beloved of all good men." Amid the turmoil and vices of the time, the character of Walton affords to the mind, what certain

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And this description of the mode of cooking a pike [pickerel], which is sufficiently appetizing.

"But if this direction to catch a Pike thus do you no good, yet I am certain this direction, how to roast him when he is caught, is choicely good; for I have tried it, and it is something the better for not being common, But with my direction you must take this caution, that your Pike must not be a small one, that is, it must be more than half a yard, and should be bigger.

The Hunter follows, with appropriate praise of his favourite amusement, and the Fisher concludes the debate with a long dis- "First, open your Pike at the gills, and course on the pleasures of angling, which if need be, cut also a little slit towards the makes a convert of the former. The Fowl- belly. Out of these take his guts; and er soon leaves them, while the Fisher goes keep his liver, which you are to shred very on through the remainder of the book, to in- small, with thyme, sweet marjoram, and a struct his new disciple in the best methods little winter-savory; to these put some of catching and cooking the various fish pickled oysters, and some anchovies, two which inhabit the streams and ponds in or three, both these last whole, for the anEngland. In the course of their walk they chovies will melt, and the oysters should meet with a party engaged in hunting the not; to these you must add also a pound of otter. On this occasion the Angler puz-sweet butter, which you are to mix with zles the Huntsman with a question near the herbs that are shred, and let them all akin to one, which has worried wiser heads be well salted. If the Pike be more than than his, even the learned in the law of our a yard long, then you may put into these herbs more than a pound, or if he be less, thus mixed, with a blade or two of mace, then less butter will suffice: These, being

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ask you a pleasant question; do you hunt
Pisc. I pray, honest Huntsman, let me
a beast or a fish?"

There are pieces of delightful poetry
scattered through the volume; the fol-
lowing is a favourable specimen. I have
seen it lately published in a journal as the
property of an English poetess, who flour-
ished about eighty years after Walton
died. It has been accredited to divers old
authors; but is attributed by Walton him-
self to Hubbard.

Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright,
The bridal of the earth and sky,
Sweet dews shall weep thy fall to-night,
for thou must die.
Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave,
Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye,
Thy root is ever in its grave,

and thou must die.
Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses,
A box where sweets compacted lie;
My music shows you have your closes,
and all must die.

Only a sweet and virtuous soul,
Like season'd timber, never gives,
But when the whole world turns to coal,
then chiefly lives.

beautiful extracts from this little work,
I might select for your readers many
but would much rather, for their sakes,
they should seek them for themselves; and

must be put into the Pike's belly: and then his belly so sewed up as to keep all the butter in his belly if it be possible; if not, then as much as you possibly can. But take not off the scales. Then you are to thrust the spit through his mouth, out at his tail. And then take four or five or six split sticks, or very thin laths, and a convenient quantity of tape or filleting; these laths are to be tied round about the Pike's body from his head to his tail, and the tape tied somewhat thick, to prevent his breaking or falling off from the spit. Let him be roasted very leisurely; and often basted with claret wine and anchovies and butter mixed together; and also with what moisture falls from him into the pan. When you have roasted him sufficiently you are to hold under him, when you unwind or cut the tape that ties him, such a dish as you purpose to eat him out of; and let him fall into it with the sauce that is roasted in his belly; and by this means the Pike will be kept unbroken and complete. Then, to the sauce which was within, and also that sauce in the pan, you are to add a fit quantity of three or four oranges. Lastly, you may the best butter, and to squeeze the juice of either put it into the Pike, with the oysters, two cloves of garlick, and take it whole

out, when the Pike is cut off the spit; or,
to give the sauce a hogoo, let the dish into
which you let the Pike fall be rubbed with
it; the using or not using of this garlick is
left to your discretion.
M. B.
"This dish of meat is too good for any
but anglers, or very honest men; and I
trust you will prove both, and therefore I
have trusted you with this secret."

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AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP.

and places for the utterance of thought. | own fancy, perhaps to fantastic or false conBy wisdom we mean something very differ- clusions, unchecked by the restraining inent; the power of distinctly perceiving fluence of comparison or conflict with other and rightly using those absolute truths minds. Man is essentially social, because which should control and may improve man the needs of his nature make him so; and as a moral and spiritual being; seeing a it is not more true, that did we not congrething not only as it is in itself, but in its gate, cities could not be builded nor the uses; and of making all attainments, all arts of life be practised, than it is that our circumstances do service in the forming of thoughts and feelings require, nay imperiVery sensitive readers may be occasionally correct judgments upon the relations, the ously demand, perpetual and intimate assosurprised with a kind of professional hard-duties, and the hopes which the vicissitudes ciation with our fellows. Solitude and unheartedness, which mingles oddly enough of life may offer. It is obvious, if the disturbed meditation are often good-but with Walton's general benignity and ten-words are thus rightly used,—that learning chiefly if not only good, as they serve to derness; as when, in giving directions is only to be valued as the instrument of ripen or store away for use, the fruits which touching the catching of pickerel, he or- wisdom; and if it be equally obvious that have been gathered in society. Now the ders his pupil to bait the hook with a living scholars are not always sages, and that such recluse scholar has not only lost all the adfrog, and especially requires him to pass a condition of society, and such habits and vantage, but with the habit perhaps the the barb through the struggling reptile tastes as can alone create and supply a nu- power of freely interchanging his opinions as tenderly as though you loved him.” merous class of eminently learned men, and feelings with other men. Again; his The work of Cotton, which is added to will direct the energies and efforts of the character is injured because he is accusthat of Walton in this edition, is a sort of finest and strongest intellect towards pur- tomed to value his acquisitions and his obimitation or continuation of it, being in- suits, which lead rather from than to sound jects, by a false test. We are not about tended to supply the deficiencies of the wisdom,-then it will be conceded that the to enter upon a disquisition as to the proper latter in the particular of fly-fishing, and want of such a class should not be lament- objects of effort, or the most useful modes the manufacture of artificial flies. ed by us. of employment; they are obvious enough for our purposes; as it is obvious enough that he who invents a steam-engine which shall give to ten men the power of a thousand, has done a better thing than if his ingenuity were employed in suggesting an original guess as to the position of a comma or an accent in some questionable Greek verse. This is an extreme case, but it serves to illustrate the principle; and without farther inquiry into the abstract nature of utility, we would assert, or rather agree, with what it is the fashion to assert now-adays, that the strong, direct tendency of all things in the present age, is towards utility. This, men are beginning to look at as the end of all exertion; and things are getting to be valued only by their power of promoting the uses of life. In this most important respect, this age is beyond all that have preceded it, and the nation of which we are a part, beyond all other nations; but the pertinacious industry, the resolute self-denial, the unwavering devotion of the whole mind, which are needed to win the scholar's crown, if they are not stimulated by a miserable and selfish ambition for empty fame, for honour without service, suppose a thorough belief in the vast and real importance of that which he seeks, which must be a prejudiced, an absurd belief. He is pale with hard thought and broken sleep, and his body decays before the morbid energy of his over-wrought mind; but he thinks all this well and exults because he has turned over many volumes and learned what many men have thought, and written many pages for others to read, and taken an assured rank by the side of the "eruditissimi" whom he worships. This man may have been gifted with commanding talents, and may have won a high and far-reaching reputation; but bring him forth into the concerns of life; let him teach his weaker brethren to forego, to neglect or avoid this useless or evil thing and labour strenuously for that good one; let him discriminate nicely for them and for himself between that which is

That scholars are not always, and of necessity, sages, sounds a little too much like a truism to be illustrated at great length. GREAT differences exist between us and Upon this point common opinion may be other cultivated nations, in respect to the adduced as good evidence. The world number and character of our scholars. Our deems it impossible, that a man should be land is not cumbered with literati, so nu- one of them, that he should be prompt, merous and so distinguished from all who shrewd, full of resources, conversant with follow other pursuits, as to constitute a class realities and judging wisely about them, by themselves. This fact is often mention- and at the same time a laborious, harded at home and abroad; it has been lament-reading student, a man of vast erudition, ed by Americans, and cast in their teeth by foreigners, as matter of reproach and obloquy. We grant that the circumstance exists, but are disposed to view it in a very different light; to us it appears as a proof and a promise of a better condition of national intellect than has characterized any other people.

saturated, as it were, with book knowledge, and altogether an eminent scholar. And the world is right about it, for the thing is impossible. An eminent scholar-we use the phrase as meaning one who would take rank with those whom it would indicate in Europe, one who belonged to the same class and had reached the same grade-an In considering questions of this kind,-eminent scholar can only have become so in forming an estimate of the worth of by a life passed where the best uses of life scholarship and the homage due to learned are well nigh forgotten,-in his closet. men, men are apt to be misled by a common His solitary lamp has not been shining and very influential error;-they too often through the silent watches of many nights, do not understand, or do not recollect, while that he might record his thoughts touching they reason, that knowledge is not wis- the duties or hopes of man, or the science dom. The former we regard as an indis- of mind, or the great mystery of governpensable instrument, as a means of vast ment, or the wise economy of public and inestimable value; but standing by it- wealth-for he is not a philosopher, nor a self, and employed in no uses, it is worth-statesman, nor a politician; he has not less as any other neglected or misused tool. Wisdom is a very different thing; it is the end which science respects, and only so far as it respects this end should science be valued. It has an absolute and momentous worth; and men may well strive for it as for an unspeakable good, and value it in others as a quality which gives a rightful claim to the highest respect. We understand by this word, learning, simply an acquaintance, more or less extensive or accurate, with words and things as they actually are or were; with the literary works of different ages and nations; with the facts, which, together with certain arrangements and nomenclatures, constitute what are usually called the sciences; and with the languages employed in various times

sought the accomplishment of elegant lite-
rature only as it is the fairest ornament of
the mind, nor has he loved its pure pleas-
ures only as an innocent and useful recrea-
tion,-for he would call it detraction, or, at
best, a very scant measure of justice, were
one to give him credit for only so much
skill in letters as could be thus acquired.
He is a scholar,-an eminent scholar,-but
nothing more, and therefore the best powers
and efforts of his mind have been wasted in
pursuits almost if not altogether frivolous;
some desirable advantages may result from
his labours, but they are dearly purchased.
The character he has formed, the habits he
has acquired, are not those of most value.
He has been accustomed to think out his
own thoughts and follow the lead of his

The fol

and that which is not desirable; let him tavern, where we enjoyed an excellent appeared with a large piece of court-plaishelp them who are busy in supplying the breakfast. We found here an American ter on her face, to cover a wound inflicted needs, enlarging the comforts, and prevent- shipmaster, who saluted Capt. M―― much by a missile from the galleries a few nights ing or curing the evils of life; let such be in the same way as he might have done before. I should have been wearied with his task, and his strength is as the feeble- had they parted the day before, when, in the performance but for Miss Stephens, at ness of infancy. Now a character like reality, they had not met, as I believe, for whose exquisite singing I came as near rapthis will his be, generally speaking, whom some years. But sailors soon become cititures as was becoming. The nobility and all men call an "eminent scholar;" and a zens of the world, and a few years, or a gentry are now generally in the country, character like this, this age, and especially few thousand miles, appear to them of little and the house was not very brilliant; but it this country, ought never to honour. consequence. In the course of the morning was decently filled, or, rather, indecently, But, we repeat, we are very far from we walked to the Castle, a Saxon building, for, from the dress of some of the ladies, I feeling any contempt for learning; we it is said, of great antiquity, to witness the should have supposed them to be Cyprians; would give to it, and to them who have it, daily parade of the guards now stationed in but P-assured us he had seen Countdue honour, and would hold out sufficient Dublin, consisting of light-infantry, caval- esses dressed lower and higher. inducements for its due cultivation. Most, ry, and artillery, grenadiers, heavy cavalry, lowing morning we found Mr Rosborough, if not all, of the pursuits of life may be and Highlanders. These last swarm all who treated us in a very gentlemanlike followed with more advantage by him who over the city; their dress is very pictur- manner, examined our baggage slightly, has been taught the rudiments of learning esque; a blue bonnet encircled with a refused any fee, and offered to send it to than by the wholly ignorant; and in many band of red plaid, and surmounted with any place we wished. We thanked him for of them high and valuable success cannot black plumes, a white close jacket to the his politeness in that hearty manner, which be attained without considerable acquaint- middle, and a philibeg, kilt, or short petti- one is apt to use towards any man who gives ance with literature. In our country there coat, descending just below the middle of a good impression, or removes a bad one. are some, though not yet many, who are the thigh; the limbs below are quite naked, I have not seen one pretty face yet, not obliged to belong to any profession, and except shoes and tartan hose, which do not from which it is, of course, reasonable to not disposed to seek or hold public stations; reach to the knee; a goat-skin bag before infer, after the sweeping manner of travelto such it is honourable to love literature; them, adorned with rows of tags or tassels re- lers, that the Irish ladies are not handsome. and their studies, though not perhaps very sembling small shaving brushes, a musket, The general appearance of this city is much directly or largely beneficial, are yet some- and a basket-hilted broadsword swung over superior to that of any I have ever seen, thing more than strenuous idleness." Let their shoulders with a white leather belt, London not excepted, as well as I recollect. as then have learning, and let us honour it. complete the array of these knights of " the Through the middle of it runs the Liffy, a Let our colleges be supplied with teachers bottomless breeks." It must be a vile dress pretty river, probably about two hundred competent to all the duties of instruction; in winter. On returning from our walk and fifty or three hundred feet wide, quaylet all American productions, indicative of we were informed that the officers of His ed or edged on each side with hewn stone industry and ability and useful knowledge, Majesty's Customs, having been offended by for a mile and a half Irish, or two miles be received with honourable welcome, and some observations made by the Mate of the English, and crossed by six stone, and one let them who may choose their occupations, brig, had instituted a very particular cast iron bridge. The quays are surmountand prefer literary pleasures to idleness or search, and finding concealed in divers parts ed, through their whole length, sometimes dissipation, be duly respected. But let us not of the vessel, articles which they were with an open stone railing, at others, with a forget, that only so much learning as is or pleased to consider contraband, had seized wall about two and a half feet high. Standing may be used is valuable, and let us especi- all the passengers' baggage, trunks, bedding, on one of these bridges, one may see nearly ally recognise and seek the most extensive, &c., and conveyed them away in triumph. the whole way, up or down, through the attainable, and important advantages of Much alarmed at finding our property in the city. This river is a very convenient guide learning, those which accompany the less- claws of such harpies, we hurried down to for strangers; for, if one loses his way, he er degrees of it, and may be enjoyed by al- the Custom House, to inquire into the affair. has only to go north or south, as the case most all in the discharge of all their duties. Here we were detained til near two may be, till he reaches it, and follow it to Let our schools be supported by a perse- o'clock, and then obliged to depart unsat- some known point, from which he may take vering, liberal, and enlightened patronage, isfied. All we could get for an answer a new departure. The streets abound with and every means be actively employed to was, that our baggage might possibly be at gentry in slashed sleeves, yea, and slashed secure to the intellect of each one of the Mr Rosborough's on Rogerson's quay. As breeches too. I saw yesterday the ne plus people of this country so much cultivation this was at some distance, we resolved to dine ultra of tatterdemalions-the very prince of and knowledge as shall enlarge and correct upon the business, eating being generally a rags-strolling along with his right hand in his views concerning all his duties and matter of paramount importance for some his breeches pocket, and his left in his borights, and supply him with the best mo- days to landsmen, after a voyage across the som, looking as if this fair world was cretives for good conduct. We shall then Atlantic. In the afternoon we proceeded to ated for his sole accommodation. This is have no need to lament that few among our Mr Rosborough's, where, after waiting till an exceedingly lazy people. About fifty learned can abide a comparison with the six P. M. in vain, as the gentleman was not rods below one of the bridges are two ferry eminent scholars of Europe. at home, we returned in high dudgeon at hav-boats, each rowed by two men, who get a ing wasted half the day in this unprofitable pursuit. In the evening we went to the theatre, to hear Miss Stephens in Lionel and Clarissa.' The theatre appeared to me to be a little larger than that in Boston, and, in general, not much more beautiful. In one particular it is better, the benches of the pit are covered and stuffed; both men and women occupy it. The mode of lighting by moon-light lamps, instead of candles, or common lamps, produces a pleasing effect. The scenery seemed better painted and managed. All the lobbies and doors were guarded by armed Highlanders, to prevent or suppress riots, which are said to be not uncommon. One of the actresses

We shall, in a future number, state our opinion as to the condition of society which could create a numerous class of eminently learned men, and as to the character which, it is to be hoped, the scholars of this country will have.

LETTERS FROM A TRAVELLER.
No. II.

Dublin, September 13. ON Wednesday morning, twenty-four days after we embarked, we set foot on the terra-firma of green Erin, and walked up the banks of the Liffy to the Custom House

good living by carrying those across at a half penny apiece, who are too indolent, or too busy, as the case may be, to walk to the bridge; and one sees persons frequently, whose array would indicate them to be worth some sixpence or thereabouts, paying their mite to save themselves a few rods of walking.

I am amazed at the variety of vehicles here;-tilburies, gingles, sociables, and a long etcetera of indescribable machines to put people in ridiculous situations. If any of you should feel a laudable desire to astonish the natives by sporting a sociable, the following is a recipe: Take a large round hand-basket, wheels of wheelbarows,

and stout hogshead hoops, of each two, the sun had been up some time. I was rock, which may be called real estate in mount the hoops vertically upon the axles disappointed on arriving at St Patrick's Ca- the most literal sense, is tenanted by seaof the wheels, by way of springs, and the thedral, to find that it was undergoing re- fowl, who are obliged to pay a sort of rent hand-basket as firmly as you can upon the pairs, and therefore closed; and as the in kind, that is, in eggs, to the landlord, hoops; shafts like any other vehicle, and Sexton was too genteel a person to rise at who, moreover, sometimes takes the body for the want of a shelty, take a donkey; such a plebeian hour as eight o'clock, I was of the lessee without much form of law. On for a driver procure the raggedest miscre- obliged to forego the hope of seeing the Tuesday morning we landed at Troon, a ant in Byard, where they abound; a interior, and the Dean's monument. I small port of entry in the Firth. The town, Hingham bucket turned upside down may went into a small church in the neighbour and indeed all the neighbourhood, belongs be lashed to the front of the basket for his hood, where the morning service was be- to the Duke of Portland, and though an inseat, and the thing is complete. Get into ginning. The congregation at this hour, significant place, containing hardly a dozen the basket with any friend that will join you may be sure, was none of the most houses, it has a stone mole, and two large you, and drive off, and if you are not tum- fashionable. The preacher went through dry docks of the same materials, all conbled into the mud before you get far, you his duty, as it seemed to me, with great structed by the Duke, who employs several will have better luck than every body has sang-froid, and appeared to have very little large vessels to carry coal from his mines in a sociable. The gingles, or jaunting cars, concern about the sermon which he read to Ireland; for, though the Irish have plenty are constructed on a principle which is the to us. I was surprised to learn afterwards, of coal in their own island, they are not reverse of the sociable; for, as in the lat- that he was Charles Maturin, which circum- allowed to dig it, but compelled to buy it of ter it is obvious that the parties must ride stance, had I known it before, would most their English or Scotch neighbours. From face to face, in the former they are placed probably have materially influenced my the very landing to Kilmarnock, a distance back to back, and are carried side foremost opinion of his performance. There was of ten miles, is a rail-road, which is a castwith the feet swinging in the air, from little in the streets, on my return, to re-iron road; at least, the ruts are so, and the which you may further infer that the so- mind me that it was Sunday. The old wo-wheels of all vehicles which travel upon ciable is the more genteel of the two. men did not seem to imagine that the it are also of iron, and made exactly to fit Dublin was formerly much infested with commandment extended to the trade in the road; so you must perceive that all 'mendicants, who have since been in a great nuts and apples. In the course of the fore- manner of reins, driving, &c., are matters measure suppressed by authority. Many noon we went to the Castle chapel, and of supererogation. A rope serves to stop of the professional beggars now conduct had the honor of sitting in the pew of his the horse, when he has proceeded as far as their operations more warily. A stranger, excellency Earl Talbot, Lord Lieutenant of the rider thinks necessary, and when he on approaching the stand of a fruit-seller, Ireland. The pews here are all private, and has once started, he must, will he, nill he, will often be surprised by a most pathetic usually locked, no one being admitted but go to the end of the road before he can get appeal to his charitable feelings, and some- by a special introduction; so you perceive back again. This contrivance is intended times the language used on these occasions that we are getting on in the world. You to facilitate the conveyance of the coal, is in the highest degree shocking to New may be curious to know how we effected and is less expensive than it would seem at England ears. this, but I pretermit the explanation, as in first sight, since the iron is procured and no way befitting the grandeur of the occa- cast at no great distance; and, as the work sion. Above the altar, in this chapel, is a is done by the Duke's tenants, much of the large painted window, the effect of which is money comes into his hands again in the very magnificent. The lofts, or galleries, shape of rents. All travellers must, of are pannelled with black oak, richly carved course, in passing these roads, make use and fretted, each pannel bearing the coat of vehicles belonging to the same persons, of arms of a Lord Lieutenant, with their for no other wheels will fit them; and, as names beneath; the arms, devices, names, his grace gets his share of the profits in the &c., being all carved on the wood, without same way, he has the advantage of a toll, the frippery of gilding or painting. One without the trouble of toll-gates. To these is not likely to attend much to the service sources of revenue you must add the returns in such a building, amid such a catalogue of from Ireland for the coal, which costs the illustrious names as Pembroke, Sidney, Duke nothing but the price of digging and Essex, Grafton, Derby, Northumberland, conveyance. &c. On one side of the gallery is the throne of His Excellency, on the other that of the Bishop of Dublin. These, together with the pulpit, reading desk, &c., are also of carved oak. This evening we sail for the Clyde. Farewell.

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There are many fine old buildings in Dublin, and more fine new ones. A noble monument to the memory of Lord Nelson stands in Sackville street, and another is now erecting in the Phoenix park for Lord Wellington; which Phoenix park is the finest in the three kingdoms, being thirteen miles in extent, "sit fides penes auctores." I do not vouch for it. The appearance of the lower orders in this metropolis is digraceful to their government, which one would imagine, from the number of soldiers quartered here, was upheld by stronger support than its popularity. Club law, however, is probably a familiar code to the Irish. Pat,' said a man of whom I was purchasing some trifle, 'where have you been lately?' Agh! I was just kilt fighting these three nights,' was the answer. I looked round at the respondent, a tall gaunt watchman. This minion of the moon leaned on a rusty pike, whilst his array and countenance bore strong witness in favor of his veracity; for there was hardly a piece of whole cloth as big as your hand, in the former, and scarcely a vestige of humanity, except a pair of shrewd Irish eyes, in the latter. He went on, with ineffable brogue, to detail the fighting of those nights,' and, by his own account, this trusty guardian of the peace had entered with great zeal into the various squabbles which he related, being, probably, by no means of the same mind with that pattern of quiet watchmen, Master Dogberry, touching the prudence of meddling and making with any but true men. I sallied forth this morning before the servants in the house were stirring, though

Glasgow, September 19. We went on board the vessel, which was to convey us to Scotland on Sunday evening, but the Captain being as drunk as a lord, and having a few friends with him in a similar situation, we were unable to get off before midnight. The following day was thick and rainy, so that we could see little or nothing of the land. In the evening, just as we came in sight of the Scottish hills, it began to clear, and soon became a beautiful moonlight, by favour of which we had a fine view of Aylzie [Ailsa] rock, which stands up directly in the middle of the Firth of Clyde. It is nine hundred feet high, and almost as far to bottom around it. This

Troon, and all the neighbouring coast, was once notorious for smuggling, or freetrading, to the Isle of Man and Ireland; but the King's bull-dogs are now too numerous in the channel for such gentry as Mynheer Dirk Hatteraick and his crew, to flourish much. And this puts me in mind of Dandie Dinmont, who is said to be a character well known in Glasgow; a sturdy grazier of Dumfriesshire, who visits St Mungo's city periodically, to trade in woo', attended by the Peppers and Mustards of such renown. From Troon we proceeded to Kilmarnock in a noddy, a vehicle with cast-iron wheels, somewhat resembling,-to compare small things with great, the Czar's winter sledge, which contained all manner of apparatus for dining, &c. We had neither tables, chairs, nor victuals, to be sure, but it was not for want of room. We were securely locked up in this Brobdignagian diligence, and trundled away merrily. The jolting was not excessive, but every pebble, that lay in the ruts, told, as springs did not enter into

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the composition of the affair. Reins, as I beneath it, described in "Rob Roy," are
hinted to you above, were not required. An not now used for divine service, but only
old fellow, with a broad blue bonnet, and a for burial place. The feats of Rob are
rope leading to the horse's nose, officiated, fresh in the memory of the older inhabit-
however, for form's sake, as coachman. At ants of Glasgow. The Scotch cottages in
one part of the road, from the iron being the neighbourhood of this city are filthy
out of order, or some other cause, we per-hovels, of which you have seen a better de-
ceived, by the inclination of the establish- scription than I can give you in the "Cot-
ment, that an overturn might be calculated tagers of Glenburnie." The manners of
on with some degree of certainty. The the Scotch ladies, whom I have seen, are
windows, or holes, were about eight inches very cordial; they always shake hands,
square, and high up under the eaves of when they meet or part with each other, or
this extraordinary machine, and the door with gentlemen. In one family where I
was not to be thought of; any attempt at spent the night, they shook hands round,
opening it, by any one but an adept, being and wished each other good night before
quite out of the question. In this situ- going to bed, and a similar ceremony was
ation of peril, we vociferated indignantly, repeated in the morning. To judge from
as Dandy did to Mc Guffog, let's out, what I have seen as yet, either the right
man, let's out, if ever ye wad hae a haill learned and pious Sam. Johnson lied like a
bane in ye're skin, let's out.' Onr threats Parthian, or else matters have changed
and cries finally procured us liberation since his day. There seems to be plenty
prior to the catastrophe; the vehicle was of wood in Scotland, and the land is highly
righted, and we proceeded, without further cultivated. The hawthorn hedges are a
adventure, to Kilmarnock. This is a Burgh much more ornamental and durable fence,
of Barony, as it is called; it is in the county than either stone walls [stane dykes] or
of Ayr, and near the nativity of Burns, with rail fences. Oats are the staple here, call-
whoin many of the inhabitants were, or pre-ed, by the Scotch, corn. Oatcakes, or ban-
tended to be, well acquainted. During the nocks, I cannot yet endure, but I suppose I
day, I saw a carriage in the inn-yard, bear- shall come to them by and by. A haggis I
ing the motto "Bydand," which was an old have not yet seen. They are in the habit
acquaintance to me, and would probably here of drinking whiskey toddy after din-
have been so to S- and D. However, to ner, instead of wine. Every man composes
ascertain whether I was correct in my her- his own, hot or cool, weak or strong, as he
aldry, I inquired of a waiter, who informed pleases, in a large goblet, and bails out
me that it belonged to William Gordon of bumpers into a wine glass. This is a very
Millrig. At six in the evening we left sociable custom, and has this advantage,
Kilmarnock, and arrived at Glasgow, which that every man may suit his liquor to his
we entered over the high bridge (vide Rob calibre. Sweetness, strength, and heat,
Roy) about ten. Our road lay near many are the principal qualities of the most ap-
interesting spots, but it was too misty to proved compositions of this kind. The
see much of the country. Since I have Hunterian museum is a very fine collec-
been here I have visited the botanic gar- tion, but would be a more agreeable and
den. It is yet in its infancy, but very well instructive exhibition, if the various pre-
laid out. Like the garden at Cambridge, it parations were labelled. The ladies here
has a pond in the centre, but instead of wear shorter cloathes than I have hitherto
being a monotonous oval, one side of it been accustomed to see, and lest the top of
rises to a considerable height, and is con- the gown should have the advantage of the
structed with artificial rocks, over which bottom, they usually cut down as fast as
tumbles a small cascade. I was much pleas- they cut up. I have occasionally seen a
ed to see some of our old acquaintance, the Dandy, a strange monster, half monkey,
Lobelia family, making a distinguished fig-half man. I am told they are not uncom-
ure in the green-house, and greeted right mon in Edinburgh. I heard somewhere,
amicably two or three enormous stalks of the other day, a singular account of the
Indian corn, carefully secluded from the insolvency of one of these animals. His
external air, and occupying large pots, and debts amounted to seven thousand pounds
conspicuous places, among bananas, aloes, in tailors', stay-makers', and milliners' bills,
orange, and lemon trees. Certainly, one &c., and his whole property to twelve
does appear to greater advantage in good pounds, together with a share in a pew in a
society. The environs of Glasgow are very chapel (for Dandy was coine of pious pa-
pleasant; every gentleman's house has some rents) in right of mamma, "which, 'pon
appellation, as Larch-grove, Shield-hall, &c. | honor, having never been in, can't tell
Within a few rods of the place where I am, what it is worth." This is called "doing
now writing, is the tolbooth [to'both], it has
lately been taken down in part and rebuilt;
but the lower part of the spire still remains,
and the very door way, through which Rob
and Osbaldistone were introduced by the
Dougal creature on the night when they
were surprised by the Baillie. Opposite
the tolbooth is the Tron church, in which
Dr Chalmers preaches, but, to my regret,
he is now absent on a journey. The High
church is a venerable building; the vaults

the flats."

I attended service this morning at the High church. The Scotch kirk rejects all manner of instrumental music, and I am told, that one church in Glasgow, in which an attempt was made, some years since, to introduce an organ, has been since stigmatized with the name of the "whistling kirk." The Clerk, or Precentor, gets up and sings the first line of the psalm, and then the whole congregation join in with

him. The tunes are, of course, in slow time, as Windsor, Old Hundred, &c. The clergyman's hair was combed straight over his forehead, and he had altogether a very starched appearance. The service was pretty long; first a psalm [saum] from the Scotch version, then an extempore prayer; the preacher next read a part of a chapter of Scripture, and then delivered a lecture upon it, which I mistook for the sermon, it being quite as long as sermons in Boston usually are; but we had another psalm and prayer before the real sermon. Upon the whole, I was not much pleased with the service; the sombre and Cameronian appearance of every thing around, the squalling of the clerk, and the absence of instrumental music, had rather an unpleasant effect. In the afternoon I attended the College church, where I found the same plainness and entire want of ornament; there was little difference in any particular, except that the preacher's Scotch was broader, and his precentor a worse singer. Adieu.

POETRY.

SONNET.

They talk of short-lived pleasure-be it so-
Pain dies as quickly: stern hard-featured pain
Expires, and lets her weary prisoner go.

The fiercest agonies have shortest reign;
And, after dreams of horror, comes again
The welcome morning with its rays of peace.
Makes the strong secret pangs of shame to cease:
Oblivion, softly wiping out the stain,
Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase

Are fruits of innocence and blessedness:
Thus joy, o'erborne and bound, doth still release
His young limbs from the chains that round him
Weep not that the world changes-did it keep
A stable changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to

press.

weep.

SONNET.

B.

Yet one smile more, departing distant sun!
Ere, o'er the frozen earth, the loud winds run,
One mellow smile through the soft vapoury air,
Or snows are sifted o'er the meadows bare.
One smile on the brown hills and naked trees,
And the dark rocks whose summer wreaths are
cast,.

And the blue Gentian flower, that, in the breeze,
Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last.
Yet a few sunny days, in which the bee

Shall murmur by the hedge that skirts the way,
The cricket chirp upon the russet lea,

And man delight to linger in thy ray. Yet one rich smile, and we will try to bear air.

The piercing winter frost, and winds, and darkened

THANKSGIVING.

When first in ancient time, from Jubal's tongue
The tuneful anthem filled the morning air,
To sacred hymnings and elysian song
His music-breathing shell the minstrel woke.
Devotion breathed aloud from every chord :-
The voice of praise was heard in every tone,
And prayer, and thanks to Him the eternal one,
To Him, that with bright inspiration touched
And warmed the soul with new vitality.
The high and gifted lyre of heavenly song,
A stirring energy through nature breathed :—-
The voice of adoration from her broke,

B.

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