On the soft grass, in flow'rets drest, Near the fresh stream beneath the tree, If from my misery I would rest, The whirlwind howls and summons me. O why should angry Heaven deny One moment---one of sweet repose For were the grave eternity, ? It would not rest me from my woes--- Those laughing girls, those sporting boys, My heart would revel in their joys-- The whirlwind hurries me away. Ye old, who die, O envy not My miserable fate forlorn; Where yet shall sleep the child unborn- I seek the venerable walls Which in my early youth I knew--- Is perishing; in this thy home... A cruel smile of scorn and hate I at the godlike Jesus threw. Ye think of me---the wretched me; But not his own divinity--- Earth revolves, I rest me never--- CHAMBERS'S EDINBURGH JOURNAL. NOTICES OF MONTHLY AND QUARTERLY JOURNALS. [In consequence of a wish which they have frequently heard expressed, and in the hope of adding a feature of interest to their work, the editors have lately made arrangements, by which they expect to be enabled for the future to present occasionally a critical article on some new book. They beg it to be under stood, that they design on no occasion to notice books of which they would be obliged in conscience to speak unfavourably, but only such as they think possessed of sufficient value, or written with sufficient talent, to be entitled to commendation. The reader will therefore not look here for the severe and sarcastic remarks which give much criticism its only interest, but only for descriptions of books which it is conceived have some claims on the respectful notice of the public. One feature of their plan is to admit occasionally notices of periodical works, avoiding all reference to the politics now so eagerly debated in them. The article which follows, is one relating to two of the principal periodicals of a late date.] turous dream, that he bowed to a gentleman with "This woke him. Up he jumped, and in a trice was was. 'I shall go mad-I shall' Mrs Well, ma'am, what do you mean? How dare you' commenced Titmouse, suddenly sitting up, and looking furiously at Mrs Squallop. A pretty figure he with He had all his day-clothes on; a white cotton BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE for January 1840 opens an interesting paper on one of the numberless come- nightcap was drawn down to his very eyes, like a man dies of Spain, Calderon's "Goblin Lady." There is going to be hanged; his face was very pale, and his whisLord a-mighty!' exclaimed Mrs Squallop, faintly, much sameness in the plot-work of the Spanish dra- kers were of a bright green colour. mas; but they are far from being deficient in spirit and humour, and this is well shown in the rhythmical the moment that this strange apparition presented itself; translations which accompany the sketch here pre- and, sinking on the chair, she pointed with a dismayed sented. "Goethe's Life and Works," "Thoughts air to the ominous-looking object standing on the window shelf. Titmouse from that supposed she had found it on Asses," a paper entitled "Hints on History," all out. Well, isn't it a shame, Mrs Squallop?' said he, getting off the bed, and, plucking off his nightcap, exhiwith some poetical pieces, fill up the body of the number. All of these are more or less characterised by bited the full extent of his misfortune. What d'ye think talent a feature in which the contents of this jour-of that!' he exclaimed, staring wildly at her. nal are seldom deficient-but there are two other Squallop gave a faint shriek, turned her head aside, and papers which require more especial mention. One of motioned him away. these, an article on "The Essenes," contains some "Oh!-oh!' groaned Mrs Squallop, evidently expectnovel and ingenious views respecting that remarkable Jewish sect, whose character and sentiments, as de- ing him to leap upon her. Presently, however, she a picted by Josephus, have, as is well known, created little recovered her presence of mind; and Titmouse, much speculation in the Christian world. The writer stuttering with fury, explained to her what had taken of the paper before us holds, that Josephus meant place. As he went on, Mrs Squallop became less and As the less able to control herself, and at length burst into a fit of convulsive laughter, and sat holding her hands to her to describe the Christians under that name. fat shaking sides, as if she would have tumbled off her old Hebrew historian's slighting notice of the Christian faith and followers, or rather his silence regard-chair. Titmouse was almost on the point of striking her! At length, however, the fit went off; and, wiping her ing them, has been a matter of marvel and regret, the eyes, she expressed the greatest commiseration for him, and soap opinions advanced in the paper on the Essenes assume and proposed to go down and fetch up some soft a very peculiar interest. We shall content ourselves with saying, that the question is ably discussed in flannel, and try what a good hearty wash would do.' Blackwood, and that the article well deserves a reading. Scarce sooner said than done-but, alas, in vain! Scrub, Decidedly the cardinal article of the number is the scrub-lather, lather, did they both; but the instant the fourth paper of the series entitled "Ten Thousand soap-suds were washed off, there was the head as green a-Year," which is now suspected to be an attempt in a new manner by the author of the well-remembered Diary of a Physician." It is not only, if the public suspicion be correct, a new attempt by that author, but an absolute novelty in fictitious literature, the hero being the reverse in all respects of ordinary heroes, namely, a mean, brainless, selfish varlet, yet nevertheless, from the extraordinary power of the writer, a personage in whom it is impossible not to feel some interest. While occupying the humble station of a shopman in a draper's establishment in Oxford Street, a prospect opens to him of a succession to ten thousand a-year; and, instantly from being despised by all, his master included, he becomes an object of universal homage and adulation. The physician's series was not more remarkable for tragic, than this is for comic power; in proof of which, we cannot resist the temptation to extract a short passage respecting an attempt of the hero, Titmouse, to dye his hair. He has, it must be understood, gone to a shop in Bond Street, to purchase a certain divine fluid, styled the Cyanochaitanthropopion, with which to transform his carroty locks into dark tresses. He receives the bottle containing it from a gentleman-like man sitting behind the counter, with jet-black hair, which, he says, was once of light colour, but had been changed by the fluid. Titmouse is assured the change will be effected in two or three days. He goes home-he rubs his hair for hours with the fluid, in his extreme eagerness to make it succeed-he goes to bed, and dreams a rap as ever." He goes in a furious mood to Bond Street- You're in the intermediate Ah, yes!-I see-I sec. In me, the colour was a strong yellow. But have you Rather a singular appearance, just at present, I must you are!' gasped Titmouse, quite aghast. "No! But really-do they, sir?' interrupted Titmouse, The result is, that he buys a bottle of Damascus cream, to put all to rights; but for what followed, we must refer the reader to the Magazine itself, which, we can foretell, will for some time be in more than usual request on account of "Ten Thousand a-Year." The British and Foreign Medical Review for January, a copy of which has been obligingly forwarded to us, contains, besides other articles worthy of the high character of the work, one of uncommon interest on tics. The atrocious cruelties of the old system have the recent improvements in the management of lunanow for twenty years been scarcely known; but the rotatory chair, the bath of surprise, close-boxes for the furious, straps and strait waistcoats, are still We were not till now aware that the experiment of a common, even in the most respectable institutions. total abolition of personal restraint has been tried in the Lincoln Asylum, in the great pauper institution at Hanwell, and in America, and that we are likely soon to see the extinction of that last remnant of severity in the treatment of the mentally diseased. The last instance of restraint being used in the Lincoln Asylum was in March 1837, and the consequence has been a marked increase in the tranquillity of the establishment. There is now scarcely a noisy patient in it: "the patients," says the reviewer, " move about less, and talk less to visitors, than in any other asylum abolished restraint is an increase of watching and which is known to us." The succedaneum for the Thus, of course, expense is increased; but a liberality on this point is often the best economy. The reviewer care, a greater number of attendants being required. quotes a lecture on the subject, which has been puband to which we may refer our readers for full inforlished by Mr Hill, surgeon to the Lincoln Asylum, review will probably go some way to produce a conmation. Meanwhile, the following passages from the viction in favour of the system of non-restraint : "Those who speak in terms of eulogy of the moral restraint once resorted to, and found convenient, will be advantage of even temporary restraints, cannot divest themselves, one would think, of the apprehension that not temporary, but continued for a hurtful period of time. To walk through a ward in which there is one noisy patient, and to order the patient to be instantly put in restraint, may pass for excellent discipline in the eyes of a hasty, frightened visitor; but if the visitor behold? First, an ineffectual attempt of one or two remained to see the order put in force, what would he keepers to effect the restraint; then a greater power brought to bear on the victim; and a scene of struggling, striking, kicking, biting, spitting, swearing, and screaming, which frights the whole ward from its propriety. Let him go again in an hour, and he will find the patient the asylum. In three or four hours it is still the same. still noisy, shouting, and cursing all the powers that rule At length, perhaps, the patient becomes silent. Happy it will be if even then restraint is removed and food is taken to him, or water to allay his thirst. But suppose no restraint is put on at all? Let the noisy patient's attention be diverted by being taken into the airing court; or, at the worst, let him be shut up in his room, the windows well secured, and the bedding removed. time tranquillity will be restored. There will have been no struggle; and the punishment will leave no rankling In that case we venture to say that in a much shorter sense of mortification; and the other patients will not be excited. Still, even in this case, the seclusion should not be prolonged. Many times, however, without any seclusion at all, a sensible keeper may so manage a refractory patient, that if the visitor were to return to the ward in a quarter of an hour, he would find the man whom he would have consigned to restraint quite tranquil, and civil, and cheerful. In the acute stage of mania, one patient will doubtless require all the attention of one keeper, and perhaps of shut up. But in a well-regulated asylum this occasional two, and for several days, or weeks, if the patient is not attendance on troublesome patients should be a part of each keeper's duty, and taken by each keeper in turn for one or two hours. The attendants, if it is pretended that the patients are to be cured, should be sufficient to spare a keeper for an hour or two from any ward for such stage (no other means of control being omitted) is not of occasional duty. Then it will be seen that the acute such long continuance, and that the patient's temper is unspoiled. The patient will gradually subside into tranquillity, and retain a grateful sense of what has been done; every trifling incident in their management being commonly remembered by them. At the same time, the other patients will not have been familiarised with the wretched spectacle of a poor creature dancing about in a strait waistcoat, like an intoxicated mummy; nor will They will even, to some extent, the maniac's cell. their ears have been assailed with shrieks and curses from for they are keen observers, and have not forappreciate the kindness and patience shown to the new gotten their own sufferings. comer; In almost every asylum there are patients who will destroy their clothes, and some who cannot, it is represented, be persuaded to wear them. In the latter case we are glad to see M. Esquirol speak in disapprobation of forcibly confining the patient. One of the most unsatisfactory customs in some lunatic establishments is to exhibit these unfortunate creatures strapped down in chairs, and to comment, in moving terms, on their vioA dress of strong materials, with a strap round lence. The remedy, M. Esquirol says, is as bad as the evil. the waist, the dress being entirely fastened behind by a small lock (as done at Hanwell), can scarcely be removed by the patient. Boots and shoes may be easily fastened on by a similar contrivance, and in other cases it would be better to let them for a time be without their clothes, secluded of course from the gaze of visitors, than to add to their irritation, when possibly the wearing subdue, and not to cure? Of all the sights that can afflict a humane spectator in a lunatic asylum, none is so wretched as that of the patients who are confined in the wooden boxes, or coercionchairs, where they sit from morning till night-nay, we fear, from month to month. So revolting is this custom, that it is difficult to persuade one's self it can ever of the county, and large parties daily scoured the glens, to lay refused to take this pledge from the prince and Glenaladale. Charles now broke a fast of about forty-eight hours, by a refreshment of mutton, butter, and cheese, with some whisky. Next day, the other four, who had been absent in search of provisions, returned with a dead deer and a live ox. These men also knew the prince at first sight, and took the same oath with the rest. They killed the ox in his presence. They still wanted bread, and only had a little salt; but fresh water was supplied to them in abundance by a spring which glided through the cave. When the four men had taken the oath, Charles told the whole seven that they were the first privy council he had had sworn to him since the battle of Culloden, and that he should never forget them or theirs, "if ever he came to his own." Hereupon one of them hinted to him, that a priest who used to come them that King Charles II., after his restoration, was amongst them in Glenmorriston, frequently had told not very mindful of his friends. Their guest said he was heartily sorry for that, and hoped he should act differently-for this he gave them his word, the word of a prince. of clothes is a source of torment which they can only CHARLES had scarcely at any former period been in manifest by tearing them off. Chaining a poor frightened greater danger than now, and at no former time were lunatic to his bed, also, when he perhaps thinks the bed full of snakes and scorpions, is ill judged and cruel. If his personal sufferings so great. It chanced that, a he persists in sleeping on the floor, having such notions, day or two before, there had been added to his party it is better to let him do so, and after a time he will be a Glengarry man, who had fled from the soldiery for reconciled to his bed. It will doubtless be found that his life, after they had put his father to death. This there are patients so ingeniously destructive as, with the help of hands and teeth, to tear up every article of cloth- particular act of cruelty, by sending the Glengarry ing that can be devised. The absolute prevention of this man in the way of the prince, had an effect very difcan only be effected by putting the patient on straw, ferent from what the soldiery could have contemwith body, and arms, and legs, strictly and painfully confined. But are a few blankets, or a gown and a cap or plated, for it was the means of his being introduced two, to be deemed of more value than the immunity of a to the seven Glenmorriston men, who protected him poor creature from torture, of which the effect is only to effectually for the ensuing three weeks. At three in the morning of the 29th, the Glengarry man went with Glenaladale's brother to find out these men, and to negotiate for their receiving the distressed party under their care, but without the name of the prince being mentioned. It was also Charles's wish by their means Three days of repose and good nourishment in Coiraghoth recruited the prince considerably, and, to make inquiry respecting a French vessel which he being afraid to stay too long in any one place, he and understood had come to Pollew, on the west coast of his attendants shifted their quarters (August 2) to Ross-shire, in order to carry him off. Some hours another and equally romantic cave about two miles afterwards, by appointment, the party, including the off, named Coirskreaoch. Here, after taking some prince, met the two messengers on the top of a neigh-look, they made up a bed of heath for the prince in a food, and planting sentries at proper points of outbouring hill, to learn what success had attended the small recess resembling a closet opening from the mission. The men had been found, and had agreed cave. He remained in this cave four days; when, to take charge of the distressed party, the chief man hearing that one Campbell, a captain of militia, and of whom they understood to be Glenaladale. The factor to the Earl of Seaforth [a nobleman who had taken the government side], was encamped within party was to repair to a cave called Coiraghoth, in four miles of him, he thought proper to remove. On the braes of Glenmorriston, where the men undertook the evening of the 6th, he and his attendants set out to meet them before a particular hour. Charles ac- in a northerly direction, and by break of day on the cordingly set out for this place, attended by Glenala- 7th they had passed the height of the country, and dale, the brother of that gentleman, a son of Macdonald come in upon Strathglass, a district belonging to "the Chisholm."* In the evening, two of the men who of Borodale, the Glengarry man, and two boys. had been left as scouts, brought intelligence that they need be in no apprehension from the factor Campbell for that night; and they then repaired to a neighbouring sheiling, or hut, where, after kindling a bed for the prince, composed of sods, with the grass fire, and taking some refreshment, they prepared a uppermost, on which he slept soundly the whole night. be indispensable. The experience of the Lincoln Asylum, and, more recently, that of Hanwell, with its eight hundred pauper lunatics, encourages a hope that there are few cases, or none, in which the uncleanly may not be brought to decent habits, and the epileptic guarded, and the furious controlled, by better methods. But to effect these ends, which no superintendant should rest satisfied until he has tried to effect, the keepers must be patient, and very watchful, and sufficiently numerous. We sincerely trust it may be found practicable to abolish from all asylums an invention which we are loath to be lieve a needful accessory. It is no part of our wish to reflect in such a manner on any parts of the practice in asylums as to give offence to those whose days are devoted to the severe duties of such places; but it behoves them well to consider what might be done by a more liberal system, as regarded the keepers under them, and to appeal to the governing bodies for assistance towards improvements, which every man of humanity must wish for. There is no passage in the appendix to Mr Hill's lecture which we have read with more pleasure than the following: Ordered, that the chairs used formerly for the double purpose of night-chairs and restraint (long fallen into disuse) be worked up.' This working-up, and the formal destruction of iron hobbles and handcuffs, and even of strait-waistcoats, which we notice from time to time in the minutes, constitute triumphs in which we earnestly hope it may be found possible for all superintendants to share. One of the items of recent expense, and which became a subject of comment and censure in a large asylum in the neighbourhood of London, was, For six deal restraint-chairs, L.30. The asylum had previously thirtyfive. At the present moment there is not one in use in the whole of the institution. Two hundred pounds worth of restraint-chairs is thus thrown away. But the poor creatures who sat all day in those disgusting chairs may, it is said, be seen jumping about the wards like liberated children; not yet sure, when approached, that a blow is not coming, and yet shrinking with such expectation, and deprecating the expected cruelty in simple, but in touching words; but gradually acquiring confidence, and regaining the almost lost traces of humanity." THE SEVEN MEN OF GLENMORRISTON. [In the extraordinary history of the wanderings of Prince Charles Stuart after the battle of Culloden, it is a part of peculiar interest, in which he is described as being succoured and faithfully protected for several weeks by a band of robbers. The civilised man of the present day is astonished to consider that, at the time when Sir Robert Walpole, speaking from his experiences amongst English gentlemen, declared every man to have his price, seven outlaws were found in the wilds of Inverness-shire, who had virtue enough to resist a bribe of thirty thousand pounds. Remarkable as this part of the history is, it is that which has been perhaps most obscurely related; a result probably of the difficulty which must have been experienced by contemporary writers, in obtaining proper information. The defect is remedied in a new and much enlarged edition, which is about to appear, of the History of the Rebellion, originally contributed by Mr R. Chambers to Constable's Miscellany in 1827. In that work, as now extended, the history of the Prince amongst the Glenmorriston men is almost entirely new matter, derived from the written reports of conversations held in 1751 with one of the men, these reports having been framed by the Rev. R. Forbes, Scottish Episcopal minister at Leith, whose manuscripts are now in the possession of Mr Chambers. We present this part of the work, both on account of its own apparent interest, and as a specimen of what the History of the Rebellion will be in its new form. The work is to appear in connection with the series of publications entitled "PEOPLE'S EDITIONS." It must be premised that, towards the close of July (1746), after more than three months of incredible hardship, Charles found himself amongst the hills between Glenmorriston and Strathglass, in Inverness-shire. He was attended by two or three faithful adherents, to whom he had recently confided himself, the principal being Macdonald of Glenaladale, who had been a major in his army. Late in the evening of the 28th, they reached the highest, and consequently safest point amongst the hills, where, though drenched with rain, the prince could get no better lodging than a small chink in a rock, which gave him scarcely room to stretch himself, and where he had no fire, no food, and not the slightest comfort of any kind but a pipe of tobacco. At this time a great quantity of troops were quartered at Fort Augustus, in the centre The men who had promised to entertain the party were only in a modified sense "robbers." They had been out in the rebellion, and had consequently seen their little possessions in Glenmorriston become a prey to the spoiler. About seventy of their fellow dalesmen who had been induced to obey an order of the Duke of Cumberland, for surrendering their arms at Inverness, had been seized and thrust on ship-board, to be deported to the colonies. These men, determined not to be dealt with after the same manner, had entered into an association of offence and defence against the duke and his army, binding themselves by solemn oath never to yield, to fight on any particular emergency to the last drop of their blood, and never till the day of their death to give up their arms. At first they were seven in number, namely, Patrick Grant, a farmer, commonly called Black Peter of Craskie; John Macdonell, alias Campbell; Alexander Macdonell; Alexander, Donald, and Hugh Chisholm, brothers; and Gregor Macgregor. Afterwards, in the course of their marches with the prince, an eighth, Hugh Macmillan, joined them, and took their oath. They lived at this time a wild life amongst the mountains, supplying themselves with necessaries chiefly by bold attacks upon the military parties, from whom they often retrieved cattle and other spoil. It was into the hands of such men that the fugitive prince was now to pass. At the appointed time, he and his friends approached the cave of Coiraghoth, where only three of the men at this time were, namely, the two Macdonells and Alexander Chisholm. Glenaladale went forward to converse with them, and hinted that he had young Clanranald in his company. They professed that they would be very glad to see young Clanranald, and take all possible care of him. They were then brought out to meet the party; but they had no sooner set eyes upon the person who was to pass for young Clanranald, than they knew him to be the prince. He was received by them with the greatest demonstrations of fidelity and kindness, and conducted to their cave, where, at Charles's request, they took an oath, administered by Glenaladale, in the dreadful terms then customary amongst the Highlanders "that all the curses the Scriptures did pronounce might come upon them and all their posterity, if they did not stand firm to the prince in the greatest dangers, and if they should discover to any person, man, woman, or child, that the prince was in their keeping, till once his person should be out of danger." This oath they kept so well, that not one of them spoke of the prince having been in their company till a twelvemonth after he had sailed to France. Charles proposed that he and Glenaladale should take a like oath of fidelity to the men-namely, that, if danger should come, they should stand by one another to the last drop of their blood; but the men | He remained in this place two days. During that time, he dispatched a messenger to Pollew, to make inquiry respecting some French vessels which were said to have landed there in order to carry him away from Scotland. That he might be ready to take advantage of these vessels, if it should be found that they had not sailed, he resolved to draw somewhat nearer to the west coast. His messenger, before setting out, had been appointed to bring him intelligence to a partiin the morning of the 9th, he and his friends and attencular place, judged convenient for the purpose. Early dants, about a dozen persons in all, set out to the northward by an unfrequented moor-road, and came that night to a sheiling, where they halted for a few hours. At two o'clock in the morning of the 10th, they once more addressed themselves to their journey, and at remainder of the day in a wood, and at night repaired noon came to Glencannich, where they passed the to a neighbouring hamlet. At two o'clock in the morning, they left this village, and climbed a hill called Peinachyrine, on the north side of Glencannich, where they passed the day, and sent off two of their party to obtain a fresh supply of provisions. This place, which is about forty Highland miles from Pollew, is the most northerly point which the prince reached on the mainland. At night they repaired to a sheiling, in which they remained two days, waiting for the return of the joined them, with intelligence that the only vessel messenger. At the end of that time, the man rewhich had ever touched at Pollew had sailed again, leaving a couple of men, who had set out for Locheil's country in quest of the prince. Anxious to know if these men had any dispatches for him, he resolved to return towards Locheil's country, in order, if possible, to meet them. They set out at night (August 13), and recrossing the water of Cannich, and passing near young Chisholm's house, arrived about two in the morning at a place called Fassanacoill in Strathglass. Here it was back intelligence of the state of the country to the thought proper to tarry, until scouts should bring south, and if the search for him was over in that quarter, and the troops returned to Fort Augustus. While the scouts were absent, the party remained in a dense wood, completely concealed from the neighbouring people. They were supplied with provisions by one John Chisholm, a farmer, who had been in the confide the secret of the prince being of the party. insurgent army, but to whom they did not at first Charles having at length expressed a wish to see Chisholm, Patrick Grant and another were dispatched to bring him. They desired him to come along with them, The chief of this small clan, whose residence is at Erchless Castle in Strathiglass, is so styled in the Highlands. ↑ So says Patrick Grant, in his report to our authority, the Rev. Robert Forbes of Leith. A cave is shown in Glenstrathfarrar, to the north of Glencannich, as having been used by the prince; but, if Grant be correct, the prince never was in Glenstrathfarrar, nor within the distance from it of seven miles. to see person CHAMBERS'S EDINBURGH JOURNAL. a friend whom they knew he would like well to see." Apprehending from this that they had a of some consequence with them, he said he had a bottle of wine which a priest had left with him, and "What! he should be glad to take it along with him. John," said Grant, "have you had a bottle of wine all this time, and not given it to us before?" On coming into the presence of the prince, John knew him at first sight. Patrick Grant, according to his own simple recital, put the bottle of wine into the prince's hands, and requested him to drink to him, "for," said he, "I do not remember that your Royal Highness has drunk to me since you came among our hands." Accordingly, the prince put the bottle of wine to his mouth, and drank a health to Patrick Grant and all friends. John Chisholm, having received good payment for any provisions he had furnished, and finding that they had been purchased for the use of his prince, immediately offered to return the whole price, and pressed the thing much; but the prince would not hear of it at all, and ordered him to keep the money." Chisholm took the same oath as the Glenmorriston men. Some traits of the prince's personal condition and conduct while with the Glenmorriston men, as reported by Patrick Grant, may be appreciated by those who still regard with a feeling of melancholy interest the tale of the last Stuart. His clothes, which were of the Highland fashion, were coarse, tattered, and squalid, almost beyond description, and he constantly slept in them, seldom getting a clean shirt above once a fortnight. He suffered, from this, the usual annoying consequences. Notwithstanding this and other bodily afflictions, "he bore up under all his misfortunes with great resolution and cheerfulness, never murmuring or complaining of the hardness and severity of his condition." He was observed to make a practice of withdrawing himself every morning and evening to perform his devotions. "Glenaladale," said Patrick Grant, “was interpreter between the prince and us, and it was agreed upon that we should say nothing but what the prince should be made to understand, and that the prince should say nothing but what we likewise should be made to understand. By this means the prince discovered that we were much addicted to common swearing in our conversation, for which he caused Glenaladale to reprove us in his [the prince's] name; and at last the prince, by his repeated reproofs, prevailed on us so far that we gave that custom of swearing quite up." Patrick Grant stated that the prince walked so nimbly in the day time, that few persons could hold out with him; but he did not travel so well by night, when, being unaccustomed to the rough and boggy ground on the Highland hills, he was constantly getting himself immersed in some deep hole, from which his companions had to draw him out. All the time he was with the Glenmorriston men, his appetite was observed to be good. When the party were at their meals, they sat in a circle, each having his morsel on his knee. The prince would never allow them to keep off their bonnets when in his company-probably a precaution against his rank being detected, in the event of any hostile party approaching them before He used to give directions about they were aware. their homely cookery, and sometimes tended a roast himself. It would appear that not exactly every thing said We have here a remarkable anecdote of the prince, to send his preservers a pecuniary acknowledgment [The Glenmorriston men remained for some time longer in to be the Glenmorriston man, in order to excite interest in his WARM BATHS FOR THE WORKING-CLASSES. "Sir, I was very glad to see a letter in your paper of than the Glenmorriston men thought it safe for him, While the party rested at this place, Patrick Grant On the 19th, the man who was to bring intelligence Charles now fell under the care of other friends, * Mr Forbes's report of conversations with Patrick Grant. That there is a possibility of providing comfortable baths at a very cheap rate, seems to me proved by the fact, that in Paris, Brussels, and almost all the continental towns of any magnitude, in some of which, as in Paris, from eightpence to a shilling, and still yield such a profit rents are very high and fuel very dear, baths are furnished in a style adapted for the middle classes at the rate of establishments. In this country, consequently, where to their proprietors as to induce them to keep up their the purpose, are not high, and where moreover many fuel is cheap, and rents, in many situations suitable for manufactories have steam going to waste, it ought to be possible, by good management, to provide baths of a plain and comfortable kind for one-third or one-half of these prices, at least where the payers are themselves the proprietors, and look for no pecuniary profits. But to accomplish this most desirable end, a large number of persons must be interested, as the expense of providing ten baths per day would be nearly as heavy as for providing a hundred. It is from the very extensive use of baths on the continent that they are able to afford them at so low a rate. Brussels, for example, with a population not nearly equal to that of Edinburgh, possesses several bathing establishments, each containing from thirty to tained in one's own house, at any hour of the night or day, without trouble or disturbance, for a sum not exceedsixty baths; and from which a warm bath can be obing half a crown or three shillings. Every thing is proon a spring cart at an hour's notice, and the whole carried vided and brought by the servants of the establishment unspeakable comfort of the traveller as well as of the invalid. So much is the use of the tepid bath considered away again without noise or confusion, and often to the as a matter of course on the continent, that few even of ! the smaller towns are without them, and nothing surprises foreigners more than the cost and difficulty of obtaining similar advantages in this country. At present I need not encroach farther on your columns, but, wishing the projectors every success, remain, Sir, &c. P. S. It ought, perhaps, to be mentioned, that in several manufactories where the waste steam has already been applied to providing baths for the work-people, the privilege has been duly appreciated, and their use attended with the best effects." EXTENSION OF THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN THE principle of selling the unoccupied lands of new countries, and of employing the proceeds of the sale as an emigration fund, for the conveyance to those countries of the skilled labour of Europe, must be regarded as the most important practical improvement which has hitherto been made in the science of political economy. [Should this principle be carried out in reference to all the colonies belonging to Britain, as there is now some reason to expect, emigration will proceed upon a ratio of which hitherto we have had no experience; and it will not appear extravagant to predict that such an improvement on the present wretched mode of disposing of colonial lands will confer upon the industrious classes of the United Kingdom a degree of prosperity equal to that which has hitherto been enjoyed by the same classes in the United States of North America. Why are wages and profits higher in the United States than in England? Simply, because these states possess, in their western forests, extensive tracts of fertile territory, affording an unlimited field of employment for capital and labour. But England possesses, in her colonies, tracts of fertile and unappropriated territory, scarcely less extensive than those possessed by the United States. Why, then, do not the people of the United Kingdom derive from their colonial wastes advantages similar to those which the people of the United States derive from their western forests? Simply, because the transfer of labour and capital from England to the colonies has hitherto been more difficult than the transfer of labour and capital from the eastern to the western states of the American Union. This impediment to the prosperity of the industrious classes in England will now be removed. During the last year, the emigration fund obtained by the sale of public land in the single and infant colony of South Australia, has amounted to nearly L.200,000; and if similar effects may be predicted from similar causes, the systematic application of the South Australian principle to the vast colonial possessions of the crown, may be expected to realise an emigration fund amounting to millions. The action of this fund will cause the population of the British colonies to increase as rapidly as the population of the western states of North America; whilst it offers a free passage to the colonies to every industrious family in the United Kingdom desirous of bettering their condition, and settling in countries in which wages are high, because land is comparatively abundant, and labour comparatively scarce.-South Australian Record for January. THE LOST DAYS. Bradley, astronomer-royal, had a considerable share in the assimilation of the British Calendar to that of other nations. Lord Chesterfield was the original promoter of this measure, which was carried in 1751. The following curious anecdote happily illustrates the presumption and ignorance of the mob of those days:Lord Chesterfield took pains in the periodical journals of the day, to prepare the minds of the public for the change; but he found it much easier to prevail with the legislature, than to reconcile the great mass of the people to the abandonment of their inveterate habits. When Lord Macclesfield's son stood the great contested election for Oxfordshire, in 1754, one of the most vehement cries raised by the mob against him was, "Give us back the eleven days we have been robbed of"-(the reader will recollect that Hogarth introduces this in his Election Feast); and several years after, when Bradley, worn down by his labours in the cause of science, was sinking under the disease which closed his mortal career, many of the common people attributed his sufferings to a judg ment from heaven, for his having been instrumental in what they considered to have been so impious an undertaking.-Edinburgh Review. AN UNFORTUNATE AUTHOR. What truth there may be in the following paragraph from a recent newspaper, we cannot say. There is much of it, however, which we suspect to have a strong general resemblance to circumstances of actual daily occurrence in literature:-"A person who signs himself 'Samuel Hardman,' and dates from King's-Road, Brighton,' has addressed a letter ⚫to the editors of newspapers in Brighton,' in which he begs leave to acquaint' them that he has lost two hundred and odd pounds by publishing' his Descriptive Poem of the Battle of Waterloo,' his Petition to the House of Commons, and a few other little things.' He gives the following details of his fruitless exertions to force a sale:- When I published my "Descriptive Poem of the Battle of Waterloo," I paid three pounds to some of the daily papers, and not less than one pound to all the daily and weekly papers; and also one to all the monthly and quarterly reviews. I placarded the streets from Whitechapel Church to Hyde Park Corner, and so on all round London. I presented a copy to the Lord Mayor in the Mansion House; I had three men walking the streets with boards on their backs three weeks; I had my house in Kennington Lane, close to Vauxhall Gardens, placarded all over; they were acting the Battle of Waterloo in the gardens; and after all this enormous expense I only sold one sixpenny number, and my publisher, Mr Chappell, of the Royal Exchange, only sold seven numbers; so that we got four shillings between us, for me laying out upwards of one hundred pounds. I expended the same sum on my "Petition to the House of Commons," thinking that I should recover some part of my former loss; but, alas! I only sold seventeen sixpenny numbers of that petition. I have now only sold sixteen numbers of my five letters."" GEMS FROM THE OLD ENGLISH POETS. [It is our purpose, under this general head, occasionally to present specimens of the English Poets antecedent to the eigh teenth century. We are partly induced to do so by a consideration that the present style of poetical composition is lamentably weak and mawkish, as far as it can be generally characterised at all, and that something may perhaps be done to the creation of a better taste by keeping in view the elder bards, who, though not without their faults, yet had many good qualities, as richness of language, nervous thought, and powerful metaphor. It is quite surprising, in looking into any tolerable selection of old English poetry, to find how much superior the matter generally is to the faint sentiment and eternally repeated ideas of modern versifiers.] HYMN TO LIGHT. By Cowley (1618-1667). From the old Negro's darksome womb! The melancholy mass put on kind looks, and smil'd. Thou golden shower of a true Jove! Who does in thee descend, and heav'n to earth make love! Her joy, her ornament, and wealth! Do all thy winged arrows fly? Swiftness and power by birth are thine: That so much cost in colours thou, Dost thy bright wood of stars survey; A thousand flowery lights, thine own nocturnal spring. And still as thou in pomp dost go, The shining pageants of the world attend thy show. (O greatness without pride!) the bushes of the field. They screen their horrid shapes, with the black hemisphere. Creep conscious to their secret rests: Ill omens and ill sights remove out of thy way. To shake his wings, and rouse his head; A gentle beamy smile, reflected from thy look. To the check colour comes, and firmness to the knee. The choir of birds about thee play, Vanish again invisibly, And bodies gain anew their visibility. All the world's bravery, that delights our eyes, Thou the rich dye on them bestow'st, Are clad but with the lawn of almost naked light. Girt in thy purple swaddling-bands; Didst thou less value to it give, Of how much care, alas! might'st thou poor man relieve! And all fair days much fairer are: Which open all their pores to thee, Like a clear river dost thou glide, And with thy living stream through the close channels slide. Gently thy source the land o'erflows; Of colours mingled, light, a thick and standing lake. In th' empyrean heav'n does stay; SALMON-FISHING ANECDOTE. A tall, stout, young Campbell, from Glenorchy, celebrated for his success as a salmon fisher, left his native glen for the river Awe, which runs from the Loch of that name to Loch Etive, through a narrow ravine at the foot of the mighty Ben Cruachan. The bed of this river is stony, and in many parts the water is rapid and turbulent; but it subsides occasionally into deep pools, which are the favourite resorts of large fish. Our experienced Highlander reached a well-known deep of this description, with a strong eighteen-feet rod, and an immense wooden pirn, on which were wound eighty yards of strong line, and had only cast his fly a second time when he struck a fish. The fish ran out his line with such furious rapidity that he was obliged to follow with his utmost speed over rocks and stones, and frequently through the water also, for he soon found that he had no chance whatever of turning his fish until they should reach a broad deep pool, above a mile below him. At this haven he at length arrived, much exhausted with fatigue. Not so the fish, for he seemed to be as vigorous as ever; and the angler, on finding he had room to try his skill and the strength of his tackle, soon recovered his spirits, when, as if in derision of both, the fish, after a violent plunge or two, took to the bottom, and there remained immoveable, resisting every effort to rouse him. Suddenly, however, he again ran up the stream, carrying the Highlander after him through the same rugged route, to the imminent peril of life and limb, till he reached the pool where he was first struck. After a short struggle, in which the angler so far succeeded as to turn the fishi down the stream, or rather submitted to be himself taken down, and that, as before, in no gentle fashion, they reached the deep pool once more, when, after a few fruitless efforts on the part of the Highlander, the fish again took to the bottom, where he lay in the most dogged sullenness, defying all the powers of his enemy to draw him from his retreat. Night was now coming on, and even our hardy angler was exhausted by his long contest; he therefore sat down between two rocks on the banks of the river, in a secure place, and determined to rest there till certain fishermen arrived, as was their custom at break of day, from whom he might obtain assistance. He fixed his rod in security, and contrived that his pirn should give out the line freely, and then placed the line between his teeth, so that if the fish should leave the bottom, the running of the line might awaken him. In this situation he slept soundly till three in the morning, at which time the fishermen found him. The rod and line were undisturbed, and the fish still at the bottom, but the Highlander was now awake; and with the assistance of the friends in question, he soon succeeded, with their nets, in capturing this doughty fish, which proved to be a fine salmon, weighing seventyfour pounds. The truth of the above anecdote was vouched by several respectable Highlanders, at the inn of Port Sonachan.-Hofland's British Angler's Manual. COURTSHIP AMONG THE PAWNEE INDIANS. Suppose the young lady arrived at the age when the short usurpation of Cupid is to be succeeded by the absolute monarchy of Hymen, the ceremony to be observed is (as far as I can learn) nearly as follows:-When the lover wishes to break the ice, he comes to her father's tent uninvited, and sits on the corner of the mat for a considerable time, then rises, and goes away without speaking. This is the preliminary step in courtship, answering perhaps to the first gentle pressure of the hand-the first blushing hesitation in address-the first mutual glance of understanding. But I am treading on dangerous ground, and must proceed no further with these drawing-room "preliminaries." After a few days the young man returns, wearing his buffalo-robe with the hair outwards, and again sits down silent in the corner of the tent; this is a regular proposal; if the father is determined to reject him at once, no skin is placed for him to sit on, and no meat is offered to him; but if he approves of the match, these usual rites of hospitality are observed, and he tells the young man that he will give a feast to obtain the consent of all his daughter's connections, and advises him also to do the same by his relations; should both of these feasts terminate favourably, the young man presents himself once more before his bride at the door of her tent, then turns round and walks slowly off towards his own; she rises and follows him-the marriage is then complete. If she remain sitting, it is a sign that her family decline the match. As soon as he reaches home, he sends her father the marriage present, or, rather, the purchase money for his wife (indeed it is neither more nor less), the amount of which is already pretty well ascertained by the father-in-law, and which consists of horses, blankets, or robes, according to the wealth or respectability of the contracting parties. The most extraordinary part of this matrimonial affair is, that, having married the elder sister, he has a right to marry all the younger ones as they successively attain the proper age. Nor is this at all unusual; on the contrary, it is a common practice, as the husband thereby secures so many additional slaves, and can obtain so much more corn, dried meat, dressed skins, &c., all of which are the result of female labour. When the second sister becomes marriageable, or, rather, when it suits his fancy or convenience to take her, he sends her father a horse, or other proportionate present, and she comes over to his lodge; and so on with the other sisters. I have seen several chiefs who have in this manner married a whole family; the eldest wife being the greatest drudge, and the youngest being generally the favourite sultana, and, consequently, doing the least work.-Travels in North America, by the Hon. C. A. Murray, 1839. EDINBURGH: Printed and published by W. and R. CHAMBERS, 19, Waterloo Place.-Agents, W. S. ORR, London; W. CURRY Jun. & Co. Dublin; J. MACLEOD, Glasgow; sold by all booksellers. Complete sets of the Journal are always to be had from the publishers or their agents; also, any odd numbers to complete sets. Persons requiring their volumes bound along with titlepages and contents, have only to give them into the hands of any bookseller, with orders to that effect. CONDUCTED BY WILLIAM AND ROBERT CHAMBERS, EDITORS OF "CHAMBERS'S INFORMATION FOR THE PEOPLE," "CHAMBERS'S EDUCATIONAL COURSE," &c. NUMBER 419. THINGS THAT MAY OR MAY NOT HAPPEN. PROVISION against necessities which are sure, or at In one of the most common and also most impor- the second party. That second party is perhaps only Provision against old age-the night that cometh PRICE THREE HALFPENCE. make sufficient provision for it only in its limited and real character, as a contingency. The difficulty of convincing any man at any time that he has enough, is common matter of remark; a hope of producing this conviction in a single inand it might almost appear visionary to entertain even stance, much more so in a whole nation. The subject, nevertheless, seems to us capable of being considered train of thought leading to this end. We would wish in a point of view calculated to awaken, in many, a to take out of the scramble of life some who have no that more room might be afforded for those who really If youth be the season for exertion, it ought not to With regard to old age, there is one important In the pursuits of commerce, abortio cfforts of toil and anxiety are more common than at the bar. Here the sole aim is riches, and it is really enough to make angels weep, and laugh too-for the cases are ludicrous |