Nature, in all her majesty,

Dake of Sussex in the chair. The celebrated Bramin Ram Mohun Unveild her beauties in the sky.

Roy, Seyd Khan (agent from the King of Persia), and the Abbé

Dubois (author of a work on India), were present. It was stated, A propperous gale now wafted near

in the course of the evening, that the Oriental Translation Com. The stately ship in all her pride,

mittee have a variety of interesting works in the press.---The And scarce a sound disturb'd the air,

London University is at a non plus. The friends of the late Save when she dash'd the waves aside,

Warden are at work to get him reappointed. That would settle

the thing at once.--King's College also finds itself deficient in Or, creaking in the wind, the sail

funds.-By the death of Northcote, Sir William Beechey is now Received the impress of the gale.

the oldest of the Royal Academy.-It has been suggested in Par.

liament that part of Buckingham House onght to be converted The emigrant now mutely strain'd

into a National Gallery of Painting and Sculpture.—Almost all the His eyeballs, to descry the land

places of publie amusement have been closed, and the National Which once his ancestors had gain'd

Cemetery Company have resolved to open their establishment, In search of Fortune's magic wand

The way thither, as to Vauxhall, is by water. The Association

for the General Encouragement of Literature have held a good To whom such pictures had been given,

mauy meetings, for the purpose of-adjourning.-The following As made it seem an earthly Heaven.

important piece of intelligence is from the Windsor Express :Now sunny hopes fill'd every mind,

“ Some horses, belonging to the Royal Artillery, came from Wool. Depicting wealth and comfort near;

wich on Wednesday, for the purpose of giring instructions to the

horses staying at Windsor, in a newly.discovered method of draw. And smiling prospects, well design'd

ing.” We beg to suggest to our friend Gibb the propriety of se. To dash aside intrusive fear,

curing the assistance of one of these talented animals, to assist Drew gleams of bliss from every eye

him in his duties as a teacher. Bright as the sunbeams from the sky.

DUMFRIES.---A dinner has been given to Allan Cunningham, at

which upwards of sixty gentlemen of the town and county were But oh! a fearful calm soon came

present. Mr M‘Diarmid was in the chair; and the Rev. Mr The breeze died suddenly away,

Wightman, the amiable clergyman of Allan's native parish, and The sun withdrew his vivid Aame,

one of his earliest friends and encouragers, officiated as chaplain. And clouds arose in dark array;

Allan replied to the toast of the day with his own good sense and

plainness :-“Gentlemen,-1 am quite unaccustomed to public Till heaven's rich beauties vanish'd quite,

speaking, and can make but a poor return indeed for the great And noonday faded into night.

kindness and attention which has been shown me, and the man.

ner in which my health has been proposed and received. In my Then through the silence broke the sound

case the saying has certainly been reversed, that a prophet Of the wild sea-bird's piteous cry,

finds no honour in his own country. I am proud that I be. And Neptune's angry visage frown'd,

long to this district, for it was the first to own me-I am proud Portending dire destruction nigh;

that my father and grandfather were freemen of this town-I am While shivering on the deck now stood

proud that all my earliest and most lasting feelings and associa

tions are connected with a place such as this—and I am proud The affrighted and despairing crowd.

that any little knowledge I possess has been gained amongst Gloom brooded o'er the mighty deep,

you. Gentlemen, I can never forget the reception I have met And swept each gleam of hope away;

with, and the kindness I have experienced since my arrival in

Dumfries; and for the honour done to me on the present occasion, The ocean saw, and wish'd to weep,

all I can do, is to return my warmest and most servent thanks." But sunk back wildly in dismay,

We can sympathize with the full heart of our friend, when lie While death, depicted in the sky,

found the best born and the most intelligent of his native district Frown'd grimly from his throne on high.

assembled to express their sense of the honour his stainless career

reflected upon their common birth-place. His progress through At length arose a fearful blast,

life is indeed a subject of proud and gratifying contemplation, The lightning darted from the sky,

What he is he has made himself-his patrons but afforded him an In fragments lay the shiver'd mast

opportunity of aiding himself, and he has done it like a man. The In death's embrace lay gasping nigh

different fates of Burns and Cunningham onght to read a lesson to

the rising spirits of the age. Friends can do much, but at the end The pilot, by whose skilful hand

every man is his own best patron. We have a right to be grateful The vessel oft had reach'd the land.

for kindnesses, but none to complain of their being withheld. We

wish not to breathe a syllable that could bear the appearance of a And now were gather’d on the strand

harsh reflection upon the ill-starred, and ill-guided Bard of Ayr. A crowd, to view, but not to save,

shire, but the contrast between his fortunes and those of Allan The vessel driven from the land,

Cunningham, is too instructive to be passed over, The fragile plaything of the wave;

GERMANY,- We cannot say that the small-talk from this country, And shouts of horror, loud and clear,

in our last arrivals, is of much importance, and it would be strange Rose from the ship, one common bier.

if it were. From Schwerin, (in Mecklenburg,) we learn that the

dissemination of tracts is carried on with great vigour. A corre. These shouts arose, and then the wreck

spondent of the “Abend-Zeitung" alleges that the old lady who With swiftness plunged beneath the wave,

supplies him with vegetables attempted to smuggle one into his And the vast crowd which throng'd the deck,

house among the cabbages. He should have turned her out of the

house, for bringing weeds instead of garden stuff. The same genSunk in the sea, a common grave,

tleman complains of the magistracy, that “they allow the town. And loudly o'er the raging surge

house to grow older daily without growing a bit inore seemly."The thunders rang a funeral dirge.

From Mayence we learn that a new theatre and a Lutheran AUGUSTUS. church are on the eye of being completed. Of somewhat more

interest are the news from this city regarding the progress of art. Several wealthy and influential noblemen and citizens have for

years been busy collecting, without any union or mutual under. LITERARY CHIT-CHAT AND VARIETIES.

standing. Some years back, an association for the encouragement

of art was founded, but allowed to die a natural death. An EDINBURGH. — We have been favoured with a view of Hodgett's Athenänm has succeeded-a perpetual exhibition of ancient and Mezzotinto engraving, from the equestrian portrait of Sir George modern paintings, to which amateurs send their treasures for a Murray, by Watson Gordon, exhibited here some years ago. The time, and where any one who wishes to exchange or dispose of a plate is worthy of the original. The form and expression of the picture may have it exposed to the public view. The gem of the face are excellently rendered - with force and vigour. The land- permanentcollection of the Atheneum is a Coriolanns, by Rubens. frape in the background, and the distribution of the light and Next in value, are a Madonna and Child, by Correggio; and a head, hade, are beautifally and skilfully managed. The work is strong, by Vandyke. Mayence enjoys a central situation and much without being in the least degree harsh." It equals, if, indeed, it wealth, two great requisites for the advance of art. The Rhine bo not excel, its anthor's beautiful engraving of Sir David Baird, connects her with Italy and the Netherlands ; the Neckar and the

Maine with the depots of ancient German art. Within and around Losdos.-The Royal Asiatic Society have had a dinner--the her walls are the most splendid monuments of the presence of

which we noticed some time ago.

Rome in the olden time that Germany can boast of. These, and her delicious climate-to say nothing of her wine-make us augur much good of Mayence, now that she has made a fair start. The editor of a North German journal, with considerable naïveté, makes an apology to his readers, for having no riots or revolutions in his present number.-In Breslaw, a translation of the melo. drama "Charles XII." has been brought upon the stage. The critics admit that it is a good and amusing play, but complain that it is not historically correct.-At Berlin-since the rebellion of the tailors-nothing is uttered by the genteel portion of the community but abuse of the French people. And yet the very persons who do this converse perpetually in French, thinking it vulgar to speak German.-In Weimar, a "Theatrical Almanack” appeared on the 1st of June. It is divided into three parts. The first contains the history of the Weimar Theatre; a list of the actors, with enumeration of their different characters; perform. ances from August 1830 to June 1831, with particular notices of new productions and stars. The second contains, a Tale, a Poem, and a Humorous Sketch. And the third, a Drama.

FINE ARTS IN RUSSIA.-An imperial ukase, which appeared the close of last year, contains some new and important régn tions for the Imperial Academy of the Fine Arts. No boy be neath the age of fourteen is in future to be received into th school attached to the academy, nor till after he has been strat examined relative to his elementary education and his knowledg of drawing and architecture. The young men admitted into th school are divided into two classes-complete and incomple academicians. The former are supported by the academy, and 60 in number. The latter support themselves, and amount 100. Only free-born natives are admissible. A liberal admissio to the classes is conceded to foreigners of talent. There is junior and an advanced class, in each of which the students rema for three years. At the expiry of the six years' course, ter the most promising are selected for the privilege of three yen further study. At the expiry of that term, the six who dista guish themselves most are sent to travel for three years as per sioners of the Academy. They have an allowance of three hundr ducats yearly during that time, and two hundred ducats for tra velling expenses. On their return home, they are preferable upo a vacancy in any appointment connected with their art.-TRE habitants of Tobolski have received the permission of the gover ment to erect a monument to Jermak, who brought Siberia nn the Russian power. It is to consist of a marble pyramid, rounded by an iron railing, and a public garden is to be laid o around its base.

FINE ARTS IN DRESDEN.-The Royal Park in the vicinity of Dresden, commonly known by the name of "The Great Garden," is a relic of the sumptuous period of Augustus II. The many wars, of which Saxony has been the theatre, and the imperceptible change of taste, have produced many alterations upon it. Great portions have been subjected to tillage, splendid pleasurehouses have been beat down by hostile artillery, statnes destroyed or removed. Still it is a favourite resort with the "fair sexes” ST PETERSBURG THEATRICALS.-The Revolutionary tendeney of Dresden (as that witty rogue, our valet-de-place, used to call the age is felt even in the imperial metropolis of all the Russ them), and deservedly so. The walks and drives are delicious on at least as far as theatricals are concerned. The Italian compar a summer evening, the views of the town and surrounding coun- which commenced operations there in January 1828, dissolved oat try, down the long alleys, beautiful in the extreme. Some statues, first of March last, most of the performers returning to their nati which had been thrown aside into a cellar to save them from the country. Latterly these comedians had performed mainly rude soldiery, and all but forgotten, have lately been re-erected. empty houses. The causes assigned by the public of St Pet A colossal marble group-or, more properly link (symplegma)-burg are the high admission prices, and the depressed condit has been drawn from its dim abode, and re.erected on the open of trade and agriculture throughout Russia. There is a repa space before the palace. As a work of art it is deficient in high that the cessation of the Italian opera is to lead to livelier exand fine feeling. The allegory is childish in the extreme-an oldtions on the part of the German company in this department man with wings bearing off a beautiful woman, who resists with all her might, while a Cupid stands weeping beside the pair, is intended to express the moral that "Time steals beauty away." This is punning in marble; for the action does not in reality express the sentiment. The details of the female figure, however, are beautifully and faithfully executed, and the effect of the pure white mass as it stands out from the clustering green shrubs around it, and, in the season, from a profuse blow of roses, is enchanting. The inspector of Meng's gallery of casts, Matthäy, has published a systematic catalogue of its contents. This collection, which was commenced by Mengs, the greater proportion of the casts having been made under his immediate inspection, in moulds which were broken off from them, the different pieces being after-stage has been of late unwontedly attractive, thanks to an oris L wards put together in presence of the original statue, contains now 744 fac-similes of the finest statues at Rome, Naples, Florence, and Paris. They are arranged by the present amiable and talented inspector in such a manner as to form an embodied history of the art. This collection, like the invaluable Picture Gallery of Dresden, and its extensive and instructive collection of engravings, are open for the purposes of study to all artists, without remuneration: and they are sedulously used.

EDUCATION IN RUSSIA.-An imperial ukase, published the 18th February of the present year, after stating that the educational institutions of Russia are now amply sufficient for the wants of the nation, and complaining that many persons continue to send their children to foreign countries for instruction, whereby they are brought up in ignorance of the relations and necessities of the land they belong to, ordains:-1. The youth of Russia, from their 10th to their 18th year, are to be educated, if possible, at the public seminaries of that country; private tuition is allowed only under certain restrictions, and within the Russian territory; 2. Exceptions to this rule are allowed only in the most exigent circumstances, and must be granted by the government; 3. No lad under 18 years of age dare be sent to a foreign country for education; 4. All who transgress these regulations are incapable alike of civil or military appointments. A military academy is to be in. stituted at St Petersburg, in the course of the present year, in virtue of the imperial ukase, published last September, for the professional education of young officers. For its support a yearly sum of 76,170 roubles has been allocated upon the military budget, and an extraordinary sum of 6000 roubles has been granted for the purchase of models and instruments. The academy is to stand under the immediate control of the imperial staff. A council appointed for the special purpose manage the economical department and the business of tuition. The number of officers to be admitted is 50 or 60. Of these 40 or 50 are to be educated for the staff service, and ten for the engineers and artillery curriculum is divided into the practical and theoretical-two years being devoted to each. Every officer, while he remains in the academy-with the exception of those belonging to the guardsreceives extra pay of 500 roubles.

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scenic art. Offers, it is asserted, have been made to the 19 alented musicians of Germany. "The Freischutz" was broug ut some time ago with great splendour of decorations, and as utante in the character of Agathe, and has proved most attracta Altogether, however, the German actors at St Petersburg ery mediocre, and their performances are frequented exclusive by the middle classes. The French theatre is the chief favour of all classes. There it is that the beau monde is to be seen nigi in all its splendour. Gériés, the manager, is an excellent co actor, and possessed of an exquisite tact for discerning the po taste. He keeps himself triumphantly afloat by a rapid success of the newest Parisian comedies and vaudevilles. The Natica

comedy," Alas, for Reason!" left in manuscript by the Russia ambassador, Gribojedow, who fell in the massacre at Teheran 1828. Many transcripts of the piece have been privately eires ted, but its performance was for a time expressly forbida: About a year ago, some of the acts were allowed to be brost upon the stage, and during the first week of March the whole s produced. The comedy is in verse, the scene laid in Moscow, da it is said to be full of the most biting wit. The masquerades we but indifferently attended last winter. Latterly, indeed, the ch lera morbus and the war in Poland cast a gloom over St Peter burg, even before the disease had reached the city, and altho there was no chance of its becoming the seat of war, like the sa dow of an approaching thunder-storm. A person of the nam Magnhofer, from Vienna, has found his panoramas a sourer emolument; and two of our own countrymen have filled the pockets well at Berlin-a serpent-showman, of the name of Gu and a glass-spinner called Finn.

Theatrical Gossip.-At the Haymarket, Mrs Gore's comes continues to be well received.-A new opera, called “ Old Rez mentals," has been brought out with decided success at the Er lish Opera. Another opera, by Ferdinand Reis, is in preparatia at this house; and Collins, "the English Paganini," is going perform there.-At the Surrey they are playing tragedy s comedy alternately.-" La Crainte de l'Opinion," by M. Barra was produced lately at the Theatre Français-the author has sig been converted to the religion of St Simon.-Peter Bell is ab to make his appearance on the boards of our Adelphi. W next?

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

REVIEWS of "The History of Poland," "The Club.book. "Baronets of Nova Scotia," and " Manuscript Memorials" also the second of a German Student's Reminiscences, and Dramatic article, are unavoidably postponed.

Several pieces of poetry have been received, and are under cus sideration.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1831.

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The first face almost that greeted us on landing at by the same private and solitary path.) Our friend Innerleithen was that of the Ettrick Shepherd, who is a brother of the quill too, as well as the angle seems to have renewed his youth. Hogg's form and face he advertised a “ Complete Angler” seven or eight years show less of the inroads of time than those of any man ago-and that is not half the time that Sir James Mackwe know—he must have a frame of iron. But at pre-intosh has allowed to elapse since the announcement of sent he is plumped out to such a degree—so sleek and com- his History of England. B. was up to the elbows in fortable that we could almost have fancied the Shepherd business. Visitants of every description were succeeding of former days stood before us, when, despite of bogles each other like swarms of bees. The prizes of the games and peat-bags (much worse obstacles to the night-wan- were lying scattered amid his hooks, feathers, and gut. derer, we can assure the reader, from sad experience, than Money was chinking-receipts and stripes of green ribthe fellest weird-hag that ever skimmed the air on a bon (the badge of the club) were distributing. One perbroom-staff), he sped his way,“ o'er muir and o'er moun- son was bawling for porter, another (Cruikshanks, where tain,” to the lady of bis love. He stood before us a gor- wert thou ?) for-sterner stuff. Jostled and hustled about geous vision, in his forest uniform of green and gold, full by eager entrants and no less eager fugitives, we found of bustle—for the conduct of the games devolved on him this was no place for us, and hurried to the ground. -his voice loud and cheerful, his eye glancing with the By the way, it may be necessary to enquire before we excitement of the moment, God bless thee, old Shep: go further, whether the gentle reader has ever been at herd ! Great part, we doubt not, of thy renewed youth. Innerleithen ? for if not, we must here stop to give a deful buoyancy of step and spirit came from thy com- scription of that—not Castle but-Kingdom of Indolenee, munings with Alan Cunningham, during a visit the -that scene of beauty, where none inhabit who have any latter had just paid thee. Hogg has told us in our thing to do but cooks and bedmakers. The village is own colt ns, we believe-but whatever the rest of the pleasingly situated (as the guide-books inform us) upon a world may do, we keep their contents less in remembrance gentle acclivity, in the gorge of the valley through which than those of any other book we read) of Allan's first the Leithen flows. Behind it rises a high bald hill-on pilgrimage to visit him, when both were scarcely known the opposite side of the stream is a dark wood of firs. beyond the small circle of their immediate friends-when from the windows of the village, we look down upon a the internal consciousness of genius, unechoed as yet by level plain covered with waving harvests, dotted and the world, unconfirmed by achievements, alone supported skirted with groves, and shut in by those treeless, round them. And now, after the lapse of nearly half a century, grassy hills which characterize the upper scenery of the they met again-their own and other countries acknow. Tweed. The river itself bisects this plain. On either ledging their merits,-looking back with honest pride side, subdividing each of these sections into pretty equal porupon the labours of their lives, which have honestly con- tions, issue from the mountains the Quair and the Leithen. quered for them a high literary reputation.

In one of the four quarters, into which the whole ex. What would we-what would we not have given to panse is thus divided, you see the venerable house of Tra. have been present at their colloquy! The colossal figure quair rising above dark woodsat the opposite extremity of Alan, with his broad brow, over which broods at of a diameter of the circle extending from that point, is times a shade of tender melancholy, is not more different the village of Innerleithen, such as we have described it. from the more diminutive stature of the Shepherd, his The scenery, always beautiful, is exquisitely so at the presinews knit like whipcord, and his countenance speaking sent season, when the ripening grain contrasts with the of combats with a thousand mountain storms, than the woods, still wearing the livery of spring, and both with whole tone and temper of their minds. In one point the russet of the sunburnt mountains behind. But alone do they agree: conscious that their elevation is when, as was the case with us, the traveller has the good their own work,--that their greatness is the child of luck to encounter two days of cloudless and dazzling their own deeds--they know to mingle the proud feeling splendour-when the broad blue sky rests like a lofty of power and independence which this knowledge has awa. dome on the hill-tops, unspecked by a cloud-when the kened within them, with a reverence for all that they looked sun, showering down his meridian glare, causes a tremuup to in early life. They have maintained unadulterated lous motion in the atmosphere, giving an appearance of their native simplicity. We were reminded, in a pleasing quivering life to all creation when the stream, reflecting manner, on the present occasion, by a very simple inci. now the azure sky, now the yellow sunbeam, shows like dent, of this trait in the Shepherd's character. We were the blue and golden armour of some invincible knight of examining his bow just before the archery commenced, old—then it is that the spirit of the scene looks out in when a lady of high rank left her carriage, and addressed all its majestic loveliness. him. We stepped aside, and of course are ignorant of A stretch of alluvial land, bounded on the one side the nature of her address; but the Shepherd's plain by the Leithen, on the other, by one of its feeders, lying response--he seldom speaks in an undertone-“ Ye're a immediately beneath the village, is set apart for the celegude leddy,” had in it such an utter want of factitious bration of the games. Early in the morning, a space feeling, and withal such a plaintive earnestness in its had been marked off, and roped in for the convenience of tone, that it went to our heart more directly than any the competitors. A slight scaffold had been erected on words we ever heard-ay, even than "bers we daurna the side towards the village. By the time we reached name."

the ground, the company was beginning to collect, But we are forgetting good St Ronan and his games groups of well-dressed males and females were walking all this time. We proceeded instantly, as in duty bound, up and down, both within and without the ropes--some to påy our annual subscription, and soon found ourselves were taking their stations on the scaffold, and carriage in the presence of the worthy secretary. His receipt of after carriage was seen swinging and jolting down the custom is in that little room which may be termed, as abrupt descent which leads from the high road, and then the humour or caprice of the reader may incline him, a gliding noiselessly along the green sward towards the back-shop-or an artificial ly manufactory-or the li opposite side of the ring. In such a crowd the eye selbrary of the village. (Innerleithen being a watering-place dom singles out individuals, except momentarily, from there is of course a huge demand for novels. One pen- something peculiarly striking about them, or from some sive belle we ourselves saw, the second day of the games, action in which they are engaged. The impression left us stealing most noiselessly and unostentatiously through the is of the whole mass-of its ceaseless motion, as of motes thickest of the crowd with a volume in her hand, upon in the sunbeam-of the incessant murmur, rising at interthe contents of which she proposed to feed her mind, vals into laughter or acclamation. The impression of under the shade of melancholy boughs, by the side of the the assembled many now before us was unwontedly pleasilvan Tweed. She also took particular care to return sing. The generally sober-coloured attire of the males af

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fine ground-tint, on which the more gaily-coloured dresses and parasols of the females showed off to advantage, further heightened by the glittering of carriages and harness. The exceeding brightness of the day lent additional intensity to the charms of colour. At times the eye would linger with delight on the stately form of some aristocratic member of the meeting-again on the toilstrung frame of some athletic peasant-but the longest gazes were won by a blooming face and glancing eyes, looking out from the semi-shade of a transparent bonnet, like a fountain sparkling from beneath a grove of roses. Now Hogg, or some of his adjutants, might be seen threading their way through the crowd, and next moment we were distracted by the ear-piercing strains of Donald the piper, who strutted about the ground like some turkey-cock, sunning every particular feather of his fundamental fan in his own especial barnyard.

First in the order of the games were quoits, and the competitors paired off shortly after our arrival. There is something sedate and calculating about this game not altogether to our taste. We prefer those amusements in which the quick eye, strong hand, swift foot, and perfect self-collection are required—we love to breast our adverary, not to measure inches with him. Besides, the length of time expended before the palm can be adjudged is too much for our patience-an attribute, by the way, which some of our ill-willers have entirely denied us. We therefore stepped aside to enjoy "the feast of reason and the flow of soul," with the friendly publisher of Begbie's close, who has been drinking the waters and getting tanned at Innerleithen for some weeks back. We should not wonder to see the next volume of the Cabinet Library devoted to a history of athletic exercises, such an interest has he learned to take in these matters. At imes we heard, amid the pauses of our conversation, he shouts of victory, mingled with the objurgations of a hort-tempered quoit-player of the Six Feet Club, or had ar attention arrested by the "tall tall" cap of its captain floating proudly in the air;" until at last one long ending peal of applause proclaimed Anderson of Innereithen victor in the final struggle. We could have preficted as much the first moment we saw him, from his sol confident air; but we do not wish to parade our prothetic powers on occasions of minor importance.

nothing more to say than that it afforded fine opportunities for display of muscular power, and that the respective prizes, after a well-sustained contest, were adjudged, the one to Michie of Hawick, the other to Mr Stewart.

The throwing of the hammer was not destined to go off so uneventfully. The ring was cleared to the utmost extent of the ropes, and the judges and competitors took their station at the extremity of the empty space which afforded the longest diameter. The person to whose lot it fell to make the first essay, seized the hammer, and, after poising it for a while, extended the arm in which he held it to the full stretch; then, wheeling thrice round with fearful rapidity, the heavy instrument jerking at his frame as if it would have torn him to pieces, he delivered it to the air. Loftily and steadily it glanced and whistled through the atmosphere, falling within a few yards of the extremity of the space left vacant. The closeness of its approach rather deranged the nervous system of a fair friend then leaning on our arm, at whose request we removed to another situation, which, in our innocence, we fancied more secure. But the cub whose turn came next delivered the missive with such uncertain aim, that, whistling directly above our heads, it dashed into the water behind us. The coming danger was regarded as is the order of nature with horror-struck stupor; and, as usual, the moment all rational cause of alarm was over, there was scampering and scrambling on every side, as if the hammer were about to rise from its watery grave, and fling itself at our heads. The victorious throw measured one hundred and one feet-the weight of the hammer being fourteen and a half pounds. This feat was achieved by Harper of Belsess.

Clear the course! Clear the course! Here come the runners not to be sneered at even by the "swift-footed Achilles," or the "swift blade" Sivrid. William Scott darts along like an arrow; while-his foot in his precursor's foot-print, before the toe has left it-Usher clings close to him. By the way, an Usher in the rear is rather anomalous. They press breathlessly onwards— the applause on either side is redoubled-at once Scott snatches the blood-red flag, the goal at which he aims, and the next moment tumbles over the unlucky wight beyond it, who was gazing at him with open mouthhad it been big enough, it would have bolted him. Before the prostrate pair, rolling onward incorporated, like the gnome in Caliph Vathek, can disengage themselves and arise, Usher is adjudged to have lost by a single step.

But now came the running hop-step-and-jump. We burst from our astonished friend like a fire-flaught, and were in a moment struggling, jostling, elbowing, and affing among the foremost ranks of the spectators, Room again, my merry-men! 'Tis now the long race; teenly as of old in the Academy-yards at Ayr, when and away the competitors go-more leisurely than before, Spanker Mwas showing off his powers of seven- shovelling and shaughling like three Irish bog-trotters. ague-bootism. The competitors were mustered-three Before one quarter of the distance is left behind, one of r four-one-half of them Scotts, of course-fine purpose- them has given in. Heavily the others hold onward. oking fellows. Harper, of Roseberry Mains, was the Their object is to hain their breath, and watch for an irst to start, a slender elastic fellow. He bounded for- opportunity to seize the inside turning. The goal is vards in the "ram-race," like D'Albert or a red-deer doubled, and now with momentarily increasing speed For the mountain, and re-bounded in his leap as if made they retread their paths. George Scott takes the lead; Indian rubber. His competitors, less nimble, but now his antagonist gains upon him,-and now with anBore sturdy, kept pertinaciously passing him by inches, other bound he resumes his situation. "Scott for ever!" ut at every repetition of the charge he again distanced" Keep yer head out o' their way!"-" Dinna press hern. After a keen contest, he was left master of the ahint there!"-"Tak yer elbow out o' my guts!""Hurrah! George has't!"

ield.

The next trial was the standing hop-step-and-jump. lere Harper again stood forth-but the only rival worby the name was a little half-fed tailor-wondrous like kangaroo-who stuck to his skirts like a bur, and was nally beat by a single inch.

The wrestling-a medal given by the Six Feet Club, and a prize by the St Ronan's. Wrestling is not a Scotch game, as will be conceded by every one who has been present both at the Carlisle and St Ronan games. There is strength enough among our peasantry, but it is in the ore-it has never been moulded for a practical purpose. Men came forward on this occasion who never would have dreamed of thrusting their noses into an English ring; and they set to work in a slovenly unhandsome way, some of them armed cap-à-piè in hat, coat, and shoes. Still, amid the motley crew, you might recognise men who knew both to seize and to wield their Next came putting, first with the light, and after-antagonist. The art only needs encouragement; and we wards with the heavy ball, concerning which we have trust next meeting will witness a better turn-out.

At the high leap, the weary wicked tailor was again this post, and cleared like a feather a bar the height of is own eyes. But the superior length and elasticity of Harper's legs were again too much for him-our favoure skimming over the bar more like a bird than a man. What man could his antagonist did, but physical necesity was against him, and he gave in.

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