Fine Arts. 66 The following piece, which is the composition of a very youthful Westminster scholar, is extraordinary, not only on that account, but because it is correctly conucted, which is not a little surprising, as the composer was not thirteen years of age when he wrote it. We cannot comprehend why he has arranged the parts in the order in ich they stand; but we shall not interfere, as the piece would not be given verbatim et literate." We are of opinion that the composition will only be intelligible and teresting to musicians or amateurs, who unite theoretical with practical knowledge.-Edit. Kal. ROUND-BY S. E. H. W. The Round begins with the minim. In the repetitions, and at the conclusion, the two crotchets must be played instead. + To be kept on when played on the Organ; but to be repeated at each bar when on the Piano-forte. Chit Chat. The late Princess Charlotte used occasionally to make notes in the margin of her books. In a History of England, belonging to her Royal Highness, the author had left the cause of a bishop's translation to the See of London in doubt. On the margin is written, "Doubt! no doubt at all. By booing, to be sure." Antipathies. It has long since been remarked, that the old Duke d'Eperon, a man of great courage, used to faint at the sight of a leveret; and that Pierre Alphonso, a renowned philosopher of the 13th century, fainted at the smell of cheese. There is a young gentleman at present residing at Falkirk, whose antipathy to human blood is so great, that he turns pale at the very mention of it. Lately he was in a company where a person happened to give a particular description of a bleeding at the nose with which he had been affected, when the poor fellow, after exhibiting a visage as pale as death, actuallyf ainted. A forcible Painting.-The celebrated landscape painter, Proof Positive. There was an attempt formerly to restore the Strathallan title, when a curious sort of evidence was given of the death of the last Lord Strathallan. An aged, venerable General, who was called to prove that Lord Strathallan had fallen at the battle of Culloden, in the year 1746, gave his evidence to that effect. A Noble Lord suggested to the Lord Chancellor (Thurlow) to ask he witness how he knew that Lord Strathallan fell at Culloden. The Lord Chancellor put the question, and the witness answered-Because at the battle of Culloden thrust my potoon through the body of the Viscount Strathallan." A young girl from the country, lately on a visit to Mr. H. a Quaker, was prevailed on to accompany him to meeting. It happened to be a silent one, none of the brethren being moved by the spirit to utter a syllable. When Mr. H. left the Meeting-house with his young friend, he asked her, "How dost thou like the meeting? To which she pettishly replied, "Like it! why, I can see no sense in it; to go and sit for whole hours together, without speaking word, it is enough to kill the devil." "Yea, my dear," rejoined the Quaker, "that is just what we want."-The Man of Letters. 66 a New View of Matrimony.-A lady meeting a girl who had lately left her service, inquired, Well, Mary, where do you live now ?" "Please, ma'am, I dont live now," replied the girl, "I am married." S. E. H. W. The Housewife. Vegetable Powder the best imitation of Coffee.-Take a carrot, and, after washing and scraping it, cut it into slices, each of the substance of a penny piece; put these slices into an oven, or upon an iron plate over the fire, until they are sufficiently crisp and brown to grind; then place them in a coffee-mill, and the powder produced will bear so strong a resemblance in appearance and flavour to coffee, that the difference will be hardly perceived. Carrots thus prepared will be found much superior to any powder obtained from grain.-The Economist. To render Tea at 5s. a pound equal to Tea at 12s.-The cheapest and most expensive teas are all the leaves of the same tree, at least they should be so, and if there were no sloe-leaves nor privet-leaves, they would be so. The high flavour, therefore, of some of the sorts of tea, and the want of flavour in others, must arise from the manner of preparing them, and must be in some measure artificial. It follows, that if we can discover any fine flavoured substance, and add it to the tea in a proper manner, so as to make it agree and harmonise with the original flavour, we shall be able to improve low-priced and flavourless tea, into a high priced article of fine flavour. The flavouring substance found to agree best with the original flavour of tea, is the oil of bergamot; by the proper management finest flavoured bloom, hyson, gunpowder, and cowslip. of which you may produce from the cheapest teas the There are two ways of managing the bergamot. Purchase at the perfumers some of the perfumed pieces of wood, which they call bergamot fruit. Keep one such piece in your canister, and it will flavour the tea in the ter be a small one, the flavour perhaps would be too strong; same way as a Tonquin bean flavours snuff. If the canisin that case you may chip the bergamot fruit in pieces, and put only a little bit among your tea. Or procure a small phial of the oil of bergamot; take some of the Ismallest of your tea and add it to a few drops of the oil, till you form a sort of paste, which is to be carefully mixed with the whole tea, in proportion to its quantity and the degree of flavour you like best. If you make the Blavour too strong, you have always an easy remedy, namely, by adding more unflavoured tea. When it is thus improved, it is often sold at 18s. and a guinea a pound. Cowslip tea has been as high as 32s. Sir William Curtis, during his stay in Rome, paid a visit daily to the mutilated statue of Pasquin, which is placed at the corner of a street near the Ponte Mole: on one of his diurnal visits, the worthy Baronet was accosted How to Preserve Milk.-The following receipt to pre by an English gentlemen whom he had known in England, serve milk is given in a new weekly journal called and after a hearty shake by the hand, and mutual con- "Hugie, or Journal de Santé et d'Economie Domestique.' gratulation about good looks, the facetious alderman ex--Put to a pan of milk a spoonful of wild horse-radish claimed, "I come this morning to take a last look of this and it will remain sweet for several days, either in open beautiful ruin." air or in cellar, while other milk will change.. Correspondence. GIL BLAS. TO THE EDITOR. ness of expression, belong to individual talent and applic enlightened countries. Had the Egyptian code been general, where would be now the fame of Voltaire, of Rousseau, of David Hume, of Lord Chesterfield? Were the religious opinions of these less culpatory, or were they more secretly cherished than those of Lord Byron ?-I am SIR,-I am very happy (on ne peut pas être plus charmé) agreed with your correspondent in my estimation of Lord a to perceive, that your Blackburn correspondent only re- Byron's poetry, as to their tendency, and, while his Lord. ports the passage from Mr. Josse's introduction, without ship lived, I execrated him for them. But he is dead, giving it any countenance or support, for I should be ex- and with my countrymen, I regret the loss of such trantremely sorry (au désespoir) to say any thing in contradic-scendent talents. I rejoice that he fell in the cause to rion to your friend; but as it is, I have no hesitation in which he has the happiness of being a martyr. I forget, or at least forgive his faults, and exult in the memory of his mental energies; and I pity that false pride which woed to its own injury and unhappiness, this mighty spirit, this ornament of British literature. saying, that the remark does no more establish the point said before. of impeachment against Mr. Le Sage, than what has been It is no secret, that Corneille and Florian had taken several subjects from the Spanish, and that Le Sage himself had derived great advantage from his residence in Spain; but that is not the question at issue. We want to know whether he has actually purloined a work of four volumes, and published it as his own; and, in order to ascertain that, we must have proofs. If there is a Spanish original, who is its author? when and where was it written? and who has ever seen it? filled with his praises, and envy England her son: and But I must conclude. I should not have made these To Correspondents. GOETHe's new Novel-We had prepared an article on the subject of Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship which we must defer until next week. We have, in a preceding covar, given a short specimen of the poetry of this very popular work. OURIKA. In order to bring the story of Ourika to a close this week, we have omitted the letter of "Je suis ce que Jesus? P. N. on Duelling; and the story of the Bachelor, wh we had prepared for this week's publication. We found that we had rather "too many irons in the fre," as we were proceeding simultaneously with L'Hermiteen it-Mary Ogilvie-Derrick's Letters-Microcosmographie-a4 Ourika. The latter being now completed, nothing shai further interfere with the appearance of the Bachelor next week, until when we crave the writer's indulgence. Mr. Josse had published a Spanish grammar, and it was very natural in him to say whatever he could in favour of Spanish literature; but his assertions give no additional importance to the vague rumour about Gil Blas. His grammar is not equal to Mr. Henry's; but it may assist in teaching those who are sufficiently fami- such being made public. As a man, let Lord Byron rest Upon second thoughts it would be better to defer the sp liar with the French language, although I have not yet I beg leave to present my respects to the Blackburn A month ago, and there was 'scarcely an editor of a public journal who did not lash with severity the more recent compositions of Lord Byron, and in many instances the personal remarks were unjustifiably severe. But that fiery spirit is flown-the cypress and the funeral-pall have waved over his cold corse; and since this awful event the voice of criticism and of offended morality has instantly become silent, and patriotic pride has been loud in commending so bright a gem in our country's poesy. pearance of the Bachelor until the following week, which wi commence our 5th volume. Our reason for coming to th conclusion is, that as the story is of considerable length, we may be obliged to divide it; in which case, if we stud commence next week, a portion would appear in the and the remainder in the 5th volume. THE HAUNTED CHAMBER. The story of J. W. & of Manches ter, shall have a place next week, with a slight alterative, of which we are assured the writer will approve SHAKSPEARE. The letter commenting on Mr. Vandenbe reading of one passage in Macbeth is so very caressly written, that we despair of making it out entirely, which we regret, as it contains both criticism and humear. Out correspondent objects to the reading of the following settence: "My way of life is fallen into the sear and yellow leaf," which he justly observes ought to be “My MA of life, &c. We do not doubt that Mr. Vandenhoff, who is generally very correct, follows the prompter's book; bet we have still less doubt that Shakspeare wrote the "May of of life"-The "way of life" has no meaning; but the figure of speech and the intended antithesis are preserved, whe the "May of life" is contrasted with its autumn. If est facetious correspondent will take the trouble to furnish with a legible version of his critique, we will forthwith publish it. Sperans is informed that we cannot make out one part of the Kaleidoscope-office, Monday, June 21, 12 o'clock. of Tuesday, a lecture which is to be delivered the day preIt may appear singular to advertise in the Kaleidoscope ceding; but the explanation is very simple. The Kaleidoscope, although nominally a Tuesday's publication, is put to press between twelve and two o'clock on the Monday afternoon, and circulated pretty extensively through the town before five o'clock. Our town readers will therefore be apprized, or reminded, of Mr. Hamilton's Lecture of this evening, in pretty good time.-Nothing can be more fair, and remote from quackery, than the measure adopted by Mr. Hamilton, of delivering a gratuitous lecture upon the extraordinary system he is now introducing to the Latin motto "In- decus." The second word is very tinetly written. We will, however, refer to the book to public. Of this system, we cannot be expected to offer any opinion of our own, not having yet had the opportu- CHESS. The interesting treatise with which we have en nity of any personal experience. It is due, however, to favoured by J. and H. B. shall be appropriated immediate that gentleman to state, that we have heard the most The present volume of our work concludes with ext favourable reports of the success of his mode of commupublication; and as we purpose having a chess dejarnet nicating information. This evening will afford an opporin our 5th vol. the article we are acknowledging t tunity to the public of which we doubt not they will avail When we addressed a line to H. M. W. last week, we had be themselves, and a very full audience is anticipated. which he alludes. a very appropriate accompaniment. perused his note. As it is quite impossible, from the nature The following extract of a letter from a literary genof our work, to fall in with the proposal of the writer, we tleman of high respectability in London, to a friend in THE THEATRE.We find it absolutely impossible to have complied with his directions for the disposal of the M Liverpool, is inserted here without the solicitation or privity of Mr. Hamilton: place to the critique of the "Council of Ten" with cluding other communications, to the insertion of w "DEAR SIR,-I beg to introduce to your notice Mr. we are pledged. We take this opportunity to observe that, It is greatly to the credit of our national character that James Hamilton, a gentleman I had the great pleasure of as our compositors do not work on Sundays, and as the this is so; and very creditable to Sir Walter Scott to have becoming acquainted with in New York. The public Kaleidoscope ought to be put to press on Monday at so handsomely panegyrised his mighty and successful papers have probably already made you acquainted with no communication forwarded to the office after Frida rival. Thank God! Sir, we are not Egyptians. In Eng. his name, as the author of a new system of acquiring a Saturday noon at the farthest, has much chance He introduced his sys- pearing so soon as the writer may wish. land, as Bacon says, while a man lives "his vices we knowledge of the languagestraordinary facility by which We have further to acknowledge the following-P... write on brass, his virtues we write on water :" but, when | any language may be thus acquired, exceeds almost belief; death has withdrawn him from amongst us, the contrary and it is only astonishing it was never before thought of or is the course we pursue; we leave his faults to be tried at attempted. The general outline of his system is that of another tribunal, and retain the memory of his virtues as communicating the knowledge of any language in a few to decypher it. -H. M.-N. C.--Dalon-Y.-Z.-J. LB.-I. P. B-J and C. and a translation from the Greek of Pindar, msis so indistinctly written, that we fear we shall not be ab a public exsample. Let your correspondent try the case lessons, equal to what a youth, supposed to be acquainted Printed, published, and sold, EVERY TUESDAY, J by precedents drawn from the annals of more liberal and sess. The laws of the language, and purity and correct. I SMITH and Co 75, Lord-street, Liverpool OR, Literary and Scientific Mirror. "UTILE DULCI." s familiar Miscellany, from which religious and political matters are excluded, contains a variety of original and selected Articles; comprehend ng Literature, Criticism, Men and Manners musement, Elegant Extracts, Poetry, Anecdotes, Biography, Meteorology, the Drama, Arts and Sciences, Wit and Satire, Fashions, Natural History, &c. &c. forming a handsome Annua Kolumne, with an Index and Title-page.—Its circulation renders it a most eligible medium for Literary and Fashionable Advertisements.—Regular supplies are forwarded weekly to the Agents. o. 209.-VOL. IV. The Kaleidoscope. ERMINATION OF THE FOURTH VOLUME TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 1824. given, intended to exhibit various feats of strength or It now only remains respectfully to request all new sub- TO PERSONS RESIDING IN THE COUNTRY, The fourth Volume of the Kaleidoscope terminates It remains to say something respecting our fifth volume, ich we shall do as concisely as possible. The plan of e preceding volume will be the model we shall keep in ew: but there are some subjects to which we shall devote mewhat more attention, amongst which are Music and ness, for which we have provided appropriate types. In e latter department we shall lay before our readers some of e choicest specimens of check-mates, &c. together with a ries of very ingenious problems, from an excellent Itan work, in folio, now very scarce, and not at all accesole to the general student. There is also another departent which will greatly enhance the value of our volume. e are in possession of several most interesting manuript books of extracts, from the most instructive and entaining authors, compiled by a student of a very extenwe and diversified range of reading. These we shall induce in a regular weekly series. One other feature shall enumerate, which will, at least, have originality recommend it. A series of wood engravings will be a Literature, Criticism, &c. ORIGIN OF THE FRENCH STAGE. NO. II. PRICE 34d. Here we can assure the reader, that the indignation we have felt in describing some of the preceding scenes, espe cially that in which the Almighty was represented in cope and stole, has been far from counterbalanced by their ludicrous absurdity. We should have entirely suppressed them, had we not resolved to give all the information we can on a subject, which, however it may be associated with circumstances of disgusting impiety, is still deserving some share of our attention. This indignation has been greatly increased by the wretched apology which the author from whom we have translated much of the present article has attempted to make for the wickedness of his forefathers. We are well aware that considerable allowances should be made for the darkness of the age in which these scenes were represented; but after all, we find reason for the severest censure, and particularly in the clergy, that of a great part of the nobility. Nor have we forgotwhose conduct appears to have been very different from ten, that while these blasphemies were encouraged by the Church of Rome, Lord Cobham, in England, and many thousands of Hugonots, in France, were put to the most could say more on this subject, but it is needless. cruel death for denying that church's infallibility. We Dark as the age was, some glimmering of the classic models of antiquity was diffused among the people. It is somewhat singular, that in one of the theatrical pieces whole history of Oedipus should be attributed to Judas composed about the reign of Louis the Fourteenth, the Iscariot. Like Oedipus, predestined to crime, he is exposed on a foreign coast: like Oedipus, in a quarrel, he kills his father without knowing him, and afterwards marries his mother. When informed of his birth and parricide, his remorse makes him become a follower of our Saviour. In one of these singular productions, Christ speaks Hebrew, to the utter astonishment of the beholders, who exclaim that he is as eminent for learning as for holiSatan declares that it is impossible to tempt him, tant il sçait d'Hebreu et Latin. Devils were important personages at these representations. It was conceived that they could salute one another only by curses and reproaches. Threats were added, to increase the dignity of the speaker; and devils exceedingly accomplished seldom met without fighting. Their quarrels and infernal jests formed the chief diversion of the spectators. But the most delightful spectacle was when the devils kicked up a row in hell (faisoient tempête en enfer) which they were sure to do when they wished to rejoice for good, or to console themselves for bad, success. Sometimes they were seen to carry off the souls of heathens, and such like miscreants. They carried vulgar souls in panniers, and those of nobles in a cart. For the reception of crowned heads, a little more ceremony was used. Their entrance into the infernal regions was frequently greeted with songs. Thus Dioscarus was received by a whole circle of imps, singing, As a single representation among the French sometimes Dioscarus, tu fus roy carouez, etc. The crimes which he had committed, and the punishment which he was about to suffer, then followed; but the recital was continually interrupted by one of the devils, the burden of whose song was, Dioscarus, tu fus roy carouez. count of the mysteries which led the way to the more regu- upon each other, for a moment, as mutually surprised firing of muskets, and the other clamours occasion lar dramas of the French stage. The revival of learning what should have brought us, on this day, to the scene of the riding of the bruise-a body of about twenty and the Reformation inade the clergy ashamed at length She gave me hers, in a manner which seemed to express away the bride and the women assembled with her. our early love. I held out my hand to her instinctively. men, who were at full gallop towards Lilly brae, to of the encouragement they had so long shown to the blas-the frankness of the old friend mixing with the modesty started up, and perceived the company arrive at the d phemous representations of the people; and the more of the bride; and said something of surprise at finding of the farm-house, headed by Davie Cunningham enlightened of the laity were loud in condemning them. me so far from my own home, and idling on this spot. strippling to whose lot the stocking fell on the pe The church was obliged to threaten with excommunica- But without waiting for my answer, she excused herself night;) who, with a light handsome mare, had tion all who should in future venture to perform them: being in the little wood, by saying that, while the servants bruise, and consequently a right to divide arca were making preparation for the expected company, she company, at the door, the customary libation, and, in 1548, the French parliament decreed, that neither had left the house to be out of the way, and wandered dance first with the bride in the evening. the Holy Scriptures nor the Lives of the Saints should thus far. The bruise, as it is called, is generally undertaken by any longer be made subjects of theatrical performances. I still held her hand; and answered with more passion few of the wedding party,-who have the best hores, But an impulse too powerful to be arrested by either than wisdom, that she needed not to have given me this are most regardless of their necks, in going home church or state had been given to the public mind. The would not have made excuses for meeting me in this wood. place both in going and returning. On the present o account of herself; and that the time was, when she the bride; and sometimes the trial of horseman Parisian could as easily dispense with his religion as with She looked at me with surprise at this speech, as well she sion it was attempted only in going for the treat the amusements to which his forefathers had been so long might; and, withdrawing her hand, answered, Aye, while the men plentifully regaled themselv accustomed. The drama now began to be devoted exclu- and I have seen the day, Mr. George, when"liquors, many took up their partners, and e sively to profane subjects. In 1552, Jodelle produced the "When what, Mary," said I, as she paused,"speak! pads behind them on the backs of their heavy r first regular tragedy in the language, Cleopatre Captive, she answered, "I would na ha'e needed to excuse mysel' prepared to leave her father's house. I could not bear I love to hear you speak, as ye did long ago.""When." horses; and the bride was placed on her piller, and not long afterwards, Eugene, ou la Rencontre, the to you for meeting wi' you in ony place; and when, if it be observed, and walked forward about a milk, a first comedy. Grevin, Garnier, La Rivey, &c. succeeded had been told me that ye would ha'e been awa' frae Lilly. aside from the wedding party's road. Jodelle in the public estimation, until a theatre was estab- brae for years, and come back without asking for me, or lished at Paris, under the authority of Government. seeking to speak to me as ye used to do, if it were nae Corneille soon after appeared, from whose time the French minding me o' our happiness when we were bairns, I mair," said she mournfully, than to gar me greet wi' stage is too well known, to require any further observa-wadna ha'e believed them; and, if ye like to hear me tions from us. speak as I did langsyne," said she, her voice trembling as Liverpool she spoke, "what for did ye no come to Lilly brae, and speak to me, George?" These words were spoken in a tone so affecting, and TALES AND SKETCHES, BY CHRISTOPHER KEELIVINE. with a look of such appealing expression, that it smote me with agonizing conviction of injustice, or rather cruelty to [Concluded from our last.] her, and took from me the power of uttering the excuse which I had meditated. I hesitated, and stammered. "Mary Ogilvie," said I, at length, "I cannot tell you all the reasons; but my heart was not in it, Mary; I deNext morning I appeared at breakfast in our family, nied myself much-much-in not seeing you, but I heard gayer dressed than usual, as was observed preparatory to you were going to be married to Craiglands, and I did the wedding. Two ladies and my father rallied me very not know but that you had forgotten me, and our early unmercifully on my marriage engagements among the love." I took both her hands, and looked in her eyes: farmers, and on my thoughtful countenance. They affect- And you know, Mary," continued I, "we have other ed to lament my losing my country beauty. My father things to do in life than idle about these bonnie woods, said, I could not do less than send a challenge to my rival; pulling primroses and reading love-tales; for the scenes and proposed that we should put in rehearsal some appro- of our early days quickly pass away, and the feelings may priate piece, like the story of Boaz and Ruth, by way of a be very different in after years. But my heart was not in marriage entertainment. To me this was far from being fault, Mary; I have not forgotten these days, nor this agreeable, sacred as I thought the feelings of love to be, pretty bank, nor your lovely blue eyes, and yellow locks, and seriously as the present event might influence my nor the day that we went to the Craigs of Glenver,-"Hoot, man, Master George, dinna forget your happiness. Though the marriage guests were not to meet-nor-you are in tears, Mary;-I did not mean to vex for some hours, I was unable to attend to my studies, and rambled forth to pass the time, until I found myself near the scene of the approaching wedding. MARY OGILVIE. R. W. S. After descending the hill, I wandered, without any intention, into the little irregular mass of planting called Lillyburn wood, where Mary Ogilvie and I had so often strayed; and my mind was absorbed in stating the pros and cons, and collecting the comparative probabilities of happiness, had I married her, with what I might reasonably anticipate in the prospects which seemned before me. I was conning over the advices and lectures which had lately been bestowed on me by an experienced friend, and had just concluded with him, that love was a kind of disease of the feelings, very prevalent at my time of life, and could scarcely be escaped by a mind of some sensibility, as mine was, and of course liable to impression from every object which possessed beauty of form, or evinced warmth of sentiment all of which were most seductively united in a pretty and romantic young woman. But, as my friend had said, life, however short, was much longer generally than the space of time wherein youth flourished with personal beauty; that, of the enjoyments of life, however defective, love formed but a part-that even it depended, as an enjoyment upon many adjuncts and favourable circumstances-and, at best, like all passions, it tended to its own decay; that, should I gratify love, at this period of my life, by an irrevocable engagement, it would, in all probability, from the restraints of marriage, wol the cares of a family likely to be numerous at our age, be at the expense of many other enjoyments, and to the interrupting of many duties which my education and cirumstances seemed to place before me; and, finally, that I might at a fitter period, and in circumstances more generally suitable, become as much attached to a woman more fitted to be my companion in the enjoyment of the elegancies and comforts of my rank in life. At every step in this wise reasoning, I was gaining strength to overcome my juvenile passion, when turning round the foot of the green mound I have mentioned, I was met full in the face by Mary Ogilvie. We gazed you.' "Oh, George," said she, while the tears fell fast from her swimming eyes, how can you speak so now, and not a word until my wedding-day? But I know you do not mean to pain me-I ken your warm heart; but ye'll be designed for some great leddy, an' I should never ha'e thought o' the like o' you." As I was going to reply, she held her hand up before my mouth, and said, Dinna speak nae mair to me, George; for I'm but a weak woman, an' I'm gaun to be married to a decent man o' my ain condition-but I canna forget-no, I winna forget-farewell." She tried to get away. Will you leave me that way, Mary? It is our last meeting-the very last in this wood." I drew her to me-she fell into my arms-I kissed her warmly our tears mingled-she broke from me, staggered with agitation, then glided off round the green mount, leaving me like one awakened from a dream.-I threw myself on the turf to recover my feelings, and pondered on the shortness of those scenes that live longest in our remembrance, and the scantiness of those illumined pages of the book of life which are dearer to the fancy than all the rest of the dull and blotted volume. I was resting on an elevated spot, where Mary a had often sate, arm locked in arm, admiring th appeared on the distant sea; when the firing of ka prospect beneath us, and counting the small rese pieces, and the shouts of the gathered rings, is nounced the returning approach of the cavalcada, the bride appeared conspicuous, dressed in pvi and mounted on a handsome black pony, I went up to see them pass, and was duly salute young men ; but, when the bride drew neat, unaccountable impulse pulled off my bat, as if or tively acknowledging the supremacy of love over te ventitious distinctions of birth, or as acting one inexplicable or absurd parts which a man will sten be found to perform, who is under the parano. ence of feeling. My little Mary Ogilvie, now a t woman, sate gracefully like a queen among the rude, brown-complexioned farmers; and, as ste cast a single meaning and melancholy glance while I stood uncovered, straining my eyes in a disp stare after her. From this ridiculous position I was aga rude clap, or rather stroke, on the shoke heavy hand of the session clerk; who, having in y hood been occasionally my preceptor, made m for this liberty, but, after laughing at my stat. stan' there glowrin' like a wulcat after the bes ye mind what the minister's text was last Sable Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wule? man, there's as gude fish i' the sea as e'er ca an', gin ye ha'e patience, ye'll get as bonnie a Can Mary Ogilvie yet, an' a heap o' siller wi' her, Aye, Master George, siller!" This officious memento was one of those, bị x^ man is sometimes reminded that the world rea general principles of expediency, and pays to to present feelings, and the private sent large proportion of persons, who still love to inc confessed to others, a little pleasing romance, tion or in hope, mixed up with the plain rea My unbidden counsellor accompanied me alon where I soon after mounted my horse, and pa the farm of Craiglands, to witness the marriage Ogilvie. When I entered the house, I found the m mony was just about to take place; for the c lows were impatient to get to the wedding di mirth, and the women who bustled below, hensive that the pies and the pastries would fo season. The minister was already seated in I still lay reclined on the little green hill, musing on ment, the company sitting in pairs round the the thousand circumstances which stand in the way of our was cracking his joke with the most forward of the enjoying the highest draught of delight with which our sent, and enjoying that consequence and deferte existence is furnished, and the few and distant angel visits appertains to a country clergyman among of pure and glowing passion that occur amid the waste parishioners. I thought the women looked les of pear and which renders oblivious to the mic.ing now than on the night of the booking. Ther mory when past so great a portion of life-and was still over them a stiffness and restraint from dres ad dwelling in imagination on the regretful and beseeching stance; most of them were bedizened with ri expression of Mary Ogilvie's eyes, as they had lately and artificial flowers; and their whole dress cal glistened on me through her tears; and I still thought which, on the former occasions, were suitable felt her warm kiss burning on my lips: for my nerves pleasing, by a temporary offer at gentility, had not yet recovered from the searching throb of that instances, in bad taste, and affected. exquisite moment, and I felt exhausted with the hurry of my spirits, and the high excitement of the last dear interview. I I was roused from this state, which I have imperfectly described, by the noise of the gallopping of horses, the s A Scotch marriage has been described brable altering his jocular tone, and looking sted beside old Thomas Ogilvie; and, after a ser faces of the bridegroom and bride, gave za ters. and laughter had resumed their reign. "The pigmy scraper wi' his fiddle," was already drawing his screeching bow, and reminding those who had swallowed sufficient of the exciting beverage to incline them to dance, that it was suitable and seasonable now to leap to his merry ministrations. Soon, agreeable to the clamorous wishes of the youngsters, the large room was cleared, the tables and drinkers were set into corners, the fiddler and his boy mounted on a table, and the lads and lasses instantly rose, and began to noisy and agile dancing, in which they seemed to find the highest enjoyment. us explanation of the nature and duties of the solemn worked into an expression of sublimity, as, with his hands "George," said she, "why do you sit there by your. self, and the company talking of you, and wondering at your conduct ?" I looked at her, but answered not. My father," she continued, "has persuaded me to go to you myself, and request you to mix with the wedding folks: do come, George!" a few minutes more of confusion, the pale and ride was led out of the room, apparently almost de; and the next sight I had of her was when at the head of the wedding-dinner table, to which called after fifteen minutes spent in the confused ts of moralizing forebodings. I entered among and observed her sitting in her appointed seat in silence; and, when the company came gradu>the room, she rose up with a melancholy smile, onscious dignity, of which, till now, I had thought r's daughter utterly incapable. When she obne, she bowed with a look of pleasure, as if she d. Now it is over, and I am happy." I was lear to her, and opposite to old Thomas Ogilvie, lating myself on my own present composure, and to observe the return of hers, when her father was d to pray for a blessing upon the repast. is an observance never omitted in Scotland upon s of importance, and is a solemn mode of exand interweaving with it those religious sentiith which every public event in life is sanctified ociated. An address to the Deity never fails to the habitually religious feelings common in the here; but, on the present occasion, after what en place, the state of mind of the bride-the forethoughts, mixed with vague imaginations, of sudth in fearful and calamitous forms; and the phansuperstition, which cast a gloom over all present I promised to do as she desired. She left me, and with the general reverence with which the old rising up, I took a few turns across the room, to collect he vehicle of prayer, was regarded, made his pre- my energies; then descended to join in the festivities of mmunication with Heaven be participated in by the wedding. I considered that, as the die was now cast apany with breathless silence, and something like by my own adherence to my purpose, I should not allow astic solemnity. He stood up, and they all rose feelings, which I might hereafter perhaps think ridicuThere was perfect silence for a little. He belous, to make me miserable, and incapacitate me from prayer; and, in a tone low, but intensely earnest, the pursuits belonging to my station in society; but that at the immediate presence of" Him who is, from it became me now to pursue steadily the path of fortune ing to everlasting, God!-the author of all exist- which I had chosen and I half agreed to Mary Ogilvie's ad the searcher of all hearts." By degrees his tone popular philosophy, that, though we had as children been high and sonorous, as he brought before our minds inseparable, it was ordained by Providence that we should nd or fearful images of an invisible world. His never be united in after-years. airs seemed to move on his bald temples, with as agitation of his feelings; and his countenance was I still continued to look in her face in silence. We gazed at each other. She took me by the hand, alarmed at my stedfast look; and, with the same beseeching expression in her countenance, which she had in the little wood, continued: "George," she said, "come down stairs, an' countenance my wedding, an' dinna affront me; an' dinna de. tain me here with you; for you know it is not right. Will you not speak, George ?"" I only sighed deeply. We were happy mony a day, when we were bairns," she went on; but as for our being man and wife, I see, George, it was not to be. Ah! collect yourself," said she, bending over me," and resign yoursel' to the will of Providence, an dinna allow yoursel' to disturb the peace o' your ain Mary Ogilvie." A tear trickled down her cheek. She turned away her head, as chiding herself for giving way to these affectionate, and now improper expressions; and, as I looked at her countenance beaming with soft sentiments, observed her bosom heaving with agitation, and pressed her warm hand in mine; I would have given worlds to have recalled a few hours, before she was lost to me for ever. When I rejoined the company, the wedding dinner was long over; liquor went plentifully round, good humour Between witnessing the dancing, drinking, and occa sional singing, and attending to the orthodox metaphysics of the elder men, my mind could not refuse considerable amusement from the medley scene; but I saw little of the bridegroom and bride the whole evening, until the last scene of all, which I have the pain to describe. A Scotch wedding is never considered by the guests as finished until they witness the bedding of the married pair; that is, they generally remain until the young couple have retired, and must see them in bed togethera custom probably founded on the peculiarity of the Scotch law, which makes such a situation of the party,, legal marriage. To avoid this unpleasant and indelicate custom, the bridegroom and bride had taken the opportunity of the deep engagement of the dancers and the arguers to retire; but the moment this was known, the whole party collected, and insisted upon forcing their way into the bed-chamber, and witnessing the bedding, according to established use and wont. I had thought that no further trial of my feelings was reserved for me; but in this I was disappointed; for in the hurly-burly muster of all concerned to witness the consummation, I was roughly seized with the freedom inspired by the liquor, and hurried along with the crowd into the chamber where lay the bridegroom in bed with my Mary. I stood out of sight. Some of the elder official persons produced a large bottle of brandy and cakes; and as the company stood round the room, the whole drank the healths of the new-made man and wife, and shocked me by their wishes for a numerous offspring, expressed in no very studied language. The lads and lasses were now paired, as on the bookingTM* night; and such as were little in view, began to whisper and fondle, as on that occasion; until some one's lass,.. pointing to the dial of a large old-fashioned case-clock, that stood in the centre of the room by a corner of the bed, from the lateness of the hour, pretended great anxie ty to get home, upon which her partner stood up, and watching his opportunity moved back the index an hour, by way of excuse for prolonging their stay. Whether in doing this he had loosened the clock, which seemed but indifferently fixed, I know not; but just as an old man, with a glass in his hand, had in a solemn, but, as I thought, doubting manner, wished health to the newly-married pair, and that they might live a long life of conjugal endearment; the clock beginning to strike, and seeming agitated by the motion of its own machinery, swayed forward, and falling fat on its face in the open space in the centre of the room, like Dagon of the Philistines before the Ark, was dashed to pieces on the floor. The bride and bridegroom started, and sate up in bed looking forth in trembling amazement; and the only words that were spoken at the mo ment, were by a little arguing man, who, as the clock fell, with a strange laugh exclaimed," There is an end of time!" This concluding accident of the falling and breaking of a favourite clock, which had stood as a piece of furniture of the house, and in the same spot, from time immemorial, to have taken place on the owners' wedding night, as a conclusion to the other remarkable circumstances, was regarded by all present, as crowning all the alarming apprehensions which they had hitherto entertained, and they seemed impressed with feelings which no one dared to express to his neighbour. In the midst of fearful looks and shaking of heads, the dog was again heard setting up a low and doleful howl, which echoed in the silence of night, and seemed to paralyse the people with fear, so that the men instantly became quite sober, and the women be gan to cower and cling close to them, anxiously wishing to leave the house, lest a worse thing should befal. Astonishment and something like superstition again began to render me unconscious of my actions; until, before I was aware, I found myself standing alone in the centre of the room, staring down upon the broken clock; when, lifting |