To the rain, and it falleth The rains of his might. Upon the labour of every man He putteth a seal : And abide in their dwellings. From the utmost zone issueth the whirlwind: And from the arctic cl.ambers, cold. By the blast of God the frost congealeth, And the expanse of the waters, into a mirror. He also loadeth the cloudy woof with redundance; His effulgence disperseth the gloom. Thus revolveth He the seasons in his wisdom, That they may accomplish whatsoever He commandeth them, Constantly in succession, whether for judgment And contemplate the wondrous works of God. Teach us how we may address Him, When arrayed in robes of darkness; Or, if brightness be about Ilim, how I may commune, Even now we cannot look at the light When it is resplendent in the heavens, And a wind from the north hath passed along and cleared them. Insufferable majesty! Almighty!--we cannot comprehend Him!— Surpassing in power and in judgment ! JOB translated by GooD. ORNAMENTAL LADIES' WORK. In the Edinburgh Gazette of December 9,1703, is the following advertisement := "Near Dundee, at Dudhope, there is to be taught, by a gentlewoman from London, the following works, viz. :-Waxwork of all sorts, as, any one's picture to the life, figures in shadow-glasses, fruits upon trees or in dishes, all manner of confections, fish, flesh, fowll, or any thing that can be made of wax-2. Philligrim work of any sort, whether hollow or flat. -3. Japan-work upon timber or glass.4. Painting upon glass.-5. Sashes for windows upon sarsnet or transparent paper.-6. Straw work of any sort, as houses, birds, or beasts.-7. Shell-work, in sconces, rocks, or flowers.-8. Quillwork.-9. Gum-work.-10. Transparent work.-11. Puff-work.-12. Paper-work. -13. Plate-work on timber, brass, or glass. 14 Tortoise- shell-work. — 15. Mould-work, boxes and baskets.-16. Silver landskips. 17. Gimp-work. — 18. Bugle-work.-19. A sort of work in imitation of japan, very cheap.-20. Embroydering, stitching, and quilting.-21. True point or tape-lace.-22. Cutting glass.-23. Washing gazes, or Flanders lace and point.-24. Pastry of all sorts, with the finest cutts, and shapes, that's now used in London.-25. Boning fowlls without cutting the back.-26. Butterwork.-27. Preserving, conserving, and candying.-28. Pickling and colouring. -29. All sorts of English wines.-30 Writing and arithmetick.-31. Musick, and the great end of dancing, which is a good carriage, and several other things too tedious here to be montioned: Any who are desirous to learn the above works may board with herself at a reasonable rate, or may board themselves in Dundee, and may come to her quarterly." Upon the incidental item " 30. Writing and arithmetick," in the above notice, Mr. Chambers sarcastically observes, "Falstaff's tavern bill outdone!-three shillings worth of sack to a half-penny worth of bread !" SCOTTISH MANNERS. Many young ladies of quality were sent to reside with, and be finished off by, the hon. Mrs. Ogilvie, lady of the hon. Patrick Ogilvie of Longmay and Inchmartin. She was supposed to be the best bred woman of her time in Scotland, and died in 1753. Her system was very rigorous, according to the spirit of the times. The young ladies were taught to sit quite upright; and the mother of our informant, (one of the said young ladies), even when advanced to nearly her eightieth year, never permitted her back to touch the chair in sitting. There is a characteristic anecdote of the husband of this rigorous preceptress. He was a younger brother of the earl of Findlater, who greatly exerted him. self in behalf of the union, and who observed upon the rising of the last Scottish parliament "Now, there is an end of an auld sang !"-The younger brother had condescended to trade a little in cattle, which was not then considered derogatory to the dignity of a Scottish gentleman. However, the earl was offended at the measure, and upbraided his brother for it. "Haud your tongue, man!" said the cattle dealer, "Better sell nowte than sell nations," pronouncing the last word with peculiar and emphatic breadth.* GOLF-BANDY-BALL. This is considered by Strutt as one of the most ancient games at bali requiring the assistance of a club or bat. He says, "In the reign of Edward III. the Latin name Cambuca was applied to this pastime, and it derived the denomination, no doubt, from the crooked club Chambers's Traditions of Edinburgh. or bat with which it was played; the bat was also called a bandy from its being bent, and hence the game itself is frequently written in English bandy-ball." It should seem that golf was a fashionable game among the nobility at the commencement of the seventeenth century, and it was one of the exercises with which prince Henry, eldest son to James I., occasionally amused himself, as we learn from the following anecdote recorded by a person who was present: "At another time playing at goff, a play not unlike to pale-maille, whilst his schoolmaster stood talking with another, and marked not his highness warning him to stand further off, the prince, thinking he had gone aside, 1 fted up his goff-club to strike the ball; mean tyme one standing by said to him, 'beware that you hit not master Newton,' wherewith he drawing back his hand, said, 'Had I done so, I had but paid my debts.'"-Golf and foot-ball appear to have been prohibited in Scotland by king James II., in 1457; and again in 1491 by James IV. The ball used at this game was stuffed with very hard feathers. Strutt says that this game is much practised in the north of England. Dr. Jamieson speaks of it as a common game in Scotland, and mentions "shinty, an inferior species of golf generally played at by young people." lle adds, "In London this game is called hackie. It seems to be the same which is designated Not in Gloucestershire; the name being borrowed from the ball, which is made of a knotty piece of wood." In the "Selecta Poemata" of Dr. Pitcairn is a distich “In ædis Joan Patersoni," to the following effect: Cum victor ludo, Scotis qui proprus, esset. Ter tres victores post redimitos avos, Patersonus, humo tunc educebat in altum Hanc quae victores tot tulit una domus. The lines may be thus translated, "In the year when Patersone won the prize in golfing, a game peculiar to the Scotch, in which his ancestors had nine times gained the same distinction, he raised this lofty house from the ground,-a victory more honorable than all the rest." In the Edinburgh Magazine and Review, 1774, is this note concerning Pitcairn's epigram: "It has the good fortune to be recorded in gold letters on the house itself, near the foot of the Canongate, almost opposite to Queensberry house. It is probable that what the doctor means as a jest, Pa tersone believed to be a serious panegyric' But tradition gives a somewhat different color to the matter, and among many stories preserves the following, which in the opinion of Mr. Chambers seems the most probable. During the residence of the duke of York in Edinburgh, he frequently resorted to Leith Links, in order to enjoy the sport of golfing, of which he was very fond. Two English noblemen, who followed his court, and who boasted of their expertness in golfag, were one day debating with him whether that amusement were peculiar to Scotland or England; and there being some difficulty in determining the question, it was proposed to decide by an appeal to the game itself; the Englishmen agreeing to rest the legitimacy of their national pretensions, as golfers, on the result of a match for a large sum of money to be played with the duke and any Scotsman he might select. The duke aimed at popularity, and, thinking this an opportunity for asserting his claims to the character of a Scotchman, and for flattering a national prejudice, immediately accepted the challenge. He caused diligent enquiry to be made for an efficient partner and the person recommended to him was a poor man, named John Patersone, a shoemaker, and the best golf-player of his day, whose ancestors had been equally celebrated from time immemorial. Patersone expressed great unwillingness to enter into a match of such consequence; but, on the duke encouraging him, he promised to do his best. The match was played, in which the duke and Patersone, were, of course, victorious; and the latter was dismissed with an equal share of the stake played for. With this money he immediately built a comfortable house in the Canongate, in the wall of which the duke caused a stone to be placed, bearing the arms of the family of Patersone, surmounted by a crest and motto, appropriate to the distinction which its owner had acquired as a golfer. The plain flat slab upon which Pitcairn's epigram was engraved, is still to be seen in the front, wall of the second flat of the housethough the gilding has disappeared. Under the distich there is placed a singular motto, viz., "I hate no person," which an anagrammatical transposition of the letters contained in the words, "John Patersone." The coat of arms is placed near the top of the house, and bearsthree pelicans vulnel-on a chief three mullets -cres, a dexter hard grasping : golf-club-motto, "Far and sure." Ac. cording to Nisbet's History, the family arms of the Patersons were "three pelicans feed ing their young, or, in nests, vert, with a chief, azure, charged with mollets argent." Golfing is an amusement of considerable aniquity in Scotland, and, as before stated was the object of a statute in the reign of James II. (1457), enacting "that futeball and golfe be utterly cryed down," because, it would appear, these amusements interfered with the practice of archery, which the policy of the Scottish king endeavoured to encourage, for the sake of better competing with the English archers, so formidable by their expertness in the use of the bow Charles 1. was fond of golfing, and, during his visit of 1642, was engaged in a game on Leith Links, when the news of the Irish rebellion reached him; which, striking him with consternation, he instantly left the ground in his carriage, and next day proceeded to London. His son James was equally fond of the sport, and frequently played on Leith Links; which was the principal resort of golfers, long before the Borough Muir became fit for the game. James was also much attached to tennis, which was then a more fashionable amusement than golfing, though it has latterly given place.-The common called Craigentinny, a piece of waste ground which once skirted the beach opposite Seafield toll-bar, and is now entirely washed away by the sea, was likewise a great resort among golfers, during the seventeenth century. The Logans of Restalrig had a piece of ground near their seat at Lochend, appropriated to their own amusement; to which the inhabitants of Canongate, and the courtiers in latter times, were in the habit of repairing, after the possessions of the above family were forfeited. There is a tradition preserved among the descendants of the Logans, who are considerable proprietors in Berwickshire, that Halburt Logan, one of the last of the race who resided in the neighbourhood of his ancient patrimonial territory, was one day playing here, when a messenger summoned him to attend the privy council. Despising this, and being also heated by his game, he used some despiteful language to the officer, who instantly went to court and repeated the same; and a warant being then issued by the incensed council.ors cu a charge of high treason, STAGE COACHES, AND WAGGONS. 10th December 1658. Under this date there is entered in sir William Dugdale's velling from the country by the waggon. Mr. Dugdale says, "1660. March 13. My daughter Lettice went towards London in a Coventry waggon." Mr. Hamper observes, "This mode of conveyance was possibly chosen by the young lady as affording greater security and comfort than the stage coach, or permitting her to carry a larger quantity of luggage. The company of friends might also influence her choice. Our novelists of a later period, often introduced the scenes which a stage-waggon supplied them with." Diary, "that he came out of London with December 10.-Day Breaks Mr. Prescot, by coach, by Aylesbury. Upon this, Mr. Hamper remarks that stage-coaches were established about that time. He refers to a paper in the Archologia by Mr. Markland for an interesting ccount of the old modes of conveyance in England, and cites as follows, from the "Exact Dealer's Daily Companion" published in 1720, for the stagecoach travelling then greatly admired on account of its speed. "By stage-coaches one may be transported to any place, sheltered from foul weather, and foul ways, free from endamaging one's health or body, by hard jogging or over-violent motion; and this not only at a low price, as about a shilling for every five miles, but with such velocity and speed, as that the posts, in some foreign countries, make not more miles in a day for the stage-coaches called flying-coaches, make forty or fifty miles in a day, as from London to Oxford, or Cambridge, and that in the space of twelve hours, not counting the time for dining, setting forth not too early, nor coming in too late." The method and rate of driving, or rather dragging, for the boasted "velocity and speed" may be estimated at something like four miles an hour, the writer esteems "such an admirable commodiousness both for men and women of better rank, to travel from London, and to almost all the villages near this great city, that the like hath not been known in the world!" This was little more than a century ago; and, though before then stagecoaches were in use, yet we find people "of better rank," and even ladies tra • Chambers's Traditions of Edinburgh. Sun rises sets Twilight ends December 11. 11th December, 1753, the Dey of Algiers was assassinated, and his grand treasurer mortally wounded, while they were distributing the pay to the soldiery in the court yard of the palace. The ringleader of six desperadoes, after receiving his pay, and taking the Dey's hand to kiss according to custoin, thrust a dagger into the Dey's breast, then fired a pistol into his side. The Dey rising, said, “Is there none among ye," looking at his attendants, "that can destroy such a villain?" and instantly died. At the same time fell the treasurer, who received a pistol ball in his collar bone, a cut with a sabre across his head, and other wounds. The first assas sin, seizing the Dey's turban, and putting it on his own head, seated himself in the chair of state, and began to harangue the Divan. Brandishing his sabre he declared how he would govern, what powers should feel his wrath, and what glory attend his reign, when one of the Chiauses, or messengers of the palace, snatching up a carbine, shot him dead. He had been seated about a quarter of an hour, in which time his associates had ordered the Dey's music to play, the drums to beat, and the guns to be fired, all which would infallibly have been done, and the usur per declared sovereign, had he kept his place but a few minutes longer. This daring attempt was made in open day in the presence of 300 soldiers, who being unarmed, as is the custom when they approach their sovereign, ran away by a private back door for fear of being sus pected to be of the number of the conspirators. The Dey's guard, who waited without the gates completely armed, were either intimidated by apprehending a revolt of the whole soldiery, or were shut out by the precaution of the conspirators. Ali Bashaw, the Aga of the Spahis, or generallissimo, was immediately sent for, and placed in the seat of the murdered Dey; the cannon were fired, and in one hour's time things were restored to a state of tranquillity and the government of Algiers was in as much order, and as firm as ever. Apparel.-No servant of husbandrie, nor common labourer, shall weare in their clothing any cloth whereof the broad yard shall pass the price of two shillings; nor shall suffer their wives to weare any kercheffe whose price exceedeth twentie pence. And that no manner of person under the estate of a lord shall weare any gowne or mantell, unless it bee of such length, that hee being upright, it shall cover his buttocks, upon peine to forfeit twenty shillings.-(22 Edw. IV. cap. 1). Archery. All sorts of men, under the age of forty years, shall have bows and arrows, and use shooting.-(3 Henry VIII. cap. 3). No bowyer shall sell any bow of yew to any person between the age of eight and fourteen years, above the price of twelve pence.—(31 ibid. cap. 9). Fast Days. Whosoever shall, by preaching, teaching, writing, or open Gentleman's Magazine. speech, notify that eating of fish, or for, bearing of flesh, is of any necessity for saving the soul of man, shall be punished, as spreaders of false news are and ought to be.-(5 Eliz. cap. 5, sec. 40). Gipseys. All persons which shall be found in company of vagabonds calling themselves Egyptians, and so shall continue for the space of one month, shall be judged as felons, and suffer the pains of death.-(5 Eliz. cap. 20, sec. 3). Libels. If any person speak any false and slanderous news or tales against the queen, he shall have both his ears cut off And if any person shall print or set forth any book containing any matter to the de famation of the queen, or by prophecying, conjuration, &c., seek to know how long the queen shall live, he shall be adjudged a felon.-(23. Eliz. cap. 2). Masks and Mummers.-Mummers shall be imprisoned three months, and fined at selling visors, or keeping them, is to the justices' discretion. The penalty for forfeit twenty shillings, aud to be imprisoned at the discretion of the justices (3 Henry VIII. cap. 9). Pins.-No person shall put to sale any pins but only such as shall be doubleheaded, and have the heads soldered fast to the shank and well smoothed; the shank well shaven; the point well and round filed, cauled and sharpened.—(34 and 35 Henry VIII. cap. 6). Witchcraft, &c.-It shall be felony to practise, or cause to be practised, conju ration, witchcraft, enchantment, or sorcery, to get money; or to consume any person in his body, members, or goods; or to provoke any person to unlawful love; or to declare where goods stolen be; or, for the despite of Christ, or lucre of money, to pull down any cross.-(33 Henry VIII. cap. 8). Woollen Caps.-All persons above the age of seven years shall wear upon sabbaths and holidays, upon their heads, a cap of wool, knit, thicked, and dressed in England, upon pain to forfeit, for every day not wearing, three shillings and four pence.-(13 Eliz. cap. 19). |