either fear or ridicule. It is creditable to Scotland that it is not behind the vast metropolis of the empire in its energy and zeal in the cause of improvement, as it so far surpassed it by early encouragement to the elder, and, as it must always be, superior sister, to steam navigation. Sen and Manners. The golden beams of a summer's evening had illumined hill and dale, tree, and unde and the warbling of the feathered choirs alon turbed the hallowed calm, pouring forth theire ing song of praise as she approached her home and who, after a long absence, can revisit the s of their childhood and not feel their holiest pathies awakened? Every tree and flower, dell glade, nay, every object with which the youth heart was intimate, opens upon the mind with new delight. She at length reached the house her parents; and the sight gave a new lustre to eye. Her aged mother, and still more hoary fat welcomed her with all the fond affection of lon parents, and wept with joy; and sure in the ascent of the model upon an inclined plane, whose | Hard by, a large mansion stands, all concealed but loved companion, but not aloud; and as she clasped rise, we are able accurately to state, is as one in eighteen. the roof, by lofty walls entirely surrounding it; the her angel form to her heart, the almost silent, sonThis, with an obvious irregularity in the rate of speed on inhospitable gate refuses a glimpse into this gloomy tary "farewell," as it passed her lips, spoke ner the level, is, however, in all probability, occasioned by the looking prison; nor can one think that happiness than words could tell. "Farewell, my Sally," "Far difficulty of working a model, supplying its fuel, &c. with has there found a dwelling-place, though the cares of thee well, Lucy," was their last adieu; and a crowd perfect regularity. We are the more inclined to think so this "vale of sorrow" are excluded, and the minds of long remembered joys, and sorrows for be from the facility with which it gets over a sloping bank of of its inmates are alone given to the religious pursuits separated, burst across their innocent minds, leavin wood laid on its track, which rises to one side 5 inches in the 25, and thus represents a more than usual convex t Order. But another object, having for its end the Her father's house was beautifully situated in th of their order for it is a convent of the Presentation both for a while totally abstracted. of surface, at least upon modern roads. It only remains for us to add, that, in the event of any derangement in the ultimate good of mankind, occupies them for a certain bosom of a valley, through which a mountain stream machinery, the coach is so hung and constructed as to be portion of the day-the instruction of the young fe-winded its uncertain way;-at times the tor easily drawn in the common method, leaving the cum- males in the village. Sally Kane and Lucy Evans, foamed madly over the moss-clad rocks, which, b brous boiler, which is moveable, behind. (the former the daughter of a wealthy farmer, who and there, interrupted its course, and the stream, "At present we have not space to enter into a considera-lived some miles from the convent, for which reason other times, stole peacefully along, coming over tion of all the topics suggested by our visit to this inge- she was an inmate of it;-the latter's parents were ear in mildly melodious murmurs. niously contrived model; but we have surely said suf-employed at the factory, and their means were ficient to secure, at least, a candid examination of its clain. sample enough to admit of their giving a degree without unnecessary scepticism, far less the presence of of education to their only daughter, for such was the peerless Lucy,) being companions at school, soon formed a friendly union, such as death alone can efface on this earth, and which dies but to bloom with renewed verdure in that land of bliss and happiness "all our being's end and aim." The form of Sally was surpassingly beautiful; the rose-blush in her lovely cheeks was mellowed by the softness of a complexion fair as the lily; and though "the pale cast of thought" threw around her a somewhat contemplative air, yet the sweet smile which sate upon her vermeil lips could not fail to captivate the beholder; the mild expression arrayed in her soft blue eye seemed as of heaven; in sooth, she might be looked on as one of the children of Paradise. Her companion had all the freshness and airiness of youth; the ruddy tinge of rustic health glowed in her cheeks; a sort of electric light glanced from between the long lashes of her sparkling eyes; her bosom softly heaving "like the wave under Zephyr;" and her countenance beamed with innate modesty, though, withal, ever cheerful and happy: such were the two faithful companions whom I have faintly attempted to portray. Their every wish was for each other's happiness; and the feelings which intertwined their young hearts, rendered them miserable when absent from each other. Their religious offices were performed together; their pure and saintly orisons were wafted together to the heavenly throne: and when Lucy parted in the even ing for her home, all was gloomy for Sally until her return the following morning. of HORE HIBERNICE. No. IV. THE FATE OF THE NOVICE. "Nay, shed no tear But weep for those who see the cloud A stranger passing through the sweet little village in Ireland, could not but admire the extreme neatness of every cottage in it :-a degree of comfort and cleanliness scems to hover around every dwelling; the little plots of ground before each, are bedecked with evergreens, and every flower in its season; and the trellised windows surrounded with woodbine and jessamine, luxuriantly interwoven, and gladdening, with their sweet blossoms, the homely prospect; the inhabitants possess ample means to support all this rural grandeur, being fostered by a company of merchants from England, who raised a manufactory in the vicinity of this village, which, from its locality, possesses every requisite to insure success, and affords ample employment to the industrious villagers. The dreams of heavenly joy held out unto Sally soon won her tender mind to consent to take the veil,-thus severing every earthly tie, and estranging the heart from all its fondest hopes and affections; she had already entered her noviciate, but the conNear the village the lofty granite spire of an old finement and strict rules of the order soon impaired Gothic abbey raises its weather beaten head, seeming her delicate health, and the pale hue of sickness asas if in defiance of the wintry winds which have, for sumed the rose's place in her cheeks; she daily ages, howled in awful grandeur around it; nor have drooped, like the floweret which blows by chance in the rains, which have so long beaten against it, been a wild and wintry waste; the blossom scarcely comes able to impress marks of their fury. The hoar of to maturity, when a nipping frost, or bitter blast, antiquity sits softly on it, and the "faithful ivy" blights it almost in the bud; decay slowly steals on clings around its base in never-dying verdure; the it, and it withers at last. Such was poor Sally.church attached to it moulders in ruin, and its aisle, All the sisters deeply sorrowed at this fair one's dewhere the solemn canticles have been sung, and the cline, for she was meekness and lowliness itself-pure priests and monks, arrayed in all the gaudy decora- in heart as the babe at its mother's breast, and betions their religion requires, have walked in solemn loved by all. Her home, at length, was recomprocessions, now serves as a receptacle for the ashes of the villagers, as many rude monuments erected to their memory show: nought is now heard, save the boot of the owl, or the raven's croak, breaking upon the solemn stillness which reigns around. mended, that relaxation from her religious discipline "If ever there was a human tear, From earthly dross refined, and clear, 'Tis what an aged parent shed O'er a dutious daughter's head." The news of her arrival soon spread are ample farm, and the numerous tenants whe scoped it, quickly came, one by one, as they gained te telligence, to welcome Sally, who, from a child, bad earned the good-will of all. The fatted calf was killed, and, in the coolnes the evening, the peasants joined the joeund dana the scene being illumined by the cheerful rays of t silvery moon. In the midst of the merriment, seemed thoughtful and absorbed, her mind be wrapt in heavenly contemplation, although spoz innocence alone inspired the lively train around le On a sudden, a youth, breathless with haste, sented himself to Sally, and cordially inquired a her health. The voice of William, well knʊ* her, soon awakened her from the thraldom is she was, and she scarcely recognised the chosca p mate of her earliest days; he, who, as he wa beside her, plucked the violet and harebell mountain's brow to braid her lovely locks; an the glow of summer made them seek the she her favourite bower, there, amid the melody merous feathered warblers, pouring forth their sta of praise and happiness, our faithful pair have to talk o'er every scene of pure and innocent ba Piness, childish pleasures and delights. Yes! it was he who stood before her, as fine form as ever nature moulded: sadness, mixed v joy, sate upon his brow, and a look which seeme say "She might have recollected me." After a she gave her hand, which he fondly clasped in and raised it to his lips; his tongue faltered, bot eye told the tale of love, and the delight w glowed in his heart at this unhoped-for intervie Her delicate state of health obliged her to retire fr the influence of the night air; she flew to her close So fair, so faint she waned, without a sigh, Like dew sipped by the sun, 'twas her's to die. this state was she found by her distracted parents, mourning now occupied the place of mirth and sement. She lay like a beautiful statue, pale as winter snow ere the sun's rays purple the brow le mountain; a lovely smile was on her face, as lifeless body was sensible of her soul's happi distraction and tears they stand around her vircouch, kissing her pale lips, and pressing that now chilled by the icy grasp of the tyrant When the sorrowful news reached the ear and her chief comfort is to sit on the grave, and weep | valuable produce of their country, as well as that Dublin. Requiescat in pace, The Traveller. [ORIGINAL] LETTERS OF A TRAVELLER. No. I. CHINA. J. G. R. I sailed from Bombay harbour on the 23d of June, 1816, elated with the idea of gratifying my ambition for travel, and my thirst for novelty, by associating with the ingenious disciples of Confucius. I had heard much, and read more, of their wonderous country and of themselves, and dwelt upon the termination of my voyage, as a miser would upon the opening of a mine which contained inexhaustible treasures, all A month afterwards I looked around me his own. with the same blank disappointment that he would High and low connive at the importation of opium, in defiance of an edict from the Throne. In England, punishment (its liability at least) falls both upon the buyer and seller of smuggled goods; but there, if detection ensues, the wandering inhabitant of a "miserable speck of the earth" bears all the rigour of their penal laws, and is spurned (as he reads in this sumptuary statute) for seeking to contaminate a subject of the All-puissant, High, and Mighty Brother of the Sun and Moon; whilst that the other, from behind the walls of the city of Cansame subject can laugh at the ruin which falls upon ton, and even sets down his robbery as an act of obedience to that system of persecution upon foreigners enjoined by a power whose nod is subjection. There is, however, a body called Hory Merchants: mwho centered his every hope of earthly happiture to say that the principles of liberality and honour from what I know of the Chinese, I dare not venin her, who, like a day-dream, had flitted from have obtained better growth in them than in the rest fiew, his senses fled him afar: from that time of their brethren; but this I may say, that, being wer smiled; and ere the clay-cold earth received To my imagination, in one of the chief cities of ist remains, his lifeless form was found, cast on China, there were to be seen elegant and spacious the East India Company, men, who, generally speakmore immediately in contact with the servants of massy bank of an adjoining river, where, oft edifices; some of them marks of opulence and splening, act upon the principles of liberality and honour, ann encircled round his Sally's waist, he wan-dour, and others badges of commercial celebrity. they are compelled to shine with a sort of borrowed lin the innocence of childhood's hours. The peculiar features of Chinese architecture, too, bodies of both were borne in mournful pro- The Chinese are not, in the strictest sense of the by the law of nations. A foreigner and insignifi- light. Colonel Macdonald, F. R. S., F. A. S., who has devoted much time to the system of telegraphic communication, and published several valuable works thereon, has expressed his decided approbation of the plan adopted for making signals between this port and Holyhead. This must be very gratifying to Lieutenant Watson, and more particularly so at a time when certain individuals are endeavouring to excite a feeling against the establishment. who is that angel form amid the pall-clad Extent of territory is, with these people, the only every body speaks highly of the simplicity and utility of We are at a loss to know why this should be the case, as §?-decked in a snow-white robe, a sable girdle criterion of power, and pre-supposes the possession of the arrangements, when not interrupted by fog; and les her waist, a large veil scarcely conceals her every other kind of greatness; so that no country in many testimonies to the same effect have been given by face suffused in tears, and her dark locks wave the world is more humiliating to the free-born spirit spirit of hostility to it be excited by its interference with persons well qualified to judge of such matters. this in the evening breeze: slow and tottering she of an Englishman than this. A commercial country, private inerests, such a plea cannot be permitted to coun: now and again her eyes are cast towards not only without a law to protect the foreigner from teract a public benefit so liberally conceded to the public en, as if for hope; but when the first clod of earth fraud, but sanctioning even the commission of theft as the one in question. It is to be regretted that the establishment commenced working at the most unseasonded on the coffin, her sight failed, her strength upon him;-a commercial country, confining a fo-able period of the year; when the weather has been clear, and with a convulsive shriek she gasped, and fell reigner within a few feet of ground, and even within signals have come through the whole line with astonishing into the arms of the surrounding nuns.-'Twas those few feet, subjecting him to every kind of in-regularity and despatch, thereby sufficiently proving the , who, to her sorrow, witnessed the mournful sult;-a commercial country, where the emissaries weather; indeed, we are inclined to believe that the only efficacy of the arrangements when not suspended by the mony; every recollection told her of mingled of despotism levy their contributions at will;-a enemy to be feared fog. ers of Sabbath hours-of the morning's happy commercial country, which scarcely acknowledges ting, and the evening's sad farewell,-while she the rights of hospitality, and which shuts its gates her loved companion, now flown to realms of against the ingress of travellers of the other sex; hter hopes and purer happiness, spent their days where, in fine, restrictions are multiplied at the cather. pricious will of a tyrant,-is altogether so contrary to what an Englishman finds at home; so diametrically opposite to those institutions of his own government, which almost incur censure from their lenient pro. tection of the foreigner, that were it not for the ingenious manufactures of the Chinese, and the in The sad ceremony was closed amid occasional fitgleams of the pale moon, which seemed in sorrow hide its head, but afterwards served to light the lagers to their peaceful habitations. Lucy still lives immured within the convent walls, Days. Tide Table. Morn. Even Height. h. m.h. m. ft. in. Festivals, &c. Tuesday 29 9 36 9 58 13 3 K. George IV.'s Acc. 1820. Manchester. Poetry. CAMBRIA. A DIRGE. Cambria ! Cambria ! the bold ! Thy pride is dead: Thy noblest sons lie cold, In honour's bed. Thy dark blue hills I see, But not on shore or sea Swells the soft hymn. Thine ancient harp is dumb, Where are thy towers of strength, All, all are gone at length : Time sweeps along! On Snowdon's cloud crown'd top Thy spirit moans, Imploring him to stop, I hear her groans. Alas! she weeps in vain, But she may sing again Then from thy mountains high Thy nobler sons are cold G. H. W. POETRY, BY THE AUTHOR OF JUNIUSS LETTERS. A poem, entitled The Vices, has just been published. the manuscript of which was found among the papers of the bookseller most engaged in polemics in the days of the great and mysterious Junius. From the close resemblance of the hand-writing to the fac-similies of the autographs of Junius, given to the world by Mr. Woodfall, and from the pungency of the satire itself, it is argued, by their present publisher, that the author of the work could be no other than Junius himself. As a specimen of the work will, no doubt, gratify the majority of our readers, we shall here subjoin an extract, as it appeared in the London Courier. Satan holding a Jubilee in Hell, calls each Vice to come forward and prove its worth and labour, by showing how many subjects it has added to his empire. The reward is to be a radial crown, worn before the expulsion from Heu ven. His voice re-echoed far and wide, Not that which gives the inward rest, Aloud she cried: "Oh, parent dear! A madman, murd'rer, and a god? Nurs'd and instructed from their birth? The sons I've brought: unnumber'd crew! Does P. -e mine? -not bow before my shrine ? My little, precious, white-fac'd child, Than silk more soft, than lambs more mild, Than crocodiles far more ensnaring, And, thanks to me, than wolves more daring. Nay, e'en his r-1 master's heart I've tried to win with many an art; Arts that had any Stuart won; But I find something there to shun; Something that still controls my reign, And makes me go quick out again. A piety, a something new, That will not let him join my crew." Ambition stopt, and backward trod; In step a king, in look a god. Her head already stuck with crowns, Her eye with scorn, and brow with frowns. And now, behind the door was heard A scratch, as if a mouse had stir'd; 'Twas open'd, and without was seen A form so little, black, and mean, So batter'd, shatter'd, shrivell'd, blasted, That wonder for some seconds lasted. A dirty, trembling, withered wight, That seem'd as born of Age and Spight; His nose appear'd some fathom long; His sight was gray, and sharp, and strong ; Its chin resembling in its form, That thing we call a shoeing horn; His hands were like the feuille-morte, And armed with a strong escort Of Chinese nails, of darksome hue; His clothes were nasty, ragg'd, and few, And underneath his arm was seen Ty'd with red tape, a bag of green. Cringing he enter'd; look'd behind, And seemed suspicious of the wind. Then, the bag pressing to his breast, Trembling, he thus the devil addrest: - Whilst that kept smiling, stroking, grinning, Alas! how prone is Fraud to sinning ! "Compose yourself," replied the devil, "Oh gracious father!" cried the wight, And furnish'd him such names of note "Well hast thou serv'd me, my dear child," Satan return'd, and gracious smil'd; "Go on, and thy good works pursue, And to thy parent still be true." LINES, ADDRESSED TO A LADY, FROM WHOM THE WRITER HAD ROWED A RING, FOR THE PURPOSE OF MAKING AN RIMENT. Fair lady, in pastime, last night, When a ring from your finger I drew, The Fireside. "In order to employ one part of this life in serious and in tant occupations, it is necessary to spend another in mert l ments."JOHN LOCKE. "There is a time to laugh and a time to weep.”—SOLOMON think, says the Dun, you're DEATH OF MR. CHARLES SYLVESTER. this ingenious and amiable man was very well known any of the readers of the Kaleidoscope, and as his munications have occasionally embellished our pages, elieve that the following posthumous notice of that regretted individual will not prove unacceptable. On the 15th inst., died at his house, in Great RussellLondon, Mr. Charles Sylvester, formerly of Sheffield. peculiar profession as a civil engineer, he had acgreat eminence and extensive employ. His know was extremely multifarious, but not superficial. re is not one branch of science with which he was uninted, and in many he was a proficient. He was the of a volume on chemistry; and, when resident in by, he published an elegant quarto volume connected the Infirmary there. Some of the best articles in Encyclopedia Britannica were written by this gentleHis disposition was kind, friendly, and affectionate; in private life he was greatly beloved by a numerous of friends, who sincerely lament his loss. He has behind him three daughters and one son-a young a of great attainments in his profession, and fully coment to succeed such a father."-Sheffield Iris. The eminence of Mr. Sylvester, in mechanical, checal, and philosophical pursuits, leads us to hope, and lieve, that some friend, competent to the task, will favour with an ample memoir of an individual who possessed many claims to the esteem of mankind. His talents, with . . out it. which were of the very highest order, were accompanied with the most unassuming manners, and we might truly say of him, that he was "In wit a man, simplicity a child." In argument he was cool, patient, and logical-solicitous only for the establishment of truth, and not for victory, except over what he deemed error or prejudice. It is highly to the credit of his genius and perseverance, that he set out in life under disadvantages which would have proved, to ordinary men, an insurmountable barrier to future eminence, or even mediocrity in science. We have heard him say that he had arrived at the age of eighteen years before he could read or write; and yet his letters and his manuscript copy for publication, both of which have frequently passed through our hands, evinced no want of the early education which had been denied him. He could almost command his own price for the articles which he furnished for the scientific journals, to which he contributed; and many of the most valuable papers to be found in several of our Encyclopedias were from his pen. In some recent conversations which we had with Mr. Sylvester, in Liverpool, he mentioned to us several most ingenious and useful inventions upon which he was engaged; and which, had it pleased Providence to spare his life, he would, in all probability, have perfected, to the advantage of his country, and of the amiable family he has left to lament the loss of so valuaable a friend and parent.-Edit. Kal. THE TYROLESE FAMILY. These interesting minstrels are pursuing a successful career in Dublin. It will be recollected, that when four of them were performing here, the fifth was absent, owing to severe indisposition. A letter received from them, the early, before the end of our concerts, on the receipt of a other day, says,-"We are induced to write to you thus letter from a lady of Manchester, who did not choose to disclose her name, offering us kind consolation, on the death of our beloved eldest brother, Felix, which, we can assure you, is quite unfounded. Felix is not only quite recovered, but now, thank God, is as well as ever, and assists with his powerful tenor voice as usual; and such is the popularity of our sort of singing, that our Concertroom is filled every day." They speak in grateful terms of the inhabitants of Manchester, and of our own" wealthy and liberal fellow-citizens;" and intimate the possibility of re-visiting those two towns, on their return from Scotland, in the spring, in order that all the five may be heard together. Steam Carriage.-Mr. Burstall wishes us to state, that, in all probability, he will not be enabled to prolong his stay in Liverpool beyond Saturday; he also wishes us to call the attention of the ladies to his exhibition. In Edinburgh and Glasgow there was a majority of the fair sex among the spectators, all of whom appeared to be highly gratified by the novelty and ingenuity of the machine.- See adv. Miscellanies. CRISPIN ANECDOTES. members of the 66 A few weeks ago we presented our readers with some extracts from an amusing and curious little work, recently published, entitled "Crispin Anecdotes." Since then, we understand, the work has excited great interest among the Gentle Craft," and as it contains one hundred and thirty-four distinct articles on the origin, importance, and manufacture of shoes, many of them containing much original and valuable information, we feel confident its merits will soon secure it a place in the drawer of every Crispin's stool in the kingdom. The following are further extracts: Trade of a Shoemaker." I have remarked, wherever I have travelled, that the cobbler is generally a good-tempered fellow," so says the author of Scenes and Impressions in Egypt and in Italy;" and I know not why it is that the trade and profession of a shoemaker is so generally spoken of with contempt; as though degradation was im plied in working for the feet, any more than respectability in garnishing the head. It is true the head is called the superior, and the feet the inferior, part of man ; neverthe- | less, the labours of the shoemaker are perhaps more indispensible than those of the hatter. The man of genius has frequently defied the lack of both, without being rendered frigid by the exposure of both extremities to the inclemency of the weather, and has literally worn "old shoes and clouted," while his -"Hat, when on his pate, Clapped a ring around his whole estate." The anecdote of Dr. Johnson's refusal of the gift of a pair of shoes, when his extreme poverty prevented him from purchasing them, is generally known. "When his shoes were worn out, and his feet appeared through them, he perceived that this humiliating circumstance was noticed by the Christ Church men, and he came no more (to hear from Mr. Taylor, at second hand, the lectures of Professor Bateman.) He was too proud to accept of money, and somebody having set a new pair of shoes at his door, he threw them away with indignation. How much we feel (says Boswell) when we read such an anecdote of Samuel Johnson !" "New fashions, Though they be never so ridiculous, Nay, let them be unmanly, yet are followed." they might not be chargeable to others for their mainte- | armour of proof, having three folds of mail over an acton, THE SIEGE OF DUNBAR CASTLE. [FROM THE TALES OF A GRANDFATHER"] I found Agnes at the gate." The Bouquet. I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and i brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them KATHED AND EURELIA. A BOHEMIAN LEGEND. (From the Forget me Not.) was a tempest such as this, was the night our E "The last time," said Reginald to his wife," born."-"I remember it well," said Therese." my child, stir up the red embers, and lay some dry! on the fire: let us be as cheerful as we can." Eurelia rose at her mother's bidding, and did as he desired. The dry wood made such a blaze, that the flashes of lightning were scarcely seen; but their cra could not prevent the thunder, and the wind, and the from being heard. 66 the war between England and Scotland, in the year 1835, Amongst the warlike exploits which occurred during the defence of Durbar Castle, by the Countess of March, is not the least memorable. Her lord had embraced the side of David Bruce, and had taken the field with the Materials of Shoes.-Shoes, as before observed, have regent. The countess, who, from her complexion, was been made in different ages and countries, of various ma- termed Black Agnes, by which name she is still familiarly terials; of raw skins, of rushes, broom, paper, flax, silk, remembered, was a high spirited and courageous woman, wood, iron, silver, and even gold of the latter precious the daughter of that Thos. Randolph, Earl of Moray, metal were the shoes of Cardinal Wolsey. Their appear-whom I have so often mentioned, and the heiress of his ance, also, with respect to shape, colour, and ornament, valour and patriotism. The Castle of Dunbar itself was "Hush!" said Reginald, at a sudden pause in thes has been extremely various. They have been round, very strong, being built upon a chain of rocks stretching" surely some one knocked at the door."—" God pity square, high, low, long, sometimes quite even, and at into the sea, having only one passage to the main land, traveller in this night!" exclaimed Therese. "Ge others variously cut and carved: so true is the observation which was well fortified. It was besieged by Montague, husband!" of Shakspeare, that Earl of Salisbury, who employed, to destroy its walls, great military engines, constructed to throw huge stones, with which machines fortifications were attacked, before the use of cannon. Black Agnes set all his attempts at defiance, and showed herself with her maids on the walls of the castle, wiping the places where the huge stones fell with a clean towel, as if they could do no ill to her castle, save raising a little dust, which a napkin could wipe away. The Earl of Salisbury then commanded them to bring forward to the assault an engine of another kind, being a species of wooden shed, or house, rolled forward on wheels, with a roof of peculiar strength, which, from resembling the ridge of a hog's back, occasioned the machine to be called & sow. This, according to the old mode of warfare, was thrust up to the walls of a besieged castle or city, and served to protect, from the arrows and stones of the besieged, a party of soldiers placed within the sow, who were, in the meanwhile, to undermine the wall, or break an entrance through it with pickaxes and mining tools. When the Countess of March saw this engine advanced to the walls of the castle, she called out to the Earl of Salisbury in derision, and making a kind of rhyme, Leather is undoubtedly the most serviceable, as no other substance could so well unite strength and suppleness, with the property of excluding water. "Good shoes," observes Dr. Aikin, and most persons will agree with him, "are one of the most necessary articles of dress, for health and comfort, to those who go much abroad; nor has human industry in many cases more happily exerted itself than in discovering the most perfect mode of answering the purposes required in this manufacture." And it may be remarked, that the manner in which the common people are shod is, in general, no bad criterion of the state of the society in which they reside, though, perhaps, not quite in the sense intended by the great Judge Hyde, of Bengal, who used to say, Every man, it seems, is a gentleman now, who pears shoes." "Some nations, in a state of semi- civilization, prepare the skins by a process which leaves them in a state of pilosity; they are then wrought into shoes, with the hairy side turned inwards. These are usually worn by the northern nations, and are both warm and durable. To these they add what are called snow shoes, for the purpose of traversing rapidly the surface of the snow, when glazed and hardened by frost. They are large boards, with a loop or thong in the middle, through which the foot is put; with these foot accelerators, and the assistance of a light propelling pole, the Laplander will travel fifty or sixty miles a day. Patron Saints of the Shoemakers.-Crispin and Crispianus were brethren, born at Rome, from which city they travelled to Soissons, in France, for the purpose of propagating the Christian religion, A.D. 303, and in order that "Beware, Montagow, For farrow shall thy sow." At the same time she made a signal, and a huge fragment Reginald went to the door, and inquired who was No one answered. He thought his voice might not been heard for the storm, and he withdrew the bolts opened a small chink. Strange!" said he, as be turned to his wife and Eurelia. Is nobody the asked Therese." No human being," replied Reg "There are only two large, shaggy, black hounds: they have been, and whither they are going, God Let them come in, and crouch at the fire. Pat mals! mayhap they have lost their way."-" thinking of that; for dumb animals need war shelter as well as we, who, God be thanked! have it just as I was about setting wide the door, a flash of ning showed me their faces, and I thought I saw devilish laugh upon them, and so I shut it again." "Nay, husband, this is foolery; you're wont to stout-hearted man." Stout-hearted or faint-heara the hounds shall stand at the door all night for me, it who may. "May I let them in ?" asked Eurelia.-"You take shame to yourself, husband," said Therese," you see the tender child nowise alarmed."-"Her ness," replied Reginald, "has all come of late; she to fear a mouse stirring, but, within a month or two has feared nothing: she will walk out into the forest all hours of the night, and sometimes not to gather w but only, as she says, to see the wild things that are ro ing about. I wish good may come of it." Hush! hush!" said Therese, "if ever I heard fing knocking, I hear them now."I'll go none to the door, said Reginald; "'tis only the hounds' paws." Just at this instant a terrific blast seemed to tear up the forest: a tree, wrenched from the ground, was bore against the window, and shattered the shutters into a thou |