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HE HIGHLAND JBWBLLEint hSljVl LlMiBl) 17110 !'• ESTA3IjI8HMENT, C'O M P L E T 1 O K O JV L T E K ,\y 1 O K s;, . CORNER OP U N 1 O N ,S-X R E R T, 1/i NDREW SMITH & t;0.;beg to aunounco that "they (Omosiie.the CalaloiiMii, Hotel). _t\_ have now completed their Eikensive .^Iterations, and have ' J- UJ.A K.UII TKVEKSESS. atldcd largely to their facilities for trans-.icting business, at the same ?me that they have greatly increase* their I G H L A N p J E \V E L L E K Y. F E R G U SO N V. 11 O T'H E R S, STOCK 'OF REALLY FIHfeT-CLASS GOODS. DESIi;XEl« A.Vl) JlANl'EAOT(il;BKH ofT SCOTTISH H DESIGNS lb7S, JEWELLERY, BY «1'K(.:1AI, ArrulNTMENT TO 1I.K.U. THE Tliev woiild avail (hemselvcsi of t.his-occasion b. thank tlicirmany THE NEWEST FOR ',-.„.,,„. .port .so l,.iv, :i, rnrdcd their I'RINCE UE WALES. |.„..-.,„,n..unt,oi so. to AT ...1,1 .1 ,;> >;. I, ruiiiira ti ' ' lu.iiii the repu- FERGUSON liKOTHEKS have much pleasure in anummdiii; i., ,t.. llr.l liir; ; •: that thev have now in Stock the largest and most varied assort- ;, .;.:,:i,.,,., M iMi, .i .,l by uoue WILLIAM ERASERS, ment of "JEWELLERY tli«y have ever sho«n. The London-made 1 T, 1 N E 11 N E Si S. Jeweller>- has been selected by them from the best Houses in the tms tliu,.c «ll.. dc. articles at HIGH S T R E B V tratle, and for true art-feeling and t;xstefuijiess of (M-n:vnient;itjon, cannot be surpassed. BV emajsius aou .,r«....B'"s H'eu" Erennses, they arc enabled NEWlDBrinlMKSrs, Ijmg desiderated in Inver- The very extensive selection of tlieir nvm Manufacture combines 1 1 add two entirely best fn^acefulness of outline with riuality and str.'o 'th uhii^h are al^^-ays and often urged upon tlieir own consideratioji by their important desiderata in all articles "i '" ' .1 their lonj,' ipportflia.^,. and careful stud\ to develop the r i'cauties of 0^j^^^j^f^,3[aj^^^ NATIONAL and LOCAL GESIShaa en .,sc- not only DRESS Airo MANTbETL^KINO DPWlRTMEKTS rare, lnl\ MsolheOmnite-ttn-t ^aliartfjtbe the more i and placed il;'4er the entire management of Mis.si HIGHLANDS OF S0OTL.AJID. ' \«|i!! be oiiened, \cx-iB, a lady -of large and \'aried experience, acquired in the best W; JLICKAV begs to intimate his of .icwcllcry bj' FBR«i"dON R The articles IJc^^cd and Rc^st«rcd in Bdinliurgb, and for the pa^t ffiur .-iears .. ouming Warehouses Return from IJROTUEiis have now obtained a vca-y hi-jh reputation.J and arc Kcmiington and Jenner. Princes M with Messrs I I: ead Dressmaker X P O N ,\ y II V \ U S allowed by eonnoisteurs to be of such, very liigii ,exe^lleneo tbaji S.reet. Ladies may thus feel assured of their ordei-s being exe- thev have ' every cojitidence in reconunendin;,' the ftillowin^r ^—The cuted in the highest st\-le and fcish. • SUTHERLAND BR«.)OOH : the Grouse, ltamiiisoj.alliT31a!i*a*"ii THE DRESS GOODS DiBPAUTMENT

.11 be found larger and morff'varieir than on an.N lirevious year, Tears. ith all the leading materials otiBritisU and Continental il^nufac- ' CLAN TARTAN AND TWEE'li WAKIClloUSE, Tlie old conventionij patttnis ot ANCIENT .CELTIC ORNA- delivery i.f ti ire. They would especially inidte attention to a large - BUILDINGS. MENTS, the ori^Timl styles «if which have beeA presen-ed, and , ASSOCIATION B L.\cK Silks fro»i the celebrated-makei's—of Bonnets, Tapissiere's, while justly admired for divoi-sity, pepuliarity, and eleyanee of Inverness,, May 1873. a id Jaubert, Lion^, Andrpe and Cie, makes, wiiich are alwa.vs reli- design, each serves to mark an epoch or event ot national interest. The Mary Queen of Scots expressive Brooch, 'fhe Glenlyon and THE SK)URini& DEPARTMENT Io'b b es a n d m a c d o isr a l d, Loni Briwches, exact copies of the originaL The Urquhart Brooch FAJIILY ORIXEHS .\Nll WINK MERCHANTS, at all times' receives^ur careful attention. (rescmblins; the ttoihan Fibula or Tn!,-a Fastening), the Culloden _ 40 STREET, INVERNESS. ^ > UMON Brooch, the Cnlgower Brooch, the Tara, the Cross of lona, the •: < THE,OARPKT|DEP.\RT.MF„VP. ; • ",Cr4st. ^1 ;. ; Norway Brooch, Hearts, : Dcjuble Hearts, 4c., ' Slajran, and h;^s been made a specialii-,-. The selection is tlic PREMISES, with Bad^e Brooches, with Eai:-Riuf?s to uiatdt. The Mouogram, Kilt Tills department li/TR 'WHYTE'S NEW >' ciualit.i. the stvlc, and the 7.5 UCIl Fastenhig. The Uniqite Crest Monoi,Tam ami Motto Brooch. largest ever seen in the north. The V/X Spivcioils and improved STUDIO, CIK STREET, properfv "f tliis llonsi., that tliu abont tlie i(ith Uaj. BBACBIjE'IS. _' itternsaro so far the special ohposite'the Commercial liank, will be opened

i: th, . u ock has been manufactUMd eschi8ivei> i "in m It i^ desirable that all Portraitsbe taken b,v apijointment. , The L»m Bracelet, the Huntenton BnM^iiet, theHi;,'hland Brace- j

,-i i ,i inhabitajits olithe north i.t , let, besides a variety of other Bracelets, set with Scotch Pearls, ., fording the i,. ' - A^ayequalto those of the^anufactuii i.i -t'.ui- ... Clum^unns,^S!c. " CO., BUTCHERS, DHUSOIOND ir -m LLIOT & >'i i i l: ' cl'ati-, li ih>, HIOHLANO 1)RES,S ORNAMENTS, Dirks, Skei»-nl6s, ^or-» tiarpetn (with or withoufltBorderingj. STKI Jtc, cut, fitted, aadlaid downi *i any size and plan. E . Lfiiioleimi rans. Shoulder Brooches, and Kilt Fastenings, aH' infonu tjieir Cu^t ijhlands beautiful aSRortment offi Rugs, Damai^^;s, Repps, of tlie Firm. A large and .•s , under the immediate personal superintendence during tjje dimmer and > usual, jjuslin, Lace, and Leno Curttjijis in all si^ and qualities, as weU as f"i .1 regular CORNER OF UNION STREET. ;' kept a lot of Fat Stock other goods requisite for iu .^fij • INVERNESS. a(l siipply of Meat of tjie besi GENERAL HOUSEHOLD IWNISHINC'S. diate attention. May 1S73. CI AND J. M A . D O N A L. ©. erBlTTLEME N'S B E l' A R T Hi E N T. /• FLEitHKRS, i-aried. It ~ The choice in this Department is unusually l.irge and . NORTH OF SCOTLAND 14 Clot|is, Coatings, Trouserings, and CASTLE STREET. cimprises West o.f Englajid SCULPTliRE' AND MONUMENTAL All orders p\nietual!\' attt!nde." and only be^/Butcfaer Meat e 'erything pertaining to Gentlemen's Wear^ by the best Manufac- . FREESTONE,. MARBLE, .\ND ,' * offered, for Sale. .. . t! trers. - ' DEPARTME^PI. -.t 'sTEAil POLISHEl' GRANITE WciRKS. ORDER , ; i_ 22, AND S! CHAl'EL STREET, .\Sl> FOOT OF LEXANDER aiACDONALD, FLESHEE^ The arrangement in this Depiiftuient is njQw so comRliete as to 1, • ; ACADEMV STREET, INVERNESS. A No. 2 NEWJLARKET i43ure the utmost despatch to all Post orders.-^ ...illl (Qmwsitt the liai/mtij Statiun), 'D Ai-V II) F O K S Y T H. TBft-Mt. •[ .INVERNESS,. T 'I' \ Demons a^d Prkks Fo.kwau,dkd o^'.^Vi'i'i^icATiu;^- To be on true and intelligible temii L* Customers, shall KIKDS ot Bt-tCliBK' JliiT OFTte-Flkis^ QUAllTV. future mank. the I'HicEsi.s' fLAUi I CU1U..S.' (• -t; .C T.A Ord^rii i-tceite ptnicUmt attention. (RjYh KJNLO.CH'S A I+A N All wul our Prices in proportion to the rise in wages, • ttaailincrea^ • Bather WINES! . . for T a: have dctcnuinea to shorten the time allowed id materia^, w'e " ' f. I- :. Price, fi-om Is od I>er bottle wmrds. JOHX TULLOCH, DECORATOR,. PAINTER, Cfedit. ' ;', • AO&NTS F6R INVEIINE,S.S, GILDER, PAPER I1AN(:E1!, CLAZIER, and PICTURE ncouf»go thc-RBACvr MoKEK SvsTii.M. ainLat the same) time let IRAME MAKER. cnds,*al Well As 'ourselves, fe;ip some of the benefits of iquick * ¥6rjjes ;t N.IV.M,A- C D-O {{.a L D, "^ ' 17 and 1^ ACADEMY STREET, rjTVTiRNESS pl\{ments,,vKv will/make tin following al.itemcht-. \i/,.i4-0n all . . . A l*NION STRfSET. , (Opji*}/iil'. tin' Rniial Aaattf III One'PouinI. uithin fhu 1/ ) f Kii-;lish witl-iu three 1 ' It' T E T.a' N I N Xi A N D Avanelyot French and PAPeR-UANGJ2>G& a iu liia fiuuiid ; A N O F O - ' .a'wa.v^- in SlocV, I'uiul ; wiUiiii ^iv Mi-i.ths, RElirL.VT^r'C. , , , ».ri p , . : , t » f % i ; j t-t. q ; f > Xi CI a •M\ uiMiitii-i, iKi discount. ,U ,F., W. . W I S D u yf, JMACNEILL,' 8(i CASTLE fsTREET,' I^''- J-Iyi-lfOli • VERNESS, UMBRELLA i P.VE.VSOL' MAKER. Ipi-VNOFoKl 1 .:. .i \ UmbrcUiis and Parasols niado. . r. d, and rc| wired. Silk Umbrellas :• f '' -u and I'arasols woni r'y wed without . eoverijig. A M\M i.i.v, hu-ket- ;vnKM>-s and Man-tlk Trimmings, Okn-aMests, 'BtrrpONs, Hats, Rtb- termed by a contemporary the "WONDER OF THE AGE." i i Mackintosh, Nairn ; : rres Wilson, Elj^n. ; " They come as a buonaiid a blessing to men.

Tlie Pickwic), , 1. . ! .1, .ui.; ii;( Waverley I^en." Tlic whole Stock is the Largest an(^ most fashionable to befouiid

U O O K, ! D ' R i I 1 s JAMES in the Norfh, having' been jtersonally selected by our Mr Frasek NEW - i . recommend them. GROCKU AND WINE MERCHAXT, trade. 1 entirely for this Season's 1000 Fortlici 1 ihic, " Jan. 13, 1«72.—The

• i delight." 40 HIGH S T K E K T, INVERNESS. •Sun" saj-s:—"ThePlico 11 1^ n ..;;-., 1-othwonderand 1 ANDREW S M I T H & C 0., —Sold by"every respectable Stationer in the World. Sample Box Has just received a lot of tiuc TE^, which. he ii^ttiiids 8eUiiigat2B ! 22 HIGH STREET. post. Is Id. 6d, ^, and Ss 4d per lb.— for Cush. The above deserves the at- by to 33 Blair Street, Edinburgh. tention ol ready-money buyers. InvcrnefiS isr3. lUcsiVKS & Cambkok, 23 . . ;

THE HIGHLANDER, IVDIY 24, 1873

HUNT H A L L. beg respectfully to intimate the return of WE Our STOCK i9 our Buyer (r\)m the princiiml Markets. now fully assorted for the Season uith the Newest and most We shall be glad to forward Patterns free Fashionable GOODS. Sl'R\'KV BRITISH MIXTTRE. per post. Letter Orders have our most careful attentiwn. ORDNANCE OF SCOTLAND. BL-\CK and COLOURED SILKS. JAIIES MELVEN, Bookseller and Stationer, ACKENZIE BROTHERS, Outfitters, and Stripes, in Dress ,ind Costume Materials. Ma choinjieamh Ctachnaciidain, New Shades 2d Union Street, Inverness, liegs to inform the Nobility, M Printed B.\T1STES. Is the best House in Invemesa. Plain and Landed Pr«'])rietor3, Siwrtsmen, Estate Agents, and Farmers in the TUCKED, &c. eJiuid COSTUMES and OVERSKIBTS. WHITE North, that he has been appointed sole Agent in Invfniess for the Gu ceannach do avdaich. Embroidered SKIRTS, Survey published, of Sale of the Ordnance Mai>s, now being the There you can get it Silk and Cloth J.\CKETS. Cashmere CAPES, ready-made North of Scotland ; and he is now enabled to supply all the Plans To order, smart and stylish ; Umsrkll.vs, Sl-nsuades, to as issued, and give information as the state of the Surrey. Pit like a glove, made up \^ith taste, Scarfs. Ties, ColLars, Cuffs. Fancy Aprons. Laces, Ribbons. Flowers, Plans Mounted on Cloth and joined, so as to form complete Phms *• Trimmuigs. Oue trial tii' sU/h cintiteach. Feathers, Hats, Boiniets, Ilaberdashery and of Estate or Farm. Tlie quality we warrant good, FOR GEXTLEIIE.VS WEAR. Tlie making strong and during, SHIRTS, THE GAEL. West of England CLOTHS, SCOTCH TWEEDS, The prices low—the lowest marked SC.VRFS, HATS, CAPS, BRACES, GAEL is a monthly Gaelic Magazine, with COLLARS, CUFFS, TIES, THE In figures bho jiach ifhtais Writi. MERINO and GAUZE UNDERCLOTHING. an English Department, devoted to miscellaneous Gaelic Lit«rature, and to the interests of Scottish Highlanders generally. Hats we really do first-class, HOUSE FURNISHINGS. Price per annum, paj-able in advance Ss ; by post 5s (M; single From Paris and from London Brussels, Tai)estr\', Tliree-plv Kiddemiinister and Scotch number 6d. Hosiery' in e\'ery branch, CARPETS, Hearth RUGS to match. Door MATS, Cociia, Manilla, Nicolsox A: Co., T4 Aigyle Street, Glasgow. A Seaituim *u« d GearrLoch. India and Dutch MATTINGS, FLOORCLOTH (Thoroughly Seasoned), GAELIC LITERATURE. i Yard to 8 Yards Wide cut to any plan. & STEWART, BookseUers to Plain and Printed DRUOOETS. CRUMBCLOTHS, Stair CON-ER- MACLAOHLAN the University, have always on liand a large Stock of Works INGS, Fltwr Cloth and Indian Mats for BASIN STANDS. in the Gaeuic Lakocaoe, Including Boston, Baxter, Bunyan, Dr Cloth and Damask TABLE COVERS. Our stock of cloth cannot be beat Maclei»d, P. Grant, Mac^onald, Spurgeou, &c. ; Confession of Scotch and English BLANKETS, Bed QUILTS, Le ceatinaich 'th air an t-savo3ite the University, Edinburgh. Blind Cottons. We call attention to these facts All WOOL and UNION DAMASKS and REPS. Important to the lieges Lace, Leno. and Muslin Window Curtains. Aeh gu h-draidh yabhaibh beachd TO FAMILIES IN THE COUNTY. Cretonne Chintzes. We alter not ar prisean. Furniture Prints and Linings. THE Subscriber Executes Orders for Fii-st-Class N.B.— The author feeling certain that the above highly meritorious THOS. SMITH & CO., Family Teas and General Groceries. production will make him celebrated among the poets of the age, HUNT HALL. (?) JOHN SLVCDONALD, TEA MERCHANT, is anxious to infonn all those who appreciate real tntrrit in literature CHURCH STREET. and art, that he will be glad to serve theui, and demonstrate the EXCHANGn,-^N>'f;RNESS. above to tlie satisfaction of all concerned every week day mitil SPUING1 SFASHIONS.7 3 . further notice, at ATEW SPRING DRESSES, CAPES, CLACHNACUDAIN HOUSE, ANDERSON'S TEIVIPERANOE HOTEL, 1 2 H I G H STREET, _[>| COSTUMES, MANTLES. MILLINERY, ic, 4c. • No. 1 Raixiso Stairs, Inverness. \l,so, CO-\TINGS. TROUSERINGS. VESTLNGS, SAXONY C INVEKNE.SSJ AND CHEVIOT TWEEDS, Comfortable Bedrooms at moderate rat^is, Breakfasts, Luncheons, Dinners, Teas and Suppers on the shortest notice, and at the Satin and Felt Hats. UmbrtUat, SkirU, &c.. Cheapest prices in town. Mrs C. Anderson has been for many years And every requisite for Household and Family Use, at in &rtii-i.lass families, north and south, and will do her COLIN MACDONAL D'S, THE CLOTH & LINEN WAREHOUSE, please her j»atrons. IS HIGH STREET, INVERNESS. Ttnns, Ready M^nty. Punctual attintvyn to Letter Orders. CALEDONIAN HOTEL, IN\T:RNESS (Two .Vinu(«»* Walk/rom the Kail tcay Station)- THE SMOKE E'S SCOTCH YARN, WOOLLEN, LINEN, This well-known flrst-clasa Family Hotel, patronised by the Royal THE Family, and must of the Nobility of Europe, has recently under- SPECIAL AST) SHKTLASD WAREllOl'SB. gone extensive additions and improvements. M I X T U K E. EXTENSION OF PREMISES. A large and elegantDINlNG SALOON and LADIES* DRAWING- JOHN' FORBES bega to return thanks to the Public for their ROOM, also a spacious BILLARD and SMOKING ROOM. DONALD FRASER, TOBACCOKIST, patruiiage, and infonus them that he h;i3 extended his Premises by In point uf situation, this Hotel is the only one in Inverness that 37 UXIOX STREET, adding' two lar^e Flat*, enabling him to extend his Business, and commands a wide and extensive view uf the Ness, and the Great transact it with greater facility. And solicits further esteemed Glen of "Caledonia." I N V E R X E S S. orders, which shall at all times have prompt and careful attention. To hand, a Manufacturer's Stock of Boots, which will be Sold at half their oriifinal prices. JOHN MENZIES, ProprUto. 27 HIGH STREET, INVERNESS. J\. E X X E T H jM a C R a E, General Commis.sios Agext, INVERNESS FURNITURE G.\LLERY. MACDONALD'S STATION HOTEL, Entrance from Church Street and Acatlemtf Street. INVERNESS. YOKOHAMA A X" D Y E D 0, Fatrnnised by their Royal Highnesses the Prince CO., beg to infonn the public and Princess uf X. MACm:R & Wales, and other members of the Royal Family, and by most of the J A P A to supply every descrijjtion that they continue of HovsE- Nobility of Europe. iioLD of the best quality, at moderate prices. FVrniix'rb Parties travelling from South to North, and vice verta, will find W. & J. JI U T T E R, UlNlXO-ROOM, DaAWINO-ROUM, LiBRARV, aiid BKBKuuM Fl'R^1SlI- this very large and handsome Hotel, adjoining the Station, wher« DISTILLERS, they can arrive or depart under cover. Cari'ets of ALL KINDS in newest Patterns. "Tlie House was specially built for a Hotel, with all modem im- B O W M O R E, I S L A Y. Bbddixo Carkfcllt made up on the Premises. provements, and contains numerous suites of Private Rooms ; in- Counting House, 36 Oswald Street, Glasgov Ve:»etia.n Blixds supplied and renewed. cludes Ladies' and Gentlemen's Coffee Rooms, Smoking Ko(»nis, very choice selection d E A Billiard Rooms, Bath Rooms, 4c. It is elegantly Furnished. Over D. M I D D L E T O X &. CO., •0 CHURCH STREET. 100 Beds can be made up. COAL, LIME, AXD TIMBER MEECHAX'TS, 5I;iy 1S73: Parties leading this Hotel in the morning, can go over the grand scenery along the Skye Railway, or ^isit lK>chmaree, Gairloch, AND GENERAL COMMISSION AGENTS, JOHN NOBLE, Bookseller, 98 Castle Street, Dunrobin, or Golspie, and return same dav. 8 LOMB.\RD STREET, Invemt-is has on Sdle the fulluwing BOOKS on the Highlands Table d'Hote at 5.30 anJ 7.30. INVERNESS. and Highlanders, I'uctrj uf the Gael, Family History, 4c., many of Frb-vcu, Gkrha-t, A.VD Italian Spokbs. An Omnibus attends the which are rare :— Steai7i€rs. Posting. ALEX. M A C K A Y, Ossftus Poems, edited byjM'Callum, Svo bds. £0 2 (J. CARPEJS'TER, BUILDER d.- TRACTOR, Campbell's F.) Popular Tales of the Highlands, in W A V E R L E Y HOTEL, HOUSE COX English and Gaelic, 4 vols., post 8vo, cl. . 1 2 G UNION STREET, 30 & 31 ACADEMY STREET, b>gan (James) Scottish Gael, plat*fl, 2 vols., 8vo, cl. 14 INVERNESS. (W. INVERNESS. Stewart Grant) Highlands and Highlanders as PrxsRAi. Unvrrtakkr, Hocsb Aobnt AXD Valuator. they were and aa they are, 2 vols., 12mo, d. .. 4 U-iuder (.Sir Thomas Dick) FltXKls of Moray, new edi- original CAMPBELL*S ROYAL HOTEL A C D L D, tion, with plat«6, cr. Svo, cl. . C JOHN M X A (Closely adjoining the Jiaiiway Station Platform), Mackenzie's Beauties of Gaelic Poetry, roy. 8to, cl. LIVE STOCK AGEST AXD AGRICULTURAL new 10 F O R R E S. APPRAISER, l)r MacCuIliH:h's Ilighlandsand Western Isles, 4vols. Tliis first-class F.imilv and Cmmercial HOTEL (for sometime 8vo, hf. cf. 1 10 known as the K;i,l,, ., mil ' unis llMt^l)i,as been acquired by Mr 41 TELFORD ROAD, INVERNESS. I>r MacOulUKih's Western Islands, plates. 3 vols. hf. cf. ; ',, ^ ii ISO James Campum , t, l. hneniess. and is now Re- Browne's Historj'of the Highlands and Highland Clans, ~ I! opened under In ., ;, 111. Hi. ttl is of quite recent con- H. MACKENZIE, plates, 4 vols. Svo, cl. 16 JAMES ^iiuit.il, struction, is btMut !'i :_\ liAMiii,' :>, southern exposure, and BOOKSELLER AXD STATIONER, Shaw's (Rev. LAchlan) History of the Pro\inco of cunmianding vitws nf a charming surroimding countri-. Tlie CLUB Moray, 4to 110 Rooms are sjiacious and handsomely furnished, while the Bedrooms HIOHLAXD BUILDINGS, Stewart (General, of Garth) Sketches of the High- are cheerful, well ventilated, and provided with every requinite to INVERNESS. landers, fine copy, with map of clans, *2 vols. Vvo, nfort. Bookbinding, Lithographic, and Letterpress Printing. Crests, cf. gilt 10 nie Hotel is only half a.nunutf '* walk from the Railway Plat- Monograms and Addresses Stamped in Brilliant Colours. Pictures Glironicles of the Picts and Scot«, edited by Skene, — and VisituH! have thus tlie convenience of proceeding direct Framed in Oxford, Gilt Bead, and Ornamental style. roral 8vo, cloth 12 from the Hntvl to the Platf»i val of the 'lYain bv which Ossian's Poems—The Highland Society's edition, with they intend to travel. A R R t) W R O O T. the i>oein8 in Gaelic, Latin. &.c. Dissertations, &c., POSTING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES. fine copy in lan/e paper, 3 vols. im)>crial 8vo, Excellent NnUal, in 4J lb. Bottles, 4s c«ch. Boots ill attendance at all Trains. newly Iwund, fuli calf extra 4 4 GORDON AND S H I T H, Gordon (Sir Robert) Hi8tor>- of the Earldom of JAMES CAMPBELL, PROPRIETOR, INVERNESS. Sutherland, folio calf extra, fine copy 3 rt U-ssee of Campbell's Gellion's Hotel, Inverness. Kohertaon (Colonel) Gaelic Tojwgraphy TAPIOCA. Rot)erttion (Colonel) Historical proofs regarding the Penang, 6d i>cr lb., 5s 6d. per Stone. Gael OGC ;< T A T I N HOTEL, ELGIN. Finest Itob Donn's GaeH« Poems, s GORDON AND SMITH, the best edition, with life of the Bard, by Dr .M. Mnckay 4 .Mr WILLIAMS would beg to return his most sincere thanks for INVERNESS. Rcgistnim Mfiraviensis The Charturlar>* of Moray, the liberal [latronagc l>estowcd on him by Tourists, Commercial published by Bannat>-ne Llub, 4to. IkIs., scarce 2 12 Gentlemen, and the Public generally, and would solicit a continu- DEER SKINS. ance Grose (Capt) Antiquities of Scotland, plat«s, 2 vols. of their Support. Large and beautifully Tanned, 7s to lOs 6d each. 4to, calf HOT JOINTS in the Conmiercial every 1 12 fl Room Day, from One Throe, carriage paid. P.M. until Seven Caledonia Romana : lUjman Antiquities in North p.m. An ORDINARY every GORDON AND SMITH, Britain, platen, 4to, cloth 12 Friday, from Half-past One p.m. until INVERNESS. Burt's (Captain) Letters from the North of Scotland Four p.m. (Inverness), dcwrlbing Highlanders, Ac, 2 vols. A Large and Airj- STOCKROOM for Commercial Gentlemen, small Svo. boards and oounu copies from Free of Charge. 10 fl CAMPBELL'S DIPPING COMPOSITION lUtscs of Kilravock—Family Papers jiublishcd First-class BILLIARD-ROOM in connection with the Hotel. by for Sheejj and I.^nibs. Ac, has been thorouglily tested by Spalding Club, 4to, cloth 110 coiniietent judges, and found to be the bet>t they ever usett. It is Cawdor Papers, publi«ihc-9 U» M'lan's Gaelic Gatherings, 24 flno coloured platco, COACH- HOUSE attached, where a Good Posting and Cabbing Business has found an exception to this rule, and retain its unexeellableqtmlitics with detfcriptioim by James Logan, folio, half been carried on for many yeant. throughout. Whoever fairlv tries it will never use anv other. morocco extra (pub. £0 Us) 2 5 T\\e Premisetiare very CAMPBKLL'S DIP gives'Proof of its qualities in the immerous Campbell's (Lieut.) Language, Poetn-, centrically and most conveniently situated. ' 4c. of tlie be seen, full Particulars and Rent Moderate, and I^ntr>- can be had now or at Whitsunday first. Testimonials roceivwl. and which may Highland Clans, royul svo, cloth . . 7 To a person with a nuxlerate capital this would prove' a most Directions given for I'sc, by appljing to J. N. will be glad to foru-ard his Catalogue U* Book Bi^viuiB as published. suitable o|H.tiing, the Business being ca])ablc of considerable im- ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, Jus.. Jc CO.. GLASGOW. provement. X.B.—Order* /or Btntariiia and othtr Dttming MatariaU, Oils, Gaelic Books iu great variety. OLD BOOKS Bought Apply at the Office of this Paper. Spiritg of Tar, Tobacco Jttice, UtlUbore, Sn/t Soap, Soda, Jied in any (juantity. ]nveniu:js, 13th March lb73. and Blm Keeh, Ac, dc, ghalt have the best attentii^n.

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THE HIGHLANDER, MAY 24, 1873.

mefein agas moighriogh go T-AKD-ALBANNACH. 'S nasal an dream, uallach 'an reang, bheirim uaim, ceanglam aris AN chonghbhail 'N an gluasad gun mheang dealbh orra, siorthuighe fo ccunrag so do sheasaibh agas lion mbhrian reimliraite agas da oighribh na dhiaigh go AIR COGADH 'S AN A' toannadli a suas 'an coinneamli luchd fuath', ROIMH-BHEACHD deiriogh an bheatha, le cuir mo laimhe agas mo sheala '8 colgail fo chruaidh annachd iad ROINN-EORPA. ; sios au so a laithair na bfhiaghain so so sios, agas an 'N uair theid iad 'n an doann a' tarruing nan lann, seiseamh la do mis na bealtuine agas an bhliadhan so so air ilo Chumhaclulan Austria agiis teann, tarbhant' iad, .Syrlobhatlh 'S tapanta, do bhreith Chriosta Mile, ceithre ced. agas a hocht. iia Fraiiige bhi cathacliadh r' a cliuile 's an Eadailt, Cha chaisgear le Migh lotaii 'n an ddigh, McDOMHNAILL.

'S ;l baiTachd an euchd 's earbsach sinn. amis a' bhliaillina 185',), agus o gle choltach aig an l']oiu Mac nomhaUl. I'at: McaHriuin. ;\m gu'in biodh feaclidan eile na Roinn-Ebrp air an nan cnuachd, Gin- sgaituach an tuar a' spealtadh Fc-nns Mac Betha. iad, taiTuing chum na conih-stri. Tre altaibh air sniuais deargaidh Aodh Mc Cei. 'S guineach gun dith fuiltoachd an sgi-iob, [Translation.] Mo shoraidh gun dJiil gu Coniunn* mo giJiidli, oancliuinnean, A' sadadh d cinn Ill the name of God. .\meii. 'Bheothaich gacli gnitlis ananianta, duin air a' raon, 'S hi 'dh mlltean aig Aog 'n an I, .\I.s.(' iioNALO, am granting and giving eleven marks Clioiaiim cliliu do fldaitlican ardutbcli', mor Le slachdraich nan laoch garb-bhuilleach, ami a half of land from myself and from my heirs, to j^ailili-lilR';uinach, Blia siubhal nan stuc 'S leanaidh iad tbir gu 'm faigh iad gu' n dcbin, Brian Vicar Mackay and to his heirs after him for ever lilii 'g 'an diiin, O'n 's toigh loo na B.^ini aithris Ceangal gach cbir dearbhta leo. and ever, for his services ... to myself and to iiiy

beaclid air an spiiirn aindu'uiticli, ; on covenant and on condition Am LoCH-AlLME. father before me and this A tliarrtiing na sloigh gu fochair na Roimli', that he himself and they shall give to me and to my Gheobh iad le deoin suauclias uam. heirs after me yearly, four cows tit for killing for my cows shall not be found, 8GEUL GOIRID. house. And in case that these A chlamia nan treun, buadliach 'am bi^um, the above Brian aud his heirs shall give to me and to my 'Ghineadli 's gacli tre'ubh Albannacli, Bin uair eigiii aim an aon de sgireachdaii machar heirs after me, two marks and forty for the same above Grad ndiosglaibh o'rsuain, gre;isaibh fo chruaidh, Rois toaglilach de sheanu ghiUean agus iiigheanau. cows. And for the same causes I am binding myself agus blia roinn of world, Soasaibh 'n vir sluagh armailteach, Bha iad 'ua muiuutir choir, phairteacliail, and binding my heirs after me, to the end the 'n t-saoghal aca ouideachd. Bha iad na in niuinntir together with their fruit of sea and laud, to Tlia 'u Eadailt 'n a dre6s a' losgatlli 's gach sgebd, dhe these lauds, cheular ami an iomadh doigh, 's cha robb auii diubh 'dol maintain to the above Brian Vicar Mackay, 'S maithcan na li-E5rp' aimlisgeach, defend and do 'n eaglais eadar di cheaun na bUadhua. Thainig and to his heirs forever after him iu like maimer. Clia-n Alios dliuinn do "n uair thig caismeachd aon diubh feasgar araidh gu taigh a' mhiiiist»ir a bha And these are the lands I have ^ven to him and to his in'aii cuaiit, Machaire, Learga- 'n tri sin 's an Sgire, ga iaiTuidh gus an taigh aca gu heirs forever : namely, Baile-Vicar, 'S bitliibh gu cruaidli, ceannsgalacli. luath. Shaoil leis an duine inhaith gur ami a bha aon riabhoighe, Ciontragha, Graftol, Tocamol, Ugasgog, the dlie 'n teaghlach timi agus thainig e air talbli gun dail two Gleamiastol, Cracobus, Corunbus, aud BaUe- B'o fasan nan seod a glileidheadh an coir, conilila ris an teachdair a thainig ga iarruidh. 'Nuair a Neaghtoin. And in order that there may be meaning, 'S a dli'fhiig thar gacli sebrs' ainmeil sibli, thainig e fagus do 'n taigh, bha te de na boiriomiaich force, aud effect in this grant I give from me, I again Bhi macanta, mln, "n an cinneadh 's 'n an tlr, 'na seasamh 's an dorus ga fheitheamh. Air dlioibh bind myself aud my heirs forever under covenant this dearmalach, 'S iad daonnan air slth faUte chuir air a ch>5ile dh'fhebraich am ministear to uphold and fulfil to the aforesaid Brian and his heirs DUoas 'n an geJird do n' riogliachd 's gach cJls, carsou a chuir iad tios air ? after him to the end of the world, by putting my hand Clia dhiobradh air bUii- garbh-cliathach, Boireannacli— " 'S ann atha aon dhe 'n clirodh againn and my seal down here, in the presence of these Cosgarr' 'an cruas 'cur UiVnihaid gn ruaig, gle thinn." ^^^tnesses here below, and the sixth day of the month of Gu grad-chasach, truagh, balla-chritheach. Ministear— "Ma se so an t-aobhair cha 'n urrain mise the Beltane, and this year of the birth of Christ, one ni a dheanamh air sou na bi." thousand four hundred and eight. Ach 's deacair dhomh inns', fhaicinn, no sheinn, Boir. " Feumaidh sibh dol agus a faiciiin co dhiii." McDonald. Do dh' fliigadh 's an tim s' feargach sibh, Chaidh iad na 'n dithis gus a bhiitheach agus dh'- John Mac Donald.

Scan fhalachd 'us spid a bhrosnaich gu stri fht'uch i a bhb dha. Pat ; Mc aBrian. " ministear An aitiui a chinn soarbh-bhuilleach, Tha bhb coltacli ri bhi tinn" ars' am Fergus Mac Beth. ' ' aithne dhomhsa ciod e a dheanadh feum Leigibh loo fe'in 'bhi casgairt a cln5il', ach cha 'n Hugh McCei. dhi cha 'n eij eolas sam bith, sam bith agam air Gu 'n caisgear an dud anameinoach, — crodh. Ach bithibli mar 's dual 'feitheamh na h-uaii'', 4raid uair eigin 'an CinutaUe, Boir. "Mar uiTaiii sibh dad tuiUeadh a dheanamli, Bean Lot.—Bha dume M' an glacair sibh fuar, dearmadach. 'aimsir 'an aimi an righ. Air dha deanaibh uniuigh air a son. agus bha e pAirt de bhiodh^ moran a' Min. " Cha dean, cha dean, cha d'rinn mi riamh a pUleadh dhachaigh do Chinntaile, Tha gaisridh nach cU aii- ghluasad 's gach tir, deth gach ni a chuimaic e air 'aUaban an leithid, 's eha dean mi 'n diugh e." febraich mu 'S an uaislean gu grim, earra-ghloireach, b'fhior e fh(5in, bha e eolach Tliogair am ministear nis air falbli, ach sheas am duthchanan c^in. Na'm Gu'm beil dliiubli aLr thus a' tional gu dliith, ni, chunnaic e na h-ude, agus cha bhiodh boireamiach eadar e 's an dorus agus ars' ise " cha teid air gach Pruiseinich ghnutli 's Geamiailtioh, freagradh e. "An cuala sibh bhur cas a mach a so gus au dean sibh urnuigh air son ceiste sam bith nach eigin ris.— "0 'N am beachdan mar geill' s gu-n tnid iad air naba." riabh mu bhean Lot'" arsa neach tb nach b' aithue ghldus, ministear a bha 'chuis, bradag, chuala, chuala, cha b'i 'n 'Nuair a chunnaic am mar !" idir, Lot Le 'n armaibh 's an streup fheara-ghleusaich, thog e a laimk agus ars' esan " Ma bhios tu beu, biodh, dhuinn bean Grad thaomaidh n am mill feaclidan 's an stri, 's mar bi, bi marbh." Ni sonas gach ui 'sheai'gachadh. Leig am boirionnach a nis air falbh e agus an atli la GAELIC SAYINGS. bha bhb cho maith 's a bha i riamh. 's gun seol, 's coir a chi-ochadh ; 'Se le'ir-sgrios gach diithch' 's creach dhlobhail Uair eigin an deigh so thachair gu'n do ghabh am Duine gun rath 'sa choir 'scoir aclu-ochadh. gach dilil, ministear at, no goirteas amhaich, leis an robh e air a duin' arms am bi tuiUeadh Cluich fear dur', barbarra, thoir gle iosal cho iosal 's gu'n d'thug an Lighich a bha an nam — 'S nioch 's is anmoch gu Bailetharbhaich broii, air teann ordugh gun neach sam bith a Co-imeachd 'n an cbir bi'dli bochduinn 'us feitheamh Gobha. 'S thar bhailtean bi'dli nebil mharbhanta, leigeadh do an t-aebmar aims an robh e' ua laidhe — measg Meallair 'n an diiil Righreaii 'tha 'm mdini ach am boirionnach a bha frithealadh dha. Am dh-fhebraich cia mar a bha am 'An talliichan Dhun anabharrach, mi'iran eile a thainig a l^itci'iituvc. ministear, thainig an te aig an robh bho gu tinn, agus 'Call an cuid cruii, gun urram, gun iul, dh' iarr i fhaicum. Chaidh iimse dhi uacli b'urrain di appeared. It is satis- 'S 'g am folach 'an ciiim gharbhlaichean. The Gael for May has just fhaicinn leis cho lag 'sa bha e. Thubhairt i nach in the factory to note that this is its twelfth nmnber fhalbhadh i gus am faiceadh i e agus dh' iarr i an hfteenth Tha Breatuinn gun fhiamh, barraicht' fo dliion country of his forefathers, while it is the seomar amis an robh e fheuchain di. Chaidh so a have read it Deas ghaisgeach 'nan gniomh arm-chleasach, number of the worthy chief liimseU. We .-lir i steach far an robh e. dheanamh agus ball chaidh along, and we are glad to hud that the A glili^idli i gach km tearuint' 's gach ball, with interest all i ri na leapa, gun fhocal a ridh. Bha i Sheas taobh ri isean a' mhadarimidh—mar is sme chbmhrag 's o flieall fharbhalach, proverb, "C'oUoch tacan a' geur amharc an aodainn a' mhiiiisteir agus es' ag not at aU applicable to it. We 'S god tha 'nainihdean a ghiiJith 'feitheamh nam •dol n'is miom," is amharc na h-aodaiinsa. Thog i an sin a lamh os a from its observe that the cover is considerably altered ihth, cheamiagus ars' ise "Ma bhios tu beb, biodh, agus mar of Piper, original appearance, it consisting now of drawings Gu nochdadh an ckil gairge dh' i, bi, bi marbh." paraphernalia Harper, lona Cross, Tartan and other Ma tliig iad a nail dearbhaidh 'n cuid ceaiui, Chuimhnicli am ministear air na thachair arms a' described peculiar to the Celt, which may be briefly m Gur goirt a ni 'clann barbaireachd. bhaitheach, agus lag 's mar bhi e cha b'urrain da gun from a the following lines which we have received giire a dheanamh. Bha 'n gaire a thainig air na Strathspey friend : Na 'n ruigeadli ar glaodli chatha thar chaol, mheadhon ri leigheas, oir bhris am meall a bha na deise iir air a' Ghaidheal, 'S iomadach laoch starbhanach, amhaich leis a ghluasad agus cha b'fhada gus au robh "Tha Tha crois a' phap aig a chasan, A ghreasadh gun dilil 'ghabhail ar pMrt, e cho laidir 's cho fallain 's a bha e riainh ! luingeas a' seoladh gu siidjhlach, Tha thairis air sal gailbheinneach Tha ; Tha plobaire 'chiiul a'toirt caismeachd, Ged dh' fhkgadh leo glinn bheanna nam frith, elirsair a' seinn nan oran, "Laughie" sends us the following in answer to Tha Tha 'n cion air an tir ainmeil so, an tarruing, " Tha leoghann 's a spbg "Ileach : O'n dh' imich iad uainn cha-n fhaicear an luacli gu dosrach uaine An ainim de amen. Tha chiaran 'S gur ait leinn gu buan, sealbhach iad. Mar shuaicheantas aig a' ghaisgeach." agas tabhairt en ATArMSE Mac domhnaill ag bronnagh is concluded story entitled " Callum a' yhlinne" 'S iad Giidlieil mo riiin 's iomraidich' clii, mhairg deg go leith dfearann uaim pfliein agas om The chapters on astronomy stiU continue, mth Cha laidli orra gnuig leanabuidheachd, oighribh do Bhrian Bhicaire Mhagaodh agas da oighribh The papers in the GaeUc department. The slieirbhise other readable Na lebmhainn gun sgith 'an iomairt nan in, ua dhiaigh go siorthuighe suthain ar son a contains anything English department, though it harcUy . athair romham agas so 'Tha sgathaiTa, dan', meanmuinneach. . . damh pfeiii agas dom original, is nevertheless interesting. se fein either new or Mar thuil-bheum nam beann 'cur sgjiimeach 'n a air chunnrag agas air chonghioU go tteobhraidh dheann. agas iadsau damhsa agas dom oighrilih am dhiaigh go bliadhnamhaU ceithre ba ionmharlihtha chum mo thighe Air niimh iad gu teann, leanmhuinneach. sometimes oti Best Fkiesds !— agas a cas nach biadh na bath soin ar faghail bhearadh Our Enemies are done for us by those who 'S cinnteach dhaibh buaidh 'a gach carach an How Uttle we know what is being au Brian huas agas oighriogh dhomhsa agas dom oighnbh over some re- ! are in despau- gliiais, are working agamst us We am dliiaigh da mharg agas da fhichit marg ar son na discover that we have verse and ere the tears are dry, we 'S cha-n fhaighear 's an uairs' cearbaoli iad. mbo cceadna huas. Agas ar na habharuibh cceadna which, our been saved by that reverse from some evil to m fein agas ag ceanglial out of his ataimse dom cheanghal fein way, we were hastenmg. An enemy steps Ma bhagrar ar tlr, 's gu-n teid iad gu stri, own from go deiiiogh an bheatha na behold ! he saves us moighriogh um dhiaigh way to stop our progress, and, Gu 'm faigh iad fo cliis cealgairean agas tire do thing to be afraid of is the fearaimi soin moLUe re na dthoraibh mara fading into a pit ! The only Gur ealamli na seoid a' tional mar 's c6ir, ourselves. sheasamh agas do chonghbhail don mbhriain bhiocaire evil wliich proceeds from Fo bhrataichean srbil balla-bhreacach, siorthuighe na penitently Mhagaodh huas agas da oighribh go A Detroit negro prisoner, on his way to the Bi'dli toniian trileanta, sonafearainnthugas thought of Ms trial. He nam piob bimi dhiaigh marancceadna. Agasasiad for larceny, was asked what he " made his speech, 'N b.m f^gail nam frith garbh-ghlacach, dho fein agas da oighribh go brach iadhon Baile said %\Tien dat lawyer dat 'fended me to take my ole hat and walk A' brodadh an uadl, 'lasadh an gruaidh, bhiocaire Machaire Learga riabhoige. Ciontragha. Graf- I thought shuah I was going when de other la^^Ter got astol. Cracobus. of dat co't room ; but 'S a' togail a suas calg orra. tol. Tocamol. Wgasgog. Da ghleann richt out I knew I was de biggest rascal Comubus. Agas Bade Neaghtoin. Agas ionnas go up and commenced talking, earf." * The Edinburgh Highland Society. mbiaidhbrigh. neart, agaslaidireachtaganmbrontanasso on top of de " ' ,

THE HIGHLANDER, MAY 24, 1873.

OUK LONDON LETTER. him apparently so thoroughly in earnest. Springing tft of a Highlander'a first attempts to speak English, »re his feet he at once dashed " " Wedxesday Night. headlong into the fray, and cfeditalde (rcaUy '.) to the jiassiou of the Celtic proceeded to assail tlxe jiosition assumed by the member ntuse, to Kecext elections have produced a very painful impres- and the zeal" (oh, de.ar !) "of the people in fi»r Bradford with a vehemence which he has not dis- '' sion ou the luiiuls of the " wire-pullers" at the Keforiu behalf of their native princes. , played for many a day. There was notliing uncerfciin There ! le^ our (iaelic societies to it. • 'hib. of last hiok .Speaking to one these gentlemen niglit, I in the Premier's war-cry. He crushed his enemy with The announcement recently made of the appointment I wa.s assiiriil that the leaders of the party liad now his heavy guns, and galled him with a fire of small of Mr Albert Butter, a son little "I- nn hu]jc of being able to retain a fair working younger of the well-known missiles. When he resumed his sent the struggle «as Liird of majority after the general election, which my friend con- Faseally, to the nianagei-sliip in Julinbuvgh of over, and all the honours rested with the defenders of tliat very iirospcrous lonccni sidered ciiuld not be long deferred. He saiil that in the Union Bank of Scot- "The Church as by law established. ' Still tlie assail- Lijiid, will doubtless lie England the ranks of the Liberals were certain to be hailed with much satisfaction in ants have not lost heart. Defeat they knew was northern sailly thinned, and that many thought the Irish repre- latitudes, especially by your Perthsliii>o ine\-italile, ami, although it was more complete th.an readers. are ccrUiiiily sentatiiin would be almost exclusively composed of We de\-elopiiig as a people, and. they expected, they arc not cast doM-ii. They believe lo^ig Home Kulei-s .lud Tories. " Scotland," he added, "is ere the dreiided New ZcaLiuder arrives on British that time is on their side, and they hojie that the I"rime shores, to iuscriljcd in .aiuials for lladical to the core, and we do not fear any gi'eat we hope have our his Minister may live to do by the Church of England as iivspection. the names of fiiuanciers, hail- falling oft' there. " He alluded, with much complacency, m.any eminent he did !iy that of Ireland, and I can oidy saj' that more ing from the north. Time w.is when old to the attitude .assumed Iij- the constituents ol' Messrs. our Highland unlikely' things have happened in Gladstone's laJrds Aj-toun, Maclie ami Bouverie, and expressed the hope Mr looked decidedly ask.anee at all commercial career. Several points connected with the

and his maimers and turn c )f thought, wliich are more the «se before, such as the meeting of the Gener.al Assembly tilings that have, within the last few d.ays, come under of a jnlit innilri bigli-borii than a courtier, are a decided oil the 22d ; , the meeting of the Mid-Lothian Rifle my own observation, ;is indicatjng some of the many ban-ier to popularity in England, where people think Aesociatiou on the 16th June (the programme of which wiiys in which the genuine Celt gives \ent to his feel- princes should liave robust minds in robust bodies, his just been issued), and the Scottish Metropolitan ings. 1 was sliown the othej- day, in one of the large llrst impressions are, however, wearing off, and, I am D^g Show, which opened to day. An event of the mtinirfacturing w.archouse3 in this citj-, p.atterns of a glad to say it is now becoming .apparent that the week which w ill call forth universal regi'et, is the de.atli C8rt.aui t.artan, both in chintz and in printed fabrics. Mariiuis possesses a fund of good sense and good of; Dr Mackuitosb ilackay, which took place at his TJiey were, I learned, being prepared for a wealthy and fi-iliiig. wliich must ultimatly ende.ar him to those rttsidence at Portobello, on Saturday. A ministei', enthusiastic Highlander of a nrta'ttt rhm, being a good amongst whom lie lives. His proposal recently made successively in Laggan, Dunoon, .Vustr.alia, and latterly distance from the Highlands, but who, to .all .app^i"^ to tlu- Anlibishop of Canterbury, to inaugurate a in Harris, there were few men better known or held in aiice, is determined to bring the Highlands pretty close monument ou behalf of tlie poor" cliTgy of the Esta- liigher esteem. To him we owe, in a gi'eat measure, to his fireside —as the prints were for dresses to be blished C'hurcli, has r.aised liim imnicnsely in the eyes the (4aelic Dictionary of the Highhand (Society, in worn by his' numerous serv.ants, and the chintz for the' (pf the whole community, and the decided stand he has itself a lasting monument to his memory. covering of his furniture. Our worthy C-elt, however, ' taken against tile shrieking sisterhood " has also won 'It is gratyling to learn that C'liarles Mack.ay, LL.D., isinot s.atistiod with having his attendants dressed in liim golden opinions. He not only voted against Mr is still pursuing his Celtic studies, and that one result t.ai-t,an, and in recUniug himself on couches covered .Jacob Bright's Female Suffrage Bill, liut lie lias oidy of his labours in this deiiartmeiit is to be jiublished with fabrics of a similar device, but he has actually laijd consented to preside at tlie approaching meeting of the shortly in a volume, entitled the "(iaelic Etjnuology vijilent hands njion the crockery, and is about to put Society for Improving tlie Education of oi Englisli, &o. '' Nearly twenty years .ago Dr upon it also the s.amo C'eltic impress. i^ir Women, on Mackay , Many,,of receiving an assuraucethat no ladies should be allowed to fajVoured the English reading public (in the preface to Lliwl.and friends will doubtless hold np their bauds, in speak ! a^collection of Scottish Songs, which has since gone horror, at the liase idea of washing themselves out of a Great anxiety continues to exist in Roman Catholic through more th.an one edition) w'ith the folic iwiug basin ]iaiuted .after the fashion s.ay of a /.Wi 1!o>i lartaii. circles, notwithstamling the late the poetry and music of telegrams, .as to the estimate of the Gael —an StiU it is all a matter of tasta ; and I am Iwvbaa-ian condition of the Pope, and a speedy and fatal termina- estimate worth tjuoting; as it has. been much referred enough to confess tb.at 1 should enjoy as niuch.a bit of tion of his illness is feared by many. He would be tq by the miiuitiated ; and coming, as it does, from the venison or a good steak out of a plate painted, in iiuicli Lamented by large numbers of Enghshmen who, iiiost popular song writer of the day. "Nearly all the Victoria t.artan, .as out of the best St:illord.shirc %vare, wliilst alilioring the religious delieioiis of < system of wliicli lie is the biautiful music, and sketches song, com- Afl honoiir to the right-heaitcil ilt, 1 am not gifted head, have always been loud in their praise of the ii«only considered to be Scottish, lielong to that section with the second sight, Imt I may veiHurc to predict ,thiit geniiil and benevolent gentleman whom none could f.ail oS Scotland, known as the lowlands, and a country in before a twelvemonth elapses therte %rifl bfe a host 6t to discover in the vencr.ablc Pio Nono, Speculation wiiich the people speak one of the many Doric dialects itmitators. i .,••., /

to I as his successor is very rife .amongst clerical niemliers oi the Saxon English language. If a hue lie drawn From tartan dresses and tartaii-p.ainted-ernokei-y, ' fchri of the ancient faitli, but no well-informed person hero fnmi (.ireenock on the CIvde, ninth-cast by Perth to tmnsition is easy to liagiiipes. Writing of bagpipes, is believes the newspajier report that Archbisliop Manning l4\-erness, it will be found that by far the greater it:)iot a matter both of astonisliincut and regret that in is likely to obtain a majority of the votes of the S:i<;red ]i6rtion of thu songs and melodies which are known as the Vienna Exliilntion, among all the 'exhibits f>t

College. Scotch to .Scotchnieu, and to the world, and of which mtiisical iustruments, there is not a single b.agpipe ? Speaking of m.atters Roman Catholic, it may not S<;otclmiun speak with the highest pride and enthu- What has ct>me over our Hibernian friends who enjoyed be amiss clironicle to the fact that M. Loyson, siasm, have been produccil to the south and cast of it. lapt winter the unusual heat of a coui-se . of scver.al liaving bo»n ''.. deprived of tlie title of "Father" by the . . . . North-west of thiit line— is the Land of the lejctures flu .this instrument It is too late now .to re- I Cliurch, has had it conferred upon liim by Mail.ame (ifiel—of the semi-barbarous and imperfect instrument, pair the lo.ss, but surely it might have entered .into the lyoyson. The cx-staymaker from New York has the bagpipe, of mid pibroch tunes, of rude melodies, cifania of our Celtic friends in Ireland to luivo sent, not presented lier husb.and, the eloquent Pere Hyacinthe, veiy little known .and still less admired, and of a oijly the several instrumtiuts they had to illustrate the with a son. species of song which has rarely been considered worth lectures, butalso a copy of the lectiu'cs by way of cei-ti- Brad laugh, the blasphemer, .and his sixty-nine brother the trouble of translation. But on the south-east of fyiiig to the .antii|uit.\- of the ba,i;pipe. demagogues, brought their Republican conference to a tl»e line, .and all the way to the Eiiylisli bolder, Nvlinc I do not know but it might be worth whi)e tp

close in , Birmingham some days since, and the redoulit- tl)e .Saxon tongue ]jrevails, and wlin. (In imurl- f t'l. cadcavoiir to rectify the omission. If one of the able " Iconoclast ".of the Xalional Jfi'funiier, is now in piople liave for ages h.ad access t" lln.^li^h l.li r,it,iiv. ' itinerant pipers that are found in such goodly numbers with .s« Madrid an address of sympathy for Seiior Castelar. (0, my country ! ) "the Land is vocal » itli cct smiiids. in Edinburgh and Leith, were to take shijito H.amburgh, The latter has, jirobably, never heard of the three . . . . The H ighlander, who li.as no right or title to thence wiiioiiiig his way through

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n.m ,ii i!i/i ;,ii);; i n rFffy or Spanish, or other language Wednesday, May 21, Dutch, Portugese, any $Xiits of Intci-rogiitian. but that which in ro:iIity it was. He was cauglit, how- NEW WRIT. ever, outiat'tumijnii by .iiiother Highlander in loinmand On the motion of Mr Glyn, a new writ was ordered for o£ another URreluuituiMi, who had known him and Richmond (Yorkshire), iu the room of Mr Dundais, iiow Can any of your readers send me a copy, at your office, heanl of his pranks. He got answered in (iaelic on Earl of Zetland. of '* Van lui Firinnf I don't think it is anywhere in considcralile print. W. this oecasion, and though at distance from contagious nisEA.sES Act. each other, a convcrsa.tion was kept up iu < iaelic for a Mr Fowler's' Bill for the Repeal, of the Contagious Whether is the clan Mackenzie of Irish or of Scottish afternoon. Iv'ot so bad for the Gaelic when it can whole Diseases Act was rejected by a m.ajorily of 123. extraction. Kintail. acconiiuodate itself tu tlu* signalling codo at sea.. Are the Gaelic witticisms of Fearchar a' rjhunna pre- Writing of the (Iaelic and what it can aeconnnodate servetl. Farbrainneach. itself to, I am reminded that Highlanders in this city Galgacus.—Tacitus gives us in Latin, the speech which aj"e just now in some tlauger of losing a useful and Jforciqn anb Coloiiiiil. Galgacus delivered the Caledonians before the battle v;Uued friend. The Eev. Jlr Blair of St Columba has, (?) to of ' Mens Grampius." Did T.acitus know GaeUc (which I understand, received a call to the parish of Dunoon. language, I presume, Galgacus spoke) ? If not, who gave Wliat the decision of the rev. gentleman uifliy be is AMERICA. the Latin version to Tacitus? Did Galgacus do it, or dillieidt to conjecture. has now been pastor of He St The seat of the war with Modoc Indians is thus described cotdd any of the Caledonians do it ? Severus. Ci iliuuba for about live years, and has laboured zeiilously by a writer in the jYdWoii .— " You will notice in the "Glenstrathearrar."—What is the correct meaning and with much acceptance. In point of niunbera and jiapei-s, from day to day, mention of the 'Lava Beds' as of (Jlenstrathfarr.ar ? Do the natives speak of the place as elheiency, the church now occupies a position superior the name fif the pbice in which a conflict is now raging " Glenstr.ath ?" If not, who gave it the rediuulant apjjela- to any it has hitherto done every av:iilable seat is between the United States troops and the Modoc Indians, — tion ? Eineannach. I liai)[jeu to have received a hi/M-- inter'' tin^^ occupied, and still, 1 am told, large numbers of appli- communica-

referro.l t, . ticm from the region 'Mil, , luduced in my cants cannot be accommodated. I thiid^ the rev. INTERROGATION. mind a conviction that the Ml' ' mi t rong posiiton ANS"WERS TO NOTES OF gentleman can scarcely be spared where his labours are and that the U. S. troops will U..r f \. ive them alone. Lauchie writes, "ClachnacuddinwiUfmdin the Transac- I heartily appreciated, attended apparently SQ and with 'The Lava Beds' form an extensive pliin reaching some tions of the G.aolic Society of Inverness, Vol. I., p. 46, ,,,.80 much success. I hunflreds of miles each way ; but a very curious sort of more than one attempt at an account of the Highland r iThe Oonservavives here, I undei-stand, have deter- 'plain,' if it can becaUed a plain at all. It is vast sur- a capital. I w-ould, however, offer as the most satisf.actory, mined, as in constituencies, to try their fortune at the face of lava rock, once level, but subsequently upheaved that which connects it with N.aois, tlu- s,.ri .if T'isneach. coming election. Rumour has been very Inisyfor and cracked into millions of "irregular fissures ramifying some in According to legend and tradition, Dc-:iiiiiiil, tin hit]othed time ]ia3t, and various names have been mentioned all directions. Imagine a lake of molten lava three or four ; of Connor-MacNessa, fell in hive with .\,i..i-, ,iii'l accom- hundred miles square. Imagine it cooled but the one on which I am inclined to think the Tories down almost to panied him to Albyn. He landed at luicruc.-s, built stone-hardness ; and then suddenly shaken from will stake their all, and that with considerable pros- below and himself a castle there, caUing the place IiAlur A'a

6 THE HIGHLA]!^DER, MAY 24, 1873.

THE QUEEN'S DRAWINCx-ROOM. were a braw young lad yourself. Hoots ! Mary, said bless her ; and I'll tie your plaid round my shoulders I, I'm not so old, " and I am not nearly so aged as she for a court dress." " You're no blate Maggie," said my Macgcffy's Hotel, " is, that's a fact, as you know and she knows, but Mary wife ; and that's true, she is a brave lassie, and fears London, May 8th, 1873. »t11 have her joke against me. "Well, ' said Mary, nothing." " Mv DEAK Sandy Mackenzie, — the yotmg lady stood there in all her braws talking "But John," said I, "there must have been a great kiniUy, and then came her mother in a dress that many of these grand ladies when they were all together." Me and my wife and daughter, and John, my son, so cost more than fifty notes, and ah, but we were proud " Well," said John, " they told me that there was near vas here about the Game Uommittee, as you know, to see how pleased they all were with my cousin's about t»'elve hundered of them passed before the and we got a graud cliauce this day. Maybe the work. About twelve, the ladies got into their coach at Queen and the grandees. They were more than two minister will like to know as well as yourself aU that the door, and away they went straight to the Queen's hours, by the watch, walking jiast ; and if they were we saw and heard, so you may tell the minister and (lra\™ig-room. " 'There was a great heap of people at all in a row in their order as they walkeil, there would Charles Mackenzie and Donald MacgUvray and any other the door to see them go. have been two miles and a-h.alf of them in it." lads that you meet in the clachan. I'm sure they wUl "I'm sure they were tired waitin' in the string," " Well, well !" said I, "that's wonderful '." "Aye," like as weil to hear about the Queen's drawing-room as said I, " What's a string ?" said Mary. "If you had said John, who has been learning figiires, " I was trjnng we (lid ourselves. Well then, as I was going about been with me," said I, you would know what is a to reckon up the cost of the show, but it beat me. I'm this morning before breakfast I noticed a lad opening string. I was looking at the ladies in the string myself sure that each lady's dress was worth more than fifty a big coach-house door in the place that's at the back for two hours by the watch." ^\^lile we were all pounds, and some of their diamond crowns was worth of the house that we lodge in. He pulled out a grand drinking our tea and talking this way, in comes John, more than ten thousand pounds, as my cousin said to coach, and says 1 to him—says I, "that's a grand ?" my son, and may be he had the best story of us aU. me, and he knows well. And then there's the worth carriage ; who will be the owner of that He was " I never saw a house like yon palace, said he. of all the horses and coaches, and the clothes of all the a civil lad, as ever you saw in Inverness ; and Tliere 's front stairs and back stairs in it, and there's servants, and their posies of flowers. And then there he told me the name of the gentleman, and, what's doors like other doors, and doors tliat you would think were all the workpeople that gat money for the work more, he told me that the family was going to the were tables Mnth crockery on them but the' re doors and done, and all the innkeepers and housekeepers and Queen's drawing-room. So home I went to my break- they open, and those that know the ways of the house shopkeepers that lodged and fed them all ; and the fast, and told Mary, my wife, all that I had found out get any^vhere and see everj'thing, and I saw all the gold-diggers and diamond-iliggcrs that worked for all about the grand sight that was to be. Mary has friends can ceremony, and nobody knew where I was or saw me." the braw things that other people mjide for the ladies in London, and that's why she came when I was sent then, says I, let's hear all about it. " That's not to wear when they walked before the Queen." for about the game. " Well," says Mary to me, " I Well so easy," said .Tohn, " but I'll try." "Father," said John," it lieats me to count up the was at my cousin's place yesterday, and I saw one of ' ' When I got there cousin put me at one of the worth of that show, but 1 am sure it was good for trade. the grand dresses that is to be Morn this day at the my stairs, sheweolicemen called it. Tlie first car- the riage that got to the palace gate had to wait there, in the kilt?" said I to my cousin. "That's Mac Calain gard to the importance of hare and rabbit skins in because the gate was shut, and the ne.xt had to wait Mor, " said he. Oh ! Imt I was proud to see the kilt on manufacturing industry. Mr .Samuel Peck, a gentleman "A'ar/i, jiim'/a'd said cou.sin to in engaged business preparing skins for hatters, behind that, because it eoukl not get through the back him. e" my me in the of Seailli," said I; "and who is that grand said that fnmi the books of his firm and other sources, of it, and the ne.\t was beliind that. And so from the Gaelic. " ?" " larla Chatttithh,'^ skins palace gate to the end of the string tliere was a row of lady near him Ban says he. he had ascertained thatabout twomilliiui hare were carriages just like a row of carts ilra%ving peats to (.»h, man, but I was proud to sec my kinswoman annually used up in this country, about one million lier -with million wild ilie distillery, one behind the other for more than a sbuiding there in Majesty's own room her tame r.abbit skins, and about seventeen all over diamond stars, with a cover on the top rabbits. good skins came from Scotland, .and mile. But Oh '. Sandy, the sight that I saw this day head A many ?" in that string. The diamonds and the gold chains, of it. "And who else did you see of our friends saiil a few from Ireland. The trade was chiefly carried on "AV'ell, mother, I and the featherfi, and the lassies, and the laces, and my v.'iic. cannot remember; but in London, though it was pursued in half-a-dozen in the faces that were inside of these can-iages, I never there mil be a list in the papers to-morrow morning, other towns also. Ten milhon skins were exported see for yourself." hatl been to million in Great Britain, shall forget till I am on my way to Cill na Manach, up and you can When we addition the twenty used bless her !" million Prices Il-uI risen to 3s a the glen. I am sure it was more than two hours by looking a while, in came the Queen. "God making thirty in all. ' the.watch, before the first carriage got in at the gate, and said 1. ' Aye, God bless her, " said all of us at once ; and dozen for hare and rabbit skins together, wild or there came the Princess of Wales and all the other tame. The skin of the tame rabbit was worth more me looking at tlie ladies all that time ; and tliey told son with sil- me that there was more than five strings all drawing grandeea and the Queen's young the kilt on tliaii th-at of the wild, being larger. Skins of the forenent tlie place worth people in one way from all aii-ts. I am sure there was him, and tliey stood in a row where ver grey rabbits were sent abroad, and were near about a thouaanil carriages, and two tliousand 1 was, looking over a table with a big jug upon it full about a shilling each. Eighty fur cutting machines horses, and three tliousand men, drawing more than a of nothing at all. were employed in London and the provinces, each cut- thousand ladies, in dresses tliat cost more than twenty ^Vell, as soon .is the grandees were in there places, ting up 420 dozen skins per week, making 20,11)0,000 machine employed 2") workjieople on fiv» notes, to the Queen's drawing-room this day. I the first of the company came in —the ladies with long per aimum. Each or ,ibout earing in wages know well enougli that tlie minister will say that it's all trains, as long as a plaid trailing after tliem on the the premises, 2000 altogether, about £1120 per week, or about I'liO.OOO per .annum. vanity and vexation of spirit, Imt, Oh I man, it was a floor, and they becked and bowed, and ji.asscd on, one granil sight. There w;is a decent lad, an Englishm.an after the otlier, so fast thot I couid hardly see them. He reckoned that 30,000,000 skms would be worth

' ?" .t'.")00,000 ; and at 3 lbs. jier carcase there would tliere, that spoke to me, seeing I was a stranger, and he ' \\'hat's all these grand ladies said I to my cousin. about said that it was good for trade. I'm sure I don't know "That's the Ambassadors' wives and daughters, be more than 40,000 tons per annum ; and taking the that, but I must get a new handkerchief, for I lost lioosians and Proosians and Turks and .Spaniards and hares and tame rabbits at 2s, they wouhl give £450,000, mine some way near the palace door, I askcil many Italians and Americans, and jieople from all jiarts of and the wild rabbits £1,27>'),000 - making in all ])eople, but nobody found it. There 1 was till it was the earth, come to see the Queen." "AndwcU they £1,725,000. This firm had commenced to breed near about six, and the carriages was stUI taking tlie might," said Mary my wife. Anil there w;us the rabliits by putting 50 on a two-acre field of poor grass, company home. What a grand ceremony it must liave niastcr of the ceremonies and the Ivord Chamberlain, and would be glad to rejiort the rcsiUt. He cmild not 8.ay if rabbits would increase to two millions in two Ijucu inside, th;ravclly rc>;ions, t.. be" indigenous, aiid where "next to nr>thing else dress for, and Oh ! but she was pretty and ilice. I ilid and the grandees. "I'm sure tliey would," said I. seem and satisfactory not need to be told that she was from our own country, slie "And then," said John, "the grand ladies began to will thrive. This would be .a simple them. who kept and was so kind and couthie ; and there was all tlie servants pass ill order, bending down to the Queen, and some way of making property of He never be Mil the stairs ready to see the young lady, and there she kissed, and some kissed her hand, and, oh, but it tended them within his o\\-n fences would of he who en- in the drawing.room was her friends. There was a was very pretty t^i see the young ladies all in white assailed as an over-preserver game ; and reg.arded as some- ;.'iand old lady that was her gi-aiidmotlier, and there was bending ami bowing and sailing jiast the Queen. I croached upon the preserve would be iicr aunt, and her cousins, and three or four bit lassies, never saw anything to beat that, and I never will. thing considerably worse than a poacher. and the governess and some young lassie."; that was ai Hut some of them was frightsned, I could see that well the school with the young lady that was going to be enough." "And no wonder," said Mary. " I would you are jircsentcd, and me and Maggie got leave to he in there not be frightened," said Maggie. " I'm sure that the If you court a young woman, and she is won and won, then are both one. with the rest. Down came the lady after a bit all in Queen would see in my face that I would die for her, you «hitc, with a bit rose here and a bit ribbon there, and and your father would light for her, and I'm sure she A lady wishes some one would invent a legometer to her liair all shining, and a bit of a star of diamonds wonld just shake hands with me kindly, and look attach to men's pedals, that wives may determine the dis- glittering amongst it; and more, John," said Mary, " it ]ilcased to see me. If she comes to our glen I'm sure tance travelled by their husbands when they w.ant to "just " jiut me in mind of the day when I was a bride, and you nobody there will be frightened at the Queen—God step down to the post office of an evening;. — " —

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General fUtos. Law Suit between the Duke of Argyll and the sunk bodily down so far that cautious passengers had to Earl of Breadalbane. —An action of pro\Tiig the make new paths higher up. A great bit of ground, with tenor, at the instance of the Duke of Argyll against the a house upon it, had cracked on and into Carriaoes exclusively for ladies travelling alone in tumbled the Earl of Breadalbane, w,a3 heard in the Second Division sea, and had been washed right away. railway trains are advocated by the Freeman. The whole town of the Court of Session, on Saturday, evidence in the of Ventuor and the underclift were cracked more or less. TnK Highland Society of Ixmdon held its quarterly case ha\'ing been led some time ago. The pursuer The cliff was but one side of an old crack, bigger than dinner at the Trafalg;ir Hotel, llreenwich, on Saturday. sought |to prove tlie tenor of a sub-valuation of the the rest, and the undercUff was the top of the other si

: to move early for the appointment of such Maryhurouijli Chronicle says —Here's the latest snake Here it is an earthquake ; there it is a revolution on an day ;

a Commission. story. We do not vouch for its authenticity. Mrs P. elsewhere a landslip ; or the rise of a coast bodily out of

was throwai into a state closely bordering on hysteria the sea, together with all that is on the land ; or it is Mr. Charles Re.U)E is gathering materials for a by her little girl crying out that a huge snake had gone a geological crack that runs through New Zealand with new novel, to be founded on the grievances which Mr. under the house. The alarm was soon spread. The a heave or a slii), leaWng the surface like the sailor's Plimsoll so zealously champions. The novel Mill be neighbours assembled, and assisted Mrs P. in searching path round the underchff ; or it is Europe, which based on facts gleaned by the learned author from for the unwelcome visitor. They were unsuccessful, and marches upon Asia, or splits up and fights by nations personal interiiews he had %vith English mariners. ; in despair. Happy thought ! Some one remembered or a nation which breaks in two, like France ; or a city The annual dinner of the Newspaper Press Fund was that "music hath charms." Mr H. was prevailed divided against itself, like Paris ; or a house split lield in London on Saturday evening, ilr Froude pre- upon to "sisit the scene, and stand behind ^Wth his bag- from bottom to top like the house in which that unfor- sided, and in proposing the toast of the evening, paid a pipes. Before a dozen bars had been played, his snake- tunate HigUander first saw a black line on a white high compliment to the , the impartiality, ship made his appearance, to the deUght of the charmer wall, and was idiot enough to begin to think. and the power of the press in the present day. Dona- and the terror of the ladies and children. Mr H. Now, my Highland friends of The Hiphlander, think tions were announced amounting to between £1200 and retreated, still playing, and the fascinated reptile of eggs and cracks at this Easter tide. Unless the egg £1300. followed. "When about twenty yards from the house shell is cracked, the chick cannot get out, and the " " the musician struck up Love among the roses." The man cannot get in to The little wee housey , fou o' Emigration of Mlneks. —A return to an order of snake reared himself on high, darted out his tongue meat, and there's neither door nor window to get in to of of the number of miners and the House Commons savagely, fell over with a guggle, and expired—lying eat." left United Kingdom in pas- quarrymen who have the as he had smiled. This was something like a snake. If you are cracking the shell and coming out, opening gives eeuger ships in each year since IS61, the following —Evening Star. your eyes, and yawning, and stretching and awakening

:— 1S(J2, ; 1863, .3220 ; 1S64, 3266 comparison 1720 ; to the knowledge that you have got some dormant 5641 8500 1S69, 1865, 5643 ; 1866, 6030 ; 1867, ; 1868, ; faculties which do duty for minds within your High-

; 1871, 5272 ; 1872, 5569—total in 9913 ; 1870, 4769 A C R A C K.—No. L land bodies, think cautiously, look out for cracks in the eleven yeare, 59,543. A Highland savage, whom adverse fate had sent to way, and try not to fall into cracks—geological or ' Anthology of S.icred Literature. —Mr Moncure the Isle of Wight, was dozing half awake on a fine metaphysical—when you begin your cracks with the Conway is preparing for publication a work of verj^ summer morning, when his bodily eye fell on a world. Failte. considerable interest. It is an Anthologj' of Sacred crooked black line upon the white waU of his bed-room. Literature. It mil consist of extracts from the sacred Gradually the faculties which did duty for his mind CoiTcsponlicncc. writings of various nations, such as the , and the began to look out through the half-opened shutters of books of Menu, Zoroaster, and Confucius, and also his eyes, and "take notice." The savage awoke to the to the editor of the HIGHLANDER. selections from the Bible. "The whole will be contained consciousness of hunger. At last his animal instincts THE BRAMBLE. in one volume, published by Trilbner. and cravings overcame his natural laziness so far that Sir, —In my travels through this country I perceive of particularly in spots in The Marquis of Lome has suggested to the Archbishop he rolled out of bed to eat. It is known to ci\ihsed a luxuriant growth bramble, of Canterbury the desirability of a fund being raised men that all savages are curious, and this was a curious which hardly anything else would grow. I know of places in the Highlands besides this locality large enough to make it certain that the incumbent of creature. While he clad his limbs in the hated gar- numbers every living should have at the least £200 a-year, and ments of the Saxon, his eye, first directed by chance, in which brambles abound, and in which the fruit comes fixed the force of habit upon the black line toahigh degree of perfection. I neednotsay thatbramble- has expressed the willingness of the Princess Louise and got by ; is delicious for every one himself to aid in the establishment of such a fund. and finally it was conveyed somehow to all that was berry jelly both good and ; Brambles, then, would seem to be easily The Archbishop has replied, gratefully acquiescing in human intelligence within the creature, that he was knows it. conseri-a- valued but, strange the scheme. looking at a crack in the wall. Custom and cultivated, and the produce highly ; tive habit act strongly upon the Celtic character. The to say, no one seems to think the plant worthy of any New Cube fok Cancer. —Some attention has been wild man had really begun to think, so, from force of attention. We have developed crabs into rich apples, aroused in the Medical World by the treatment of habit, hccoidd notstop thinking. Thatcrackhadgot into sloes into plums, the acrid potato into the laughing cancer which is now being pursued in London. The his head through his eyes, and there it remained, while murphy. Turnips and cabbages, not to speak of the doctor who has introduced this method is a Hungarian, the man devoured luxuries to which he w-as unused. He endless modifications of flower-yielding plants, may be named Grob. He contends th.at cancer is not a local, our o'W'n it had an egg for breakfast, and it was not fresh ; but he said to be the work of hands. Now, sur- but a gener.al disease ; that it arises from the presence ilid nfit find that out till the egg was crackeih He prises me a good deal that no one has taken the bramble of .a poison in the constitution, and that the knife will bought a genteel cheap cigar, and the leaf cracked. and placed it under conditions likely to develop the never cure the disease, but only postpone its fatal He went out to smoke, and looked lazily up .atthe wall of fruit. On a very little reflection, it would seem as if effect. His remedy consists in setting up another it the house, and, lo ! there was a crack meandering from we might regard as occupying in this countrj' a place disease— fever—under the influence of which the blood ' the top of the house to the bottom. ' Waiter, " he cried. analogous to that held by the vine in grape-growing poison wliich causes the cancer, is thrown off. We " ;" countries only, that we give it the justice Yes r ; comin', s'r and he came. "^^^lat's that — do not some mar%'ellous cures. arc told that he has made ?" " crack on the wall of the house Crack, s'r ? yes'r ; which the vine receives in France, Italy, and Greece. case of " love first-sight, ;'' Wooir(; BY Proxy. —A at don't know, s'r. Comin' and off bolted the active I do not see why we should not have our rocky preci- of a rather remarkable kind, has occurred at Dysart. Anglo-Saxon, who had no time to think about cracks. pieces. our cottages, and our garden walls beautifully A worthy parishioner of Markinch ha\'ing been smitten There was a crash. The active attendant had tripped hung with bramble bushes, ha\ing, in autumn, black by the charms of a fair maid, had not courage enough over the pavement of a passage, and he dropped a plate. clusters of rich fruit. I do not mean merely such to press his suit, but engaged a female friend to act The floor was cracked, and tlie crockery was smashed, berries as we now see, but fruit as much superior to the " tlic lover's" part for him. This she did to perfection, and the Anglo-Saxon was in an attitude of desjjair. present, as the apple is to the crab, or the plum to the tt)Id the maid how her friend had proposed through "More hurrj-, worse speed." The ti-aveller paid his biU, sloe. I hold that the bramble, a hardy plant, indigenous her. The couple are each beyond 60 years of age, and tipped the waiter, put on his pack, and marched to our soil, seems as if intemled by the Giver to be of the other day, by proxy wooing, they met at the altar, on his way beside the sea. He had not gone far large and particular use to us, and that we should take and now, enjoy "love in a cottage" in their happy old before his eye fell upon a crack in the foot- steps to cultivate it so as to make it yield us all age. path. "Confound it," he said to himself, "every- that it was intended to afforil us. You speak of L'nfriendly C-OIPBELls. —At the Paisley Justice of thing here seems to be cracked." A coastguards- Highlanders making use of the advantages they possess, I'&ice Court yesterday—Mr James Barclay on the man came sauntering along the path, and said instead of looking afar for what they have not. Will liench—Dimcan Chmpbell, joiner, residing in Glasgow, "Good momin'." He said it in such a tone that the you carry out your own principle, and urge your people Gaelic. jackdaws fled to set about the proper cultivation and utilization of was charged with ha\-ing assaulted Alex. Campbell, traveller answered in The ; joiner, Tarbert, on Tuesday afternoon, in a carriage of the sheep must have thought the men cracked, for their the bramble. the Caledonian Railway Company, while travelling hideous jargon made the very air suffer with discordant In the meantime, perhaps some one has being doing between Greenock and Bishopton. The two men, who gutterals and gnmts, which seemed, nevertheless, to be what I have been thus imagining. If so, perhajjs you spoke Gaelic, and although strangers to each other, music in their ears. The sum of their talk amounted or some one of your readers w^ould be so good as to in- belonged originally to the same place, entered into an to another crack. The traveller went round the under- form me and the public what has been done, how it has animated discussion of affairs Celtic, but the younger cliff, and round the Isle of Wight, and everywhere he been done, and what the result is. At the very least, Campbell losing his temper with the elder Campbell, saw things which had got into his head through his this one of the natural products of our part of the struck him several severe blows on the face. He eyes before he was well awake. The paths round the country, should have a fair chance given to it—equal was fined 20s, with the choice of suffering ten days' cliffs w^ere all cracked, and some of them had opened, to that which we have given to the potato and the crab. imprisonment. Evening Star. 80 that one side of the path had sunk. Some paths had Tom Bramble. i

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shall forecast what the force of his PUBLIC DINNER AND PRKSENTATION TO example may lead to ? accept my most heartfelt thanks ; on my return, I shaU JOHN MURDOCH, ESQ., In these days of enlightenment, of education, and cojnpdti- not fail to convey to them, the sentmients you have been tive examinations; who shall say how maily aspirants (or plea.sed to express, and the more than handsome manner LATE SUPERVISOR OF INLiNB KEVENUE, INVERNESS. his '! fame may not enudato cx.am|)le His name has becoiie those sciitimeiits have been responded to. I do not think a househiikl word amongst us, and we follow in his it The above took place on Wednesday evening him would be out of place here, if I sincerely congratulate retirement with feelings nf grateful recollection. (Loud our friend, Mr Murtioch, on the success of this meeting, as last, in the Station Hotel. It having transpired applause.) I wiU now read the adilre.'^s which the Com- well as the success of the committee on his behalf. I to : tli.at a deputation was arrive thi.s week from mittee have given me to i>i-esent believe, however, that their wish, as well as that of the Dublin, with the testimonial got up by Mr 1>KAK Sui,—Your friends and well wishera in the Iidajid service generally this day is, that we had been able to do Murdoch's late colleagues in the Excise, a few ReMinie IVjiartment Ikivc heard with regret of your for hiuj much more than we have. We have done what we retirini.'iit finni pul.lii- could, friends in Inverness resolved to celebrate the the si-rvice, and they cannot alldiw ratlier than what wej w

the iiri;isi.,n to pass witlicut marking their sense of the de Testimonial. may in time grow strong and vigorous. I infoniied Ml- Dallas, Towii Clerk, Messrs Elliot, Linton, H. am It is not necessary to recapitulate yoxu: many services to the interesting young infant and its jiarent are getting on Muiu-o, J. Barclay, D. Menzies, A. Mackenzie, the Department, nor to dilate \ipou your persistent dci^o- wonderfully well, 1 am sure its heart is sound, and there Clachnacuddiu, and A. Mackenzie, Church Street, tiou to the great cause of Kevenue Ileform— )-(iur l.ibours will be no chfficulty m keeping up the circidettioii. (Ap- W. B, Forsj-tli of the Adnrtiscr, J. Barron of the are on record, and you may proudly point to tluni ; but it plause.) Gentlemen, I agam thank you for your kindness. Cnurii'r, W. J. Macdonald, Union Street, John is for your friends to show their appreciation of those The "Health of the Provost, Magistrates, and Town labours. Council of Inverness," was proposed by Mr Hoban, and Macdonald, E.Kchange, H. C. Eraser, Chas. Free- ] A\'e ask, then, your accej.>tance of the accompanjnbg acknowledged by Bailie Macbean. Mr Menzies gave the man, J. Hoban, K. Charleson, G. Hall, D. A. Camp- Salver and Purse of Tluee Hundred Sovereigns as a token, "Commercial interests of the North," and Baihe Simp- bell. L. Bell, and W. Mackenzie, JiUihlauder, &c., " however iuivdequate, of the good -wishes of the Service lin son replied. The Press," by Mr Dallas ; responded

who sat down to an excellent dinner, furnished with your regard ; but we do not say "farewell"—for we feel to by Mr W. B. Forsyth, who gave a cordial welcome great taste by Mr Macdonald. The worthy Provost that you will still continue to take an interest in all that to the Highlander, and the right hand of fellowship to of Inverness — John Mackenzie, Esq., M.D. concerns the well-being and advancement of the Depart- Mr Murdoch. Mr .lohn Macdonald proposed "Success ment. to the Hif/Iilini'h r" \\-hich was acknowledged by Mr Eileanach—occupied the chair. t>n liis riglit sat In conclusion, we desire to say most heartily to you apd Murdoch. Tlie VrnMist then gave a short account of tlie left, JIi'W. guest, Mr Murdoch, and on his E. yours, May your future be happy and prosperous, and the absurd and costly system of collecting revenue, to the Carter, secretary to the Testimonial Connuittee. At whatever path in life you may \.^. destined yet to tread may reform of which Mr Murdoch hatl devoted so much of his it lead to certain and signal success. energies. the head of the table stood a silver Salver, inscribed : you " Presented to John Murdoch, Esq. (late Super- Signed on beh.alf of the Committee, A number of toasts and songs followed, for which wa M. S. Rainsford, Cluiinnan. cannot possibly make room. visor of Inliuid Revenue, Inverness), together mth Tho.s. C'onkot, Treasurer. The whole affair came off in a most spirited and cordial j)nrse of 300 sovereigns, by his many official a W. E. Carter, Secretari/. • manner. friends on his retirement from the Service, as a Dublm, AprU, 1873. j token of tlieir regaid and esteem, and to mai'k their I have now much jdeasure, Mr Provost, in asking y^u The vigilance of the Police Commissioners, and to us presenting this testimonial grateful sense of liis imceasing exertions to ameliorate obHge by to our friend of tlieir active Superintendent, seems to be carried Mr Murdoch, in the nameofthesubscribers, allof whomare their position, and his fearless and able advocacy of to an unnecessaiy degree, in the estimation of some members of the Service he adorned so long. It is tendered Reveniie Reform. —1873." There was also a most \vith our heartiest wishes for his welfare, and wdth the of our citizens. There is a petition in course of beautlfidly illuminated address, in the first style of earnest hope that he -^Wll long be spared a blessing anti a signature, in which exception is taksn to the short- the art. credit to himself, to his family, to his friends and his ness of the time allowed for goods to lie out in the Before proceeding to what he considered the chief neighbours, with whom he has cast his lot in this good (>ld street opposite the shop doors, and to the carrying town of Inverness. (Applause.) business of the evening, the Provost said he would out of the law against window shades being lower Carter then handed the address, the salver, read a telegi'am which he had just received from Mr and a cheque fer £300 to the Chairman, who asked Mr Murddch than eight feet from the ground. London. " The editor of the Ciriliaii joins in spirit to accept the same the name of liis late friends in tihe m The ^dgdance of the police and poUce commig- \vith the Dublin deputation and the citizens of Excise, and with the hearty good wishes of many friends sioners, showed itself afresh in the proceedings Inverness in then- ti-ibute to Mr Slurdoch ; and on of whom he could biMjit outside the department; at same taken in the Police Coiu't on Wednesday, against behalf of himself, his stafi", and many official friends time \\'ishing him every success in the new sphere upVm wliich Siif/itaiificr butcher, Market, William here, he wishes the editor of the HUilUamkr every he was just entering, as editor of the James Strachan, New newspaper. The folio-wing is Mr Murdoch's reply to the Macintosh, all of Inverness, hajjpiness and blessing he coidd desire." HuUis and Donald for address ; his speech, we have not room. beef for sale. The case was After dinner and the iisual loyal and patriotic for exposing unsound Mv DEAi; FKiENDSj—Forthe very handsome Testimonial was fined 10s ; toasts, the Chaii-man introduced Carter, proved against Strachan, who not Mr who which I have just received by the hand of your efficient proven in the case of HuDis ; and withdrawn in rose and said, IVL- Provost and Gentlemen representatire, Mr W. E. Carter, I can only say to you, the case of Macintosh. John M'Leod pled guilty to I assure you I appear here thii evening with mingled and to those for -^vhom you act, that I thank you most — feeUngs of pleasure and regret, of pleasure because sincerely. a charge of being drunk and disorderly, and was I am proud to be the medium of paying a well You are kind enough to give me credit for sentiments fined half-a-crown. —The justices on the bench were. and exertions in which have deserved compliment to our friend Mr. Murdoch, and at you fully particii»ated ; for Bailies Mackintosh, Baillie, mth Simpson presiding. the same time I cannot but regret that some one better what did I ever attempt in which I was not generously .SHORE dues case is before the Sheriff Court quaUfied than I am should not have been selected to meet encouraged and ably supported by you ; and whatever has A you on this occasion. I must, however, crave your in- been accomplished is traceable to your o%vn generosity these days, involving the question whether it is the dulgence for a few moments, and ask to be allowed to say and bravery. buyer or the seller of goods who is liable to pay. This noble a word or two before reading the address. I believe I m^ gift of yours possesses double value in my The question has arisen between Mr Theodore eyes. It is generously bestowed out of penury in recogni- say with all truth, that when it wa-s first mooted that jlj Cliishohn, the lesee of the dues, and Mr Tymon. Murdoch was about to retire from the service, a thrill of tion of good intentions, only partially realised. Sometliiug, latter bought a quantity of fish, and on regret ran through the department, and when his retirement however, worthy of our best efforts has been realised. The had became an accomplished fact, the feehng was- intensified, Permit me to say for myself that, in whatever I attempted introducing it within our burgh limits, declined to anil found vent in a general desire to show in some tangible for the good of the de])artment, I always acted so |as pay the dues. The fish was seized, and detained his that, whatever might be the fate of any measure of reform manner our appreciation of great services ; and while until it became unfit for use. So Mr Tymon appeals the many were hesitating and deliberating what should be or redress aimed at, we were sure, from the efforts putfor4h, for redress to the Sherifi', who has not yet given a done, two spirited officers in Dublin, all honour to them, to be gainers in character and credit. And to whomsoyer decision. and t think in justice I should give their names, Messrs. the credit is due, there can be no doubt of the fact, that O'Hea and Kerin, took upon themselves to summon a there is not a department under the crown which has Fort-George. —Major-General Sir Georga Dou- meeting—a committee was formed—an appeal was made to risen so rapidlj' in character and in the estimation of tiie glas, K.C.B. , commander of the forces in Scotland, the serWce, and the response lies before us, and I venture public as the Excise has done during the last twenty made an inspection of the troops here on Monday. to say that no similar appeal was ever made to the dejjaj-t- years. Let us hope that this force of character w-ill obtain for reward ment that was so generally responded to. (Loud cheers.) you, at no distant day, th.at pecuniary which The Scottish Twenty Club. —The tliird com- And why ? well. Sir, in the first place, I beheve it is pretty other infiuences have failed to obtain. — petition for tills season in connection with the generally thought—whether rightly orwTongly, is not forme Youdonot-nishtosay"farewell." lassure youneitherdo above club took jilace at Aberdeen on the 21st to say—that to a certain e-xtcnt Mr Murdoch has sacrificed I. And more than that, I shall ever feel it a pleasure and a his own interests, to the interests of his brother officers, ajid duty to avail myself of everj' opportunity which offers—and inst., under the superintendence of Sergeant Fergu- that had he been more sohcitous for his o\^^l welfare, and less I hope to have more such thani ever had before—to promote son, Inverness. Shooting commenced at 10.30 anxious for the welfare of others, his chances of advance- Revenue Reform, and the ameUoration. of the condition of a.m. The light was very changeable, with very woxdd have been the Revenue Officeis. ment much greater, and this feeling gives troublesome shifty wind from the rear, and strong him a strong claim upon our consideration. Then, sir, the Again, I tliaidc you most sincerely ; and in doing mirage. Distances were 200, 500, and 600 yards work he has accomplished—or that has been accompHslied, so, permit me to lay special emi>hasis on what I feel tlie result, largely aided by his indomitable perseverance, vigorous in- to be due to my Irish friends who have so warmly seven shots at each. We subjoin alon_; tellect, and reaiiy pen, gives him another claim upon our cherished the kindly feehngs which sprang up when, with that of the two former competitions : for the gratitude, for when there was a grievance to be redressed, many years ago, we worked together ApL 9.20. My.2L Tl. or work to be done, John Murdoch was at his post, ajid good, and who have shown themselves on this, .as On other occasions, as they are generous. could always be rehed on ; and no man has done more many to be as brave L.-Corp. W. Charles, 15 A.R.V. . 37 In conclusion, let wish you and the department. of than he to raise the tone and status of our service, to lift me Private Hugh Grant, 1 A.R.V. \is, into position which }"ou are such honorable members eveiy blessing as it were, the he conceived we ought to Sergt. J. T. ITiomson, 1 A.R.V. occupy in society. And how cUd he set about this? In the both now and hereafter. J. Murdoch. Ensign A. Niven, 23 A.R.V. first place by agitating for a material improvement in our He stated that a great de.al of what was ascribed to him Private A. Innes, 10 A.R.V. remuneration, and this, after a long struggle, was xmrtly was really due to the exertions of his late colleages them- Sergt. Geo. Da-wson, 10 A.R.V.

conceded to us. Ne.xt the Superanimation Ta.x was vigor- selves ; a body of he maintained, who stood second men, Cl.-Sgt.A.r.Mortuner,lA.R.V. . ously attacked, and, thanks to the late Lord Mayo and to no other body of men, in point of character and intel- Ensign Geo. Cruden, 1 A.R.V. other friends, the measm-e for its repeal was carried, ajid ligence, notwithstanding the galling restrictions under Q.-M. A. Craighead, 3 A.R.V. this too against the (Joverument of the day. Then sir, which they laboured. He thanked the Chairman for understand the club gives tliree crosses—one some few years agr), we and our families were periodicallj' presiding, Mr Carter, who had taken such trouble, the We removed, and our homes broken up every four years, as t'ommittee which had sent him, and the whole service, for gold, one silver, and one bronze—to the liighest if that were the e.xtent of time to which our honesty the kindly feehngs cherished towaivls him, for. the cou- scorers in each of the districts. The final com- could be trusted. Tliis hateful system—this ban to our fidence they had always reposed in him, .and for the noble petition takes place here on the 29th, at 10.30 a.m. characters has been abolished and it is only recently we exercise liberalitj-, which then stood on — of their the table. and 3 p.m. have been treated as citizaix, .and allowed to use the elec- To the kind citizens of Inverness who ha

10 THE HIGHLANDER, MAY 24, 1873.

district ^ctos. Tain. —The copious moisture and genial, though SITTHERLAXD. short-lived warmth, caused crops of all kinds to spring Lairg. —The grass parks of Achany have been let at up and to give fair promise future luxuriance ; but LOCH-iBER. of a considerable advance on last year. At a meeting of already the cold has had a prejudicial effect, causing Selilom the School Board last week, Mr Oliver Ross, writer, has a finer .Spriug than the past been experi- the braird in some places to look blackish and un- Golspie, was appointed clerk and treasurer. enced liere. The months of Febniary and March, and healthy. Warm weather is earnestly hoped for and the early part of April, were dry and pleasant, and the much required. Volunteers. —The chaUenge medal seed was got into the ground in condition HEBRIDES. a never sur- of the local company of Rifle Volunteers was competed passed. The acreage under crop is comparatively small, for on Saturday last, and, after a keen contest, gained DuNvKGA>'. —Although accompanied by a regular but fre^juent rains often make it difficult to get tlirough by Angus Munro, "nith the score of 46—a good one gale of wind, the change which took place in the mth either spring or harvest work. The latter part of under the circumstances. School Board. — This weather here on Tuesday—a constant pour of rain AjirU and the beginning of have May been cold and board met on Monday last, the proceedings being must be verj' acceptable to our parched soil, and to the showen,-. Rain, which was required, much has fallen o]iened by prayer. The educational census of the dry tongues of our drooping vegetation. in considerable iiuantit)', but ctjld east winds have in- parish showed that there were 533 chUdren within the Portree. —The weather still continues bleak and variably dried up the moisture, and grass has not made requireil ages in the parish, but that additional accom- piercing. Vegetation is hariUy making any progress, the progress it promised in the early part of the season. modation would only be required to be provided for and cattle, sheep, and other animals, are hard pinched The lambing season, however, has not been unfavour- about 50. A new school must be built for the \illage for food. able. Ewes were strong; there has not to this time of Inver, but it is exjiected that Tarbat parish wiU People are everj-where busy cutting their peats, and been any great deficiency of grass, and the weather, assist in that undertaking. The board have resolved in most instances, owing to the scarcity of men, the though generally cold, has not been, as often it is, rough to maintain the use and wont with regard to religious work is done by women and boys. A great crj' is and boisterous. education. raised at present about the "working of the mosses," The tourist season is about commencing, and it fre- and the manufacture of the peats, by mixing the moss quently happens that about the end of May the weather WESTER ROSS. with coal, &c., &c. Such an article may be very good, liere becomes more imsettled than it is earlier in the KiNTAlL. —In common with so many elsewhere, we, but it would not be "peat." The good old way, is to season. It might be to the advantage of tourists to in this out of the way district, were glad to welcome cut plenty of peats in May, diy them in summer, and begin their visits earlier in summer, and not continue 's the Gaels used the fii-st number of the HUjhlamltr. AVe trust stack them in August. That the way them so late in autumn, but there are many obstacles that from time out of mind to pro\ide their fuel ; and it is to a change. Those who have been in the habit of many of our number will be induced by the stirring round this sort of fuel, IJazing on their hearth, that frefjuenting this locality for some years will observe appeal of "Sgitheanach" to become regular subscribers. they sang their songs and recited their .•iijftilachdan. several changes in our hotels. Mackenzie, Mr who has To us the Gaelic department ^^ill be peculiarly interest- Let every one take warning by last winter, and proWde for many years been landlord of the Ltx;hiel Anus, at ing, particularly when supported by a contributor so plenty good black peats for next winter. Banavie, has retired from business, carrj-ing with liim favourably known, through the old "Cuairhar" and The tourist season has alreadly commenced here the best wishes of aU his acquaintances, and is succeeded the new Gii'l," as the able Celtic scholar who peimed never before so early ; and never were we so well pre- by Mr Macgregor, who is resolved that the well-earned the appeal for the "iluuntain Scot." Tlie district of pared. All the places of accommodation in the island, and reputation of the hotel shall be maintained and extended. Kintad comprises the two extensive, though sparsely especially those in Portree, have been thoroughly The accommodation is to be greatly increased, but this peopled, parishes of KintaU ami Glenshiel. The land .repaired and refitted during spring. An additional caimot be done till the present season is over. new A owners are—Mr Mathesc m of Ardross, Mr ilaekenzie of wing has been put to the Caledonian Inn, and the landlord is in possession of the Caledonian Hotel at Kintail, and Mr Baillie of Dochfour. Part of the Royal Hotel has lately been greatly enlarged. The Fort-Willliam, and the ChevaUer Hotel, lately opened heights of Kintail parish belongs to the Chisholm, but Temperance Hotel has been taken by Mr Sutherland, there by Mr Cameron, of North Ballachuilish, adds this portion is locally more connected ^vith Strathglass sadiUer, and has been thoroughly overhauled and considerably to the accommodation provided for summer than with Kintail. Mr Matheson is by far the largest refitted. In short, Portree looks quite attractive, visitors. As to other matters there is but little change. landowner, haWng purchased lands formerly belonging although the Cuchullin hills are capped with snow. The magnificent swift steamers of the Messrs Hutchison to Lillingston of Lochalsh, Mackenzie of Applecross, There is now a steamer pljing daUy between Portree will soon conmience to ply as usual, but the fares are and Mackinnon of Letterfeani, one of the Corry and Strome Ferrj', and two steamers weekly to and sbghtly raised. The route remaijis the same as of old family. He has executed many improvements, particu- from Glasgow, so the island is easy of access. We are through our fine lochs and among our rugged hills along larly in plantations, which add much to the natural sorry to hear that the oVdiging and popular landlord of the great glen of AlbjTi. For all that is grand and beautj' of Lochduich. A great proportion of the land the inn at Sligichan is lea\ing. During his time, the glorious in our scenerj', geologists now tell us we are is in large sheep farms, many of the people ha\ing inn has been noted as one of the most comfortable in mainly indebted to the glacial period which prevailed, emigrated to make waj' for them. There are also Skye. whether fifteen thousand or fifteen million years ago, several well-to-do small tenants, who pay from £10 to it is still impossible to determine. But, while the I.SLAY. —Although our people have decreased to such £.30 of rent. Mr Matheson has added greatly to the question is being investigated, an alarming degree, farming seems to have made con- tourists might derive no comfort of these by impro\ing their land, and gi\ing siderable strides during the last ten years. Cattle little pleasure from a '-^sit to Glen Roy rnd I,och Treig, and them facilities for erecting dwelling-houses. By far breeds are increasing. Miles both easily accessible from a good imi at Roy Bridge, sheep of improved of the greater number of the people, however, live in thirteen miles from Fort-Wifiiam, on the Kingussie fences have been erected. Farm houses and steadings tillages, or rather handets, on the sea shore, and are road. All would enjoy of quite a superior description have sprung up on every the scenery, and those of them fishings for dependent on the a precarious subsistence. side. so the skill energj- of who have a turn for geology, might exercise there in- And much have and our These have Uttle or no land, and most of them are genuity in endeavouring to account for the "Parallel fanners and their servants improveil, that last autumn, dependent for potato ground on the liberaUty of the Roads" of Glen Roy, and the terraces of Louh which was so wet, all the com was secured with very Treig, neighbouring farmers and smaller tenantry. WTien the origin which forms as knotty a geological problem little damage, and at an earher period than in some there is fishing good they do i>retty well : but this has of of as is often to l>e met with, and which geologists have parts the North England. for many years been so uncertain that few of them not yet been able, satisfactorily, to solve. On the estate of Glenlossit, great improvements are keep themselves fuUy pro^ide

THE HIGHLANDER, MAY 24, 1873. 11

Bible The and Shorter Catechism are to be taught in all water from the clouds runs down tlie slopes as soon as and carbonic acid, evolving thereby no heat, but on the

the schools, and the schools are to be opened and closed it falls ; aiul after a very short spell of dry weather, contrary, carrying heat away from the fuel in a latent or witli prayer. Tlie next meeting -Hill be lield at Tober- the land suU'ers as severely from drought, as if no supply insensible condition. During the slow decay of wood (or mory. —The weather is anything but satisfactory, and of moisture had been granted bj- lieaven. Deep culti- the hgneous tissue, or the substance of mosses, &c. ), carbonic our farmers are in a state of gJeat anxiety. vation is iis necessary against droiiglit as against wet. acid and water are evolved, and the residue becomes Stornoway. —The successful commencement of the Then the farm steailings—many of them are very richer in carbon and hydrogen, the longer the decay goes fishing has already sent to the west coast a large fleet defective. There are no appliances for saving or on ; because these elements taken together, are greatly in of boats to prosecute tlic herring fisliing, and constant utilising litpiid manure, and the solid farm yard excess of the quantities necessary to convert arrivals are daily coming. By the end of this week it manure is exposed to the elements, and much of its the whole of the is expected that fully 400 boats will be prosecuting substance washed away by the rain. oxygen into water and carbonic acid. is ' the rishing from here and Hohn, the next station to it. Fences are wanting, and mucli of the time and labour Peat the first stage in the conversion of vegetable which ought to be available for is The tisliermen seem pretty coutideut that herring is other purposes matter into coal ; and when dry its heating ix)wer is much frittered in jilcntiful on the coast, ami that a good fishing will away unsatisfactory sorties after wayward greater ,than that of wood. I5y the further evolution of cattle, and in keeping follow. The high prices —as high as £5 a cran cows ami calves apart. Every carbonic acid and water from peat, a substance termed received at first by curers has rapidly declineil to about small farmer employs one or more herds during lir/iiite, or brown coal is formed. This fuel is not found 2.")s, whicli will scarcely crews half the year, and still he is often in a state of uneasi- pay ; and are becoming abundantly, but at an earlier period of the world, it pro- ness chronic alarmed that so much May fish, which is of course and apprehension that his cattle are "in bably existed in enormous quantities. By a further loss more inunature than that of June, may influence the the corn." And frequently they are in tlie com, and of oxygen, lignite passes into the condition of a true coal. markets during the whole of the season. Prices here then what chasing, and turmoil, and disorder, and inter- The most recent kinds of which (bituminous or flaming for fresh fish have been ranging from 5s to 10s per ruption to regidar labour. The cattle are routed by coal) include, however, a considerable amount of oxygen. The final product cran. Engaged boats are receiving 12s a cran and dogs and pelted with stones, and belaboured with of this peculiar kind of decay of veget- able matter is anthracite, which is little more than impure bounties. The following is a note of the fishing since cudgels ; and all l)ecause there are not fences. But carbon or charcoal. The following diagram shows how the last report : why are there no fences, in a district where the carbon gradually increases during the conversion of wood Boats out. Hifhcst take. Average. requisite materials, stone and timber, abound ? into anthracite. Farm houses are without proper sanitary requisites, and even decency camiot always be commanded. Composition of Fuels (dra^vn at 212^ Fah.) 100 parts 1! contain : No bo.ite out— Night storuiy. Following up the accoimt, we come upon the state- Oxj-gen and ment that the evils have been aggravated by the deer Carbon. foresting and game preseoTng powers "annexing" Wood . 60-10

much of the hUl pasture, formerly in possession of the Pe."it .. . 66-21 peasant farmers—they paying the penalty of higher Li^iite . 66-31

Bituminous coal . 78-57 aggregate rents for the remainder than they did pre- Anthracite . . 91-39 20 Wously for the whole. In tliis instance, the deer ' Night Btormy—Many boats returned. forests, not only encroached thus upon the farms, but literally abolished about a dozen of them, and dispersed The total catch is about 2500 crans, all of which has the occupiers. been exported, as soon as cured, to the continent All these are matters on which the light of public by steamers. —A very serious and alarming fire took opinion is required. Before long, the will place last Wednesday morning in the extensive country inquire what the landlords in such cases do as a return premises of Mr Andrew Gibson, fish curer, in James for the rents they draw, and what ser\nce the .Street, used as a steam saw-mill and barrel manufac- factors, who ought to be educated and competent tory, which residted in the total destniction of these men, render for their salaries and perquisites. premises, together with the loss of a large nimiber of TuUoch is but an example of what can be proved in barrels and other effects. The fire was observed first a great many other quarters, and by Mr Mackenzie, foreman cooper, while he what ^vith game law injuries, dear mutton, scarce beef, and local was proceeding past the premises to his work. He taxation, we imagine that the gentlemen who neglect to make immeiliately alarmed the owners and others, and in a the most of the land over which short time a large number of townspeople were on the they claim a profitable stewardship, will very shortly have ground, and they at once set energetically to save what to render an account. they coidd of the efl'ects ; but they had ordy removed a few barrels of the five or six hundred stored in the KiRKMifH-iEL. The School Bo.uiD Diffhtltv manufactory, some wood, and the leathern bands round Solved. —The School Board of the parish of Kirk- the wheels, when they had to leave the premises to michael, in Banfi'shire, settled the prayer difficulty their fate, which were soon wrapt in flames and totally rather adroitly. It is a great Catholic district. On destroyed. Happily, however, Mr Gibson had the the Board are two Established Church ministers, the jircsence of mind to open the safetj' valve of the steam Free Church minister, the parish priest, and the factor. boder, and he was thus the means of preventing the Prayer was proposed. The priest objected. The explosion of the boder, and damage to the surrounding ministei's agreed to take it in turn, and to listen to the jirojjerties, and perhaps to lives. Efforts were there- priest if the priest would listen to them. The priest, after directed to prevent the fire extending to two mollified, agreed to be Hstener, but not to pray.

ranges of sheds on both sides of the saw-mill, and Happy family ! Here is a solution not only of the which were stowed with barrels. AMiilst one party of prayer difficulty, but approximately of the whole the constantly-increasing helpers attended to pouring religious puzzle. water on the premises and cutting away the communi- cations, the others applied themselves to remo\'ing the barrels and other effects stored. Men, women, and PAPERS ON PEAT. boys all worked with a will, and good results followed. No. I. The tire was kept from extending, and about 1000 A L.VRGE ixirtiou of the .surface of North-western Europe barrels were saved. It was very trying upon those is covered with a peculiar substance of vegetable origin, next the fire ; the smoke proceeding from the burning termed peat, or turf. Bop-land or peat-moss, as the barrels, and chips of wood, &e., was so suffocating, ground covered by peat is termed, occupies a large portion and the heat was so intense, that few could stand it. of of of parts of It was noticed that, while the fire was going on and the area Denmark ; and various Holland ; the people working, several Wick men came on the and of important districts of France and Germany. Of ground, and cooly looked on, apparently admiring the 20 milUons of acres which constitute the area of Ire- it, with their hands deep do^^^l in their trouser land, 2,.500,000 acres are bogs of various kinds. Bogs are pockets, and pipes stuck in their mouths. The loss to numerous in Scotland ; and in the Highlands peat con- Gibson is about .£900. K. lost 5()0 Mr Mr Smith stitutes the chief fuel useil by the peasantry. barrels which were stored in the premises, and The origin of peat is of i^Teat geological and chemical other parties lost other effects. None ttf the interest. Its chemical composition and its structure clearly loss is covered by insurance. Great sympathy is show that it has been formed chiefly by the decomposi- generally expressed for Mr Gibson, who is a most species of or moss it active, industrious, and energetic man, and his saw- tion of various sphagnum, bog ; how- mill was of great benefit to the place. ever, is also in jiart formed of the altered remains of heaths, and of reeds, mosses, and other aquatic plants. It has St'HOi.ii. Bo.^RDS. — The various School Boards been asserted that the existing bogs have been chiefly throughout the island are at present busily engaged from of forests, but this is taking the census of the childr'in, between the ages of formed the decay not at all probable. the destruction of 5 and I.? years. It is expected that a large numl)er of No doubt a forest in Ross- schools will be required in the Lewes, especially in the shire by a \"iolent storm in the 17th century, is knomi to

landward part of the island, but as Government -nTll have resulted in the formation of a bog ; but a microsco- give £300 for every school built, and £100 for everj' pical examination of peat would in nineteen cases out of (Iwelling-house, the charge vnU not be so great upon twenty show that it was produced from the lower forms of the ratepayers. entitle the School Boards to these To vegetation, and not from oaks, firs, and similar forest trees. grants, they must le\y assessments, at the rate of 9d The formation of i>eat is going on at this moment in per pound rental by 31st December. We notice that per- many parts of these countries. In shallow pools and mission is granted to delay levying this assessment to marshy situations, mosses only partially decay, being con- 31st December 1874, btit as School Boards could not in verted into vegetable mould, which formed a soil that case apply for the grants until 1875, surely it a ui»n would be preferable to assess this year at once and get which other mosses grow. The roots of the mosses often the grants, and be able to commence operations next decay, and assmne a peaty form, whilst new shoots spring summer. from the upper part of the stems.

STRATHSPEY. Bogs sometimes grow very rapidly ; an inch in depth TcLLOCH. —We have received an account of this per annum, being by no means an unconmion rate. region which is full of interest, and teeming with valu- In composition peat resembles wood more closely than it limits preclude its able details ; but we are sorry our does coal. Wood is composed of the four chemical ele- being inserted entire. We cannot but think that the ments, or simple bodies, termed oxygen, nitrogen, hydro- School Board, or the Parochial Board, or some other pen, and carbon, besides a little earthy and saline matter. local authority should step in and try to give an The value of wood, as a source of artificial heat and light, impetus to agricultural, horticultural, and architectural upon its proportions of hydrogen and carbon. improvement. Ther» have been many rich blessings depends liestowed by nature on the district, but they seem to be The presence of oxygen and nitrogen detracts from the sadly neglected. Scarcely any of the arable land has heating and and lipht gi\'ing power of the wood. When been regularly trenched or drained, and so there is no this fuel is consumed, a portion of its carbon and hydrogen depth for valuable crops to strike root in. Then the enters into combination mth the oxygen, and forms water :

1'2 THE HIGHLANDER. 3IAY 24, 1873.

' ' I :' i T-TT .i l .ri/ .!->ll l .H I ! LATEST SPOKTIXG. MTJIR OF ORD CAltfP. LATEST NEWS. Salisbcrv, Thursday. Highland Light Infa^^try Militia. —There are Stoneuekoe Plite.— The Trout, 1 ! St Victorine, tliree weeks since the recruits of this regiment 2; May Queen, 3. 6 ran. J!EUTER'S iiTD PRE^S^ ASSOOlAftdN mustered in the Banacks, Telford 'Road, for pre- TELEGRAMS. Wiltshire St.vke3. —Helmet beat Naughty Boy. liminary di'iU. For some years past the period of S.u.iSBi'RY .Stakes. —Beckey .Sharp, I; Dulcimer, 2; recruit drill has been twenty-eight days, but this Blue Ribbon, 3. 6 ran. Betting on the course, the year, under the new regulations, it has been ex- QuEENSTOWX, Wcilnesday. Derby, 100 to ."{ on P.ala.lin offered. tended to tliii-ty-five. Over eighty men joined from The White Star steamer, Oceanic, from New York, Steward'.-* Pl.^te. —Mohawk, I; Silvia Colt, 2; tlie distant Hebrides. After being clothed and arrivcil here at 1 1 p. m. to-ilay. Antiope, 3. 7 ran. Arrived—Ruffle, Engineer, Bastard. accoutred, they proceeded, under the chaise of Barcelona, Wednesday. Misslire, Touch-me-aot Colt. Captain Donaldson, the Adjutant, to be encajuped

The details respecting the affair at Sanahuga are CiTV Bowu—Niobe Cort, 1 ; St Clair, 2 ; Engineer, on the siune groimd ;is avas occupied by the regi- ' still contradictorily stated. The Carlists shot 20 3. 3 ran. ment, in a field about midway between the Muir of prisoners. The Republican militia has demanded that Qike.n's Ord Station and Beatily, a place in every Plate. —Mornington, 1 ; Altesse, 2. 4 ran. way the Carlist prisoners sh.all be shot, and the oiril and Betting on the Course. —The Derby—9 to 4 .agt. Gang suited for the purpose ; having a good exposure, military governors liave been reipiested to allow well- " Forward, offered ; to 2 agt. Hochstaplcr, offereil and gentle slope, with plenty of excellent water, and known Carlists to be arrested as hostages. taken : to .agt. 100 8 Chandos, token ; 100 to 3 agt. the soil aWthal di-}-. The denizens of the can\~ass P.aladin, SiH'TllAMPTtiN, Thursday. offered. village avere initiated iutcj the same unfavourable Crrv Bettixi;. P. .inrlO. steamer, Maliva, has arrived with f.'i50,46.'> — French Derby—o to 2 against sort of weather which predonuiiated last yeai' during Flageolet, Tireur, in specie. Franc Birarde, AjioUon — taken. training. There iire three parades daily, one from G. 30

Derby—9 to 4 .agt. Gang Forward ; 7 to 2 agt. Kaiser North riennan Lloyd's steamer, Strasburgh, from ; to 7.30 a.m. , one from 10 to 12 noon, and one from 2 4 to 1 agt. Hockstapler, freely fi New Orleans, Havanna, amved. ; 100 to agt. Mon- to 4 p.m. AJI tlie Held arrangements are much the

targis ; 100 to 7 agt. SuUeman —taken. as hast year. Tlie weather has certain W.\SHrN(iTox, Thursday. same to a extent a damaging effect i>n the feelings of the raw The American troops have again overtaken and COMMERCIAL. hiinds, but when the waiinth prevails, the camp, no bciten the Modoos, killing five of them and captuiTug B.ank rate unaltered, very quiet dem.aml for money doubt, ivill have a lively and hearty appearance. their women and children. The remainder of the band at 5i to h per cent. Seventy thousauil sovs. taken to The strength, ave understand, is Captain Donaldson, are Hying to join the Pethiver Indians. Bank. Markets rtrni. Consols rather better. Foreign Adjutant in coimuand, Lieutenants Kinloch, and steady. French scrip S\ prem. Erie's tinner. L.arge Paris, Thursday. business in Railways at improveil prices. Best Cana- Gordon Duff, twenty-tluee pennanent staff ser- To-day being Ascension Day, the Bourse has been dians firmer. Trunks lower. Telegraphs rathfer ge.ants, eight bxiglers, four voUuiteer sergeants, and closed. better. Hudson's Bay 17,' tu 18. one huinbed .and thirtj'-six rank and file—in the OrrAWA, TIr.usdaj-. latter ai'e included se.eral old hands, v. ho were The Dominion Parliament has agreed to the union ciiUed up as cooks, tailors, musicians, servants, &c. Prince Edward's Island. The main body of the regiment will .assemble on with uluu'sbaiys }3iidiamcnt. 0th June, and ^rill join the recruits at the JIuir of Moscow, Wednesday. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Ord. The entire strength of the regiment avill be The Shah has left for St Petersburg. about a. thousand. Since last year the regiment has In reply to Mr Lo«-ther, Lord E.NFIELP stated that sustained a feav casualties among officers and men. St Petersburo, W'ednesday. Colonel Stanton had not resigned his post a-s H.M.'s aj^ent .and Consid-Geueral in Ej.'yiJt. He was only goiny on Major the Hon. James Gi-ant of Grant, M.P. for The report that Russian officers had been killed by leave of absence, and, in the interim, his place would be Morayshire, has resigned. In his jdace Captain the Kirghcse is contradictecL filled by Capt.ain 'Vi%aan. was ajipointed Major. too has resigned. Sliah of Persia arrived here to-day, M'Nab He The and was In answer i*i Mr J. Hamilton, his Lordship also said he We hear that Captain Bankis will be appointed most cordially received by the Czar. had been informed that the Greek C«ivemment intended to his pl.ace. is ill \%'ith<.lraw all legations to foreij^Ti countries, with the ex- Major in Major Macrae who in Geneva, Thursday. is is II ception of that at Constantinople : but no intimation had health not likely to join again, so there a police have expelled M. Chaussivert The for calling yet been received as to the withtlrawal of the Ei^hsh vacancy for another. Captain ]Macdonald of Glen- himself a Communist refugee. legation. aladale is spoken of, and none could he better. In reply to Mr Anderson, the Chancellor of the Ex- (Jen-oa, Thursday. Among the c;tsualties in the list of subalterns, are CHEQCER said he proposed, unmediately after '\Miitsuntide. Yesterday a demonstration took place against of ; the to brin^ in a bill dealing with the Baiik Act. Lieutenant Rainy Raasay, died Lieutenant society of St Francis de Paul. Mr (TLAnsTr>NE, in answer to Sir John Hay, said it was Macleod fCaptain, h.ajf paj\ 78th), resigned ; Lieu- Vienna, Thursday. intended to take the .Supreme Court of Judicature Bill on tenant IMacGregor, resigned, in place of whom Monday, Jime 9. several .ajipointnients have taken place. Two A ball was given last nigbt at the Grand Hotel in new On the motion for the second reading of the Rating deaths and one resignaticm haae taken jdace among honour of the Prince of Wales. (Liability and Value) Bill, the members of the permanent staff. There have Mr C'awlev moved that it be read a second time that day six months. He comjdained that the jiroW-ions were been in all about seventy or eighty among the so il TICHBORXE CASE—THrR.sDAV. carele.s.sly drawn th.at the Bill, instea

sword .and cirbine ; position, private. Bom in Dorset." objected to the rating of schools, &c., Mr Waki> Hcnt Mother went to Friuice immediately afterwards. Mr complained th.at the Government was only trifling with NAIRNSHIRE. the House. These bills were not pa-ss, Tiinille, of Government House, who knew the Tich- intended to but The We.vther. —T\ie Xairnshirr Trlt'jraj^i (of Wed- oidv to make a show, and stop the way for others bomo family, but not Roger, put some questions to dealing nesday) reports that the aveather during the past week witli the subject. him a]ipeared s.-itislicd and he was Roger Tichbome ; has been extraordinarily cold. The hills in the upper Mr 8taxsfieli> warmly jirotested against the charges of other«n9e no one would hax'c advanced him money. district are covered avith snow, ami a cold dry cast the right honoTiral>le gentleman, 'nie Govei-muent binl Defendant did nut at lirst intend to take his wife to never professed to deal MTth the whole question, having aviiul has prevailed, checking the growth of vegetation, England, but finding; tliat his son resembled him, he declared that the ciuestion of local admiiiistr.atii>n and anil in m.any cases bhghting the young sprouts. On diciiled to do so. Witness examined the pocket book of a nnifoi-ni assessment must lie first settled before the^' Saturd.ay night the thermometer stood at 30 degrees, alre.-wly mentioned The words "Mary Ann Uiadcr, could hoi>e to deal with the (lucstinn of the cla-sses of and witiiin a mile or two of N.aim a slight coating of Thnm.is Caiitro, Melipill.-i," are certainly in defend.-int's property to be maele liable to local taxation, or that of ice formed on the small pools of watur, and icicles were hand writing. The celcly the Northeiii Infirmary, and jirogi-essing favour- George's Church, Edinburgh, on Wednesday evening, in prices— Forei^ni, the turn in buyers' favour. Lamb astlin lower, with limited enquiry. Cow market dull at late Veal steady. iibly. This is a doubly melancholy case, for his by the supporters of the 1 nion movement rates. in the Free Pork unaltered. Beef, to » 4d Us Ud ; nmtton, 6s &1 to Os 4d ; veal, brother succeeded, a few days preiriously, in putting Church, it was resolved that l^nion .'.» negotiations now to 08 «d ; i>ork, 3s ]0<1 U. Ss ; lamb, "s (td to Ss 6d. Beasts, SS.'l cease, sheep and lambs. KI.IOO; calves, (i20 an end to Iiis life. that the Union Committee be dissolved, and that : pigs. 25; includingforcign the mutual eligibility scheme be proceeded with—Dr beasts, £{0: sheep and lambs, 460O; calves 6

. Benjamin Davis, the proprietor. , , ,,, ^lUfow, tl«W,"aMtA (l)>ot \\,-u\<. 4% M .(.lilMJiKPOIftifer a-EPSSr^oi ,l>:.-!.v.« i,..,) .-[ „ :Ua^l , :ij.i.. ...M.H.i „M.I ,,;,l I I..1" .I.H..,,, ..I.. ;.., I -„..il.f.l I I -iill .. ,i I .i.iD 01 Imu J.oni.il. iob,i|..n:.alyhiJ,r,aa u.j.j,f li...(,il ,110 l.,\..„.:>(. lUl1H\ I i»Jua lij U'jilT aii Joo-i uJiiJd oj liqo-i'j -jldsuUv lol litqjj) ; ; .

.•* '' .v; If ,: I / Mi'/ IMI! [iir: J J THE HIGHLANDER, MAY 24, 1873. 13

' WAKEFIELD CATTLE MARKET-May 21. (Sniin, lOrodisimt, tfattlc J^Vavitcts, 'Set. Ancv.,|i,.i,i -,,|.|,i ..^sut market, and hmh i.rivfM-ealiacd,

thei-L I ....:.. .1. .! M ..,:> M,i the r.ite^or hi.l ^^.^K, iu-, I.. IN

' pei-i . ... .-il' ..M,.ined. TmI- .sheep .i l i .U.h.mmI ^l CORN' a^RAP^ PRosPEcrrte. - 'ablii-'li' :ii'i' I . SI..U Ir.i.k 111 milk cows :uid pi-. ;,i !.,!, ralr.. {From t/ic Mark Lane Exprejiti.)

I CORN 17. The recent weatluT ha.s put ;i cht'ck on ve^'etation. NEWe'ASTLE MAKKET—May Whether ni-ht frosts h;i\e tut .ntr fruit we have yet to The arrivals during the week have been fair, both coastWise and friim abroad. 'lYado to-day firm, hut not active, at Is advance on learn, b\»t \Vti seem likely to be thrown upon f*Hort stocks w^ck for both Kitglitth and foreign. No uhungu in value of beans just before harvest. The lye in Northern (Termany is saitl or pcay. Oats 6d to Is. dearer, and flour 6d to Is, per sack up. to be severely cut, ad is tho raj>e seeil in many uhiues. Ai,'ain, in France, wheat has become yellow from the cut- ! NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARICET-May 19. ting wiml, and in Huii'^ary large t'l'owers have turneil sjie- The following table ahowB the ditfureut prices for tho last four culutors, nuule jit Ddessa with any nor can purchases bo yo:irs: - , , ., harl larj^er prospect of benefit. Here we certainly have Cattle.... 1S70 .. .. 5y 9d to Os 3d per st. of 14 lb. ileliveries this week by nearly 4000 qvs. than last year, but „ 1S71 .. 5siXl tolo« tlie ilry weather has been more favourable to threshiiitf, 1S72 .. »f^:'.d toll. *:,i .. .. 9s ud to 1-. and the foreign demand has encourai^ed it. 'ilie upward lb7» ..1S70 .. .. 0s6,!dt'.Ml ]h. , Sheep.. im- tendency of prii;es h:ts continued, many markets bein*,^ one „ UJ72 .. .. OiiDdtolUd to two -sliillin-s dearer, and the averaL'C nse may certainly 1&72 ., .. O.'iSatoU.ld . ,. , I „ be e.stiiuatcd at fully ..nr shilling'. In t'jilifoniia raiji is 1873 . . . . Os sjd to lOd I „ 1 still w;uited. and ju-ircs liavc risun from 5'.)s Gd to GOs, coSt Equal to a rise since 1870 of about 30 per cent, on cattlt^ and 25 per " fruight, and insurance. New \vvk fluctuates, but Black cent, on sheep. Sea wheat has attained a relative value in Loudon never 19. before known. Spain, where as yet the crops look well, LIVERPOOL PKODUCK MAKKKT—May reiiuest since Friday, and ratc-^ are the in ^'i"a»-lually risini^. Hugur in only moderate turn easier. Mollasses and coffee—no siilos. Hum briiijrs prc^-ious

]>rices. Cocoa—small sales ; Caraccas, 81s. Pearl sogo, s;i};( . rl.uir, INSCH KKIilNG MARICET, May 19. and spices—nothing laussioi;. Lo^vood steady, luoderate Im-inc.^. l)*\-5altcrics—ashes dull .md unalteral. Berries, bark, and l.riin- At the half-yeai-Iy feeiui:; market

- bcLuK' as fuUuws : Kii>t jimsemen, from iLV to V.if ; second do., from 11^ to 12/ 12s. Orra men, \U lOs to 11/. Cattle- LIVERPOOL DEAD MEAT MARKET -May 19. men, from 10/ 10s. to 12/. Boys and halflins, from 4/ to Hi 'j'hu supply of cattle was less than on last Monday, but of sheep IHs. AVomen, of whom there were only a very few in the aniil laiubs i^lere were more. .\ go.-d demand for each at ln.,di

piicos. JBeef, S'.d to lOd ; unitton, 9yi to ll.Ul ; lambs, 30s to 653 market, were in gi-eat reque;jit, and ol^tained very high cafch. There were at market 1005 cattle, and' .5300 sheep.. wages. We noted several engagements from Gl to 7L CORK BUTTJiB M^U+KET^May 19. iVXFOKD FEKLN(i MARKET, May 19. i

prdinarj'—Firsts, 11 Vs ; seconds, 114s : thirds, 102ii ; tourthe, 9Ss The half-yearly fecinj' maj'ket to-day was not so numer- fifths, 76s; sixths, 4-2s. Mild cured— Firsts, 1208; seconds, H9s; ously attended as usual. As nearly as we can learn, the thirds, 100s. 1111 flrkius in market. average rate of wi%'es was :—For foremen, with cluirge, VM 1 GLA^^CnW rriTlX :" ; MARKET-May 14 to 14/ without chaise, 12? to 12 guineas, or 12/ 15s ; sec(»iid

. :: I . horsemen. 11/ to 12/; third hoi-semen, 10/ to 11/; orra nilEAT— Wli.i. 1 American, ..24U lbs. 30 .. 31 men and hulHins, i^l to 10/; l)oys, 4/ to 7/ 10s. Women

I ; .in, were scarce, and were getting high fees, the average rang- RW Winter, Mi . &c.,

, J Canada Spring 2S, ing from o/ to 7/, according to experience. No. 1, Spring American, '2Si' Ni.2 .... 27' « , „ „ OXTLLEN FEEING MARKET. Sc[)tch,

The half-yearly feeing market was held on Friday. Dantzic, &c., . . Tliere was a fair demand for both male and female ser- Fijench, Ghirka, Odessa, &c., 27 3 .. 28 6 vants, at a slight advance of wages. Eivptian. , 22 FCour—Canadmn Extra, & Superior Extra,196 lbs. 34 LONDOX CATTLE ilARKET 19. 10' May Indl\x Corn—American Mixed and Yellow, ,, ifarket firm and active. For all really choice animals, 2d of an „ White, .. .. „ 10 advance wtis really obtained. Inferior also about 2d dearer than on Bb.\ss—Scotch, 252 lbs. 20 ' Tlmrsday. Best Scats and crosses realised from (is 2d to Gs 4d per Irish, 200 lbs. 20 stone. Supplies of stock have been luther lai^er than usual, and ' Egyptian 2S0 lbs. 20 qualitv seiierallv good. From districts Bakley—Scotch 320 lbs. 24 our o\to grazing arrivals — h;ivu been on a fair avem-c sealu. iiKludin- -JO from Scotland, 1950 Canadian, . . . . „

from Norfolk and SutI' Ik, ;-Mr. in i 'r Mi, II li and home counties, Oats—Scotch and Irish, 264 lbs. 22

...... ,, IS and 100 from ireliui'i \n i. i ..: was a fair show of Canadian, Spanish beast-s, wlii- rates. Moda^te CItmeaI/—Scotch ..280 lbs1. 45 .. 50

i supply of sheep, but "t : I pi iht\ l..:m )oMiis— an<), indeed. MARKET--May 20. all breeds—exliibited an upward tendency i INVERNESS CORN

i; i li 'i actual alteration wusiTsported. Best Downs an 1 it jThe cold weather of last week has certainly had amost prejudicial

6s 2d t^i 6s 4d per stone. Lsmbs—hca\y sale, m^ i _ i,, i,, i ,.,ur- eflectupon the growing crops, and comidaints come in from all able weather, and prices gave way fully 4d, be^t i>i i- . :: a s-; qi arters of thin and siLkly brairds. .A.s yet. hnwe ver, there is really Cd to Ss Sd per stone, Modei^te supply of calves, ami prices un- nq cause for ujipi l:i'n-i( II fi.r, Aidi lu., -...vtl: r. .r "Iii.h there is

: changed. Pigs.also remain as last noted. Total supply —Beasts, 1 .icr. The

' i ; 2.S0 II I lambsi, ; calves, !i lii 1 1. 3010 sheep and 25,810 ; pigs, 125. Foreign- ;d has betn _ m i luc much

Beasts, 060 : sheep and lambs, 10,GS0-, calves. 220. grbater trials iu'lh n-i -..i-. .i;, :\lii[..- ii, hut the

: fleet of vcs^tN ..11 jia^saLTC witli -i

LONDON PROVISION MAEKET--May 19. tsponding period of last year, and tin i i aliroad, render it extremely impfobaM Butter—supplies continue large, but owing to cooler weather the .c ircity or deamess, mdess the weiiih i i demand improved, ana firmer nile^ were obtained. .For foreign .\|tendance at markets avei:age, and a g. md dcit descriptions— Friesland, 110s to n2s; Xonuandy, Obs to lOGs heat, of which there is stiD a fair quantity the Xortli. Irish, nominal. Bacon extremely dull ; Irish 2s, aiid American 2s to rhe following are the qtiotations at the C 4s lower on week. Hams dull, and little business doing. Cheese steady, at late jates. Lard inactive.

1 Do., Old, LONDON PRODUCE MARKET—May 19. R^d Wheat, New, bi the absence of public sales the produce markets are quiet. Sugar is in limited request, and there is not much demand for Barley, fine malting, 54 lbs. „ coffee, but prices are imaltered. Cocoa, rice, and spices still quiet. IDo., common and distilling, 54 lbs. per bush. New YC tallow, 43s 6d spot. Linseed oil quiet, at 333 buyers spot. Gits, New, 42 lbs. per buslu English brown rape steady, at 37s 9d. Iron steady. Strong de- mand for copper, at full prices. Straits tin, 13os to i36s.

LONDON POTATO MARKET-May 19.

Regenta, 120s to 220s ; French, 75s' to 85s per ton ; kidneys, Ss to 8s M per bag. Moderate suppUes ; trade firmer.

LONDON DEAD MEAT MARKET—May 19. Limited supplies ou offer. Trade contiuues firm, at about pre- vious rates :—Beef, 3s Sd to 5s lOd ; mutton, 4s to 6s 2d ; veal, 5s to 5s 8d ; large pork, 4s to 5s ; small do., 5s 2d to 5s Sd ; Iambs, 7s Sd to86 4d.

HADDINGTON GR.UN MARKET—May 16. Supplies were less than last week. Sales quick. Total quantity in market : ^V*heat, 321 quarters, sold, 2S1 ; barley, 107 quarters, sold, 107 ; oats, 49 quarters, sold, 49; beans, quarters. Prices per imperial quarter. Wlieat. Barlev. Oats. Beans. 1st 56s Od 37s 6d 36s Od —s Od 2d. iVl 34s 2d 31s 3d 3S3 Od 23s Od 2Ss Od Od

WAKEFIFLD GRAIN MARKET—May 16.

The wind has again got to the east, and the weather is cold for the season of the year. AH markets show an upward tendency, and, from sheer scarcity on the continent, and especially at the Baltic ports, prices for wheat have again made an important ad- vance ; tho trade here is very firm at an improvement of fully Is per qr. from the rates of last Friday. Barley, beans, and oats find fair sale at extreme prices- Wheat, per qr, (60 lb3. to the bushel), Suffolk, Essex, and Kent, red, old 5ti.s to flOs, new 50s to 61s, white, old 633 to 70s, new 46s Ui Gas. Norfolk and Hunts, red, old 5Cs to

59s, new 45s to 61s, wbite, old 60s to 66g, new 48s to 678 ; Lincoln- shire and Cambridgeshire, red, old 54s to 58s, new 45s to 60s, white, old 3Ss to 66s, new 52s to 67s : Yorkshire, red, old 52s to 586, uew 6(^ to 61s, white, old 5.SS t*» 66s, new 58s to 67s; Dantzic and

Konigsburg, white, old, 5S.s to 70s. new 60s to 70s ; Lower Baltic, Hamburg, and Holstein, red, old 56s to 80s, new 55s to 61s i>er qi*. Barley, per qr. (56 lbs. to the bushel), Norfolk and Suffolk, new 408 to 48s ; Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, and Scotch, 389 to 46s; Danish,

36s to 46s ; grinding, new 28s to 32s. Beans per iir. (63 lbs. to the bushel), small 42s to 47s; ticks 3Ss to 45s; niazagan, 373 to 42s

^j-ptian, 303 to 39s. Oats, per stone, mealtng,12d tp l^d ; feet^ng-

12d to 16d ; foreign lid to 13d. Malt, per load^^of «ix: buBhal^;- 44s to 51s. Pease, per qr. (63 lbs, to the bushel), blue and white boilers, 46s to 503, grey and feed 383 to 42s. ) . —— : : : — —a

14 THE HIGHLANDER, 3IAY 24, 1873.

Irclanb. LOOK OUT FOR BARGAINS. SALE OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITLTIE and' C^\^LsoN & CO., i4 bank street, number of PHOTOGRAPHIC IN.STRUMENTS, ic, at IS The O'Keefk Ca.se. It is not surprising tliat this — , INVERNT5SS, whilst sincerelv thanking their Church Street, ou Satunlay, 24th. Sale to commence at 2 o'clock. case should excit« a good deal of attention and feeling, numerous Customers for the very kin'd patronafe-e they JOHN ROSS. -4MC(n.ncom, Pantiy, Hall, Kitchen and Scullery, Larder, Laundry, action of the Commissioners, and excluding both Father and Iron Bedsteails, Feather Beds, Bolsters"; Hair, Wool, Servants' Room, and Wash-house, including Crystal, Old China, Martin and the District Inspector from the schools and Flock Glass and Stoneware. Mattresses, Palliasses, &c. ; 300 P.- Rev.

Aprons, ; Fishing Trousers and Stockings, PRESIDENT of St Jarlath's College. Tuam, are being published in priety of this act, if it be admitted that Father Martin 2 Fishing Rods ; First-class THE "T U AM N K W S," was the 2 Cobles, complete ; 2 Hot or Cold Shower manager of these schools, and that Father Every Friday Evening. Baths ; 2 Large V.ises for Hall Door ; Mahogany Book- O'Keefe had been properly removed from that position. Agents wanted for the Sale of the TI'.VM NEWS all oier Ireland, Case, with Glass Doors ; 2 Cop^-ing Presses and Books To judge whether a priest has been properly ; England. Scotland, America, and Australia. or im- Copper Scales, 2 Beams, and Weights ; Letter Scales and For terms apply to the Proprietor, JOHN MACPHILPIN, Tuaui, properly suspended is a function which camiot be exer- Weights, a few Large Water Filters, suitable for Hotels, Co. Galway. cised by but any the authorities of the Church ; and on 4tli ic. ; a Polished Brass Chandelier, from Ness Castle Billiard The First Lesson in the Irish Language appeared the the National Board is certainly the last tribunal which Room. April. In order to meet the demand a Second Edition of the Tuam Seicii w-as printed, which is now nearly sold. Unless orders could undertake the determination of such a question. Goods of every description h.iving advanced such to an for the Tuam Sties reach the uffice before Tuesday in each week, body composed of enormous price A ten Catholics, six Episcopal Pro- during the twelve months, and C. W. & they cannot be attended to. Tlie vearlv subscription for the Paper testants, three Presbyterians, and one Unitarian, would C«. haWng Purch-ased most of their Extensive Stock supplied thruugh the post is 10s lOd. preWous to advance, they are find itself strangely at sea if it iwidertook, as Mr Justice prepared to give such Bargains as must insure a speedy clearance. Orders from Morris suggested, to examine the grounds of Father ILLUSTRATIONS FROM OSSLAN, the Country specially attended to. O'Keefe's supension, and decide the question of their Bv PAOLO PRIOLO. P.S.—C.^ W. & Co. will take any kind of GOODS in Dedicated by kind permission to His Grace the DUKE of RICH- validit}'. It would be sheer absurdity to attempt it, EXCHANGE for Crockery Ware, or [•ny Cash for Scrap MOND and LENNOX, E.G., ic, and though cases not unHke Father O'Keefe's have Iron and Met.il, Old Books, Ledgers, N e\vspaper8, W.i8te President of the Highland Society of London. cropped up before, SupiK>rttd by the Highland, Caledonian, and no one ever dreamt nntU now of Pai>er, Tailors' Clips^ Ropes, Guano Bags, Sheep Net«, Gaelic Societies of I^judon. proposing so extraordinary a course for their adoption. Hides. Horns, Lead, Brass, Copper, Bottles, Broken Wool, A series of 12 Etchings from the Poemi of Ossian, each jtlat* In 1851, a Presbyterian clergj-man, e.r and Skins of every description. wlio was an a4.companied by a page of descriptive letterpresa, collated by J. officio manager of a National School in Ulster, was Porters in attendance for To»-n. Murdoch, Esq., Inverness, Editor of the Highlander. deposed by his Presbyterj-. He protested, like Father Inverness, March, 1873. Handsomely bound in cloth gilt. Size, half Imperial, Price £2 2s. O'Keefe, against the vaUdity of his suspension, declared Will be ready shortly. it to be informal and UARANTEED MANURES. irregular, and claimed to lie fully G Order from Signor P. Priolo, 64 Park Road, entitled to his position under the Board. the London, S.W. But Com- Just arrived from the AoRia'LTTRAi. Company of Scotuixd, a missioners, acting on their established rule, refused to Cargo ofJFirst-class MANURES, ex "Gipsy Queen "— ICHABOE GUANO Imported direct by 41 PILLS is war- go behind the action of the Presbj-tery, and the Minis- I the Company, i>er BOX OF CLARKE'S B CURACOA Do. ONE I "Southern ter was removeil from the Managership until such time Cross." ranted to cnre all dischai^es from the Urinan' Organs, in NITRATE OF SODA I Splendid Top-dressing for Grass and cither sex. acquired or constitutional, Gravel, and Pains in the as he should be regularly restored those by under whose KAINIT and POTASH Legiuuinous Crops. Back. Sold in Boxes, 4s Od each, by all Chemists and Patent jurisiliction DISSOLVED the case fell. Three otlier such cases have BONES Prepared from be.st Material mider in- Medicine Vendors ; or sent to any address for tW stamps by the SUPERPHOSPHATE occurred since the formation of the Board, and in each spection of Company's Chemist. Maker, F. J. Clarke, Consulting Chemist, High Street, Lincoln. Delivery- on favourable Wholesale Agents, Barclay A: Soxis, London, and all the Whole- of them the action of the Commissioners has been the terms, at the Wisdmill, Ixverxess, or at Bbai-ly Stores, and also from the Works, Timbkr-bush, sale Houses. same. Of the forty-eight Leitii. past and present members of Catalogues free on application to their Agent, the Board, of whom twenty-seven were Protestants M. MACDONALD, Com Factor, 4c. ^^XJ^OR THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE."—See bishops, judges, and college professors not 20 Baron Taylor's Street, Inverness, May 1S73. — more than -1- Deuteronomy, chap, xii., verse 23. live or six ever demurred N.B.—This Company has been for to the rule of recognising the formed giving the full benefit CLARK E'S to Agriculturists by tlie certificate of a clergjTnan's ecclesiastical superiors as proriding best article at the lowest remu- nerative rate. WORLD FAMED BLOOD MIXTl'RE, sufficient e\-idence of his suspension ; and the principle THE GREAT BLOOD PURIFIER AND RESTORER, has been acquiesced in and endorsed more th.in once by For cleansing and clearing the blood from all impurities, cannot such men as the late ROTTERS AUCTION MART, be too highly recommended. Protestant Archbishop of Dublin, LOCHGORM, INVERNESS. T is .-* For Scrofula, Scurfy, Skin Diseases, and Sores of all kinds it the Protestant Bishops of Meath and Deiry, and the FAT STOCK even' SALES TUESDAY, at 1.30. never-failing and permanent cure. Provost of Trinity College." MILK COWS and STORE ever)- at CATTLE FRIDAY, One It Cures Old Sores. o'clock. It is reported that IriJi Cures Ulcerated Sores on the Neck. the Time« has been pur- Ample Accommodation for Cattle and Sheep, with good Keep. Cures llcerated Sore Legs. chased by Sir John Arnot for £36,000. Cures Blackheads, or I*imples on the Face. SPECIAL NOTICE. Cures Scurfy Sores. Cures Cancerous Ulcers. NOTICE. SI.\TH DIVISION OF PROFITS. Cures Blood and Skin Diseases. Cures (Slandular Swellings. HIGHLANDER NEWSPAPER. Intending LIFE DEPARTMENT. Clears the Blood from all impure matter. Subscribed, Advertisers, NewsTelulors, A:c., in London, Tlie Financial Year of the From whatever cause arising. is warranted free from are respectfully requested Ui send tbcir Orders as early as possible u] CALEDONIAN INSURANCE COMPANY As this mixture pleasant to the taate, and anything injurious to the most delicate constitution of either sex, MR W. T. SgUIRE, 7.^a Strand, W.c"., Ended on 14th .May current, from whom information, the Proprietor solicits sufferers to give it a trial to tetit Its value. eveo" prices for Advertisements, and Bi'T TUB Books or the Compa.vy will be kept ope.v till the end of specimen copies be Thousands of Tustimonials from all parts. can obtained. A tile of "The Highlander" re- TUB Mo.vtu, and all Proposals Dated os or before 14tu cvrkext tained. Bold in Bottles 2s 3d each, and in cases containing six times the WILL BE ISCLUDED I.N THE LlSTS FOR THE PAST YEAR. THEREBY E.VTIT- quantity, lis each—sufficient to effect a permanent cure in the Liso TUB Pabticipatixo Policies at the Next Divisio.v of Profitu great m'ajoritv of long-standing cases—BY ALL CHEMISTS AND ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF FOREIGN .MAILS FROM AT 14TI! May 1878 to PATENT ME'DICINE VENDORS throughout the United Kingdom THE POST OFFICE, SI.X YEARS' BONUS. INVERNESS. and the world, or sent to any address on receipt of 27 or 132 stamps by FIVE DmsIONS of the Profits have already been made, at F. J. CLARKE. CHEMIST, High Street, Lincoln. MaiU DisPATcn. each of which the Benefits allocated to the Assured were Ix- Whole^e : All Patent Medicine Houses. CHEAsKD. Few Companies, however large their Business, have been able to do so. Chin», Ceylon, Singapore, MODERATE PREMIUMS. GOOD BONUSES. CAMPBELL'S DIPPING COMPOSITION and Penang, via South- !- June 4—9.30 A.JI. May 20. for Sheep and Lambs, *c., Destroys Vermin on Sheep and ampton PERFECT SECURITY. ) FUNDS ALL INVESTED IN HOME SECURITIES. breaks the Eggs, keeps the fly from striking, cures Scab, keeps the Do., do., via Brindi^l May 27. Sheep clean, does not bum the Wool or Animal, does not discolour India, Egypi^ &c., via \ W«Mil, is a preventive and cure for Maggots, keeps the Wool soft Tuesdays. FIRE DEPARTMENT.—Almost cverv description of Property the Bouthampt^m i Wool a fine appearance, increases the growth Insured at and sappy, gives the I>o., via Brindisi Tliursdays—ia the ijsual rates. Tuesdays. NO FOREIGN BUSINESS of the Wool, makes the Sheep thrive, is the be».t Winter Dip for Australia Zealand, > TRANSACTED. & New June 4. Sheep, is the best Dip for Lambs at speaning, is the best for use via Southampton Overdue MOINET, Manager. i 9.30 A.JI. JOHN at any time, is a cure for vermin on Cattle, is a cure for itch on Do. Zealand, * New via ) EDINBURGH (Head Ojlice)~W Gforoe Street. is ring\vorm on cattle, is comprised of substantial June 12 I Cattle, a cure for Hrindioi —12 t" LONDON I ever intruduceil GLASGOW | DUBLIN ingredients, is the most valuable and substantial Gibraltar, via France Dail Daily. 39 LoTiiBiRv, E.C. 64 St. Vincent I St. j 31 Dame St. at the price, and gives miiversal satisfaction. L)o., via Southampton Wetinesday,*9.30 a, Tuesday. Su_0cient/or 100 Sheep costs Tieelve Shilluigs. Malta, via Southampton Wednesday, 9.30 a. 1\iesday. AGENTS. received Do. . via .Marseilles May 29—9.30 A.lJ Invbrnrss Mr Donald I>a\idson, writer, 42 Union Street. Orders for the Dip and Executed by " West Indies (except - . CAMPBELL, Jr5.. & CO., GLASGOW ; Hon-Vi . , ,„,. ^^ 14th and Jlatif Mr John Forl)es, City of Glasgow Bank. ALEX. dui^. Chili, Peru, and -•'"^"ll"''' °'•- 29th of cich DiwjtraU Mr Murdo Macgregor, banker. Or by any Smearing and Dipping Material Merchants or Agents. month—""""'-<'•'"9.30 . Pacific)....- .....j' month. Forreg Mr Alex. Mackenzie, solicit«ir, Cumming Street. Mexico and Havanna Jun« 1—9.: Itlenrnnan (Skye) Mr Daniel Eraser, merchant. Brazil, Bucnos-Ayrcs, and \ Lochbrootn Mr Murdn Macleav, schoolmaster. " I don't remember ever having seen you before," as the Monte Video, by British May 17th. Ohan Mr Robert Lawreiice, banker lawyer said to his conscience.

Packet, . via Liycrpool . } Peterhead Mr T. J. Brcinner, banker. Do., *' Daughtercultural show'* is the latest name for an via Southampton. . . 8th—9.30 a.m. Portree Mr Harry M^iedonald, banker. Df... by h-rench Packet.... 16th—«.30 A.M. Portsoy Mr William Boadcn. evening party, 'llie girls don't like it. Cajieof OimhI Hojic, Ascen- 4th, 14th, and Tatn W. ) 24th Mr R. Ross, merchant. man who haf an estimable young lady. Because," Monday, Canada v Thursday.&'Monday, Wed- she replied, '* I am not able to supi>ort a husband." Saturdav ncsday, Friday. LEA AND PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE S A U C E. Billings was asked, ** How fast doe«* sound travel?" United Monday, Thursday, &j ,, , Josh Stat«s »<'•''»• Pronounced by Saturday. connoisseurs the only "GOOD SAUCE." Be His idea is that it deiKJnds a goinl deal upon the noise 3'on careful " Continent of Europe.. Daily. Daily. to ask for LEA and PERRINS' " SAUCE. I are talking about. The sotmd of a dinner-horn, fort n- "."See name on WTapper, label, bottle and stopper. Sold bv stance, travels half a mile in a second, while an inWtashun NOTK.—When any of the above dates of Disiateh falls on a Satur- Crosse and Blackwetl. London, and by all dealers in Sauces. i to be 'S quarters uv day, the letter should be ix.sted before 12 noon on the day preced- BEWARE OF COUNTERFEITS. tew git up in the morning have known ing, except in the case of letters forwarded by Marseilles, which LEA AND PERRINS, an hour goin' 2 pair of stairs, and then not hev strength will be in eutlicient time if posted before 930 a.m. on Sunday. WORCESTER. enuff left to be heard." THE HIGHLANDER, MAY 24, 1873. 15

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It is behered that this will prove a remunerative enterprise, and meet a want wliicli is much felt.

" Tlif Highlander" will give the earliest and most authentic intelligence on all questions relating to Conunerce, AgiiciJture, Education, Religion, Literature, and Politics, and on all other subjects of lijcal and geiiei-al interest. The Money and other Mai-kets will be dealt with fpeciaUy by writers versed in such matters.

All political and religious movements will be faithfully chronicled, and the actions of political parties subjected to indejiendent criticism ; whilst every helj) will be given to promote sound and patriotic legislation by whomsoever initiated. All [larties in Clun-ch and State shall have a fair hearing, the Editor reserving the power of commenting upon what appears in his columns, and of excluding unsuitable comnuuiications. He will clatin and accord full liberty to difi'er in opinion, at tlie same time that te will otter and expect a large amount of co-operation in every good work.

A primary object of Tin- Iliqhhmder will be to awaken an intelligent and vigorous public spirit, and afl'ord opportunity and encouragement to the inhabitants of the Highlands and Islands to ha heaitl in their own liehalf and in matters on wliich they are best able to judge. Highland interests, however, will be advocated and Highland ideas ventilated in no narrow s]iuit, but in the conviction that Highlandei's have duties to perform as well as rights to defend.

will The paper aim at promoting Commercial, Manufactiu'ing, and Agricidtural enterprise ; and -irill aftbrd a fair and respectful hearing to the manufiictvirer, the merchant, and the tradesman ; to the landowner, the farmer, and the labom-er. Tliis, it is beUeved, will make the paper really representative, and secure varietj' and piquancy without resort to personalities ; at the same time that a variet)' of forces, now latent, vnW be aroused to advance the general good.

The nation now begins to see that the policy of ddpopulating the country, and throwing the land out of cultivation, was an economic blunder of the gravest sort, carried out in cruel disregard r)f the feelings and instincts of the people. TAc Hiijhhindt!)- will endeavoiu- to give eflect to the wiser and more generous views now taking possession of the public mind—advancing alike the real interests of landlord and tenant, and at the same time benetiting all other classes of the coimnunity.

Among the topics, therefore, which shall have prominence, iu-e the Land Question ; Game Preservation and Deer Foresting ; the best systems of

Rural Economy and Practical Husbandry : the establishing of Manufactures in tlie Qnanies, and Highlands ; the Fisheries ; the working of Mines,

Peat Mosses ; the Utilization of Sewage ; Railway Extension, Management, &c. Other questions will arise to be dealt with according as they ail'ect the well-being and doing of the commimity. ;

is still Gaelic spoken, perhaps, over one-half the area of Scotland, and by considerable numbers in oiu' large towns and colonies ; whilst the learned of all lands look to the Gaelic language for valuable Imaterials with which to perfect Philology, ArohsBQlogy, and other branches in Science and Pliilo- sophy. The views of both the learned and the unlearned shall be met, and the columns of 27ie Highlamler made, so far, racy of the soil, by some space being devoted to Gaelic articles, tales, iwetry, and music, both ancient and modern. Occasionally, Gaelic readers shall be introduced to Irish, Manx, Welsh, itc. I Pictorial Illustrations, setting forth the attractions of the country, are due occasionally, if not regulai4y, in a journal issuing in the Highlands. The neighboiu-hood of Inverness, in particuhvr, has never' h; id justice done to it in picture or in print. The Jjii/hlaitder will be illustrated iiccordiivg as cu'ciuu-

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Inverness, which rejoices in such a rare surrounjding of what is useful and beautiful, should be a large^ wealthy, and influential town. A wisely directed jiublic spirit will turn its advantages to acctmnt. jT/k Highlander ofl'ers iissistance, and a])peals for co-operation, to work out greatness for the Capital, and jjrosperity for the whole Highlands fro

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