... town and village' within scope of the influence of the noble families were illuminated. Dinners, balls, and gatherings for athletic exercises, &c., were the order of the day. We observe there was a splendid assemblage of rank and fashion at Beaufort Castle ...

... and especially excessive indulgence in, ardent spirits, pernicious to health and destructive to morals. Rmn and whisky are associated with every description profligacy and crime. Many of the ills to which flesh is not often heir naturally, are traced to ...

... a number of associations in connection with tbe Established .and Free Churches in town, have this year joined tbe old Society, from which they had broken otf at tbe time of the Voluntary controversy. An addition of six distinct associations is this year ...

... the amusements, there will be battledore and shuttlecock, a new and exciting method of teaching spelling, called athletic orthography, athletic bagetelle, and draught boards, kc.—North British Mail. The Glasgow Magistrates are at present, under the powers ...

... in which several Highlanders displayed great nimblcness of foot; then followed the sworddance, which was danced by threo athletic young men successively, and by Master John Arthur Farquharsou, one of the Farquharson's boys, who distanced all the others; ...

... accom- plishments have a proper place in the routine of entertainment, and I am not aware that in any other Highland Association, Gaelic singing, repetitiol, reading, and recitation, are brought out with sauch prominent effect. In the branch of the Highland ...

... national display may be expected about the last week in June. The competition will embrace all our Highland spert6, music, and athletic exercises, and will form feature in the World's Gathering no means unattractive to foreigners and characteristic of our country ...

... beautiful grounds attached to Holland House, that venerable pile of antiquity with which many pleasing reminiscences are associated, whose walla many of our eminent statesmen first saw the light of heaven, and where the immortal Addison, having called ...

... of the history of the city, 1 omy, found a remarkable prevalence of the Celtic physi ue accompanied by the Celtic gait. The Gaelic peculiarities introduced by Walloonish and Huguenotish weavers, were not only “distinctly visible, but many Gre- cianized ...

... for centuries. The Picts far more resem- bling the Gaelic inhabitants of Ireland, and the Scots having all those substantial qualities and enduring vig- our which characterise them yet. The pure Gaelic people are still in the Highlands ; the lowlanders ...

... place, the meeting of the Association—its first assemblage out of the Principality—was of course event of unusually great interest and importance. The proceedings commenced on Monday evening by the annual meeting of the Association, which was held in the ...

... his inaugural address to the association. He began by expressing his own diffidence in undertaking the duty of presiding over a learned body, a duty from which he would have shrunk but for the kind request of the association, and his own desire to assist ...