... passed by the wayside, and were soon within sight of the clachan of Cartsdyke, where the feudal retainers of the Crawfords of Easter Greenock had their residences. Cartsdyke, though greatly improved of late years, ! is not yet very salubrious; but what must ...

... the domestic habits of its inmates, is from the diary of a gentleman who recently visited that ancient city:— ' The Latin Easter and the Je wish Passover usually follow close upon each other, and are sometimes even contemporal. Having ascertained that ...

... Sir Reginald More of Abercorn, was Chancellor ef Scotland in 1329, acd that Gilchrist More appears to bave ecquired the of Easter Caldwell in the eame cestury by marriage with an These Caldwells of Caldwell retained the leads of Wester Caldwell vatil the ...

... Amend- went Bill were read a third time, and “ Lord LYVEDEN asked the Lord Presid ent of the Council if he intended, after Easter, to move the ap intment of a Select Committee on the minutes of the po Ol uncil respect- rivy € ing education, as recently ...

... but here again the singular ill-fortune of her life prevailed, and the Queen, married in January, 18J5, wv a widow before Easter. A second marriage was concluded the following year with Prince Ferdinand, of the Catholic branch of the Coburg family, which ...

... all the Father on rising from his seat found a gift of twelve thou- Holy Offices performed at St Peter’s and the Sistine and benediction of the blessed sacrament of the mass on Church, duriog the Holy week, and at the solemn mass Easter Sunday. I saw him ...

... eggs to their godchildren at Easter. ith regard to this usage, a person living at Courtenay relates a very remari able ineident which iately happened in that hamlet. A goddaughter of seventy summers called for ber Easter gift on her 82; but she was absent ...

... means of education, in the field of labour, they were perfectly free. It rested, then, with themselves-to make progress, and to rise. They had not, as their forefathers had, to fight for liberty. They would, therefore, be wanting in wisdom, or energy, or ...

... that it seemed as if they had almost been present at the deathbed of our great and formidable enemy. The news a: first give rise to hopes which further experience has not verified, and the fact is established that the policy of absolute G >rornraent may ...

... principally of the farmers on the Caldwell estate amongst whom and the other gentlemen preseut we observed Mr Wißiam Somcrville, Easter Halket; Mr John Robertson, Wester Halket; Mr Wilson, Biggart; Dr Pn.de, Neilston ; Mr James Steel, Landstewart, Caldwell; ...

... ow'l-we know, Jemmy, when you're after ap ivery Bring me a glass 0’ grog, an say to me, “ Here's till ye, “ an’ if I don’t rise up an dbri then bury me!” vERsvs is a well-known story of a race between a bull-frog and an Indian, the former t»> have three ...

... this fact will be one of the very earliest that will be laid before the public—probably by the first Oppo sition speaker wh.> rises on Tuesday night. On it will turn much of the commentary on the whole conduct of the war, on timid councils, and so forth ...