GIESMI PEACOCK. Mar. 4VOLUME XXIII.-NO. 1.06. naE.INTJ uscE • The Hatarard Crew feeprigleitatl. ,The Pall Mall. Gazette of. ,July `3lst, says: "The Harvard . College four have at last corn . ... .• menceil active rowing upon English waters; nild even thus early one of our first _Drogues etications..-has - been' realized: - Like "all other challeitgers who have before. 'this ctime to England to test the Merits. of our oateunen, anti 'have brought with them - craft of native - manufacture, they • have soon 'learned to be skeptical 'of the merits of its 'architecture compared with that of boats turned out from English yards. We - remarked some time ago that a four-oared boat up . ward of forty feet in length, such wt described • by the Xew - York papers, could 'not be both figght and, btill i -accordnig-to-our - own --- narrow- minded ideae of boat-building. The first tip pearanee ofthis boat on the Thames Confirmed our anticipation.% and, perhaps,. converted the •Harvard crew. She seemed weakin the back, and traveled with her ends up and mitlships Iniried, - which, if in accordance with her ori s ginal 'lines,' must lie, to sley the lewd, an awk .l.: ward eccentricity: Be that 'as it may, the S'alters of Oxford liaise received ordere to build a boat for the Americans, which will, we trust, •• prove equal to- . the occasion. • "The internationaal , rivalry ef the race will, • theri-foixe most Probably, be confined to' the :styles and. „sinews ,of the competitores, , but lielley, the ex-champion, who. has been re tained by. Harvard, gill, if lie coaches the oarsmen in the science of rowltsg_ as well as the. coxswain in the intriiieciies of Thames navigatigniinfese,a further Britatinie element • into the performances of the Americans. a • "Their rowing can as yet, be hardly criticised 1 With fairness ; perhaps it Is stilted to their own claile'of boats; at is not what we should 'teach to our University' oarsmen. It is too much like leamill'e style; the arms are used too much; the bodies too little, and the • reach is too short. . The quick 'stroke talked of as pe 'culi:tr to the crew mast plainly be imperative with such a style, to compensate in quantity for the i Avant. of quality and length ,in the stroke. - At the sameetinie it was, . perhaps, hardly fair to expect to see uniformity of swing with four parallel bodies when the build. of the . Harvard boat placed the men in two- . and .. twos at irregular inter-. vals, - instead of on equielietant thwarts; :us • its English • beats. Possibly when they try an Engfisli boat tiler nmyadopt some what of - au English style. ;If they do eet, the contest will be the more international frona the .very opposition of !Style aud swing. 'They are decidedly fine and muscular men. 3luch stress is laid by cotemporaries on tlds latter tact; but most rowing - men know that 'biceps' . muscle is the most useless and even mss- chievoue with which a coach can contend. Those - .who possess it arc apt to finish the • stroke with arms 'instead •of shoulders, .bury . the. boat, and not catch the begififilieg7The 111• s of it in, the Oxford boat the better. We peeler' work . from fhe loins, shoulders, anti a taut fore arm ter Ox - onian'style.' The latter erew migrate to. Patighetwne trielay (Saturday.) They tried a new boat from. Sal- - ters's on Wednesday; and sit her frtirly. say that-they haves° far been Under the eye 1)i the well-known Etonian conch will tette ce to ehow.that there has been uo'lacis•cif science: on the onelandiand, we,trukt, of 'plains acid improvement on the other. The race will he rowed oil Aug. 2.5, or 2e: At present,:the Aniericanehold out for the option of a smooth slay. The-Course-Mill be buoyed throughout, and. the. Thames Cousereapey :: will doubtless secure refair field anti no 'favor: Same very stringent police regulations . ought, certainly to . 1 be made (and enforced) with regard to - steam ens. - Why allow any, except the umpire's?" The Mar of July AS says :"In, "In the mornin the suing and time was much admit g. admired,, hat in , the afternoon, after nsevere pull, they fell oil considerably -and as well not catching the first Dart oftlie stroke, and thus Whig to 'row it ottt,'.there etas - a decided teddency to lie ..tots . ..lfareea,gretiona faulLthat must be, inunediately remedied - before it goes too Their time, however, swiss excellent, and they' were 'like one' after the first 50 yants, during wltiektimYro l led Mkt Wet abene.tremetidens-. Iv. Their heavy oars require changing, for they appear to require great strength to use propeelee consequently the crew bury them too mech.. The trial in the afternoon was on the whole satisfactory." . .The (Sletis-ef duly.l.l,lsaya:LiffTheilglit-Seens'at, Putne.y mere disappointed this morning, the Harvard'gentlemen departing from their pro -gramme;nuddecidingtiot-ter-getlert-WIT the ..._eVenitsT:restivhieb;_considering:tlie--siork: they have done, and the rough nature of the weather; we should not begtudge.ehem,2_.hiet,._ withstandli4 - the adverse criticisms passed upon them by many of the mewspapers, - it is generally conceded by. men= at the . 'waterside that they mill prove no mean opponents to the Oxonians,-who, for a four, are certainly too hearyinnti are as - certainly attheir best. That the Hareardrmenitave Much.' to learn cannot he deified; but while they have manifest de fects, they enjoy. some advantages over out Crest, and: the • chief among , which is theit great strength." The The l'elegraph of -July :31, says : "The Har vard four took their•accustoined training ex ercise yesterday, Coachretas usual by 'Kelley in ;his sicifi. In the evening they Went as far as :Chiswick, led part.. oe:th. way ; by .four of the Lauded Iteiwing Club. - - .Tithing; Short' and vigo'rietitestrokes, and doing good work in the find half of the, pull, they appeared at the same time tellibtir bard Without producing a Cor re_sponding effect on the pace of the boat. l lVlether this be due to the want of spring aid the presence ofa quantity of dead weight iretbe hoat,herself,er to any actual..defect in, tlitgrtisting,- soon tested when the Hare yards try their new Salter: Meanwhile water. side opinion is 'against them and in favor of Oiford " The Ozfenl Crew. The London Tinto of July, 31 says: "The Oxford UniveUtily •fetitte. have ,beilif ,111! 'daily practice at Eton, under the able direction of the ltev. Edmond Warre. They have now disinised their, tug-boat„ and have got into a new fonr-oared racing -boat, built by Messrs. Salter of Oxforll., This boat is, very long and very light, and, therefore,can scarcely 46,seen' to advantage on such ' shallow water as she has hitherto' been dipped in. , Individual faults aro gradually disappearing, and the crew aro getting together in time and rowing. We understand that the weights of the crew remain on an average about the same. They are as follows: Mr. P. Wiliam, Exeter...Col lego.(bow); et. 9 lb.; Mr: A. C. Yarborottgh, Lincoln College, 11 st. 7 lb.; Mr. J. C. Thine, University College, 13 st. 7 lb.; Mr. S. D. Darbishire. Baliol College (stroke), 11 st. 7 14r...1% H. Hall, Corpus - Christi College (cox sivain) st:3 lb. , ' . THE 13RITI61NI HAT. , . a A gry ,Against It.. The London Tetegraph is assured that the odious chimney-pot hat has lasted nowso long that there is' no way to be clear'of it during our natural lives - ..the -Prince' of Wales would endear himself Still more to' all loyal hearts by boldly coming up . to'Londou.during the dog-daykand drivingabout tovzii in a felt or billycock or calico hat, - with a puggree, at his 'oyal pleasure. How many lives that young Prince might saive l The simple factis, no one will be the first to take. the' deep.- Oertaitv changes for,the potter; man's,l Orem have taken place in our time. Our throats are free. 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We receive, through Lippincott &- Co., of this city, Wiley & Son'sneat Ainerican edition of the new work of Mr.- 'Ruskin; ostensibly devoted to atmospheric appearances and phe nomena, but branching 'relentlessly out, after the author's manner, into general =consi4erar tions of social economy and theories of phi losoPhy.' Though fullof eloquent passages,the treatise is one of the most desultory, discon nected and aimless of all Mr. Huskin's latter oracles, and that is. saying a great deal in the preface he mournfully 'ad wits this, and attributes to broken health the disconnected and inartistic way in which these lucubrations are arranged; but prefers, to leave them as they stand, in despair of finish ing theit presentation in a..manner to content fa.stidious taste, am! trusting that they contain, in their preseat state, indica-, tions which the reader may follow, out with safety for himself. From' a younger writer, no collection of half-uttered truths would be saved by eVen so abject an apology; but we are always glad to,listen to _Hoskin, and learn the latest leadings of his noble and methodical madness. Athena, as the female form of, the atmos phere, sprung from the forehead of Jove, the power of thesurrounding airs, is the inspira tion of Mr. Hoskins' treatise. His manner of redwing the Greek myths to their extreme origins in natural phenottfereveaLs , his patient study of investigators like Max Muller, while it is his special privilege as a prose poet, to "p'ersuader from` them lissoas of attractive grace such as the man of science can never wring from their study. ifere, for instance, is Mr. Hoskin's treatment of the legend of "the shepherd bf the clouds," the wing -footed Mer cury: ' " You know that the valley; of Sparta is one of the noblest mountain ravines in the world, and that the western flank' of it is formed by an unbroken' ebain of: crags, forty miles long, rigng, opposite Spain, to a height of 8,000 feet, and known as the chain of Taygetus. Now; the from whom that mountain ridge is named was; the mother of Lacethemon; there fore, the mythic ancestress of the Spartan race. She is,the • nymph Taygeta, anil one of the seven stars ot spring; one of those Pleiades of when' is the question to Job--- 4 Can.st thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?' 'The sweet intluenees of • Pleiades,' - of the stars of ipring--nowhere sweeter than among the pine -clad slopes Of .the•billki of Sparta' and Ar cadia, when the snows of their higher sum mits,• beneath' the sunshine of April, fell into fountains, and rose into clouds; and in every ravine was a newly-awakened voice of waters -soft increase of whisper 'among its sacred stones r and on every' crag its forming and fading veil' of 'radiant cloud;_temple .abOve temple, of divine marble that no tool can pol lute, nor ruin linden:eine.. And, therefore, be . - yond this central valley, this great Greek vase of Arcadia, .on the 'hollow' morm tain, OYlle'ne, or 'pregnant' - moutain, I called aistf • - geold,' - ' - because — there the I vapors 'rest, I. and born , _of__ _ the eldest I of.those stars of spring, that Maia,from whom your own month of May ha's its name,bringing I to you, in the green of her garlands . , and , the white of her hawthorn, the. unrecognized sym-. -- bols of the npstureSand the wreathed snows of, Arcadia, where long ago. she was queen of _staxsz_there,-first-craeUed-and- -wrapped-lir swaddling-cloths ;• then raised in 'a moment_ of surprise; - inte - his wanderingpower, is born the, Shepherd •of the clouds, wing-footed and -deceiving, - blinding the - eyes of ArguKescaphig -- _from the gratrp.of ..Apollol-restless insenger between the.. highest sky and to most earth= 'the herald Mercury f new lighted on a heaven- , kissing" • - _ The author's pathway- leads him from the high places of the Queen of the Air-Athena in her blue hoine,,-to her track , through the nether world-the influence • of the at'inos:' phere on theeearth-surflice:' in inferior terms, the mysteries of nvnpor'ntil; - ndrninige and the gaseobsV cimibinathins' 'effeete •• by organic creatures. Mr. Ruskin knits heaven to earth by one of his graceful flighpi; in which he' compares mad ,considers. the two elements, earth and air, in the persons •of their typical creaturesof the serpent,•which eats dust and is forever fastened to the °round; and of the , bird, ;which drinks the air.with its wings : THE DIED AND TUE SERPENT. "We! .take :the ,bird first. It is little more than a drift of the air brought into form by pinnies; the air is in all its quills, it breathes through its whole:triune imilliesh, and glows with air in its flying, like blown flame; it rests upon ,the air, subdues it, surpasses it, outraces it—is the 'air t .conscious of itself, congtiering itself, ruling itself. "Also, into the throat of the 'bird is given the voice of the air. All that in the, ; wind it self is wriakovild, useless in sweetness, is knit together in its song • As we may.inumine the wild form of the.clond closed into , -the perfect form of-the bird's wings,'sn'the' wild -voice of the cloud into. its ?ordereil.' rind.. coinmanded voice; unwearied, rippling through the clear heaven in Its gladness; interpreting all intense jkassion thrriugh tire soft spring nights, burst ing into acclaim and rlipturtrof choir:. at day break; - or. lisping` or twittering among, the boughs'and hedges through" heat of day, like little winds that only pinks ;, ho cowslip bells shake and ruffle the petals of the wild.rose:, "Also, upon the plumes of the bird are put the colors of the air: on these the gold 4 of •the cloud, that 'Cannot be gathered by .any, covet:. ousuess; tliernbies of the clouds, thrit•are not the price of A.thena,-but are Athena; the ver nailion of the Jeloud bar, and the flame of the cloud -crest, and the snow of.thri cloud, and its shadow, and thermelted blue.of the deep wells of the airy—alithese, seized by the creating spirit; and woven by Athena`herself into.tlims. and threads ~cof ::with wave; on. wave. following and fading along breast, and throat, and opening• Wings, infinite as 'the' dividing of the foain and sitting "of the sea-Sand ;'.even the white down of the cloud seeming to flutter up between the - strongerylumes seen, but too soft for touch.' • • "And so the Spirit of the Air, is put into and upon this• created form; and it 'becomes, through twenty centhries, the of di vine help, descending, as .the Fire, to speak, but as the Dove to bless. "Next, 'in' the serpent, we ' aPproach' the source of a group, of , myths, •'worki;wide, founded on great and •common Iniulan in stincts, respecting Whieh 'irtlist''nete one, or two . points which bear, intimately ,op, an sub3ect: For it, seems, tito 4iethrit the' scholars: who are at' present occupied interpretation Neither have we all turned froth the religion of our forefathers, 'because 'iwe wear ' loose wrappers it sleeves large' ettoughlor com fort, in place of the tight frock with rolling collar of our youth.'. Thee old hat, however--P the old.chirnney-pot—remains !'master pf the situation." Why should this grotesque fashion be? If the present weather continues , all who are 60 unfortunate as to be detainedin Loudon should at °nee invest in puggries, felts, billy cocks, and such other reasonable coverings for the human head. Down with the chimney pots, down;with them, even to the ground! NEW •PUBLICATIONS. THE BIRTH OP HERDIBS PHILADELPHIA THURSDAt S AIidU,ST 'l2 1'849: of human myths have moat of them forgotten that are any aubh' ihingii as natural myths; and that the dark savings of men maybe both difficult to 'read and, not always worth reading; but the • dark, Sayinge of nature will probably bedonie clearer; for tbe looking adi into, "and will. seery 'certainly be worth, reng. And, indeed,'all guidance to the right sense of ,the limtuatr -mid , ',variable myths will probably depend on our first getting at the sense of the natural and invariable ones. The dead hieroglyph:may bare meant this or that—the living 'hieroglyph means always the same; but remember, it 1.9 just as much a hieroglyph as-the other;:nay, more—a 'sacred or reserved sculpture,' a thing with an inner language. The aerpent-crest. of the king's -crown, or of the - god's j ron.the pillars ofEgypt, is mystery; ; but the 'Serpent itself, gliding past the pillar's foot, is it lets a znystery? Is there, indeed, no 'tongue, except the mute thrice& flash from its lips, in that runningbrook of horror on the ground? -• "Why that 'horror? - We all feel'it, ,vet how imaginative it is, how disproportioned to the real strength of the creature? There is. more poison in an ill-kept drain, in, a pool . of dish washings at axottage door, than.m the deadli est asp of Nile. Every backyard which you look down into from the railway, as it carries you out by Vauxhall or Deptford, holds its coiled serpent; all the walls of those ghastly suburlis are enclosures of tank-temples tor ser pent worship;yet you feel no horror in looking down into them, as, you would if you saw the livid scales and lifted bead. There is more venom,mortal inevit.ablein a single word,sorne times, or in the gliding entrance of a -world lees thought, than ever 'wind Libia eon, sua rena.' But that horror is of the myth, not'of the creature. There are ruyriads lower than this, and more loathsome, in the scale of being; thelinks between dead matter and ani mation drift everywhere unseen. But it is the strength of the base'element that is so dread ful in the serpent; it is the very omnipotence of the earth. That rivulet of smooth silver— how does it How, think you? It literally rows on the earth, with every scale fur an oar; it bites the dust with the ridges of its body. Watch it, when it Moves slowly; a wave, but without wind current, but with no fall! all the body moving at the same 'instant, yet some of it_to one _aide, some to another, or some . forwdrd, and the rest of the coil back wards; but, all. with the same calm will and coital way—no contraction, no extension; one soundless, causeless march of sequent rings and spectral procession of•spotted dust, with dissolution in its fangs, dislocation in its coils. Startle it; the winding stream will become a twisted arrow; . the wave of poisoned life will lash through the grass like a cask lance. It scarcely breathes with its one lung (the other shrivelled and abortive); it, is -p-as sive to the sun and shade, and is cold or hot , like a stone; yet -it eau outelnub the 'flunkey, out.swim the fish. outleap the zebra, outwrestle the athlete and crush the tiger.' It is a divine hieroglyph of the dereoniac power 'of the earth—of the entire earthly nature. As the bird is the clothed power of the air, so this is the clothed power of the dust; as the bird the symbol of the spirit of life, so this of the grasp and sting of death.'' The second chapter,. froin which the above extract is taken, is introduced by an investi gltion into the origin of life, which, though shedding little light for, the philosphers, will, we hope, convince Mr. MattheW Arnold that Buskin penfonally has got deist; this matter of virihts the rhapsodist turns'over curiouslyin his band a moment to examine its several as pects, and then, in a trice, has fallen upon modern science,' making ftui of It for the ex treme comfort and applicability it is finding in itslatest toy; the''"waVn-theory,:, THE zuvsrxity OF LIFE. .. .9 . "But it is .of great consequence that you should fix in your minds, and holdagainst the ba.seness of Mere materialism on the one hand, and against the fallacies of controversialspeeu ; lation on the other, the certain and practical sense of this word ‘spirit'=the. sense in which. - yon - all - know - thatits reality exists, as a power which shaped yon into your shape,;.and by which you love and hate when . you have received that shape. You need . not fear on the one band 'that either the sculpturing or the . loving poWei can - ever- be beaten down by the philosophers.into a metal, or evolved yy , them into a gas;tut, on the otherhandF - take - care - that You - ycinserves, - in tD•ing_ . to elevate your cenceptionnt-itrdo-not loseitstrah in a dream or even in a word. Beware alwayS of contending forwords,. will - liod - tlrem not easy to grasp if you know them in several languages, - This very Word which is so solemn in your Mouths, is one of -the most doubtful. In Latin" it means little more_than : breathing, andanay mean- merely accent; .in French it is not breath, - but wit, and-- - our neighbors are ,there fore obliged, even in them;.most solemn' expressions,,to say 'wit' when N-e say 'ghost.' In Gree.k . , ‘pnetuna,' the..word we translate - ‘ghost;' means either wind or breath; and the relative word ‘psyehe' has perhaps a More subtle - power; yet St. Paul's words ‘pneit ioatic body' and"psyckic body,' involve a ditfei .rence in- his -.mind -which no words will ex-. plain. , But. in Greek . and in Bnglish,. and in Saxon and in -Hebrew, and in eVery,a - qiculate tongue of humanity, the 'spirit of ,man' truly means his passion and virtue, and is stately according to the height of his conception, and stable according to the measure of his endu:. "Endurance, or. patience, drat is the.central sign of spirit; a constancy against the cold and agony or death; anti as, physically; it is by the burning power of the air that the heat or. the flesh is sustained, so this Athena,. spiritually', is the queen of all glowing virtue, the nneon suming fire and inner lamp of life. Arid thuS, as Ilephaestu.s is lord of the fire of the hand, and-Apollo of the fire of the brain, so Athena of the, ire of the heart; and as Ilereule.s wears for his. chief armor the skin of the Neuman. lion; 'his chief enemy, whom lie slew; and Apollo has for his highestnarue 'the Pythian; from' his 'chief enemy; the Python, slain; so Athena bears always m'breast the deadly face . of her chief enemy slain the Gorgouian, cold, and Venomous agony, that turns living men to stone. , "And so long as you have ,that lire of the heartwithin you, and know ,the reality of it, y9u need be under no,alarni as to the possi bility of its chemical or mechanical analySis. The philosophers are very humorous in their eestacy of .hope about it; but the real interest Of their discoveries in.. this direction is -very human kind; ,It is quite true that the tynapaniuu of the ear vibrates under .sound, and that the surface of the -water in - a ditch too::but the • ditch hears nothing for all that; and uiy hearing is still tome as blessed a mystery as ever, and the interval between, the glitch and me quite as, great, If the tremb liiag soundinmy ears was once ~ o f the'noin-- riage bell - which began my happiness, midis now of the, passing bell which ends it, the die ferenr4 petween those two sounds to .nie can not be counted by the number' f concussions." , 'si •, . 2 -Hungaxlan-jouriuils relate a ngular.case of suicide. .A.sholikeeper at Pesth shot him self with a pitittil, having pre:iriOusly written to a friend that • "life is insupportable. T adore my- wife; biitshe has grown so stout:--she that was of so ravishinta figure when I .married' her." He added that he. preferred to die rather, than be unfaithful to his wife on this account, or to tthe legal means to bo separated from her. —.Echnund 'Kean once throw,a.mgar Atutnp in Othello's face on the Canterbury theatre stage in 'Washington, recently ~ burne(l. was not ei'member of the State , Temperance ' • • • .i ;li.) a , OUR tozninser - Tnlcresting Historical Notes, A Writer in an English inagaiine. xdits to gether in an attractive form some lustencal notes edncerning oldshtinett 'on& tillgributgeS irrEnghtrid. `We quote a fen - passages f', "The attractions of St. JoArt of: Beverley consted principally in , the sanctuary ..'it. at forded to criminals,. evenuf the worst deOrip non. The murderer's chair—the Prid-stoi , -.18 still to be been in the minster,.. and. consists of one _entire stone, said to have been brought from teotland. Certain, fees were require to be „Paid by those seeking mattotnary. The bailiff, for administering , ' the oath, was- to -receive- two-and-fourpenee; and the clerk of the court for inser rftg the' •flamiq four -, pence. , 'At • Beverley," says ,Professor Phillips z in his =excellent book,- 'The Myers,. Mountains and Sea (roast Of X•arkshire,' 'was flie"shrine of St. John, preceded' by an earlier settlement marked by "four' stones;! from whieli we infer that it was the • British Ped warllech and Greek Petonaria, chief eity of the Parisoi, as it still is of the East Riding. From Pedwarllech, we have Bevoriac, Bever ley. To St. John, of BeverleY, .A.thelstane offered the sword which•had ivavedin triumph ` at. Brunanburgh,perhaps the greatest of Anglo Saxon victories.' ' '*The shrine of Thomas, ii Becket; which Chaucer has immortalize:lj was not. the only attraction at Canterbury. ' The :Cathedral boasted of no less than four hundred relics. Among them was some of the clay from which God moulded Adam; Aaron's rod; the bed of the Virgin; specimens of her spinning, frag ments of the manger of Bethlehem; of the table of the Last Supper; of the rock on which the. Cross stood ;.besules many other objects connected with our Lord..- ' "Reading, also, had a greatattractioriinthe spear which pierced our Lord's side; and the' angel—with one wing gene—that brought it to England. At the. Dissolution, the spear was carried off to Notley, but inquiries were made after it, which resulted in Its being sent up to London to Cromwell. -The relic, how- ever, for which Henry I. founded the Abbey , 1 in 1121, tV:II4 the hand of St. Philip, which his daughter :Maud brought back from Germany,' after the death of her husband. the Emperor. It had a gold covering, but this Richard the Lion-hearted appropnated when in pecuniary difficulties, and it remained defenceless till John Lackland presented a whole mark of gold to provide a new cover for it. Glastonbury was the resting place of so. many saints—Joseph of Arinuitinea and his companions,St. l'atnck, the Apostle of Ireland, &c.—as to be called the second Rome. The contents . of its museum of curiosities were 'both various and interesting. There might be seen part of Rachel's tomb, the altar on which - Moses pOured out oil, part of his autograph copy of the Pentateuch, some , ' manna tof the wilderness, and other memorials con nected with the Old Testament. Mater relics also abounded. There were two pieces of the manger of Bethlehem, some of the gold offered by the \Vise Men, one of the vessels of Cann—another of these übiquitous objects ,was given by the Lord Prior of St. John's to the Niuniery Church of Cler'kenwell in 12119; some of the stones which our Loid was tempted to change into bread; :• fragments of the five loaves with which he fed .the five thousand; some of His hair; part of the hem of His garment; and many others, too numer- OUS to mention. "'Besides these, Glastonbury could. boast of one more object of very great interest—the grave of King Arthur. Giraldus Camhransis tells ns lie was present at its discove7 • , in the time of Henry 11. That King, while in Wales, had heard in one of the songs about Arthur the tradition as to his burying-place. He caused search to be made, and presently came upon a stone. with the inscription in very rude letters: 'Hie jacet sepultns inclytus Rex .Arturius in Insula Avelonm.' Nine feet below this, in the_trunk a tree; were found the - huge remains of the good .King, and by his .side Queen Guinevere, with her golden hair as fresh and beautiful as when Arthhr used to play witth with 'not knowing; but on a touch it crumbled into dust. Arthur's skull showed no less than ten fractures, the most extensive of all being, no doubt, the one he received when ‘so • deeply smitten through the helm' at_the great battle of Camlan. EdWard I. and his Queen, Elea nor, were so interested in the matter, that the tomb -- was t againopened - for - their-inspection;-- _The two skulls were kept in the treasury, and a xnagniffent - monument erected over the ~r ave • but all disappeared at the Befoul:la non. "At Bury St.-Edmunds was the sacred standard of the , martyred king, from. which the town derived its name—the brother of Al fred, so cruelly murdered by the Danes..._ His head was found forty days afterwards in the possession of a wolf, which gave it up quietly and walked away. When placed near the body, it reunited , itself so cleverly that the line of junction was scarcely visible. Bearing the sacred standard. Henry 11. marched out against his son, and of course, by means of it, gained the victory. , It.was to Bur/that Rich ard the-Lion-hearted seat the standard of the Ming of Cyprus, which he had taken on hiti way to. Palestine. T.bere, too, was the altar on which Count Melim. in fang John, tells the English nobles - the King has sworn to put them all to deathif Lewis is victorious, having just before, on that same altar, • • • • " --sworn to you Dear amity and everlasting love. • "One of the accounts of the Rood of Scot land assigns to it a supernatural origin. David 1., insisting on going out, hunting one Holy 7, Rood Day, tell in with the fairest hart that, ever was seen before living, creature. . ' The . King's horse ran away, closely pursued by the hart, stumbled, and threw the King, who, an he put up Ins hand to save himself' from the stroke of the hart, suddenly found a cross in his hand, of no common kind, "for there is no man can show of what matter it, is of, metal or tree."' Holy-Rood Abbey was built to receive • it. •' Only one or two other relia can be men tioned : Such as our Lady's Girdle of Bruton —ten other originaLs, a 8 Nichols WIN us, being in • Leicester alone—and Mary 3lagdalen's girdle. Both these:were of great repute, es pecially among married.women. One of the heads of John the Baptist was at Trimming ham. Lincoln also could boast of the chain - with which , St.- Catharine bound the devil ; while the relies at Leicester (the missing ear of 3lalchrts 'being one of them), York, Thet ford, Glasgow? &e., were quite beyond count ing. • l• . • , "Of the many, holy wells in ' Great Britain,,` such as 3ladifria Well in Cornwall. St. Eustace's in Kent, &c., we must 'be _content with men ,tinning two. St. Winifred's Well, in 'Flint- Shire, enjoyed a reputation for possessing power to heal &wonderful list of ailments. it; failed somewhat, however, in the case of Sir George • Peckluim 'He continued so long mumbling his paternosters and Santa. Whatfrida era pro me, that the cold struck into his body, and, after his coining forth of that well, be never, spoke mere.' St. Michael's Well, in Banffshire, arag Wont to be , visited by its patron saint in the form of a fly. He would seem, however, to have tired eventually of his employment, and the well, hi consequence, became utterly neglected. , • • "Ireland,. of-,courso,_ has her places of pil grimnge stall i though these, are, sadly fallen now-a-days from :their` ancient glory and re nown. The' well of "EinglasriSt:Patriek'S th,`• vorite 'residence, was of 'great'virtue in're-• storing sight to the blind; till a. quack, Aohniet, turned it into , punip , rooni; •Donaglimore; county _4lLeathi -one , of, .St. ',Patrick's 385:: churches, possessed ; the relics of, his 0 180 4 11 0 Cassanus, endued, with„ - such; miraculous ; ,rowers ' t hat searcelr” arty 'o.sitors went away aTED RuittrE4 lIIIMERMW -r~i:';i z