Steadily came the foe; from forts and vessels Spurt the red fire and the spectral wreath; Steadily on-for in that stórm of missiles Hurtful only was the monster's breathTill, with a great shock, Deep through sides of oak Was it idly? No! though, quickly sinking, "Thou who passeth, tell to Lacædemon, On that banner bright, And, O grateful land! in measure ample And their flag left there THE COLLEGE GATE. W. G. [Foley's fine statue of Goldsmith stands now in front of Trinity College, in this city, where it commands the admiration of everybody. It is only placed there in a temporary way, but when the pedestal is completed the statue will be erected upon it and inaugurated with due ceremony.] "He took his degree of Bachelor of Arts on the 27th of February, 1749. He was lowest in the list."-Forster's Life of Oliver Goldsmith. A LAD slunk out of the college gate, With a parchment grasped in his fist; He tried to dodge past the sniggering boys That snubbed him with "Last on the list!" 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GOD of the Free! whose judgments rest Of piteous thousands in our land, God of the feeble human frame, And woman's patient, suffering soul, Oh, let not man's heroic fame, His power to guard, defend, control, There is a deep, (and is't not here ?) And woman sheds her bitter tear. She asks for bread, for clothes, for more! Her righteous prayer, so long deferred, Yes, patient ones, 'tis not alone One form of bondage now that falls; Jehovah makes thy cause his own, And man shall tremble when he calls. Oh, long account of labor crushed! Of honest, anguished, starving toil! See! rising thousands, hear their tramp, And crowded streets-a numerous trainWho do not threaten, cannot take The bolder measures man employs, But simply ask of him to make Life's burden lighter, more its joys. And will it be despised-refused? Better that heaven's high-arching roof His suffering children to protect. And woman's quivering soul of love, And hearts and hands, all joyous things, And myriad voices toned anew, Combine to bless the power that brings Freedom to souls and bodies, too! Boston, November 17. —New York Evening Post. IN THE FIRELIGHT. I HAVE watched her all the evening, Sitting motionless, with her head bent down Like playful sprites, delighted Quivering restlessly up and down, I wonder what made her smile just now- She will smile every bit as brightly How often I will think of her, -Chambers's Journal. THE LORD AT HAND. "COULD Christians watch ten thousand years Before their Lord himself appears, Yet, as he then shall come at last, "Lord make me at all hours awake, And, self-denied, thy cross to take, -German Poet. IN the Castle of Brahan, in Ross-shire, the picturesque seat of the Mackenzies of Seaforth, "Lords of Kintail," is a mass of corespondence, from which a volume has been compiled for private circulation. A larger selection will, we hope, be some day given to the world; but, in the mean time, we may be permitted to cull a few extracts, illustrative of family or general history. It is an obvious remark, that from such sources the historian derives his best materials,-true pictures of social life and manners, and traits of character developed only in the confidence of familiar intercourse. The "Seaforth Papers are mostly of modern date. Clan feuds and Jacobite risings, proscription and exile, were ill-suited to the preservation and transmission of such memorials, which probably were never very numerous. The Highland chiefs of old were not frequent or voluminous letter-writEven when fully aware of the value of a crown-charter or "sheepskin title," and most of them were eager to obtain this security, many disdained the accomplishment of writing. The services of some slender clerk or legal functionary sufficed; and we have, for example, a Baron of Kintail, a Privy Councillor of King James the Fifth, and a man noted for extraordinary prudence and sagacity, signing himself Jhone M Kenze of Kyntaill, with my hand on the pen, led by Master William Gordone, Nolar." This vicarious style satisfied the ers. "Chief of domestic knights and errant, Either for cartel or for warrant." The Mackenzies can be early traced to their wild mountainous country, Ceann-da-Shaill, the Head of the Two Seas, or two arms of the sea, Loch Duich and Loch Long. They were strong in their alpine territory, guarded by Ellandonan Castle, and approachable only through narrow glens and passes, amidst vast mountain screens, beyond which lie miles of green pasture, wood, and wilderness. By feats of war, or strokes of policy, and by intermarriages, the chiefs of Kintail waxed great and powerful. The sunny brae lands of Ross, the well-cultivated church-lands of Chanonry, the barony of Pluscarden, in the fertile laigh of Moray, even the remote island of Lewis, a flat, treeless expanse of bog and turf, but surrounded by the prolific sea as with a belt of gold, all these were added to the Caberfae possessions. There were desperate battles with the Macdonalds, the Munros, and the Macleods, frequent raids and irruptions, with letters of fire and sword (which meant power from the crown to slaughter and exterminate); but in the end the Mackenzies seem always to have been successful, and to have sat securely in their "pride of place." The last Baron of Kintail, Francis Lord Seaforth, was, as Sir Walter Scott has said, "a nobleman of extraordinary talents, who must have made for himself a lasting reputation, had not his political exertions been checked by painful natural infirmities." Though deaf from his sixteenth year, and though laboring also under a partial impediment of speech, he held high and important appointments, and was distinguished for his intellectual activity and attainments. He represented Ross-shire in Parliament, and was lord lieutenant of the county; he raised and commanded a regiment; he was for upwards of five years Governor of Barbadoes; he took a lively interest in all questions of art and science, especially natural history, and he kept up an extensive correspondence. His case seems to contradict the opinion held by Kitto and others, that in all that relates to the culture of the mind, and the cheerful exercise of the mental faculties, the blind have the advantage of the deaf. The loss of the ear, that "vestibule of the soul," was to him compensated by gifts and endowments rarely united in the same individual. One instance of the chief's liberality and love of art may be mentioned. In 1796, he advanced a sum of £1,000 to Sir Thomas Lawrence to relieve him from pecuniary difficulties. Lawrence was then a young man of twenty-seven. His career from a boy upwards was one of brilliant success, but he was careless and generous as to money matters, and some speculations by his father embarrassed and distressed the young artist. In his trouble he applied to the chief of Kintail. "Will you," he said, in that theatrical style common to Lawrence," Will you be the Antonio to a Bassanio?" He promised to repay the £1,000 in four years, but the money was given on terms the most agreeable to the feelings, and complimentary to the talents of the artist,-he was to repay it with his pencil, and the chief |