IN THE WALKS AT FONTHILL. At the entrance on either side, are tablets with the dates of the chief and final victories of Nelson and Wellington,-as to the former, his last signal would have exhibited one of his failings (that of vanity) had not his signal officer suggested the word England in lieu of that of Nelson-which was immediately complied with. The potatoes that may be growing here are the twelfth in descent from two sets taken up from the spot on which the Duke of Wellington stood on the field of Waterloo when he gave the order to "charge," which he had until then pertinaciously delayed. Of the potatoes it is computed they have successively accumulated to the amount of three or more acres of harvesting. ANTI-CHRISTIANITY. From "McPherson's Translation." Ossian's address to the Sun. "O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers! Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light? Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave; but thou thyself movest alone. Who can be a companion of thy course? The oaks of the moun. tains fall; the mountains themselves decay with years; the ocean shrinks and grows again; the moon herself is lost in heaven; but thou art for ever the same, rejoicing in the brightness of thy course. When the world is dark with tempests, when thunder rolls and lightning flies, thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds, and laughest at the storm. But to Ossian thou lookest in vain, for he beholds thy beams no more; whether thy yellow hair flows on the eastern clouds, or thou tremblest at the gates of the west." |