judgment are accurately accumulated, so as to be fittingly placed before the public. The object of the writer has been to pursue a middle, truthful course-neither exaggerating nor extenuating social evils-but depicting with plainness, sincerity, and dispassionateness, the fearful facts which were presented to his perceptions. The upright, liberal administration of property is the true test of a nation's prosperity-for where men oppress the poor to increase their riches, there can be no soundness in the state of society—all is false and hollow-power has no permanence-and servitude has no valid motives for subjection. Some Miscellaneous Articles upon topics of enduring interest have been added to this collection, and it is hoped that their introduction will not be deemed obtrusive. To Scottish readers it will be hardly necessary to apologize for the insertion of Essays touching the theological repute of Chalmers, or the literary renown of Jeffrey. CONTENTS. Page 1 Letter to Inverness Advertiser.-North Uist.-Sheriffs Colquhoun and Shaw, and Lord Macdonald's Commisioner, Letter I. The Sollas Trials-To the Right Honourable Lord Macdonald, Letter II. The Sollas Trials-To the Right Honourable Lord Macdonald, Letter III. Highland Depopulation-The Sollas Trials. To the Right Ho- Letter to Inverness Advertiser-Good Tidings of Lord Macdonald, The Queen's Rumoured Visit to Sutherland-Poetry and Plain Prose, Letter to Inverness Advertiser-The Rejoicings in Sutherland, 57 Roads in Glenelg-The Commissioners of Supply, Letter to Inverness Advertiser-Notices of Lochalsh and Glenelg, Letter to Inverness Advertiser-The Emigration from Lochalsh, Glenelg, and Letter to Inverness Advertiser-Reported Liberality of some Highland Pro- Letter to Inverness Advertiser-The Highland Destitution Relief Board: Edinburgh and Glasgow Sections, Should not the Highlanders be Scholastically Taught their own Native Lan- |