must be admitted, they are somewhat narrowly lodged; but their accommodation being in other respects complete, and, in point of extent, proportioned both to their wants and to the nature of their services, they are as contented and happy as any of the others. Those, again, whose duties are of a -higher order, and of greater importance to the happiness and guidance of the rest, are lodged in spacious and elegant apartments, and they also are satisfied with their condition.

"But how," I think I hear you exclaim," inequality and union! the thing is impossible!" No doubt it is; but there is no inequality here. Real equality consists in having immunities and privileges proportioned to our nature, and not in every one having the same. If, for instance, you were to install the little fellow who lives at No 21, and who, from his small dimensions, is nicknamed Size, into the spacious halls of the grave and retiring big gentleman at No 12, what would become of him? He would absolutely be lost in one corner or other, and might die of hunger before he was discovered. As to what the solemn man would do in the little box of the little fellow, the question is useless. He could not get in! If, again, you were to make the proud and dignified sign or at No 10 evacuate his lofty and commanding station, and to pop himself into the quarters occupied by the sly fox-looking figure at No 9, what would follow ? It is clear he would go mad on finding himself obliged to lay aside his stately and perpendicular attitude, to lie down horizontally, with his head sticking out to one side, and his feet to the other, like two long 24-pounders on the middle-deck of a man-of-war; and be watched, too, by his chicken-hearted friend in No 12, lying all the time above him like a nightmare on an alderman's breast at five o'clock in the morning, after a Lord Mayor's feast. And how would his sly friend like the exchange? To find himself placed, as it were, like a monument on a hill-top, for everybody to gaze at; he, whose delight it is to peep unseen through holes and from behind screens. Assuredly he would not rejoice at the change.

But how, you will say, in this society of union and co-ope

ration, are not all the members of one mind and of one way of thinking? Quite the reverse, Mr Editor; they are as different in their tastes and ways of thinking as any set of men can be. But then they are generally all of one mind as to one very important point; and this is the chain which links them together, and which old society ought instantly to adopt on a larger scale, viz. every one of them is satisfied that he is most effectually promoting his own interest and grati fication, when he most zealously employs the particular talents and qualities which he possesses for the general be nefit, and, that none of them may have the pretence of forgetting for a moment the course which he ought to pursue, the whole community is generally placed under the direction of the Chief Justice, the High Priest, and the Grand Almoner, who live respectively at No 17, 14, and 18, and who are supported by the rest, on condition of acting as faithful and upright monitors, and attending to the impartial administration of the laws, to the interests of religion, to the wants of the poor, and to the recovery of the sick. Their injunctions are not indeed always fulfilled; but as their own practice strictly accords with their precepts, and they lead upright, useful, and honourable lives, they are much respected, and their approbation sought for even by the most tur bulent members of the household. When the community is guided by them, it is observed to flourish, and to enjoy great internal peace and happiness; but when, as sometimes happens, the suggestions of the men below are listened to in preference, and contrary to their advice, anarchy, turbulence, and discontent, are sure to follow. For example,

To repel aggression, and give a healthy principle of resistance to the community, and also, it must be admitted, from a lurking love of contention and fighting in the man' himself, the indweller at No 5 has been constituted a Soldier; and, for equally good and obvious reasons, he of No 6 has been appointed Butcher, he of No 8 Banker, he of No 24 the Traveller, he of No 28 the Organist, and he of No 33 the Imitator, and so on; and each in his own vocation is an ex

ceedingly respectable and useful member of society. But when any one of them takes it into his head to set up for himself, and carry on his own trade in his own way, and for his own exclusive advantage, every thing goes to wreck and disorder. The Soldier, when abandoned by the prudent foresight of the wary gentleman at No 12, gets his brains knocked out, not in battle with the enemy, but in a senseless quarrel with his comrade, Grady O'Flanagan, about the question, whether St Patrick was a native of Tipperary or Conamara. The Butcher, when deaf to the admonitions of the Chief Justice, gives way to his furious rage, commits murder, and gets himself hanged, to the great annoyance, and, in fact, to the total destruction of the whole community; for the people being carnivorous, cannot live without him. In like manner, when the Banker sets up for himself, and despises the admonitions of the Chief Justice and High Priest, he uniformly commits usury, and gets himself prosecuted under the statute of Queen Anne, which, you know, imposes forfeiture of the debt, and treble the amount of it in name of penalty; so that he becomes daily poorer the more he labours to become rich. The Traveller also, when left to himself, sees mountains where there are only seas, and forgets his business in thinking about friths and headlands which have no existence. but in his own imagination, and thus loses his employment. The Time-keeper at 26 goes mad, and dances himself into convulsions; and the Organist, lost to all sense of propriety and of melody, alarms the community with discordant and uncouth sounds, which cease only when his instrument no longer answers to his call. The Imitator, forsaken by reason, enacts the part of Harlequin, and, in concert with the Wit at 32, makes a mock of every thing under the sun; till, by the chaotic din, the three great powers, roused to extremity, turn the one against the other, and by making the Butcher break the head of the Soldier, and the Soldier pummel the ribs of the Butcher, and by setting the Time-keeper to subdue the Organist, and so on, the whole are again reduced to

reason. But when each exerts himself in his own department under the guidance of the three great functionaries already mentioned, matters go on very differently. Each then applies himself to the branch for which his genius, peculiarly fits him, and is satisfied that he best consults his own happiness by confining himself to his own department, instead of exerting a restless anxiety to raise himself to one which he conceives to be of a more refined nature. There is thus union in its best sense, and each, by pursuing his own trade, gratifies himself and his neighbours at the same time. But you will understand this better when I give you the characters and habits of a few of the members a little more in detail.

Some of the inhabitants who reside in the lower floors, are, as I have already hinted, somewhat prone to violence and excess. The Butler, who has charge of the cellar, occasionally gets drunk, tipsifies the Butcher, who lives close by him, and who, even when sober, is somewhat of a passionate, mischief-loving disposition; and then the two together make a tremendous uproar, and break, smash, and destroy the crockery, furniture, and every thing else that comes in their way; and it is reckoned fortunate if the Butcher does not, as already mentioned, commit a murder. Occasionally they are joined by the Soldier, a person naturally addicted to all sorts of fighting and contradiction; and then he goes about squaring his fists, and giving bruises and bloody noses to every one whom he meets; and the Butcher sometimes slips a knife into his hand, and then he becomes a perfect demon. When the Butler, Butcher, and Soldier of one community happen to meet the same members of another, both parties being drunk, at a late hour, when the Chief Justice and High Priest are gone to bed, they kick up a tremendous uproar. They curse, swear, and blaspheme, threaten, slash, bite, kick, and maul each other in the most flagrant and disgraceful manner, and never stop till some of the more moral and benevolent members come down and put them all in the stocks.

In some communities, however, from the lower floor being small, and the accommodation of these inferior functionaries being limited, and a strict discipline being kept up by the higher officers, such disturbances never happen, and each fulfils his duties, and is happy in his own sphere. Indeed it is only in those societies where the servants have unfortunately been provided with larger apartments than their business requires, and more leisure than is good for them, that they have become dangerous and ill-behaved.

The Butcher living at No 6 is, as I have said, accused of being naturally of a mischievous disposition, and fond of cruelty, and various methods have been tried by the Chief Justices of different communities to tame him. The favourite plan is to flog him; whenever he makes a row, he receives a dozen of lashes; when he repeats his offence, he gets two dozen; but this is not found by experience to have any good reformatory effect. He seems either to like flogging, as I have heard reported, or he soon forgets it. The more successful way has been to find proper employment for him in his line, and to look narrowly after him. His proper occupation is killing animals for support of the community,-a species of work declined by all the other members, but of which he is rather fond. Those who succeed in keeping him out of mischief, give him, in addition, the duty of cutting down the wood, breaking stones for the roads, and blasting rocks with gunpowder. As a child, it was observed, that he would often, in his recklessness, have burned off his fingers, or blown himself up, had it not been for the attention of the cautious gentleman at No 12; and, improving on this hint, the whole community joins in soliciting this wary personage to take charge of him for the general safety of the whole establish

ment.

I had a great deal more to say, Mr Editor, but I have already consumed all the paper in the Glen, except a single sheet, which I must reserve for some great occasion, as my next supply may not reach me for three months to come;

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