state. Hearts, cœurs, which should be chœurs, choirmen, the church; the Spaniards represent copes or chalices instead of hearts :-Spades, in French, piques, pikes; in Spanish, swords, spada, the military order or nobility:-Diamonds, carreaux, on Spanish cards dineros, coins, the monies, or mercantile part:-Clubs, trefoil in French, in Spanish, basta, a club or country weapon, the husbandman or peasantry. It is rather extraordinary, that in these days of 'modern refinement, no embellishment has been added to the figures on cards.

SACRIFICES AT FUNERALS.

of course long past, and love had given place to hatred in the heart of the marquise. She ran away from her husband, hastened to Paris, and preferred a formal complaint against him before the tribunals for forcible abduction.

EAST INDIAN GLOW-WORMS.

Mr. H. N. Grimm has given, in the German Ephemerides, a description of a curious species of glowworm found in the East Indies." Being on the coast of Coromandel," says this naturalist," I often made excursions into the country, to examine whatever was curious in it; and one night, perceiving something luminous, I drew near to it, and observed a certain motion, but would touch nothing till the day began to appear. I then found that they were

The pagan practice of offering sacrifices at the graves of the deceased seems to have maintained its ground in Christendom till a compa-worms, which displayed the lustre ratively late period. On the 30th of July, 1450, Duke Henry XVI. of Landshut, surnamed the Rich, died at Burghausen. His remains were conveyed to Landshut, and deposited in the family vault at Seligenthal. On the following Tuesday, Duke Louis, his son and successor, came from Burghausen, where the grand funeral obsequies were solemnized, at which the Bishops of Eichstädt, Passau, Ratisbon, and Seckau, and nine mitred prelates attended, and sacrificed seven horses.

BEFORE AND AFTER MARRIAGE.

Mademoiselle de Bouillé had an attachment to the Marquis de Pommiers. As the relatives of the lady were decidedly averse to the union of the lovers, she eloped with her admirer, and in this manner extorted the consent of her family to their marriage. They had lived together fourteen years; the honey-moon was

that had attracted my notice. They were of a scarlet colour, rolled and heaped one upon another, had neither feet nor wings, nor any eyes that were perceptible. Having taken away some of them, with the earth they were upon, and put them in a phial, they yielded so much brightness for an entire month, that, by the aid of this light alone, I could read and write. They all died at the expiration of the month, and the light disappeared.

"Something of the like kind is observed in the scorpions of the Island of Ceylon; for if slightly compressed, yet so as to make them void some liquid, this liquid becomes bright and luminous, which proves the activity of their poison, an activity so great, that if any one is stung by those insects, he feels the same pain as if aqua-fortis, oil of vitriol, or an actual caustic, had been applied to the stung part."

The comprehensive understanding of Dr. Samuel Johnson embraced all subjects, and threw light on each.ceive." When in the Highlands he was driven by contrary tides to the house of a gentleman on the coast. A large company happened to be assembled; and Mrs. C. feared the doctor would be incommoded by the

of half an ounce.
Masses of im-
mense size are said to have fallen
from the clouds at different periods;
but there is one instance upon re-
cord, and it is besides confirmed by
the testimony of a gentleman of the
greatest respectability, and high in
the civil service of the Hon. East
India Company, of a piece, that in
the latter part of Tippoo Sultan's
reign fell near Seringapatam, of the
size of an elephant. The report
given of it by Tippoo's officers was,
that it had the effect of fire on the
skin of those who touched it—a com-
parison naturally made by persons
ignorant of the sensation of extreme
cold-and that two days elapsed be-
fore it was entirely dissolved, during
which time it exhaled such a stench,
as to prevent persons approaching it." at the feet of Omphale?

CATHERINE OF RUSSIA AND VOLTAIRE.
Catherine of Russia once sent to
Voltaire an ivory box, turned by her-
self. This present imparted a happy
idea to the poet. Having taken a
few lessons from his niece, he sent
to the empress, in return, a pair of
white silk stockings, knitted by him-
self, and accompanied with an epis-
tle, in which the celebrated poet in-
formed the sovereign, that having
received from her a present of a piece
of man's work performed by a wo-
man, he solicited her majesty to ac-
cept from him a piece of woman's
work produced by the hands of a
man. It would have been a curious
exhibition to a visitor at Ferney, to
behold Voltaire knitting stockings.
But did not Hercules use the distaff.

GAELIC RELICS.

No. VI.

THE SONG OF THE DALT, CAMPA NA AILLACH,

To the Muime, AIGEANTACHA, the high-minded; and her Spouse, AILLACH NA LOCHLANACH, the handsome DANE.

IN early infancy Aillach na Loch-hero being their primogenitor and lanach, or the handsome Dane, was captured by a Scandinavian pirate, when on his passage to be fostered in the castle of Amus na luip, chieftain of the clan Macallister. Amus na luip, as in duty bound, raised an armament of his friends, his kinsmen, and vassals, to liberate his intended dalt; but a giantess of Lochlin, or Denmark, concealed the child, and not until his fourth expedition did Amus na luip succeed in restoring him to his own country. As he was reared so many years in Lochlin, he got the cognomen of Lochlanach, or the Dane, from which epithet proceeded the name of Maclochlan, our

chief. It is to be observed, that in his wars with Lochlin, Aillach spared the race of his gigantic nurse. The son of Amus na luip was fostered in the castle of Aillach at the same. time with Maol Challum na Liomhaed, chief of the clan Lamont; and Campa na Eillach, ancestor of the. Countess of Uxbridge and Lady Tullamore, the most illustrious of all the knights sent forth to the holy wars from St. Columba. A terrible pestilence desolated the land while Aillach is engaged in redressing the wrongs of Mona, or the Isle of Man. The parents and kinsmen of the dalts are victims to disease, and strangers

seize their inheritance. When Ail- || the lofty halls of Finlagan came the lach returns, he moves all the friends and the forces he could array, to expel the usurpers; but he and his people are overwhelmed by the "wild waves," and the usurpers employ ruffians to carry off the three boys, who are brought up at St. Columba in ignorance of their rights; but the ghost of Aillach appears to his spouse Aigeantacha, and sends her to "enkindle in their souls the flame of fathers that turned the tide of battles." Aigeantacha Clancolla is daughter to the lord of the Isles, and the most distinguished heroine of her generation.

crafty suitor, with smooth words of peace to the stripling chief Urrain, the brother of Aigeantacha. Aillach trained the youth to war with the swift-footed wanderers of the wilds, and with Cealgoire they wake the dawn on a hill of roes. Aigeantacha was there with two daughters of the bow, for she could not rest in her bower since Dialtin from Jura, beneath a mist-girdled moon, would have forced her to his white-sailed war-bark. He had dragged her from the grasp of her weeping damsels to a long gallery, when Aillach, single and unarmed, came singing a boat-song, after knocking down the basking seals on a distant beach. Snatching a poleaxe from a follower of Dialtin, he mowed down the foe, on every side, as dry grass before a whirlwind. Aillach loved Aigeantacha as his fame, and the lightning of his full dark eye had entered her fair bosom. They feared not the cold proud regards of Cealgoire, and the boast of Islay believed herself safe when Dialtin groaned in death from the stroke of Aillach.

As two streams from the topmost crag of a pine-crested precipice send forth a lovely sound, while sparkling in the beams of noon, they hasten to meet in broad winding light through sloping glens; so the fame of the dauntless in soul, the fame of Aillach and Aigeantacha, shall roll in brightness to after-times. Aillach na Lochlanach! four seasons did Amus na luip lead his powers to deliver thee from the land of snow. Thrice he failed; for the giantess hid thee in caves of nameless incantation, and swift were thy steps ere the friend of" unerring is thy feathered shaft, thy infancy restored thee to the and three dun-sided mothers, with green-headed hills of Argathela. The their fawns and branchy - headed breast of a giantess reared thee to mates, are following the grassy course stature above all the sons of Alba or of a brook, which, from the grey Lochlin; and high soared thy fame rocks to the west, shall soon leap over all, except the knights of the into the far-spreading main." Holy War, gifted with powers above

Aigeantacha," said Cealgoire,

The hunters attend, with daughters of the chase, to watch the steps of the deer, when they should bend their graceful necks to quaff the living stream. From a creek spring the crowding Firbolg. They stretch their brawny arms to seize Aigeantacha; but as a sweeping cloud, the

Aigeantacha! of the race of clan Colla, lords of the Green Isle, in stateliness and beauty unmatched among virgins, heroes from sea to sea sought the maid; and Cealgoire, prince of the Firbolg, swore to possess the star of Islay, or die. To || spear of Aillach darkens their pride.

As stones trembling with the flood of || a torrent, they fall along the shore. Cealgoire lifts his lance to pierce the side of Aillach, closely engaged in the fight with his people, but Aigeantacha from her crooked yew sends death to his heart.

"In rage the Firbolg will return to avenge the fall of Cealgoire," said Aillach. "Urrain, hero of the future battles, a light skiff bounding over the waves, shall summon the vassals of Aillach to join the warriors of Islay, and the Firbolg shall be dispelled as passing vapours before ascending day."

days of his infancy, nurtured Aillach with the love of muime. From her bosom he drew to himself the strength of seven men; she laid open to him hidden stores of wisdom to heal the wounds of the brave, and to raise from a couch of suffering the prisoners of disease. The giantess braced the arm of Aillach, to overthrow the wild bull of the desert, and binding him with thongs, his fury crouched to the chief, as a dog is humbled before his master. The unweaponed arm of Aillach defeated an ambush of men, and scared the monsters of a dreary forest, when, with all the branching roots, he tore up a lofty pine, and hurled his dreadful strokes on every head. Aillach and Aigean"The foe will strive to despoil Fin- tacha rest not in the fame of their early lagan of the beam of beauty," said deeds, when the Firbolg melted beAillach: "let her be the spouse of fore the blaze of their valour, and Aillach, that he may leave her safe Lochlin fell or fled, deprived of safewith the holy prior of Oransay, the ty on land or sea. The wide-spreadbrother of his grandsire. The ghost-ing renown of their might is heard in ly father of Islay may bless us this every hall or fortress; for the hero present hour."

"My steel is new to war," said Urrain," but my soul is fire. I burn to flash over the foe."

"Aigeantacha will be the spouse of Aillach," said the heroine, shading with her heavy locks the blushes of love on her cheeks; " but never shall she part from him on a field of spears. The daughters of clan Colla know he little soul of fear. War is their joy. Side by side, Aillach and Aigeantacha shall tread the path of fe

Sigy side, Aillach and Aigeantacha subdued the Firbolg in Islay, and amidst their own plains of rich pl for the lowing mothers of milky streams. Side by side they scattered the hosts of Lochlin, and pursued them to their frozen coasts. They carried death to the hills and valleys of the north; but spared the offspring of the giantess, who, in the

and the heroine were shields of the
feeble, and their tall hosts lifted a
forest of spears to aid the unhappy.
Short were their days of peace; bonds
of friendship called them to every
feud; and great were their works,
though the sheathed sword hung un-
moved on their walls. As meteors
of night break the slumber of eagles
amidst their rocky summits, so the
witch and the wizard in their caverns
of gloom started with affright from
Aillach, when the lightning of his
quick glances, shivered in pieces the
fetters of enchantment.
The fog
and glashtii, with all the spirits of
earth, sea, and air, trembled at a
heave of his breath; and day and
night again and again returned ere
they ventured to look abroad, be-
tween the misty blending of light and