glorious than any yet obtained over armed reb battle.

SACRED ALLEGORY CONSIDERED AS A MEANS OF O

SOCIETY amongst all infant states has been m organized condition, and property has proved secure. To preserve it from the eflect of frequ hension, and on account of the nonexistence deposit, &c., the device was continually resorted ey, jewels, and other valuables, in the earth, or o in the walls of the owner's house. It often proprietor was suddenly removed, or died and the hiding place. Hence the continued practi say mania in the East, of searching after hid course sometimes rewarded the seeker, but was discovered unsought. So "the kingdom of h treasure hid in a field, the which when a mar deth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth al buyeth that field" (Matt. 13: 14). By which, o the right to find again, and to keep the (to others) The prodigal son and the lost sheep appeal to every age. The rebuke of the fearful, by the tal er of prayer, and the stirring exhortation of th the reward of faithfulness vouchsafed, are saf who long for the revival of unpopular truth. The conveyed by the unclean spirit's return and the u wedding, add impulse to the prayer, "Search me." The contrast of the wheat and the tar separation of the living (though sleeping) virgi less companions, declare the purity of the gove the substantial reality of the kingdom of grace welcome to the marriage feast, and the rich neg at the gate of the miserably poor prince of luxu ly of His love, who seeketh the lost, saveth the

potem leaven with holesome bread.

wiien the prudent.nousewine

ative teaching of the Saviour is pre-eminently dis dignity of sentiment and simplicity of expression he clearness and force of the truth conveyed.

atly are we indebted also to him, in that while port , attractive aud familiar imagery his own law and is not forgotten to hand down to us a "speaking li mself; in musing upon which we are helped to rejo "Blessed are they who have not seen and yet have

indeed be impossible to tell how much of our app he person, character and value of our Saviour has b us through the symbolical appellations conferred up ost every virtue and excellence and relation he possess . forth in figures of homely point and power. ed poet, with the Bible in his memory, has ever of nec d along the way of truth; and often inadvertently, ha aphors and figures woven into the public teachings and not only among heathen poets and fabulists, a alled "Fathers," the monkish legendists, the minstre of the "Man of Sin," the lamas of Buddha and t of Mohammedarism, was this method constantly a employed to win the people and seal as devotees, b been the attempts to teach a purer faith and godly pra

same.

perhaps be more pleasant than practical to dwell upo s of the old English allegorists. The names of Fra and George Herbert, Erskine and others, float inviting rface, but above all others we retain from earliest yout ies of Erskine and Bunyan, but especially the latte is "den" over the Ouse at Bedford, he dreamed, an made laces.

ys there are few Bunyans. It was a hard school (an God never to permit his enemies again to establish i in or America,) in which the "Dreamer's" pen wa vrite. Yet for all that we would fain see a somewha

DITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE-LETTER X.

is a striking contrast between the topography of the cenwestern portions of England. The former, as I have oticed, is level and agricultural; the latter is more diversurface and manufacturing. Villages abound in the part of Lancashire, and the scenery is everywhere marktall chimneys that rise in town and country, and blackhe smoke that ever rises from them. In one instance, as passing some coal pits not far from Preston, I saw a body ien, as I supposed, engaged in hauling up coal and loadO cars. They may have been distinguishable on close inas women, but certainly not by glances cast while hurin a rail road car. It was only when they were pointed , that I ever imagined them to be women. Until then I them to be stalwart, dirty, rather scantily dressed men. ars ago women were employed in the mines, at the very f the work. Their case was taken up by Parliament, and y important and necessary changes were made; but it at women are still at work about the mines.

orthern portion of England is mountainous, and the ranges are mostly barren, some fertile and beautiful wever, lying among them. On nearing the city of Carare evidently approaching an old, and highly improved and beyond that place, there is some very attractive scenthe right are high hills; in front, toward Scotland and ow valley, with a background of mountains; on the Solway Frith, with its long reaches of quicksand; in the che Mull of Galloway. Carlisle itself I did not see, except of it as is visible from the train. This includes, however, marked features of the place-its wall, the cathedral, el, and the northern gate. These are all noted in histothe most northern town in England, the name of Carlisle ery often in the accounts of the former border wars beotland and England. A few miles beyond Carlisle is reen, the first locality in Scotland beyond the border, and I as the spot to which the supposed victims of parental sorted to find relief, in an irregular, but valid marriage. -al enactments have deprived the "blacksmith" of his n, and Gretna of its glory. Still, the law of Scotland

law of Scotland on this subject from time immemorial. Carlisle, I passed through the centre of Scotland, portions ate celebrated in the persecuting days of the 17th century, urgh. There had been a six weeks drought, accompanied sual degree of heat in the British Islands, and on the ConThis came to an end about an hour before the train entered -n, when a thick fog arose obscuring the houses and indulen chilliness, soon followed by rain and autumn weather

five miles south of Edinburgh, or Edinboro, or, of old, is the small village of Loanhead in which Mr. Wm. has ministered as pastor of the Reformed Presbyterian tion there, more than forty years. On Sabbath-I had Saturday evening late-I walked out to Loanhead, but, y, missed my way, passing too far to the west, and crossBroad Hills," where James Renwick preached his last non, just before his apprehension. I reached the church M., and found Rev. James Houston, from Ireland, in the Ir. A., as I have already mentioned, having for two months vented from occupying his pulpit by sickness. He was however. I remained with Mr. A. that night, and was the next also, enjoying much his society, and that of his

y of Edinburgh is remarkably situated, the old city occu-
e crest and part of the sides of a hill about three quarters
in length, which rises gradually toward the west, out of
in the east, and narrowing as it ascends, and terminating
st, which is about four hundred and fifty feet high, and
e sides and extremity are nearly perpendicular. There is,
this, another hill, not so high, called the South Hill, sep-
om it by the valley through which runs the Cowgate (a
ver which are thrown some bridges. The South Hill
wn to a plain of considerable extent, a large part of which
d by the Salisbury Crags, and Arthur's Seat: both very
e hills. The Crags are some six hundred feet high, rising
from the plain, and ascending by a regular slope, and
crowned by a similar rounding crown of basaltic rocks,
I hundred feet in height. Southwest of this is Arthur's
ut nine hundred feet high, sloping toward the south very
-. From its summit the view is unsurpassed, extending
ly all historical Scotland; to the north, it extends to Stir-
beyond it to the Grampians; to the east, to the "King-
Tife," and to the ocean, over the Frith of Forth, with its
"Bass Rock” where Fraser and Blackadder and other

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valley, through which the rail roads run. On New town, which extends until it meets Leith, inburgh. This part of the city is modern and and in structure. It terminates on the east in is now the Cemetery, and from which there i views of the city, and also toward the east.

The Canongate and High Street occupy th The first begins at Holyrood Palace, a plain was burned in Cromwell's time-all of it v of one turret-the N. W. It has been rebuilt, lery of the portraits of the Scottish Kings from and the rooms occupied by Mary and Darnley-1 in the precise condition in which they left the ante-rooms, in which Knox was tried for his 1 bedchamber in which Knox had his celebrated Queen, and the small tea room in which Riz Lord Ruthven, under Darnley's directions, in 1 Italian was then dragged though the ante-ro head of the stairs in his blood. Mary had a p ing-placed across that end of the room to con was not removed, but dried up, penetrating shows is stains to this day. Beside this pal the Abbey, where are seen the tombs of many of

Proceeding westward, you enter the Canong connected with the Cowgate by still narrow About half way to the Castle, the street sudde cess in the north side. The corner house-visil street, which name it now takes, is Knox's ho ed upon it, and the window jutting out into out as the place from which the Reformer was in ing. Going onward, you reach the old Cath into two or three places of preaching, and in it ty, on the left hand, the old Parliament Ho Parliament sat remaining essentially as it was an independent kingdom. Here are now the the Advocate's Library. This we visited in Thompson, an advocate, the son of Rev. Dr.