her, and slowly rose.  The scream she tried to utter was suffocated in her throat—­she fell motionless; the last sight she saw was an eagle’s plume steeped in blood, cast at her feet by the advancing spectre—­the last sound she heard was the loud crash of every door in the castle.  When her maidens came to her in the morning, she was extended in a swoon upon the floor.  She lay for hours cold and insensible, and they thought that she was gone for ever.  After many trials she came at last to herself, but she recovered only to hear the true tale of the battle of Sheriff-muir.

The Chevalier de St. George and the Earl of Marr had fled the country; many of their noble adherents had been fortunate enough to secure a retreat with them to France; some had been pardoned; a few had been taken in arms, and these few were executed; amongst them was the young heir of M’Alister—­Inspector.

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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS

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SADDLED AND BRIDLED.

BY A. CUNNINGHAM.

  Saddled and bridled,
   And booted was he—­
  A plume at his helmet,
   A sword at his knee;—­
  Toom hame came the saddle
   At evening to me,
  And hame came his steed—­
   But hame never came he!

  Down came his grey father,
   Sobbing fu’ sair;
  Down came his auld mother,
   Tearing her hair: 
  Down came his sweet wife,
   Wi’ her bonnie bairns three—­
  Ane at her bosom,
   And twa at her knee!

  There stood his fleet steed,
   All foaming and hot;
  There shrieked his sweet wife,
   And sank on the spot,—­
  There stood his grey father,
   Weeping fu’ free,
  For hame came his steed,
   But hame never came he!

Literary Magnet.

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TOBACCO-PIPE CONTROVERSY.

A furious, and yet unappeased, controversy has lately raged in the newspapers, upon the question of the filthy nuisance of smoking tobacco—­segars or pipe; and as in all other cases when men allow their passions to be heated by opposition, has run in great personalities between gentlemen who sign themselves Viator and Tabatiere.  Whole columns of the newspapers have been occupied in discussing, in the first place, whether a man who smokes at all is a beast or not; and secondly, the argument has run into the comparative beastliness of smoking and snuffing.  A future Hume, on looking over the journals, may thus sum up the merits of the case.  About this period great hostilities arose between the advocates of segars and their opponents, which occupied the attention of thousands, who took a lively interest in the successful issue of the controversy.  By the advocates for the practice it was urged with some plausibility of