She was visiting in the West Port, not far from the church established by my illustrious friend the late Dr.Chalmers.Having asked a poor woman if she ever attended there for divine service--"Ou ay," she replied; "there's a man ca'd Chalmers preaches there, and I whiles gang in and hear him, just to encourage him, puir body!" From the religious opinions of a people, the transition is natural to their political partialities.

One great political change has passed over Scotland, which none now living can be said to have actually _witnessed_; but they remember those who were contemporaries of the anxious scenes of '45, and many of us have known determined and thorough Jacobites.

The poetry of that political period still remains, but we hear only as pleasant songs those words and melodies which stirred the hearts and excited the deep enthusiasm of a past generation.

Jacobite anecdotes also are fading from our knowledge.

To many young persons they are unknown.