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river, abounding with fisheries, on whose banks 

 grew the spreading oaks and fertile orchards, all 

 of which objects, ecclesiastical and civil, came so 

 far to be interwoven in her arms, denoting the 

 importance of her status among the nations. 



An excellent Gaelic scholar, now deceased, in- 

 formed me that the name Kentigern should be 

 rendered Ceantigh — Tighearna, the head, or go- 

 vernor, or father, or chief, or ruler of the Lord's 

 House ; Columba, or Colum-cille, Colum of the 

 Cells, from his having founded so many churches 

 and monasteries ; Glasgow, Olas agus Dhu, grey 

 and black — Glas's Dhu, grey and black — Baile 

 Glass Dhu, the town of grey and black (monks). 

 The most of her historians respectively consider 

 the appellation as signifying a grey smith, from a 

 supposed well-qualified craftsman in iron having 

 taken up his abode in the place ; as a dark glen 

 in allusion to a deep mass of trees where the cell 

 of St. Kentigern stood ; and among the latest as 

 derived from glas (Brit,), meaning " green," and 

 coed, wood ; thus glas-coed, the green wood, 

 thought to be corroborated from the unquestion- 

 able early existence of a forest, subsequently de- 

 nominated the " bishop's." A brook in a deep 

 ravine at the east end of the cathedral, known as 

 the Mulendinar Burn, still continues to flow, which 

 Ir the days of St. Mungo was no doubt covered 

 with woods, and which it is not improbable led 

 him to select the spot for a cathedral to plant the 

 Christian faith on the ruins of some Druidical 

 groves. GrijS'. 



KEPRIEVE FOB NINETY-NINE YEAKS. 



(2"'i S. I. 465. 523.) 



Your correspondent A. was misinformed as to 

 the officer alluded to having received the grace of 

 a suspension of his sentence of death " for ninety- 

 nine years." The facts of the case were as fol- 

 lows : — Several dep6ts of regiments serving on 

 the West Indian and North American stations 

 were quartered together In the spacious barracks 

 at Winchester in 1813. Amongst the officers 

 thus thrown into each others' society were Lieut. 

 Blundell, Lieut. Anthony Dillon, and En- 

 sign Daniel O'Brien, all of the late 101st, or Duke 

 of York's Irish Regiment (a corps of duellists) ; 

 and Ensigns Edward Maguire and James Peddle 

 Gilchrist, both of the late 6th West India Regi- 

 ment. Between Lieut. Blundell and Ensign 

 Maguire a trivial difference arose, which was 

 fomented into a quarrel by Lieut. Dillon and En- 

 signs Gilchrist and O'Brien ; until a fatal duel 

 was fought July 9, 1813, in which Lieut. Blundell 

 lost his life. Lieut. Dillon, Ensigns Gilchrist, 

 Maguire, and O'Brien were tried by civil law at 

 Winchester, were found guilty of murder, and 

 were sentenced to death, whereupon a royal par- 



don was granted to them by the Prince Regent ; 

 mark, not a respite, or even a reprieve substi- 

 tuting " transportation" for " death" as a punish- 

 ment, biit a free and unconditional pardon. The 

 four officers were removed from the service on 

 Sept. 8, 1813, without the formality of a court 

 martial. Mr. Gilchrist was only two months an 

 ensign at the time of this unfortunate duel, and 

 there may have been extenuating circumstances 

 in his case : for he was appointed ensign, 67th 

 Regiment, without purchase. In November 1 820 ; 

 was transferred to a veteran battalion In February 

 1821, and thence, in June following, to 60th regi- 

 ment; from which he was placed on half-pay in 

 August, by the reduction of several junior officers 

 in each rank. He was appointed in January 

 1831 to 86th regiment, and obtained about the 

 same time the situation of Garrison Quarter- 

 master at Gibraltar, which he retained until June 

 1834, when he was ordered to join the depot at 

 home ; he was promoted lieutenant In October 

 1834, and joined the regiment at Demerara in 

 summer 1835. The regiment returned home in 

 May 1837, and Lieut. Gilchrist was re-appointed 

 in June 1837 Garrison Quartermaster at Gibral- 

 tar ; which situation he again held until April 

 1841, when he retired on half-pay, and resigned 

 his staff" appointment. He died on Christmas 

 Eve, 1849. G. L. S. 



Conservative Club. 



EATON S SERMON. 



(2""^ S. i. 516.) 



Mb. Aspland states truly that the name of 

 Samuel Eaton Is not mentioned " In Hanbury's 

 three bulky volumes of Historical Memorials re- 

 lating to the Independents ; " and he is solicitous to 

 obtain references illustrative of Eaton's life and 

 writings. That I was not ignorant respecting 

 Eaton's character and writings when I " professed 

 to write the history of Independency in England 

 and its literature," Mb. Aspland may see in the 

 subjoined extract from my Historical Research 

 concerning the most ancient Congregational Church 

 in England, 1820, 8vo., pp. 54. : 



" That the claim of Mr. Jacob's church to priority has 

 been questioned, is evident from what is said in Edwards's 

 Gangrcena, pt. iii. 1646 ; but, as will presently appear, that 

 writer is not sufficient authority. He says, in p. 164., 

 ' There is a godly minister of Cheshire, who was lately in 

 London, that related with a great deal of confidence the 

 following story, as a most certain truth known to many 

 of that county; that this last summer, the church of 

 Duckingfield (of which Master Eaton and Master Taylor 

 are pastor and teacher) being met in their chapel, to the 

 performing of their worship and service, as Master Eaton 

 was preaching, there was heard the perfect sound as of a 

 man beating a march on a drum,' . . . 'insomuch 

 that it terrified Master Eaton and the people, caused him 

 to give over preaching,' &c. And he adds, in p. 165., 



