There are few scarped hill encampments in England that can be com- 

 pared to the Herefordshire Beacon, and an impromptu description, most ably 

 given by Mr. E. Lees, on the summit, was listened to with that critical zest, 

 of alternate cheers and learned interpellations, which marks an acute audience 

 without interrupting the able discourse of a highly illustrative narrator, diving 

 into the fathomless depths of the past, and bringing up the pearl either of 

 actual historical truth, or some mother o' pearl substitute of such persuasive 

 bloom that every one took it for the same thing, or of equal value in its way. 



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