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of Aberdalzie, Mailer, Kirkton, Hillton, Moncrieff, Fingask, Rhynd, Eall- 

 hepburn, and Elcho. None of them are of large extent, but all of them are 

 aged. — X. Y. Z. Near Renfrew, May 6. 1829. 



. Sir George Ogilvy's Garden at Banff in 1639. — In the year 1639, during 

 the civil wars between Charles I. and his Scottish subjects, a General Monroe, 

 who was ravaging part of the north of Scotland, returned the keys of Strath- 

 bogie to the Marchioness of Huntly, set fire to his camp, and marched to 

 Banff, the magnificent seat of Sir George Ogilvy, which he destroyed, 

 together with his fine garden, then the best in Scotland, enclosed with 

 excellent stone walls, and well stocked with fruit trees, all of which he cut 

 down, nor did he leave a hedge standing. Sir George was then with the 

 king, who, when the disaster was related, remarked, " as for the house it 

 mattered not much, money could build it up again in a short time ; but it 

 was cruel to destroy his garden, which years could not repair." (Aikman's 

 History of Scotland.) — Id. 



Temporal Happiness. — It appears that Dr. Chalmers intends to give lec- 

 tures to the Edinburgh students of divinity on political economy as con- 

 nected with theology, and on the annual as well as the moral and religious 

 nature of man. This is highly commended in that excellent paper the 

 Scotsman, and especially in a letter to the editor published in the number 

 for April 21. That letter is full of important truths, showing how much 

 a man's opinions on most subjects depend on his organisation, on the cir- 

 cumstances with which he is surrounded, on the state of his health, and on 

 the qualities of his food. The first principles of Mr. Owen, as lately deli- 

 vered in his Sunday lectures at the Mechanics' Institution in London, are 

 exactly the same ; only Mr. Owen pushes them as far as they will go, anti- 

 cipates the state of things that will be the final result of their application, 

 and thereby has drawn down on himself the charge of being an advocate 

 for materialism, and incurred the epithet of benevolent madman; while 

 the more prudent correspondent of the Scotsman, as well as the editor of 

 that paper himself, though entertaining, as we believe, the same fundamental 

 principles as Mr. Owen, maintains a reputation for wisdom and philosophy. 

 Such are the different ways of men. Great good, however, we are firmly 

 persuaded, is effecting by both parties ; but it is hardly more safe to drop a 

 word in favour of Mr. Owen at present, than it was three years ago to praise 

 Mr. Bentham, now acknowledged by Mr. Brougham in Parliament to be the 

 first jurist of the age; not quite a year ago the Times newspaper called him 

 an old driveller. — Cond. 



IRELAND. 



Arboncultural Society. — A prospectus for a Society for promoting plant- 

 ing and the care and management of wooded lands in Ireland, has been sent 

 us, with the names of the patron, president, vice-presidents, and committee, 

 all of the first respectability. The object of the Society is stated to be, 

 " to collect, embody, and diffuse scientific information relative to the form- 

 ing of plantations, and the care and management of wooded lands in Ire- 

 land." Three pounds annually, or twenty pounds paid down, constitute a 

 member. A committee of fifteen are to conduct the affairs of the Society. 

 The secretary is C. W. Hamilton, Esq., 37. Dominick Street, Dublin. 



" Prospectus. In Ireland there are woods and plantations belonging to 

 individuals, worth many thousand pounds, and collectively worth millions, 

 which are either totally neglected, or injured by injudicious treatment. 

 The neglect consists in the omission of proper draining, fencing, thinning, 

 pruning, copsing, &c, in leaving briars and other detrimental undergrowth 

 upon the surface, and in a general deficiency of any scientific principles of 

 management. The injury consists in improper felling and thinning, lopping 

 for fire-wood and fences, the admission of grazing cattle, and the employ- 

 ment of ignorant persons as labourers and superintendents. 



