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LANAIIKSHME ELECTION.

On Tuesday carne on at Lanark the election of
a Member of Parliament for this County.
Precisely at twelve the freeholders met in the
County Hall, when, after some preliminary forms
had been observed. the Gentlemen proceeded to
take the oath', and the roll was called over. But
the eagerness of the crowd to gain admittance,
ocea-
siohed such ■ noise, that it was found absolutely
impossible to proceed "with business, and a motion
wai therefore made by Admiral FLEMING, and se-
conded by Sir J. NlAxwEt.t., to adjourn to the
church, which, after some discussion, was carried in
the affirmative.

The freeholders having proceeded to the church,
it 4VIII instantly erooded to excess. Lord Archibald
Ilamilson moved that General Gunther') he elected
Pre,es, and Mr. Drysdale, Clerk, which was car-
ried unanimously. The meeting then proceeded
to adjoat the roil, when the names of the following
Gentlemen were ordered to be added :—Sir Charles
APDonald Lockhart. of Lee and Caroevails, Bart.;
John James Crawford, of Belltield ; and Samuel
James Douglas, of Polosookoorail. Aeh of
addition was received for the Honourable Colonel
Archibald Donglas.
Mr. LocaitAur. of Castlehill, next rase, and
shortly addressed the freeholders. lie stated, that
he seas proud to hove the honour of proposing his
friend Lord Archibald f beinilton -as representative
for this county in Parliament. ilia I.ordship's tried
hoursty and activity peculiarly fitted him fur this
honourable situation. The constitutional principles
by which leis past conduct hail been uniformly re-
gulated, were a sure pledge for hi* furore fidelity,
aid Mr. Learn referred to a lute addresS of the
Noble Lord to his constituents, as embodying the
sentiments of every one who now heard him. He
was happy that the present would be a unanimous
election.

Mr. Flom VERE, of Craighall and Blackwood,
ably seconded the noiniiiation. He observed that
no other fact *seemed necessary to prove how ac•
ceptable the services of the Noble Lord had been
to his constituents than this, that thr present was
the sixth nuns that he had been scut to Parliament.
Could it be othernise ? lie had always proved him.
self the steady friend to the Conslitutinii--sn enemy
alike to tie encroachments of the Crown, mid to the
excesses of the people.
Lord AUCHISALD lIAMILTON then addressed the
meeting iu an sable and animated speech. Ile ex.
pressed much gratification that he had been oomi.
tinted mid seconded by the same gentlemen who
did him the same honour last election ; and con-
sidered this circumstance as a proof that his poll.
tics' conduct luid given satisfaction to his conatito-
.esits. • The absence of opposition on this occa-
sion led him to hope that the hostility formerly
'hews to Inns was subsiding. Ile resold consider
liisiself the Repremmative as well of those who were
absent as those who were preseut, and as well- of OM
• bulk of the people as of the freeholders. It would
okra's be his aim to reconcile the laciest" of the
higher and other orders of the state ; sad should
of all times be hippy to have his jedgmest eshght-
cooed by communications from such-of his coned.
intake as had tuforesative to convey. either .os local
metiers or the iroesal policy of the slats.
• The nit Was arm called over. and Lord Archi-
bald Ifoosilise one than tiessiiinsusly elorted.-
, When the'was soussosteed by the Presk Abe cheer-
Wig biome loader than ever.
• Ili, Laiwisbil spin Mostly returned thauks, anti
**Vpi isersieg beam" ap Oast thaw etlecii.

TIM AIONASTRRY.

(14. 0 libiehassetts Siixbrigh Alagesinee" for 'be
;Numb of March

teknselittleiftote.ourPaper of yealfirala)

•
Hilbert Glendinning.Lltsvincresisted all these fas-
cinating offers, leads out Sir Poercie at tlawit of day,
!on meteors', el a -hunting match, and euitd wets Lim
instinrtively. as it were, to eta brink of the tiadvit.
ed fountain in the glen or the fairies.' On reeehilig
that sequestered sprit, both are alike. astonished to
fine's grave ready dug by the side of the mysterious
well ; but Halbert, mine.aectistomed to vioreitirs,
• soon discovers that tins is the work -of the White
'Linty, tend never doubts 'that it is destined to re-
either his own corpse or that of his atitagotit.t.
they tight ; and in srire oT the skill Of the Eis-
-I.lllOWs Halbert rituallim throng!) the body at one
hold pass. The Knight lies weltering in gore spoil
the oaf, and *theligertiy of the peasant is as Mier-
tonna as Hi rake had
sheen htfure. • •
lie 4414 s :down the valley..and ere long•nteet. a
•miliiary traveller,- •wlsorie. aid he implores fur the
wounded Englishmen. The traveller is 'old, how-
ever, and feeble, mod some time elapses ere they
reach-the scene of strife—where, strange to tslt,
almost all traces of the work of blond have already
vtaialied—the grow, winch had horn seen 'Teo be.
fore the combat,. is 011 ed up and cogertal again
with 'its dumeevertol slid—end Helhert shudders at
the rapidity wish which the lite of his oak...miry hos
been-finned an died and oblivion. He is comfort-
ed In his despair by the old traveller, who turns out
to be Henry 11'itrden, one of the esily rtformurs,
I {Len newly arrived in 1111.1 i% t w Coln plet-
ilia the great woe kof Knox. Holbert iitidericnods
little, eel cares less, about the new creed prrachell
to hits by the gospeller, but he easily perceives
that the old man has reason on his side, when lie
points out to hum the necessity of evoiding the
tower of Clentleing. said the territories of the Mo"-
uastsry oh:eli he leis so grievously iirefatu•d—and
joins the joutney of Wardenovlio emicitersit
close of the sante evenitif.!,. to the castle of Ave-
nel, the residence of Maly's node qu,s,
04, however, which occurs bet.een the reformer
end this lertaions Karon, in e111.1,1.14111e111re of the
needont with which the former rehohes the latter
for the iieectioushers of his life. eotivert• the castle.
of Avenel into a place, nut of refuge. Ind of
for both 11.11rert and ids emriptinion.
able to in ike any bodily exertion in hi. own bchis:l,
the old mail submits, for the pi esetit, to his fate,
bait the 1m:woolly and strength of Ilaltwit place
escape *Ohio his reach. He receive. Irmo War-
den letter, or recommendation to the it-gels! Mur-
ray—and having swam the loch is, which the castle
it siutisiel:, bets out on his journey to the capital of
Scotland.

The family at the tower, in the msontiate, are
wa.ting, honr after hour, in anxious bugliew.e fur
the return of Halbert and their guest—of neither
of e.lnna acv thing has been Fr en or heard during
the whole space of the day. The reader already
knows what Itas become ol I 'Abel t, hot he will he
iisrpthwil to hear that Sir Pierrie Shelton is the
hist, after til!, who returns to the tower. It
night-fall err he arrives—lie comes in alone, sound
iii health to all appearance, save one *Cif on his
breast, which has out the link of tl new one, but
his clothes twits!, traces of blood, and the suspi-
cion or the family is naturally excited 'list his guar.
rel of the eveuing before his terminated in combat,
ant that the y !••!: has he the hind
of this areomplialted sanfdam,n. Its ruin do,s
Shearon invoke all the powers of Heaven to Mitt:CAR
that the city wonted received in the combat had
been that on his lawn Incept. The oppearaniee of
the sear gives the he to what he ns.epts, and V.:I.
ward Gleinlismiog assuming, in his turn, a 61a-
meter of unwonted ardour and determillation, pre.
pare,' to sae; dice the struhger to the manes of his
mord. ;elf luathrr, Elistace, the soh-prior, how.
ever, 111, learord, as we have seen. to believe in
the presence of inure than natural ion oenet!4 iu the
valley of Glemlearg. Without believing the sooty
of the lEoglialimati. lie cannot hell) thinking that it
deserves, at least, tu,he exit mum II into, tind in-
sists that Sir Piereiv shall be kept in safe durance
till morning, when,the st•vtie of strife 'nay 'be rms.
mined, and the offender Minded over to the arm
of the Lord Abbot's juristliction. lay the igeiglit
of influence lie has acquired over his plod Edward,
lie at last, with gtrmt diffieuliy, prevails—and
Slaw,' is guarded, doting the ntg,bt, by the. Inii-
ther and a strong patty of Ills kii,loneil and heigh.
hours, all, like lion, buruiug io retelige the death
of lbelbert. The widowed 'Dottier fills the tower
with her lamentations—while Mary of Avenel re-
tires to her solitary clizanber to devusir her yet
deeper grief in silence.
It is now that the love of Mysie Flapper is to
sheer itselfin all its force. While thonglits of wt. f
or of vengeence fill sill the rest, her gentle bresst is
penetrated with leers for the gallant Euphinst, fur
whose violence', !MI summing it to have terminat-
ed it; the death of Olenchiming, she thinks there is
much ?Keller to be made, on account of the nude-
ness with which that rash youth had provoked his
temper on the evening preceding the dint By
Some aceident she has been shut up in int inner
closet, communicating with the rest of the house
only through the npartivirist in which the prisoner
passes the eight—her maidenly modesty And awk-
wardness prevent her from coming forth in proper
time before the Knight goes to tied; but being there.
end knowing what is to be done on site morrow,
she gradually begins to think that the 'nigh.. if pos-
sible. to centred her own casual criblinement into a
Means of estriceting Sir Piercie from his more
serious and more deugerons due:nce. Having, at
length, semmoned up revolution to arouse him
from his slumber, she communicates, its s whisper,
the plan that lets occurred to her, and bring second-
ed by the dexterity of Shelton, contrives to have
Mgt *hunted out *lung with herself, after she has
prevailed on the °guards of the door to open end
•prreed 'her exit 1,.... a place whirls she represents
as pregnant with innumerable tenons to her quietist
issatinetiont listing once got him fairly out of
hischauther. hie escape from the tower tract is
smdter of emereeetive rose. Afters misty of skil.
mermemet...he gala peemesien ell' the kepi of
Ni, feemike--mte Sir Ptercie free-Aluckiend dou-
ble hods the _ epee them tied might pits*,
se us. 11.11114 *I lOW* Po* Imile—awl-it
• ale bj her isisating. we, crow. behistk ill igis-

=mai.

whom she offers to conduct beyond the
limits of immediate danger. •
Her blitriour during This ride is ednsirsbly re-
prerenteJ ; hut at last they must port—they have
reached the open country on the Tarred, and Shad:
ton may easily pursue his course without her aid.
We regret tlfat see bare not room for tbis most
animated and amusing picture., but we cannot
think of dest:oying it by abridgment. •
The end of it Is, that Sir Itiercie, in spite of his
high blood, begins to hr in love with
tisonines the disgui4 of * peasant had, and attends
bin, on a borrows-it nag on the road to Edinburgh,
for withiu the walls of that capital the Englishman
has now resolved 10 take his chance of safety.
Halbert Girthhotting, meenti.ne, has joined the
train of the Regent, and attended him its so expes.
dition viz-ens( 'nine feudal disturbers of the Public
pence iu Galloway. The erituininy lur keeps
the sense of his oldiantiniis to ‘Varden—and his re-
membrance of she blaek-let ter gliAr—of the mother
Mary Avenel—gradually make bine in heart •
Protestant—mill Ilya is good prirtiorett of his 20111.
kg wine preferment in the employment of the
Lord James. Oi:e morning, while he is waiting in
the Reg-iit's ante-chamber, Lord. Nlorton arrives
with news which, Aceply interest his toaster—and
no less it•eply interest him. A variety of events
have beta taking place in the southern part, of
Scotland. which loudly csll lon the Regent's prr.
so/s1 ple,elier in that (waiter—mid the seat of dis-
turbance is no other than she Hslitiorne of I.ltltinie—
the native beetle of yining (laced's' ll ill g.
_

The protectiim afforded by the Infiniti of
Mel-
rose to Sir Viercie Siniftoo, having reached the ears
of John roster, the English Warden, he revolve',
in compliance with the strict commands of his
Queen, to make an inroad Nom the Scottish bore
der, and übtaiu the body of the fugitive, dead or
alive, vi of amis. The monks are thrown into the
utmost Islam by the news, of his preparations. The
abbot, in particular, a good-natured man, designed
only rut tititet dins, is utterly confounded by the
occistuulasiffro of troubles which are now Kathering
Iltallills him —a Proles'ant Could 911 one side,
eutchwg ugly' for all lillparttlllllly 10 tab Ins
monastery .f its posses..Veis—lserrsy spreading f+•l
and r among tine lower orders of the peolde in his
neighliossrhood—and lest, not least, an sF.ogliets
ortivfinent übmt to levy war upon the II didome.
In the despair to whirl/ three en•ungled evils reduce
him, he feels his ussu colitstess fur swearing the
attire m such tinbulent (Wye, and with the appro.
,'shun of his community, reigns in favour of the
settee, intrepid, uost vowels/led sub-friar, Father
Cu.tace. Th.! new abbot lair. ISO time in making
what preparatons he ran for the defence of his
possessor, s—the vassals of the monastery are 1.11
imointied, and Julian of A vent! 13 hired by In in
to teke the command of a force, not tilicylial to
that altich Sir John Foster is expected to lead over
the Piercie Shafton having 'wets over-
taken by the abhui'v rmisearies, as a fugitive from
Justice, is now its the monastery—and Offers his
ui<f. which the churchmen du not think it prudent
to refuse its this d of danger, whereof he himself
limo been the chief cause. 'The news of these ac-
tive preparations on butte sides being brought to
young tttt ing's master, the Regent is afizi-
tfll4 to hurry on si.d prevent the effusion of blood
bets, rep the Scots and tile eahjects of his own ally,
the English Queen. They -nuke a forced march. but
ere they reach the territories of the monastery, they
meet number♦ of S,:ottisit know men flyin4 visibly
from a yet unfinished field ; anal unable to posh
on his main body, the Reg:9st (lapin-lies !Talbert
with a score of hui a to visit the scene of slaughter,
sod, if posbilist., :arrest the fitry of the combatants.

lie arrives nut iii the fiAl till the battle is over,
and it is strewed rill' its bloody relics. Among
these, he discuyors upon the heath Julian of Arend,
llyitig in the arms ofa woman whose honour he had
abused,•nd.whoin he hid thr.fal, from him in acorn,
but who, like the Clare of Alirtnion, is the only
attendatitiof his last mommas of agony. While
lie is witnessing this terlitile scene, the whole of
which is in the author's nett grstidest manner, a
party of English kirserifin e•l:rt:torid him, and he
is conducted into the iir?fience of Sir John Foster—
whom lie iiiforms, to his soul Usinn, of the near ap-
proach of the Regent. That wary statesman, bow.
ever, although muds offended a ith the proceedings
of the Erighsh Captaiti, has 111/ inclination to curry
the feud farther. reserving the whole aiftir to be ar-
rirogeft. between himself ow; the Ettglish Queen
lief rafter. The whole party 1 hen proceed to the
A tbey of Keitoaquirair, where the Aloltut Fustier
proposes to meet lion:, not with soy demonstratmo
of resistance, hut with the I rue r.espons of his order.
prt obits et lac?. !pods. For the time he and his
Adfloy are spAreil. in ',litre of the indignation ma.
MG-steal by the snore violent Protestant Lords sod
Ministers in the train of the Regent. The Novel
conclittles with the marriage of Halbert Glendito
tang and 'Way Avenel. who has now, in conse-
quence of the death of Julian, been replaced in
her rightful inheritance, and whom the indulgence
of Murray etahtes to please herself in the disposal
of her hand. Sir Faeroe Shaltoti—we are sorry we
must tell this pnreof the.stury an brtilly—euters at
the same time into the same blessed slate.. Ilis
pride lass in yahoos ways been sorely; humbled, and
lie is contented in his humbler mood to make
the Maid of the Mill Lail, Shafton, and to set-
tle with I er on the soil which has afforded him
protection amaisgst ninny dangers. Ede aril Glen-
dittoing, the brother of Halbert, Lurie, the
disapponstment of his love its the cloister of Ken.
itagultair, while the reformer Warden, who had
'fallen into the liduils of Abbot Fsistrice, -and
been gently treated by him,. on ',crown of old
friendship at college, regains his liberty. mud seta off
fur Edinburgh, 1., the company with Moray. Such
is the e ,ociasisul or the prr.rot tale, but there are
various circumstances which lead us to suspect that
we shall hear more of some of its most important
personages. The Abbot Eust ice. and the fate of
his community....the future progress of Warden..
end the work of the RefortuitiOu,.their. 44 many
other things, on which the lussiginatioo or the
reader is cos:Spelled to dwell at the very those of the
narrative. are (winner' do' w‘.• world bore. to be taken,
up again in the twat Novel of the earies-..whisse
title, we already ,hear it shisperell. is to be Illis
Ahhot. 'The troubles of the Catholic ellowelowea
ere as yet only opensil upon our view. *ousel*.
gitiniag of nt lihnietitry we find thee. ea in
. Ivnakee, living is all Itsairy.wtheir sating eirsei•

ally is inordinefeuemod the Abbot, as we haw seen,
carries his sentiatetits of cloister piety so far be to
considet it • sin and as shoeing of the bounties of
Providence to flute any thing its-dressed, or • whit
out of season. But loWthe tale koesArrsvaid we be-
hold these scenes of trioquil enJuymeot grievously
disturbed by the rising' storms of the Reformation,
whose tiro champions end preschertimust no doubt
have been rewarded by the Monks as dreadful opixo.
nits. not outy in their qoality of cooneovereislista4
hot or, • neeourot of their Spotless severity sod sim-
plicity in living. The specioten of the manners ~f
these new atlververlev, steep us in Walden, it rto!
bob!y a very favoueable one. His character is such
Its to impress us with the utmost respect—hut,
baps, the author had this effect Imo raeliteirely
his sirw--and, asi it is the p.p.'', r, I
means so vivid an image bet the mind as was (Ito
by some of the' covenanting Puritans of " U f
Mort slily!'
In the hour When the last heir mite of thf
of Avenet dies, the White Lofty terminates ter
mysterious existence. A girdle chill site we.r.,
originally of thick and twisted Kohl, has now, ..1
the coarse. of ages, beets wort,' to u single grrwriar-r
thread, and that snaps in'twain at the moment
Julien breathes his lastsapoti the Held of coithat,
and every obstacle is thereby reow,ved from loef:r!!
that ninon of Halbert aid Nltssy Avenel, Ow ott•el,
her own early coutostls had pare,l the way.
whole conduct and languor! of tins sirsoige Err*.
titre sre most beautifully coocetvtd ; arid rurey the
termination of her career is tio leto so ; ya we
know not whither, after all, her agency is pert.. i:t!y
its harmony either with the scene or lite flaw of ::.e
Novel. Stir seems to be of to torte soonest/hot elm.
Idr to the lotry order of be111:4.. or rather, alir L 4
like the Innes,a)rw:nyrniolva 'of the aaeivnta, ah., 30.
sashed thetn-tkes to astute partocolir sir:nog; .o,t
then she is the solitary spoilt ~t her P 7.1
holly-tree, moil thus the iden is more vole-wet aria
rtatia.etic than (ha of the Naiads, who were to!..
posed to dwell together its gr..apea amontr, rte
watery pools, antl se-reely thetelme be .-t.• -
vrivril of, us vs:et:ling. I:kr a si-stisnal la.sega.L.te, ,La
phyLtithil objects to which they :11t.:01 ;hot:ow:vs-.
It Is pruhublt: that the auditr ought hay, gime
Well to engraft thl4 Mel of smelt a pet•htsag.e trine.
closely 111.015 the ilitive stivelialternor
far wherever the pleteimatural i. 11,411 C use of, it
an object of great importance to riotw tr rro33
pop. lar trlrt, generally reen.:nt.-.1. ant aril r.t.5.
Lliehrol in coalman Itsa.seration. Illir crrl-i.rty thre
ilrii Of an intknown spirit attes•hie.r; ttaL-11 !so a sol.-
tory foutaditi, is one sea a“..tural am' an tit , /ha! 't
never be felt as remote from the taste of ••;:y
people where the isstnnii beaoties cf the earth hs‘ge
not been changed by any brualan ...
where the geolle elanactrristscs of sorg:11 tiairs
are impressed with the fervour .of tors-inn oho t..e
young imagist:stigma of dwellers in the wiblertLe...
Critter 'nay ch.pute, hut the fttt:r.r hf Iwo that
reatholo br delikdited, will often retsina .ti it H pen-
sive awfulness to the ethereal visi-on Which
over the deep blue wa.ere of the well of Curti.

NZVAL IPITELLIGENCR.

rourieorrn. Art* 4.

Arrived from the Devine the Chart.; 1.1 •ii
Ann. Ellison; and lie James Keinpi, Dissidents. fur Q... t... e.
Aunty; filsker, fur the South Seas; with about '2O other
vessels, passed down Channel.
Sailed the Star transport, for Ceylon ;
fur liarbsdois; Sir Juorph Ranks, Lacey, for Jiimlica
Cilarlre Mill.. Jackson, fur Madras and flnveni; Uurk,i.±
hamithire, Adams, for Nautili's, and China; Siorry.
fur New South Vial...; sod the whole of the 0111w3.41-bouti.l
except the Earl Si. Vincent, rut New Seat:i
re.tmorim. •rarc 3.
Arrived the Integrity transport from Dwyer, and std. J
fur the Ism of Man ; Viscount Exmorth, T)ark, from lon.
dun and sailed fur Si. •11414.110; also mailed the
path, for Quebec ; Christian, Goss, Air Tetecgcs ; (*pigmy:.
Warn ; Squib, Poland; and Canantoderv, Codas, for livvi-
farundianci.

•tmT6 2.

A trim! the Lee, of 20 gime, from • anise.
Sailed the Duke of Kent packet with a road for U•dkus.,
Esther, Butterfield, fur %Wardle, ; Commerce, HUCK,' ;
'nor°, Claim, for Looduu.
AVM 4
ArriVed the Prince of Orange packet with • nEel f. •u
7411.0 vrr. APBS'. 4

Tice •elimmer Rose lA. berm got off tem Soot. Tatty. &ht.
civil-gun; about two-tliirsis of her cargo, and is brisaglit into
bar Lou,.
DPI?., AIIMIL 4

Arrived and ailed far the River the Glerrnor H:treoort,
front ineesra ; Anthony, Jewel, from Li4hcv ;
31.thninz, Smith, from Si. Kitts; F:iyas, Horresl:,
Runt Trieste fur Yarmouth; and Williams, Mungridge, flue►
Galipoli fur Gull.
Cvme down from the Rive► and sailed the Leda,
fur II h; Governor Heiken, JUP WS for Tuhato;
fort Eileranis, Sherbsevne, for China ; for
Neofunwiland; and Seipiu, Cooper, fo► Quebec. fri. Hupe,
Collins, remising.
Sailed the Highland lad, Were, fur Madeira; and Fa. •
tune, Anderson, fur St. Prters!•engh.
PORT actsoow. Arm
The Mafia, Colston, remains ashore in the Sehr ay FirtS
a complete wreck ; about IS or IA Weds. of tobacco sartvt.

muct or STOCKS YESTERDST.
3 pet Ct. C0w.... (V lE. it.. per. 3 pr.
5 per Ct. N. So. 104 Ditto somll.. 3 4 p..
imp. 3 per Ct. An. 681 I Ur'levy Tieltwts,2ll.
India 80ut15..14 16 Cone. tor Ace.. 64S 69