The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-30 00:00:00

HOW TO BUY DRESS.

As all are interested, more or less,
In advaatageous purchases of dress,
A few directions, as a help to this,
May not be altogether deemed amiss.
First comes mateilal, which, you may rely,
Aiust be inspected with a jealous eye ;
Nor should you make a purchase, if you trace
The slightest fault in texture or in face.
Then comes the workmanship, in testing which
A buyer should examine every stitch,
Nor be induced by any means to buy,
If any single blemish met his eye.
Then comes the style, which cannot be complete,
Urless 'tis novel, elegant, and neat;
A garment, in its tit, should be exact,
And modelled by the tailor's nicest tact.
Then comes the price of dress ; and where 'tie high,
A prudent gentleman will never buy.
At lIYAM'S Mart these points are all consulted,
And well, right well, the system has resulted.
The qualities which lIYAM'S clothes possess,
Are prized by all true connoissseurs in dress.
Superior suits arc these, and all who buv 'em,
A re free to own that praise is due to lIYAM.
Observe !—IIYAM and Co., Tailors, Clothiers, and Manufacturers
West-end Establishment, London ........86, Oxford-Street.
City Establishment London ......36, Gracechurch-street.
Provincial Establishments.

Manchester —26, Market-street,
Manchester-63, King-street.
Liverpool—G3 & 65, Lord-street.
Bk .ningham-23, New-street.
Leeds-42, Briggate.
Observe.—No business transact
turday, until the Evening.

Hull-17, Market-place.
Bristol-42, Wine-street.
Glasgow-48, Argyll-street.
Dublin-30, Dame-street.

at these Establishments on Sa-

EXTRAORDINARY PROCEEDINGS by the
JUDGEofthe LIVERPOOL COUNTY COURT.
(From the Liverpool Albion.)
We briefly refer our readers to the report below,
which they will doubtless peruse with astonishment, and
even alarm, relative to the extraordinary proceedings
instituted by Mr. Ramshay, the Judge of the County
Court, against the proprietor of the Journal. By
special directions our reporter has confined himself,
to the best of his ability, to an unbiassed statement of
the facts as they occurred. It remains to be seen
whether the measures adopted by his Honour are, or
are not, a tyrannical and illegal abuse of the powerful
prerogatives with which he is invested ; but, under
any circumstances, we trust that, in justice to the in-
habitants of Liverpool, the Chancellor of the Duchy
will not allow the present proceedings to rest without
instituting a rigid investigation. For ourselves, we
keep to the strict line of our duty as journalists in
protesting against such vexatious attempts to infringe
the liberty of the subject by any individual, whatever
his position.
The following is an account of the proceedings :
It appears that the County Court, over which Mr.
Ramshay presided, ha] been adjourned till Saturday
morning, at nine o'clock, when there were a great
number of suitors present, but tbo judge did not take
his seat until half-past ten ; and, immediately after
doing so, a person, by profession a bill-poster, ap-
peared in the defendant's box in the custody of a
bailiff.

The Judge—Let the bail be sworn.
The bailiff was sworn accordingly. In answer to
questions from the judge, he said, that at twenty-five
minutes past ten o'clock that morning, as his Honour
was approaching the court, the person then in cus-
tody was posting placards near to the court-house.
The Judge asked if they were not the placards an-
nouncing the publication of the Journal. The bailiff
said those that the defendant was posting were not.
His Honour then directed that the defendant's kit of
placards should be examined ; and, in accordance with
this, a most heterogeneous mass of posting .bills,
displaying a greater variety of colours than the rain-
bow, were shown, but the placards of the Journal
could snot be found; they were placards of a purely
religious and harmless tendency ; and the defendant
assured the Learned Judge that he did not post for
any newspaper. His Honour said he did not know
that the defendant had any right to post bills,
of any character, in the vicinity of the court-house,
but particularly those reflecting upon the judge; and
bad this latter been the case he (the Learned Judge)
would undoubtedly have fined him 51., and sent him
to Lancaster in default. As it was, however, he should
discharge him. His Honour asked the defendant,
did he know who the parties were who posted the
Journal bills ?
The defendant said he did not know.
The Judge then asked who was the editor of the
Journal?
Mr. Sumner, the examiner of the court, replied
that he was Michael James Whitty.
His Honour directed the bailiffs to go and bring Mr.
Whitty before him forthwith.
The two bailiffs, we believe, made their appearance
at the Journal office, and stated mildly that Mr. Ram-
shay would feel highly honoured with an interview.
In the meantime Mr. Whitty had been made ac-
quainted with what occurred in court, and demanded
from the bailiffs some authority for their intrusion.
They stated that they had no warrant or other legal
instrument, and on this were ordered out. They came
a second time, still in the same way, unprovided, and
then brought a numerous reinforcement. In the mean-
time Mr. Whitty, acting under the advice of Messrs.
Lowndes, Robinson, and Bateson, was instructed, ,if
efforts were again made without a warrant, to disobey.
About four o'clock the bailiffs, strongly reinforced,
entered the Journal office, and on the other side a
very numerous force of police-officers were watching
the premises. An attempt was made to place Mr.
Whitty in custody, but this was repelled. lie seized
the nearest instrument, threatening the consequences
of perseverance (they still being unprovided with a
warrant). They repaired afterwards to the County
Court to report the unsuccessful termination of their
efforts, and it is understood were then fortified by a
summons (the magistrates refusing a warrant) de-
manding Mr. Whitty's presence. A second summons
at the same time was granted against Mr. Whitty's

son, he being charged with assault in, having,' in
the scene just narrated, shut the door in the face of
the bailiffs.
We understand that the judge acted upon a line in
the Journal's placard, which he considered to be
offensive :—" Mr. Ramshay's Opinion of the People
of Liverpool," The paragraph itself is as follows :
"In a case before the judge of , the County .COurt
yesterday, in which W. Holrum, a shoemaker,- of
Edge-hill, claimed 19s. for goods supplied to Robert
Fox, the latter having a set-off against the plaintiff
for board and lodging supplied to the plaintiff's son,
a boy, his Honour expressed himself in rather
strong language with respect to the characteristics of
some people in this part of the country. The plain-
tiff's wife had observed, that the boy was in a very
weak state of health, and on one occasion, when at
Holtum's'she proposed to take him home with her to
Rainhill, where he would be attended to and have the
benefit, of pure air. Front, some cause the boy was
brought back to his parente at the expiration of al
month, and the set-off was a demand of ss. a-week for,
board and lodging, as preiiously agreed on. His
Honour characterized the conduct, of the plaintiff as.
unfortunately like that of many persons in this part
ofihe country, and which to him (the judge) was a
perfect problem; they appeared to have not the
slightestregard to the solemnity of an oath, and were
equally destitute of the feelings' of humanity. The
defendant, with the most praiseworthy motive, had
made a proposition to the boy's, parents, which they,
no doubt, jumped at with avid y. The ss. a week
charged by the defendant for, the boy's board and,
lodging was a very ,moderate chew, yet the plain-
tiff attempted to deny the women% and told a posi-
'five falsehood with respect tattls: time the boy was ,at.
Rainhill. He believed that tiefirlY, all that bad been'
stated by the plaintiff was false,. and he therefore had
great _pleasure in giving airerdict for the defendant."
Ntrtnerous additiOpal siateinent,trrelative to this
unpleasant affair haV4' reached us,' .but-the facts not
having come under our own partioularnotice, we have
suppressed them.
This morning, at the sitting of the County Court,
the case against Mr. Whitty, the proprietor-and editor
Of the' Liverpool Journal, for an alleged-contempt of
court,.was called on, when Sir G. Stephen appeared
on behalf of that gentleman, but the Learned Judge
decided upon having the defendant present in- person.
In about half an hour Mr. Whitty made his stp-'
karance, and the.eharge was immediately .proCeeded
With.
`The-first witness called by the. Learned Judge was
Mr. Sumner,- the examiner '.of the court, who, on:
being sworn, deposed that on Saturday morning last,
about 10 o'clock, n person waa posting billsin the
neigbourhood of the court, some of them within ten
or twelve yards, and others thirty or forty yards
from the court. Those placards were announcing the'
publication 'of the Journal, and-contained a line in
'large 14ters, " Mr., Ramshay's Opinion of the People
of Liverpool." It was impossible :for the judge, in
coming to the court, to avoid seeing those placards,
and witness did not consider them' fair reporting at
all; they were placed so as to catch his Honour's eye
on his way into court. Upon the arrival of the judge.
Ihe received orders to pull down the placard, which he
accordingly did.
,It
_want)! produced in court. The
practice waacorattiiin for newspapers to post bills in
the neighbourhood of the court ; the Chronicle bills
had twice referred to ,Mr. #arnehay, but the Jou7n4/
several times.
Sir G. Stephen inquired of his- Honour what pre-
vious acts had to do with the speCific offence charged,
against Mr. Whitty?
The Judge said, that the evidence went to show'
that it was a practice to insult the judge, and bring
the administration of justice in that court into con-
tempt among the people of Liverpool, and, therefore,
it must be considered in the amount of whatever
punishment he might feel it his duty to inflict.
Sir G. Stephen, with submission, protested against
his client being made responsible for former placards.
The Judge said, he was not going to punish Mr.
IWhitty because former placards were posted; but it
was necessary that a judge should be respected, and
he could not be respected if he were to be held up to
a system of annoyance like that which had been
practised by the defendant and others. The Act of
Parliament bad placed stringent powers in the hands
of the judges of county courts.
,The_ examination of the witness was then pro-
ceeded with, and it was elicited that from 100 to 200
placards were posted in various parts of the town ; the
witness had known many insults to the Court in
censep.vence of those playagsila ey,ea while he was
taking down the bill in question a man who was pre-
sent called the judge a low scoundrel.
The Judge—You see, Sir George, the poison has
operated pretty rapidly. To the witness—Did you
take that person into custody ?.. Witness—No, your
Honour. I had no orders.

In cross-examination by Sir George Stephen, it
transpired that the eccurrence took place outside the
court, upon which fact, the Learned Counsel con-
tended, the judge had no jurisdiction.
The Judge said the Act of Parliament was explicit
on the point ; he was protected, not merely in the
court, but in going or coming; and the effect of that
placard was to discompose his mind for the adminis-
tration of justice on that morning.
Sir G. Stephen contended that the Legislature
could not have contemplated any provision for pro-
tecting the mind of a judge; if the line in the placard
were taken by itself, he submitted that no possible
insult could be extorted from it. What did it say ?
Merely, " Mr. Ramshay's opinio❑ of the people of
Liverpool." And if it were to be taken in connexion
with the paragraph in the paper itself, it was not at-
tempted to be denied that the paragraph was a fair
and impartial report of what had really taken place in
the court, and that the words used by his Honour were
accurately quoted.

The Judge said that, whether the paragraph were
an encomium or against him he did not know, for
he had not read the paper. He took the placard as it
stood, upon its:own merits, and;it was not to be endured
that those who were charged with the administration
of justice, especially among the poor and ignorant,
who were easily misled by announcements of this
kind, should be subjected to annoyances that
might have the effect not only of unfitting them
for the due execution of their duties, but of taking
from them that degree of respect which was indis-
pensable for the proper exercise of their duties, and
probably exciting some of the numerous parties
against whom he had to decide to make an attack
upon his life. The life of a county court judge was
of some value to his friends, whatever it might be in
the estimation of those who thus assailed him; and it
was likely that if there was no check put to a system of
annoyance of this kind, the melancholy end of a more
exalted man than himself might possibly be his. The
Learncd Judge then proceeded at considerable length
to animadvert on the evils to which the community
would be subject if the judges were not protected,
stated that he had uniformly done all in his power to
administer justice impartially, and he cared not who
the man was that interfered with any officer of the
court in the discharge of his duty, he would have him
brought before him and heavily `fined.

Si; George Stephen respectfully submitted, as a
member of the bar, junior, certainly, in point of
position to his Honour, but not in experience, that
the public and the law looked upon the judge's
honour and character as public property. lie referred
to the instance where the Examiner canvassed the
conduct of Mr. Baron Platt, in the case of some sen-
tences which were placed in juxtaposition, and the
Times had freely commented on the conduct of Mr.
Justice Talfourd in the case of the Birds, but it was
not for a moment held that in either of these cases an
insult to the judges or a contempt of court had been
intended ; the press had a right to comment on the
judicial acts of the judge; and had the placard any
epithet or adjective whatever—had it been good, bad,
or indifferent, but decided, he said his client might,
perhaps, fall under the animadversion of the Learned
Judge. But the defendant had only fairly and honestly
recorded an event in his Honour's court, and the pla-
card did not even express an opinion thereon. He
therefore submitted, that as the Crown, with all its
prerogatives, the House of Lords, with all its judicial
powers, and the House of Commons, with all its pri-
vileges, were justly amenable to the fair criticism of
the press, the act of Mr. Whitty was not one within the
jurisdiction of the law, and, should his Honour be of
a different opinion, he would advise his client, rather
than pay any fine, to go to prison for the term which
his Honour might decide.

The Learned Judge here recalled the officer of the
court, Mr. Sumner, who in answer to some ques-
tions from his Honour, said that he knew of many
cases where insults to the judge and the officers of the
court had ben given, chiefly, he believed, in conse-
quence of these placards. That very morning a per-
son in court had insulted the officers before the judge
took his seat.
The Judge—ls that person in court? 'Witness—
He is, your Honour. (Re then pointed out one of the
reporters for the Albion.)
Judge--. What were the words used? Witness—
He asked me togive him a chair; and as ho had been
pointed out to we es oue of the reporters for the
Journal, I refased, when he said that I was as bad as
my master.
Judge (to the reporter)—Stand up, there.
The reporter good up.

When made up he I From what when
PLACES. General Post-oface' port dis- due.
London: patched.
America (by Brit. pkt.) N Oct. 3 .. Liverpool .. Oct. 9
America (by 'U.S. pkt.) N Sept. 30 .. Liverpool .. Oct. 8
America (by U.S. pkt.) M Oct. 8 Southampt. Oct. 2
Africa (West coast).- N 14th of the month Plymouth Oct. 3
Alexandria* • • ...... N 19th & 30th of mo. Dover .. Sept. 23
Belgium •• •• N Daily .. „Dover .. Daily
Brazil .. • .. M 9th of the month routhampt. Oct. 16
Buenos Ayres .. M 9th of the month Southampt. Oct. 16
California(viaCharres)3l 2d & 17th of month Southampt. Oct. 5
Cape of Good Hope N 14th of month Plymouth.. Oct. 3
Constantinople* .. •. N 7th 17th 27th of mo Dover .. Sept. 30
Central America .. 111 2d & 17th of mon. Southampt. Oct. 6
Channel Isles N Mon., Wed., &Fri. Southampt. Tn. Th. Sat
Chili .. M 17th of the month Southampt. Oct. 5
France & N Twice daily .. .. Dover .. Twicedaily
Greece* •• N 7th 17t1127th of mo Dover .. Sept. 30
Hamburgh N Tuesday & Friday London .. Tnes. Sat.
Holland M Wednes. & Satur.lLondon Mois.Tlaur
Honduras . N 17th of the mehth,Southampt. Oct. 20
Ireland M& N Twice daily .. Holyhead.. Twicedaily
India(via Southamp.) M 20th of the month.Southanapt. Oct. 23
India (via Marseilles) NBth&24th of month Dover •• Oct, 1
Mediterranean (via
Southampton) •• M,2oth of the month Sonthampt. Oct. 23
Mediterranean (via
Marseilles) Bth&24th ofmonth/Dover •• Oct. 1
Mexico M 2d of the month.. Southampt. Oct. 5
Madeira • • •• 31 9th of the month Southampt. Oct. 16
1 Malta* 11IT&VI3,107tthhof9mtho,n2t7hth Dover Sept. 23
Naples* .. Nlsth 15th 25th ofme Dover .. Oct. 2
Papal States* Ni3th 15th 25th of mo Dover .. lOct. 2
Peninsular.. •• Ml7th 17th 27th of mo Southampt. !Sept. 26
Peru .. Mll7th of the month Southampt. Oct.
Tuscany* bilth 15thz5thofmo,Dover .. Oct. 2
West Indies .. 31 17th of the month (Southampt. Oct. 5
West Indies (except
Havanna & Nassau) 3112 d of the month .. Southampt.ioct. 20

.1
.124.1 of the month ..
ountries thus marl

* The mails to those c
French pactet vi*Marsel

ISouthanipt.lOct. 20
ied (*) aro conveyed by

CALIFORNIA.—MaiIs to
aro now despatched and d

and from Califo;

a, via the United States
can packet.

Me by every Amen

In consequence of the large number of passengers booked
for Egypt and India on the 20th of October, the day the
next India mail is dispatched from Southampton, two
steamers, the Sultan and Pottinger, will leave that port for
Alexandria on the above-named day instead of one. The
mails will be taken out by the Pottinger. This arrange-
ment will not interfere with the dispatch of au extra steamer
to Alexandria on the 3d of November.

[ADVERTISEMENT ]-Itichard Atkinson and Co.,
Irish poplin manufacturers to the Queen, her Royal lligh-
ness the Duchess of Kent, his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant,
&c., 31, College-green, Dublin.—Atkinson and Co. beg re-
spectfully to acquaint the nobility and gentry of Great
Britain, that they transmit specimens for inspection per post
free, and any poplins ordered are sent free of expense to Lon-
don, Liverpool, Bri>tol, Plymouth, Falmouth, or Glasgow,
from whence they are forwarded as addressed without any
delay, and at the risk of Atkinson and Co.
The ships bound for Sydney, in New South Wales,
the nearest port to the Ophir gold regions, are remarkably
on the increase. The General Post-office advertised on
Saturday nearly twenty yessels by which letter bags WOUld
b 0 tent to

" It was hardly to bo expected that the rude and scat-
tered population, sprinkled over the wild hills and path-
less moors, by the rocky rivers and desolate lochs of the
north, would have done much to help in the furnishing
forth of the Crystal Palace. With the exception of the
home manufacture of a few coarse articles of attire, the
industry of the Celt is confined to the rude and insuffi-
cient tillage bestowed upon his ' croft' of stunted oats
or barley; or, if he be located near the sea, to a clumsy
and inefficient system of fishery, carried on without proper
boats or tackle, and seldom or ever succeeding in rear-
ing really bold or skilful mariners. The Celt, indeed;
seldom makes anything but at most a fresh-water sailor.
He will brave the wildest wintry storms on the high
hillside, searching with his faithful collies' for the
sheep smothering in the snow-drift; but the sea always
daunts him. If anything can induce him to change his
landward habits for a time, and fairly to take to the
brine, it is the herring; and those wondrous shoals of
,dainty fishes luckily come upon the coast daring the
cummer,and early autumnal ecasonkwben4ilii-w4Bl44ria.
seteled And the harvest moon round and bright. -Dail:
tate:then, le a great measure, of that ',pushing energy
and bard and keen spirit of industry and enterprise which
have made England and the south of Scotland what they
are, the poor Highlanders of the north and west have
very seldom any leaders or teachers who might pioneer
the way to a better and a busier state of things."
In this picture, both in its fair and its dark colours,
there is much truth. No pressure from without, such
as gradually extended its influence all round from the
seats of manufacturing industry, affected him--no
such necessity urged him to exertion, till now, when
its sudden severity has almost overwhelmed him in
hopeless misery and dejection. Happy with the
humble blessings he enjoyed—freed from the daily-
occurring uncertainty of bread and water—he
thanked the Great Giver with a contented heart :
A little oatmeal, a herring in the season, a few po-
tatoes, perhaps a little dairy produce, particularly goat's
or ewe milk, and he is abundantly satisfied, His hut is
chimneyless, sometimes windowless—a mere hovel of
piled-up turf, with a smouldering peat fire in the centre,
over which hangs the one pot which performs all culi-
nary operations, and round which are tolerably sure to
be stretched a ring of shaggy collies; but leave him
this—leave him his native atmosphere of peat smoke,
and he is ready cheerfully to rough out any of its inci-
dental hardships as the merest matter of course. No
one ever heard of a Highland evicting landlord or his
agent being shot from behind a hedge. The Irishman
always cries out when he is hurt, and in a score of ways
lets the world know his grievances; sometimes, indeed,
ho proclaims them through musket barrels. Not so the
Scotch Highlander."
Life in the highlands, says the writer, is little better
than passive existence, so far as national industry is
concerned. In the summer season, and when tourists
and sportsmen abound on the hill-sides, the moor-
paths, and river-brinks, the natives are abundantly
active; but of the patient plodding industry of a
lifetime, by which alone great industrial progress is
achieved, there is little or none :
" Under these circumstances, we repeat," says the
writer, " we had hardly expected to see the Highlands
represented in the Crystal Palace at all; and we pro-
bably should not have been so agreeably disappointed
as we have been, were it not for the manful and single-
handed exertions of one singularly enterprising, active,
and indefatigable tradesmen of Inverness. The name of
this individual, Mr. Macdougall, has now attained some-
thing like a European reputation es a dealer in all tex-
tile and other productions manufactured in, or charac-
teristic of, the Highlands. From Inverness, the capital
of the Highlands, and the centre, judicial and commer-
cial, of a largo district of interesting country, it was to
be expected that a comparatively large and character-
istic collection—illustrative, not, indeed, of a commer-
cial industry ; but of those domestic pursuits and house-
hold works which every people, however rude, must in
some degree practise—would be sent. Nothing of the
kind, however. The enlightened Invernessians declined
to form any local committee, or _ to take -the slightest

trouble about the matter; and Mr. Macdougall, after in
vain trying to inspire his townsman with a spark of his
own spirit and energy, was actually obliged to put him-
self in communication with a committee formed in the
smart and rising little town of Elgin, in order to have
the means of forwarding to the Crystal Palaco a collec-
tion of Highland manufactured stuffs, in the original
production of which be himself had no mean share."
It was unfortunate that no general effort was made in
Inverness to have the Highlands represented by a
phalanx of contributors. Rough though the speci-
mens of industry might have been in many instances,
they would have been welcome ; and, as the success-
ful result of the exhibition now shows, it was, vte
repeat, unfortunate, though all the more creditable to
Mr. Macdougall, that he was left alone to represent
the north in that place where all nations have met—
where the poor Indian from his lonely prairie hut
placed the efforts of his skill in arts beside the gorge-
ous products of city-fostered genius—where the Rus-
sian serf compares with the free Parisian—where the
self-sublimated Celestial, the impulsive Italian, the
haughty Spaniard, and the free-and-ready American,
were alike ready to contend for honour and ap-
plause." The writer, whose remarks and criticism we
are following—not disputing or doubting„but repro-
ducing to our lesser space—first takes up the tartan
array presented by the stall, and becomes humorously,
playfully, satirical :

be it noted by the English reader, there aro
formidable differences of opinion amorg the authorities
that be relative to the exact and orthodox set or plan
and colour of tho checks of more than one tartan. You
shall have a couple of fiery Highland antiquaries dis-
puting the shade of a red, or the proper breadth of a
stripe of green, as if the fate of the world rested upon
the isa ue. But if you wish to see both gentlemcn
roused to the pitch of the most appalling indignation,
hint Dr. Johnson's theory that the origin of tartan was
rags, and that the different colours are counterfeit pre-
sentments of the variously-hued shreds and patches with
which the doctor maintained that his Highland friends
used to clothe themselves. Recent investigations, we
believe, however, give a higher antiquity to the tartan
than it is generally believed to possess."
He then explains the multifarious uses of the plaid—
how it can be used as a scarf, a cloak, or a hood—
how in stormy weather half-a-dozen folds may be got
round the body from the throat downwards—all the
mobile with picturesque effect; and then recalls an in-
cident familiar to the good-folks of this burgh, and
not to be remembered without a smile—

"At the present day the gorgeous clan colours for-
merly worn in the Highlands are very generally super-
seded by the dull uniform grey of the shepherd's plaid, a
species of stuff which Lord Brougham has fairly immor-
talised. Everybody who has seen his Lordship for the
last fifteen years or so, has seen the famous black and
white trousers in which he delights. The fact as to these
monotously succeeding garments, we believe, from good
authority, to be this:—when Lord Brougham, then
holder of the Great Seal, was in Inverness—when, in-
deed, he made the celebrated declaration at a public
meeting that ho would write to the King by that night's
post—he purchased from Mr. Macdougall cloth for no
less than forty pair of shepherd-tartan trousers, and in
this ample supply he has been going on ever since. The
tendency of greyish stuff, however, to take the place of
the ancient clan colours would not have been less marked
had Lord Brougham never worn anything but broad
cloth."

Observing that all the adjuncts of the old Highland
dress were abundantly displayed on the stall—with
a tribute to the neatness and comfort of the Glen.
garry bonnet, and its preference to the monstrous
" cylinder of feathers" worn by the Highland regi-
ments, and its beauty and picturesqueness compared
with the " gude braid blue bonnet" of the lowlands—
he goes on—
" Some interesting specimens of the old brogue are
shown. Tho wondrous peculiarity to an English eye in
the Highland school of shoemaking is that the upper
leathers aro pierced with rows and arches of holes ar-
ranged in fanciful combinations, and interspersed with
little scolloped and jagged edges of leather, designed to
ornament the shoe. Well, now, if I ever saw the like
of that—makinglholes in their shoes to let the wet come
through—they must never be without colds in the head,'
was the purport of a not unnatural remark I heard
made, in different words, more than once while examin-
ing Mr. Macdougall's stall. But the speaker was not
aware that wet feet is a bugbear unknown in the high.
lands. Shoes without holes may do capitally well for
the pave or the turnpike, but transfer the scene of Ope_
rations to a mossy hill-side or a ravine, down which
scores of tiny brooks come foaming to join the torrent
at the bottom, and the wearer will shortly find that no
holes are no protection against the water getting in, but
a great hindrance to its getting out, and so
will go hobbling along with an uncomfortable
quantity of fluid splashing between his toes,
while his brogued guide, on every dry bit of
ground, squirts tho superfluous moisture about with
every step. Shoes intended for hard work among the
heather are peculiarly made in being double-toed. Ono
or two steongly and firmly-made specimens are exhi-
bited. Who stew of tho heather phut is Tory Tpuch,