New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-08-16

commanding location N the ci'y) and oil Walter
Scott or Princc's-siree., nearly opposite the
Castle, across INC glen. u full SIGH, oi all VINO
arrive IN Edinburgh by Railroad, 6 40 .ron
the Castle ahI it. vicinity, as well a. from the
broad and thronced street o. side which u :
located. But there are Monuments also &c PIX,
10 Lord Melville, ana some twenty or thirty oiheI
deceased noiables These are generally located
in the higher squares or gardens which Wisely
occupy large portion OF the ground-plot Of ise
new town. Pubic Hospitals and lnhrmaries are
also 4 prominent feature OF the Scottish capital
there beng several spacious and hne edinces
devoted 20 the healing Of the sick, most Il not all
of them founded and endowed by private munifl-
cence There are several Bridges across The
Two prncIpal and more secondary or cross val
leys, ravines or gorges which may well attract
attention. These Bridges are often severa!
hundred fee, long, and from thirty TO eighty feet
high, and YOU LOOK down from their roadway
upon the red tiled roofs OF large eight or nine
story houses beside and below them. Nearly or
quite every house in Edinburgh is built of stone,
which is rather abundant in Scotland, and often
of fair, free easily worked quality. Many even
are built of coarse. rough undressed stone, often
of round irregular boulders, made 10 retain the
places assigned them by dlnt of abundant and
excellent mortar In the better buildings, how
ever, the stone Is Of a finer quality, and hand
somely cut, though almost entirely Of brown
or dark gray color The winding drive TO the
summit of Cation Hill, looking down upon large
6 nd
workmanship, with the prospect from the sum-
nit, are among the most impressive | have seen
In Europe.
i was interested this afternoon In looking
around from one to another OF the edltces with
which History or the pen of the Wizard OF the
North has rendered us all amiliar-the Tolbooth,
the Parliament House, the Castle, the house of
John Knox, the principal Churches &c, &c !
spent most time of all m the Palace OF Holy
rood which, though unwisely located, never
porgeously furnished, and long since abandoned
of ROYALTY to diapldation and decay. still wears
the stamp OF majesty and will be regal even
when crumbled into ruins. It's tapestries are
faded and rotten its paintings, never brilliant
specimens of the art. have also felt the tooth Of
Time It's furniture, never sumptuous, would out
poorly answer at this day the needs Of an ordlna-
nv family lis ballroom is now lumber-room
It's royal beds excite premonitlons OF rheuma-
tism its boudoir says naught of Beauty, but that
1t passelh away Yet the carefully preserved
ivory miniature Of the haplesS Queen OF Scots Is
still radiant with that superlative loneliness
which seems unearthly and prophetic OF coming
n
emotion the tapestry she worked, the furniture
she brought over from France, some mementoes
of her unwse marriage, the little room IN which
she sat at supper with Rizzio and three or tour
friends when the assaSslns rushed IN through
secret door stabbed her i'll starred favorlte, and
dragged him bleeding through her bedroom INTO
an outer audience chamber, and there left HIM TO
die, his lilc-blood oozing out from ftty-sIN
wounds The partition still stands which the
Queen had erected TO shut off the scene Of this
horrible tragedy from that larger portion OF the
reception-room which she was Obliged still to
occupy therein to greet daily those whom public
cares and duties constrained her to confer with
and listen TO, though Murder had stained met
faceably the floor of that regal hall. Alas I'M
happy Queen and yet not all unhappy. Other
sovereigns have their little day OF pomp and adu-
laiion then shrivel O dust anu are forgotten but
she still lives and roigns wherever Beauty finds
admirers or Suffering commands sympathy
Other Queens innumerable have lived and died,
and their scoptcrs crumbled to dust even sooner
than their day but Mary Is still Queen of Scots,
and so Will remain forever. II. C.
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