Glasgow Courier. — 1864-09-01 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

THE RELICS IN HOLYROOD.—WiII not the proper Scottish authorities look over the so-called relics of the alleged period of Mary Stuart, now exhibited in the room at Ifolyrood, where Rizzio was seized y b the conspirators? They sadly require new cataloguing, though that process would indeed deprive them of all their. interest. For instance, the boots called Darnley of 's are the time of William the Third. Three or four bits of armour, including an iron pot," assigned to the same unlucky owner, really date from the period of the Commonwealth. To the same period belongs the Highland target, which is also described as Darnley's. Of the two tables, both of which are "suptdosed" to have been used by Mary on the night of the murder, one is of the fashion of "great Nassau's" reign, the other is a little older. In Mary's bed-chamber there is a work-box, the ornamental part of which is said to have been worked by Mary when a child. But this is undoubtedly a lady's creditable needle-work of Charles the Second's reign. The glove in this box is given to Darnley; but the gift is very gratuitous. As for the chair in the outer chamber, the embroidery of which is asserted to be Mary's handiwork, the carving of the chair is certainly not of an earlier date than the reign of Charles the Second. The Scottish official mind has not, it seems, been impressed by the appeals for the removal of these spurious relics, addressed to it repeatedly by many of the leading artists and best skilled antiquaries in the Scottish capital. In these days, when the rail carries a hundred to Edinburgh where the old coach barely carried one, it is in propoition more important that correctness should be observed in these matters which are tacked on to personal histories with which they have no connection. Rather than assign unfounded descriptions, it would be better to let the relics go unnamed, as is done with the large, heavy square of marble in the Rizzio room.— thenaunt.  The most interesting and characteristic work of the philosophic shoemaker, poet, and fisherman of St Boswell's, John Younger, whose "River Ando". reviewed in our last number, ip stip tti.kilhlt6hed, viz., his Autobiography and CothstiOriaence, "which, with judicious editortal pinning," says a correspondent, might 'occupy a good-sized octavo volume. The MS. is in pledge, I believe," adds our informant, "for a small sum, and is well worth redeeming. Several of the letters are among the finest in the English language, and the autobiography opens up, in a masterly way, several vistas of Scottish peasant life, both dark and sunny. enuld not a subscription be got up among John's InuntrOuS rieb) learned, titled and untitled friendsi to parehase and publish these remains"-_A nnø. Magnesitun was distovered by Sir tuniphrey lavin 1807, but remained little else than a chemical 'curlokkty until 1862-3, when Mr Edward ,UlStticlt Dalented series of processes, wherehy it inaY be produced in any quantity.. 44;ne51utti is a metal white as silver, and very light, its specific gravity being 174, or about one. fifth the weight of copper. In the form of wire it may now be purchased at 3d per foot at all the principal metallurgists, opticians, and photographic material dealers. If the end of a piece of wire be held in the flame of gas or candle, it at once takes fire, and burns gently with a dazzling white light, by which a photography may be taken with a perfection equal to sunshine. The wire supplies an excellent specimen of the metal, and the burning of a few inches is a brilliant and interesting experiment. DISCOVERY or AN