the tale as utterly improbable. But if he were informed farther, that it is in the very Theatre of that city, in which the classical creations of Shakespeare, of Sheridan, of Weber, are nightly bodied forth to the admiring eyes and ears of polished audiences, he would pronounce the thing impossible. But whether theory pronounce it to be improbable or impossible, it is neither more nor less than the fact. We have people among us, too, who write paragraphs in newspapers, applauding the spirit which supports these exhibitions of what are called National Music, Dancing, and Costume. It would not be much to be wondered at if Highlanders, who are a people sui generis, at whatever period of life they may be brought within the pale of civilization, should admire the feats of their countrymen in raising a noise, and cutting capers in the air; but that sober journalists, who think that they can turn the earth on its axis, and regulate by their nod the complicated concerns of all human governments, should join in the cry of approbation of such singular proceedings, is really to us incomprehensible. And yet so it is. We have before us one of the lucu-brations of these "gentlemen of the press," as they style themselves, which talks of Celtic music as being "venerable," as being pre-eminently the "music of sentiment and passion." Hear him, ye powers of sacred song! Sentiment and passion in a bagpipe! Venerable strains issuing from a piper's drone!! It would be fully as judicious to talk in the same breath of sensibility and a haggis. On reading this we thought it must have been a quotation from the ravings of the author of a quantity of bombastic tales called the Foresters, the Trials of Margaret Lindsay, &c. This author never ceases to speak of "high and holy aspirations" in conjunction with oat-meal porridge and the Scotch fiddle; and we did not doubt that he might have gone so far in one of his ranting fits, (for he has a forty-fish-woman-power of rant,) as to ascribe most pathetic powers to the blustering and boisterous noise of bagpipes. In the forgeries of Macpherson, which have been called (upon what good authority is yet to

be discovered) the Poems of Ossian, we read occasionally of the excitement of sentiment and passion by poetry and music; but that faithless impostor has not the hardihood to talk of these excitements as produced among the aboriginal Celts by bagpipes, but by one of the finest instruments of ancient or modern times, the harp. But our journalist proceeds, in a fit of Ossianic abstraction, to eulogise the music, or rather the uncouth noise, of the bagpipe, by saying that it "steals into our soul, like the memory of days that are gone!" In what possible way can it be said that the shrill, deafening sounds of the pipes, "steal" into the soul, it would puzzle a conjuror to divine. We have been accustomed to find that they "force" their way into the soul, to the infinite annoyance of all who are not at least a mile from the mouth of the drone-pipe. To cut the matter short, and to speak from experience, we shall state our own opinion in two words, that it is only an assembly of deaf and dumb, (always excepting real Jacobite Celts,) who could sit out a concert of pipe music, in a space so confined in its dimensions as our Edinburgh Theatre, or witness the strange contortions of body exhibited by the wild men in short petticoats, who make their appearance once ayear on the Edinburgh stage.

By the bye, whilst on this subject, we may be permitted to express our surprise, that the act for disarming the Highlanders should be inoperative against these Celts who make this annual foray on the Lowlands. They seem now to consider a dirk, worn openly at their sides, to be as necessary a portion of their costume as the skin of their bare, sun-burnt legs. It may, perhaps, be an argument for the comparative weakness of Lowland whisky, that in spite of the quantities of it which the pipers and dancers consume in Edinburgh, no instance has occurred of the deliberate use of a dirk in a row, by any given Highlander. We are, however, at a loss to discover why they alone, of all the unmilitary part of the population, should be permitted to wear arms, in violation of acts of Parliament, which we presume are still unrepealed, prohibiting the

wearing of arms by private citizens. To this subject it is proper to call the attention of his Majesty's Advocate; for it is apparent that these forayers, armed with dangerous weapons, whilst under the excitement of whisky, and with the well-known vanity and pride of Celts, raised to the highest pitch by all their blushing honours, of prize-pipes and hairy purses, thick upon them, must be objects of inexpressible terror to the peaceable inhabitants of a luxurious city. Where is the security that these men, excited as they are thus known to be, will refrain from excesses which may end in the destruction of the lives of unarmed ci-tizens? Are a parcel of stiff old fellows, called policemen, armed with ordinary batons, a sufficient protection against the infuriated attacks of these athletic mountaineers accoutred with the terror-striking dirk? But we forbear from enlarging on this subject, convinced that we have sufficiently done our duty, in calling the attention of our countrymen to an enormity that must speedily be put down, unless we in the Low Country are disposed to submit to all the extravagances of Celtic arrogance, which we conceive has been fostered to an inordinate and foolish extent of late years, and more especially since the preposterous inroad of Highland tails during the late Royal visit.

The exhibition of piping and dan cing for the present year has just taken place. There was a larger assemblage than ever was seen of the Tonalds, and the Tugalds, and the Tuncans. We understand that they were in excellent wind; and like Old Nick at Alloway-Kirk,

They screw'd their pipes, and gårt them skir!,
Till roof and rafters a' did dirl.

The music, as it is called, was followed by the dancing of the Highland fling, and various other graceful exhibitions of Celtic agility, which the muscles of thorough-bred mountaineers alone are adequate to execute. At the close of all, a prizepipe was delivered by a venerable Chieftain to the most noisy of the musicians. At the same time, the successful competitor for the prize was honoured with a very cordial address from the worthy Chief, who particularly expressed a wish, something in this way-" that the piper might never be without a plentiful supply of wind"—to blow his instrument. A pleasant smile played upon the countenance of the poor savage, who conjectured, even without the aid of an interpreter, that the Chieftain must have said something very good, when he talked about wind, as the whole Theatre was convulsed with one universal roar of laughter. Donald made his bow; for, to say the truth, the poor creatures are not deficient in politeness-when any purpose is to be served by it. He, and his Celtic kith and kin, who shared in the liberality of their Lowland cousins and admirers, then retired, and made their way to the mountains, well satisfied with the results of their foray. We heartily wish him and his all that is good for them; but we would request as a particular favour, that when they next take it into their heads to make a predatory incursion into the Low Country, they would leave behind them their dirks and their bagpipes; for, in the first place, we are not yet very anxious to be assassinated, and in the second place, we have the strongest possible aver sion to be deafened.

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