and between both, towards the middle, are figures of the Virgin
Mary and St. John, the latter holding a cup with a lamb. The
outer arch is adorned with knobs, and within both is a small
slit or loop. At the bottom of the outer arch are two beasts
couchant. If one of them _by his proboscis was not evidently an
elephant_, I should suppose them the supporters of the Scotch
arms. Parallel with the Crucifix are two plain stones, which do
not appear to have had anything upon them. Here is not the least
trace of a door in these arches, nor anywhere else, except in
the church."

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SOME ACCOUNT OF STIRBITCH FAIR.

BY A SEPTUAGENARIAN.

(_For the Mirror._)


(Stirbitch Fair, as our correspondent observes, was once the Leipsic or
Frankfurt of England. He has appended to his "Account" a ground plan of
the fair, which we regret we have not room to insert; the gaps or spaces
in which, serve to show how much this commercial carnival (for such it
might be termed) has deteriorated; for the remaining booths were built
on the same site as during the former splendour of the fair. Our
correspondent accounts for this "decay, by the facilities of roads and