justice. We would say to the great city, in the benedictory spirit of
the patriot of Venice,--_esto perpetua!_ Notwithstanding thy manifold
"honest knaveries," peace be within thy walls, and plenty pervade thy
palaces, that thou mayest ever approve thyself, oh queen of capitals,

"Like Samson's riddle in the sacred song,
A springing sweet still flowing from the strong!"

_Blackwood's Magazine_.

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THE SKETCH-BOOK.

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SCOTTISH SPORTING.

_From the letters of two sportsmen; with recollections of the Ettrick
Shepherd._

(_For the Mirror_.)


After visiting Thoms, the sculptor, "Burns's cottage," "Halloway
Kirk," Monument, &c., in Ayrshire, we toddled on over to Dumfries,
and had a _crack_ with poor "Rabbie Burns's" widow, not forgetting