THE FAIR CITY OF PERTH. 747 them, to M riao op and call her blessed." Their tender consideration for her, from the least to the, greatest, haul a touch of chivalry in it, and I alwaya consider that privileged fireside interview, gencr ously act apart from all other visitors, aa sacred to friendship. In her I was constantly reminded of tho description giren of M Indy Christian " and felt that M to see tho raiment of her life about her, one should sw the way the ha made tho body and vesture of her home; the sweet attitude in which the stand with mother, children and friend; tho moral and spiritual grouping, and all in the light of tho shining of Hod's face upon hi heavn; a heaven that liei hero and there in hearU and households and societies, not only where tho kingdom haa begun to come," but wherever she may aid it to enter. Tho tio which bind thoao who mourn tho same dead is greater than that which unites thoHO who love tho rarno living. Tho family residence, ono and one-half miles out from town, is approached by a long avenue, and is surrounded by ex. tensive ground. It is of gray stone, and in its solidity, it heraldic carving, iU archil passages and tnaaaivo walls, four or fivo fix t iu thickne, looks liko a houao with a hi tor;; and it has one, in so far that it is over four hundred years old, and oneo harbored, for a tim, Prince Charlie, who planted the gnarled and twisted oak tree, which one im from the drawing-room window. The Tay auiaes noble proportions at Dundee, and the house commands, dU agonally opjite, the new railway bridge over the river, with its curve a mile arid a half long, which was, at the time of our visit, in process of construction. Wo all remember the fearful disaster in con nection with the railway train of the oi 1 bridge, and our boot d'-cribd to us, in vivid language, with that apjalir;g and ixopreasho iLtctte that cornea from personal carration of a cataatropho witneM!, or aa having taken placo in ono'a immediate vicinity, the events of that winter night, with thai wild ele mental atrifa. Almost within atono'a throw of them, while the family were on their knevs at evening prayer, amid tho howling wind and the frenzied wave, that bridge went down, with its freight of human life, without a survivor to tell the tale, or the jxwiibility of help or hop from either short. In the morn ing, tho find realisation the family had of the mournful tragedy was the awful alwonco of the familiar structure span ning the Tay from shore to shore. A dread blank, that Denied tui words of fiplanation-of Import too significant to require it Our invitation to our friend homo was for a week, but, to our regret, wo hail but a day to give, and of that wo made the mL Dining early, aftr the secluiion of tho foreign, with the chit dren and govern, contrary to thecu tomary late dinner, wo drove, in the af. ternoon, around the city and to the park an I eastern tivwfxdi. Thee grounds cover nearly forty acres in rstent, and are tastefully laid out, with many hand some monument, and with a greatly di. versified landcaj commanding, at va rious joints, eitensive views of thTy and the surrounding country. I)ur!ri is the third town in Holland in eitnt of pulation, and is the principal S'-at of the linen trale in Great DrtUin. Tin housea are many of th-M old, Mty ail dark, and, with it gUwy street, it Irars some rrtetablancv to a continent Ul city. It is a plar of great liajor. tancw as a maritime town. The Albert Inatitut. erected In hut of the Is!a Print Conft, conUit., m the lower ht, the fr library, Utg the first of iU ktal, I brieve, rUL. lishM la any of the Urge town of Hod-iax,L