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SCOTTISH LETTER. THE KING AND QUEEN AT HOLYROOD,
prescher, and arried Alis Anne Browne, who, though born in Trolaul was, mark you, of Sets erigin." A son of this latter couple narried & Walsh lady,· Our present Mr. Ballwin, indeed, apresenta all parts of the United Kingdom and Ire [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT:]
laud, so that Mr. Baldwin can claim, tike Gladstone, an origin in many places EDIvernon July 11th.
while we understand why Mr. Kipling. The King and Queen are on a week's who was born in Bombay, is well fitted to visit to Hoproud, private and informal speak for the Empire An interesting in character. Of necessity there are several official ceremonies-including such is thrown on the pride of the family in their Highland patronymic by the fact things as the handing over of the Legs of that Mr. Kipling on going out to sen his the City of Edinburgh--but the prevail uncle in Canada travelled under the ing cote is one of personnt loyalty ami
name of Maloual though the Ameri friendly interest et tormal homage, ge
can reporters were quick to detect his diss Their guiso. the satisfaction of curiosity. Majesties were welcomed back again to "kent ground" and to their ain folk"
There was no military display""alwa At a hugpipe Competition confined to Edinburgh's famens route to the ascent West of Scotland school boys, the gold "House of Kings" at Holyrood-yn | medal has been won by n Siamese boy less othe includes Girl Guides and Brownies named Lim-Kar-Ttaik, who is a "pupil in under that category. No longer is it Dollar Academy. acessary or fit, as in the days when the GENEROUS scurta, Sixth Jams the First Charles made their entries, after a lapse of years, into Pont Street, W.. again leads the list of the Scottish Capital, to strew the Royal Church collections for the Metropolitan route with poetical hyperbole and pane Hospital Sunday Fund, so far as the gyric and exuberant protestations of results are known, This year £803 was oyalty and veneration to set up allegorisent to the Fund by the minister, the cal Egures and deviers of Peace, Religion, Rev. Dr. Fleming, which is more than the and Justice; to din harnugues in Greek, total um collected by the next three
Hebrew, and Scots, as well as in highest churches on the list.
into the Royal car; and to
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A SIAMESE PIPER.
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St. Columba's, the Scottish Church in
the city' fountain Rowing with wine. EN | TRM MORAV ESTATE,
place of those more or less forced products One more great estate in Scotland has af fancy and imagination, the Edinburgh been included among the joint-stock com
kribute of genuïne Jove, | panies. The capital is £311,300, and the nƐ to-day offers trust, and respect, founded on knowledge trading subscriber is the Right Hon. and tested in times both of war and 'öf | Francis Douglas Stuart, Lord Donne, pence
Kingsfauns Castle, Perthshire.
More than thres hundred years have passed since Holyrood House crased to be the permanent home of the Sovereigns of Scotland. The departure of the Court from Edinburgh was accompanied, as a coutemaprorary diarist tells us, by "great lamentations and mourning among the common for the loss of their daily sight of their blessed Prince," and King James comforted his disconxalate subjects congregated in St. Giles Church, with the that he would "eme and visit his
and good subjects in Scotland every
That promise Was Rot kept, and only a few saccessory “have looked it up." Indeed Holyrood Palace has been much improved since the days when Queen Victoria rather atentationsly. avoided it. Nothing was done in her time improve the place and when King Edward and Queen Alexandra first visited Edinburgh, they stayed where, the sanitation of the Palace was considerest doubtful. Since then, however, it has been put in habitable order,
to
DUDDINGSTON LOCH YOR THE NATION,,
After several mouths" negotiation, the purchase of Duddingston Loch for the nation has at last been completed, and it will now round off the Royal Park of Holyrood. It is disclosed that the Famous loch has become a public"" posses- sion through the generous prompting of a
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H. Askew of Ladykirk, To most people, whether residents or strangers, Dudding- ston Loch bas seemed na much a part of the Royal Park as Arthur Seat itself. Up till saw, however, agresy to and use of it has been enjured, as it were, on suffrance, Duddingston and its loch have been the scenes of prehistoric battles, in more recent times of national
resort and worldaride-i
of
from the Loch of nation the fame. the charm of its situation, immediately. Lander the shadow of Arthur Seat and its crags; or the stream of legend that is poured into it from the Wells of Weario: or the memories that cling to it of Mary Stuart and Prince Charlie, of Walter Scott, the Ettrick Shepherd, Thomson of Duddingston and bost of other
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celebrities who have trodden its banks. And by happy coincidence the negotiations which have been in progress for its pur chase have been saccessfully concluded on the eve of a Royal Visit to the neighbour ing Palace of Holyrood.
LORD DUNEDIN TO RE-MARRY,
year,
It is announced that Lord · Dunedin, Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland, is to be married this week to Miss Penn Bindley, who for seven years has been Director of Scottish Savings under the Treasury
The wedding, which is to tuke place at Lambeth Chapel, will be salemuised by the Archbishop of Canter- bury, The bridgegroom, who is in his 74th
·lest
his frst wife last December. Aliss Bindley is 87 and is native of Aberdeen Her success as Director of Scottish Savings has been remarkable. In the seven years during which she has held the post she has been instrumental in rais ing the amount of savings from £200,000 to £13,000,000, Lord Dunedin is well known as a golfer, having been captain of the Royal and Ancient, and at Harrow he was racquets champion, He was one of the judges in the Archdeacon Wakeford case, and acted as, chairman last year of the Honours Commission. The late Lady Dunedin was one of the eight handsome daughters of Admiral Sir Williama Edinon- stone, Bart, and t sister of the Hon. Mrs.
George Keppel. She mar
married Lord Dune din when he was Mr. Graham Murray, and had just embark on the career in which ho was successively Solicitor-Gen- eral
for
Scotland, Lord-Advocate. Secre tary for Scotland, Lord Justice General. and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, There are three surviving children of the mar ringe-the heir, Major the Hon. Ronald Graham Murray and two daughters, one of whom is the widow of Major E. L. C. Failden.
THE PRIME MINISTER AS A BOOT..:
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Que does not naturally associate Mr. Baldwin with Scotland, and still lewe his first cousin, Mr. Eudyard Kipling, whose whole philosophy is almost aggressively English, although, one finds traces of Scotnesa in his complete comprehension of the immortal M'Andrews, But the fact remains that the graet-grandfather of Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Kipling was Scot,
born and bred, and a Beot too with the fine Highland name of Macdonald, ofThere is a tradition in the Prime Minister's family that a Macdonald' ancestor bad boped to
accompany a party of friends to Canada, but that, owing to the ill health of his wife, he gave up the idea and stopped short in Ireland, settling at Ballynaillard, near Enniskillen, where his son Jars, the Prime Minister's great-grandfather, was born, This Jazzes Macdonald erme under the Influence of Wesley, and his son-was a great Wedeyan
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