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LAUNCH OF THE “CUTTY SARK.“
THE "AULD ALLIANCE."
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
is that the "Auld, Alliance was of} value to both countries from the point of view of politics. It was not sentiment that sealed the pact but business; neither was it' sentiment that preserved it in. being so long, but again business, and business, too, in which the political ae- count of both parties to it lay. In some EDINBURGH, November 25th
instances, he admits, the French had the Launch-On Monday afternoon (3rd whole it was fully justified. Valuable better of the bargain, but still on the November, 1889) there was launched from the building yard of Meat Scott though the Auld Alliance was as a means & Linton a handsome composite clipper Mr. Erskine's opinion, it had, in addi- to preserve the liberties of Scotland in ship of the following dimensions:tion, an educative effect on our fore Length, 210ft,, beam, 38ft.; depth, of hald, 20ft. Din.; and about 950 tons
fathers. The French Allance was the burthen. As she left the ways she was
moans of placing Scotland in the fore named the Cutty Sark by Mra Moodie, European stage. It gave our country an front of the figures that moved on the": the wife of Captain Moedic. The importance which was possibly dispro Cutty Sark is intended for the China portionate to its size and wealth. So tea trade, and is expected by her long as the Auld Alliance endured the owners to be one of the fastest shipsrest of the great nations of the West engaged in the truthe-Dumbarton treated Scotland as Herald, 9/11/69.
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being landed in considerable quantities This year, as last, foreign barley is
at Lossiemouth for the Marsyshire dis East are making the welkin ring with illeries, and the farmers of the Nor
their protests. Last year no less than 25,000 tons were shipped to Lossiemonth, and the Banffshire whisky-making centres also absorbed many thousands of tons. One Banffshire farmer has propounded the conundrum-“ What. is the correct
designation for barley bree of which only the water and the peats are
Scotch↑ "
SCOTTISH ACADEMY OF MUSIC.
sa equal. That obliged us to produce political intellects Surely an accurate enough forecast. it to take their stance beside the But it is not our present purpose to tell brightest that France or Italy, or Spain of her great runs, of her 2,183 miles in six benefit we derived did not end there. Tha or the Empire could produce; but the
days running the casting down-an aver. Feducative influences diffused by the age of over 15 knots an hour. Mr. Basil Franco-Scottish Alliance reacted upon the
whole body of the people, sharpening. Lubbock gives the sail history andre their intellects, improving their natural mance of this has vessel so well in his genius for politics, and broadening and The Log of the Cutty Sark that it ings and sympathies to an extent and in. deepening their understandings and feel- would be presumption to add,, a word on her sailing days. No able pen, however," Beware of the Scots," said Philip II. a way it is difficult to realise now-a-days, has ever mapped out the whole roinance of Spain to one of his most experienced of the Cutty Sark's building" days. A joiner, who passed away only a few weeks negotiators," they are an extremely wise ago (possible the last of those who work-
people." ed on bar), was of the opinion that the keel was laid about two months before he started with Scott Linton, the builders, in January, 1868, and he worked on her until she left the Clyde. She was the last of an order for six sailing vessels to be built at the Woodyard Constructed under the personal super- vision of Captain Moodie, the Cutty Sark had very sharp lines. Her designer was Mr. H. Linto a partner of the firm It is said that Captain Moodie did not spare the contractors, and that every piece of timber was mast minutely examined, the tiniest flaw being enough to ensure condemnation. When the pre- sent excellent condition of the ship's hull is considered one can readily believe the statement. There were many ups and Steps are being taken to "found a Scot- downs during the building, but the climax tish National Academy of Music in was reached when en September 6th there Glasgow, and Sir Daniel Stevenson, was a meeting of the principal creditors B, LLD, has written stating. bis at Scott & Linton. It is even said that willingness to contribute to the capital a few days before this meeting cne of fund of £100,000 required the sum the partners appeared on the Culty Sark | £30,000 if and when the balance of and announced to the workers that as the £70,000 has been obtained. This gilt en- firm was in financial difficulties workables the committee which has take up would have to be suspended. These difficulties were overcome, however, and several Dumbarton gentlemen were ap pointed as trustees to attend to the com- pletion of the contracts on hand. Even tually, on Monday, November 23rd, 1869, the Cutty Sark entered the Leven, dred ged and deepened by one of the Clyde Trust dredgers to accommodate ·" this large coniposite vessel," the first of her class to be built on the Levent said that it was after she entered the water that the Dennys took over the work of completion. The famous clipper left Dumbarton on December 21st of the same year for Greenock, where the final touches were put on her prior to her sailing round to London to load for China. But if anybody could get at the whole story of the building of the most romantic old clipper that has sailed the seas and whose hull still floats sound as the day she was launched, a monë- ment to the skill of her builders, they would earn the admiration of many who regret that that part of her story has not been told in full...
TRAFFIC IN FOOTBALLERS.
In one of the London papers the state- ment is made by an authority on Asgo- ciation football that for some 16 players from Scotland a' sum of at least £40,000 has been paid away to clube on this side of the Border for the transfer of these men to England. There was a time before the War when the payment of £1,000 for the exchange of a player's services was regarded as a large, if not sensational, amount. How far would, £1,000 go to-day i
A FAMILY, RESEMBLANCE.
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the matter to appeal with some assurance to the generosity of those interested in music training and culture in Scotland, the University of Glasgow and and to make possible a movement uniting Scottish Academy of Music in a scheme worthy of Scotland's musical traditions and aspirations.
BIRTHPLACE OF L. STEVENSON.
the
The bazaar held by the Robert "Louis Stevenson Club to raise £3,000 for the endowment of Stevenson's birthplace in Edinburgh as permanent memorial bas raised a total of £2,600. TEMPERANCE FLYING SQUAD."
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The Prohibitionists admit that the result of the Local Veto polls in Scot- their expectation. land are not up to They cannot do otherwise, the figures in the results as far as announced are One of their leaders says against them.
the lesson that
af the polia was that they could not do three years' work in three months nor in three weeks. The strongest weapon they had was the form a flying squad" of men and They therefore intended to
their time as expert canvassers in back- women prepared to go anywhere and give ward areas.
COL.Vass.
A FROZEN KILT
Lecturing on Highland regiments a speaker recently mentioned that the white spat commemorates an occasion on which the feet of the troops were 60 badly cut up by marching that they were forced to tie. rags. round them, "One who was over there" has thereupon made a suggestion. He says that during the Great War, though kilted troops found their kit serviceable in some respecta, it had this great drawback, that mud and water gathered round it, and, particular. ly in frosty weather, the hard and weighty fringe chafed the skin of the knees very painfully as it swung. It was no uncommon thing during the winter fighting in front of Ypres to see "Jocks" who had bound rags round their knees to prevent this Might not
A question of curious and unusual interest is involved in the decision given in. the Scottish Courts in the Seafield peerage case. The judge was asked to accept as relevant proof of the claim evidence bearing on the subject of the resemblance of the claimant and his family to the Seafield and Blantyre families in physical characteristica, gait, and mannerismas. The decision of the learned Judge is that such averments as to family likepass cannot be allowed to go to proof. Few lawyers, we fancy,some decorative touch be added to the will disagree with him, but the opinions of biologists would be more divided. The persistence of family traits is common knowledge, and the writers on heredity have produced many curious pages on the subject. In Spain and Austria a Haps. burg without the Hapsburg lip would almost certainly provoke doubts of his legitimacy. There are well-known cases Hebrides, where English is the language In the less frequented islands of the among other old families in Scotland of of politeness and Gaelic the language of a marked trait coming out generation comfort, technical and journalistic jar- after generation But the subject is
uniform of certain units as a memorial of those iron times asks the writer. Romantic details of the kind go far, alight as they see, to create that won- derful welding force, eaprit de corps. DIFFICULTIES OF A TRANSLATOR.
much too illusive to be reduced to the go has not yet become familiar. A form of satisfactory evidence in a Law their croft, was called upon to act as townswoman, visiting her relatives in Court, however satisfactory it might be.
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as evidence of natural descent. Nature interpecter. A Highland newspaper had takes no note of primogeniture or af just arrived with an account of the legitimancy. If a peculiarity originated a wedding of one who had left the island dozen generations ago it may reappear in to become famous as a singer, and her apy descendant of the fret, to show it. former neighbours were conning the list But in a fertile stock the descendants of of presents. Two items had baffled them. an individual of three hundred years ago In the first place, they were not satis. may number thousands, dispersed through fied with the rendering of "crystal jelly all grades of society, and probably a large dish" as "croc a' mhilsean" (jam-jer); majority of them have lost all knowledge and, secondly, they were frankly at a of their ancestry. And in how many loss as to the meaning of "lingerie. cases can it be said with certainty with When the visitor had made it clear to whom the peculiarity originated?
them, "Well, well, said the cailleach, THE SCOTH-FRENCH ALLIANCE.
"and who would have thought that now? Could the printer not have put the English on it so that folks would know? A FAIRY TALE I was thinking it was some kind of dried figh
The subject of the Franco-Scottish alliance has long been a popular one with those who write. on historical themes, One of the latest to deal with it is the Hon, R. Erskine of Marr. His opinion
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