yards, by the genius of one man, who spent a long life in perfecting it, you see as natural, and as large as life, all London, as seen from the top of St. Paul's in a clear moonlight night, with all the effect of moon and stars, and the ten thousand lights of the city. No wonder, indeed, that some of its visitants have inscribed upon its walls, "The Palace of Fairy Enchantment.” The design itself was enough for one man of ordinary ambition; but the execution of it, so far as one man has perfected it, is the greatest achievement of genius and labor accomplished by any painter whose name is registered on the rolls of fame.

I regret to pass so rapidly through this most interesting object; but there stand on my memoranda the British Museum and Library, the Royal Academy of the Fine Arts, the Polytechnic Institution, the Thames and its Tunnel, through which we passed, the Zoological Gardens, St. James' Park, Hyde Park, Bank of England, Post Office, Docks, Statues, Promenades, &c. &c. Of all these, we can only select two or three, and these we must despatch with all brevity.

It is

indeed, a royal institution.
located in the east end of the National
Gallery, Trafalgar-square, and was
established by royal charter in the
year 1768. Sir Joshua Reynolds
received knighthood on being ap-
pointed its president. "It was in-
stituted for the encouragement of
painting, sculpture, and architecture,
and consists of forty members, called
Royal Academicians, and twenty-six
associates. Nine of the Royal Aca-
demicians are annually elected for
the purpose of superintending the
studies. They set the figures, exa-
mine the works of the students, and
impart instruction. Sir M. A. Shee
is president. The annual exhibition,
commencing on the first Monday in
May, and terminating in July, pre-
sents a just specimen of the style of
the arts of the kingdom. No work
is here exhibited that has ever pub-
licly appeared before. The number
of paintings, prints, busts, models,
and pieces of sculpture, generally
amounts to about fifteen hundred."
I spent an afternoon in the rooms of
this institution with great pleasure,
and could not but admire not only
the excellence of the selections dis-
played, but also the classification and
arrangement of the specimens of
sculpture, painting, &c. exhibited, as
greatly tending to improve the taste
and to elevate the standard of excel-

the eye and the hand. In its Glypotheca, or Museum of Sculpture, we saw a very true and beautiful statue of the Queen, just exhibited for the first time. Her Majesty and Prince Albert had been to see it the day before, and placed upon it their probatum est.

We were, indeed, much pleased to observe the growth of good taste and good sense in the attention paid to public comfort and improvement. London, like the United States, progresses to the west; and as it pro-lence in all the fine arts cultivated by gresses in that direction, it improves. Indeed, in more senses than one, "the Star of Empire westward wends its way." The palaces of London and its splendid streets are located and locating in the west, and new London is many centuries in improvement, as well as in years, before old London. But in its means of intellectual culture, London is generally pre-eminent. Like Athens, Corinth, Rome, it glorifies intellect and genius, but neglects piety and morality; therefore, it is pre-eminently intellectual and preeminently wicked!

The Royal Academy of Arts is,

A few days after my visit to the Royal Academy, in company with sister Whalley and brother Henshall, we spent an afternoon in the Zoological Gardens. On our way thither, we unexpectedly met the Queen and Prince Albert returning in open carriage from the grand pa

geant at Cambridge, occasioned by Dutchmen, and then another, and holding them up in her arms, showed them off in fine style to the ecstatic admiration and cheers of the enraptured and grateful mothers and daughters of the hills and glens of the Western Isles.

Indeed, the domestic virtues of the royal pair, and their extreme prudence in all matters of party spirit and party interests, entitle them to the highest esteem and admiration of the nation. No one in England knows whether the illustrious Regent, or his more illustrious consort, lean more to the Whigs or to the Tories--to the INS or to the OUTS of office. They have got five healthy, plump, and ruddy children. One of them, whom I saw standing on the canvass, in the full uniform of a young tar, with his

the inauguration of Prince Albert as Chancellor of the University. The Queen's full-orbed face, with her royal consort on her left, seemed alike full of good nature and good sense, and smiled with as much complacency as she could well throw into it, upon the group we met just standing where she must be fully seen on turning towards Buckingham Palace. Had we been seeking for such an opportunity, we could not more advantageously have found it, than to be thrown into the front of such a group just at the moment when her guard came forward in a great bluster to open a way for her Majesty's carriage. Her two maids of honour, sitting in front of the barouche, with one of whom, a few evenings before, I had had a conversation on the resurrec-jack-knife and pouch on, ready for tion of the dead, reflected her Majesty's smiles upon the crowd, as she complacently caught the loyal smiles and homage of her liege subjects, who seize every opportunity of testifying to her Queenship their cordial admiration of her virtues, and increasing devotion to her throne.

business, is as promising a lad in all that constitutes good nature, good sense, and a good sound constitution, as any lad I saw in all London city. He is already destined for the navy, and takes his station before the mast, as if predestined to rise by merit to the high office of Admiral.

The greatest objection that I have to Prince Albert is, that he seems to be more ambitious to be a good sportsman and a good marksman among the grouse and the deer, than to shine in literature or science, though now Lord Chancellor of Cambridge; and that his red beard, so fastidiously cut upon the upper lip, is in bad taste, and a bad model to the dandies of the age, who imagine that a pair of scissors, or a sharp razor, cunningly guided over the chin or upper lip, indicates more good sense and more good taste than the red paint of an Indian, or the particolored beard of a

No Queen of England was ever more universally popular than Victoria. She is now, and has been, during my tour through Scotland, travelling for pleasure, with her royal consort and their children, through the Highlands. The enthusiastic admiration of the Scotch is every where expressed in every form which can prove that it comes from the heart. Indeed, the Queen herself seems to court and cultivate it by every means in her power. I was amused the other day in glancing at some notes of her tour through the Highlands to see how the woman and the mother triumphed over the Queen in her complaisance to some Highland wo-goat suspended to the lip or the chin men, who, crowding upon the boat as she was leaving, demanded that she would show them her "dear little bairns." The Queen, in great good humour, first seized one of the little

of a beardless Turk. And while remonstrating against the Prince Regent, that I may not appear blind to the imperfections of the Queen of England, I must say that, in my

Father,

Farewell.

Your affectionate
A. CAMPBELL.

Port Patrick, Sept. 16, 1847.

LETTERS FROM EUROPE.

NO. XIV.

GLASGOW PRISON, Sept. 10, 1847. MY DEAR CLARINDA-LITTLE did I think that I should ever be confined within the walls of a prison in Scotland, or any where else, in the way of honor or dishonor. It is, however, a true and veritable fact that I am now a prisoner in the city of Glasgow and in the kingdom of Scotland; and this, too, without trial or conviction of any kind whatever. You, no doubt, with very many others, will ask, How can this be? If, then, you can command a sufficient degree of calmness and patience, I will reveal to you the mystery.

humble opinion, she visits the theatre sails.
too often, and especially on Saturday
evenings, than is either prudent or
comely for the "Head of the Church
of England." That her example, in
this particular, is already detrimental
to some of their Graces-the Prelates
or Lord Bishops, I must infer-more
especially since I see it noted in some
of the English prints that the cele-
brated Jenny Lind has been engaged
to attend at a ball in the Bishop of
London's palace, to be given on some
grand occasion. The Queen in this
case cannot admonish the Bishop;
and I do not see how the Bishop can
admonish the Queen, unless they
should both confess to the Archbishop
of Canterbury; and even then for the
"Head of the Church of England'
to appear in any theatre called "the
Royal Theatre of London," is, in my
opinion, giving to the old-fashioned
Puritans or their sons (but I believe
they are all dead in England) a new
argument to prove that the Church
of England cannot be the Church of
Christ, inasmuch as the Head of
Christ's church never was seen in any
theatre on earth, much less in that of
Covent Garden, or in that of Drury
Lane. I would, therefore, were I
Privy Councillor to Her Majesty,
suggest to her the incongruity of such
regular visits to these centres of the
pride, and vanity, and folly of this
world, with her other virtues, and
more especially with her high and
holy station as Head of the Church
of England.

Meantime, having been detained so long on my way to the Zoological Gardens of London and to the Museum, I must defer my notices of them to a more convenient season. The mail for the steamer of the 19th September will soon be made up, and this letter, though begun more than two weeks since, has been unfinished till to-day. Others, of a more grave importance, have been begun; but events, yet in progress, forbid my closing them before this packet

You have long since learned that Scotland is the land of orthodoxy-the only country in the world in which men always think right on all subjects, but especially in religion and morals. True, there have been occasionally a few heretics in this land, but they have generally been of a mongrel race; they have been abroad, or intermarried with foreigners.

In former times religion and politics were those subjects on which orthodoxy, or right thinking, was of saving importance; and heterodoxy, or wrong thinking, was a damming sin. But nations became weary of their idols, as well as of other paternal customs, and set up new ones. orthodoxy is outward conformity to the views of the fashionable idol, and heterodoxy nonconformity, the virtue of orthodoxy and the vice of heterodoxy are yet omnipotent for good or for evil.

Still as

In Scotland a new divinity, unknown in my youthful days, is now in the ascendant; consequently a new creed reigns, and a new orthodoxy is established. Orthodoxy is, therefore, of saving efficiency; and heterodoxy is still a sin to be punished by the Judge.

That I may be clearly understood on these premises, I will briefly develope the plot, so far as I have been able to discover it.

In Scotland, the old ecclesiastical parties have greatly changed their position. Burghers, Anti-burghers, Relief-men, are now absorbed in the Church of Scotland or in the Free Church. The Independents or Con

The present idol is the liberty of all men of color on natural and moral principles ;-saving faith, the immediate emancipation of American Africans; and the true evangelical church, the Scotch anti-slavery society. Now, as in days of yore, when a man's politics were unpopular at court, or his opinions unfashionable at church, it was always easy to convict him of treason against the king, or of blas-gregationalists are divided into Mophemy against the pope, and then, by risonians and Congregationalists-the a summary process, rid the world of former having embraced a more libehim. But that age having passed ral theory of the gospel than their old away, and religious views and opinions sectarian brethren. Indeed, in some being no longer so sacred nor so pro- particulars, they make the nearest fane as in former times, they are not approach to our views of any party now actionable before the king, nor in Scotland. These leading denoalways before the pope. When, then, minations, with a few Romanist, it so happens that any one's doctrine Episcopalian, and Methodist churches, becomes offensive to the reigning or make up the Pedo-baptist community aspiring priesthood, they do not think of Scotland. The Scotch and English of meeting him face to face, before the Baptist communities, with our brepeople, or of discussing with him the thren, make the remainder. The points of difference; but as in the days Morisonites and Infidels constitute, of Darius the Mede, the presidents however, a fearful aggregate comand priests seeking, but not finding pared with any of these denominafault in Daniel in some political mat- tions; indeed, with all of them, so ters, resolved to find him heterodox in far as vital piety is to be regarded as religion, and would test him by some the fruit of discipleship. religious question, that they might thus put him out of their way; so, now-a-days, when a man's religious views become obnoxious to certain presidents, priests, and secretaries of churches in Scotland, when seeking occasion of an attack upon him, they, in imitation of their Median predecessors, do not think of accusing him on the real issue; but seizing some popular idol of national admiration and reverence, they seek to find occasion against him in reference to his idol god. Nor are they conscientiously fastidious as to the means; for, as in the case before us, the Median politicians chose religious grounds of accusation against Daniel, so the Edinburgh priesthood choose political grounds of accusation against myself. I say political grounds, for they are, in truth, more of that character than of any other, as the sequel will show.

The Morisonians are of recent origin. From a conversation which I had the pleasure of enjoying with one of their most respectable ministers, I learn that their views of Bible truth in several points are much in advance of most of their contemporaries. They have already in the field some seventy preachers, and have some thirty on the way. They suffer much, however, under a sort of religious hydrophobia, being exceedingly fearful of immersion.

It is strange that the nigher religious parties approximate to each other, so long as a sectarian spirit reigns within them, they do the more cordially and pertinaciously oppose one another. I cannot now expatiate on the philosophy of the fact ; but since the days of the Jews and Samaritans till now, those nighest of 'kin are the most fierce in all bicker

Now as I believe that my imprisonment has its origin here, I will minutely relate all the incidents and circumstances that have come under my notice, or come to my ears, pro-rately report, save that I informed ducing this conviction, setting down nothing in malice, nor extenuating nor concealing anything that may have been alleged in their defence.