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;;— ;—"64- THE GAEL. April. 187Though young in years thou'rt now a\verltled wife,seek Hi.s guidance who can guide arightWith aiil from Him, the rugged ^lath oflifeMay .still 1)6 trod with pleasure and delight;For He who made us bids us not foregoA single, sinless pleasure in this world ofwoe.Be open handed, but be ciilcnt too.Be .strong and full of courage, but Ijc .staid;Aught like unseemly folly still eschewBe faultless wife as thou wert faultlessmaid !Guard against hasty speech and temperviolent.And Icnowing when to speak, know alsoto be silent.Guard thy good name and mine fromsmallest .stainIn mamier still be kindly, frank, and free 1If thou'rt reviled, revile not thou again;In hour of trial, calm and patient be;And when thy cup is full walk humbly still,A careles.s, jiroud, rash step the blissfulcup may spill.With this Bard's blessing on thy weddedmoi-n,All at thy bridal chamber-door we greetthee ;May every joy of truth and goodness bornThrough all thy life-long journey crowdto meet theePeace now richlj'And may the God ofshedA blessing on thy kerchief-cinctured head INEWS OF THE HIGHLANDS ANDISLANDS.Glasgow.—A Gaelic society is beingformed in this city, to be called "The(Gaelic Society of Glasgow" (ComunnO'dlilhenlach 0/ilaschuJ. The objects ofthe society sliall l)e the fostering of Gaelicliterature, preservation of the Gaeliclanguage, estal)lishment of Gaelic library,Gaelic meetings, and the promotion ofHighland and (jaelic matters in general.Variou.s interesting and encouraging meetingshave Ijeen hchl, and the enterprisepromises well.Gaelic Concert.—The Gaelic singingclass taught by Mr. D. Macarthur wasbrought to an end Ijy a soiree and concert,the first tiling of tlie kind that ever tookplace in the city, in Summers' J I all, Gandleriggs.(Japtaiii M. M. Gurrie occupiedthe chair. There were also [ireseutCaptain Menzies, Lieutenant Macadam,and Messrs. D. Cowan, N. Macneil, N.Campbell, &c. All the proceedings werecarried on in Gaelic—the many songs sungin that language eliciting the greatestenthusiasm. The pijier of the GlasgowGaelic Society was present, and favouredthe meeting with stirring strains on thel^agpipe. The following gentlemenfavoured the meeting with Gaelic addressesand songs—Messrs. Macarthur, Sinclair,Campbell, MacLean, Macdonald, Macfarlane,&c. An assembly followed.A Famous Armourer.— "A gi-eat armourerarose in the Highlands," saysSmiles, m his Industrial Biography," onewho was able to forge armour that wouldresist the best Sheffield arrow-heads, andto make swords -that would vie with thebest weapons of Toledo and Milan." Thiswas the great cutler, Andrea de Ferrara,whose swords still maintain their ancientrej)utation. He is supposed to havelearned his art in the Italian city whencehe was called, and, under the patronageof the King of Scotland, to have practisedit in secrecy among the Highland hills, asall his genuine blades are marked with acrown ; and before his time no man inGreat Britain could temper a sword insuch a way that the point should touchthe hilt and spring back uninjured. Heis said to have worked in a dark cellar,the l)etter to enable him to perceive theefiect of the heat upon the metal, and towatch the nicety of the tempering ; aswell as possibly to serve as a screen to hissecret method of working. Many of hisblades, with new Ijaskct hilts, are to l)efoTind in the Scottish regiments of thepresent day. From Cassell'sBattle,^ on Land and Sea."^nslncr^ to'^ British(lloi'rcjsponlicntii.DuNEDiN wishes to know if the nameChristie is Celtic. If so, what clan doesit belong to ? Can any of our readerssupply information?Erratum.—In No. 13 of The Gael thename of the gentlemen who sung " Muilenam mor-l)heann" at the soiree of theGreenock Highl.anders, was given as JohnM'(jillivray, it ought to have been JohnMaclntyre.Can any of our correspondents furnishus with a copy of the song, •' Ged tha migun chrodh gun aighean.