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324 THE CELTIC MAGAZINE.fire showed the Keiths sitting around it quaffing bumpers of ale, notconceiving there was the slightest danger from the Gunus whom theyimagined they had destroyed. Henry, who had approached with allsecrecy to the open window, heard them with great glee narrate variousincidents in the fight, and the losses of the Gunns ; and the principalman of the Keiths dreaming of no danger accidentally approached the windowwhere Henry was standing, the latter bent his 1)0W and sent his arrowinto the Keith's heart, at the same time boldly accompanying the ilight ofthe arrow with the exclamation—long after a proverb in the North Highlands—" The Gunns compliments to the Keiths !" Tlio Keith droppeddown dead, and panic seized his comi^anions, who darted forward to thedoor of the Castle and were slain by Henry and his brotlnn's, Avho findingthat it would be dangerous longer to remain, retired silently in the darknessto the assistance of the brothers who had been unable to accompanythem, and whom they managed to bear home.Under the Crowner's eldest son James, the greater portion of the elan,along Avith his own family removed into Sutherland where tlie priucij)aldwellingdiouse of the cliiefs was afterwards Kilhidinan, in the Parish ofKildouan, until it was accidently destroyed by lire in IGOO.TORQUIL.A Queensland Scot.—The Hon. Angus Machay, member of theQueensland Parliament, and Chief Commissioner of that c