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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 49, June 5, 1841 - -Author: Various - -Release Date: August 30, 2017 [EBook #55460] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IRISH PENNY JOURNAL, JUNE 5, 1841 *** - - - - -Produced by Brownfox and the Online Distributed Proofreading -Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from -images generously made available by JSTOR www.jstor.org) - - - - - - - - - - - THE IRISH PENNY JOURNAL. - - NUMBER 49. SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1841. VOLUME I. - -[Illustration: VICTORIA CASTLE, KILLINEY, COUNTY OF DUBLIN.] - -Our metropolitan readers, at least, and many others besides, are aware -of the magnificent but not easily to be realised project, recently -propounded, of erecting a town on the east side of Malpas’s or Killiney -Hill--a situation certainly of unrivalled beauty and grandeur. Plans, -most satisfactory, and views prospective as well as perspective of this -as yet non-existent Brighton or Clifton, have been laid before the -public, with a view to obtain the necessary ways and means to give it a -more substantial reality; but alas! for the uncertainty of human wishes! -Queenstown, despite the popularity of our sovereign, is not likely, for -some time at least, to present a rivalry, in any thing but its romantic -and commanding site, to the busy, bustling, and not very symmetrically -built town which has been erected in honour of Her august eldest uncle. -The good people of Kingstown may therefore rejoice; their glory will not -for some time at least be eclipsed; and the lovers of natural romantic -scenery who have not money--they seldom have--to employ in promising -speculations, may also rejoice, for the wild and precipitous cliffs of -Killiney are likely to retain for some years longer a portion of their -romantic beauty; the rocks will not be shaped into well-dressed forms -of prim gentility; the purple heather and blossomy furze, “unprofitable -gay,” may give nature’s brilliant colouring to the scenery, and the wild -sea-birds may sport around: the time has not arrived when they will be -destroyed or banished from their ancient haunt by the encroachment of man. - -But however this may be, the first stone of the new town has been laid; -nay, the first building--no less a building than “Victoria Castle”--has -been actually erected; and, as a memorial of one of the gigantic -projects of this speculating nineteenth century of ours, we have felt it -incumbent on us to give its fair proportions a place in our immortal and -universally read miscellany, in order to hand down its pristine form to -posterity in ages when it shall have been shaped by time into a genuine -antique ruin. - -Of the architectural style and general appearance of Victoria Castle, our -engraving gives a good idea. Like most modern would-be castles, it has -towers and crenellated battlements and _large_ windows in abundance, and -is upon the whole as unlike a real old castle as such structures usually -are. It is, however, a picturesque and imposing structure of its kind, -and, what is of more consequence to its future occupants, a cheerful and -commodious habitation, which is more than can be said of most genuine -castles, or of many more classical imitations of them; and its situation, -on a terrace on the south side of Killiney Hill, is one as commanding and -beautiful as could possibly be imagined. - -Nothing in nature can indeed surpass the beauty, variety, and extent -of the prospects which may be enjoyed from this spot or its immediate -vicinity, and we might fill a whole number of our Journal in describing -their principal features. To most of our readers, however, they must -be already familiar, and to those who have not had the pleasure of -enjoying a sight of them, it will convey a sufficient general idea of -what they must be, to acquaint them that Killiney Hill from the same -point commands, towards the west, views of the far-famed Bay of Dublin, -the city, and the richly-cultivated and villa-studded plains by which -it is surrounded, towards the north, the bold, rugged promontory of -Howth, with the islands of Dalkey, Ireland’s eye, Lambay, and the peaked -mountain-ranges of Down and Lowth in the extreme distance; and lastly, -towards the east and south, the sea, and the lovely Bay of Killiney, -with its shining yellow strand, curved into the form of a spacious and -magnificent amphitheatre, from which, as in seats above each other, -ascend the richly-wooded hills, backed by the mountains of Dublin and -Wicklow, with all their exquisite variety of forms and fitful changes of -colour. In short, it may truly be said of this delightful situation, that -though other localities may possess some individual character of scenery -of greater beauty or grandeur, there are few if any in the British -empire that could fairly be compared with it for its variety and general -interest. - -Of the great interest of Killiney to the naturalist, and the geologist -more particularly, we have already endeavoured to give our readers -some notion in a paper, in a recent number, from the pen of our able -and accomplished friend Dr Schouler; and Killiney is scarcely less -interesting to the antiquary than to the man of science. Though till a -recent period its now cultivated and thickly inhabited hills and shores -presented the virgin appearance of a country nearly in the state which -nature left it, the numerous monuments of antiquity scattered about them -clearly evinced that man had been a wanderer if not an inhabitant here -in the most remote times. Numerous kistvaens containing human skeletons -have been found between the road and the sea, undoubtedly of pagan times; -and we have ourselves seen in our young days six very large urns of -baked clay, containing burned bones, which were discovered in sinking -the foundations for a cottage, near the road between the Killiney and -Rochestown hills. We have also seen several sepulchral stone circles, -now no longer remaining; and there is yet to be seen of the same period, -a fine cromleac, situated near Shanganagh, and that most remarkable and -interesting pagan temple, near the Martello tower, with its judgment -chair, and the figures of the sun and moon sculptured on one of the -stones within its enclosure. Nor is Killiney without its monument of -Christian piety of as early date as any to be found in Ireland. In the -beautiful ivied ruin of its parish church, the antiquary may enjoy a -sight of one of the most characteristic examples of the temples erected -by the Irish immediately after their conversion to Christianity, and make -himself intimate with a style of architecture not now to be found in -other portions of the British empire. - - P. - - - - -THE CASTLE OF AUGHENTAIN, OR A LEGEND OF THE BROWN GOAT, - -A TALE OF TOM GRASSIEY, THE SHANAHUS. - -BY WILLIAM CARLETON. - - -When Tom had expressed an intention of relating an old story, the hum -of general conversation gradually subsided into silence, and every face -assumed an expression of curiosity and interest, with the exception of -Jemsy Baccagh, who was rather deaf, and blind George M’Givor, so called -because he wanted an eye; both of whom, in high and piercing tones, -carried on an angry discussion touching a small law-suit that had gone -against Jemsy in the Court Leet, of which George was a kind of rustic -attorney. An outburst of impatient rebuke was immediately poured upon -them from fifty voices. “Whisht with yez, ye pair of devils’ limbs, an’ -Tom goin’ to tell us a story. Jemsy, your sowl’s as crooked as your lame -leg, you sinner; an’ as for blind George, if roguery would save a man, -he’d escape the devil yet. Tarenation to yez, an’ be quiet till we hear -the story!” - -“Ay,” said Tom, “Scripthur says that when the blind leads the blind, both -will fall into the ditch; but God help the lame that have blind George -to lead them; we might aisily guess where he’d guide them to, especially -such a poor innocent as Jemsy there.” This banter, as it was not intended -to give offence, so was it received by the parties to whom it was -addressed with laughter and good humour. - -“Silence, boys,” said Tom; “I’ll jist take a draw of the pipe till I -put my mind in a proper state of transmigration for what I’m goin’ to -narrate.” - -He then smoked on for a few minutes, his eyes complacently but -meditatively closed, and his whole face composed into the philosophic -spirit of a man who knew and felt his own superiority, as well as what -was expected from him. When he had sufficiently arranged the materials in -his mind, he took the pipe out of his mouth, rubbed the shank-end of it -against the cuff of his coat, then handed it to his next neighbour, and -having given a short preparatory cough, thus commenced his legend:-- - -“You must know that afther Charles the First happened to miss his head -one day, havin’ lost it while playin’ a game of ‘Heads an’ Points’ with -the Scotch, that a man called Nolly Rednose, or Oliver Crummle, was -sent over to Ireland with a parcel of breekless Highlanders an’ English -Bodaghs to subduvate the Irish, an’ as many of the Prodestans as had been -friends to the late king, who were called Royalists. Now, it appears by -many larned transfigurations that Nolly Rednose had in his army a man -named Balgruntie, or the Hog of Cupar; a fellow who was as coorse as -sackin’, as cunnin’ as a fox, an’ as gross as the swine he was named -afther. Rednose, there is no doubt of it, was as nate a hand at takin’ -a town or castle as ever went about it; but then, any town that didn’t -surrendher at discretion was sure to experience little mitigation at -his hands; an’ whenever he was bent on wickedness, he was sure to say -his prayers at the commencement of every siege or battle; that is, he -intended to show no marcy in, for he’d get a book, an’ openin’ it at -the head of his army, he’d cry, ‘Ahem, my brethren, let us praise God -by endeavourin’ till sing sich or sich a psalm;’ an’ God help the man, -woman, or child, that came before him after that. Well an’ good: it so -happened that a squadron of his psalm-singers were dispatched by him from -Enniskillen, where he stopped to rendher assistance to a part of his -army that O’Neill was leatherin’ down near Dungannon, an’ on their way -they happened to take up their quarthers for the night at the Mill of -Aughentain. Now, above all men in the creation, who should be appointed -to lead this same squadron but the Hog of Cupar. ‘Balgruntie, go off wid -you,’ said Crummle, when administering his instructions to him; ‘but -be sure that wherever you meet a fat royalist on the way, to pay your -respects to him as a Christian ought,’ says he; ‘an’, above all things, -my dear brother Balgruntie, _don’t neglect your devotions_, otherwise our -arms can’t prosper; and be sure,’ says he, with a pious smile, ‘that if -they promulgate opposition, you will make them bleed anyhow, either in -purse or person; or if they provoke the grace o’ God, take a little from -them in both; an’ so the Lord’s name be praised, yeamen!’ - -Balgruntie sang a psalm of thanksgivin’ for bein’ elected by his -commander to sich a holy office, set out on his march, an’ the next -night he an’ his choir slep in the mill of Aughentain, as I said. Now, -Balgruntie had in this same congregation of his a long-legged Scotchman -named Sandy Saveall, which name he got by way of etymology, for his -charity; for it appears by the historical elucidations that Sandy was -perpetually rantinizin’ about sistherly affection an’ brotherly love: an’ -what showed more taciturnity than any thing else was, that while this -same Sandy had the persuasion to make every one believe that he thought -of nothing else, he shot more people than any ten men in the squadron. He -was indeed what they call a dead shot, for no one ever knew him to miss -any thing he fired at. He had a musket that could throw point blank an -English mile, an’ if he only saw a man’s nose at that distance, he used -to say that with aid from above he could blow it for him with a leaden -handkerchy, meaning that he could blow it off his face with a musket -bullet; and so by all associations he could, for indeed the faits he -performed were very insinivating an’ problematical. - -Now, it so happened that at this period there lived in the castle a -fine wealthy ould royalist, named Graham or Grimes, as they are often -denominated, who had but one child, a daughter, whose beauty an’ -perfections were mellifluous far an’ near over the country, an’ who had -her health drunk, as the toast of Ireland, by the Lord Lieutenant in the -Castle of Dublin, undher the sympathetic appellation of ‘the Rose of -Aughentain.’ It was her son that afterwards ran through the estate, and -was forced to part wid the castle; an’ it’s to him the proverb colludes, -which mentions ‘ould John Grame, that swallowed the castle of Aughentain.’ - -Howsomever, that bears no prodigality to the story I’m narratin’. So -what would you have of it, but Balgruntie, who had heard of the father’s -wealth and the daughter’s beauty, took a holy hankerin’ afther both; an’ -havin’ as usual said his prayers an’ sung a psalm, he determined for -to clap his thumb upon the father’s money, thinkin’ that the daughter -would be the more aisily superinduced to folly it. In other words, he -made up his mind to sack the castle, carry off the daughter and marry -her righteously, rather, he said, through a sincere wish to bring her -into a state of grace, by a union with a God-fearin’ man, whose walk he -trusted was Zionward, than from any cardinal detachment for her wealth -or beauty. He accordingly sent up a file of the most pious men he had, -picked fellows, with good psalm-singin’ voices and strong noses, to -request that John Graham would give them possession of the castle for -a time, an’ afterwards join them at prayers, as a proof that he was no -royalist, but a friend to Crummle an’ the Commonwealth. Now, you see, the -best of it was, that the very man they demanded this from was commonly -denominated by the people as ‘Gunpowdher Jack,’ in consequence of the -great signification of his courage; an’, besides, he was known to be -a member of the Hell-fire Club, that no person could join that hadn’t -fought three duels, and killed at least one man; and in ordher to show -that they regarded neither God nor hell, they were obligated to dip one -hand in blood an’ the other in fire, before they could be made members -of the club. It’s aisy to see, then, that Graham was not likely to quail -before a handful of the very men he hated wid all the vociferation in his -power, an’ he accordingly put his head out of the windy, an’ axed them -their tergiversation for bein’ there. - -‘Begone about your business,’ he said; ‘I owe you no regard. What -brings you before the castle of a man who despises you? Don’t think to -determinate me, you cauting rascals, for you can’t. My castle’s well -provided wid men, an’ ammunition, an’ food; an’ if you don’t be off, I’ll -make you sing a different tune from a psalm one.’ Begad he did, plump to -them, out of the windy. - -When Crummle’s men returned to Balgruntie in the mill, they related -what had tuck place, an’ he said that afther prayers he’d send a second -message in writin’, an’ if it wasn’t attended to, they’d put their trust -in God an’ storm the castle. The squadron he commanded was not a numerous -one; an’ as they had no artillery, an’ were surrounded by enemies, the -takin’ of the castle, which was a strong one, might cost them some -snufflication. At all events, Balgruntie was bent on makin’ the attempt, -especially afther he heard that the castle was well vittled, an’ indeed -he was meritoriously joined by his men, who piously licked their lips -on hearin’ of such glad tidings. Graham was a hot-headed man, without -much ambidexterity or deliberation, otherwise he might have known that -the bare mintion of the beef an’ mutton in his castle was only fit to -make such a hungry pack desperate. But be that as it may, in a short -time Balgruntie wrote him a letter, demandin’ of him, in the name of -Nolly Rednose an’ the Commonwealth, to surrendher the castle, or if not, -that, ould as he was, he would make him as soople as a two-year-ould. -Graham, afther readin’ it, threw the letther back to the messengers wid -a certain recommendation to Balgruntie regardin’ it; but whether the -same recommendation was followed up an’ acted on so soon as he wished, -historical retaliations do not inform. - -On their return the military narrated to their commander the reception -they resaved a second time from Graham, an’ he then resolved to lay -regular siege to the castle; but as he knew he could not readily take it -by violence, he determined, as they say, to starve the garrison leisurely -an’ by degrees. But, first an’ foremost, a thought struck him, an’ he -immediently called Sandy Saveall behind the mill-hopper, which he had now -turned into a pulpit for the purpose of expoundin’ the word, an’ givin’ -exhortations to his men. - -‘Sandy,’ said he, ‘are you in a state of justification to-day?’ - -‘Towards noon,’ replied Sandy, ‘I had some strong wristlings with the -enemy; but I am able, undher praise, to say that I defated him in three -attacks, and I consequently feel my righteousness much recruited. I had -some wholesome communings with the miller’s daughter, a comely lass, -who may yet be recovered from the world, an’ led out of the darkness of -Aigyp, by a word in saison.’ - -‘Well, Sandy,’ replied the other, ‘I lave her to your own instructions; -there is another poor benighted maiden, who is also comely, up in the -castle of that godless sinner, who belongeth to the Perdition Club; an’, -indeed, Sandy, until he is somehow removed, I think there is little hope -of plucking her like a brand out of the burning.’ - -He serenaded Sandy in the face as he spoke, an’ then cast an extemporary -glance at the musket, which was as much as to say ‘can you translate an -insinivation?’ Sandy concocted a smilin’ reply; an’ takin’ up the gun, -rubbed the barrel, an’ pattin’ it as a sportsman would pat the neck of -his horse or dog, wid reverence for comparin’ the villain to either one -or the other. - -‘If it was known, Sandy,’ said Balgruntie, ‘it would harden her heart -against me; an’ as he is hopeless at all events, bein’ a member of that -Perdition Club’---- - -‘True,’ said Sandy, ‘but you lave the miller’s daughter to me?’ - -‘I said so.’ - -‘Well, if his removal will give you any consolidation in the matther, you -may say no more.’ - -‘I could not, Sandy, justify it to myself to take him away by open -violence, for you know that I bear a conscience if any thing too tendher -and dissolute. Also I wish, Sandy, to presarve an ondeniable reputation -for humanity; an’, besides, the daughter might become as reprobate as the -father if she suspected me to be personally concarned in it. I have heard -a good deal about him, an’ am sensibly informed that he has been shot at -twice before, by the sons, it is thought, of an enemy that he himself -killed rather significantly in a duel.’ - -‘Very well,’ replied Sandy; ‘I would myself feel scruples; but as both -our consciences is touched in the business, I think I am justified. -Indeed, captain, it is very likely afther all that we are but the mere -instruments in it, an’ that it is through us that this ould unrighteous -sinner is to be removed by a more transplendant judgment.’ - -Begad, neighbours, when a rascal is bent on wickedness, it is aisy to -find cogitations enough to back him in his villany. And so was it with -Sandy Saveall and Balgruntie. - -That evenin’ ould Graham was shot through the head standin’ in the windy -of his own castle, an’ to extenuate the suspicion of sich an act from -Crummle’s men, Balgruntie himself went up the next day, beggin’ very -politely to have a friendly explanation with Squire Graham, sayin’ that -he had harsh ordhers, but that if the castle was peaceably delivered to -him, he would, for the sake of the young lady, see that no injury should -be offered either to her or her father. - -The young lady, however, had the high drop in her, and becoorse the only -answer he got was a flag of defiance. This nettled the villain, an’ he -found there was nothin’ else for it but to plant a strong guard about the -castle to keep all that was in, in--and all that was out, out. - -In the mean time, the very appearance of the Crumwellians in the -neighbourhood struck such terror into the people, that the country, which -was then only very thinly inhabited, became quite desarted, an’ for -miles about the face of a human bein’ could not be seen, barrin’ their -own, sich as they were. Crummle’s track was always a bloody one, an’ the -people knew that they were wise in puttin’ the hills an’ mountain passes -between him an’ them. The miller an’ his daughter bein’ encouraged by -Sandy, staid principally for the sake of Miss Graham; but except them, -there was not a man or woman in the barony to bid good-morrow to or -say Salvey Dominey. On the beginnin’ of the third day, Balgruntie, who -knew his officialities extremely well, an’ had sent down a messenger -to Dungannon to see whether matters were so bad as they had been -reported, was delighted to hear that O’Neill had disappeared from the -neighbourhood. He immediately informed Crummle of this, and tould him -that he had laid siege to one of the leadin’ passes of the north, an’ -that, by gettin’ possession of the two castles of Aughentain and Augher, -he could keep O’Neill in check, and command that part of the country. -Nolly approved of this, an’ ordhered him to proceed, but was sorry that -he could send him no assistance at present; ‘however,’ said he, ‘with a -good cause, sharp swords, an’ aid from above, there is no fear of us.’ - -They now set themselves to take the castle in airnest. Balgruntie an’ -Sandy undherstood one another, an’ not a day passed that some one wasn’t -dropped in it. As soon as ever a face appeared, pop went the deadly -musket, an’ down fell the corpse of whoever it was aimed at. Miss Graham -herself was spared for good reasons, but in the coorse of ten or twelve -days she was nearly alone. Ould Graham, though a man that feared nothing, -was only guilty of a profound swagger when he reported the strength -of the castle and the state of the provisions to Balgruntie an’ his -crew. But above all things, that which eclipsed their distresses was -the want of wather. There was none in the castle, an’ although there -is a beautiful well beside it, yet, _farcer gair_, it was of small -responsibility to them. Here, then, was the poor young lady placed at -the marcy of her father’s murdherer; for however she might have doubted -in the beginnin’ that he was shot by the Crumwellians, yet the death of -nearly all the servants of the house in the same way was a sufficient -proof that it was like masther like man in this case. What, however, was -to be done? The whole garrison now consisted only of Miss Graham herself, -a fat man cook advanced in years, who danced in his distress in ordher -that he might suck his own perspiration, and a little orphan boy that she -tuck undher her purtection. It was a hard case, an’ yet, God bless her, -she held out like a man. - -It’s an ould sayin’ that there’s no tyin’ up the tongue of Fame, an’ it’s -also a true one. The account of the siege had gone far an’ near in the -counthry, an’ none of the Irish, no matter what they were who ever heard -it, but wor sorry. Sandy Saveall was now the devil an’ all. As there was -no more in the castle to shoot, he should find something to regenerate -his hand upon: for instance, he practised upon three or four of Graham’s -friends, who undher one pretence or other were seen skulkin’ about the -castle, an’ none of their relations durst come to take away their bodies -in ordher to bury them. At length things came to that pass, that poor -Miss Graham was at the last gasp for something to drink; she had ferreted -out as well as she could a drop of moisture here an’ there in the damp -corners of the castle, but now all that was gone; the fat cook had sucked -himself to death, and the little orphan boy died calmly away a few hours -afther him, lavin’ the helpless lady with a tongue swelled an’ furred, -and a mouth parched and burned, for want of drink. Still the blood of -the Grahams was in her, and yield she would not to the villain that left -her as she was. Sich then was the transparency of her situation, when -happening to be on the battlements to catch, if possible, a little of the -dew of heaven, she was surprised to see something flung up, which rolled -down towards her feet; she lifted it, an’ on examinin’ the contents, -found it to be a stone covered with a piece of brown paper, inside which -was a slip of white, containing the words, ‘Endure--relief is near you!’ -But, poor young lady, of what retrospection could these tidings be to one -in her situation?--she could scarcely see to read them; her brain was -dizzy, her mouth like a cindher, her tongue swelled an’ black, an’ her -breath felt as hot as a furnace. She could barely breathe, an’ was in -the very act of lyin’ down undher the triumphant air of heaven to die, -when she heard the shrill voice of a young kid in the castle yard, and -immediently remembered that a brown goat which her lover, a gentleman -named Simpson, had, when it was a kid, made her a present of, remained in -the castle about the stable during the whole siege. She instantly made -her way slowly down stairs, got a bowl, and havin’ milked the goat, she -took a little of the milk, which I need not asseverate at once relieved -her. By this means she recovered, an’ findin’ no further anticipation -from druth, she resolved like a hairo to keep the Crumwellians out, an’ -to wait till either God or man might lend her a helpin’ hand. - -Now, you must know that the miller’s purty daughter had also a sweetheart -called _Suil Gair_ Maguire, or sharp-eye’d Maguire, an humble branch of -the great Maguires of Enniskillen; an’ this same Suil Gair was servant -an’ foster-brother to Simpson, who was the intended husband of Miss -Graham. Simpson, who lived some miles off, on hearin’ the condition of -the castle, gathered together all the royalists far an’ near; an’ as -Crummle was honestly hated by both Romans an’ Prodestans, faith, you see, -Maguire himself promised to send a few of his followers to the rescue. -In the mean time, Suil Gair dressed himself up like a fool or idiot, an’ -undher the protection of the miller’s daughter, who blarnied Saveall -in great style, was allowed to wandher about an’ joke wid the sogers; -but especially he took a fancy to Sandy, and challenged him to put one -stone out of five in one of the port-holes of the castle, at a match of -finger-stone. Sandy, who was nearly as famous at that as the musket, was -rather relaxed when he saw that Suil Gair could at least put in every -second stone, an’ that he himself could hardly put one in out of twenty. -Well, at all events it was durin’ their sport that fool Paddy, as they -called him, contrived to fling the scrap of writin’ I spoke of across the -battlements at all chances; for when he undhertook to go to the castle, -he gave up his life as lost; but he didn’t care about that, set in case -he was able to save either his foster-brother or Miss Graham. But this is -not at all indispensable, for it is well known that many a foster-brother -sacrificed his life the same way, and in cases of great danger, when the -real brother would beg to decline the compliment. - -Things were now in a very connubial state entirely. Balgruntie heard -that relief was comin’ to the castle, an’ what to do he did not know; -there was little time to be lost, however, an’ something must be done. He -praiched flowery discourses twice a-day from the mill-hopper, an’ sang -psalms for grace to be directed in his righteous intentions; but as yet -he derived no particular predilection from either. Sandy appeared to have -got a more bountiful modelum of grace than his captain, for he succeeded -at last in bringin’ the miller’s daughter to sit undher the word at her -father’s hopper. Fool Paddy, as they called Maguire, had now become a -great favourite wid the sogers, an’ as he proved to be quite harmless -and inoffensive, they let him run about the place widout opposition. The -castle, to be sure, was still guarded, but Miss Graham kept her heart -up in consequence of the note, for she hoped every day to get relief -from her friends. Balgruntie, now seein’ that the miller’s daughter was -becomin’ more serious undher the taichin’ of Saveall, formed a plan that -he thought might enable him to penethrate the castle, an’ bear off the -lady an’ the money. This was to strive wid very delicate meditation to -prevail on the miller’s daughter, through the renown that he thought -Sandy had over her, to open a correspondency wid Miss Graham; for he -knew that if one of the gates was unlocked, and the unsuspectin’ girl -let in, the whole squadron would soon be in afther her. Now, this plan -was the more dangerous to Miss Graham, because the miller’s daughter -had intended to bring about the very same denouncement for a different -purpose. Between her friend an’ her enemies it was clear the poor lady -had little chance; an’ it was Balgruntie’s intention, the moment he had -sequestrated her and the money, to make his escape, an’ lave the castle -to whosomever might choose to take it. Things, however, were ordhered to -take a different bereavement: the Hog of Cupar was to be trapped in the -hydrostatics of his own hypocrisy, an’ Saveall to be overmatched in his -own premises. Well, the plot was mentioned to Sandy, who was promised -a good sketch of the prog; an’ as it was jist the very thing he dreamt -about night an’ day, he snapped at it as a hungry dog would at a sheep’s -trotter. That night the miller’s daughter--whose name I may as well say -was Nannie Duffy, the purtiest girl an’ the sweetest singer that ever was -in the counthry--was to go to the castle an’ tell Miss Graham that the -sogers wor all gone, Crummle killed, an’ his whole army massacrayed to -atoms. This was a different plan from poor Nannie’s, who now saw clearly -what they were at. But never heed a woman for bein’ witty when hard -pushed. - -‘I don’t like to do it,’ said she, ‘for it looks like thrachery, -espishilly as my father has left the neighbourhood, and I don’t know -where he is gone to; an’ you know thrachery’s ondacent in either man or -woman. Still, Sandy, it goes hard for me to refuse one that I--I----well, -I wish I knew where my father is--I would like to know what he’d think of -it.’ - -‘Hut,’ said Sandy, ‘where’s the use of such scruples in a good -cause?--when we get the money, we’ll fly. It is principally for the sake -of waining you an’ her from the darkness of idolatry that we do it. -Indeed, my conscience would not rest well if I let a soul an’ body like -yours remain a prey to Sathan, my darlin’.’ - -‘Well,’ said she, ‘doesn’t the captain exhort this evenin’?’ - -‘He does, my beloved, an’ with a blessin’ will expound a few verses from -the Song of Solomon.’ - -‘It’s betther then,’ said she, ‘to sit under the word, an’ perhaps some -light may be given to us.’ - -This delighted Saveall’s heart, who now looked upon pretty Nannie as -his own; indeed, he was obliged to go gradually and cautiously to work, -for cruel though Nolly Rednose was, Sandy knew that if any violent act -of that kind should raich him, the guilty party would sup sorrow. Well, -accordin’ to this pious arrangement, Balgruntie assembled all his men -who were not on duty about the hopper, in which he stood as usual, -an’ had commenced a powerful exhortation, the substratum of which was -devoted to Nannie; he dwelt upon the happiness of religious love; said -that scruples were often suggested by Satan, an’ that a heavenly duty -was but terrestrial when put in comparishment wid an earthly one. He -also made collusion to the old Squire that was popped by Sandy; said -it was often a judgment for the wicked man to die in his sins; an’ was -gettin’ on wid great eloquence an’ emulation, when a low rumblin’ noise -was heard, an’ Balgruntie, throwin’ up his clenched hands an’ grindin’ -his teeth, shouted out, ‘Hell and d----n, I’ll be ground to death! -The mill’s goin’ on! Murdher! murdher! I’m gone!’ Faith, it was true -enough--she had been wickedly set a-goin’ by some one; an’ before they -had time to stop her, the Hog of Cupar had the feet and legs twisted off -him before their eyes--a fair illustration of his own doctrine, that -it is often a judgment for the wicked man to die in his sins. When the -mill was stopped, he was pulled out, but didn’t live twenty minutes, in -consequence of the loss of blood. Time was pressin’, so they ran up a -shell of a coffin, and tumbled it into a pit that was hastily dug for it -on the mill-common. - -This, however, by no manner of manes relieved poor Nannie from her -difficulty, for Saveall, finding himself now first in command, determined -not to lose a moment in tolerating his plan upon the castle. - -‘You see,’ said he, ‘that a way is opened for us that we didn’t expect; -an’ let us not close our eyes to the light that has been given, lest it -might be suddenly taken from us again. In this instance I suspect that -fool Paddy has been made the chosen instrument; for it appears upon -inquiry that he too has disappeared. However, heaven’s will be done! we -will have the more to ourselves, my beloved--ehem! It is now dark,’ he -proceeded, ‘so I shall go an’ take my usual smoke at the mill window, an’ -in about a quarther of an hour I’ll be ready.’ - -‘But I’m all in a tremor after sich a frightful accident,’ replied -Nannie: ‘an’ I want to get a few minutes’ quiet before we engage upon our -undhertakin.’ - -This was very natural, and Saveall accordingly took his usual seat at a -little windy in the gable of the mill, that faced the miller’s house; an’ -from the way the bench was fixed, he was obliged to sit with his face -exactly towards the same direction. There we leave him meditatin’ upon -his own righteous approximations, till we folly _Suil Gair_ Maguire, or -fool Paddy, as they called him, who practicated all that was done. - -Maguire and Nannie, findin’ that no time was to be lost, gave all over -as ruined, unless somethin’ could be acted on quickly. Suil Gair at -once thought of settin’ the mill a-goin’, but kept the plan to himself, -any further than tellin’ her not to be surprised at any thing she might -see. He then told her to steal him a gun, but if possible to let it be -Saveall’s, as he knew it could be depended on. ‘But I hope you won’t shed -any blood if you can avoid it,’ said she; ‘_that_ I don’t like.’ ‘Tut,’ -replied Suil Gair, makin’ evasion to the question, ‘it’s good to have it -about me for my own defence.’ - -He could often have shot either Balgruntie or Saveall in daylight, -but not without certain death to himself, as he knew that escape was -impossible. Besides, time was not before so pressin’ upon them, an’ every -day relief was expected. Now, however, that relief was so near--for -Simpson with a party of royalists an’ Maguire’s men must be within a -couple of hours’ journey--it would be too intrinsic entirely to see the -castle plundhered, and the lady carried off by such a long-legged skyhill -as Saveall. Nannie consequentially, at great risk, took an opportunity of -slipping his gun to Suil Gair, who was the best shot of the day in that -or any other part of the country; and it was in consequence of this that -he was called Suil Gair, or Sharp Eye. But, indeed, all the Maguires were -famous shots; an’ I’m tould there’s one of them now in Dublin that could -hit a pigeon’s egg or a silver sixpence at the distance of a hundred -yards.[1] Suil Gair did not merely raise the sluice when he set the mill -a-goin’, but he whipped it out altogether an’ threw it into the dam, so -that the possibility of saving the Hog of Cupar was irretrievable. He -made off, however, an’ threw himself among the tall ragweeds that grew -upon the common, till it got dark, when Saveall, as was his custom, -should take his evenin’ smoke at the windy. Here he sat for some period, -thinkin’ over many ruminations, before he lit his cutty pipe, as he -called it. - -‘Now,’ said he to himself, ‘what is there to hindher me from takin’ away, -or rather from makin’ sure of the grand lassie, instead of the miller’s -daughter? If I get intil the castle, it can be soon effected; for if she -has any regard for her reputation, she will be quiet. I’m a braw handsome -lad enough, a wee thought high in the cheek bones, scaly in the skin, an’ -knock-knee’d a trifle, but stout an’ lathy, an’ tough as a withy. But, -again, what is to be done wi Nannie? Hut, she’s but a miller’s daughter, -an’ may be disposed of if she gets troublesome. I know she’s fond of -me, but I dinna blame her for that. However, it wadna become me now to -entertain scruples, seein’ that the way is made so plain for me. But, -save us! eh, sirs, that was an awful death, an’ very like a judgment on -the Hog of Cupar! It is often a judgment for the wicked to die in their -sins! Balgruntie wasna that’---- Whatever he intended to say further, -cannot be analogized by man, for, just as he had uttered the last word, -which he did while holding the candle to his pipe, the bullet of his own -gun entered between his eyes, and the next moment he was a corpse. - -Suil Gair desarved the name he got, for truer did never bullet go to the -mark from Saveall’s own aim than it did from his. There is now little -more to be superadded to my story. Before daybreak the next mornin’, -Simpson came to the relief of his intended wife; Crummle’s party war -surprised, taken, an’ cut to pieces; an’ it so happened that from that -day to this the face of a soger belongin’ to him was never seen near -the mill or castle of Aughentain, with one exception only, and that was -this:--You all know that the mill is often heard to go at night when -nobody sets her a-goin’, an’ that the most sevendable scrames of torture -come out of the hopper, an’ that when any one has the courage to look in, -they’re sure to see a man dressed like a soger, with a white mealy face, -in the act, so to say, of havin’ his legs ground off him. Many a guess -was made about who the spirit could be, but all to no purpose. There, -however, is the truth for yez; the spirit that shrieks in the hopper -is Balgruntie’s ghost, an’ he’s to be ground that way till the day of -judgment. - -Be coorse, Simpson and Miss Graham were married, as war Nannie Duffy an’ -Suil Gair; an’ if they all lived long an’ happy, I wish we may all live -ten times longer an’ happier; an’ so we will, but in a betther world than -this, plaise God.” - -“Well, but, Tom,” said Gordon, “how does that account for my name, which -you said you’d tell me?” - -“Right,” said Tom; “begad I was near forgettin’ it. Why, you see, sich -was their veneration for the goat that was the manes, undher God, of -savin’ Miss Graham’s life, that they changed the name of Simpson to -Gordon, which signifies in Irish _gor dhun_, or a brown goat, that all -their posterity might know the great obligations they lay undher to that -reverend animal.” - -“An’ do you mane to tell me,” said Gordon, “that my name was never heard -of until Oliver Crummle’s time?” - -“I do. Never in the wide an’ subterraneous earth was sich a name known -till afther the prognostication I tould you; an’ it never would either, -only for the goat, sure. I can prove it by the pathepathetics. Denny -Mullin, will you give us another draw o’ the pipe?” - -Tom’s authority in these matters was unquestionable, and, besides, there -was no one present learned enough to contradict him, with any chance of -success, before such an audience. The argument was consequently, without -further discussion, decided in his favour, and Gordon was silenced -touching the origin and etymology of his own name. - -This legend we have related as nearly as we can remember in Tom’s words. -We may as well, however, state at once that many of his legends were -wofully deficient in authenticity, as indeed those of most countries are. -Nearly half the Irish legends are _ex post facto_ or _postliminious_. -There is no record, for instance, that Oliver Cromwell ever saw the -castle of Aughentain, or that any such event as that narrated by Tom -ever happened in or about it. It is much more likely that the story, if -ever there was any truth in it, is of Scotch origin, as indeed the names -would seem to import. There is no doubt, however, that the castle of -Aughentain, which is now in the possession of a gentleman named Browne we -think, was once the property of a family called Graham. In our boyhood -there was a respectable family of that name living in its immediate -vicinity, but we know not whether they are the descendants of those who -owned the castle or not. - -[1] The celebrated Brian Maguire, the first shot of his day, was at this -time living in Dublin. - - - - -THE HERRING.--SECOND ARTICLE. - -THE FISHERY. - - -Having given in a former number some account of the natural history of -this valuable little creature, we now proceed, in accordance with our -promise, to give a description of the various modes of taking and curing -it; and as the Dutch were the first to see the importance, and devote -themselves to the improvement, of the herring fishery, we shall commence -with them. - -So early as the year 1307, the Dutch had turned their attention to this -subject; and lest any of our more thoughtless or less informed readers -should deem the matter one of secondary consideration, or probably -of even less, we shall lay before them some statistical accounts of -the Dutch fisheries, extracted from returns of the census of the -States-General, taken in the year 1669. In that year the total amount of -population was 2,400,000. - - Of whom were employed as fishermen, and in - equipping fishermen with their boats, tackle, - conveying of salt, &c. 450,000 - Employed in the navigation of ships in foreign trade, 250,000 - Shipwrights, handicraftsmen, and manufacturers, 650,000 - Inland fishermen, agriculturists, and labourers, 200,000 - Gentry, statesmen, soldiers, and inhabitants in - general, 850,000 - ---------- - Total, 2,400,000 - -Thus nearly a fifth of the population of Holland was entirely engaged in -and supported by the herring and deep-sea fishery, and thus arose the -saying that “the foundations of Amsterdam were laid on herring bones;” -and hence did De Witt assert that “Holland derived her main support from -the herring fishery, and that it ought to be considered as the right arm -of the republic.” - -Before Holland was humbled upon the seas, and whilst she was at the -pinnacle of her prosperity, she had ten thousand sail of shipping, with -168,000 mariners, afloat. Of these no less than 6400 vessels, with -112,000 mariners, were employed in and connected with the herring fishery -alone, “although the country itself affords them neither materials, nor -victual, nor merchandise, to be accounted of, towards their setting -forth.” When we come to the subject of curing, we shall take occasion to -point out the modes by which the Dutch attained their excellence, and -established this surprising trade; but at present we have but to describe -their manner of fishing. - -The GREAT FISHERY commences on the 24th of June, and terminates on the -31st of December, and is carried on in the latitudes of Shetland and -Edinburgh, and on the coast of Great Britain, with strong-decked vessels -called busses, manned by fourteen or fifteen men, and well supplied with -casks, salt, nets, and every material requisite for catching and curing -at sea. Each buss has generally fifty, and must not have less than forty -nets of 32 fathoms in length each, 8 fathoms in depth, and a buoy-rope -of 8 fathoms; an empty barrel less than a herring barrel is attached to -each buoy-rope. This fleet of nets, as it is called, is divided by buoys -into four parts, by which their position is marked and their taking in -facilitated; the buoys at the extreme ends are painted white, with the -owners’ and vessels’ names upon them. By the Dutch fishery laws it is -provided that the yarn of the nets must be of good unmixed Dutch or -Baltic hemp, which must be inspected before use by sworn surveyors; the -yarn must be well spun; and each full net, or fourth part of a fleet, -must be 740 meshes in length and 68 in depth, and the nets must be -inspected and marked before they can be used. - -The Dutch always shoot their nets, that is, cast them into the sea, at -sunset, and take them in before sunrise. In shooting them they cast them -to windward, so that the wind may prevent the vessel from coming upon -them. The whole of the nets are attached to four strong ropes joined to -each other, and are taken in by means of the capstan, to which four or -five men attend, whilst four more shake out the fish. - -The SMALL FISHERY, or fresh-herring fishery, is carried on to the east -of Yarmouth in deep water, with flat-bottomed vessels without keels, so -formed for the purpose of being run ashore in any convenient place. - -It is forbidden by the 15th and 16th articles of the Dutch fishery laws -to gut the herrings taken by the small fishery either at sea or ashore, -under pain of one month’s imprisonment, and a fine of five guilders for -every hundred herrings, as well as the confiscation of the herrings, -unless special permission has been obtained from the king, at the request -of the States. - -The PAN FISHERY is carried on in the rivers, inland seas, and on the -coast of Holland, within three miles of the shore. - -The same prohibition, under similar penalties, that exists against curing -fish taken in the small fishery, extends to this. - -We have given the first place to the Dutch in this account, in -consequence of their having been the first to see the importance of -the fishery, but they take the lead no longer; the English and Scotch -have successfully rivalled them in curing, and for the quantity taken -during the season the Norwegians surpass all others. The Norwegian is a -wholesale fishery, every description of ship and boat being in demand. -They have curing stations on shore, to which the boats bring the fish -as fast as they are caught; and there are large vessels with barrels and -salt lying out amongst the fishers, buying from those who do not wish to -lose time by going ashore. Every description of net, as well as every -sort of vessel, is in requisition; some fishing at anchor, some sailing, -and others hauling their seines on shore, but the grand method is as -follows:-- - -An immense range of nets with very small meshes so small as to prevent -the herrings from fastening in them, is extended round a shoal of fish, -and gradually moved towards some creek or narrow inlet of the sea. The -nets are drawn close and made fast across the entrance, and the enormous -body of herrings thus crowded up into a narrow space is taken out and -cured at leisure. This mode of fishing is called a “lock.” - -The following passage from a letter written by a gentleman who witnessed -the fishery near Hitteroe, to Mr Mitchell of Leith, will give our readers -some idea of its extent:-- - -“On the other side of the Sound we saw what is termed a _lock_, that -is, several nets joined together, forming a bar before a small bay, -into which the herrings were crowded. In this place there were several -thousand barrels of herrings, so compactly confined together that an oar -could stand up in the mass. There were in the neighbourhood of Hitteroe -altogether about four or five thousand nets, and about two thousand boats -and vessels; and there were caught, according to the opinion of several -intelligent persons, this day (24th January 1833), not less than ten -thousand barrels.” - -The entire quantity taken on the coast of Norway during the fall of -1832 and the spring of 1833 was estimated at 680,000 barrels, which was -considered to be a fair average take. - -We come now to the home fishery, in which Yarmouth takes the lead in -the size of vessels and magnitude of tackle employed. The fishing is -carried on by the Yarmouth men in decked vessels called “luggers,” -from 20 to 50 tons burthen, having three masts, and rigged with three -lugsails, topsails, mizou, foresail, and jib: the crew of the largest -consisting of twelve men and a boy, who are paid according to the -quantity of fish caught. Each ordinary vessel carries two hundred nets -of 48 feet in length and 30 in depth, each having meshes of 1 inch or -1⅛ inch, as usual in herring nets. Of these nets they shoot one hundred -at a time, reserving the other hundred for cases of accident or mishap. -When launched, each net is attached by two seizings of 1½ inch rope, -having a depth of 18 feet, to a four-stranded (generally 4 inch) warp of -3600 feet in length; this warp is made fast to a rope from the bow of -the vessel, which in stormy weather can be let out to ease the strain, -to the extent of 100 fathoms, or 600 feet. For each net there are two -buoys (4-gallon barrels) made fast to the warp, and there are four buoys -besides, to mark the distances, two for the quarter and three-quarter -stations, painted red and white quarterly, one for the half distance or -middle of the fleet, painted half red and half white, and one for the -extremity, painted all white; each of them has painted on it the names of -the ship, master, owner, and port, in order that they may be restored in -case of breaking away during bad weather; and so good an understanding -exists upon this subject amongst the fishermen, that the nets are always -restored by the finder to the owner upon payment of only 1s. for each -net; and no one must suffer a stray net to drift away; if seen, it must -be taken in. This fishery commences in the beginning of October, and -lasts little more than two months. The nets are shot after the Dutch -fashion, at sunset; but if the appearances are favourable, they are taken -in once or twice during the night, and again at sunrise. 100 barrels of -herrings are frequently taken by these nets at a single haul, and 600 -barrels may be considered as a fair average fishing for one vessel during -the season. The number of decked vessels employed at Yarmouth alone in -the fishery is about 500. - -Next, and likely from its steady increase soon to become the first, is -the Scotch fishery. - -Like the Norwegian, every description of boat and net is to be found -employed amongst the Scottish islands, but the most regularly employed -vessels are open undecked boats, of 28 to 32 feet in length, or -thereabouts, and 9 to 11 feet in breadth, usually rigged with two masts -and two sails. They have on board from twelve to thirty nets of from 150 -to 186 feet in length each, and from 20 to 31 feet in depth. - -From the Report by the Commissioners of the British Herring Fishery, of -the fishery of 1838, year ending 5th April 1839, it appears that there -were then engaged in the fishery 11,357 boats, decked and undecked, -throughout England and Scotland, manned by 50,238 men and boys, and -employing 85,573 persons in all, including coopers, packers, curers, and -labourers. - -Of the entire number of vessels, about 9000 belonged to Scottish ports. - -The entire quantity of herrings exported amounted to 239,730½ barrels, of -which 195,301 barrels were Scotch; and of those exported, 149,926 barrels -were sent to and disposed of in Ireland. - -The entire quantity of herrings taken by Scottish boats, and cured both -for home use and exportation, was 495,589 barrels; the total by English -and Scotch 555,559¾ barrels; but this return does not include the -Yarmouth fishery, the herrings there being always smoked, or made into -what are called _red herrings_. - -We need not describe the Prussian and other methods, as they resemble -some one or other of those already mentioned. Come we now to our own, -which we have purposely reserved to the last. - -Amongst the fishermen of Ireland, the men of Kinsale have long been the -admitted leaders; and the Kinsale hookers are celebrated throughout the -nautical world as among the best sea-boats that ever weathered a gale. -They are half-decked vessels, with one mast, carrying a fore and aft -mainsail, foresail, and jib, and are usually manned by four men and a -boy. They are seldom used in the herring fishery, being for the most part -confined to the deep-sea line fishery upon the Nymph bank, where cod, -ling, hake, haddock, turbot, plaice, &c., abound in such quantity that -many persons affirm it to be second only to the banks of Newfoundland. -But the usual mode of fishing for herrings, and which is adopted all -along the south, south-west, and west coast of Ireland, especially -at Valencia and Kenmare, is with the deep-sea seine. This is formed -sometimes for the express purpose, but frequently by a subscription of -nets. Fifteen men bring a drift-net each, 20 fathoms or 120 feet in -length, and 5 fathoms or 30 feet in depth; these are all joined together, -five nets in length, and three in depth, so that the whole seine is 600 -feet in length and 90 feet in depth, with a cork-rope (that is, a rope -having large pieces of cork attached to it at intervals) at the top, and -leaden sinkers attached to the foot-rope, which unites all the nets at -the bottom. Two warps of 60 fathoms each are requisite, and there are -brails (small half-inch ropes) attached to the foot-rope, which are of -use to haul upon, in order to purse up the net and prevent the fish from -escaping. - -The seine is shot from a boat whilst it is being pulled round the shoal -of fish. All having been thrown over, the warp is hauled upon until the -net is brought into ten fathoms’ depth of water, when the brails and -foot-rope are hauled in, and the fish is tucked into the largest boat. -In this manner 80,000 to 100,000 herrings (about 100 barrels) may be -taken at a haul. But where the people are too poor to supply themselves -with nets or boats, many contrivances are made use of. For boats, the -_curragh_, made of wicker and covered with a horse’s skin, or canvass -pitched, is used, and often even this cannot be had; sometimes the people -load a horse with the nets, mount him and swim him out, shooting the nets -from his back; and for nets, in many places, the people use their sheets, -blankets, and quilts, which they subscribe and sew together, often to the -number of sixty, and the fish thus taken are divided in due proportion -amongst the subscribers. - -After the foreign statistics which we have laid before our readers, -they will doubtless expect us to inform them how many vessels and what -number of hands are _now_ employed in the Irish fishery. This, however, -we are unable to do. The Commissioners of the Herring Fishery have -their jurisdiction confined to Scotland and England, almost exclusively -to Scotland, the fishery of which is thriving under their fostering -care in a most surprising manner. By their judicious attention to the -encouragement of careful curing, and the distribution of small aids in -money to poor fishermen, the number of boats employed in 1839 exceeded -that of the former year by 78; and the progressive increase in the -fishery is fully exemplified by the following table, showing the quantity -of herrings cured during the five years preceding the return now before -us:-- - - Year 1835 277,317 barrels. - ” 1836 497,614¾ ” - ” 1837 397,829¼ ” - ” 1838 507,774¾ ” - ” 1839 555,559¾ ” - -By this table it appears that the Scotch fishery has doubled its amount -in five years, without any description of bounty being given. It may, -however, be as well to state, before concluding this paper, that it -appears, by the Reports of the Irish Commissioners, whose sittings -terminated in the year 1830, that during the time that Ireland possessed -a Fishery Board, the number of persons employed in the fishery had more -than doubled. At the time of the first appointment of Commissioners -of Irish Fisheries in 1819, the number of men employed was estimated -at 30,000. By the first return which they could venture to pronounce -accurate, being for the year ending 5th April 1822, the number was -36,192 men; 5th April 1823, the number was 44,892 men, being an increase -of 8700; at 5th April 1824, the number was 49,448, being an increase -on the preceding year of 4556; 5th April 1825, the number was 52,482, -being an increase on the preceding year of 3034; and the numbers went -on regularly progressing every year during the existence of the Board, -until its termination, as the following extract from the last Report will -best exhibit. It is for the year 1830, at which time the bounty had been -reduced to one shilling per barrel:-- - -“The Commissioners have still the gratification to find, from the -returns made by the local inspectors, that the number of fishermen still -continues to experience a yearly increase. The gross amount, as taken -from the returns of the preceding year, was 63,421 men. The gross amount, -as taken from the returns of the present year, is 64,771 men, being an -increase on the past year of 1350 men.” - -By the same report it appeared that the number of decked vessels was -345; tonnage 9810; men 2147--half-decked vessels 769; tonnage 9457; men -3852--row-boats 9522; men 46,212. - -The quantity of herrings cured for bounty in the year ending 5th April -1830, was 16,855 barrels, the bounty on which was £842 15s. - -The tonnage bounty paid to vessels engaged in the cod and ling fishery -was £829 10s; and the bounty on cured cod, &c. was £960. - -There is not in the reports that we have seen any attempt at estimating -the quantity of herrings caught, which is somewhat extraordinary, -considering the accuracy with which the number of fishermen, curers, -coopers, &c., was ascertained; but the quantity cured is given above. - -Whilst, however, the number of fishermen employed in the fisheries -generally, increased so very considerably during the period that the -Irish Fishery Board was in operation, it is an extraordinary, and to us -inexplicable fact, that the quantity of herrings cured for bounty in any -one season never exceeded 16,855 barrels, so that even the high bounty -of 4s per barrel was not sufficient to induce the Irish fishermen to -cure their herrings in a proper manner. In short, the fishery board, in -so far as the primary object of its formation was concerned, was totally -inoperative, and the people of this country were as dependent then as now -upon the Scotch curers for the requisite supply of the staple luxury of -the poorer classes. - -It is impossible to say to what extent the fisheries may have fallen off, -if at all, in Ireland, since the abolition of the fishery board; but as -the quantity of salted herrings imported into Ireland from Scotland has -not materially increased since, it may be presumed that as many herrings -are caught and cured now as at any former period. - -The alleged decline of the Irish fisheries has by many been attributed -entirely to the withdrawal of the bounties and the fishery board. But -when we consider the exceedingly trifling amount of bounty paid on -herrings in any one year, the discontinuance of so small a sum as £842 -15s 7d (the amount in 1829-30) could not possibly have any perceptible -influence upon a branch of industry which gave employment to 75,366 -persons. - -Nor could the discontinuance of the grants made for harbours and small -loans to poor fishermen have produced any material influence upon the -fisheries, as the total amount advanced in ten years for these two -objects was only £39,508 18s 2d, or less than £4000 a-year. - -There is then but one other point of view in which the withdrawal of -the fishery board could have operated injuriously, namely, the absence -of that supervision and authority in regulating the fisheries which the -officers of the board exercised to a certain extent, and which in our -opinion ought to have been continued. - -The various modes of curing herrings will form the subject of a future -article. - - - - -CASTLECOR, A REVERIE, - -BY J. U. U. - - - Ancient oaks of Castlecor, - Which the wreck of weathery war, - Summer’s sun or winter blast, - Chance and change still sweeping past, - Still have left thus hoar and high - While the world hath fleeted by. - - Many a race of pride hath run, - Many a field been lost and won; - Many a day of shame and glory - Past into the dream of story, - Since the spring time of your birth - Revelled on this ancient earth. - - Well your crown of age ye wear-- - High upon this noon-day air, - Broadly waving in the light, - Thickset tufts of verdure bright; - While, beneath, your massive shade - Sleeps upon the ferny glade. - - Where the summer sunbeam plays - O’er the long-drawn leafy ways, - Down through tremulous gleams of green, - On some spot at distance seen; - Where the foliage opens brightly, - If the fallow-deer bound lightly; - Well the swiftly passing gleam - Mingles into fancy’s dream, - See in shadowy light appear - Some old hunter of the deer, - Through the stillness of the wood, - Bent in listening attitude; - Then amid the haunted glade - Melt away in distant shade. - - Were not life as brief and frail - As a gossip’s idle tale, - What eventful hours might be - Here recalled to memory! - - Straight upon the visioned sight, - Through the rifts of leafy light, - Where yon verdurous dusk disparts, - What strange cloud of blackness starts - ’Tis the grim and gloomy hold; - Which ruled here in days of old, - Leaving a name where once it stood; - ’Tis the “castle in the wood.” - - Lo! from parapet and tower - Frowns the pride of ancient power-- - Lo! from out the cullised port - Pours the storm of raid or sport; - Haughty eye and ruthless hand - Iron chief and ruthless band; - Well the robber chief I know, - Tracked by many a home of woe. - Onward bound; nor far behind - Swells a murmur on the wind-- - From his kerne and lowring prey, - Pride of pastures far away, - Hither bound from foray rude, - To his “castle in the wood.” - Still the pageant nears--but lo; - Fancy shifts the gliding show, - To a sight of gayer mood. - - On free air in sunshine glancing, - See a jovial train advancing, - Bright housed steed and palfrey prancing, - Horn and hound and hawk are there, - Spear and scarf, and mantle fair, - Sport and jest, and laughter gay, - Shout and jolly hark away! - On the glittering pageant streams, - Vanishing in golden gleams. - - Next across the shadowy lawn, - Cowled and cinctured form glides on - With ruddy cheek though solemn gear, - Full glad it seems of journey done, - That started with the rising sun, - And confident of jovial cheer; - Such never yet was wanting here. - - Who follows fast, with footstep light, - And eye of fire, and garment white? - O, now the child of song I know, - For the sun on his tuneful harp is bright! - And free on the wind his long locks flow-- - O! glad will they be in yon halls below. - - But all is gone--one sober glance - Hath whirled in air the fitful trance, - The visioned wood that fancy ranged, - Is still a wood, but O, how changed! - - Ancient Power’s, barbaric sway, - Iron deeds have passed away-- - Superstition’s gloomy hour, - With the tyrant’s feudal power-- - All have passed!--and in their stead, - Piety with reverent head, - Sense, and mild humanity, - Polished hospitality, - Taste that spreads improvement round, - On the old paternal ground; - And without its blood and crime, - Keeps the grace of elder time. - - - - -SCRAPS FROM THE NORTHERN SCRIP. - -[The following specimens of the Icelandic Sagas have been closely -translated for the Irish Penny Journal, from the publications of the -Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries, Copenhagen.] - - -NO. I.--KING OLAVE AND THE DEVIL. - -And now the enemy of the whole human race, the devil himself, saw how -his kingdom began to be laid waste, he who always persecutes human -nature, and he saw how much on the other hand God’s kingdom prospered and -increased; thereat he now felt great envy, and he puts on the human form, -because he could so much the more easily deceive men, if he looked like -a man himself. It so happened that King Olave was on a visit at Œgvald’s -Ness,[2] about the anniversary of our Lord Jesus Christ’s nativity; and -as all were regularly seated in the evening, and preparations were making -for the drinking bout, and they were waiting until the royal table should -be covered, there came an old one-eyed man into the hall with a silk hat -on his head; he was very talkative, and could relate divers kinds of -things; he was led forward before the king, who asked him the news, to -which he replied, that he could relate various matters about the ancient -kings and their battles. The king asked whether he knew who Œgvald was, -he whom the Ness was called after. He answered, “He dwelt here on the -Ness, and dearly loved a cow, so that she would follow him wherever he -led her, and he would drink her milk; and therefore people that love -cattle say that man and cow shall go together. This king fought many a -battle, and once he strove with the king of Skorestrand; in that battle -fell many a man, and there fell also King Œgvald, and he was afterwards -buried aloft here on the Ness, and his barrow will be found here a little -way from the house; in the other barrow lies the cow.” The drinking bout -was now held according to usage, and all the diversions that had been -appointed. Afterwards many went away to sleep. Then the king had that -old man called to him, and he sat on the footstool by the king’s bed, -and the king asked him about many matters, which he explained well, and -like an experienced man. And when he had related much and explained many -things well, the king became constantly the more desirous to hear him; -he therefore staid awake a great part of the night, and continued to ask -him about many things. At last the bishop reminded him in a few words -that the king should stop speaking with the man; but the king thought -he had related a part, but that another was still wanting. Far in the -night, however, the king at last fell asleep, but awoke soon after, and -asked whether the stranger was awake; he did not answer. The king said -to the watchers that they should lead him up, but he was not found. The -king then stood up, had his cupbearer and cook called to him, and asked -whether any unknown man had gone to them when they were preparing the -guest-chamber. The head cook said, “There came a little while ago, sire, -a man to us, and said to me, as I was preparing the meat for a savoury -dish for you, ‘Why do you prepare such meat for the king’s table as -choice food for him, which is so lean?’ I told him then to get me some -fatter and better meat, if he had any such. He said, ‘Come with me, and I -will show you some fat and good meat, which is fit for a king’s table.’ -And he led me to a house, and showed me two sides of very fat flesh; and -this have I prepared for you, sire!” The king now saw it was a wile of -the devil, and said to the cook, “Take that meat now, and cast it into -the sea, that none may eat thereof; and if any one tastes of it, he -will quickly die. But whom do you suppose that devil to have been, the -stranger guest?” “We know not,” said they, “who it is.” The king said, -“I believe that devil took upon himself Odin’s form.” According to the -king’s command the meat was carried out, and cast into the sea; but the -stranger was nowhere found, and search was made for him round about the -Ness, according to the king’s commandment.--_From Olave Tryggvason’s -Saga._ - -[2] The Norse word which becomes _ness_ as the termination of several -British localities and _The Noze_ in our maps of Norway, means -“promontory” (literally “nose”) and must not be confounded with _The -Ness_ in the county of Londonderry, which is in Irish “the waterfall.” - - * * * * * - - Printed and published every Saturday by GUNN and CAMERON, at - the Office of the General Advertiser, No. 6, Church Lane, - College Green, Dublin.--Agents:--R. GROOMBRIDGE, Panyer Alley, - Paternoster Row, London; SIMMS and DINHAM, Exchange Street, - Manchester; C. 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