ses that keep me absent. With a fine
youthful enthusiasm, beautiful to look upon, they bestowed on me that
bit of honour, loyally all they had; and it has now, for reasons one
and another, become touchingly memorable to me--touchingly, and even
grandly and tragically--never to be forgotten for the remainder of
my life. Bid them, in my name, if they still love me, fight the good
fight, and quit themselves like men in the warfare to which they are
as if conscript and consecrated, and which lies ahead. Tell them to
consult the eternal oracles (not yet inaudible, nor ever to become so,
when worthily inquired of); and to disregard, nearly altogether, in
comparison, the temporary noises, menacings, and deliriums. May they
love wisdom, as wisdom, if she is to yield her treasures, must be
loved, piously, valiantly, humbly, beyond life itself, or the prizes
of life, with all one's heart and all one's soul. In that case (I will
say again), and not in any other case, it shall be well with them.

"Adieu, my young friends, a long adieu, yours with great sincerity,

"T. CARLYLE"

BEQUEST BY MR. CARLYLE.

At a meeting of the Senatus Academicus of Edinburgh University, a few
weeks after his decease, a deed of mortification by Thomas Carlyle
in favour of that body, for the foundation of ten Bursaries in the
Faculty of Arts, was read. The document opens as follows:--

"I, Thomas Carlyle, residing at Chelsea, presently Rector in the
University of Edinburgh, from the love, favour and affection which I
bear to that University, and from my interest in the advancement of
education in my native Scotland, as elsewhere, for these and for other
more peculiar reasons, which also I wish to record, do intend, and
am now in the act of making to the said University, a bequest,
as underwritten, of the estate of Craigenputtoch, which is now my
property. Craigenputtoch lies at the head of the parish of Dunscore,
in Nithsdale, Dumfriesshire. The extent is of about 1,800 acres;
rental at present, on lease of nineteen years, is L250; the annual
worth, with the improvements now in progress, is probably L300.
Craigenputtoch was for many generations the patrimony of a family
named Welsh, the eldest son usually a 'John Welsh,' in series going
back, think some, to the famous John Welsh, son-in-law of the reformer
Knox. The last male heir of the family was John Welsh, Esq., surgeon,
Haddington. His one child and heiress was my late dear, magnanimou