rs, leading down a
small flight of steps. The ceiling has nothing peculiar in its
character; nor are the four pillars supporting the roof, and
the unequal arches leading into the south aisle, in the least
calculated to convey any idea of grandeur, or feeling of
veneration. These arches have been cut through in a very clumsy
manner, so that scarcely any vestige of the ancient church of St.
Mary Magdalen now remains. A small doorway and windows, however,
are still visible at the east end of this chapel; the west end
formerly opened into the south transept; but that also is now
walled up, except a part, which leads to the gallery there. There
are in different parts niches which once held the holy water, by
which the pious devotees of former ages sprinkled their foreheads
on their entrance before the altar, I am not aware that any other
remains of the old church are now visible in this chapel. Passing
through the eastern end of the south aisle, a pair of gates leads
into the Virgin Mary's Chapel."

From what we remember of the character of this Chapel, the lovers of
architecture have little to lament in its removal. Our Correspondent,
E.E., adds--"This, and not the Lady Chapel, it was, (No. 456 of _The
Mirror_,) that contained the gravestone of one Bishop Wickham, who,
however, was not the famous builder of Windsor Castle, in the time
of Edward III., but died in 1595, the same year in which he was
translated from the see of Lincoln to that of Winchester. His
gravestone, now lying exposed in the churchyard, marks the south-east
corner of the site of the aforesaid Magdalen Chapel."

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SCOTTISH ECONOMY.

SHAVINGS _V._ COAL AND PEAT.

(_To the Editor_.)

Without intending to be angry, permit me to inform your well-meaning
correspondent, _M.L.B_. that his observations on the inhabitants of
"Auld Reekie," are something like the subject of his communication
"Shavings," _rather_ superficial.

Improvidence forms no feature in the Scottish character; but your
flying tourist charges "the gude folk o' Embro'" with monstrous
extravagance in making bonfires of their carpenters' chips; and
proceeds to reflect in the true spirit of civilization how much better
it would have been if the builders' chips had been used in lighting
household fires, to the obviously great saving of bundle-wood, than to
have thus wantonly forc