d as exaggerated, in acknowledging the enthusiasm, the
perseverance, and the talent, which prompted you to undertake, and
enabled you successfully to prosecute, your late perilous journey
through a portion of the hitherto untrodden wilds of Australia." A
flattering letter from the Colonial Secretary at Sydney, announcing
the government grant, a gold medal from the Royal Geographical Society
of London, and another from that of Paris, have further rewarded Dr
Leichhardt's meritorious labours. Unflinching in pursuit of science,
he again set forth, in December 1845, on an overland journey to Swan
River, expected to occupy two years and a half. This time he is better
provided. His party consists of only eight persons, but he has mules
for the stores, fourteen horses, forty oxen, and two hundred and
seventy goats. And he further takes with him--light but pleasant
baggage--the warm sympathy and hearty good wishes of all to whom his
amiable character and previous labours are known, a class which the
publication of the present Journal will doubtless tend largely to
increase.

FOOTNOTE:

[15]_Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia, from Moreton Bay
to Port Essington_. By Dr LUDWIG LEICHHARDT. London: Boone, 1847.

MAGUS MUIR.

The subject of the following ballad is the atrocious and dastardly
assassination of James Sharp, Archbishop of St Andrews and Primate of
Scotland.

More than one attempt was made upon the life of that eminent prelate.
On the 11th of July, 1668, a shot was fired into his carriage in the
High Street of Edinburgh, by one James Mitchell, a fanatical field
preacher, and an associate of the infamous Major Weir. The primate
escaped unharmed, but his colleague Honyman, Bishop of Orkney,
received a severe wound, from the effects of which he died in the
following year. The assassin Mitchell fled to Holland, but
subsequently returned, and was arrested in the midst of his
preparations for another diabolical attempt. This man, who afterwards
suffered for his crimes, and who in consequence has obtained a place
in the book of "Covenanting Martyrology," described his motive "as an
impulse of the Holy Spirit, and justified it from Phinehas killing
Cosbi and Zimri, and from that law in Deuteronomy commanding to kill
false prophets!" This is no matter of surprise, when it is recollected
that the "principles of assassination," as Mr C. K. Sharp observes,
"were strongly recommended in _Naphthali, Jus Popu