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Show HOIHK OF TlIELDRD OF LORNE. A correspondent of the London Telegraph, Tele-graph, writing i'rom Invcrary and speaking of the coming of the Princess Louise to her new Scottish home, says:- - However tho bride may come, she will be reminded on every side of the mighty pust. ' The biggest-mouthed thunder that will welcome her advent will oomc from an ancient cannon, fished up near the Laud of Mull, by an ancestor of the present duke, aud supposed to be a relic of the Spanish Armada. It was probably captured at tho battle of Pavia, from the French; for the gun, which is some sixteen feet long, has on it tho initial if and tho vcru or salamander, emblem ol Francis I., which one sees chiseled all over the famous outside staircase at Blois, and in many another edifice erected iu his reign. Then tho very trees, among tho oldest in this part of Scotland, have a historical significance, for they were mostly planted by the unfortunate earl ofiMontro.se, who wa beheaded. There Is an avenue of beeches on the way to Dhulooh, among the very finest I have ever seen, and a gigantic fir tree, some fifteccn feet in girth, and ninety feet in hight. Even the yellow and black flag that waves from the battlements presents pre-sents in itself an epitome of the various steps whioh have led tho Argyles to thoir present high position. Tho gallery gal-lery or "lynnphad," as tho old-fushioned old-fushioned ship is technically called in heraldry, has its origin in the creation of Colin, carl of Argyle, by James II., just as tbo chequers, or the "device of eight pieces to pay and diamond," to Bpeak familiarly, represent the Campbells. Camp-bells. Tlio boar's head, the well-known well-known device of the family, is a mo- j mcnto of a deed of sporting prowess done by Sir Duncan, in the time of the first James of Scotland, whom he liberated from an English prison. The doughty MaoCallum More, fifth ilk, : was tho first to take the name of Argyle, as well as tho boar's head, celebrated cele-brated in Flora. Macdonald's song to Waverloy; "Letllio son of Brown Diarmid, who slew tho wild boar. Resume tho puro faith of tbo groat Calluni More, ' Had sir Walter lived in our day he might have been converted to the faith of John Campbell of Islay, one of whoso West Highlaud legions tells us how, instead of Jjiarmid killing the boar, it was tho boar that killed him. Au enemy made a bet that he could not measure tho length of a boar he I had killed by pacing its back with his bare feet. He won the bet, but lost his life, bleeding to death from the wounds made by tho bristles. Even the old motto, still much seen about, "Vix ea nostra voso," recalls tho great duke of Argylo and Greenwich tho Red duko, tho "ian Ruo" of the Highlanders, who has a gorgeous white marble monument in Westminster Westmin-ster abbey, and whose pious, modest motto has in that pure spirit-level an ironical significance. It is noteworthy, by-thc-byo, how tho epithet "red has followed tho raco from the time of "Luibu foilt derg" (that is to say "the red-haired,") in the eighth century, cen-tury, almost to our own day. But enough of the merely heraldic memories memo-ries ol" a iamily which dates its proper name of Campbell to marriage with a niece of William the Conqueror, and heiress of Beauchamp, and which traces back its ancostry through king Arthur of the Table Round to the grandfather of Tennyson's nobles. It is, however, oven more to tho purpose that, throughout its long hie. the family has almost invariably displayed enormous natural capacity and power, and that tho whole clan counts an t extraordinary number of military, i political and literary celebrities. |
