of the workmen in the service of the same Mr. Martin. Robert

and Elspeth Bachan seem to haye lived happily together, and had many children, whom they educated in a manner suitable to their station. At the time of her marriage Mrs. Bnchan was an episco- palian, but her husband being a buigher seceder, she adopted bis principles. She had always been a constant reader of the scriptures, and taking many passages in a strictly literal sense, she changed her opinions greiotly, and about 1778, she became the promulgator of many singular doctrines, and soon brought over to her notions Mr. Hugh White, who was the settled relief minister of Irvine. She continued to make new converts till April, 1790, when the Spnlace of Irvine rose, assembled round Mr. White's house, and oke the windows ; and Mrs. Buchan with all her converts, to the number of forty -six persons, left Irvine. The Buchanites (for so they were called) went through Mauchlin, old and new Cumnock, halted three days at Kirconnel, passed through Sangahar and Thofnhill, and then settled at a farm-house, the out-houses of which they had all along possessed, paying for them, and for whatever they wanted. This farm-house is two miles south of Thomhill, and about thirteen miles fh>m Dumfries.

The Buchanites paid great attention to the Bible, always reading it or carrying it about with them. They read, sang hymns, preached, and conversed much about religion; declared the last day to be near, and that no one of their company should ever die or be Iraried, but soon shall hear the sound of the last trumpet, when all the wicked would be struck dead, and remain so one thousand years. At the same time the Buchanites would undergo an agree- able change, be caught up to meet the Lord in the ahr, firom whence they should return to this earth, and with the Lord Jesus as their king« possess it one thousand years, during which time the devil diould be chained. At the end of that period, the devil would he loosed, the wicked restored to life, and both would assail their camp, but be repulsed by the Buchanites, fighting manfuUy with Christ for thehr leader.

The Buchanites neither marry, nor consider themselves bound by conjugal duties, nor care for carnal enjoyments. But having one parse, they live like brothers and sisters a holy life as the angels of God. They follow no emplo3anent, being commanded to take no thought of the morrow, but, observing how the young ravens are fed, and the lilies grow, they assure themselves €rod will much more feed and clothe them. They, indeed, sometimes worked for people ia their neighbourhood, but they refhsed all kind of payment, and declared that their whole object in working, was to mix with the world and inculcate their important doctrines.

Mr. Buchan remained in the burgher-secession communion, and had no intercourse with his wife. Mrs. Buchan died in May, 1791 ; and before her death her followers were greatly reduced in nnmber.

A Parisian lady, who wrote an interesting eulogy on learned women, besides observations on the French language.

Has gained an unfortonate celebrity both from unhappy family