"Rites, praises, prayers, and charitable deeds, These do not form Religion, but her dress; Its even course along some valley green; And make averted man once more thy friend; Guard, guard the exotic plant, and bid it bloom, In every breast, till earth shall Eden's tints assume!" The right side of this Carmelite chapel, from which the light flows, is pierced by windows, and the left is ornamented by a corresponding number of niches, filled with statues of Romish saints; while the ceiling, it may be observed, is coved, and divided into rectangular compartments. The Carmelites had once about twenty religious houses in Ireland, of which their convent, adjoining the site of this chapel, was the most considerable. This convent was founded in the year 1274, by Sir Robert Baggot, an Englishman, upon a plot of ground purchased from the Abbey of Vallis Salutis, at Baltinglass, in the county of Wicklow; and, in the year 1333, the Irish parliament assembled in the hall of this convent. Upon the suppression of religious houses, this convent and its possessions were granted to Francis Aungier, Baron of Longford, who actually resided there for a time, in the reign of Charles II. Lord Longford afterwards used the materials of the ruined convent in the building of a mansion in Aungier Street. The mansion was, in its turn, destroyed; and, in 1732, a theatre, erected of the same materials, assumed its place. The precise site of the ancient Carmelite Friary is now occupied by the Methodist meeting-house in Whitefriar Lane; the mansion of Lord Longford, as well as Sheridan's playhouse, having stood at the corner of Longford Street and Aungier Street. After the dissolution of monasteries, the Carmelites of this house lived in private, occasionally assisting the secular clergy, until the year 1760, when they were once more associated in the little convent of Ash Street, within the liberties of Dublin. Having exercised their sacerdotal calling for many years in this retired situation, they removed at length to a more convenient house and chapel, in French Street, from whence they were transferred, in 1822, to the beautiful church which forms the subject of our illustration. This removal was principally to be attributed to the exertions of the prior of the order, the Rev. John Spratt, who purchased, for the sum of £2,000, the ground on which the present Friary is built, and which is situated within a few yards of the site of the first house, belonging to this order, ever established in Ireland. The Carmelite Friary is a noble building; but every real well-wisher of Ireland must desire her emancipation from the papal yoke, not only with a view to her religious advantage; but, also, as a necessary step to her advancement in the scale of nations. THE BEAUTYCULTURAL SOCIETY. A LETTER FROM MISS LETITIA BELLAMONT, IN LONDON, TO MISS FANNY LAW, BY THE HON. MRS. NORTON. My dearest Fanny Law,-By way of infinite variety, We've establish'd here, for good, a Beautycultural Society. With Mr. Huxtable's new mode of sowing turnip-seed In little beds of saw-dust, (which is all the mould they need.*) Our rules are very simple; a woman who puts on To see a lady, at the least, as "well dress'd" as a dish,— • Vide a curious experiment made by this gentleman, in pursuance of his declaration that he could a turnip on his dining-room table." Like the well-beloved "young Jamie" who rashly went away Then we distribute medals,-of silver or of gold— To the beauties whom good judges in high estimation hold; Like the Hudson great memorial, rewarding them, you know; For their faces are their fortunes, like the milkmaid's long ago, Who told the grumbling gentleman, who said he wouldn't wed, That she never had requested him, so no more need be said. Then we found we must establish a Court of last Appeal; To keep down the spread of Ugliness, which threats on every side : Eastlake and Etty,-Landseer,-Maclise, and others, came I must break off my letter, and attend a meeting, dear, P.S. The prizes have been given-but no time can be lost I must hurry slightly through them, if I wish to save the post. THE BEAUTYCULTURAL SOCIETY. I came in while the judges were giving medals rare To the Mothers of such children as did credit to their care. "For the Loveliest Sleeping Infant," to the Duchess of A-g-le, The prettiest "two-year old," (who walk'd, the distance from the door, A little stately graceful thing no imperfection mars; Both were won by Lady M-g-d; I don't know who had gain'd The great Gold Medal, which was struck from Summerly's design As the prize "For coming nearest to the classic Greek ideal," 125 My time and paper run so short,-I really now must close. After the Prizes, came the Appeals. I must say they were few— Landseer spoke Delphian oracles, whose meaning yet may dawn,— The meeting then broke up, and left. We are to meet again THE MARQUIS OF ORMOND E, K.P. AMONG the numerous followers of William the Conqueror, there was a brave young knight, by name Harveius Fitzwalter, whose services were less amply rewarded than were those of various adventurers who had far inferior claims on William's gratitude. A grandson of this knight, Theobald Fitzwalter, accompanied the Earl of Morton, afterwards King John, to Ireland, and was rewarded by large grants of land; he was also created Pincerna, or Chief Butler of Ireland, an office which, like that of Steward in Scotland, was one of high consideration, and from which the Ormonde family subsequently adopted its name. James le Botiller, or Butler, the heir of the Fitzwalters, was created Earl of Ormonde in the second year of the reign of Edward III., and in the male line of his descent the title has continued five centuries. Of the Anglo-Norman families settled in Ireland, the Geraldines or Fitzgeralds were the most powerful and turbulent; they viewed with jealousy the growing power of the Butlers, and took up arms to check their progress. The Geraldines were deemed the chief support of feudal independence, and the Butlers, the great defence of the royal supremacy; the greater part of Irish history, from the reign of Henry II. to that of Elizabeth, is little more than a record of tedious and sanguinary wars between the rival families and the hostile principles which distracted the land. The Butlers of Ormonde and the Geraldines of Desmond, may be said to have divided Munster between them; but when the royal authority was firmly established by the Tudors, the Geraldines, who vainly endeavoured to maintain the |