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NATIONAL Kl)!-III: THEIR LEGENDARY HISTOIIE Full white the Bourbon lily blows. And fairer hsiighiy England‘s rose; Nor shall unsung the a tribal smile. Green Ireland! of thy Iisnght isle. In Scotland grows a warlike dawor, Too rough to bloom in lady's bower; Ilia crest when high the soldier boars, And spurs his coarser on the spars-- O there it blossoms--there it blowo- Tho tliistle‘s growl aboon the rose! At.i.atr Curttrtstorsals.

All our readers, doubtless, are aware, that the rose is the national ‘flower of Eng- land—the shamrock, of Ireland—-the thistle, of Scotland—-and the fleur dc lie, or lily, of France; but as some atnon them ms not be aware of the circumstances which d to their becoming so, we subjoin the following information on the subject.

The most disastrous and troublesome period of our English history, from the Norman conquest to the present time, was undoubtedly that which elapsed botweentlre accession of Henry VI. and that of Henry Vll., extending over a period of filly years. Never was there so many rival claimants for the thronc——ttcver were the pretensions of any more fiercely or persevcringly. maiiitained; scarcely had one candidate disappeared from the stage, when another started up to fill his place; and surely it is strange, that the longest and most bloody civil wur which ever desolatcd England shotild linve been named after the loveliest flower in our gardens; and that the rose, which we hold sacred as the emblem oflove and beauty, should then have been the badge of parties carrying on a sari uinary civil war. The circumsttmces wbic led to such- an anomaly is briefly this: In the early part ofthe reign of Henry VI., about the year M50, a few nobleman and gentlemen were discussing the question which then agitated the heart of every one who loved his couiitry—nanicly who was the rightful heir to the English throne? After a time they adjottrned to the Temple Gardens, thinking that they would there be more free frotn interruption. Scorcely, however, had they arrived, when they perceived Ricba Plantagenet, afterwards Duke of York, approaching. Uriwilling to continue the conversation in his presence, a deep silence ensued. He, however, aske what they had been so anxiously talking about when he joined them, and whether they espoused the cause of his party, or that ofthe usur- per, Henry of Lancaster, who then filled the throne. A false and absurd politeness preventing their making any reply, be added. ‘ Since you are so reluctant to tell me your opinioti in words, tell me by signs; and let hitn that is an adherent to the house of York, pull a white rose, as Ido.’

‘Then,’said the Earl of Somerset, ‘let him who hates flattery, and (litres to main- tain the causc of our lawful but absent king, even in the presence of his enemies, gather a red rose with me.’

‘ Be it so,’ said the brave Earl of War- wick. ‘ My flower shall be awhitc rose; and, as I pull it, I pledged tnyself to beastauncb sttp orter ofthe house of York.’

‘ ell,’ replied the Earl of sulfolk, ‘ I will follow the Earl of Sotnerset’s example’ and gtitlier a red rose, in token that I am ready to defend the cause of Henry of Lon- caster with the last drop of my .’

‘ But,’ said Vernon, a friend of Planta- gent’s, ‘ before gathering any more roses, we ought to agree, that whichever party has the greatest number, gains the day.’

This proposition was at once agreed to by all; but now their an ry passions began to rise, and fierce and itter threats were uttered on both sides, ench prophesying with bitter taunts and exccrations, the speedy downfall of the other. At length they scparated,io make known to their various friends the badges which were henceforth to distinguish the adherents of the houses of York and Lancaster.

Afew years alter this event, an effort was made to reconcile the contending parties. Several of the most powo u rioblemcn on both sides met, and certain articles of peace were agreed on, which were afterwards signed by the king and his ministers, and the Duke ofYork and his friends; and in order to give publicity to the circumstance, a procession to St. air ’I Cathedral was appointed, when the Duke of York led Margaret of Anjotr, wife of Henry VI., by the hand; and the rival roses were seen in conjunction. The joy of the nation, however, which had been groaning under the miseries of the long protracted war, was doeined to be but of short continuance; for, are long, the flames which had been smothered, not satin uisli- ed, broke out again withiricr-eased vi ones, and raged with redoubled fury; and it was not until Henry VII. of Lancaster, by his marriage with Elizabeth of York, oldsd daughter of Edward IV, suited for ever the rival houses, and thus put an end to the civil war, that the roses then blended to-

othcr became the national flower of Eng- and, and were cmblaz on arms, and on the coin of the realm. well might Sir Walter sing in one ofhls poems:

Lot Ilury England proudly rear I-lor blooded roses, bought so dear! ‘In the lazguage of flowers, the rose is the

emblem love and beauty, and the symbol of secrecy. II Wbero'ots we pass, A triple gran Shoots sp with dew drops streaming ! As softly gross ' As emeralds seen Through purest cry atal gleaming ,

Oh, the shamrock ! the green immortal shamrock ! Chosenlsaf I Of hard and chief,

Old Erin's native shamrock.

St Patrick, the Apostle of Ireland, or, as her people love better to hear him called, her atron saint, was born, accordin to the cat authorities, at Saburnia, in Naoi-tli

I'itoin.—Hia father was a priest, and his mother I sister of St. Martin, the celebrated bishop of Tours. When about sixteen years of age, he was taken prisoner by some

lratcs, who brought him over with iliem to

reland; and there sold him as a slave to a certain MacBrien, with whom he remained for six years, performing the most sci-vile ofices. It was during this period he felt an earnest desire to preach the gospel to those around him, manyvofthem being deplorably ignorant of the way of salvation. At the expiration of the six years, he _was most fortunately enabled. to purchase his freedorii with a ‘ace of go he had accidentally found in a field which had been just ploughed up. He immediately returned to England, and hastened to rejoin his parents, who were titled with jo at once more beholding the son they had fiing mourned for as dead; but

‘although enjoying the pleasure of freedom,

and surrounded by those to whom he was most tenderly attached, the youthful Pat- rick was far from happy. Again and again did his earnest desire to labour as it mission- ary "among the Irish recur to him, and each time with redoubled vigour. It was strengthened, too, by a dream he had about this time, in what: he saw a man bringing hinia. letter from Ireland, and saying to hirn: “We beseech the, holy youth, cotiie over and dwell among us."

At length, after much and anxious deli- beration, his determination was taken; and once taken, all the -persuasion, entreaiies and arguments of his create and friends failed to move him. teeling, however, that the manner in which his early life had been passed rendered further study and £\t:parat"loii‘necessai-y, he passed over into

ace, and placed himselfunder the guid- ance and tutelage of his uncle, the good bishop of Tours, with whom he spent some years. He afterwards prosecuted his etu- dies under the care of Gamandus, bishop of Auxerre. by whom he was subsequently ordained, and appointed "chief bishop of the school in Ireland.” And now, being in every way qualified for the post, the time had arrived for him to put his long-cherish_- ed desire into execution. Accordingly, he wont to Ireland, and landed at Wicklow in the year 439. Once there, he lost no time in commencing his holy labour. He tra- velled through the entire country, and was every where received with delight by mul- titudes, who bun with rapture on his words. One day, whilst preaching at Tara, he was anxious to explain the doctrine of the Trinity; the people, however, failed to understand, and refused to believe that there ‘could be three Gods, and yet but one. The holy man paused for a moment, ab- sorbed in thought, and then seeing a sham- poeping forth front the green turf on which he stood, he gathered it, and show- ing it to them, exclaimed: “Do you not see in this simple little wild flower how three leaves are united on one stalk, and will you not then believe what I tell you from the Sacred Volume, that there are indeed three Persons, and at but one God?” His audience without difficulty understood this simple yet strikin illus- tration; and to the inexpressible de ight of St. Patrick, eagerly embraced the doctrine, of the truth of which is was so anxious to impress them. From that period the sham- rock became the national emblem of Ire- load, and dearly is it loved and cherished by her afectionste and warm hearted people.

St. Patrick, alter prosecuting his La- boara for many cars with unwearicd en- ergy and naps-occ cnted success, died at the Abhrgy of Soul, in Down, on the l7th of Illa (called after him St. Patrick’s day,) is the year 405, or, according to others, 4il2.—-There has been much dispute among botanists as to what particular plant is the genuine national flower of Ireland; it is now, however, generally supposed to be the wood sorrel (Outta ecetesella.) Dr. Wltherlng, however, maintains that it is the white clover (Tr§/‘otters reports.) In the so u e flowers, the shamrock has been considered too insignificant to have a place. Among the ancients, how- ever, Hope was generally represented as a beautiful oliild, standing on tip-toe, with a spot; etahsat-out to her hand.

' Ills E’en then a wioh.'I mlnd lls power- A wish that to my latut hour . Shall strongly have my breast-— 'l'lIIt l. for poor su|dflcotlsnd's aahe. St-uie uaefu plan or bank ‘could make. I‘ I' I atlresi. The rough bar-thistle spreading wide ./lrriongtlte bearded burr. I turned the trerdar-clips nriilr, And spared the symbol dear I ' Bonita. In the reign of Malcolm I, about the year l0l0, Scotland was invaded by the Danes, who made a descent on Aberdeenshire, and landed at Buchtinneaa, intending to storm Slairis Castle, a fortress of importance, situated close to the most castcrn point of Scotland, and therefore convenient for the Danes, at any time they might feel inclined to pay a hostile visit to their warlike neigh- bours. The still and silent hour of ttiid- night was scleoted as the most suitable. time for commencing the attack; and as their presence was as little expected as desired, they flattered themselves they sbottld, without much trouble, succeed in taking possession of the castle. Wisely determined, however, to leave tioihing to chance, they took every precaution to make the necessary preparations complete. Vi hett all was read , and the night sufiiciently for advanced to inspire them with a reasonable hope that the inmates of the castle were asleep, the word of command was given, and they commenced their ttiarch. Sluiily and cautiously they advanced, taking off their shoes to prevent the possibility of their footsteps being heard. No voice broke the deathlike silence; not a gleam of light illumed their onward path save that one or two Sentinel stars kept their watch in the sky,

as if to guide them to the castle. They now approached within a short distance of its lofty towers, and their hearts best quick in joyous anticipation of a speedy victory. No sound was heard from within; not a

light appeared in the windows; the inhabi- tants are fast asleep. Their labours are now well nigh over. They can scarcely refrain from exclamations of delight, for they have but to swim across the moat, and place the scaling ladders, and the castle is theirs! But in another moment a cry from the invaders themselves rousee the inmates to a sense ofthcir'dangt>r; the guards fly in their posts; the soldiers mount their arms,

and quick as thought pursue the now trem- bling Danes, who fly unresistingly before them. Wlieiics arose this sudden change

in the face of affairs? From a very simple

cause. It appears that the most, instead

of being filled with water, as the Danes

had expected, was in reality dried up, and

overgrown with thistles, which pierced the

unprotected feet of the assailants, who, tor-

tured with pain, forgot their cautious silence,

and uttered the cry which had of course

alarmed the sleeping inmates ofthe castle.

—Thus, then, we find the unconscious this-

tlc—somewhat like the GCPSP in the Capi-

tol—was the means of preserving Scotland

from falling iiitothe hands of her enemies;

and in token ofgratitttde it was henceforth

adopted as the national emblem, and has

ever since been held in the highest venera-

tion by hot‘ hardy sons.

In the language of flowers, the thistle is the emblem of sclf-defence. The motto used by the Knights of the Thistle, or of St. Andrew, is peculiarly appropriate to their floral badge, " Nenio me impunc lncesset”--"No one shall touch me with impunity; or, ip plain Scotch, “Tak tent how ye meddle wi me.’

I'- l"nll white the Bourbon lily blows,

Clovis, the founder of the French monar- chy, ascended the thronc in the year 48!; and about two cars afterwards, he mar- ried Clotilda, a niece of Gondcbaud, king of Burgundy. Our readers will remember that many of the large districts, which are now merely French provinces, were then separate kingdoms, each governed by its re- spective sovereigns. Clotilda was a Chris- tian, and that not in name only; she was therefore naturally anxious that her hus- band, to whotn she was devotedly attached, should embrace her religion. Her argu- ments, however, thotigh affectionately ur- god, were for a long time unavailing. But by degrees her entlc and consistent con- duct, and her cheerful readiness to comply with his wishes in everything, save where her religion was concerned, won upon the king, and his prejudices gradually 'ielded to the truth; and at length, during t bai- tlc of Tolbitic, fought between the French and Germans, when the former were well- nigh vanqtiished by their more numerous antagonists, Clovis exclaimed aloud, in the presence of his disheartened soldiers. “O God ofCloti|da, if thou wilt grant me this victory, I will henceforth worship no God but thee?” The raycr was heard: his army

' end of our journey with pesce.—

immediately rallied, and the Gcrrnane_g_em

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dour by the bishop df Rslms: and an old legend tells us, that irnnierlititely alter the ceremony, an angel I cared to him, and presented him with a glprwr-db-llr to testify the signal approbation of Heaven, and to confirm his right to the French throne. Since that period, France has been called “the empire of Illicit." The coat-ofsrtns of Clovis'and his successors was a field of azure, seeded with olden flours-dc-lis. Until the reign of Cltar es V, a great many fleurs-do-lis were united to form the arms. He, lIOWt‘\‘eI‘, reduced them to three, the number still retained, white being also the colour of the national flag, all were united to shew that the flours-do-lis represented France and its sovereigns. It is, however, strange to say, a much disputed point, whether the three signs seen on the escut- chcon of the French monarchs were really fleurs-de-lis. Some imagine that they re- presented the toads which formed the crest of the helmet worn’ by Pharsmond; and others, the golden bees which were dis- covered in the tomb of Childcric at Tour- nay, in I655. Whatever they may have been, however, Lottie VII. ceeded his shield, crest, and coins with them: and Philip Aguustus, his standard. We our- selves are very much inclined to think that they were flours-do-lis; because Louis IX, tSt. Louis) took for his device a mar- guerite or daisy and flenr-dc-lis, in allusion to the mime of Queen Marguerite, his wife, and the arms of France, which were also his own He also had a. ring made, round which a relief in enamel represented a garland of marguerites and cu e-lis. Otie was engraven on a sapphire, with these words: “This ring contains all we love.” Thus did the excellent prince shew his people that he loved nothing but religion, France and his wife.

Louis VII. adopted the flcur-dc-lis as his bridge when he formed the Crusade, which circumstance led to its being called fleur-ds- touts : this name was afterwards corrupted into fleas-dc-lust‘ ; and alter along lapse of years, it was changed to fleur-do-lia, by which name it is now universally known.

Before concluding this short sketch—eat- bodying popular tradition, whatever may he said ofhistorical l'sci—it might be as well to mention, that the consecrated banner horiie by Joan of Arc at the siege ofkeims, represented the Deity graspitig the globe of the earth, sttrrottnded by fleurs-(L:-lis. And in t-rdcr to reward the services rendered to France by this heroic und most extraordi- nary girl, us well as to crpetuate the me- mory oftliem, Charles II. gave her forni- ly the surname of Lie.