MYRRH A. Myrrha. I have stolen upon his rest, if rest it be Look like thy brother, Death,-so still-so stirless- Are happiest of all within the realm Of thy stern, silent, and unwakening twin. I quicken him to heavier pain? The fever Of this tumultuous night, the grief too of His wound, though slight, may cause all this, and shake Me more to see than him to suffer. No: Let Nature use her own maternal means,- BYRON. CARTMEL, or Kertmel, is a town in Lancashire, | century, at which time he conceives fresh win 14 miles N.W. by N. from Lancaster, and 254 N.N.W. from London. The name is supposed to be derived from two British words-kert, a camp, and mell, a fell, or hill. According to Camden this town was given, in 677, to St. Cuthbert, by Egfrid, king of Northumberland. dows to have been inserted, with painted glass, a few fragments only remaining to the present day. The nave he believes to have been wholly rebuilt at a somewhat later period. From the absence of a great western door, he suspects that the west end was not included within the priory close. This structure is cruciform, in the early style of In a subsequent age, George Preston, whose English architecture. The tower is of singular ap-monument still remains, and who died in 1640, pearance. The basis of it was probably one of those low central lanterns rising little above the roof, but supported on massy clusters of columns, which would sustain a much greater weight. A century or two perhaps after the original foundation, it was deemed expedient to raise this tower; and four cross arches were constructed within the upper courses of the lantern, springing from the middle point of each side, and closing the entire angle between that and the contiguous wall. On this a bell tower of moderate height was erected, which stands a square diagonally inscribed within a square. Dr. Whitaker imagines the choir and transept to be of the first foundation; though the windows are probably of later insertion. There are two semicircular arches on each side of the choir, round which and the transepts a triforium has extended, interrupted by the great eastern window. The principal choir is called the Lady's choir; to the north of which there is a narrow chapel, anciently called the Piper choir; and on the south the Town choir, which has been con appears to have repaired Cartmel church: "The said George (says the inscription on a wooden tablet), out of his zeal to God, at his great charges, repaired this church, being in great decay, with a new roof of timber, and beautified it within very decently with fretted plaster-work, adorned the chancel with curiously carved woodwork, and placed therein a pair of organs of great value. He bequeathed further, by his will, £100 towards binding poor men's sons of this parish apprentices, besides divers other acts of charity and piety, through the whole course of his life; to whose pious memory Thomas Preston, his son, hath caused this to be made, 1646." Mr. Preston, however, received from the vestry forty marks, and as much of the old lead as could be spared. But his expenses were doubtless not covered by this grant. There are a variety of monuments here. The oldest, probably, is a tomb of prior William de Walton; a beautiful and perfect slab of grey marble, inscribed with a flowered cross, and included within a plain arch on the north side of siderably widened, and has in the sout wall two the high altar. On the opposite side is the magnificent monument of a Harrington, supposed to be sir John Harrington (with his lady), who açcompanied Edward I. into Scotland, stone sedilia, According to Dr. Whitaker, a general alteration took place in this church about the fourteenth |