I am the more disposed to submit these remarks to your readers, because it is highly interesting to trace an irresistible tendency in the genius of this mighty author towards the fulfilment of prophetic legends and visions of second sight: and not to extend this paper to an inconvenient length, I purpose to resume the subject in a future number, and collate some other examples of a similar character from the works of Sir Walter Scott. I write from the southern slopes of Cheviot, almost within sight of the Hill of Flodden. During the latter years of the great Border Minstrel, I had the happiness to rank myself among the number of his friends and acquaintances, and I revere his memory as much as I prized his friendship. A BORDERER. * * * * * GLOUCESTERSHIRE PROVINCIALISMS. _To burl, burling; to shunt, &c._--In the report of the evidence regarding the death of Mrs. Hathway, at Chipping Sodbury, supposed to have been poisoned by her husband, the following dialectical expression occurs, which may deserve notice. One of the witnesses stated that he was invited by Mr. Hathway to go with him into a beer-house in Frampton Cotterell, "and have a tip," but he declined. "Mr. H. went in and called for a quart of beer, and then came out again, and I went in. He told me 'to burl out the beer, as he was in a hurry;' and I 'burled' out a glass and gave it to him."--_Times_, Feb. 28. I am not aware that the use of this verb, as a provincialism, has been noticed; it is not so given by Boucher, Holloway, or Halliwell. In the Cumberland dialect, a _birler_, or _burler_, is the master of the revels, who presides over the feast at a Cumberland bidden-wedding, and takes especial care that the drink be plentifully provided. (_Westmoreland and Cumberland Dialects_, London, 1839.) Boucher and Jamieson have collected much regarding the obsolete use of the verb _to birle_, to carouse, to pour out liquor. See also Mr. Dyce's notes on _Elynour Rummyng_, v. 269. (_Skelton's Works_, vol. ii. p. 167.). It is a good old Anglo-Saxon word--byrlian, _propinare_, _haurire_. In the Wycliffite versions it occurs repeatedly, signifying to give to drink. See the Glossary to the valuable edition lately completed by Sir F. Madden and Mr. Forshall. In the _Promptorium Parvulorum_, vol i. p. 51., we find-- "Bryllare of drynke, or schenkare: Bryllyn, or schenk drynke, _propino_: Bryllynge of drynke," &c.